In the introductory part of this series, we had a quick refresher on REST architecture and how it can help us create better applications. We then explored the history of REST APIs in WordPress and introduced ourselves to the latest addition: the WP REST API plugin. We set up a basic working environment for testing… Continue reading WP REST API: Setting Up and Using Basic Authentication
Month: January 2016
Create a MEAN Stack Google Map App (Part I)
Introduction “MEAN Apps with Google Maps” (A tongue twister to be true). And yet, whether you’re building an application to visualize bike lanes in your city, designing a tool to chart oil wells across the globe, or are simply creating an app to help choose your next date — having access to interactive, data-rich maps… Continue reading Create a MEAN Stack Google Map App (Part I)
Create this Poster Design with Abstract Effects in Photoshop
Create a creative poster with beautiful visual effects. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to quickly and easily create a unique poster using abstract rendering and many interesting effects like lightning, glowing lines and police tape. And all of these effects you can create your own in Photoshop. Read this tutorial and see how… Continue reading Create this Poster Design with Abstract Effects in Photoshop
New Trends WordPress Themes for 2016
New trendy design elegant & creative Business WordPress Themes which have many powerful features to allow you build websites very easy and unlimited your creative to make impressed websites. All themes are build with builder and most important all the designs are responsive. This means that it is compatible and looks comfortable on both a pc and… Continue reading New Trends WordPress Themes for 2016
Popular design news of the week: January 4, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular design news of the week: January 4, 2015 – January 10, 2016
How to Edit Thousands of Images at Once in Photoshop with Batch Processing
How to Edit Thousands of Images at Once in Photoshop with Batch Processing 4.00/5 (80.00%) 4 votes Don’t waste your time doing the same thing over and over in Photoshop. This tutorial will show you how to apply the same editing to thousands of images at once in Photoshop using your own Actions with the… Continue reading How to Edit Thousands of Images at Once in Photoshop with Batch Processing
10+ New Sketch Plugins to Improve Your Design Workflow
It’s been over a year since I wrote this article in which I showed you how to extend Sketch through plugins and different resources. The Sketch community continues to grow and during recent months it’s given us tons of new and interesting ways to make our daily job even easier. Let me share with you a… Continue reading 10+ New Sketch Plugins to Improve Your Design Workflow
23 Of The Best CSS And HTML Frameworks Available To Download
Bootstrap makes front-end web development faster and easier. It’s made for folks of all skill levels, devices of all shapes, and projects of all sizes. Bootstrap ships with vanilla CSS, but its source code utilizes the two most popular CSS preprocessors, Less and Sass. Quickly get started with precompiled CSS or build on the source.… Continue reading 23 Of The Best CSS And HTML Frameworks Available To Download
Bonsai | Multi-purpose HTML5 Template for Digital Agency
Bonsai is a HTML5 template developed for Creative Agency and People. Its comes with around 50 pages including 8 home pages. Features Latest Bootstrap 8 home variation 14 Portfolio page style Super Responsive Parallax effect Valid HTML5 & CSS3 Awesome Look effects and functionality Smooth transition effects Cross Browser Optimization Google font What do you… Continue reading Bonsai | Multi-purpose HTML5 Template for Digital Agency
Advanced Photo Manipulation for Advertisements
In this course you will learn how to create stunning photo manipulations using Photoshop, Illustrator and Lens Flare. You will be creating an advertising campaign using stock photos and learning some advanced photo manipulation techniques, such as lighting effects and text effects that will allow you to enhance your clients’ advertising campaigns or promotional material.… Continue reading Advanced Photo Manipulation for Advertisements
Important UX Elements for Optimizing Ecommerce Product Pages
Designing ecommerce websites are a whole world onto itself due to how they’re used compared to other sites on the web. First of all, ecommerce is a service that customers use for purchasing goods, so the usability of an ecommerce website is a serious topic. For anyone out there with a business, you know how… Continue reading Important UX Elements for Optimizing Ecommerce Product Pages
Crew – FREE HTML5 Bootstrap Template
Today’s free design resource ”Crew” is a HTML bootstrap template from FreeHTML5.co. Crew is a versatile, responsive and free HTML5 bootstrap template suitable for any type of websites. Crew have unique features such as a preset of 8 colour variations, smooth and sleek animations upon scrolling, beautiful and ready to use elements, such as pricing… Continue reading Crew – FREE HTML5 Bootstrap Template
