20 Fantastic Usability & Conversion Analysis Tools

February 11th, 2010
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20 Fantastic Usability & Conversion Analysis Tools

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Developing Sites With AJAX: Design Challenges and Common Issues

February 10th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Almost every movie has a scene in which a character pull the protagonist aside and says, “There’s something you should know about [insert another character's name here].” Most of the time, we find out some dark secret about a supposed friend of the protagonist or that the main ally is… read more

Interview: Pixmac

February 10th, 2010
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Francesco Mugnai

Pixmac is a (great) growing fast microstock agency with more than 10.000.000 stock photos (that cover images from Fotolia and Dreamstime).
Few weeks ago i talked with Martin Vl?ko, their e-Marketing specialist and i decided to interview him about the secrets behind Pixmac.

Enjoy this interview ;)

First of all…. read more

Mobile Web Design: Tips and Best Practices

February 9th, 2010
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Noupe

Last year, more than 63 million people in the United States accessed the Internet from a mobile device. It’s forecast that by 2013 there will be more than 1.7 billion mobile Internet users worldwide. With those kinds of numbers, it’s imperative that web designers and developers learn optimal development and… read more

15 jQuery Plugins for Better Web Page Element Layouts

February 8th, 2010
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Specky Boy

CSS does a pretty darn good job of helping to lay out a web page… but not always. Even with all the versatility that CSS offers (including CSS3), it sometimes is not enough and, dare I say it, I really hate to say it – HTML tables are on [very… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jan 31-Feb 6, 2010

February 7th, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

How to Plan for the Absence of JavaScript

February 5th, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

Though the methods used to gather website traffic statistics call into question the validity of the stats themselves, the fact is that some of your website’s visitors will have JavaScript disabled.

You could divide your traffic sources into four broad categories:

Search engines, mobile visitors, visitors… read more

50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

February 5th, 2010
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Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has… read more

Joomla, WordPress and Drupal – Should you look outside the big 3?

February 4th, 2010
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Specky Boy

Todays post is a guest opinion article from Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos, he shares his thoughts on how to choose the best CMS and to not be limited to only, as he calls them, The Big Three (WordPress, Joomla and Drupal). What are your thoughts on CMS selection? Which is the… read more

Don’t Touch That Dial — Lessons Web Designers Can Learn From Television Broadcasts

February 3rd, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Each year, the battle for television ratings begins. Networks unveil their latest creations, jockeying for position in the ratings race, doing everything and anything within their means to gain and keep as many viewers as possible. Months, sometimes years of planning, preparation, marketing, shooting, and editing are laid bare on… read more

7 Elements of a Successful Freelancer’s Website

February 3rd, 2010
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Freelanceswitch

“The shoemaker’s children go barefoot.”

You’re not a shoemaker but the saying still fits. Between client projects, conferences, and social obligations (okay, okay, WOW clan meetings may count as social obligations), your site has been sorely neglected. A neglected website might not seem like a big deal if you’re flush with… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Digital Events

February 1st, 2010
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Mashable

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish… read more

25 UI Inspiration and Design Pattern Resources

February 1st, 2010
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Specky Boy

Are your fresh design ideas no longer fresh or are you a designer who continually re-uses the same old and trusted design patterns that have followed you for many a year? Or, you might just be a UI designer that is stuck in a rut? If you are looking to… read more

The Smashing Book: Already Got Yours?

January 27th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Have you gotten your copy of The Smashing Book yet? If not, it may still be worth spending $29.90 for this printed book. The book shares technical tips and best practices on typography, usability, UI design, marketing and color usage. It contains interviews with high profile designers and developers. And… read more

A reconsideration�in defence of bold and italice

January 26th, 2010
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Unleashing the Power of Website Analytics

January 26th, 2010
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Unleashing the Power of Website Analytics

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Showcase Of Web Design In Germany

January 26th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Germany, which is situated in the heart of Europe and neighbors nine other countries, is not only the motherland of eminent philosophers, poets, composers, world-famous automobiles and great beer, but also a place where some of the most talented and highly ranked Web designers live.

