… css layouts, visual effects and forms

The email newsletter is a powerful marketing and communication tool that has various useful functions. It reminds your users about you; it informs users about your products; it tells them what you have been up to; and it helps you build a unique relationship with them. Users like email newsletters if the newsletters bring them value.

“Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies. In fact, one of the greatest ancient philosophers, Aristotle, said: “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”

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.

Illustrator and graphic designer

… the Blog Theme That Changed the Internet

Take a look around any online marketplace and you’ll see the labor of designers, writers, and digital artists severely undervalued.

(about CSS performance)

Andrew Clarke shares a case study highlighting the benefits of progressively enhanced web design. Ever wondered how to convince your clients to let you use cutting edge web techniques? It may be simpler than you think.

»We aren’t designing copies of web pages, we’re designing web pages.«

Designers spend hours perfecting websites, whether their own or their clients’.

In our last article about CSS3, ["Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/02/pushing-your-buttons-with-practical-css3/), we talked about using new CSS3 techniques like gradients, border-radius and drop-shadows to create compelling, flexible and (in some cases) hilarious buttons.

Drew McLellan kicks off our 2009 season with a look at some of the tools CSS3 provides for applying levels of transparency to colour values, enabling you to avoid weighing down a site design with heavy PNG images.

Jetzt im Magazin des Goethe-Instituts: Porträts, Interviews und Bildergalerien zu Trends im Mode-, Produkt-, Möbel-, Grafik-Design in Deutschland

[…] There is a Japanese philosophy called “Kaizen,” which focuses on continuous improvement using small steps.

Does your Web design suck? Do you use too many default design elements? Is it dated? Try these 10 CSS tricks to improve your Web site design and usability.

The design session - an article about collaborative workflow

a book of … self-produced tests … send to print … using the online print-on-demand system Lulu. The book project will therefore act as a colour/type/pattern test of the very system with which it is produced.

... beantwortet die gängigsten Einsteigerfragen und richtet sich an Unternehmen und Personen, die bisher noch keine Erfahrung mit Design haben und nun ein Logo, eine Webseite oder ähnliche Designarbeiten in Auftrag geben möchten.

Most business cards will have at least a name of a person or company but there are other essential and useful elements of a good business card.

A modern interpretation of a design classic, this stove top espresso maker combines classic Italian style with unprecedented functionality. The OTTO espresso maker is designed Read More

The Grid Layout Javascript enables web-developers to stick to a Grid Layout quickly and simply by including the Grid Layouts Javascript file and simple XHTML code. Currently, the Grid Layouts Javascript relies on jQuery.