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WordPress Tutorial: Inserting Widgets With Shortcodes
The shortcode ability of WordPress is extremely underrated. It enables the end user to create intricate elements with a few keystrokes while also modularizing editing tasks. In a new theme we’re...
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The New Mobile Book Is Finally Here!
Yes, our brand new Smashing Mobile Book has finally arrived, and it has almost reached your doorstep! If you’ve already pre-ordered the book weeks ago, then it’s really only a matter of days! Until...
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Freebie: Christmas Icon Set (10 Quality Icons, 256×256px PNG)
Today, we have a beautiful Christmas icon freebie for you created by the talented, hard-working folks at RocketTheme. The icon set contains ten icons available as 256×256px PNGs that have been...
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Which JavaScript Recipe Is Right For You?
JavaScript has been called everything from great to awful to the assembly language of the Web, but we all use it. Love JavaScript or hate it: everyone admits there are serious flaws and not many...
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Which JavaScript Recipe Is Right For You?
JavaScript has been called everything from great to awful to the assembly language of the Web, but we all use it. Love JavaScript or hate it: everyone admits there are serious flaws and not many...
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CSS Baseline: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Vertical rhythm is clearly an important part of Web design, yet on the subject of baseline, our community seems divided and there is no consensus as to how it fits in — if at all — with our growing...
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Boost Your Mobile E-Commerce Sales With Mobile Design Patterns
People are increasingly using their smartphones as a replacement for desktop computers, even for activities such as shopping and purchasing. And as more people move away from the desktop and onto...
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SEO Article Revisited: What The Heck Is SEO? A Rebuttal
This article is a collective reply of the active members of the SEO community to the article “The Inconvenient Truth About SEO” in which Paul Boag discusses the value of search engine optimization...
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Talks To Help You Become A Better Front-End Engineer In 2013
Many of us care deeply about developing our craft. But staying up to date can be a true challenge, because the quantity of fresh information we’re regularly exposed to can be a lot to take in. 2012...
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Backup Strategy: “My Hard Drive Crashed…” (and What I Learned From It)
The most valuable part of a computer is also its most fragile: Data are the wealth of a digital lifestyle, a currency of which many notes are irreplaceable. At least, that’s how I felt staring at a...
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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: January 2013
We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a...
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Starting An Open-Source Project
At Velocity 2011, Nicole Sullivan and I introduced CSS Lint, the first code-quality tool for CSS. We had spent the previous two weeks coding like crazy, trying to create an application that was...
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Preparing For A Front-End Job Interview
Moving on from your current job or stepping out into the real world once you’ve completed your studies can be daunting. Taking time to do a little preparation goes a long long way. If you come...
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Freebie: Gemicon Icon Set (600 PNG Icons + PSD Source)
Today we are pleased to feature Gemicon, a set of over 600 original high-quality icons in resolutions of 16 × 16, 32 × 32 and 64 × 64 pixels. This set has been designed by Turqois and is being...
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Designer-Client Relationship: Getting Engaged
You probably hear about it every week, if not every day: a spiteful or ragged relationship has ended badly. There are bitter arguments, custody battles, legal entanglements, lives and homes broken...
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Improving Your Website Usability Tests
In one of the first usability tests I ever did, I met a lovely old lady who could not use a mouse. She kept lifting it in the air and pointing at the screen, speaking words of encouragement to the...
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Bandwidth Media Queries? We Don’t Need ’Em!
From time to time, when a discussion is taking place about ways to implement responsive images, someone comes along and says, “Hey, guys! What we really need is a media query that enables us to...
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Laying The Foundation: iOS Prototyping With TAP And Adobe Fireworks (Part 1)
One of the strengths of Adobe Fireworks lies in its ability to produce basic-level prototypes in HTML format for the purpose of sharing concepts, evaluating them and conducting usability tests. But...
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Mobile Design’s Wake-Up Call: Preparing Websites For The Unexpected
Designing websites for smartphones is easy compared to retrofitting those already in place. More than that, it’s embarrassing how, almost eight years after CSS gained practical acceptance, a lack...
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Using WP_Query In WordPress
If you’ve been around WordPress for a while, you’ll know how difficult it used to be to create lists of posts based on complex criteria while also conforming to WordPress’ standards. Over the...
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