For this article in the international artist series, we turn to South Africa, featuring five illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from lettering to illustration and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Pearly Yon Pearly Yon is illustrator Simone Hodgskiss, who runs… Continue reading International Artist Feature: South Africa
Month: February 2016
Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools
There are more ways than ever to get yourself (and your work) seen online. Whether yours is a design, illustration, photography, code, or product portfolio, take a look at some of these tools for getting it out there. Dunked Brainchild of Orman Clark and chums, dunked is a platform offering an account where you can upload… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools
How to Meet Visitor Expectations by Creating Websites
Creating good web sites begins with a certain consistency. This consistency is essential for the cognitive burden of a website’s visitor. Whenever your design is consistent, utilizing the internet site seems smooth and logic. Nonetheless, if it is inconsistent, the consumer has to invest unnecessary effort. This is what you need to avoid when you… Continue reading How to Meet Visitor Expectations by Creating Websites
Designing For Small Businesses: 10 Websites That Can Change The Game
Source: Be Digital[2] First impressions count. This is where pre-built websites can play a key role in creating any business-oriented website. There has to be a follow-through of course, but the importance of creating a great first impression can never be overemphasized. The problem facing the web designer is what makes a great first impression… Continue reading Designing For Small Businesses: 10 Websites That Can Change The Game
What’s new for designers, February 2016
In this month’s edition of what’s new for designers and developers, we’ve included frameworks, code resources, UX and UI design tools, JavaScript resources, design and dev tools, apps, stock photo sources, and much more. And as always, we’ve also included some awesome new free fonts! Almost everything on the list this month is free, with… Continue reading What’s new for designers, February 2016
7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX
A great user experience starts with the designer. You have to imagine and create something that people will want to touch and engage with, time and time again. Sounds easy, right? The key to delighting users is to think like one. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel with every new design project; use tools and… Continue reading 7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX
25 Completely Free Clean, Minimal & Whitespace WordPress Themes for 2016
In the current climate of WordPress themes which are trending towards larger multi-purpose themes jam-packed with features and add-ons you may never use, it can be refreshing to come across a nicely styled, clean theme which is the focus of today’s post. If you are looking for something simple to use on a personal blog… Continue reading 25 Completely Free Clean, Minimal & Whitespace WordPress Themes for 2016
10+ Photoshop Tutorials That will Amaze You.
As a web designer, there is nothing I love more than learning new things, when it comes to Photoshop I am always amazed at some of the things that people are able to create. Every once in a while, I will sit down and try to recreate some of these amazing things, and that is… Continue reading 10+ Photoshop Tutorials That will Amaze You.
Exploring WordPress Managers: ManageWP, CMS Commander & MainWP
In the previous part of this series, we talked about two popular WordPress managers out in the field. In this second part, we’ll be checking out a few more of them. Also, there will be one bonus tip about a core WordPress feature that may help you manage your (or your clients’) websites. So, without… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: ManageWP, CMS Commander & MainWP
20 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for February 2016
The world of web development keeps expanding as new frameworks, libraries and plugins are created everyday. To keep you up to date with all the cool toys, we made this collection of our favorite JavaScript and CSS tools you should try in February 2016. Super Simple Slider Super simple slider is jQuery plugin which provides you with a functional and… Continue reading 20 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for February 2016
Weekly Inspiration for Designers Week 07
Daily Routine Icons by Burnt Toast Creative BB-TRUMP by Tony Babel 6-inch Skatergramps by Markus Magnusson Bitcoin App Design by Julien Renvoye Senna. A legend. My Hero. by Studio–JQ Icons by Nick Kumbari for Leavingstone Library Widget by Sergey Valiukh for Tubik Studio Kids Fashion by Gleb Kuznetsov TaskManagerUI by Daniel Klopper Spacegramps by Markus Magnusson TOKYO byChris LaBrooy – Full project BAFTA 2016 Best Film posters… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration for Designers Week 07
How to Streamline Your Logo Design Process
Creating a identity that is unique any brand can be quite a challenge, because there are so many things to factor in. The process is not as simple as throwing your creative juices into the project – that’s just a fraction that is small of. Company logo demands a great deal more from any musician,… Continue reading How to Streamline Your Logo Design Process
