Design is life. I always liked to believe that I was meant for a lot more than what my societies perception of life thought it should be like. I come from a culture with very little appreciation for passion and the arts, and from a very young age I knew deep down in my heart that [...] © SM-Network-xheight for Smashing Magazine, 2011. | Permalink | Post [...]

   Today we want to show you how to create a neat image wall with jQuery. The idea is to scatter some thumbnails with different sizes on the page and make a ribbon slide in when we click on the picture. The ribbon will show some description next to the picture [...] © Codrops for Smashing Magazine, 2011. | Permalink | Post a comment | Smashing Shop | Smashing [...]

   Published in PHP ObjectsWelcome to our third object-oriented PHP tutorial. In this tutorial you’ll explore the idea of inheritance in object-oriented programming, and how inheritance works in PHP. With inheritance, your objects and classes can become much more powerful and flexible, and you can save a lot of time and effort with your coding.The tutorial [...] © [...]

   This article as originally published on February 25, 2008, but is now being completely re-written to be more comprehensive and show modern techniques.Jon Hick’s site Hicksdesign is where I first saw the concept of a “body border.” In this case, it’s a very subtle and lovely effect.Characteristics of a body border:Go around entire browser [...]

   Want to create a really unique and eye-catching effect for your site? How about an animation that zooms into a specific portion of the page when you click on it? It may sound like a lot of work but with jQuery and Zoomooz.js, it’s a snap! I’ll walk you through the process step by step as [...] © Design Shack for Smashing Magazine, 2011. | Permalink [...]

   Over the last couple of weeks I’ve offered some boilerplate code and construction details for 2 column and 3 column fixed width layouts. Let’s continue today with fluid or liquid layouts. The concepts for creating fluid layouts are mostly the same we used in creating the fixed width layouts with a few key differences. Since much of [...] © Vanseodesign [...]

These are widespread stereotypes, chiefly shaped within the industry. But what’s the true culprit that hinders teamwork in the Web industry? The famous line from Cool Hand Luke says it best: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” Communication Is Key Good communication is one of the keys to successfully planning, building, launching and maintaining a [...] © SM-Network-Design-Informer [...]

I adore a good read. In a time where 90% of my life is spent staring at a digital screen, reading a physical book with real pages gives me an ephemeral illusion that life is simple again. To defy the age old adage, I will freely admit that I choose books to read based on [...] © Design Shack for Smashing Magazine, 2011. | Permalink | Post a comment | Smashing Shop | Smashing Network | About [...]

Advertise here with BSAWakeboarding is an extreme sport where athletes are dragged behind a high-powered speed boat on a supremely engineered board.They then proceed to carve from left to right and back again, each time jumping to astonishing heights off the wake created by the boat.It’s a fast and furious sport with a degree of [...] © WebdesignerDepot for Smashing Magazine, 2011. | Permalink [...]

Typography is a very important part of web design. By using different types of typography like big headlines and bold fonts web designers are improving the look and feel of websites. So in this post we have compiled some beautiful typography for your inspiration.   © Spyrestudios for Smashing Magazine, 2011. | Permalink | Post a comment | Smashing Shop | Smashing Network | About [...]