Usability Review of Charity Websites Taking the Lead
Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors. Yet charity websites have not progressed along with trends and expectations — they seem to have been designed for launch and then only updated with minor tweaks to suit the content.
Update: Social Media Icons
First of all, thank you for all the great feedbacks and suggestions on the Vector Social Media Icons I released on IconDock . I updated the set with the new Google Buzz, Microsoft Bing, Picasa, Meetup, Feedburner, Ebay, Drupal, Gowalla, ICQ, Metacafe, Yelp, Xing, Paypal, Podcast, and various color buttons
Finding Inspiration in Uncommon Sources: 12 Places to Look
Inspiration can be a fickle thing. Most designers, when lacking ideas, turn to design galleries to find ideas
Passing Parameters as Variables vs Passing Parameters as An Array
Improvisation is the name of the game, and we tend to do a lot of it with plugins and themes. In that process we tend to modify functions by adding more variables to incorporate changes in them. However, unlike most of the other languages, PHP allows users to set default values for variables passed to a method too.
Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications
Business Web application design is too often neglected. I see a lot of applications that don’t meet the needs of either businesses or users and thus contribute to a loss of profit and poor user experience. It even happens that designers are not involved in the process of creating applications at all, putting all of the responsibility on the shoulders of developers
Smashing Newsletter Challenge… And Giveaway!
It’s time for something brand new and exciting on Smashing Magazine. Actually, we have quite a few things in the works, and today we are happy to reveal one of them. Over the years, we have published many lengthy articles, and now we want to write some shorter ones for a change
WordPress Theme Releases for 02/23
Presenter Presenter is a child theme for the Hybrid theme framework . Presenter gives you a quick way to show your portfolio or services with few elements and easy customization from the back-end.
Shalom! Showcase Of Web Design In Israel
Israel is a young country with an old heart. It has been quickly built up over the last 60 years as an independent democratic Jewish state and is shockingly cutting edge for a country so new.
WordPress Plugin Developer Day, March 1st
About a month ago I was augmenting a client site with some added functionality that, while technically out of scope, I was able to add quickly thanks to a plugin. For whatever reason on this particular instance, I was really struck by how much value I was able to add to a client site thanks to that  plugin. There was relatively little effort on my part to make the client happy due to a significant level of effort by the developer that built the plugin.
CSS3 Dropdown Menu
While I was coding the Notepad theme , I’ve learned some new CSS3 features and now I would like to share it with you. View the demo to see a Mac-like multi-level dropdown menu that I’ve created using border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow. It renders perfect on Firefox, Safari and Chrome