German design is certainly worthy of… read more

Easy Invoices with Blinksale

January 25th, 2010
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Web App Storm

There is an abundance of invoicing web apps available these days, capable of meeting just about anyone’s needs. The difficult part, however, can be finding the invoicing app that meets your needs and works the way you want it to. With an ever growing selection of invoicing apps available to… read more

45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials

January 25th, 2010
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Noupe

By Paul Andrew

As many of us know, the initial 15-20 seconds of a new user’s visit to a web site will have a large impact on whether on not they are going to like or dislike the site, prompting them to decide whether they will stay or go. This means… read more

25 jQuery Plugins for Working with Forms

January 25th, 2010
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DesignM.ag

Almost every website uses a form of some kind. Contact forms and other types of forms can be enhanced with the use of a number of jQuery plugins that are readily available. In this post we’ll feature 25 useful plugins that you may be able to use in your own… read more

35 Beautiful and Effective E-Commerce Websites

January 22nd, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Despite any financial recession and economic stress, online purchasing continues to grow. Expansion of the market and evolving technology that simplifies our daily lives help to set the pace of e-commerce design. Customers want the shopping process to be quick and easy, and merchants want to increase sales by making… read more

Tutorials as you like them with N.E.D. and its family

January 21st, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Nonlinear Educating Inc., has been selling tutorials on a wide variety of subjects for years. Their catalog of 146 video tutorials cover just about everything from all the programs in the Adobe CS4 Suite, to iLife 09 and iWork 09, or virtually anything you could want to learn about Mac… read more

Pull Yourself Together with Threadsy

January 21st, 2010
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Web App Storm

Do you ever feel like your digital life has become rather… bloated? Between social media networks, instant messaging and email, it’s not uncommon for people to have 5-7 (or more) different services to check on a daily basis. In an ever increasing web-centric world, don’t expect this count to drop… read more

Tips for Coding and Designing Usable Web Forms

January 21st, 2010
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Noupe

By Louis Lazaris

The web form has been one of the most discussed elements in web design for more than ten years now. We can’t help it. Call-to-action functionality often leads users to a form; purchases are made using forms; users register or subscribe using forms — the uses for forms… read more

Find The Right JavaScript Solution With A 7-Step Test

January 21st, 2010
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As Web developers and designers, we are spoilt for choice right now. To build a complex Web application or even just spice up a website with some highly interactive interface element, we have hundreds of pre-built solutions to choose from. Every library comes with widgets and solutions, and every developer… read more

Mashable’s Social Media Job Listings

January 20th, 2010
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Mashable

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more

Easy Web Forms with FormSpring

January 19th, 2010
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Web App Storm

Forms. We all need them, yet they’re one of the elements of the web that most of us cringe at the thought of creating. They take a strong mix of skills between a developer and designer to create — forms that are a breeze to use, function perfectly and look… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Marketing Events

January 18th, 2010
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Mashable

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish… read more

CSS Transitions 101

January 18th, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

Transitions work by changing a style over a period of time between different element states. For example, the color value of the default state of an element will pass through intermediate colors in the spectrum before appearing as the color value for the hover state.


A Simple Transition

Let’s consider… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jan 10-Jan 16, 2010

January 16th, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Best of the Week #102

January 16th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to… read more

Fantastic Information Architecture Resources

January 15th, 2010
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Noupe

By Cameron Chapman

Information architecture can be a daunting subject for designers who’ve never tried it before. Creating successful infographics and visualizations takes skill and practice, along with some advance planning. But anyone with graphic design skills can learn to create infographics that are effective and get data across in a… read more

Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices

January 15th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

When designing a large website, especially one that contains a store, you may be required to design a system for ordering online, or a multi-step process of another sort. Walking users through this process by making it easy and intuitive is key to helping increase conversion rates. Any… read more

Is it your imagination or is that ad following you?

January 14th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

What does all this mean? Well considering Apple recently acquired Quattro Wireless, a top company in the mobile ad space, it seems pretty clear that those crazy kids in Cupertino want to chum it up big time with the classy gents of Madison Avenue. That is, Apple is getting into… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Job Listings in Social Media & Marketing

January 13th, 2010
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Mashable

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more

Usability Study: Shopping For Bedsheets – How Hard Could It Be?

January 13th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Online shopping is a great way to economize and reduce the stress of shopping, but shopping online for certain types of products can be harder than shopping in person. Recently, I looked at how well major online retailers (Macy’s, Target and Overstock.com) facilitate shopping for a deceptively complex, though very… read more

Principles of Great Design: Craftsmanship

January 13th, 2010
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Design Informer

I love beautiful things. There’s very little in the world that takes my breath away quite like an object that was lovingly crafted, built with care and passion, and presented with the sort of pride that befits a marvelously well-made item.

