March 26, 2019 — Art direction has been part of advertising and print design for over 100 years, but on the web art direction is rare and there have been few meaningful conversations about it. Art Direction for the Web by Andy Clarke changes that and explains art direction, what it means, … Read More…

February 18, 2019 — In this Smashing TV webinar, join us with Léonie Watson as she explores the web alongside some unexpected properties of HTML elements that have a huge impact on accessibility and performance. Read More…

November 21, 2018 — Today is a very important day for us. We celebrate the first year of Smashing Membership (or Smashing Members’ Ship - get it?). Those who have been with us from the start will receive an email with details of a present from us to say thank you, and we’ll give you a … Read More…

November 2, 2018 — In this post the newest member of the Smashing Team — Bruce Lawson — looks back on a successful Smashing Conf NY. Read More…

March 13, 2017 — In part 1 of this article, we looked at where in the world the new entrants to the World Wide Web are, and some of the new technologies the standards community has worked on to address some of the challenges that the next 4 billion people are facing when accessing the web. … Read More…

March 6, 2017 — Many of the developing economies across the worls are growing extraordinarily fast, with a rapidly expanding middle class that has increasing disposable income. Read More…

April 20, 2012 — There has been a long-running war going on over the mobile Web: it can be summarized with the following question: “Is there a mobile Web?” That is, is the mobile device so fundamentally different that you should make different websites for it, or is there only … Read More…

November 18, 2011 — Much of the excitement we’ve seen so far about HTML5 has been for the new APIs: local storage, application cache, Web workers, 2-D drawing and the like. But let’s not overlook that HTML5 brings us 30 new elements to mark up documents and applications, boosting the total … Read More…

September 23, 2010 — You can’t escape it. Everyone’s talking about HTML5. it’s perhaps the most hyped technology since people started putting rounded corners on everything and using unnecessary gradients. In fact, a lot of what people call HTML5 is actually just old-fashioned … Read More…