Month: February 2016

How to Create Mooncake and Dim Sum Icons for Chinese New Year

What You’ll Be Creating Celebrate Chinese New Year with mooncakes, steamed buns, and dumplings! In this tutorial we’ll illustrate dim sum food icons, perfect for use in a mobile game or other vector graphic needs. Start with circles and ellipses, and end with delicious food drawings.  You can also supplement your icon designs with vectors… Continue reading How to Create Mooncake and Dim Sum Icons for Chinese New Year

How to convert PSD files to WordPress

Perhaps it would be best to start here with the why. About a quarter of all websites run on WordPress, the online blogging platform. This makes it by far one of the most popular open source content management systems on the planet. The vast majority of web designers still use Photoshop to design a website,… Continue reading How to convert PSD files to WordPress

Swift 2.0 Essential Training

Swift 2.0 Essential Training 6h 0m Beginner Apple introduced Swift in June 2014, describing it as Objective-C without the C. Yet with version 2, announced in June 2015, Swift is pulling away from its Objective-C origins and breaking new ground as a modern language that is safe, fast, and expressive. In this training course, Scott… Continue reading Swift 2.0 Essential Training

Shoplayers – eCommerce HTML Template

Shoplayers is an eCommerce HTML Template for any kind of online shop. All files are well organized and layered for proffesionals.You can use this template for creating website based on any framework and any language. Features: 9 HTML Files Clean, Minimal & Modern 1170px Grid System Used Google Font Used Retina Ready Creative Newsletter Form… Continue reading Shoplayers – eCommerce HTML Template

Alaska – SEO WHMCS Hosting, Shop, Business Theme

ALASKA is an Elegant WordPress Premium Theme, It’s fully compatible with WHMCS-Bridge plugin which connect between WordPress and WHMCS, ALASKA is suitable for Hosting websites aswell as Company, Agency or Organization Demo user: [email protected] Demo pass: demoalaska Login url: alaska.themestudio.net/whmcs-bridge/?ccce=clientarea [sociallocker]https://mega.nz/#!BcU3XagQ[signinlocker]Download[/signinlocker][/sociallocker]

How to Grow Your App Team

You can find a lot of online resources that help you on your way to make a successful app. Once you reach that point, you’re looking to retain or even expand on that success. This is the moment that you, a single person who has built an app, grows into something bigger, a team that continues… Continue reading How to Grow Your App Team

20 Fresh and Free WordPress Themes: February 2016

All these themes are free though some have commercial variants available. We stated that where applicable. Enjoy! Shopper Created by/for: Dessign Features: eCommerce oriented, super minimal grid layout, needs a few plugins to work at its full potential License: free for personal and commercial use (GPL) BiancaA Created by/for: Theme Junkie Features: mobile-ready, great for… Continue reading 20 Fresh and Free WordPress Themes: February 2016

9 Free Database Tools For System Admins

Database management is the most essential thing that a developer needs to do in order to make sure that the website is up and running fine. Although, there is a huge plethora of tools available for database management but here in this compilation, we are showcasing only the 9 best database management tools for developers.… Continue reading 9 Free Database Tools For System Admins

The Best Freebies for Designers (February 2016)

Here are the best freebies for designers from September 2013. We have free GUI templates, icon sets, fonts, Photoshop brushes, PSD templates, PS actions… and everything else in between.   Free Icon Sets Circular Icon Set (12 Icons, PSD) Dripicons (PSD, AI, EPS, PDF, SVG & Icon Font) Flat Icons (48 Icons, PSD) Line Icon… Continue reading The Best Freebies for Designers (February 2016)

Coffee Break – Multipurpose Fullscreen Template – 14038347

Coffee Break is a minimal, responsive coming soon / portfolio / landing page HTML5 template based on Bootstrap 3. This multipurpose, customizable template includes unique style, 500+ Font Awesome icons, custom animations, distinct background styles and much more! Features Responsive design Bootstrap 3 framework 500+ Font Awesome vector icons YouTube background Low-poly animation background Slideshow… Continue reading Coffee Break – Multipurpose Fullscreen Template – 14038347