Free Download : Colored Line Icons (SVG, PNG)
This is a complete pack that includes an amazing variety of Colored Line Icons.The set contains 30 colored line icons in pastel tones for your next design project. The icons come in vector format (SVG) and PNGs of various sizes.The icons of this set have a clean line and a glowy, playful look. A bright… Continue reading Free Download : Colored Line Icons (SVG, PNG)
9 WordPress Advertising Plugins
Here, we are presenting another useful assortment of 9 WordPress advertising plugins for you. These plugins will allow you to place different advertisement on your WordPress blog in order to earn some extra money. You can place ads either into your posts or your sidebar – the choice is yours. With these WordPress advertising plugins,… Continue reading 9 WordPress Advertising Plugins
New Course: Write Customizer-Ready WordPress Themes
What You’ll Be Creating Themes let you customize every aspect of the design and functionality of a WordPress site. But what if you want to let your client customize some aspect of the theme? Perhaps you want to sell a theme on Envato Market and you want to let buyers adjust the color scheme and logo to… Continue reading New Course: Write Customizer-Ready WordPress Themes
29 Of The Best Minimalist Icons For Web Design Projects
77 Essential Icons Line icon freebie Weather Icons The Nice and Serious UI Icon Set City Icons Tourism icon pack (free) Icon Set 350 Free Icons 100 Free Icons Random Stuff Iconset vol 3 Free Icon Set LINE ICON SET Meecons 1.0 Mini Material Free iconset Vol1 Freebie Icons set Outdoor Icons Startup – 150… Continue reading 29 Of The Best Minimalist Icons For Web Design Projects
Coding for Entrepreneurs: Learn Python, Django, and More.
Never coded before? No problem. We’ve worked with over 120,000 students just like you. Entrepreneurs like you are a rare breed. You create incredible businesses and come up with ideas that change the world. Technology has made the 21st century, the century of the entrepreneur. Thanks to the power of the internet, you can reach… Continue reading Coding for Entrepreneurs: Learn Python, Django, and More.
Deploying from GitHub to a Server
GitHub, and the Git version control system it’s based on, are fantastic tools for managing and collaborating on projects – code-based or otherwise. In this article, we’ll look at options for making Git and GitHub projects fit better into developer workflows, allowing for a smooth and hands-off deployment process. I’ll break these options into the… Continue reading Deploying from GitHub to a Server
Design Trend: How to Create a Cool Split Screen Aesthetic
One display screen divided in 2. This could be one of many larger design trends appearing now. More sites are utilizing design patterns that include two vertical or square panels put side by side. And it is a aesthetic that is nice. The look is user friendly, can be adapted for a variety of needs,… Continue reading Design Trend: How to Create a Cool Split Screen Aesthetic
Project: Build a Complete Website With Middleman
In part three of this series we’re going to get our hands dirty and start building a site for a fictitious podcast site: “Matcha Nerdz”. We’ll be using Middleman, Bourbon, Neat and Bitters. Let’s go! In This Post Roadmap Basic Blog Setup LiveReload Organizing Posts GitHub Pages Deployment Smarter Assets Bourbon Setup Normalize and jQuery… Continue reading Project: Build a Complete Website With Middleman
Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP
When you have a lot of clients with WordPress-powered websites, or a lot of WordPress projects that you work on, it might get messy to deal with all those updates and maintenance. Logging in to each website with different usernames and passwords, then moderating comments, updating plugins and themes, maybe occasionally (or periodically) making database… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP
Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python
Ever wondered about a quick way to tell what some document is focusing on? What is its main topic? Let me give you this simple trick. List the unique words mentioned in the document, and then check how many times each word has been mentioned (frequency). This way would give you an indication of what… Continue reading Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python
10+ Useful Sketch 3 – Tutorials
The best way to learn design is to copy other works and watch tutorials. It’s not enough to know the how to design, we need to know how our tools are working. That’s why at the main beginning you should look for articles or tutorials about the tools. Today I’m talking about my new favourite… Continue reading 10+ Useful Sketch 3 – Tutorials
10 Useful Mobile Search Engines To Download Free Apps
With this collection, we are aiming to present some of the finest examples of Mobile App Search Engines for you. Take a peek over the list and see if anything catches your attention. We spent a large amount of time basking in the glow of a computer screen to sort out the wheat from the… Continue reading 10 Useful Mobile Search Engines To Download Free Apps