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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This is our sixth article in a 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 Gmail-like client-side drafts. The fourth shared a free plugin called GuideGuide with us, and in the fifth we’ve announced Erskine’s responsive grid generator Gridpak.
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You’ve presented the new website and everyone loves it. The design is crisp, the code is bug-free, and you’re ready to release. Then someone asks, “Does it work in Japanese?”
You break out in a cold sweat: you have no idea. The website works in English, and you figured other languages would come later. Now you have to rework the whole app to support other languages. Your release date slips, and you spend the next two months fixing bugs, only to find that you’ve missed half of them.
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Here we are again! Smashing Magazine’s Q&A. Your question could be about a very specific problem you are having, or it could be a question about philosophical approach. Go wild and challenge us!
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