Smashing Daily

The Smashing Daily series on Smashing Magazine brings to you the latest news to help you stay on the top of what's going on in the Web design industry. Vasilis van Gemert highlights the most interesting discussions, tools, techniques and articles that have been published recently and presents them in a nice compact overview. Every morning—just for you. Subscribe to the RSS-Feed. Follow Smashing Daily on Twitter.

Smashing Daily #54: The Last Of The Dailies

I’ve been writing The Smashing Daily for almost two years—first on my own domain, and later, after a chat with the incredible Vitaly Friedman, right here on Smashing Magazine. I first started out just for myself, then for my colleagues, after that for the whole Dutch front-end and design community, ...

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Smashing Daily #53: Accessibility, Hover, Weird Browsers

In this edition of The Smashing Daily you’ll find a great article about Web accessibility, two thought provoking articles about supporting weird browsers, some nice links about mobile things, a much needed OpenType tool, sad (or happy) news about a split, and the problem with :hover. Enjoy!

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Smashing Daily #52: Animation, Deminification, Vectorization

In this edition of The Smashing Daily you will find some very handy tools: one for converting bitmap images to vector graphics, one for deminifying minified JavaScript, and a tool for generating PDFs from HTML and CSS. We have a great example that shows the difference between two types of ...

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Smashing Daily #51: E-Commerce, Phones, Marketing

Many links about mobiles in this edition of The Smashing Daily, as well as different operating systems, the pixel ratio of these devices, and the question as to if we should really keep calling those things phones. But there’s more—there’s an excellent interview, an incredible CSS technique, some good research ...

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Smashing Daily #50: The Ogonek, Hypotheses, Idling

The 50th edition of The Smashing Daily! In this edition we have links about type, a suggestion to start using hypotheses instead of requirements, an introduction about CSS regions (and the shadow DOM), some links about responsive images, there’s an article about the glorification of being busy and an amazing ...

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Daily Pick of Useful ResourcesSmashing Daily: Brands, Business and UX

We have lots and lots of good stuff here for your weekend reading pleasure in today’s Smashing Daily issue, like some thoughts about the first transatlantic communication cable, and some thoughts about brands (and whether you can actually care about them). We have a good article about expectations when doing ...

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Smashing Daily #49: Brands, Business, UX

We have lots and lots of good stuff here for your weekend reading pleasure in the Smashing Daily, like some thoughts about the first transatlantic communication cable, and some thoughts about brands (and if you can actually care about them). We have a good article about expectations when doing business, ...

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Smashing Daily #48: Perspective, Widows, A Book

Responsive design starts with the right typography, and in typography you want to avoid widows. Responsive design, if done right, will not impact the performance too much. Also in this edition of The Smashing Daily, how CMSs are bad at managing content, what to do when you’re asked to speak ...

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Smashing Daily #47: Box-Sizing, Searching, SVG

A tutorial about timed notifications with CSS, a presentation about mobile Web performance, a story about box-sizing, everything you need to know about unicode, the most important skill for a Web developer and a great article that explains SVG clipPath. All this, and more, in today’s Smashing Daily. Enjoy!

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