How to Develop and Test a Site Using Mobile-First Design

You’ve spent hours honing in the branding. You’ve followed SEO best practices for every page.  You’ve even painstakingly mapped out user flows to find the optimal page architecture. In short, you’ve built a beautiful website that you’re sure your visitors will love. It looks gorgeous on your 17” retina display. But how’s it going to… Continue reading How to Develop and Test a Site Using Mobile-First Design

5 Photoshop Effects for Mind-Blowing Web Graphics

Utilizing the right images on your website can make a huge impact. Images can get your message across in a way that words alone cannot. It’s one of the most surefire methods to stand out from the crowd. To get the most out of your images, you’ll want to use a professional-grade tool like Adobe… Continue reading 5 Photoshop Effects for Mind-Blowing Web Graphics

How to Create a Glowing, Fireflies Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating Have you ever caught fireflies on a warm summer night? When I was a kid we used to call them “lightning bugs.” I was always fascinated by how they would shine and glow against the sky, and loved releasing them back into the night. So in this tutorial, I’ll show you… Continue reading How to Create a Glowing, Fireflies Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

Redesigning the information architecture of a university website — a UX case study

This article is a retrospective piece for a project that was done as part of the User Experience Design Immersive Course in General Assembly (Singapore). Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] if you’d like to chat more about this project. Thanks! :) The Task We had 10 days to: redesign the Information Architecture… Continue reading Redesigning the information architecture of a university website — a UX case study

45 Fresh New Photoshop Tutorials – Learn Exciting Photo Manipulation Tricks

Free Adobe Photoshop tutorials, learn Photo Manipulation tricks and effects that can turn your photo or artwork into a masterpiece of art. These new Photoshop video tutorials teach you how to use photo editing tools, brushes and create amazing photo manipulation, photo effects, text effects and make a things to design easier and better. Photoshop is a very versatile software tool, watch… Continue reading 45 Fresh New Photoshop Tutorials – Learn Exciting Photo Manipulation Tricks

How to Set up a Secure Relational Database on Alibaba Cloud — SitePoint

This article was originally published on Alibaba Cloud. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Think you got a better tip for making the best use of Alibaba Cloud services? Tell us about it and go in for your chance to win a Macbook Pro (plus other cool stuff). Find out more… Continue reading How to Set up a Secure Relational Database on Alibaba Cloud — SitePoint

8 New Ways to Refactor Your Code With Swift 4

Swift is one of the fastest-growing languages in history, due to its elegance, simplicity, and “safety by design”. In fact, Swift’s official mantra is “to make programming simple things easy, and difficult things possible”. In this post, you’ll learn how to use Swift to its fullest by refactoring your code. While a lot of the… Continue reading 8 New Ways to Refactor Your Code With Swift 4

Amazing Digital Illustrations by Freya Betts

Today we are featuring Creative Digital Illustration designer “Freya Betts“. She was from London United Kingdom. After leaving school she pursued her passion for film and landed a job in the film industry, where she had the privilege of working for Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros, Fox and Disney to name but a few and is currently… Continue reading Amazing Digital Illustrations by Freya Betts

Site Accessibility: Getting Started With ARIA

What You’ll Be Creating Using standard HTML alone, modern web apps can lock out users with accessibility needs.  HTML is the predominant markup language online, being used by nearly 83% of existing websites. While there have been some changes in the 25 years since its creation, even newer iterations, such as HTML5 and AMP, leave… Continue reading Site Accessibility: Getting Started With ARIA

The Best Promotional Tool for Your Online Business

When you have an online business, there are three things you need to keep in mind to be successful: credibility, visibility, and promotion. Having these three things down can seem difficult but if you have the right tools up your sleeve it shouldn’t be. Placeit is an online tool that enables you to generate graphics… Continue reading The Best Promotional Tool for Your Online Business

