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Breaking Down Doors: Promoting Yourself To Dream Clients

From Speider Schneider
September 29th, 2010
124 Comments

There’s a saying that the School of Visual Arts in New York City once used in its ads: “To be good is not enough when you dream of being great.” We all have dream clients that we would like to add to our portfolio, but either we don’t know how ...

I Want To Be A Web Designer When I Grow Up

From Michael Aleo
September 27th, 2010
195 Comments

This article is a rebuttal of “Does The Future Of The Internet Have Room For Web Designers?,” published in our “Opinion Column” section a couple of days ago. In that section, we give people in the Web design community a platform to present their opinions on issues of importance to ...

Turning All Clients Into Dream Clients (or Common Client Difficulties)

From Shay Howe
September 24th, 2010
44 Comments

Clients can be tough… real tough. Working side by side with some clients can be an agonizing experience — an experience so painful that you often wonder what exactly you have gotten yourself into. On the other hand, some clients are an absolute dream to work with. Every day spent ...

Fight The System: Battling Bureaucracy — Part 2

From Paul Boag
September 14th, 2010
18 Comments

This article is the second part of Paul Boag’s series about common problems and difficulties that occur in in-house Web teams working in large companies. The series explains ways to to improve how your team is perceived within your organization, overcome politics and problem people, ensure that a project gets ...

Upcoming Web Design and Development Conferences in 2010

From Louis Lazaris
September 9th, 2010
70 Comments

At the end of last year, we published a comprehensive list of web design and development conferences that might be of interest to Smashing Magazine’s diverse readership. Many readers commented and added links to other conferences and events that weren’t listed, some of which were added to the post. Using ...

Designing and Producing Creative Business Cards: Techniques and Details

From Lisa Valuyskaya
September 8th, 2010
94 Comments

Plenty of creative business card showcases are available out there. Many of these are beautifully done and well thought out, and they serve as inspiration for those who would like their business card to be more than the standard rectangular piece of paper. Yet little explanation accompanies these examples, and ...

Fight The System: Battling Bureaucracy

From Paul Boag
September 6th, 2010
62 Comments

If you work as part of an in-house Web team, you have my sympathy. If that in-house team is within a large organization, then doubly so. Being part of an in-house Web team sucks. Trust me, I know. I worked at IBM for three years and now spend most of ...

Web Design Checkmate: Using Chess For Success in Web Design

From Alexander Dawson
September 3rd, 2010
48 Comments

The business of building websites is one of constant change, adaptation and strategy. The way designers and developers build websites is often informed by the methods of others and their own trial and error. In light of this, we can draw a number of parallels — some philosophical, to a ...