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Web Designer issue 195 is on sale from Thursday April 5th. Get a look at the latest cover and find out the major highlights in the mag and on the coverdisc… Web Designer has teamed up with Wiley to give away a set of 5 books from the well-known Smashing series worth over £120. The winner will get a copy of Smashing HTML5, Smashing CSS, Smashing Photoshop CS5, Smashing WordPress and The Smashing Idea Book. Enter now…

This is a different take on Responsive Web design. This article discusses how we can better embrace what the Web is about by ignoring the big elephant in the room; that is, how we can rely on media queries and breakpoints without any concern for devices. 2

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Creating a website can be a bit of a daunting task. If you’re eager to build your own website but find all this coding talk to make your head hurt, you may want to look in to an online website builder like www.wix.com . Wix is unveiling a free HTML website builder on the 26 th of March, 2012 that’s as easy to use as dragging and dropping. Wix has already gained widespread popularity for their drag-and-drop Flash website builder that allows users to easily build complex, powerful, and stunning websites. Whether you’re looking for an easy way to put together site with a full screen background, or display your portfolio online, Wix is certainly worth checking out.

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Wix , the widely-used online website builder which is known with its Flash-based platform, has launched a HTML5 version . The new website builder is now compatible with the majority of browsers, works on mobile too and loads much faster. It is a well-designed/planned product where a basic computer user can't go wrong with anything and a designer feels the flexibility it provides. There are 50+ ready-to-use templates (with multiple color palettes each) to choose from where you can use them as a base or build a website from scratch. The websites are created/updated while browsing . You can select any element, edit them or add new items like content, images, videos.. anything.

With our new show Future Insights Live less than a month away, we’ve been getting more and more excited about all the great content our speakers will be delivering. Longtime Future of Web Design favourite, Aarron Walter (UX design lead at MailChimp) is presenting a keynote on “Honest Customer Relationships,” an approach to communicating with customers that weaves through nearly every activity of the business, including UX and social media platforms. The purpose, according to Aarron, is to understand why communicating honestly with your customers (as opposed to, for example, BP’s superficial marketing effort before the catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon spill) is so important, and how to get there. “Companies that are scared to be honest, or that have a dark streak in them, are going to be forced to shift,” he says.

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I’m pretty much a font fanatic. If your anything like me, I’m sure this is a post you will enjoy. This roundup is a collection of fresh free fonts released in the past 12 weeks.

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In Illustrator CS5, there are some new features in the stroke panel for creating dashed lines. Follow along with Jeff Witchel as he goes through options for setting up a dash pattern, creating rounded dashes, dotted dashes, and adding color to dashes and even the gaps in between the dash marks.

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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple yet colorful portfolio gallery in Photoshop. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.

Every now and then you find a brilliant designer that does a lot more than just design. Such is the case with Anthony Neil Dart, a designer from South Africa who also has credits in music production and film. Descriptions like "Renaisance Man" come to mind when you find those like Anthony that seem to [...]

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Lorsque 2 artistes talentueux décident de faire une collaboration, cela donne évidemment un résultat très intéressant. JR et Lui Bolin ont combiné leurs talents pour faire un collage puis une peinture du colleur français par l’artiste chinois. Un projet très réussi à découvrir dans la suite. Lire la suite Tournée avec une caméra GoPro Hero 2, cette vidéo “New Lands” de Matthew Wainhouse a été réalisée au col de montagne Stevens Pass aux USA.

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With close to a decade of experience in web design, I have come across plenty of mistaken beliefs about the latest design tools and technologies; but nothing beats the misconceptions surrounding the use of HTML 5. As developers, we have our own set of misguided beliefs about a certain technology, but as we begin to use that technology we are able to understand what it is all about, its usage, and its scope. Inspired by certain HTML5 requirements that I have come across through the course of time, I wanted to add my two cents to clear the air on certain aspects of HTML5. Most of the misconceptions surrounding HTML5 are because many people think it’s a replacement for Flash. At the outset, I would like to make it clear that this is not an HTML5 vs.