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Understanding How WordPress Images Work (For Better Responsive Design)

What You'll Be Creating One of the biggest challenges facing web developers today is properly handling images for responsive design. We face issues like sizing the image properly for the screen it's...

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A Flexible jQuery Plugin for Sorting & Pagination

Advertise here via BSA jPList is a flexible jQuery plugin for sorting, pagination and filtering of any HTML structure. It supports data sources: PHP + MySQL, ASP.NET + Sql Server, PHP + SQLite. It...

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Don’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming

Functional programming is the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms. Originally relegated to the annals of computer science academia, functional programming has had a recent renaissance that is...

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Techniques For Creating Custom Textures In Photoshop

Textures are everywhere — the concrete of a sidewalk, the fabric on your chair, even the glass (or plastic) surface of the screen you’re staring at right now. It’s natural that textures appeal to us...

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Case Study: PixelMogul, A Simulation Game For iOS

Are you a web designer or developer who dreams about creating a mobile game and bringing it to the app store? We have good news: Your road to the app store might be shorter than you think! And if you...

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Tips to Help You Properly Mix Text With Imagery

The pattern of using text on top of background images has been popular for years. Originating well before web design, text on an image can provide a more emotionally engaging and contextually rich...

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Photoshop CC 2014: What’s New for Web Designers?

Last month saw the launch of the all new Photoshop CC 2014 , with lots of great new features, especially for web designers. In this tutorial, you'll learn about the following new or improved features,...

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How to Manipulate and Animate SVG With Snap.svg

In this tutorial we're going to introduce Snap.svg, a JavaScript library which assists in animating and manipulating SVG content. To demonstrate some of the features available, we're going to animate...

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Tips for Best Practices in WordPress Development

In this series, we're going to cover the most important things you should consider when developing a WordPress Plugin or a WordPress Theme.  This guide aims to provide a set of good practices that...

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Analyzing Your Website With the Screaming Frog SEO Spider

The right tools can make the SEO audit of a website so much easier. One such tool is the Screaming Frog SEO Spider . It can be used to review a website and identify flaws which can hurt a website’s...

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How Limitations Led To My Biggest App Store Success and Failure

Look at your calendar. If you’re anything like me, all you see are meetings, places to go, things to do, people to meet and not a lot of white space. Few people love their calendar. So, we set out to...

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Generate Nice SVG Background Images with Trianglify JS

Trianglify is a javascript library for generating colorful triangle meshes that can be used as SVG images and CSS backgrounds. It was inspired by btmills/geopattern, and uses d3.js to build the...

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Design Responsive Websites In The Browser With Webflow

This article is the first part of a series of articles on emerging responsive design tools. Today, Richard Knight explores the advantages of Webflow and how you can use it today to build responsive...

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A Closer Look At Personas: What They Are And How They Work (Part 1)

In my experience as an interaction designer, I have come across many strategies and approaches to increase the quality and consistency of my work, but none more effective than the persona. Personas...

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Useful Adobe Fireworks Resources: Tutorials, Articles And Freebies (Part 2)

A few weeks ago, I mentioned some of the best extensions 1 that are currently available for Fireworks. Today, I’ll cover some of the best tutorials and articles, as well as many freebies (styles,...

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Useful Adobe Fireworks Resources: Tutorials, Articles And Freebies (Part 2)

A few weeks ago, I mentioned some of the best extensions 1 that are currently available for Fireworks. Today, I’ll cover some of the best tutorials and articles, as well as many freebies (styles,...

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A Closer Look At Personas: A Guide To Developing The Right Ones (Part 2)

How can designers create experiences that are custom tailored to people who are unlike themselves? As explained in part 1 1 of this series, an effective way to gain knowledge of, build empathy for and...

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The Current State Of E-Commerce Search

When e-commerce search works, it’s fast, convenient and efficient. It’s no wonder that so many users prefer searching over clicking categories. Unfortunately, our recent large-scale usability study...

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The Current State Of E-Commerce Search

When e-commerce search works, it’s fast, convenient and efficient. It’s no wonder that so many users prefer searching over clicking categories. Unfortunately, our recent large-scale usability study...

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Ways To Avoid Overwhelming Users: Lessons Learned From My High-School Teachers

High school. I won’t lie: I did not have the highest grades in my graduating class. Some classes and lessons were so poorly designed and delivered that I would frequently become frustrated and...

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