Over the last year, Smashing Magazine has evolved. We’ve been publishing fewer lists and more in-depth articles about design and Web development. We have invited professionals and high-profile developers to write for us. We’ve been investing more resources in the quality and relevance of our articles. We’ve also explored new formats; and on weekends we’ve been publishing more inspirational pieces, leaving the in-depth articles to weekdays.

Overlook Park by dougtone. There are so many WordPress SEO tutorials out there we don’t need another one. Some of them are very good, I don’t doubt that. They cover most of the blog & WordPress SEO basics like proper URLs e.g. We have also numerous best WordPress SEO plugins lists out there.

3D Cloud Carousel This is a fast and cross-browser implementation of a 3d carousel – looks very nice, more like a Flash implementation. It can create dynamic reflections underneath the carousel items, is accessible and degrades nicely without JavaScript.

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In this post I’m going to talk about how to use WordPress’ attachment functionality to automatically detect and wrap mp3s in a player. If you want to your mp3s to automatically be wrapped in a player, you can incorporate that functionality into your theme by using the JW Player (or any other embeddable player) and WordPress’ get_children() function. Before we get started, let me explain why this might be a better option than using a [...]

There are heaps of image galleries out there but don’t know which one is the best? I have searched through the Internet and I found these image galleries that come with a filmstrip (thumbnails). Most of the are pretty easy to implement, and if you want to create a custom jQuery script, no problems at all because some of them are presented in tutorials. Custom jQuery Image Gallery with jCarousel I created this tutorial last [...]

Based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the idea of a design hierarchy of needs rests on the assumption that in order to be successful, a design must meet basic needs before it can satisfy higher-level needs. Before a design can “Wow” us, it must work as intended. It must meet some minimal need or nothing else will really matter. Is this true? Or could a design that’s hard to use still succeed because it makes [...]

Don’t Leave Users In The Dark Most if not all jQuery is fired through events from the user, whether it’s loading new content, posting forms or simply modifying the presentation of an item. Such events are fired through a click from the user. While as designers and developers we would know that something is happening, without a visual representation, the user is left guessing what is going on. If the user clicks an element and [...]

Tips, Hints, Navigation TipTip jQuery Plugin TipTip detects the edges of the browser window and will make sure the tooltip stays within the current window size. As a result the tooltip will adjust itself to be displayed above, below, to the left or to the right of the element with TipTip applied to it, depending on what is necessary to stay within the browser window. TipTip is a very lightweight and intelligent custom tooltip jQuery [...]