Sven Lennartz | Smashing Magazine

Author: Sven Lennartz

The Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books. And co-inventor of our book series. Have a look at the new Smashing Book #4 - New Perspectives On Web Design (Pre-Release).

Website: Freiburg entdecken

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Creative Favicons: When Small Is Beautiful

June 14th, 2007
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We love creative favicons. Their beauty lies in the approach a designer has chosen to put something really unique inside of the 16x16px box. Designing favicons, it’s necessary to work with miniature images, and every extra pixel can be the wrong one. A good favicon is original, beautiful and – ...

Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates

May 24th, 2007
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Visual design elements can considerably improve the readability of the page. Using them, you can make it easier for your users to scan the presented content and find the information they’re actually looking for. Icons can draw reader’s attention to the key aspects of the article and visualize the topic ...

11 Almost Perfect Business Layouts

April 26th, 2007
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Business companies tend to impress visitors with solid site structures, precise navigation and the credibility of presented content. Therefore business layouts are usually quite unspectacular, mostly informative, but not attractive. It’s an appropriate approach if you want to inform your visitors, but what should you do if you want to ...

Online Converters

April 10th, 2007
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Online converters always come in handy. Once you need to perform some operation with your files, they can save your time achieving the same results online, without installing some specific software. In fact, there are many online tools, which convert formats, files and code snippets for free. Some of them ...

Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorials

April 4th, 2007
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With the growing popularity of CMS, Wikis and Weblogs, WYSIWIG-editors lose their users. However, many of those editors offer many advantages, such as Integration of SVN, FTP Clients, Developer’s extensions and programming environments. Using them, you can save your time and increase your efficiency. Not every code has to ...

Inspire Yourself: More Creative Favicons

March 29th, 2007
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Recently we’ve selected 50 Remarkable Favicons you can inspire yourself from. This follow-up is supposed to give you some more ideas for fresh, inspiring and creative favicon design. Favicons, mini graphics for a particular web-site, can be displayed in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of ...

42 Design/Tech Magazines To Read

March 19th, 2007
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Regardless of what it is that you’re selling, in order to remain competitive, you have to know exactly, what’s going on in the field you’re working in. More than that – actually, you have to know what happens next, which trends are coming up and which technologies will become big ...

Inspire Yourself: 58 Creative Logos

March 13th, 2007
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Logotypes stand for Corporate Identity. The better a logo is designed, the greater is the probability that your potential clients will remember your CI and get back to you once your service is needed. Consequence: designers have to be creative and put many efforts in designing beautiful, unique and catchy ...

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