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15 October 2011 0 Comments

The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design

    Since the dawn of the Internet, the demand for good design has continued to skyrocket. From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and beyond, designers have remained on their toes as they define the trends and expectations of our online universe. The Internet is a great designer’s playground, and online businesses are growing more [...]

14 October 2011 0 Comments

Design With Dissonance

    You might consider yourself knowledgeable, but you’ve probably never heard of this powerful communication and design technique that I’m about to share. I’m sure you’ve seen it in practice but never knew it was working on you — that’s how good it is. I’m here to shed light on this technique so that you can [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

Freebie: Twitter GUI PSD

    Updating your Twitter profile can give you really unnecessary headaches. In today’s post, we proudly present to you a Twitter UI GUI template, designed by Shelby White which has exclusively been released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects. Download [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

PrefixFree: Break Free From CSS Prefix Hell

    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 and JavaScript and in this post she presents her recent tool, prefixfree [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

The Developer’s Guide To Conflict-Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress

    Imagine you’re playing the latest hash-tag game on Twitter when you see this friendly tweet: You might want to check your #WP site. It includes two copies of jQuery. Nothing’s broken, but loading time will be slower. You check your source code, and sure enough you see this: <script src=”/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.6.1″ type=”text/javascript”></script> <script src=”/wp-content/plugins/some-plugin/jquery.js”></script> [...]

12 October 2011 0 Comments

Introducing The 6 + 1 Model For Effective Copywriting (Better Than AIDA!)

    AIDA. Attention, interest, desire, action. It’s the classic copywriting formula, studied and used by almost every copywriter on the planet. Well, I’m not a fan. Not because it isn’t accurate, and not because it doesn’t work. If your writing can get attention, grab interest, create desire and prompt action, then you’re doing a [...]

12 October 2011 0 Comments

Introducing The 6 + 1 Model For Effective Copywriting (Better Than AIDA!)

    AIDA. Attention, interest, desire, action. It’s the classic copywriting formula, studied and used by almost every copywriter on the planet. Well, I’m not a fan. Not because it isn’t accurate, and not because it doesn’t work. If your writing can get attention, grab interest, create desire and prompt action, then you’re doing a [...]

12 October 2011 0 Comments

Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns

    I occasionally write about implementing design patterns in JavaScript. They’re an excellent way of building upon proven approaches to solving common development problems, and I think there’s a lot of benefit to using them. But while well-known JavaScript patterns are useful, another side of development could benefit from its own set of design [...]

12 October 2011 0 Comments

Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns

    I occasionally write about implementing design patterns in JavaScript. They’re an excellent way of building upon proven approaches to solving common development problems, and I think there’s a lot of benefit to using them. But while well-known JavaScript patterns are useful, another side of development could benefit from its own set of design [...]

11 October 2011 0 Comments

Supporting Your Product: How To Provide Technical Support

    Whether your product is an open-source script, a Web application or a downloadable product, you will need to provide some form of technical support. This article explores the subject based on my experience of supporting our company’s product, Perch, a small content management system (CMS) that we sell as a download for people [...]

8 October 2011 0 Comments

WordPress Essentials: The Definitive Guide To WordPress Hooks

    If you’re into WordPress development, you can’t ignore hooks for long before you have to delve into them head on. Modifying WordPress core files is a big no-no, so whenever you want to change existing functionality or create new functionality, you will have to turn to hooks. In this article, I would like [...]

8 October 2011 0 Comments

Free Download: Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms

    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 (PSD) and PDF examples for you to download and [...]