mardi 7 septembre 2010

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  Showcase of Interesting Navigation Designs
     Everyone is always looking for interesting and effective ways to organize their website and allow users to move about and find things. But there’s a fine line between unexpected and unusable. Three points to consider in any navigation scheme are consistency, user expectations and contextual (...)
  
  
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  Keynotopia Wireframing Set: Free Wireframing Templates for Apple Keynote
     Lately, Apple Keynote has been gaining popularity among designers as a wireframing and prototyping tool. Features like multiple slide masters, styles, grouping, animation and hyperlinks make it ideal for crafting interactive prototypes and UI narratives. Today's freebie, Keynotopia, is a free (...)
  
  

lundi 6 septembre 2010

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  Macro Word v.3 - Word2spip
  Une mise à niveau de la macro d'Alexis La macro Word d'Alexis, déjà ancienne mais terriblement efficace, est devenue de moins en moins compatible au fil des nouvelles versions de Word. J'ai adapté la macro pour la remettre au goût du jour. Changements notables : Révision de l'interface (par boîtes de (...)
  
  
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  iCandies Icon Set: 60 Free Icons For Your User Interfaces and Apps
     Today we are glad to release iCandies Icon Set, a set with 60 high quality icons in 64×64px, 48×48px and 32×32px, available in .EPS, .AI and .PNG. The set is designed by the talented folks from IconEden on a sole purpose of giving your projects a sleek and geeky style or provide crisp, attractive (...)
  
  
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  Fight The System: Battling Bureaucracy
     If you work as part of an in-house Web team, you have my sympathy. If that in-house team is within a large organization, then doubly so. Being part of an in-house Web team sucks. Trust me, I know. I worked at IBM for three years and now spend most of my days working alongside battle-weary (...)
  
  

vendredi 3 septembre 2010

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  The Case For Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work?
     In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently (...)
  
  
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  Web Design Checkmate: Using Chess For Success in Web Design
     The business of building websites is one of constant change, adaptation and strategy. The way designers and developers build websites is often informed by the methods of others and their own trial and error. In light of this, we can draw a number of parallels — some philosophical, to a certain (...)
  
  
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  Message important : mise à jour urgente, articles "disparus"
  Vie de SPIP et autour de SPIP / SPIP 2.1
  
  
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  Bug SPIP du 3 septembre 2010
  Certains d'entre vous ont constaté avec stupeur que leurs sites étaient « plantés » ce matin, aucun article n'étant plus affiché sur la partie publique. Il s'agit d'un bug SPIP (et non Sarka-SPIP), ne touchant, selon les informations que j'ai pu recueillir, que : les dernières versions de SPIP (...)
  
  

jeudi 2 septembre 2010

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  Showcase Of Appetizing Restaurant Websites
     They say the first bite is taken with the eye. If so, these appetizing restaurant websites succeed in whetting our appetites, inviting us to a savoury next bite. In these designs, color scheme and introductory copy show vastly different aspects of the restaurant experience. Moody warm tones (...)
  
  

mercredi 1er septembre 2010

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  Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: September 2010
     Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a little (...)
  
  
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     In this post we release a yet another freebie: Academica WordPress Theme, a free WordPress theme designed specifically for educational websites such as universities, schools etc. It's a flexible and versatile free theme that can be easily customized and branded for any university, academy or (...)
  
  

mardi 31 août 2010

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     A few years ago, you might not have pointed out during a meeting with a potential client that you maintained a blog. Over time, though, blogs have evolved from the being a personal hobby to a serious work tool. In fact, today, web designers are supposed to know much more than just how to (...)
  
  

lundi 30 août 2010

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  Back to school sale!
  Get 20% off everything (on top of regular discounts) with coupon code SCHOOL2010 through September 6th. Custom posters, calendars, jigsaw puzzles, and mugs make great gifts for teachers, students, classrooms and dorm rooms. Start shopping (...)
  
  
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  Modernist: Free WordPress Theme with Focus on Typography
     Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a beautiful Modernist WordPress theme, designed by Rodrigo Galindez and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme is based on the design ideas of Jan Tschichold, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Dieter Rams, and other modernists. (...)
  
