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Cleaning Up The Mess: How To Keep Your Coding Workflow Organized

Posted by Bryan Hoyt on January 20, 2011 · Comments Off

Oops, we used the word “organized” in the title. Time to switch off — is probably what many would think. Being organized is a somewhat dull, though important, subject. Perhaps it would help to give it a bit of context.Let’s keep it classy, and imagine we’re building a website for a trendy restaurant / café called “bEat”, catering to the arts [...]

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Time-Saving and Educational Resources for Web Designers

Posted by Smashing Editorial on January 18, 2011 · Comments Off

Web design community is strong and hard-working. We have plenty of useful resources, tools and services created, developed and released every single day: apart from goodies such as free fonts or icons, there are also many educational resources and little time-savers that can significantly improve designer’s workflow. We permanently look out for the new projects and support them [...]

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Productive Web Design With… Adobe Illustrator?

Posted by Vincent Le Moign on January 17, 2011 · Comments Off

Admittedly, Adobe Illustrator is often most certainly not the first choice that comes to mind when it comes to Web design. Fireworks and Photoshop are used much more often, and there are some good reasons for that. Still, although Illustrator has traditionally been used for drawing illustrations and logos, you can use it to design layouts and user interfaces, too.In fact, in my opinion, [...]

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How To Identify Good Clients (and Avoid Bad Ones)

Posted by Uzi Shmilovici on January 14, 2011 · Comments Off

Peter Drucker is one of the most influential business writers of the last century. His ideas have shaped the ways we conduct business today. One of Drucker’s main ideas was the notion that without a customer, there is no business. Furthermore, customer satisfaction is the key to the success of any business, or in his words: “The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise [...]

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Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It

Posted by Kayla Knight on January 12, 2011 · Comments Off

Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won’t, [...]

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Keeping Web Users Safe By Sanitizing Input Data

Posted by Philip Tellis on January 11, 2011 · Comments Off

In my last article, I spoke about several common mistakes that show up in web applications. Of these, the one that causes the most trouble is insufficient input validation/sanitization. In this article, I’m joined by my colleague Peter (evilops) Ellehauge in looking at input filtering in more depth while picking on a few real examples that we’ve seen around the web. As [...]

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Free HTML 4.01/HTML5 WordPress Theme: Spectacular

Posted by Smashing Editorial on January 10, 2011 · Comments Off

Today we release Spectacular, a free WordPress theme that aims to provide a warm and pleasurable atmosphere for personal musings and ramblings. The theme comes in two flavors: HTML 4.01 and HTML5. Also, both German and English versions of the theme are included in the download package. The theme is cross-browser compatible and supports Opera, Safari, Chrome, IE7+, and FF. Support for [...]

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Creating And Distributing Presentations On The Web

Posted by Christian Heilmann on January 7, 2011 · Comments Off

Delivering great presentations is an art, and preparing the slides for them very much so, too. But we’re not going to talk about that. We’re also not going to get into the debate about whether to use open or closed technologies to create slide decks — this is something you need to hash out yourself, and there are some interesting discussions going on.What I will talk about is [...]

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Creative Use Of Video in Web Design: Background Videos

Posted by Aygul Zagidullina on January 6, 2011 · Comments Off

Since its early days, video has been one of the most powerful and efficient tools of visual communication. It is able to deliver a direct and clear message to a broad audience as well as focus viewers on something particular. A visually appealing video is an excellent way to present a product, service or brand and take user experience to a much more interactive level. For this reason, [...]

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New Year, New Book: Smashing Book 2 Is Coming: Pre-Order Now!

Posted by Smashing Editorial on January 5, 2011 · Comments Off

What’s the best way to start a new year? Not just with resolutions and good intentions, but with good deeds! Therefore, today we have the pleasure of announcing that a new Smashing Book is on its way. And not only that: it’s not just a book but an annual event.Is the book really coming? In all honesty, the Smashing Book 1 could have been better in several ways: the overly [...]

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