Author: Sven Lennartz
The Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books.
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The Mystery Of CSS Sprites: Techniques, Tools And Tutorials
- April 27th, 2009
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CSS Sprites are not new. In fact, they are a rather well-established technique and have managed to become common practice in Web development. Of course, CSS sprites are not always necessary, but in some situation they can bring significant advantages and improvements – particularly if you want to reduce your ...
Read more...60 More AJAX- and Javascript Solutions For Professional Coding
- April 15th, 2008
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When it comes to design of modern web-applications, Ajax is considered as a standard approach. Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, search, tooltips and tables are developed using Ajax libraries and nifty Ajax scripts. Ajax is useful and powerful. However, when using Ajax, one should keep in mind its ...
Read more...Online Calendars and Date Pickers
- October 23rd, 2007
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Calendars always come in handy. Whether you are planning a schedule for your next project, manage your appointments or simply want to keep track on events you are going to take part in — to get things done in time you need a clear, simple and user-friendly time line. ...
Read more...Flash-Based Galleries For Your Images
- October 12th, 2007
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In many situations web designers should avoid Flash and prefer usual text-based presentation. For instance, in most tasks related to pure text presentation Flash is neither necessary nor user-friendly, and it also has some serious accessibility problems: in fact, “pure” text is easier to maintain and easier to copy and ...
Read more...CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch
- September 21st, 2007
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You don’t have to write the same CSS-code or (X)HTML-Markup over and over again. Whatever project you’re starting to work with, at some point you have to define classes and IDs you’ve already defined in your previous web-projects. To avoid unnecessary mistakes you might want to start not from a ...
Read more...(X)HTML/CSS Coding-Services
- August 23rd, 2007
- 116 Comments
You don’t have to do everything by yourself. If you are running out of time or simply aren’t that enthusiastic about the coding process, you might be willing to consider special “coding services” to get your job done in time. Particularly since there are dozens of such services, the price ...
Read more...Time-Savers: Code Beautifier And Formatter
- July 12th, 2007
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Well-documented and readable source code is essential for every collaborative project. Logically structured, well organized and nicely formatted, the code can speed up the bug hunting and help to keep the code clean, minimal and still functional. These facts are particularly important if the code is being developed by a ...
Read more...80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding
- June 20th, 2007
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Web-developers can create amazing web-applications with AJAX. Stikkit, Netvibes, GMail and dozens of further web-projects offer a new level of interactivity we’ve used to give up the idea of. Modern web-applications can be designed with enhanced user interfaces and functionalities, which used to be the privelege of professional desktop-applications. ...
Read more...30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes
- May 18th, 2007
- 195 Comments
Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, you can present them in a variety of ways. On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails gallery. However, to convey the message of presented data effectively, it’s important to offer it in ...
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