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Awwwards - Website Awards - Recognition & Prestige for Web Designers. 25 Things I Hate About Google. Move Over 1024×768: The Most Popular Screen Resolution On The Web Is Now 1366×768. Screens with a 1024×768 resolution are a bit like Windows XP: there have long been better options, but they still remained the most often used screens on the web. That is, until now. According to the latest data from StatCounter, 1366×768 screens just surpassed 1024×768 as the most popular screen resolution used by the visitors to StatCounter’s global network of sites. Three years ago, 1024×768 still accounted for almost 42% of all visitors to the roughly three million sites that use StatCounter. Today, that number has fallen to 18.6% and 1366×768 screens now account for 19.28%, up from just 0.68% in May 2009. It’s worth noting that these are global numbers. Another resolution that is slowly declining in usage is 1280×800.

For the most part, though, what sadly hasn’t changed much in recent years is the pixel density of these displays. 978 Grid System for Web Design. Is There A Standard Size? What Is The Most Common Dimension? - Négociation : convaincre un auditoire hostile. Little Big Details. Smashing Magazine — For Professional Web Designers and Developers. Responsive Web Design Guidelines and Tutorials. In this overview you will find the most useful and popular articles we have published on Smashing Magazine on Responsive Web Design.

Responsive Web Design Guidelines and Tutorials

Quick Overview Design Process In The Responsive Age11 You cannot plan for and design a responsive12, content-focused13, mobile-first14 1 website the same way you’ve been creating websites for years—you just can’t. If your goal is to produce something that is not fixed-width and serves smaller devices just the styles they require, why would you use a dated process that contradicts those goals? I’d like to walk you through some problems caused by using old processes with responsive design. Read more…17 Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It18 Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. In the field of Web design and development, we’re quickly getting to the point of being unable to keep up with the endless new resolutions and devices.

Read more…20. All free Trend Briefings. How to Run a Successful Crowdsourcing Project. My colleague Ankit Sharma at the London School of Economics (LSE) recently sent me his research paper entitled “Crowdsourcing Critical Success Factor Model” (PDF).

How to Run a Successful Crowdsourcing Project

It’s definitely worth a read. Ankit is interested in better understanding the “dynamic and innovative discipline of crowdsourcing by developing a critical success factor model for it.” He focuses specifically on mobile crowdsourcing and does a great job unpacking the term. Ankit first reviews four crowdsourcing projects to inform the development of his critical success model: txtEagle, Ushahidi, Peer Water Exchange and mCollect. He then notes the crucial difference between outsourcing and crowdsourcing. Ensuring participation requires that the motives of the of the crowd be directly aligned with the long term objectives of the crowdsourcing initiative.

The five peripheral factors above “affect the motive alignment of the crowd which is the prime determinant of success of the crowdsourcing initiative. Jordan Matter’s dancers amoung us series. Awesome Colorful Poster Tutorial. Hey guys this tuto is showing you how to use really cool colors on your images, in my case I created a poster with a good mix of typo and very strong colors.

Awesome Colorful Poster Tutorial

It's a mix of simple techniques and a lot of style to bring your work to a new level, follow the tuto and have fun! For more of my work you can check out my behance Yesterday while creating the post Amazing Ad Campaigns that was one ad campaign that really caught my attention, and it was the Ray-ban Colorize, the images used were so colorful and have so much live to it that amazed me. So I decided to try to reproduce this effect and teach you guys how to do it. HTML5 Readiness. CSS Selectors.

Facebook campaigns. With marketers around the world all trying to come up with creative ways of engaging with users on Facebook and building fan bases we thought we would do a little research and share some of the best case studies from around the world.

Facebook campaigns

There are games, videos, interactive campaigns and lot of big brands spending lots of money on this list and if you have your thinking cap on you might just pick out a little gem for your own campaign. Coke Zero Facial Profiler Maybe not the sexiest name ever but this was a nice Facebook app from Coke Zero (now removed) that allowed you to upload a photo or use your profile photo, and find complete strangers that looked like you. Decent Web Layouts. Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Click Here.

Decent Web Layouts

Photo Manipulations. CSS & jQ Clock. Martin Angelov The first wave of Christmas holidays passed and we are looking forward to New Year’s Eve for a fresh start at all those things we failed to do the last 12 months.

CSS & jQ Clock

And in the mood of the upcoming holiday, this week we are going to make a colorful jQuery & CSS clock, which will help you keep track of those precious last seconds of the year. This is also the first tutorial that features our first very own jQuery plug-in – tzineClock (soon to be released officially in a post of its own). Go ahead, download the demo files and continue with step one. Step 1 – XHTML As usual, we start with the XHTML markup. This saves us from having to manually type similar blocks of code for each one of the dials (there are three of them, one for the hours, the minutes and the seconds).

Lets take a look at the XHTML that is inserted by jQuery: jquery.tzineClock.js This code is contained in jquery.tzineClock/jquery.tzineClock.js. Augmenter les inscriptions. La gamification, c’est l’utilisation de mécaniques de jeu pour influencer les comportements.

augmenter les inscriptions

Sur un site web, on peut utiliser la gamification pour inciter l’utilisateur à faire certaines actions : par exemple commenter ou partager des liens. Il existe aussi des techniques pour augmenter les chances d’inscription d’un visiteur. Google Analytics. Prise en main, utilisation avancée, cas pratiques Un ouvrage incontournable soutenu par Google France et cautionné par l'équipe de développement de Google Analytics aux Etats-Unis Un outil de référence, aussi bien pour les particuliers ou les petites entreprises que les webmasters et services marketing des grosses entreprises.Un condensé de l'expérience de l'équipe Google France.Une lecture chronologique de la première partie permet la prise en main de Google Analytics en trois jours.La deuxième partie est consacrée à une utilisation plus poussée de Google Analytics, ce volet n'étant pas disponible dans l'aide en ligne officielle.Des études de cas sont présentées en troisième partie, inspirées par l'expérience client des auteurs.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics est l'outil de référence pour l'analyse d'audience web. Il permet d'évaluer les comportements utilisateur et d'affiner sa stratégie marketing. Ils dévoilent la dernière version de Google Analytics dans cette édition entièrement mise à jour :