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  Best Practices For Bulletproof E-Mail Delivery

  Have your e-mails already been flagged as spam, although you've sent a seemingly legitimate proposal to your client? Have you ever wondered why the efficiency of your newsletter campaigns suddenly... More... 58 Comments

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  30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of

  You don't have to agree upon everything. As a professional web developer you are the advocate of your visitors' interests and needs; you have to protect your understanding of good user experience and... More... 224 Comments

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  Who Is Your Visitor? An Average Profile

  You never really know who is going to visit your web-site next. You have no idea which configuration will be used, what browser will be installed, which screen resolution will be in use. However, since... More... 65 Comments

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  10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of

  Sometimes you just want to get the information you're after, save it and move along. And you can't. Usability nightmares — which are rather the daily routine than an exception — appear every now and... More... 296 Comments

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  20 (Alternate) Ways to Focus on Users

  Many web professionals know about certain ways to focus on users. The most popular methods surely include usability tests, card sorting, personas, surveys, and watching current research, and they mean... More... 41 Comments

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  170+ Expert Ideas From World’s Leading Developers

  Few days ago we've published the first part of our survey "50 Designers x 6 Questions". We've presented the first three questions which we've asked and 175 professional suggestions, tips and ideas from... More... 64 Comments

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  50 Designers x 6 Questions

  Some months ago we’ve selected 50 prominent designers and design companies, contacted them and asked to answer five design-related questions, sharing their knowledge and experience with fellows... More... 107 Comments

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  40+ Books For Professional Design & Development

  Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. To become or remain professional, you permanently need to improve your design and programming skills, be aware of new approaches and now how other... More... 2,105 Comments

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  PDF: Five Smashing Wisdom Treasures

  In our recent posts we've promised to publish the .pdf-versions of the articles you've considered useful and important. We've received many e-mails in which you supported us and asked us for... More... 25 Comments

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  Copyright Explained: I May Copy It, Right?

  With blogging comes great responsibilty. You define the content of your weblog and you carry the full responsibility for every word you've published online. More than that, you are responsible for... More... 121 Comments

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  Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?

  Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and... More... 445 Comments

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  Golden Rules of Linkbaiting

  Link baiting is not evil. Although some bloggers tend to go beyond any ethical considerations in their attempts to enforce as many reciprocal links as possible, the term itself stands for a completely... More... 101 Comments

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  PDF: 70 Coding Ideas + 80 Design Tips

  It doesn't matter, whether you've been working with CSS for years or have started to learn it recently. In both cases expert ideas for CSS coding and creative approaches for professional design are... More... 52 Comments

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  Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them

  Web 2.0 has its positive and its negative sides. Apart from tremendous technological improvements, provided by Ajax, semantically organized content and the growing popularity of RSS-Feeds, the term "Web... More... 63 Comments

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