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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).

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Web 2.0 Tutorials Round-Up

Web 2.0 can be beautiful. In fact, many designers manage to create really amazing, particularly dark and fresh web-designs, which are visually appealing and make a great first impression. However, if you are planning on designing a web 2.0-project, you probably should know how and where to start from. Badges, ...

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IT/Tech Job Boards

If you are a freelancer, you know exactly, how hard it can be to build up your reputation and find a good job in a good company with good financial perspectives. If you are a company seeking for IT-professionals, particularly developers and designers, you know exactly, how hard it can ...

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Firefox Themes in an Overview

It’s amazing if you think about it. The new generation of web-browsers has become so flexible, so adaptable and so easy to use that you can design and use it according to your personal taste and needs. So if you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you can add almost any ...

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More Creative and Beautiful Wallpapers

Wallpapers can be creative, inspiring, gorgeous and hilarious. Recently we’ve posted an overview of Selected Wallpapers for Desktop and Web Design and Christmas Wallpapers. However, there is more to showcase. And these wallpapers are definitely worth a look. Now it’s time for something fresh, original and creativie. Let’s take a look ...

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Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

As a vector-based drawing program Adobe Illustrator has nowadays become the standard for illustration design. This tendency can be noticed in the Web as well as in Print Design. Few weeks ago we’ve selected some of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials we’ve found on the Web so far; now it’s ...

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Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons

Actually it’s a pity that many designers don’t really make use of them. 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 bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface. ...

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Tutorials Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, PHP and More

Coding or designing a page, it’s always nice to have some basic templates you can quickly modify or adapt to your needs. However, at least once you have to know, how to create this “universal” template. In this case tutorials prove to be an ultimate solution, particularly if you just ...

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Hand-Picked Photoshop Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool for designing various visual elements one can use for web-pages. However, sometimes it’s important to know what to do in order to achieve some effects. In such cases, step-by-step tutorials can provide help and save a lot of time you would have to spend ...

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Where can I find textures and background images?

If you are a graphic designer, you probably know that textures and background images are essential for every project which is related to graphics or design. But where to search for quality images if you can’t find anything usable on your PC? Web offers many useful resources one should always keep ...

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