  

vendredi 27 août 2010

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     To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you'll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give your idea a (...)
  
  
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     Recently, A/B testing has come under (unjust) criticism from different circles on the Internet. Even though this criticism contains some relevant points, the basic argument against A/B testing is flawed. It seems to confuse the A/B testing methodology with a specific implementation of it (e.g. (...)
  
  

jeudi 26 août 2010

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     jQuery plug-ins provide an excellent way to save time and streamline development, allowing programmers to avoid having to build every component from scratch. But plug-ins are also a wild card that introduce an element of uncertainty into any code base. A good plug-in saves countless (...)
  
  
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  Vider le cache de spip avec hébergement free.fr
  Si vous aussi vous êtes hébergé sur les pages perso de free, si votre site tourne sous Spip 2 ou plus, si vous aussi vous n'arrivez pas à vider le cache dans l'interface privée, la solution est simple. Si vous possédez déjà un fichier .htaccess à la racine de votre site, rajouter ceci à la fin de ce (...)
  
  

mercredi 25 août 2010

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     What do corporate websites have in common with other people's children? Three things: they have their charm, like finger-paintings on the refrigerator; they can be useful, if infrequently; they are usually admired only by the people who created them. While designers know that a user's (...)
  
  

mardi 24 août 2010

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     Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: Polaroid Magento Theme, a professional design skin for the shops powered by the popular open-source ecommerce web application Magento. The theme was designed by eCommerce-Themes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, (...)
  
  
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     Product photography could well be the single most important design aspect of any e-commerce website. Without the ability to touch, hold, smell, taste or otherwise handle the products they are interested in, potential customers have only images to interact with. Ultimately, the softer, tastier, (...)
  
  

lundi 23 août 2010

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     There are well-known proverbs that imply (or state outright) that beauty is superficial and limited in what it can accomplish. "It's what's inside that counts" and "Beauty is only skin deep" are a few simple examples. Because the Web design industry is now flooded with a lot of raw talent, and (...)
  
  
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  100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition
     It's hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick overview. The (...)
  
  

dimanche 22 août 2010

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  30 New Free High-Quality Fonts
     Every now and then we look around, select fresh high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t (...)
  
  

vendredi 20 août 2010

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  Légendes
  Un plugin pour ajouter des légendes à ses images comme sur Flickr. Inspiré de Fotonotes et basé sur le script jQuery Image Annotation. Accéder à la page de démonstration sur Géodiversité.NET. Démonstration IMG/flv/legendes-encoded.flv Voir la vidéo originale sur Vidéos SPIP. Fonctionnalités Que peut-on (...)
  
  
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  Balancing Inspiration and Individuality
     I love it when a good story is broken down so that even the simplest of minds can understand. I’m not the smartest, fastest or most creative person in the world, so I don’t like using a lot of big words or fancy jargon to try and impress you — but I’m learning every day, and that is what pushes me (...)
  
  
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  LangOnet Présentation générale
  Un outil destiné aux développeurs pour vérifier, générer, retrouver ou afficher les items de langue d'un plugin, d'un squelette ou des fichiers originaux de SPIP. Objectif La mise au point des fichiers de langue d'un plugin ou d'un squelette est souvent une activité fastidieuse que l'on repousse à la (...)
  
  

jeudi 19 août 2010

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  Plugin Coordonnées
  Le plugin « Coordonnées » fournit la possibilité d'attribuer aux auteurs/utilisateurs de SPIP des indications de coordonnées multiples tel que plusieurs adresses postales, emails ou téléphoniques. Ce plugin fonctionne de manière autonome ou peut être couplé au plugin « Contacts et Organisations ». (...)
  
  
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  Plugin Coordonnées
  Le plugin « Coordonnées » fournit la possibilité d'attribuer aux auteurs/utilisateurs de SPIP des indications de coordonnées multiples tel que plusieurs adresses postales, emails ou téléphoniques. Ce plugin fonctionne de manière autonome ou peut être couplé au plugin « Contacts et Organisations ». (...)
  
