Archive for the 'Smashing Magazine' Category
10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites
Thursday, February 12th, 2009The Big PHP IDE Test: Why Use One And Which To Choose
Thursday, February 12th, 2009Style Switchers Contest Results
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Three weeks ago we have announced the Style Switchers Design Contest where we’ve presented some ideas for style switchers design and encouraged our readers to create a style switcher for their own web-sites. One of the participants was to be awarded with an Apple Cinema 20 Flat Panel Display. Over 60 designers participated and […]
Favicon Episode 7
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Every now and again we showcase beautiful favicons — tiny pieces of art you’ll usually find in your browser’s address bar or when searching through your bookmarks. Favicons are important as they provide visual indicators to visitors and help them to easily associate the content with a bookmark in their browser. Besides, favicons are just […]
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: July 2008
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months.
And to make them a little bit more distinctive from […]
Flexible Layouts: Challenge For The Future
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008The new generation of web browsers — Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 and Internet Explorer 7 — provides a feature which seems to save a lot of work for web-developers in the future, namely the Full Page Zoom. Instead of allowing users to increase and decrease the font size on a given web-site, browsers now enable […]
Should Links Open In New Windows?
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008No, they shouldn’t. At first glance the decision to open links in new windows or not depends on the given site and the preferences of its visitors. Visitors of the sites with heavy linking are more willing to have links opened in new windows than open dozens of links in new windows manually. Visitors of […]
CSS Editors Reviewed
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008We continue to review text and source editors for designers and web-developers. After a thorough consideration of WYSIWIG- and source code editors now it’s time to take a closer look at applications for advanced CSS-coding. Reason: while numerous HTML-editors offer more or less advanced CSS-support there are also allround-CSS-editors which offer a sophisticated integrated development […]
Hand-Drawing Style In Modern Web Design - Volume 2
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008When it comes to web design too often perfect, colorful and boxy designs make the cut; however, the reality is different as it is hard to find objects with a perfect shape and a perfect color in our daily routine. To achieve a unique and communicative design we need to consider more creative approaches. For […]