December 2008
32 posts
50 Incredible Stop Motion Videos →
By Vailancio Rodrgiues Stop motion animation is one of the hottest areas of film-making today. Stop motion is an animation art through which one can spring life in inanimate things and do the…
Dec 31st
Looking Back On 2008 With Top Web Designers →
By Steven Snell The start of a new year is often a time of reflection on the past year, both personally and professionally, as well as a time to look forward to the year ahead. With that in…
Dec 29th
Free Icons, Photoshop Brushes and a WordPress... →
We are definitely not Santa Claus, but we love to release high-quality sets and themes for free. And, of course, we do have some beautiful and unusual and (hopefully) useful presents for the…
Dec 29th
The Celebration Of Cartoons and Comic Strip Art →
By Andrew Gibson and Smashing Magazine Editorial Team Comics aren’t just for children, as some people might think. There are many comics written with adults in mind, and this is reflected in…
Dec 28th
Christmas WordPress Theme For Free Download →
We may be a little bit late to the Christmas party, but late is usually better than never. In this post we release a very compact, magazine-like theme designed especially for events such…
Dec 25th
Smashing Highlights 2008 →
2008 was a successful year for us and for Smashing Magazine. Reviewing what has happened on Smashing Magazine over the last year, we could have told a couple of impressive stories that happened…
Dec 22nd
The World From Above: The Beauty Of Aerial... →
by Vailancio Rodrigues and the Smashing Magazine editorial team Aerial photography offers a drastically different perspective than the one you get from shooting on the ground. It includes…
Dec 21st
30 Unforgettable Movie Title Sequences →
By Andrew Lindstrom We all know that first impressions are important, right? Well, the same goes for film. The opening title sequence of a film is that film’s opportunity to make a good first…
Dec 19th
Quick Turnaround Usability Testing, Part II →
In Part I, I discussed how to make the first three steps of Quick Turnaround Usability Testing (QTUT)—Sales & Kickoff, Recruitment, and Preparation—as short and efficient as possible. In Part II,…
Dec 18th
Flowmaps and Frag-Grenades, Part 2 →
I’d like to talk specifics a bit. I’m sure there will be some readers at B&A who aren’t gamers, and probably even more who haven’t played Halo—so my apologies to those folks— but… describe in some…
Dec 18th
8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks →
By Jean-Baptiste Jung Over the past 10 years, the MySQL database has become incredibly popular on the Web. Every WordPress blog is driven by a MySQL database, which contains the blog’s posts,…
Dec 18th
The Ultimate Web Developer’s Christmas Wish List →
As the mistletoe is hung and egg nog served, friends and family of Web developers around the world are pulling their hair trying to figure out what to get someone who works on the Web for a…
Dec 17th
Smashing Christmas Icon Sets →
In December we asked few designers to come up with some creative, beautiful, memorable yet usable icon sets. Some designers had a tight schedule and couldn’t get work done in time, but three…
Dec 17th
60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials →
By Dirk Metzmacher Christmas is a holiday of love and family. It is the time of year when people come together to celebrate, when they realize that some things are more important than others….
Dec 16th
10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User... →
By Dmitry Fadeyev Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here’s my collection of 10 that…
Dec 15th
Light Blurs Brushes and Decoration Pack For... →
Over the last few weeks, our readers have complained that we have been releasing “way too many freebies“. Apparently, we have been posting “too many filler articles” containing freebies that can…
Dec 15th
The Beauty Of Street Photography →
By Andrew Gibson and Smashing Editorial Team Street photographers strive to capture the life and culture of city streets, searching for what Henri Cartier-Bresson, probably the most famous…
Dec 14th
What’s Your Most Favorite Feature in WordPress... →
  OK, first of all I’m sorry for disappearing from the face of blogosphere all of a sudden. I made a few posts in past couple of months to make a comeback, but things didn’t go as expected….
Dec 13th
What’s Your Most Favorite Feature in WordPress... →
  OK, first of all I’m sorry for disappearing from the face of blogosphere all of a sudden. I made a few posts in past couple of months to make a comeback, but things didn’t go as expected….
Dec 12th
The Ultimate Collection Of Photoshop Custom Shapes →
By Steven Snell Photoshop users are able to benefit from the vast amount of high-quality resources that are freely available to the community. Brushes get a lot of attention, but custom shapes…
Dec 11th
70 Beautiful Dual-Screen Desktop Wallpapers →
by Vailancio Rodrigues and the Smashing Editorial Team Dual displays come in handy when you are working on several projects at the same time. They allow you to separate everything, organize and…
Dec 11th
50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools →
We love useful stuff. For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative CSS tools and related resources. We have been contacting developers, encouraging them to improve their…
Dec 9th
Movable Type Developer’s Toolbox →
By Steven Snell Because we have published several other comprehensive resources for developers of other content management systems (CMSs), we didn’t want to forget Movable Type. Like the other…
Dec 8th
The Right Type: 5 Inspiring Typography Tales →
Nowadays, typefaces are a dime a dozen; there’s certainly no shortage of free fonts. But as in any artistic field, the standouts are rare, and understanding why they excel takes gradual…
Dec 8th
50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop... →
Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for digital-image editing and graphics creation. Photoshop’s versatility makes it a popular choice among Web designers, graphic designers, digital media…
Dec 7th
20 Vector Graphics Editors Reviewed →
By Sachin Dhall and Smashing Magazine Editorial In computer graphics images can be represented in two ways — using raster graphics (or bitmap) or vector graphics. The former is the…
Dec 5th
Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best... →
By Smashing Magazine Editorial and György Fekete On content-heavy websites, the search box is often the most frequently used design element. From a usability point of view, irritated users use…
Dec 4th
Online Advertising And Its Impact On Web Design →
By Steven Snell In recent years, advertising has become a major revenue source for many websites. Not too long ago, online ads were often met with disapproval from visitors, and advertisers…
Dec 3rd
Innocent Invaders Photoshop Brushes Set →
Today we are glad to release Innocent Invaders Photoshop Brushes Set, a set that features a curious cast of characters who are ready to infiltrate your creative projects. Inspired by designer…
Dec 3rd
10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress →
By Jean-Baptiste Jung RSS is one of those technologies that are extremely simple yet extremely powerful. Currently, RSS is the de facto standard for blog syndication, and it is used widely in…
Dec 2nd
ASCII One: A Free WordPress Theme →
We released a couple of Wordpress themes over the last months. Some of them were praised, the others were torn apart, but we always tried to always offer a variety of different styles. And today…
Dec 2nd
100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates →
by Steven Snell If you haven’t taken a look at the (X)HTML/CSS templates that are available for free from a variety of sources, you may be surprised by the quality you can find. WordPress…
Dec 1st