… wireframing, mockups and prototyping for websites and applications

Wireframes on the fly … an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.

(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.«

… a strategy for web design that emphasizes accessibility, semantic markup, and external stylesheet and scripting technologies.

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.

Round-ups of beautiful and useful **icons** are almost legendary here, on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying "list"-style of some of our articles, we are confident that useful round-ups of relevant resources are very valuable and useful for designers. This is why over months we collect useful links and then present them in posts in the magazine. Like it or hate it, but the feedback that we get from the design community when we publish such posts is mostly positive which is why we keep doing it.

«[…] here are 24 total resources that will show you how to design and code Wordpress themes from scratch. This includes 9 design and coding tutorials, 12 Photoshop mockups, 2 Wordpress e-books, and even a developers “Cheat Sheet”.»

The studio of Albert Exergian is specialized in visual communication utilising art direction and graphic design. The roster of clients includes international companies as well as independent businesses.

Direction, Design & Motion

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.

A beautiful, brand new blog theme based on Subtraction.com, designed by Allan Cole and myself.

Let's look at some clever techniques developed and used by top professionals in the Web design industry. We can use their examples to develop our own alternative solutions.

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The simple concept of a screw driver on your key ring is not new. Nobody has made a high quality key ring screwdriver for the last 10 years, until now. They are constructed of heat treated, blackened steel. They are so simple, there's not much more to say about them. (One Phillips and One Straight Blade)

"Sometimes I put my log in information into the register fields." "Me too! I hate that not only do I feel stupid, I have to retype everything again." For one of my side projects, Leafy Chat, we have just added the concept of user accounts. This includes the need for registration and log in (as well as log out and forgot password and so on). Leafy Chat only requires an email address and a password for both registration and log in, so it would be great to have some clever way to have both forms on the homepage. Some things...

Androidicons is a professional, handcrafted icon set with 250 icons in 14 different colors and 5 sizes, including an icon font and all sources.

This post is about 5 useful CSS properties that you should be very familiar with, but will most likely rarely use. I’m not talking about the new fancy CSS3 properties. I’m referring to the old CSS2 properties such as: clip, min-height, white-space, cursor, and display that are widely supported by all browsers. So, don’t miss […]

Standard photographic print sizes are used in photographic printing. Cut sheets of paper meant for printing photographs are commonly sold in these sizes.