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Gridpak: The Responsive Grid Generator

From Erskine Design
March 19th, 2012
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This article is the fifth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for ...

PrefixFree: Break Free From CSS Prefix Hell

From Lea Verou
October 12th, 2011
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Editor’s note: This article is the first piece in our new series introducing new, useful and freely available tools and techniques presented and released by active members of the Web design community. Lea Verou is well-known for her experiments with CSS and JavaScript and in this post she presents ...

Sidenote: LiveReload For Better Workflow

From Keir Whitaker
October 7th, 2011
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Welcome to the first entry in a new series on Smashing Coding called Sidenotes. Sidenotes are shorter than traditional Smashing Magazine articles and are designed to give you a quick introduction to useful tools and services. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be looking at productivity aids, useful apps, essential ...

Useful HTML-, CSS- and JavaScript Tools and Libraries

From Smashing Editorial
June 10th, 2011
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Front-end development is a tricky beast. It’s not difficult to learn, but it’s quite difficult to master. There are just too many things that need to be considered; too many tweaks that might be necessary here and there; too many details to make everything just right. Luckily, developers and designers ...

Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools

From Smashing Editorial
April 18th, 2011
71 Comments

The hard work of front-end designers never ceases to amaze us. Over the last months, we’ve seen Web designers creating and presenting a plethora of truly remarkable CSS techniques and tools. We have collected, analyzed, curated and feature latest useful resources for your convenience, so you can use them right ...

Useful Web Services, Tools and Resources For Web Designers

From Smashing Editorial
February 8th, 2011
57 Comments

We know how hard it is to find good useful tools that all of your developers and designers out there spend hours searching for. And for that reason, we’re regularly collecting useful online web services, tools and resources — little time-savers that can boost every designer’s workflow and save time ...

50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers

From Smashing Editorial
October 19th, 2010
98 Comments

There are tools that make our lives much easier. However, finding those obscure time-savers which would save time in every single project isn’t easy and requires a lot of time. At Smashing Magazine, we are regularly looking for such useful tools, gather them, review them and eventually prepare for a ...

50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers

From Vitaly Friedman
July 26th, 2010
66 Comments

An effective, well-organized workflow is an important asset of professional web designers. The more useful and time-saving your tools are, the more time you can focus on important things, thus creating a foundation for timely good-quality results. The problem is that there are just way too many tools, services and ...

Cross-Browser Testing: A Detailed Review Of Tools And Services

From Demiurg
June 4th, 2010
144 Comments

As you probably know, cross-browser testing is an important part of any developer’s routine. As the number of browsers increase, and they certainly have in recent years, the need for automatic tools that can assist us in the process becomes ever greater. In this article, we present an overview of ...

Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code

From Sergey Chikuyonok
November 21st, 2009
288 Comments

In this post we present a new speedy way of writing HTML code using CSS-like selector syntax — a handy set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. It was developed by our author Sergey Chikuyonok and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. How much time do you spend ...