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6 Simple Ways For Freelancers To Increase Productivity
The best part about being a freelancer is having the freedom to set your own schedule and make your own rules. This, however, can also be the worst part. Without the normal structure of an office environment, many would-be freelancers find themselves wondering at the end of the day where ...
Read more... | 88 CommentsHow To Effectively Communicate With Developers
If you have ever worked with a developer or a development team, this article will probably strike close to home. As designers, we work with dozens of developers across the globe each year. Some of us are fortunate enough to find a gem; a developer that just gets it. ...
Read more... | 124 Comments10 Simple Steps to Better Photoshop Performance
by Marco SousaBefore 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 simply forget these aspects.If you never changed the ...
Read more... | 81 CommentsHow to Create Your First iPhone Application
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 and outside the software development community. Still for those outside ...
Read more... | 88 Comments10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging
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 that blogging is an ineffective marketing tool and either remove ...
Read more... | 95 CommentsCoding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch
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 right project. As developers we shouldn't get into pointless discussions ...
Read more... | 91 CommentsWhat You Need To Know About JavaScript Scope
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 quirks, mean that handling scope in your applications can become ...
Read more... | 45 CommentsMisunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip
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 language for modern and future web-development. With XHTML 1.0, XHTML ...
Read more... | 146 CommentsGet Creative With Your Domain Name
Choosing a domain name for a new client is a difficult task. Domain names are the crux of a website's existence. A bad name can create a negative impact on branding and the ability to strengthen the domain value. A good domain name is essentially priceless (tacky but ...
Read more... | 76 CommentsPNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques
This post is a second part of the article Clever PNG Optimization Techniques that we posted last week. As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. ...
Read more... | 57 CommentsiPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals
The development of iPhone applications has recently become a hot topic in the design community; everybody tries to come up with some creative idea, port it into a stylish iPhone-alike application and sell it to thousands of users through the iPhone app store. However, many of these applications are poorly ...
Read more... | 117 CommentsHow To Automate Optimization and Deployment Of Static Content
A lot of traffic between users and your site comes from the static content you’re using to set up the user interface, namely layout graphics, Stylesheets and Javascript files. This article shows a method to improve the providing of static content for a web platform. Further, it will show ...
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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 designers and developers achieve both beautiful and effective designs. And to improve your design and programming skills all ...
Read more... | 2,105 CommentsFive Reasons Why Designers Developers are Switching to Mac
Designers and developers have many choices to make when it comes to getting work done, from what frameworks, languages, and image editing software to use, to what platform to run. The latter is an oft debated and controversial topic and the mere mention of it risks setting off flame ...
Read more... | 432 CommentsBreaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked
Smashing Magazine tries to be at the forefront of new and exciting developments in the wide world of the web. You might have heard that we met with the IE 8 Chief Strategist in the past, so it should come as no surprise that we like ...
Read more... | 404 Comments10 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 again; usually almost every time you type your search keywords in Google. In his article ...
Read more... | 331 Comments10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites
We all make mistakes running our websites. However, the nature of those mistakes varies depending on the size of your company. As your organization grows, the mistakes change. This post addresses common mistakes among large organizations. Most of the clients I work with are large organizations: universities, large charities, public sector ...
Read more... | 293 CommentsFlash vs. Silverlight: What Suits Your Needs Best?
With the release of Silverlight 1.0 and its subsequent versions, a debate started among designers and developers regarding choosing between Flash and Silverlight. Silverlight faces difficulties in capturing the market because of the maturity of Flash. However, Silverlight has managed to keep up by including certain features that designers and ...
Read more... | 279 Comments10 Easy Steps To Advanced Photography Skills
By Trey Ratcliff (aka Stuck in Customs), one of the most famous and renowned HDR photographers on Flickr. In his article Trey describes some professional insights and useful photography tips that he collected over the years of his career. A camera does not work like an eye; film does not work ...
Read more... | 240 Comments10 Principles Of Effective Web Design
Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if ...
Read more... | 238 CommentsjQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices
When used correctly, jQuery can help you make your website more interactive, interesting and exciting. This article will share some best practices and examples for using the popular Javascript framework to create unobtrusive, accessible DOM scripting effects. The article will explore what constitutes best practices with regard to Javascript ...
Read more... | 238 Comments10 Common Mistakes In Logo Design
With the power of the Web, and more eyes watching than ever, it’s important for a business to communicate its unique message clearly. The easiest way to recognize a company and distinguish it from others is by its logo. Below, we go through 10 common logo design mistakes that you ...
Read more... | 233 CommentsGoogle 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 millions of pages generated every day, the search issue in the Web is more complex than you ...
Read more... | 210 Comments10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here’s my collection of 10 that I think you’ll find useful in your work. They’re not related to any particular theme, but are rather a collection of techniques I ...
Read more... | 207 CommentsRedesigning Craigslist With Focus On Usability
Craigslist is obviously one of the most popular websites in the world, and each month it serves millions of users who post and view classified ads on the website. At the time this article was written, Craigslist was ranked as the 28th most-visited English-language website in the world by Alexa. ...
Read more... | 205 CommentsShould Links Open In New Windows?
No, they shouldn’t. At first glance the decision to open links in new windows or not depends on the given site and the preferences of its visitors. Visitors of the sites with heavy linking are more willing to have links opened in new windows than open dozens of links in ...
Read more... | 199 Comments10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMS
Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. What then should you look for in a CMS? I have written about content management systems before. I have highlighted the their hidden costs, ...
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