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Keep Your Analytics Data Safe And Clean

Posted by Daniel Waisberg on April 2, 2012 · Comments Off

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 is lost cannot be recovered. For this reason, [...]

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GuideGuide: Free Plugin For Dealing With Grids In Photoshop

Posted by Cameron McEfee on January 3, 2012 · Comments Off

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 Gmail-like client-side drafts. [...]

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The Messy Art Of UX Sketching

Posted by Peiter Buick on December 13, 2011 · Comments Off

I hear a lot of people talking about the importance of sketching when designing or problem-solving, yet it seems that very few people actually sketch. As a UX professional, I sketch every day. I often take over entire walls in our office and cover them with sketches, [...]

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Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers

Posted by Vitaly Friedman on October 28, 2011 · Comments Off

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. [...]

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Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools

Posted by Cameron Chapman on October 20, 2011 · Comments Off

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 [...]

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PrefixFree: Break Free From CSS Prefix Hell

Posted by Lea Verou on October 12, 2011 · Comments Off

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 [...]

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Free Download: Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms

Posted by Joe Leech on October 7, 2011 · Comments Off

Forms, forms, forms: so often overlooked in design. In this post, we are pleased to release the Form Design Cheat Sheet, created by Joe Leech and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. This crib sheet contains an Omnigraffle template, as well as Photoshop [...]

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Review Of Cross-Browser Testing Tools

Posted by Cameron Chapman on August 7, 2011 · Comments Off

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 it will really come at all), testing your design the advanced browsers as well as legacy [...]

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Useful Resources, Tools and Services for Web Designers

Posted by Smashing Editorial on June 17, 2011 · Comments Off

Productivity is a crucial asset of professional Web designers and developers. We regularly look for new resources, tools and services to make the search of these ever-growing techniques easier. Once we have a reasonable number of useful resources, we prepare them in a handy overview for your convenience. In this post we present some of the useful resources and [...]

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Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools

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

The hard work of front-end designers never ceases to amaze us. Over the last months, we’ve seen Web designers creating and presenting a plethora of truly remarkable CSS techniques and tools. We have collected, analyzed, curated and feature latest useful resources for your convenience, so you can use them right away or save them for future reference.Please don’t hesitate to comment [...]

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