Having a logo for your business is pretty much a no-brainer. It’s synonymous to your brand’s identity, a visual representation that people will recognize immediately even without the company or product name. Knowing, understanding and applying wisely chosen trends in logo design to your emblem shows that your brand is contemporary and relevant to the… Continue reading Logo Trends For 2019
Month: January 2019
Grafier: A modern brutalist variable font
Grafier is a modern serif typeface that brings drastic contemporary aesthetics to classic design. Grafier features fresh and precise digital curves, square dots and long connected serifs. Turn on the 1st OpenType style set to disconnect them; the 2nd style set brings you nice and rounded dots. The font family comes in 5 weights from… Continue reading Grafier: A modern brutalist variable font
7 Best Tips To Master Portrait Photography
Portrait photography is quite unique compared to other fields of photography. It is one of the toughest fields of photography because a photographer has to capture emotions, get lighting right and bring out the features of his or her subject. In portrait photography, it is important that you as a photographer get your techniques to… Continue reading 7 Best Tips To Master Portrait Photography
Why are you not designing your day-to-day experience?
Fabricio TeixeiraBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 29 The other day a coworker and I were chatting about our phone’s home screens and the way we organize our app icons. We spent good ten minutes describing to one another our implicit rules on how we prioritize homepage icons, how we choose apps that will sit on the edge vs.… Continue reading Why are you not designing your day-to-day experience?
32 Creative and Funny Error Pages
January 29, 2019 by Alex Fox There aren’t a lot of places on a web design where you get to tell jokes. Error pages and source code are one of the few places you can hide your humor. Spelunkers of source code know you can find job listings, inside jokes, Monty Python references and more… Continue reading 32 Creative and Funny Error Pages
How to Customize Bootstrap’s Sass Files With Grunt
Today, we’ll learn how to customize Bootstrap 4’s Sass files with Grunt. Instead of Grunt, we could just as easily use another task runner like Gulp, webpack, or npm scripts. Regardless of the build tool the process of customizing Bootstrap’s source Sass files will be the same. Note: This tutorial assumes you have some familiarity with Bootstrap 4, Sass, and build tools.… Continue reading How to Customize Bootstrap’s Sass Files With Grunt
Try These 3 Practical Projects to Learn WordPress Plugin Development
If you want to learn to code your own WordPress plugins, you should try our new course, 3 More Practical Projects to Learn WordPress Plugin Development. In this course with experienced WordPress developer Rachel McCollin, you’ll create three practical projects to help you learn WordPress plugin development. The plugins you create will help you: Create… Continue reading Try These 3 Practical Projects to Learn WordPress Plugin Development
Best Practices For Optimizing Web Page Speed
A Moving Target The internet develops as computers develop: exponentially. If you don’t believe that, just use a search engine to explore “legacy” websites. One website still up since its inception is the Space Jam website; and it is extremely dated—but it’s also extremely fast. Part of exponential forward development in terms of technology is… Continue reading Best Practices For Optimizing Web Page Speed
Best jQuery Flipbook Plugins Compared
Are you looking for a creative and interactive way to showcase text, photos, and documents on your website? Adding a flipbook to your site can elevate your project and enhance the experience of your website visitors. For this article, I’ve chosen three great tools that will allow you to create realistic, animated flipbooks with ease.… Continue reading Best jQuery Flipbook Plugins Compared
Top 10 Effective SEO Techniques to Drive Organic Traffic in 2019
Are you struggling with driving traffic to your website? I know the feeling. As website owners and marketers we invest a lot of time and energy trying to drive organic traffic through the roof. But when it comes down to it, we realize that we are still getting negligible traffic. In fact, sometimes we might… Continue reading Top 10 Effective SEO Techniques to Drive Organic Traffic in 2019
23 Best Trifold Brochure Templates & Examples (Word, InDesign, & PSD)
Need a hand explaining your business? Try an amazing trifold brochure. Get the latest creative designs from this list of resources. 23 Best Trifold Brochure Templates (Word, InDesign, & PSD) Trifold brochures are one of the easiest ways to present your business. They feature a creative folded layout that gives you plenty of room for… Continue reading 23 Best Trifold Brochure Templates & Examples (Word, InDesign, & PSD)
7 Best Web Design Strategies to Implement to Build Audience’s Trust
How likely will you recommend a specific website to someone? Generally, we evaluate a website based on its contents, responsiveness, and designs. When a webpage captures your interest, you will usually navigate the site and look everything about it. As they say, first impressions always last. It means when you saw something interesting for the… Continue reading 7 Best Web Design Strategies to Implement to Build Audience’s Trust
