50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers
Being web designer is not easy. Not only do we need to have a good understanding about visual design, typography, information architecture, psychology and a plethora of other disciplines; in our work, we need to take care of so many details, so that our job becomes more and more time-consuming, requiring dozens of tools, attention span and an effective workflow for beautiful, timely and functional results. And this is where small time-savers become handy.
45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires
Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing – there’s a lot to keep track of and a lot to make sure gets done .
50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills
Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead
35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
CSS-design is not easy. We need to find workaround across browser inconsistencies, not that easy CSS-concepts and quite counterintuitive CSS-solutions. However, there are effective and useful CSS-tools and Smashing Magazine reviewed many of them in our previous posts.
50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow
Advertisements JavaScript is an integral part of the RIA revolution. JavaScript allows developers to create rich and interactive web interfaces and establish asynchronous communication with servers for constantly up-to-date data without a page refresh
Typography Keyboard Layout: Download Now!
In January we commissioned Ilya Birman , a Russian designer with passion for typography, to adapt his typography keyboard layout (which has become a common typographer’s tool in Russia) to create a version for English-speaking designers, artists and, of course, typographers across the globe. The main idea was to provide the web design community with a handy tool that would let designers enter characters that are usually unavailable on a keyboard easier and quicker. If you already tried to enter such words like naïve or résumé or used special symbols (trademark symbol â„¢) or pay attention to diacritics (en-dash, em-dash, hyphen etc.), you probably know what we mean.
100% Google AdSense: Tools, Tips and Resources
By Glen Stansberry and Smashing Magazine Editorial Team Google AdSense is a simple and low-risk way for publishers to quickly monetize their content. The pay-per-click ad system has created an opportunity for anyone to instantly have advertising on their website, without the hassle of having to actively sell ad space. AdSense makes up a good portion of the advertising revenue for many websites, and other websites may use AdSense to earn the bulk of their revenues.
10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMS
By Paul Boag Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly deï¬ned set of requirements, you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use.
15 Useful Twitter Hacks and Plug-Ins For WordPress
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has grown to create what most people would call a social media revolution.
50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers
by Paul Andrew Twitter appears on innumerable personal and professional websites nowadays, whether it is a simple “Follow me” badge in the header or a display of the author’s latest tweets in the sidebar.
