By Nousheen Aquil
Seeing a waterfall would be the most beautiful scene on this world, its natural beauty and soothing effect is always exceptionally terrific for almost everyone.

New Riders Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, now in its fourth consecutive year, will take place June 28-29 in San Francisco and the timing couldnt be better!

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.

Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a free runtime environment that can be used by the developers to develop highly interactive internet and media applications for multiple platforms.

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,

By Alexis Brille
Designers who are just starting out seem to have trouble calculating just how much their designs are actually worth, let alone choosing whether to charge per hour or per project.

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

By Obaid ul Rehman
About 70% of earth surface is covered by water. Aquatic life is quite adventurous and is vastly diverse.

On Thursday May 27th, web developers from all over Canada will be coming together to talk about the ever evolving web, discover new platforms,

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.

By Tim Mercer
Geometric art has been around since antiquity. From the ancient Greek to the native Americans, peoples all over the world throughout time have produced geometric works of art.

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,

The Applied Arts Design Advertising Awards Call For Entry is currently open.

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

By Sean Geng
Nowadays everyone's using a different browser. Between popular options like Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer,

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.

By Bhanu Ahluwalia Dew drops, the water droplets condensed from the air, are a beautiful gift from Mother Nature. Dew drops have a novelty in them.

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.

The FITC Toronto 2009 officially ended yesterday. Congrats to the award winners. My overall experience was pretty good.

By Cameron Chapman
There have been tons of posts about minimalist and simple web design.

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

The FITC Toronto 2009 officially ended yesterday. Congrats to the award winners. My overall experience was pretty good.

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

By Aquil Akhter Video games: children just love them, but the adventure of video games is not limited to childhood only,

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.

Portraying natural beauty always produces beautiful and attractive results. For example, photos of landscapes, beaches, mountains, sunset, sunrise, blue sky, green fields can be very beautiful.

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,