This week’s tip will help you produce themes/designs that stand up to real-world use.
The problem is all too common. You develop a design, and it looks great. Then you ship it off to a client, and it starts to look horrible. The reason? The client is putting in different content than you did.
The solution is [...]

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. It’s one of those holidays that presents plenty of design possibilities, from cards to website modifications. But sometimes it can be a little puzzling when trying to figure out where to start. And other times, you just don’t have enough free time to create what you had in [...]

Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few.
The problem with Web security is that, as [...]

2009 was a very successful year for Smashing Magazine. It was a year of ambitious goals and an intense time schedule, which brought many changes over the past year. In 2009 we published more posts than ever (on average, 8 posts per week). We broadened our areas of interest: for instance, we explored [...]

I want to take time out to wish everyone a happy holiday, no matter where you may be. Thank you all for helping Blog Tipz grow throughout the past year, and I also want to wish you success in the New Year.
Spend some time with your family and off your computer/the Internet this holiday season.
I’ll [...]

By Tim Wright
CSS is the best thing to happen to the web since Tim Berners-Lee. It’s simple, powerful, and easy to use. But even with all its simplicity, it hides some important capabilities. Ask any designer, and they’ll tell you that the majority of their code headaches are caused and ultimately solved by CSS.
All [...]

In the world of blogging, most bloggers and their blogs either fit into two categories – those who are successful and those who aren’t. By successful, I really mean that you are able to generate enough “results” from your blog to meet all your goals and you have built a community around your blog, rather [...]

This morning I participated in a wonderful outreach activity with members of our church at the City Rescue Mission in Oklahoma City, and I recorded the children’s program portion of the event using the free Ustream for iPhone Recorder application. These are a few of my lessons learned from this experience. See my post, “Share [...]

Grid-based layouts are generally more aesthetically pleasing and balanced than those not based on grids. While there are definitely great designs out there that don’t use a grid-based layout, they are more difficult to create and often end up falling into some sort of loose grid structure anyway. So why not just design based on [...]

Link exchanges were introduced when there were relatively few blogs. People just didn’t go on the web to look for new content. They typically only visited a few sites per day, due to the speed of the Internet, and everything was more close-knit. Today, there are millions upon millions of blogs, and there are some [...]