Useful Resources, Tools And Services For Web Designers — Smashing Magazine
A handy overview to make the search of these ever-growing techniques for Web designers and developers easier. Improve your workflow with some of these resources and time-savers. 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 nu
10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs — Smashing Magazine
Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here’s my collection of 10 that I think you’ll find useful in your work. They’re not related to any particular theme, but are rather a collection of techniques I use in my own projects. Without further ado, let’s get started. Web design consists, for the
How To Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes — Smashing Magazine
CSS3 is a wonderful thing, but it’s easy to be bamboozled by the transforms and animations (many of which are vendor-specific) and forget about the nuts-and-bolts selectors that have also been added to the specification. A number of powerful new pseudo-selectors (16 are listed in the latest W3C spec) enable us to select elements based on a range of new criteria. “CSS3 Pseudo Classes”)](https://www
Designing For The Future Web — Smashing Magazine
Designing for the future Web. That’s a big subject. Where do we start when we’re talking about something that isn’t here yet? In this article, we’ll look at what the future Web might look like and how we can adapt our current skills to this new environment, as well as how to create fluid websites that are built around a consistent core and that adapt to the limitations and features of the device o
Informative And Usable Footers In Web Design — Smashing Magazine
Website designs have so many different elements that work together to convey information in a usable and organized manner. For a website to be effective, every element on the page, from the header to the footer, needs to add to its overall usability and readability. In this article, we’ll take a look at the footer and see what exactly makes for a good website footer. Keep in mind that just because
Showcase Of Beautiful But Unusable Websites — Smashing Magazine
“Form follows function” is a widely accepted — albeit controversial — principle that most designers in a variety of disciplines have adopted since its inception at the turn of the 20th century. On the web, we commonly refer to function as usability which is the ease of use and navigation of a website in order to achieve user’s goals. In this showcase we present websites that sacrifice usability fo
50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools — Smashing Magazine
These are great times for front-end developers. After months of exaggerated excitement about HTML5 and CSS3, the web design community now starts coming up with CSS techniques that actually put newly available technologies to practical use instead of abusing them for pure aesthetic purposes. We see fewer “pure CSS images” and more advanced, clever CSS techniques that can actually improve the Web br
Free Professional PSD Template: BlueMasters - Smashing Magazine
In this post we release a yet another freebie: BlueMasters, a free PSD template, designed by Wendell Fernandes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is free to use in private and commerical projects.BlueMasters is a dark, sexy, custom theme that has a solid, professional look and a very simple structure. You can access all files and layers used in a well organized
20 Fresh High Quality Free Fonts - Smashing Magazine
Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.In this selection we’re glad to present you Kilogram, Adelle, Ayita Pro, Hattori Hanzo
The Current State of Web Design: Trends 2010 — Smashing Magazine
Web design is a fickle industry. Just like every other form of artistic expression, Web design has undergone a continuous and surprisingly fast evolution. Once a playground for enthusiasts, it has now become a mature rich medium with strong aesthetic and functional appeal. Web design is a fickle industry. Just like every other form of artistic expression, Web design has undergone a continuous and
Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques — Smashing Magazine
In Modern CSS Layouts, Part 1: The Essential Characteristics, you learned that modern, CSS-based web sites should be progressively enhanced, adaptive to diverse users, modular, efficient and typographically rich. Now that you know what characterizes a modern CSS web site, how do you build one? Here are dozens of essential techniques and tools to learn and use to achieve the characteristics of toda
750 Web Designer Icons [Freebie] — Smashing Magazine
There are thousands of free icon sets out there, and every other day we see new sets being released by the design community. In fact, Smashing Magazine has been releasing icon sets for years now, too. But today’s release is a bit different. [Links checked & repaired March/06/2017] Over the last 1.5 years, Oliver Pitsch was designing and preparing an “ultimate web designer icon set” exclusively for
Free Printable Sketching, Wireframing and Note-Taking PDF Templates — Smashing Magazine
Sketching and wireframing are a specialized style of drawing, used for fleshing out preliminary complex ideas, group brain-storming, a lo-fi method for evaluating interaction concepts, and as a way of roughly perfecting a design technique. Sketch and wireframe paper is essentially drawing paper that is designed specifically for this purpose. You could use it for web page design, web app design, ar
Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way — Smashing Magazine
So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or forgotten altogether: content planning. Sometimes called information architecture” or “IA planning”, this step doesn’t find a home easily in many people’s workflow. But rushing on to programming and pushing pixels makes for content that look
The Future Of CSS Typography — Smashing Magazine
There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it’s not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care. In this article, we’ll look at some useful techniques and clever effects that use the power of style sheets and some features of the upcoming CSS Text Level 3 specification, which shoul
50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms) — Smashing Magazine
Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers worldwide often face similar problems and choose to share their insights and workarounds with the wider community. This is where we come in. We are always looking to collect such articles for our posts so th
Beautiful Motion Graphics Created With Programming: Showcase, Tools and Tutorials — Smashing Magazine
When you hear the word “creative”, what type of profession comes to mind? Maybe a graphic designer, painter, sculptor, illustrator, or writer? It’s unlikely that you would consider a “programmer” when thinking of creative fields of work. But programmers have the potential to be creative and come up with ideas or concepts that will impact others in positive ways. We often turn to programmers to sol
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files — Smashing Magazine
Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has the basic elements of a Web page: header, footer, sidebar, maybe even some gener
Color Theory For Designers, Part 2: Understanding Concepts And Color Terminology — Smashing Magazine
If you’re going to use color effectively in your designs, you’ll need to know a few color concepts, as well as color theory terminology. A thorough working knowledge of concepts like chroma, value, and saturation is key to creating your own awesome color palettes (which we’ll get to in Part 3). [Content update: August 2017] In Part 1: The Meaning of Color of this color theory series, we covered th
50 Cool Javascript Examples And CSS3 Tricks — Smashing Magazine
CSS3 is coming. Although the browser support of CSS 3 is still very limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and using the new possibilites of CSS3 for users with modern browsers. Although the browser support of CSS 3 is limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerf
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