October 18, 2016 — There is something magical about Halloween, surrounded by mystery, horror, scare and trick-or-treat candies for kids and adults alike. In this post, we feature artists around the world who have been creating wonderful illustrations dedicated to Halloween. We celebrate the creative side of Halloween with those of you who are also planning to celebrate with friends! Read more…

October 17, 2016 — “The Smashing Book #5 has completely changed the potential for books around the web. It dives deep into a topic and continues to dive deeper until you feel as though your brain might explode from the knowledge. The bar has been raised significantly.” For this article, we asked Paul Scrivens if he wanted to review our latest book, Smashing Book #5. Thank you Paul! Read more…

October 17, 2016 — One of the most famous chat bots was Alice (artificial linguistic Internet computer entity), released in 1995. It wasn’t able to pass the Turing test, but it won the Loebner Prize three times. In 2014, Slackbot made chat bots popular again. In 2015, Telegram and then Facebook Messenger released chat bot support; then, in 2016 Skype did the same, and Apple and some other companies announced even more chat bot platforms. Depending on your idea, target market and the platforms you are most familiar with, you can start with any of the other platforms that support chat bots. Read more…

October 14, 2016 — What’s going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting everything that popped up over the last week in his web development reading list so that you don’t miss out on anything. The result is a carefully curated list of articles and resources that are worth taking a closer look at. Read more…

October 14, 2016 — These pictures are the best winter wallpapers from Smashing Magazine’s monthly contest – running from 2008 until 2016 and still counting. Spread the word: Winter is fun! A season to cuddle up in the warmth inside, light some candles and hang out with family while avoiding the bitter cold and snow outside. Winter is the greatest time to walk, ski, play snowballs and have fun with friends. Read more…

October 13, 2016 — When building a pattern library, we tend to focus too much on the modules, providing a structural view of the system, rather than showing how it can be used effectively — thereby undermining its usefulness to most team members. Finding the right way to architect a lasting pattern library is difficult. This article highlights some practical techniques and strategies to establish a pattern library that will be actively and consistently used by the entire team. Read more…

October 11, 2016 — Peter-Paul Koch was granted access to Samsung’s browser engineers a few weeks in advance of the rest of the world, and because he wanted to get a grip on the non-Google Chromium market and understand Samsung’s goals and ideas, he interviewed Jungkee Song from the Samsung Internet team. Read more…

October 11, 2016 — Today, people seek out information quickly, and cards serve it up well, regardless of device. Most of you probably have a better understanding why card-style design is so popular and will continue to increase in popularity. This trend won’t end anytime soon. Cards are here to stay and continue to be an essential part of app design. In this article, Nick Babich will explain what cards mean to UI designers, and he’ll review three popular card-based services. Read more…

October 7, 2016 — What’s going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting everything that popped up over the last week in his web development reading list so that you don’t miss out on anything. The result is a carefully curated list of articles and resources that are worth taking a closer look at. Read more…

October 7, 2016 —

Halloween is around the corner and the atmosphere is filled with pumpkins, skeletons, bonfires, horror movies and other scary things spread across the houses, stores and, of course, web sites. Just the right time to spice up your desktop with an appropriate Halloween spirit. And for this purpose you may change your desktop wallpaper and prepare some traditional pumpkin carvings. Last updated Oct/11/2016.

In this post we present some beautiful hight quality Halloween wallpapers for your scary Halloween party. All these screenshots are linked to their source here on our servers or elsewhere.