  

mercredi 18 août 2010

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  The Web Design Community Offers Advice To Beginners
     At one time or another, we are all newbies. That’s right: you can deny it all you want, but not one of us got into this game with a full deck stacked in our favor. We entered as newbies, born fresh after the start screen loaded. However, unlike in a game, we are not immediately launched into a (...)
  
  
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  Cisticole
  Cisticole est un thème original pour Zpip. C'est un thème en 2 colonnes. Basé sur 2 dégradés de couleurs, il est possible de choisir différentes configuration de ces couleurs. Présentation Le thème Cisticole est distribué sous licence GPL par Denis Chenu. Le thème est basé sur le layout Gala. Le contenu (...)
  
  
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  The World Of Signage Photo Contest: Join In and Win a Digital SLR Camera!
     This one's easy: take a shot, send us the image and win a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS digital SLR camera. Typography and icons are everywhere: they surround us, guide us, help us find the right path every day. As Web designers and graphic artists, we can learn from observing the type and public (...)
  
  

mardi 17 août 2010

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  Color Stream: a Free iPhone App For Web Designers
     Today we are glad to release Color Stream, a free iPhone App, created by Sahil Lavingia (@slavingia on Twitter) and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Color stream lets you create and store color palettes that are either created from scratch or generated from a photo, or even (...)
  
  
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  Recession Survival Tips For Online Businesses
     In a recession, companies go one of two ways: either they become the cautious cat, adopting a wait-and-see attitude, spending carefully on their marketing and less overall, cutting back, or they become the ferocious lion, bold, taking advantage of their competitors' caution to seize (...)
  
  
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  Accessibilité pour les rédacteurs
  SPIP est un CMS largement répandu dans la sphère publique. Tout les jours des centaines de webmestres gérant des services de communication publique en ligne utilisent SPIP pour mettre leur contenu en ligne que ce soit dans de petites communes ou de très grand Ministère. Depuis le 29 octobre 2009, (...)
  
  
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  Plugin SPIP-Géoportail
  Plugin pour l'intégration d'objets SPIP sur l'API Géoportail. Préambule : Travaillant sur un projet utilisant SPIP et le Géoportail, il nous a semblé conforme de reverser la partie permettant l'affichage des cartes du Géoportail à la Communauté... Pour des raisons historiques, le plugin fonctionne en (...)
  
  

lundi 16 août 2010

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  Bandeau
  Et si on repensait la navigation principale de l'espace privé de SPIP ? Ce plugin permet de tester en situation réelle un nouveau bandeau de navigation pour l'interface de SPIP 2. Aussitôt activé, il remplace la navigation principale de l'espace privé par une version améliorée, graphiquement (...)
  
  

samedi 14 août 2010

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  25 Useful Videos and Presentations for Designers
     With the huge number of design-related conferences and events around the world, the Web gives those of us who cannot attend them a great opportunity to listen and benefit from their great and talented speakers. To aid in this, here we present some of the best videos, interviews and (...)
  
  
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  The Future of the Internet
     The Internet is a medium that is evolving at breakneck speed. It's a wild organism of sweeping cultural change — one that leaves the carcasses of dead media forms in its sizeable wake. It's transformative: it has transformed the vast globe into a 'global village' and it has drawn human (...)
  
  

mercredi 11 août 2010

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  Showcase Of Delicious Coffee Websites
     For designers approaching a deadline, coffee is a delicious necessity. Lucky for us, having a coffee break is not really difficult. But it's more than just a 3am fix. With every late-night run to the local coffee house, we contribute to a populous network of coffee trading, sales and (...)
  
  

mardi 10 août 2010

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  Business Card Design Starter Kit: Showcase, Tutorials, Templates
     Professionals in any field should always keep business cards on them because you never know when you'll meet a potential client, partner or like-minded person. Despite their small size, business cards are one of the most powerful and handiest marketing tools. Not only do they create a link (...)
  
  
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  spipBB 2.1
  Le but de spipBB est de proposer des forums à la phpBB utilisant le moteur de spip. L'intérêt est de permettre aux auteurs de ne se logguer qu'une seule fois pour avoir accès aux forums et aux rubriques. Ceci est une page qui servira à l'adaptation de spipBB à une version 2.1 qui sera "propre"... (...)