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Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. Vitaly is writer, speaker, author and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.

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Bookmarklets, Favelets and Snippets

If you’ve used them once you’ll never be able to work without them. Bookmarklets (or Favelets) are tiny Javascript-Snippets, which are stored within a bookmark and add particular functionalities to the browser you’re using. It doesn’t matter whether you browse, bookmark, look up, search, design or program – depending on ...

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5 Free Fonts You Shouldn’t Have Missed

We expand our collection of high-quality freefonts we’ve put together few months ago (and started one year ago). Some of newbies are quite old, however they haven’t been known for a while.

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30 Dark Designs You Should’ve Seen

Dark designs can be really stunning. I mean, really. In Web 2.0 designers try to do their best to impress their visitors and in many cases they definitely succeed in doing so. As a second (out of five) part of our 50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006 collection we’d like to ...

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White Space and Simplicity: An Overview

Last year we’ve seen a lot of simple, even minimalistic designs, which impress not with the amount of presented information but with the way the information is actually presented. Complex layouts are giving way to simple 2-col- or 3-col layouts, which usually have large amount of white space without any ...

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CSS-Based Footers: Modern Solutions

Every design element deserves particular attention in Web 2.0. Navigation menus, forms, comment forms, comment designs, tables, typography, fonts, even more fonts and even download buttons are designed in more detail to make a good first impression. The smallest things can make a big difference – one of those ...

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Best of December 2006

Every month we take a look at new tutorials, tips, articles and techniques presented in Web-Development-related blogs and magazines and collect them for you. Below an overview of the best tools and articles, which have become popular or were published in December 2006. Links checked: June/23. 2008

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CSS-Based Tables: Modern Solutions

We continue to present some of the best CSS-techniques which web-developers can always use working on their current web-project. Recently we’ve taken a look at the best css-based forms, today we present some useful techniques for displaying information in a tabular mode. In fact, tables can present data quite efficiently, ...

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Crème de la crème of CSS: List of CSS Galleries

One can discuss whether numerous CSS-galleries challenge our creativity, however they can serve as a quite nice source for inspiration. The galleries of CSS-based designs showcase exemplary design practices, solutions, ideas and templates. Once you have no idea what you should do next with your web-site, it’s worth taking a ...

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50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006

2006 was rich on creative, beautiful and unusual design concepts. We’ve seen a lot of whitespace, many examples of readable and usable text-design, badges, stars, rounded corners, shapes, gradients, mirror and 3D-effects – just name it. Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful designs we’ve seen ...

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