If you’re a developer of mobile Web apps, then you’ve heard this before: Native apps perform better than Web apps. But what does “perform better” mean?
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WordPress businesses are springing up all of the time. Some of them succeed, some of them fail, and some of them go global. Last month, I wrote a post on Smashing Magazine about the thriving WordPress economy.
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Have you ever wanted your users to click a link but didn’t know how to get them to act? When some designers run into this problem, they’re tempted to use the words “Click here” on their links.
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Paul Boag says we can have side projects, a life beyond computers, and get the job done. He believes that personal projects can be fun, good for the career, and also facilitate a life beyond the Web.
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The absolute best thing about WordPress is how flexible it is. Don’t like it? Change the theme. Need added functionality? There is probably a plugin you can download or buy. If not, built it yourself! You can change pretty much everything about WordPress. In this article I’m going to go over some easy ways to customize WordPress that you may not know about.
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Classes, classes, classes everywhere. What if we don’t need CSS classes at all? What if we stopped worrying about how many classes we’re using and what we should be calling them and just finished with them once and for all?
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Today, it is our pleasure to present to you a gorgeous free set of icons related to education and academia—commissioned by PixelsDaily exclusively for Smashing Magazine and the design community. The icons are available as transparent PNGs as well as Photoshop PSDs in a size of 128×128 pixels. The icons are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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brand new Smashing Books #3 and #3⅓ have been released last month and we’re sincerely grateful for the tremendous feedback, reviews and photos submitted by our truly smashing readers across the world.
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Howdy, folks! Welcome to the new incarnation of Smashing Magazine’s Q&A. Your question could be about a very specific problem you are having, or it could be a question about philosophical approach.
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