Smashing Magazine ~ we smash you with the information that will make your life easier. really.
Smashing Magazine we smash you with the information that will make your life easier. really.

  • Funny and Creative Animated Videos

    By Smashing Editorial, December 29th, 2007 in Inspiration | 37 Comments

    The new year is just few days away; however, not all parties are planned, not all presents are packed and not all work is done. If you feel under the weather, bored or overwhelmed by the late shopping or working chaos, it's just the right time to take a short break and get into the right mood.

    To help you to achieve just that we've collected some excellent, funny and touching animations and videos — for you, your colleagues, your friends and your family. You probably have seen some of them, but it doesn't make them less funnier. You can also click on the images — they lead to the sites from which the screenshots have been taken.

    For The Birds

    Enjoy the last days of the year 2007. Smashing 2008, folks!

    Read more...

  • Extreme Colors

    By Smashing Editorial, October 22nd, 2007 in Inspiration | 25 Comments

    The beginning of the week is always tough. Coffee breaks are tedious. The aftermath of weekend is still evident. And conversations with your colleagues aren't that enlightening. Yet there is always a number of tasks you need to get done until the end of the day. To spark your imagination and help you to get through monday's creativity block we are going to provide you every monday with "Monday Inspiration"-posts — brief pointers to appealing design approaches, interesting ideas and unusual solutions.

    Kashi Wasato Screenshot

    Today's monday inspiration is all about some really colorful pages. Be prepared for some extreme colors.

    Read more...

  • 80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding

    By Smashing Editorial, June 20th, 2007 in Developer's Toolbox | 420 Comments

    Web-developers can create amazing web-applications with AJAX. Stikkit, Netvibes, GMail and dozens of further web-projects offer a new level of interactivity we've used to give up the idea of. Modern web-applications can be designed with enhanced user interfaces and functionalities, which used to be the privelege of professional desktop-applications. AJAX makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible web-solutions. And it's the first step towards rich internet applications of the future.

    AJAX Scripts - AutoSuggest: An AJAX auto-complete text field : CSS . XHTML . Javascript . DOM, Development : Brand Spanking New

    AJAX Scripts - Comunidade brasileira da biblioteca EXTJS

    Asynchronous JavaScript and XML isn't a new programming language, as it is often mistakingly called. Basically, AJAX is a set of XHTML, CSS, DOM, XMLHttpRequest and XML, put together and used together for the same purpose - to improve the user-server-interaction. In this article we'd like to present a list of over 90 useful AJAX-based techniques you should always have ready to hand developing AJAX-based web-applications. Auto-completion, instant field editing, menus, calendars, interactive elements, visual effects, animation, basic javascripts, as well as an extensive developer's suite should give you a useful and powerful toolbox you can use every day, without a need to go through hundreds of AJAX-related bookmarks. You may also want to take a look at the article 60 More Ajax and Javascript Solutions For Professional Coding.

    Read more...



Advertisement
 

All Posts

Follow us on Twitter!
Subscribe to our RSS-feed!

Advertisement

Fresh Bookmarks

22 Free Seamless Vector Pattern Resources Perfect For Web Design
A collection of resources and articles related to vector patterns.

10 New PHP Content Management Systems
All based on PHP.

25 Beautiful Logos with Sequential Concept
Sequential logos maybe is a new trend among logo designers.

Designing a blog with HTML5
Much of HTML 5’s feature set involves JavaScript APIs that make it easier to develop interactive web pages.

20+ CSS Data Visualization Techniques
Get inspired.

CSS3 – a big storm is coming
With CSS3 media queries and multi-column layouts it will be a whole new ballgame.

Woodgrain: A Free Social Media Icon Set
With 18 social networks represented alongside astandard RSS icon in PNG format,

Webdesign: Five Minute Upgrade
Making Your Design Pop.

45 Stylish Typographical Desktop Wallpapers
These beautifully designed wallpapers are not solely about typography.

The Light CMS Trend
A new trend in CMSs I’m calling “light” CMSs.

  • 9Rules Logo
  • Quicksprout Logo