Today Smashing Magazine turns eight years old. Eight years is a long time on the web, yet for us it really doesn’t feel like a long journey at all. Things have changed, evolved and moved on, and we gratefully take on new challenges one at a time. To mark this special little day, we’d love to share a few things …
If you have worked with responsive design, you have probably used media queries. Media queries are a clean and simple way to create responsive websites using CSS. They work by allowing you to change the style of the page when the user’s screen is a certain size. Here is a simple example: via Media Queries: A Look at Different Media …
For many freelancers, creating a proposal is their least favorite part of the client intake process. What do you include? What do you leave out? How do you walk the line between creating something that gives a professional impression and being too salesy or pushy? And how do you follow up afterwards? It’s tempting to give up and send basic …
Getting used to doing things in an agile way can be challenging for everyone in an organization, from senior management all the way to the core team engineer. But applying agile is more than a matter of blindly following the rituals, filling out the artifacts and labeling people with the roles. An agile organization needs to embody the philosophy of …
Over the past couple of years, the differentiation between front- and back-end web development has become much more distinctive. While traditional programming skills used to be the domain of the back-end guys, this paradigm is shifting. Front-end developers are nowadays expected to possess a new set of baseline skills, which includes the incorporation of modern software development principles and technical …
There are no true rules in reading. Apart from the visual process which we all share, everything else is utterly intimate and subjective. It can be anything from glancing, scanning, browsing, leafing, watching; some times, it’s selective and non-linear, it’s all about identifying keywords. Other times, it’s conceptual, reflective, it’s in-depth. Slow, fast, precise, functional, symbolic, social, cultural, reading is …
Whether you’re on your own or working in a team, it’s important to keep a close eye on your projects. Project management tools are designed to help you keep track of your tasks, team members and customers. We’ve already looked at the Top 5 Time-Tracking and Top 5 CRM tools, so let’s do the same for project management tools. I …