Apple Swift Makes iOS and Mac Apps Development Easy

Apple’s New Free Programming Language – Apple Swift is set to make iOS App development easier than ever. Apple announced a totally new programming language known as SWIFT, for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, at WWDC 2014. It is a big deal for Apple as they launched a new programming language after a long break of… Continue reading Apple Swift Makes iOS and Mac Apps Development Easy

An Example of AJAX with Vanilla Javascript

Following on from our introduction to AJAX, here’s an example which uses the XMLHttpRequest API to initialize an AJAX request. AJAX Example Have a look at the following basic structure: <div> <img src=”http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/Einstein.jpg” alt=”Einstein”> <button id=”request”>Learn more about Einstein</button> <div id=”bio”></div> </div> Also, consider the related visualization: Here’s what we want to happen: when we… Continue reading An Example of AJAX with Vanilla Javascript

10 Adobe Lightroom Tutorials For Photographers

Here we’ve gathered 10 wonderful and practical Adobe Photoshop Lightroom tutorials for the photographers, professionals and amateurs. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an tool that is amazing is super easy to master. Therefore, then do not worry if you are new to Lightroom. These tutorials will help you learn a wide variety of techniques that you… Continue reading 10 Adobe Lightroom Tutorials For Photographers

Design an App Landing Page in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will walk you through the design process of a simple and conversion-oriented app landing page. We’ll use the Tuts+ Android app for the demo, emphasizing its features and benefits, and employing calls to action throughout. Essentials of High Conversion When designing landing pages there are some things you need to get… Continue reading Design an App Landing Page in Photoshop

How To Design User Interface Animations

Image source: Zach Krasner[2] Motion is not so simple – it might sound easy to add some ‘movement’ to your sketches, but how successfully could you replicate feelings and reactions? The truth is that designing interface animations could take a while before you upgrade from the basic animated patterns to highly technical interactions which could… Continue reading How To Design User Interface Animations

How to Create a Greyscale Monochrome Vector Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a monochrome portrait from a photograph. Today’s subject is the inspiring Aydian Dowling, who has given us permission to use one of his photos for this tutorial.  If you’re not aware who Aydian Dowling is, let me introduce you to… Continue reading How to Create a Greyscale Monochrome Vector Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

10 Explanations Why Web Projects Fail

Nowadays every task utilizes some form of CMS. In place of painting a canvas in the old days of HTML, the necessity is always to build applications that require to follow more traditional development approaches. If the project is coded improperly, then quite often you have to throw it away and start over. The cost… Continue reading 10 Explanations Why Web Projects Fail

50+ fresh resources for designers, February 2016

Hey there! This month’s roundup comes with some amazing freebies for you to download and try out; including line icons, material design assets, gesture icons, mobile app presentation kits, a restaurant menu template, branding stationery mockups, watercolor illustrations, device mockups, stunning web and mobile UI kits, fancy fonts for all purposes, PSD templates, and landing page themes… Continue reading 50+ fresh resources for designers, February 2016

Add Gold/Silver Effects in One Click

Add Gold/Silver Effects in One Click 5.00/5 (100.00%) 3 votes Download this free set of Gold and Silver textures by SparkleStock. These Photoshop styles let you add gold/silver/rose-gold textures to your layer in one click. They’re a great way to make text look fancy without doing much. Examples How to Use After downloading the file, extract the… Continue reading Add Gold/Silver Effects in One Click

15 Websites to Find Free Resources For Designers

I always like to say, that there are only 24 hours per day. And we can’t turn time back. That’s why we are always looking for a some hacks or methods how to save time, especially when we are working. Designers have the same problem when they are creating something from A to Z, it… Continue reading 15 Websites to Find Free Resources For Designers

New eBooks Available for Subscribers

Do you want to learn more about data analysis with Python? How about iOS 9 game development, Django, or Swift 2? Our latest batch of eBooks will teach you all you need to know about these topics and more. What You’ll Learn In the past couple of months we’ve made 16 new eBooks available for… Continue reading New eBooks Available for Subscribers