20 Useful Video Plugins Available on CodeCanyon
What You’ll Be Creating Video is becoming an increasingly important element of a successful website. It has SEO benefits, increases engagement and the amount of time visitors spend on your site, and will also reflect well on your brand. WordPress lets you add embedded video out of the box, but you can make the process… Continue reading 20 Useful Video Plugins Available on CodeCanyon
Finding my footing in the ocean of UX Design
So, it is 2016 and my manager took the gamble and gave me the cherished role of “User Experience Designer”. I had already started reading up online about User Experience Design career. Now, searching and learning about UX Design career is like “looking for disease based on symptoms on WebMD”… the magnitude of skills and… Continue reading Finding my footing in the ocean of UX Design
Adding a Music Player to Your WordPress Site
Thinking about adding a substantial amount of audio to your site? Or maybe just a clip for a single song? When working with WordPress, there are dozens of different ways to add a music of audio player to your site. Choosing the one that works best for you can be tough. In this piece, we’ll… Continue reading Adding a Music Player to Your WordPress Site
How to Test a Website Before Launching to the Public
Have you been toiling away on your website for the past several months? Before you launch that bad boy, click here to learn how to test a website first. Launching a new website can be exciting. It’s important that you don’t let your excitement overpower your rational thinking. No matter how excited you are in… Continue reading How to Test a Website Before Launching to the Public
5 Great Tools to Help You Build HTML5 Forms
We are living in a world where we try to automate everything we can, and web design isn’t an exception, so we have a suite of tools capable of generating HTML pages without writing any line of code. In this article we will focus on some of the most popular dedicated tools for generating HTML… Continue reading 5 Great Tools to Help You Build HTML5 Forms
Web Design History: Looking Back Through 20 Years of Design Evolution
The web has transformed how we do things. The first website went online nearly three decades ago and since that time, there has been a huge transformation. It is now possible for people to share information easily and efficiently. The evolution of the web has been marked by evolution in web design. Some of the… Continue reading Web Design History: Looking Back Through 20 Years of Design Evolution
Create a PHP Email Script and Form
Forms on websites can be used for a lot of purposes besides being a place to contact the website administrators. In previous posts, I covered how to create a fully functional contact form in PHP and how to build your own Captcha and integrate it in your contact forms. In this tutorial, our focus will… Continue reading Create a PHP Email Script and Form
UX designer’s identity crisis
Kaja Laura ToczyskaBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 22 If you’ve worked as a UX designer for at least 2 or 3 years now, you must have read all these stories and tweets about how UX design is dead, it doesn’t really exist, or how the industry is changing and UX design will be dead in a few years… Continue reading UX designer’s identity crisis
Ruby: A clean and responsive HTML landing page
Ruby is a clean and fully responsive HTML landing page template for startups released by Cruip. It includes all you need to take your product or service to the next level. This template comes with a unique and beautiful collection of customisable components, icons and nice-looking illustrations. It comes with a bunch of ready-made sections: hero, features, testimonials, pricing… Continue reading Ruby: A clean and responsive HTML landing page
Anatomy of Typography
It’s been said that great Typography goes unnoticed but in the latest web designing trends always follow wide range of Typography designs in their templates even its just a web login form template. Great Typography is the point at which is in the pages of an arresting book. Yes, extraordinary arrangement of it needs to… Continue reading Anatomy of Typography
How VeePN Makes the Internet Safer to Use
With everything going digital it is becoming increasingly important for us to protect ourselves. You become vulnerable to cyber attacks once you go online, hence some sort of protection is required in order to stay safe. That is what a VPN or Virtual Private Network is for. It creates a secure connection between your device… Continue reading How VeePN Makes the Internet Safer to Use
4 Examples of Bad UI and How to Avoid Them
The easiest way to observe bad user interfaces is by keeping your eyes open. Every time you order something online, every time you visit a new website, every time you fill in a form, purchase a product or publish a post, think about how you’re being asked to perform that task. Where are the buttons… Continue reading 4 Examples of Bad UI and How to Avoid Them