That which is beautiful is increasingly difficult to come by… read more

Improve Usability and CTR: Make an Entire List Item Clickable

January 12th, 2010
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Larger clickable areas make for greater usability and a higher click-through rate. Here’s how to expand a clickable area to an entire list item using jQuery. read more

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45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques

January 12th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

CSS and JavaScript are extremely powerful tools for designers and developers. Almost every day designers and developers come up with fresh and clever CSS tricks and techniques and share them with other developers. We regularly collect all these tricks, filter them, sort them, revise them and prepare them for Smashing… read more

Whitespace: The Underutilized Design Element

January 12th, 2010
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Web Design Ledger

There are a number of elements that make up a great web design, but probably one of the most overlooked and underutilized is whitespace. Every design has whitespace, but the problem is that not every design has enough. This could be due to the fact that inexperienced designers and their… read more

29 Resources for Freelance Designers Operating on a Tight Budget

January 11th, 2010
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DesignM.ag

There are plenty of highly-useful resources and web apps that have been created with freelance designers and developers in mind. But for many freelancers, especially those who are just getting started, pricing can be an issue. In this post we’ll feature 29 resources that are not only very useful fore… read more

10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications

January 11th, 2010
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Specky Boy

Every web designer and developer should have a good and reliable wireframe (mockup or prototype) tool at there disposal. The importance of such a tool differentiates amongst web designers and developers, some use them, some don’t. Personally, I use them. It is in this initial stage of development that makes… read more

The Case Against Vertical Navigation

January 11th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

In a recent article about the unusuable and superficial beer and alcohol websites, I made the claim that using left-hand vertical navigation is an out-of-date method in modern web design. In the comments, a few people wondered why I said this. I was surprised that it got any attention at… read more

Best Practices To Develop Perfect Websites for iPhone and Mobile Devices

January 10th, 2010
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Woork

2010 will be the years of consolidation of internet usage via mobile devices. According to internetnews.com, which reports a Gartner analysis, mobile device sales will rise (9%) in 2010. This scenario will impose to internet companies, online newspapers, bloggers, to provide mobile versions of their websites to simplify the fruition… read more

Creative and Unusual Layouts and Navigation Designs

January 8th, 2010
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Noupe

By Robert Hartland

In this article, we’ll showcase website layouts and navigation structures that really break the mold. The designers of these websites have seen dozens of clone websites out there but have sought their own way. The unusual website layouts and navigation that results can either be very successful and… read more

Sites of the Week #84

January 8th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the Frish and Sutton. Also we’re featuring a nice flash site called I Make My Case, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and… read more

Great Reads for 2010

January 7th, 2010
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The beginning of the new year came with lots of plans and resolutions. In my opinion, it’s very important to share our experiences and to learn from others as well, and because of that, in this post I will show you some books that I got and that I think… read more

For Music Lovers: Curated Setlists For Free Online

January 6th, 2010
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Mashable

“Internet jukebox” Songza has finally returned us to those glorious days when the dude we dug made us a mixtape. How? With the launch of Songza Sets, a free streaming radio service that offers up an array of setlists created by a team of real-life humans.

When Songza came out… read more

Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do

January 6th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Website performance is a hugely important topic, so much so that the big companies of the Web are obsessed with it. For the Googles, Yahoos, Amazons and eBays, slow websites mean fewer users and less happy users and thus lost revenue and reputation.

In your case, annoying a few users wouldn’t… read more

14 Traits of Successful Blogs

January 6th, 2010
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InstantShift

Millions of people start a blog every year. Conversely, many blogs die every year from lack of updates, lack of interest, not having original content, copying/stealing of content from fellow bloggers or copyright violation etc. Those that stand above the others stand far above the others.

