Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Designing The Perfect Navigation. UX, Design.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. Frederick O’Brien has written an excellent guide on Smashing Magazine, Baking Structured Data Into The Design Process , which describes how to build structured data from the start. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That’s not to say the extraneous content is pointless — enhanced design and user interfaces can have an important impact on the brand of a website, and delightful little extras can really impact your users’ relationship with your site. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. And Is It Used?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. SEO is key to our success.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The origin value is an aggregate of the values of all the pages for that origin, computed as a weighted average based on page traffic. This means that an origin that has relatively little traffic, but sufficient to be included in the dataset, is counted equally to a very popular, high-traffic origin. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. Overall, this UX audit and redesign concept would be of great use to UX designers, business owners, and marketing people because it presents a way to audit and fix a product’s most obvious usability issues. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Mark Lankmilier.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. Terabyte of wasted traffic. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Tom Greenwood’s book, Sustainable Web Design is packed with advice for building low-carbon websites. On the Fact Sheets page, we can save approx. With approx.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, UDP is mostly used for live traffic that updates at a high rate and thus suffers little from packet loss because missing data is quickly outdated anyway (examples include live video conferencing and gaming).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As any seasoned team will know, building the storefront capabilities is one thing, and running it at a production scale that is able to absorb large waves of traffic, driven by flash sales or breakout social campaigns, is a whole other and massive operational challenge. “It Commerce At Shopify Scale: Hydrogen Powered By Oxygen.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Addy is the author of the book Learning JavaScript Design Patterns. Responsive Images. +. Progressive Rendering Techniques. +.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. This is exactly how Smashing Magazine handles its stylesheets. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Designed by Espen Brunborg and Nadia Snopek. Addy is the author of the book Learning JavaScript Design Patterns. Responsive Images. +.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. They carry data about the data being transferred.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. Take advantage of specialization and economies of scale by moving expensive files to services designed for them.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site. The Web Designer’s Connection to Web Hosting. Great Interface For Designers And Developers. Dedicated Hosting.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Jump to table of contents ?. fetchpriority HTML attribute. Enter fetchpriority HTML attribute.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

It’s easier to set up your content on a traditional CMS as everything you need (content management, design, etc) are already available. An API-driven headless CMS designed to create, manage and distribute content to any platform. GraphCMS has a generous free tier of 1 million API operations requests per month and 500 GB assets traffic.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Large preview ). Setting Realistic Goals.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. It is designed to measure the visual stability of the page — basically how much it jumps around as new content slots into place.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

That was until we went to production with our highest traffic customer. But if you are not careful and start banging out code without thinking about design, you might end up with a big ball of mud. From the moment we went live, we experienced performance issues. Core Web Vitals are important, even more so in e-commerce.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. Luckily, QUIC was designed with TLS in mind from the start, and as such does combine both the transport and cryptographic handshakes in a single mechanism.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. It accounts for 1.42% of global traffic as of June 2019, according to caniuse.com. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8.

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