CategoryCoding

October 4, 2012 — Name a color, and you’re most likely to give a misleading impression. But, when computers name a color, they use a so-called hexadecimal code that most humans gloss over: 24-bit colors. Don’t let the code intimidate you. With a little creativity, hex colors are a tool at your disposal. Read more…

October 2, 2012 — If you want to pay attention to your code’s style, this article is for you. There’s a simple way to automatically sort CSS properties in your projects: CCScomb. Find some details for the geeks and perfectionists who love tech small talk… Read more…

September 27, 2012 — In this two-part overview, we feature some of the most useful JavaScript and jQuery libraries which could be just the right solutions for your common problems. We hope that this overview will help you find or rediscover some tools that you could use in your next projects. Read more…

September 26, 2012 — In this two-part overview, we feature some of the most useful JavaScript and jQuery libraries which could be just the right solutions for your common problems. We hope that this overview will help you find or rediscover some tools that you could use in your next projects. Read more…

September 23, 2012 — In this two-part overview, we feature some of the most useful JavaScript and jQuery libraries which could be just the right solutions for your common problems. We hope that this overview will help you find or rediscover some tools that you could use in your next projects. Read more…

September 9, 2012 — Vlad Gerasimov used Photoshop actions to save multiple sizes from a source file, but it quickly became a nightmare to maintain. He found a solution: a command-line image manipulation program. Dive into this post to learn more! Read more…

August 20, 2012 — Reda Lemeden covers some basic notions that are key to understanding the challenges and constraints of designing for multiple display densities, and invites Web designers and developers to offer a pleasurable viewing user experience regardless of the display they are using. Read more…

August 17, 2012 — Events in browsers are incredibly useful. In this article, Christian Heilmann gets back to the basics of events and gets you in the mood to start playing with them. Read more…

August 13, 2012 — A new Smashing Magazine CSS Q&A. We picked out some of the best questions about CSS we’ve received from our community and we answered them so that everyone can benefit from the exchange. Read more…

July 27, 2012 — When writing a web application from scratch, it’s easy to feel like we can get by simply by relying on a DOM manipulation library (like jQuery) and a handful of utility plugins. The problem with this is that it doesn’t take long to get lost in a nested pile of jQuery callbacks and DOM elements without any real structure in place for our applications. Read more…