Have you ever visited… read more

KeyRemap4MacBook: the utility keyboard lovers have dreamed of

January 5th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<po, what does it do? Out of the box, it offers you dozens and dozens of options for remapping keys and key combinations to potentially more useful actions. Turn your space bar into a shift key when it's pressed in combination with another letter. Turn your trackball into the world's… read more

25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time

January 5th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

We’re all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles. Rare are the opportunities to attend conferences or watch live shows on subjects that we’re interested in. That’s why we are presenting here phenomenal videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.18

January 5th, 2010
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Specky Boy

If you are needing a quick way of catching up on what has been happening within the design community after the festive holiday period, this is the round-up for you. Oh, and welcome back to work!
We love to share fresh design related news and resources through Twitter, this post… read more

The DesignM.ag Job Board Has Been Re-Launched, with Free Job Listings!

January 3rd, 2010
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DesignM.ag

The DesignM.ag job board has undergone some significant changes and been re-launched. If you’re not familiar with our job board, it provides designers and developers with a place to find work (freelance and employment opportunities), and helps companies to find skilled workers. To celebrate the improvements… read more

The Most Popular Articles of 2009

January 3rd, 2010
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Web Design Ledger

The end of 2009 marked our first full year in existence, and what a great year it was. We feel that we’ve put out a lot of valuable content that has been helpful to our readers who we greatly appreciate. So before we start publishing new content for 2010, we… read more

Five Simple but Essential Web Usability Tips

January 2nd, 2010
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Five Simple but Essential Web Usability Tips

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Merry Christmas and a Roundup of Web Design Articles from Speckyboy Design Magazine

December 24th, 2009
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Specky Boy

Christmas is here, and the wife has ordered me to take the next three or four days off. I haven’t had more than two days off at any given time in the past year, so perhaps she is right. I have handed over my laptop, handed over the power lead… read more

Merry Christmas Eve: Evernote for iPhone gets a major update

December 23rd, 2009
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

As TUAW heard during a November interview with Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, the updated app provides local caching and searching. Any note that is created or viewed on the iPhone is cached locally for viewing and searching, even when offline. Premium users can choose to have any or all… read more

Your Head Explodes: iPhone in an iPhone [VIDEO]

December 23rd, 2009
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Mashable

We’ve seen all sorts of augmented reality applications for mobile devices, with varying degrees of usability, but this one, created for Orange Telecom, definitely takes the cake when it comes to originality and craziness.

Created by augmented reality specialists Ogmento, the application lets you launch a simulated iPhone on your… read more

Pastebot, another useful and beautiful bot from Tapbots

December 22nd, 2009
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<pr the past couple of years, I've had the pleasure to write about iPhone / iPod touch apps from Tapbots. First there was Weightbot, a beautifully designed app for tracking your weight. Next came Convertbot, a unit converter calculator that featured an innovative and extremely useful interface. Now Tapbots has… read more

HOW TO: Boost Your Resume Over the Winter Break

December 22nd, 2009
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Mashable

David Spinks is the Community Manager for Scribnia, where the world’s bloggers and columnists are reviewed by their readers. He also blogs at The Spinks Blog about business, careers and professional communities.

Attention young future professionals: If you’ve heard about this “networking” thing, and dabbled in some social media, it… read more

15+ Best Practices Tips: Designing Web Form

December 22nd, 2009
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When working in the world of web design and development, creativity is of course fundamental. However, it is more important to follow best practices to insure greater usability, functionality, and ease for the users. read more

All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth

December 22nd, 2009
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Freelanceswitch

This is the season of giving, whether it is for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or just to exchange gifts. So, with so many people here self-employed and thus lacking a company to give out those turkey dinners, terrific bonuses, and whatnot; I thought it would be a great idea to provide… read more

35+ Usability Resources for Web Designers

December 21st, 2009
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DesignM.ag

Usability should be a priority for every website. Without usability, even the most beautiful design will be ineffective. In this post we’ll feature a number of resources, tools, software, checklists, articles, and more, that can help you to design and develop highly usable websites.

Premium Usability Resources:

There are a number of… read more

Best of 2009 in the Creative Industry

December 21st, 2009
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Fuel Your Creativity

As the countdown to 2010 begins to loom in our imminent future, it’s a great time to look back upon what we as a creative community shared throughout 2009. It’s been a quick ride but it’s had some amazing creativity & content that could keep us fueled through the next… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Dec 13-Dec 19, 2009

December 20th, 2009
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Web Designer Depot

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS

December 19th, 2009
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Smashing Magazine

As we move forward with the Web and browsers become capable of rendering more advanced code, we gradually get closer to the goal of universal standards across all platforms and computers. Not only will we have to spend less time making sure our box model looks right in… read more

Google Wave’s Massive Potential for Business Users

December 18th, 2009
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Mashable

Howard Greenstein is a Social Media Strategy and Marketing consultant, and President of the Harbrooke Group. He’s also a national board member of Social Media Club.