Weekly Inspiration: Big Type Reading Experiences
Everyone has their own guilty pleasure where it comes to web design; with me, it’s big typography. I love reading on the web when content is presented with large, unapologetic type. Couple that with cleverly used color, confident whitespace, and well designed typefaces–I’m hooked. This week’s inspiration pulls together some of my favorite examples. Font-Size 1rem If a… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Big Type Reading Experiences
This Year’s Most Useful WordPress Themes
The fact that Enfold is ThemeForest’s best rated top seller is reason enough to give it a closer look. Enfold, with its drag and drop layout editor is extremely user friendly. Simply drag and drop your content into place. An especially useful feature is its ability to import demo files with a single click, select… Continue reading This Year’s Most Useful WordPress Themes
15 Awesome Free Blogging Tools You Will Want To Use
Fifteen or even ten years ago, you could’ve just hit that publish button and people would read you. Today getting discovered is a little more complicated than that. With the number of blogging platforms themselves quadrupling since then, there’s such a small barrier of entry for new bloggers. There’s so much good content published every… Continue reading 15 Awesome Free Blogging Tools You Will Want To Use
30 Brilliant Examples Of UI Cards
Card UI is a very popular layout option for many types of data. Pinterest was the first to create a layout like this, and it is was earlier referred to as “pinterest-style layout”. Usually cards are used to group together information in a very intuitive way and permits for a very fast UX, meaning users… Continue reading 30 Brilliant Examples Of UI Cards
Build Your UI Toolkit with Fabricator
You can build your UI Toolkit with Fabricator. Fabricator is built on Node.js, a platform for building fast, scalable network applications. There are pre-built installers for each platform. You can also install with Homebrew via brew install node. You can organize your design system the way you want. Components, Structures, Elements, Atoms, Molecules, whatever –… Continue reading Build Your UI Toolkit with Fabricator
How to Use the Two-Layer Color Grading Technique
How to Use the Two-Layer Color Grading Technique 4.38/5 (87.50%) 8 votes Many people struggle to replicate color grading and end up creating an excessive amount of layers. The two-layer color grading technique is a simple way to create photo effects with a minimal and understandable set of layers. This technique can also be used in other… Continue reading How to Use the Two-Layer Color Grading Technique
How to Color in a Traditionally Inked Comic in Adobe Illustrator
Learn how to turn a traditionally inked comic page into a warmly lit night scene in vector. With live paint, global process colors, gradients and different layer transparency settings in Adobe Illustrator, we will turn our black and white artwork into a comic page brimming with color. 1. Prepare the Line Art Step 1 I have… Continue reading How to Color in a Traditionally Inked Comic in Adobe Illustrator
30 Brilliant Examples Of UI Cards
Card UI is a very popular layout option for many types of data. Pinterest was the first to create a layout like this, and it is was earlier referred to as “pinterest-style layout”. Usually cards are used to group together information in a very intuitive way and permits for a very fast UX, meaning users… Continue reading 30 Brilliant Examples Of UI Cards
10 Podcasts All Web Developers Should Subscribe To
If you commute long distances for study or work, there are plenty of ways to put that travel time to good use. For instance, you could listen to audiobooks or subscribe to podcasts to listen to on the bus or train. While there are plenty of great podcasts out there for you to check out,… Continue reading 10 Podcasts All Web Developers Should Subscribe To
Logo Templates: 35 Custom Logo Design Templates
Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually are different from others in a similar… Continue reading Logo Templates: 35 Custom Logo Design Templates
UX Vs UI: Discussing The Most Confusing Topic Of The 2015
Being into the development world, I have gone through the discussion over UX and UI a lot…well it is quite irksome at one point of time and quite daunting on the other, as it challenges your credibility. It is quite difficult to explain to people what is the difference between these two different terms that… Continue reading UX Vs UI: Discussing The Most Confusing Topic Of The 2015
Outline – Fresh Free HTML5 Bootstrap Template
Today’s free design resource is a fresh HTML5 template designed and coded by Freehtml5.co.This free template is a ready-to-use one page template perfect for landing pages but you can actually customize it to suit your needs. The features of this template includes fully responsive, retina-ready, smooth scroll, off-canvass menu and content animation upon scrolling. [sociallocker]… Continue reading Outline – Fresh Free HTML5 Bootstrap Template