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10 Simple Steps to Better Photoshop Performance

10 Simple Steps to Better Photoshop Performance

From Guest Author, August 13th, 2009

Before getting started with Photoshop, we all should have first visited the “Edit > Preferences” menu and change the “Performance” settings to fit our personal taste and computer specifications, but this isn’t always the case – in many situations designers ...

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Useful Web Design E-Mail Newsletters

Useful Web Design E-Mail Newsletters

From Cameron Chapman, August 12th, 2009

There are thousands of good websites out there offering web design and development tips. It’s a bit much to sift through in most cases. There must be an easier way. Enter the email newsletter. What could be better than sitting ...

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Beautiful Hand Drawn Typography

Beautiful Hand Drawn Typography

From Steven Snell, August 11th, 2009

Beautiful and creative typography can come in a variety of different forms. Hand drawn typography can be an excellent source of inspiration for graphic designers and typography lovers. In this post we will feature 40 creations that use hand ...

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How to Create Your First iPhone Application

How to Create Your First iPhone Application

From Jen Gordon, August 11th, 2009

What if you had a nickle for every time you heard: "I have the perfect idea for a great application!"? It’s the buzz on the street. The iPhone has created unprecedented excitement and innovation from people both inside ...

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Discovering Papervision3D: Best Design Practices and Tutorials

Discovering Papervision3D: Best Design Practices and Tutorials

From Julia May, August 10th, 2009

Papervision3D (PV3D) is a popular open source 3D engine for Flash. It enables to create advanced three-dimensional objects displayed real time right in the web browser. With Papervision3D designers bring an impressive visual experience and user interaction to the web ...

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Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools

Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools

From Cameron Chapman, August 10th, 2009

CSS is one of the most basic building blocks of modern web design. It creates the structure and style that surrounds your content and is capable of making your site a joy to use or a pain in the neck. ...

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10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging

10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging

From Paul Boag, August 9th, 2009

I have reached the conclusion that most organizations have a blog simply because they feel they should. Many marketing departments fail to “get” blogging and have poorly visited blogs with few comments. Because their blog fails to perform, they conclude ...

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Beautiful New Free Fonts For Your Designs

Beautiful New Free Fonts For Your Designs

From Vitaly Friedman, August 7th, 2009

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you ...

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The Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now And Save 20%

The Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now And Save 20%

From Smashing Editorial, August 5th, 2009

Although The Smashing Book won’t be published until late September, you can secure your copy today. Now, why would you do that? For one reason, you will get the huge discount: 20% off the regular price. If you pre-order now, ...

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30 Fresh and Inspirational Portfolios With A Twist

30 Fresh and Inspirational Portfolios With A Twist

From Catalin Zorzini, August 5th, 2009

It may be the economical slowdown, the climate change, or even a random boost of creativity, but the competition between graphic studios is huge right now. Today, more than ever, you really need to show something special on your ...

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Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch

Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch

From Enrique Ramirez, August 4th, 2009

HTML5 and CSS3 have just arrived (kinda), and with them a whole new battle for the ‘best markup’ trophy has begun. Truth to be told, all these technologies are mere tools waiting for a skilled developer to work on the ...

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A-Z of Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters

A-Z of Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters

From Paul Andrew, August 3rd, 2009

The Photoshop community is choc-full of many free resources, tutorials, tips and techniques, .psd files and even Actions. There is one area that it sadly lacks in, and that is free plugins and filters. Of course, Photoshop has been the ...

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Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements

Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements

From Cameron Chapman, August 3rd, 2009

CSS is one of the most important building blocks of modern web design. Standards demand the use of CSS for formatting and styling pages, and with good reason. It’s lighter-weight and capable of much more than older methods like tables.And ...

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Bauhaus: Ninety Years of Inspiration

Bauhaus: Ninety Years of Inspiration

From Sharon Ross, August 2nd, 2009

Inspired by a vision of bringing artists and craftsmen together to start a movement in art which would change the future of the world, Water Gropius opened the doors to Bauhaus. The year was 1919 when Gropius founded Staatliches Bauhaus ...

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What You Need To Know About JavaScript Scope

What You Need To Know About JavaScript Scope

From Colin Ramsay, August 1st, 2009

Understanding scope in programming is key to appreciating how your variables interact with the rest of your code. In some languages, this can be quite straightforward, but JavaScript’s anonymous functions and event handling features, along with a couple of little ...

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2009

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2009

From Smashing Editorial, July 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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Free Portfolio WordPress Theme: Creative by Nature

Free Portfolio WordPress Theme: Creative by Nature

From Smashing Editorial, July 30th, 2009

In this post we are glad to release Creative by Nature, a unique and flexible high-quality portfolio WordPress theme for artists, photographers and designers. The theme was designed by .css{mayo} and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The ...

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50 Fresh Portfolio Websites for Your Inspiration

50 Fresh Portfolio Websites for Your Inspiration

From Julia May, July 30th, 2009

Creating personal portfolio website is probably the most challenging task for designers as it should reveal the talent and some special unique style of its author. Beautiful portfolio is like a good setting – it makes design works sparkle and ...

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Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip

Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip

From Brad Colbow, July 29th, 2009

Since the official announcement of W3C to stop working on the development of XHTML 2 in the end of 2009 and increase resources on HTML 5 instead, there has been a lot of confusion and various debates about the “proper”markup ...

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Designing “Read More” And “Continue Reading” Links

Designing “Read More” And “Continue Reading” Links

From Grant Friedman, July 28th, 2009

Most bloggers and website designers understand how difficult it can be to attract visitors to a website. In fact, most websites have just moments to attract potential readers. Several factors contribute to how well a website attracts its readers. These ...

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