Google Wave is an innovative new way for people to communicate and collaborate. But as Gina Tripani, author of The Complete Guide To Google Wave,… read more

24 Clever Website Designs That Combine jQuery and Illustration

December 17th, 2009
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Web Designer Depot

Thanks to the might of JavaScript, the words “dynamic” and “illustration” no longer apply exclusively to Flash-based websites.

Now that dynamic HTML is a reality in most commonly used browsers and that a lot of fancy JavaScript libraries exist to make using it easy, CSS websites can take back some of… read more

50+ Useful Mac Applications for Freelancers and Professional Designers

December 17th, 2009
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InstantShift

For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Macs. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I really like to play around and tweak with applications on my Mac too. There’s little confusion that Mac is a popular platform for web designers and freelancers as it offers an… read more

Factors That Affect Usability

December 16th, 2009
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Factors That Affect Usability

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Abduzeedo Anniversary – 3 Inspiring Years – Giveaway

December 16th, 2009
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Abduzeedo

Back in 2006, end of November to be exact, my design studio was robbed and as you guys might already know the story, I lost my computer and my backup drives with all my files and endeavors in the design field… A long time has passed since then– 3 years… read more

30 Website Navigations that Make You Wanna Click It

December 16th, 2009
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Web Design Ledger

The navigation might be the single most important aspect of a web design’s usability. Without a navigation, you would be stuck on the home page for a very long time. I believe a navigation or menu must be easy to use, but this doesn’t mean it has to be boring…. read more

Solutions to 5 Common Ajax Problems

December 14th, 2009
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Web Designer Depot

The modern web developer who does not consider Ajax when planning or building their websites is potentially missing out on a powerful tool to enhance usability.

There are however, challenges in implementing Ajax functionality on a web page.

In this article we’ll discuss solutions to five of the most common challenges that… read more

Christmas Giveaway Day 14: Upload Robots

December 14th, 2009
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Web App Storm

No matter what type of work you do online, everyone enjoys a savvy file upload and sharing tool. It’s part of why Dropbox has garnered so much love in the past year. Another tool in this genre, Upload Robots, also gives the same great service. And with the updates they’ve… read more

The CSS Awards: Honoring the Best of the Web

December 12th, 2009
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Web Design Ledger

The CSS Awards is a design gallery that showcases only the most prestigious CSS websites. Like most galleries, you can find plenty of design inspiration, but The CSS Awards offers much more. What I think makes it so great is that submissions are judged by a panel of people,… read more

¡Viva Mexico! Showcase Of Web Design In Mexico

December 12th, 2009
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Smashing Magazine

This post is the third article of our new series “Global Web Design“. Over the next months we’ll be covering various continents, featuring web developers and web designs from different countries of the world and taking a close look of what is happening in the web design scene worldwide. We… read more

Linkswitch #17

December 11th, 2009
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How to Stop Being a Workaholic

Let’s start by saying that there’s nothing inherently wrong with work — it can be fun, exciting, fulfilling, rewarding. I love my work in a way I never did for most of my life, until a few years ago, and work is one thing… read more

The Smashing Book: Buy Yours Now!

December 10th, 2009
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Noupe

If you are interested in web design and web-development, you’ve got to buy the brand new Smashing Book. Created by the editorial team of Noupe and developed together with the design community, this book is a printed book about best practices in modern Web design.

The book shares technical tips and… read more

How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong

December 10th, 2009
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Smashing Magazine

GIFs of spinning @s on the “Contact us” page. Common usabiltiy mistakes for the sake of visual appeal. Splash pages. Fancy search box. No whitespace. Music on page load. Home page banner of a jigsaw-puzzle globe with a piece missing. Sometimes you just know that what a client… read more

10 Questions with Daimon Caulk of Modal, Inc.

December 9th, 2009
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DesignM.ag

I recently had the privilege of interviewing Daimon Caulk, Principal of Modal, Inc. Daimon and his team produce great work and his responses in this interview provide excellent insight for the rest of us. I hope you find it to be helpful and that you enjoy getting to know more… read more

When Minimalism Backfires: When Too Little Is Not Enough

December 9th, 2009
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Web Designer Depot

As seen in our previous article on the subject and examples around the web, minimalism is quite the trend.

