We love beautiful typography, and we appreciate the efforts of designers who come up with great typographic techniques and tools or who just share their knowledge with fellow designers.

In Modern CSS Layouts, Part 1: The Essential Characteristics, you learned that modern, CSS-based web sites should be progressively enhanced, adaptive to diverse users, modular,

There is little doubt that WordPress is one of the most popular blogging and content management platforms out there today.

We've been releasing many icon sets and WordPress themes on Smashing Magazine, yet today we are glad to announce the release of a bit different freebie.

Open-source content management systems (CMS) are a large family of Web applications, but if we're looking for stability, performance and average technical requirements,

Symmetry is the ordering principle in nature that represents the center of balance between two or more opposing sides.

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it.

WordPress' popularity has grown exponentially as of late. This rise in popularity is due in part to WordPress' custom fields. Custom fields allow you to add little bits of data to posts.

CSS3 is probably the hottest trend in web design right now, allowing developers the opportunity to implement a number of solutions into their projects with some very straightforward CSS while

Over the last year, Smashing Magazine has evolved. We've been publishing fewer lists and more in-depth articles about design and Web development.

We often talk about how to make our websites more usable, whether it's tweaking the HTML structure of pages to benefit the users process or figuring out how best to display a message via CSS.

Based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the idea of a design hierarchy of needs rests on the assumption that in order to be successful,

In one of our previous articles, I put together a list of 7 must-see videos related to web design.

If you are running a design agency, your job is very likely to combine business development, graphic design, technology and user experience design: a basketful of very different fields.

The Netherlands, also known as the Low Countries, is a small, crowded, muddy piece of land through which a few big important rivers fortunately run.

The Netherlands, also known as the Low Countries, is a small, crowded, muddy piece of land through which a few big important rivers fortunately run.

Creative types have a problem. We have so many great ideas, but most of them never see the light of day. Why do most ideas never happen? The reason is that our own creative habits get in the way.

I've been writing JavaScript code for much longer than I care to remember. I am very excited about the language's recent success; it's good to be a part of that success story.

Go to any website and you're guaranteed to find one thing: a navigation menu.

Where does the beauty come from? It isn't necessary to travel around the world in its most quiet places to experience it. Beauty is always near us you just need to want to explore it.

Where does the beauty come from? It isn't necessary to travel around the world in its most quiet places to experience it. Beauty is always near us you just need to want to explore it.

With tools like Appcelerator's Titanium and some JavaScript programming skill, creating native iPhone and iPad apps is simple.

Whether you design and code websites all by yourself or run a small business with a pool of talent,

In this article, I'll introduce you to the fundamentals of PHP. We'll focus on using PHP to access Web services and on turning static HTML pages into dynamic ones by retrieving data from the Web

There are thousands of free icon sets out there, and every other day we see new sets being released by the design community.

Many of us today probably use the Web to book tickets and find information about movies.

With advertising, a curious thing happens: most people want its benefits but are rarely willing to put up with its hassles.

If you want to "go big" visually with a website, delivering complex interaction and a rich experience across a wide range of browsers, Flash is the only way to go. Right? Nope.