26 New Fresh Free Fonts

New fresh free fonts download for personal and commercial projects. In this fonts you can find handmade brush fonts, free script fonts and sans serif fonts some amazing Bold and Italic fonts for Headlines and Headings. These fonts are very useful for designers who are really know’s the important high quality typefaces and fonts. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an… Continue reading 26 New Fresh Free Fonts

The full stack product manager

I smiled as I read the title and thought, “Alright Lopp, I’ll bite”. How could I resist? I paired up with the one-and-only Michael Lopp to facilitate the session and it was truly one of the most interesting a-ha conversations that I’ve had the opportunity to take part in for a while. Honestly, this also… Continue reading The full stack product manager

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25 Top-Notch AdSense-Optimized Themes For Higher Ad Earnings

No matter how many new ad networks enter the market, it’s almost next to impossible for them to outrank Google AdSense as the best ad network in the world. Many bloggers and internet marketers from all over the globe use it as their primary income source. The number of website owners is growing swiftly with… Continue reading 25 Top-Notch AdSense-Optimized Themes For Higher Ad Earnings

Evelyn: HTML landing page for startups

Evelyn is a free HTML/CSS landing page designed and developed by Pasquale Vitiello and Davide Pacilio. This template is suitable for all kind of startups, it’s easily customizable, and it’s downloadable for personal and commercial use. Package includes well-organised Sass files and a ready to use package.json sample file that allows you to customise the template in a… Continue reading Evelyn: HTML landing page for startups

Wix Logo Maker Review

A logo, a unique Identity A logo is an important component in branding, it is not just a colored symbol or text but a graphic that identifies and differentiate a brand from other brands, thus making the brand unique to its products or services. A logo, if professionally designed will strengthen the brand-customer relationship and… Continue reading Wix Logo Maker Review

Wix Logo Maker Review – With Notes

A logo, a unique Identity A logo is an important component in branding, it is not just a colored symbol or text but a graphic that identifies and differentiate a brand from other brands, thus making the brand unique to its products or services. A logo, if professionally designed will strengthen the brand-customer relationship and… Continue reading Wix Logo Maker Review – With Notes

How to Draw a Ball

What You’ll Be Creating Drawing a ball may sound like something very simple, yet if you try it, you may discover that there are certain rules that must be followed. You need to know them if you want to draw a perfect ball!  In this tutorial, I will show you how to draw a soccer… Continue reading How to Draw a Ball

Leveraging accessibility in digital publishing — a UX case study

What is Meredith? Meredith Corporation is a public, diversified media firm dedicated to delivering trustworthy content to audiences of scale that drive financial return for shareholders. The company focuses on magazine publishing, television broadcasting, content licensing, and data/marketing services. As of 2018, Meredith is the largest magazine publisher in America and is recognized as the… Continue reading Leveraging accessibility in digital publishing — a UX case study

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Best Online Shopping Stores WordPress Themes

Best eCommerce / WooCommerce themes. Responsive WordPress Themes for online Shopping Stores websites with modern and advanced features. Clean and unique looking WordPress Themes which will impress all of your Customers and give you a better chance to grow your income from your Online business. All themes are coded with HTML5 and CSS3 with modern UI and UX design, suitable… Continue reading Best Online Shopping Stores WordPress Themes

So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos

When you’re selling a theme, its demo is your sales pitch. If the demo falls short in some way, it’s doing a disservice to the theme and will lead to a loss of sales. If your theme includes hundreds of features, but buyers can’t see them in action, you may as well have no features… Continue reading So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos

Space Grotesk: A free display typeface

Space Grotesk is a free display typeface designed by Florian Karsten available in 5 weights. It is a modified version of Space Mono (fixed-width typeface family designed by Colophon Foundry for Google Fonts). The font supports Latin Extended-A character set and several OpenType features. Download font

New Global Trends in Web Design

Recently, we interviewed leading designers to give you their opinion concerning the future of web and graphic designs and how we can stay up to date. According to the experts, there are 6 state-of-the-art web designs in 2018. Feel free to include them in your graphic design resume. Every year comes with the major development… Continue reading New Global Trends in Web Design