When the theory behind it is well implemented, it makes for some beautiful, simple and yet modern designs.

Because it is a trend, everyone wants to follow it. But can it be taken… read more

Usability Testing Toolkit: Resources, Articles, and Techniques

December 9th, 2009
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Noupe

By Cameron Chapman

Usability is paramount in creating a good website or web app. If your site isn’t user-friendly, the majority of visitors won’t come back, regardless of how good your content is. You need to do everything in your power to make sure every website you design or web application… read more

Principles Of Effective Search In E-Commerce Design

December 8th, 2009
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Smashing Magazine

While product findability is a key factor of success in e-commerce, it is predominantly enabled by simple search alone. And while simple search usually doesn’t fulfill complex needs among users, website developers and owners still regard advanced search as just another boring to-do item during development. Owners won’t go so… read more

Wikipedia Redesign: What’s in Store?

December 7th, 2009
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Web Designer Depot

Wikipedia is currently undergoing a much needed redesign to improve the user experience.

Anyone can preview this redesign by creating an account, logging in and then clicking the “Try Beta” link at the top right of any page.

The “Wikipedia Usability Initiative” has been divided into two phases. Phase 1 was the… read more

10 Useful Web Applications for Freelance Developers

December 7th, 2009
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Specky Boy

Not having the same funds or resources of a web design agency can certainly be one of the downsides to working as a freelance developer or designer. Established web design agencies have the finance to be able to have expensive full blown usability tests on a project, they will have… read more

The Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and Alcohol Websites

December 7th, 2009
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Smashing Magazine

I was pretty excited when I came up with the idea of examining and showcasing some of the most famous beer and alcohol-related websites from a number of countries around the world. After all, who doesn’t like the odd drink now and again? (Well, besides me — I can’t stand… read more

Best of the Week #96

December 5th, 2009
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Abduzeedo

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

10 Simple Web Accessibility Tips You Can Do Today

December 4th, 2009
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10 Simple Web Accessibility Tips You Can Do Today

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Holiday Shopping: Amazon FTW! [STUDY]

December 3rd, 2009
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Mashable

Thanks to Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, online retailers are getting more visitors and making more sales than this time last year. But which online shopping destinations are the easiest to use? Which have the fewest (or the most) usability bugs and glitches?

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The Smashing Book Is Released: Buy Now!

December 3rd, 2009
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Smashing Magazine

Here it is, the brand new Smashing Book. Announced several months ago in a couple of posts, it has finally arrived. You can buy the Smashing Book right now. And in case you didn’t know, it’s available here exclusively. The book is available and can be shipped right away.

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Mashable’s Guide to Jobs in Social Media Marketing

December 2nd, 2009
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Mashable

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more

50+ Fresh CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Resources

December 2nd, 2009
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Noupe

By Paul Andrew

Learning CSS and how to use it effectively can be a reasonably easy thing to do for a beginning web developer. In the hands of a seasoned professional, CSS can be stretched and pushed it to its limits where it can seem complicated and yet perfect at the… read more

RedEye gives you a universal iPhone remote for your home entertainment center

December 2nd, 2009
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<phe RedEye hardware is retailing at $188US. I mention this early because the price point affected my perception of the product quite a bit. From the packaging to the construction of the unit, it doesn't really feel like high-end hardware — not the way my Harmony 1000 remote does. Granted,… read more

Digg Makes it Easier to Get Dugg

December 2nd, 2009
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Mashable

Digg has announced that it is revamping its API so that developers can create more feature-rich applications for the social content-sharing site and write/contribute data using OAuth. The new API will also let developers write tools that give users the ability to Digg, bury or comment on stories.

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10 Usability Crimes to Avoid

December 2nd, 2009
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Crime doesn’t pay when it comes to website usability. Avoid these 10 issues. read more

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10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit

December 1st, 2009
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10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit

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12 Useful Tutorials to Style Web Forms

December 1st, 2009
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Styling a tableless css web form requires advanced skills in CSS. Besides that, we have to consider the form accessibility and usability as well. With all these tutorials, they will show you the right way to implement web form. read more