A Smashing List of Links

On this page we collected all links from the Smashing Book for your convenience. Please bear in mind, the content or designs may have changed in some cases. Last update: February 25th, 2010.

The Art And Science Of CSS-Layouts

Web Typography: Rules, Guidelines And Common Mistakes

References

The Lost Art of Type Spec'ing
How to Size Text in CSS
Font terms survey results
Jost Hochuli: Detail in Typography: ISBN 978-0-907259-34-3
Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3

Usability Principles For Modern Web-Sites

The Guide to Fantastic Color Usage In Web Design and Usability

Performance Optimization For Websites

Design to Sell: Increasing Conversion Rates

How To Turn A Site Into A Remarkable Brand

Samples

Citations

Learning From Experts: Interviews And Insights

Dan Rubin
Founder and Principal, Webgraph, and Co-Founder, Sidebar Creative.
Jason Santa Maria
Freelance Designer and Speaker.
Paul Boag
Co-Founder and Creative Direction, Headscape; Founder, Boagworld.
Jeff Croft
Designer, Blue Flavor
Andy Budd
Co-Founder and User Experience Director
Collis Ta'eed
CEO, Envato
Wolfgang Bartelme
Founder, Bartelme Design
Keith Robinson
Principal and Creative Director, Blue Flavor
Chris Spooner
Freelance Designer and Blogger
Jonathan Snook
Designer, Author and Speaker
Tony Chester
Founder and Director of Operations, OnWired
Elliot Jay Stocks
Freelance Designer, Author and Speaker
Khoi Vinh
Design Director, New York Times
Veerle Pieters
Graphic Designer, Blogger, and Founder of Duoh!
Chris Coyier
Web Designer and Blogger, Chatman Design and CSS Tricks
Jay Hilgert
Designer and Blogger, Bittbox
Dave Shea
Freelance Designer and Founder of Bright Creative, CSS Zen Garden and Mezzoblue
Darren Hoyt
Freelance Designer
Henry Jones
Freelance Designer and Blogger, Web Design Ledger
Liam McKay
Designer and Project Manager, Function
Nathan Smith
User Experience Developer, Fellowship Technologies and Founder, SonSpring
Nick La
Founder of N. Design Studio and Blogger
Larissa Meek
Associate Creative Director, AgencyNet
Jon Hicks
Designer, Hicksdesign

The Smashing Story

Websites of our authors

Errata

Although we tried to do our best to avoid any mistakes or errors in the book, we did make some mistakes. We apoplogize for that. Here is the list of the mistakes we've found so far (you can also report mistakes and errors in the book):

The introduction contains two spelling mistakes: it should be "Guidelines and Common Mistakes" and "Principles for Modern Websites".
The preface talks about a "list of contributors to the left", but the left page is empty; meant is the page to the left of the Table of Contents.
Page 26, last paragraph, second line: it should be not "...to ensure that the user really wants to go ahead with their action", but "...to ensure that the user really wants to go ahead with his action"
Page 38: at the end of the first line of the footnote, it should say "containers", and not "containters".
Page 40: "We make websites better" slogan, wrapping it to three lines at 800 pixels and only two lines at 1280 px". Instead of two, it takes just one line.
Page 70, second paragraph, second line: the closing bracket '(line height)' is printed in bold instead of normal. It should be printed in normal.
Page 75, second paragraph, fourth line down, "explicitely" should be "explicitly".
Page 87, third paragraph should start not with "The cave at is" but with the "The caveat is".
Page 90, second paragraph, first line, "Verdana" is listed twice.
Page 94, the third bullet ends with a semicolon, all others do not.
Page 97, footnote #15. There is no reference to #15 in the body (the link in the footnote is the same as #17 on page 98)
Page 104: "Host Hochuli" should be replaced with "Jost Hochuli".
Page 115, first paragraph, fourth line, first word. "elswhere" should be "elsewhere"
Page 135-136: in the list of the "Usability checkpoint that you should be aware of", a number 2 of the list doesn't exist.
Page 141: the words "top" and "of" are combined as "topof", but it should be "top of".
Page 225, first paragraph, seventh line, sixth word. "Premium" should be "Freemium"
Page 239, under the heading "Produce Interesting And Useful Content", second sentence: it should be not "...uses to promote its product or service at a website promotes and...", but "...uses to promote its product or service at a website and..." ("promotes" should be removed)
Page 275: the screenshot used is from a service which is the largest website in South Korea and not China. The image caption should be 'An (almost) perfect Korean website for kids.'

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