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Feb 12

Keys to Email Creative Success: Marketing and Design

Only a few years ago people were getting rich spamming and scamming our Grandma’s and Grandpa’s AOL email boxes Today people are smarter and now understand that the Nigerian Prince really doesn’t want to give them ten million dollars and only if you claim it in the next ten minutes But email creatives are still a very important part of legit online marketing campaigns of high quality products and services
Email ads and newsletters are still big converters mainly because you can directly reach your target audience and keep them…..


04
Feb 12

A proposal to drop browser vendor prefixes

Interesting idea by Felipe G on using a new at-rule @-vendor-unlock to tell the browser to use it’s experimental implementation of any particular property rather than using a vendor prefix on that property Unfortunately at this point even if you could get all the browsers on board you’d need to use this and vendor prefixes to get deep support which makes the problem worse What we really need is for all browsers to implement auto-updating so eventually “supporting older browsers” is something we can look back and laugh at
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04
Feb 12

Digging Into WordPress 3.3

Digging Into WordPress (the book) is now updated to v33 Includes new chapters specially on what’s new in 32 and 33 all the rest of the chapters tightened up and refreshed better internal hyperlinking (in the PDF) and more It’s a free update (PDF) to all previous buyers New print copies are on order and will be available soon
Direct Link to Article — Permalink Digging Into WordPress 33 is a post from CSS-Tricks …..


04
Feb 12

ShopTalk Episode 4

Dave Jonathan Longnecker Nate Croft and I talk shop Topics include website building apps where to start designing when not to design for modern browsers and more
Sponsored by LessAccounting
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04
Feb 12

Stunning Free Icon Set for Valentine’s Day

Advertise here via BSA Smashing Magazine has just released fantastic St Valentine’s icon set which is available in transparent PNGs as well as Photoshop PSDs (128×128 px) and are perfect for any projects you have coming up for St Valentine’s Day Valentine’s icon set is completely free to use for commercial or personal applications without any restrictions Requirements: – Demo: http://wwwsmashingmagazinecom/2012/02/02/freebie-valentines… License: License Free Sponsors Professional Web Icons for Your Websites…..


03
Feb 12

Prevent Form Field Autocomplete

Preventing autocompletion of form fields is incredibly important since we never know where our users are completing them from They could complete them from a super secure computer or an incredibly public computer Regardless of security level some field values should never be remembered like credit card number social security number etc Preventing autocompletion is as simple as adding one attribute to a FORM tag for individual form fields The HTML The autocomplete attribute is the key This attribute may be added FORM tags to prevent any autocompletion:
<form method=”post” autocomplete=”off”>
You may…..


03
Feb 12

Custom Getters and Setters with MooTools

Working with Dojo all day and scoping out MooTools at night gives me a unique perspective; I get to constantly evaluate the two frameworks and mentally move functionalities from framework to framework One small but handy feature within the Dojo Toolkit’s Dijit UI Framework is its set/get system Dijit allows developers to add custom methods tied into simple get and set methods to allow manipulation properties into and on the way out of a class I took a few moments to implement this system in MooTools The idea is that…..


03
Feb 12

Tips For Being A Successful Web Banner Designer

Whether you intend on boosting your click through ratios flag or just plan on intriguing the viewer’s attention procreating a successful web banner design requires certain rules to stand by Though there are several mediums that could assist a developer with adding attractive tweaks to their banner there’s always more behind the wheels for making it outshine Therefore to help you get started we have listed below some really great tips on designing a successful web banner that will never go downhill in impressing viewers Take a look!…..


03
Feb 12

A Photoshop (PSD) File Parser in JavaScript

Advertise here via BSA psdjs is a Photoshop (PSD) file parser written in Coffeescript/Javascript for both browsers and NodeJS implementations Given a PSD file it can parse out information such as image size and color modes image resources layer info image contents etc This implementation is more or less a direct port of pypsd with some help from psdparse However this is still a work in progress and is not finished yet We do not recommend using in production anywhere …..


03
Feb 12

New Poll: In The Next 10 Years, Will We See CSS Competitor?

What do you think folks? Is a new language going to come along in the next ten years that deals with layout / style / design and unseat CSS? Or at least give it a run for its money?
You should vote not based on if there will be any attempt at it which there certainly will be and already has But instead if you think one of those attempts will actually make it into native support by a browser with significant market share and see a significant number of web workers building web sites in it
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