Posts Tagged ‘Tools’
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Content Knowledge Is Power
- April 29th, 2013
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“Content matters!” “Comp with real copy!” “Have a plan!” By now, you’ve probably heard the refrain: making mobile work is hard if you don’t consider your content. But content knowledge isn’t just about ditching lorem ipsum in a couple of comps. Countless organizations now have a decade or two’s worth of ...
Read more...Backup Strategy“My Hard Drive Crashed…” (And What I Learned From It)
- December 28th, 2012
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The most valuable part of a computer is also its most fragile: Data are the wealth of a digital lifestyle, a currency of which many notes are irreplaceable. At least, that’s how I felt staring at a “Confirm you want to wipe your hard disk” message, my finger poised over ...
Read more...Keep Your Analytics Data Safe And Clean
- April 2nd, 2012
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Whoever works with analytics on a day-to-to-day basis knows how important it is to have a continuity with the data. Any slip might be fatal: data can disappear, trends misunderstood and jobs lost. Losing data can have long-lasting consequences, as very often it isn’t possible to reprocess the data—so what ...
Read more...GuideGuide: Free Plugin For Dealing With Grids In Photoshop
- January 3rd, 2012
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This article is the fourth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for ...
Read more...Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers
- October 28th, 2011
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Everyone who is a regular Smashing Magazine reader will know that we have a traditional habit of regularly researching the latest resources, tools and services out there on the Web, as productivity is a crucial asset of professional Web designers and developers. We could, and should, all integrate workflow optimization ...
Read more...Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools
- October 20th, 2011
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Usability and user experience testing is vital to creating a successful website, and only more so if it’s an e-commerce website, a complex app or another website for which there’s a definite ROI. And running your own user tests to find out how users are interacting with your website and ...
Read more...PrefixFree: Break Free From CSS Prefix Hell
- October 12th, 2011
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Editor’s note: This article is the first piece in our new series introducing new, useful and freely available tools and techniques presented and released by active members of the Web design community. Lea Verou is well-known for her experiments with CSS and JavaScript and in this post she presents ...
Read more...Free Download: Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms
- October 7th, 2011
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Forms, forms, forms, often overlooked when it comes to design. In this post we are glad to release a Form Design Cheat Sheet, created by Joe Leech and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. This crib sheet contains an Omnigraffle template, Photoshop (PSD) and PDF examples for you to ...
Read more...Review Of Cross-Browser Testing Tools
- August 7th, 2011
- 110 Comments
At some point in the future, the way that all major browsers render Web code will likely be standardized, which will make testing across multiple browsers no longer necessary as long as the website is coded according to Web standards. But because that day is still a way off (if ...
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