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How To Find Time For… Everything!

How To Find Time For… Everything!

From Cameron Chapman, September 16th, 2009

Time management is one of the most important skills a freelance worker can learn. With a good time management system you can easily find the time to do the things that are important to you, whether in your professional or ...

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Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets

Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets

From Paul Andrew, September 16th, 2009

The most important aspect of designing an individual icon is that it has to be instantly recognizable, you have to know its function, and you need to know exactly what it is. If you are designing a set, the actual ...

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The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look

The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look

From Louis Lazaris, September 15th, 2009

Most CSS properties are quite simple to deal with. Often, applying a CSS property to an element in your markup will have instant results — as soon as you refresh the page, the value set for the property takes effect, ...

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How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress

How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress

From Thiemo Fetzer, September 14th, 2009

Facebook is one of those Web phenomena that impress everyone with numbers. To cite some: about 250 million users are on Facebook, and together they spend more than 5 billion minutes on Facebook… every day. These numbers suggest that we ...

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Showcase Of Music Night Clubs Web Designs

Showcase Of Music Night Clubs Web Designs

From Catalin Zorzini, September 13th, 2009

The time has come for the first showcase of music night club websites here on Smashing Magazine. We’ve scanned the Web up and down to find the most original and interesting online club identities. As usual, we have Flash websites ...

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Data Visualization and Infographics Resources

Data Visualization and Infographics Resources

From Cameron Chapman, September 11th, 2009

Data visualizations and infographics can make complex datasets easier to understand and comprehend. By creating a graphical represenatation of data and statistics, complicated concepts and information can make more sense in less time. Many visualizations focus on representing a specific ...

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CSS Wishlist: New Ideas, Debates and Solutions

CSS Wishlist: New Ideas, Debates and Solutions

From Kayla Knight, September 10th, 2009

The future of CSS is arriving fast, and many tools, languages, and solutions have been developed that make CSS a job not just for Web designers but developers, too. In many ways, the job could become more complex and confusing, ...

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Beautiful Black and White Photography

Beautiful Black and White Photography

From Vailancio Rodrigues, September 9th, 2009

Today, in the era of digital technology black and white often awake nostalgic feelings of the 20th century, the good old times when the television was just invented, when people read colorless printed newspapers and when people were just imagining ...

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50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing

50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing

From Aquil Akhter, September 8th, 2009

Traditional drawing is certainly way harder than digital and it is true that people are able to progress much faster digitally, but one should learn the traditional type of drawing and painting before starting digital drawing, since it often lays ...

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Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices

Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices

From Louis Lazaris, September 7th, 2009

The horizontal navigation menu has become a mainstay in Web design. It is safe to say that nowadays most websites use some form of horizontal navigation to facilitate content browsing. The dominance of horizontal navigation over vertical (i.e. down a ...

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How To Be A Samurai Designer

How To Be A Samurai Designer

From Andrea Austoni, September 6th, 2009

In this article we’ll take a look at designing websites from a quite different perspective. We’ll discuss some pearls of samurai wisdom from the book “Hagakure” by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and we’ll learn to apply them to our Web-based, computer-bound Western ...

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Showcase of Fresh and Well-Designed Online Shops

Showcase of Fresh and Well-Designed Online Shops

From Steven Snell, September 5th, 2009

E-Commerce websites are often thought of as typically being unattractive or poorly designed. In this post we will feature 35 appealing designs of online shops. Those featured in this post include examples from a variety of different industries and showcase ...

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Smashing Goes Down On September 2nd: What Happened?

Smashing Goes Down On September 2nd: What Happened?

From Smashing Editorial, September 4th, 2009

September 2nd was a sad day for Smashing Magazine. Late in the evening, we received an email from one of our readers, reporting that the data on our Web server may have been compromised. We have conducted a careful examination ...

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Professional Team Management Tips For Creative Folks

Professional Team Management Tips For Creative Folks

From Andy Butterworth, September 3rd, 2009

Management is a vast subject, with several sub-categories, such as product, team management and project management. While all are interesting topics, this article focuses mainly on team management and offers some useful tips and ideas to promote discussion and help ...

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Backgrounds In CSS: Everything You Need To Know

Backgrounds In CSS: Everything You Need To Know

From Michael Martin, September 2nd, 2009

Backgrounds are a core part of CSS. They are one of the fundamentals that you simply need to know. In this article, we will cover the basics of using CSS backgrounds, including properties such as background-attachment. We’ll show some common ...

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TV Show Web Designs: Trends and Examples

TV Show Web Designs: Trends and Examples

From Steven Snell, September 1st, 2009

Looking at websites from major industries that involve various forms of media can be interesting practice. In the past we have showcased websites from movies and from musicians on the Billboard charts, and today we’ll feature the websites of more ...

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35 Excellent Wireframing Resources

35 Excellent Wireframing Resources

From Cameron Chapman, September 1st, 2009

Wireframing is one of the most valuable parts of any web design project. It can save a designer tons of time by hashing out the details of a site’s architecture, functionality, and content prior to actually starting a visual design. ...

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendars For September 2009

Desktop Wallpaper Calendars For September 2009

From Smashing Editorial, August 31st, 2009

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you ...

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50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Photography Skills

50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Photography Skills

From Andrew Gibson, August 30th, 2009

Photography is a wonderful hobby enjoyed by lots of people all over the world. It’s a very enjoyable passtime, but also a very technical one. There’s a bewildering range of cameras, lenses and accessories, and photographers also have to get ...

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10 Tools For Finding, Registering And Managing Domain Names

10 Tools For Finding, Registering And Managing Domain Names

From Timo Reitnauer, August 29th, 2009

A domain name is the starting point for our online brands and identities, be it for a company, online application or a personal website. Some of us may own only one domain for a portfolio site or blog, whilst others ...

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