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Today is a very important day for us. We’re incredibly honored to have crossed our first milestone of 1,000 Smashing members. In this post, we’d like to share some facts and figures with you.
In this article, the beginning of a series on Flexbox, we will take a detailed look at what actually happens when you add display: flex to your stylesheet.
August is here, so why not celebrate with a fresh wallpaper? This post features desktop wallpapers designed by artists and designers from across the globe. With and without a calendar for August 2018 and available for free download.
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Explore features → Already have an account? Sign in!The tips presented in this article aim to help HTML5 game developers in avoiding common mistakes when converting their Flash games to JS and making the process run as smooth as possible.
The Beacon API is a lightweight and efficient way to log information from a web page back to a server. Find out how that can be used and what makes it so different from traditional Ajax techniques.
The hunt for shiny front-end & UX treasures has begun! Performance, PWA, Vue.js, Webpack to Design Workflow, DesignOps and Variable Fonts. With Monica Dinculescu, Dan Mall, Jason Grigsby, Sara Soueidan and many others.
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Digital law, policy, privacy, cookie law, and data protection aren’t easy, but over the years Heather Burns has been writing about these topics and sharing what she’s learned for free, to help us all avoid legal issues and improve data protection on the web. Most recently Heather has published a detailed Data Protection GDPR Guide and we’ve been honoured to have published her articles here on SmashingMag as well. Heather goes by @WebDevLaw on Twitter. Thanks for bringing some light into the nuanced world of digital law, dear Heather! Your contribution matters.
The default possibilities to style visited links are quite limited. But there are workarounds. Dudley Storey created a Codepen that shows how to fill in the color of an SVG icon on :visited.
For a recent project, Andy Bell changed his build approach to progressive enhancement, and, well, it became much more successful than he had imagined. To inspire you to consider progressive enhancement, too, he now shares some of the useful things he’s learned along the way.
Digital Psychology is a free library of psychological principles and examples that’ll help you enhance the customer experience and connect with your users.
When a browser autofills a form field, it adds some styling to highlight which fields it has edited. Tommy Brunn shares how you can gain more control over the styling and prevent it from clashing with your site’s design.
“The drive to force every site on the web to HTTPS has pushed the web further away from the next billion users.” Eric Meyer published a thought-provoking post about how modern web technologies made the web less accessible for many people.
The Web Push API brought push notifications to the web platform. But how can you make sure to not annoy your users when making use of them? Senthil Padmanabhan shares a handy checklist of things to consider when dealing with notifications.
Is your pattern library up to date today? Alla Kholmatova has just finished a fully fledged book on Design Systems and how to get them right. With common traps, gotchas and the lessons she learned. Hardcover, eBook. Just sayin'.
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