7 Ways You Might Not Know Your Sites Are Exploding
Once upon a time in web design, all you had to do to make your sites cross compatible was set them to be 960px wide and fix the issues that popped up in IE6. Ah, the old days.... Today, the internet...
View ArticleImproving Smashing Magazine’s Performance: A Case Study
Today Smashing Magazine turns eight years old. Eight years is a long time on the web, yet for us it really doesn’t feel like a long journey at all. Things have changed, evolved and moved on, and we...
View Article20 Awesome Tools For Web Developers
The Internet nowadays has made its way into our lives more and more. We have gotten to the stage in which we rely on it heavily as both a source of information and social interaction. Due to these...
View ArticleThe WooCommerce Themes That You Were Looking For Are Here
We are living in fast-paced times. Some of us are really caught up in our daily work schedules, so we barely have time for ourselves. This is where online shopping comes in handy. You can order the...
View Article3 Ways to Get Feedback From Clients With InVision
Getting feedback from clients is a crucial part of any project. It doesn't matter if you're a team of one or a team of developers and designers, you need feedback from your client to keep the project...
View Article10 Scripts for Enhanced Scrollbars & Page Scrolling Effects
Browser scrollbars haven’t changed much in the decades of Internet browsing. Yet with Javascript internal scrollbars have advanced many times over compared to older HTML iframes. JavaScript is now...
View ArticleThe Skeptic’s Guide To Low-Fidelity Prototyping
Designer Paul Rand once said, “An understanding of man’s intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the...
View ArticleNotes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China
As more Western-based companies turn one eye towards the Chinese market, I get asked a lot of questions about the complications of designing a website for Chinese clients, and the technicalities of...
View ArticleWayfinding For The Mobile Web
When designing mobile first, navigation takes a back seat to content, and ruthless editing paves the way for more focused experiences. The pursuit of simplicity, combined with the tight spatial...
View ArticleImproving Your Information Architecture With Card Sorting: A Beginner’s Guide
Information architecture (IA) is one of those buzzwords you’ve probably heard before. It refers to the organization of the information on your website and how it all fits together. When planning your...
View ArticleFeeling Stuck? Design What You Don’t Know
Many of us struggle silently with mental health problems and many more are affected by them, either directly or indirectly. It’s {Geek} Mental Help Week 1 and we would like to help raise awareness...
View ArticleWhat To Consider When Choosing A WordPress Theme
Economists have taught us that a lot of choice is not always a good thing 1 . Having many options can lead to “analysis paralysis” and a feeling of being overwhelmed, due to the increased effort...
View ArticleChartist.js, An Open-Source Library For Responsive Charts
The list of charting libraries for the web is already quite long, and you might ask yourself why we would need to make it any longer. Whenever you need to develop an application’s dashboard, embed...
View Article2014: A Year in Tuts+ Content
As the year draws to a close, it's the perfect time to step back, take stock of what's happened in the past twelve months, and plan ahead (at least, that's what most people think ). And there's one...
View ArticleOn China’s Bleeding Edge: Web Design Trends 2015
There are many parallels between the volatility of the web industry and China’s breakneck rate of change: For one thing, it’s hard to keep a finger on the pulse of either. But add the two together and...
View ArticleOn China’s Bleeding Edge: Web Design Trends 2015
There are many parallels between the volatility of the web industry and China’s breakneck rate of change: For one thing, it’s hard to keep a finger on the pulse of either. But add the two together and...
View ArticleHelp Your Content Go Anywhere With A Mobile Content Strategy
You’ve put a lot of thought, time and effort into creating great content, and you want users to have a great experience with your content . While you might have created the best content in the world,...
View ArticleThe Command Line for Web Design: Wrapping Up
I hope you had a great time with this tutorial series , and discovered some of the incredibly useful ways the command line can be incorporated into every day web design processes. You’ve learned...
View ArticleLocalizing Your Website or App for the Chinese Market
Localization, the process of optimizing a site or app across differing languages and cultures, goes far beyond basic translation. Actually, translation’s perhaps the easiest part. Sure, sometimes...
View ArticleBuilding A Custom Archive Page For WordPress
If I were to ask you what the least used default page type in WordPress is, chances are you’d say the archive template. Or, more likely, you’d probably not even think of the archive template at all —...
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