Power Up Your Mobile Game With Design, Sound, and Music

A successful game needs to be beautifully designed and immersive. Most game developers aren’t good designers, though. And it doesn’t stop with design. Sound and music are just as important to captivate people playing your game. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a design or team up with one to create a fantastic game. You… Continue reading Power Up Your Mobile Game With Design, Sound, and Music

How to Create an AJAX Driven Theme for ProcessWire

In this tutorial we will look at setting up a simple theme in ProcessWire, we’ll investigate delayed output (now the default theme strategy within ProcessWire), and setup our site to request new content using AJAX. To accompany this tutorial I have created a new theme for ProcessWire, making use of both AJAX and delayed output,… Continue reading How to Create an AJAX Driven Theme for ProcessWire

Fullscreen Background Videos with Bideo.js

Posted · Category: License Free, Video Fullscreen background videos that autoplay right when the webpage loads (above the fold) has become quite a popular trend these days. Rishabh has built Bideo.js, which is an easy-to-use JS based plugin that works over HTML5 video element and does the right job of showing a background video inside… Continue reading Fullscreen Background Videos with Bideo.js

10 Remedial Design Pointers for Developers

Here’s a situation which may be familiar to you: you’re a developer and you build a prototype to demonstrate something. It works just as you mean it to, but the looks of horror on your users’ faces tell you something is wrong–your demo looks like crap. Let’s look some simple guidelines and tips to help… Continue reading 10 Remedial Design Pointers for Developers

13 Free And Fresh Icons In PSD For Web Designers

  ADVERTISEMENT It is a big task to find out high quality PSD files that you can use in your work, but when you succeeded in finding out your desired PSD files, it is nothing short of a blessing. Keeping this in mind, we thought to compile a useful collection of high quality PSD files, and… Continue reading 13 Free And Fresh Icons In PSD For Web Designers

4 Point Checklist on Choosing Most Serious Coding Agency

Posted · Category: Best Collections Choosing the right coders for your project can be painfully similar to looking for a needle in the haystack. There are thousands of people out there offering their services, but who are the best ones for you and your business? Who among them understands your vision, aligns with your goals,… Continue reading 4 Point Checklist on Choosing Most Serious Coding Agency

20 Best Shopify Themes With Beautiful eCommerce Designs

When it comes to eCommerce, the design of your site plays a crucial role. It can make or break your website—leading to sales either falling flat or converting profitably.  Even though you are probably eager to get your new site up and running as quickly as possible, it’s important to first make sure you pick… Continue reading 20 Best Shopify Themes With Beautiful eCommerce Designs

Using Let's Encrypt SSL With Your WordPress Project

What’s Let’s Encrypt? For years, purchasing, renewing, installing and managing SSL certificates overwhelmed me with expense and complexity. Now, Let’s Encrypt makes it fairly simple and free. Let’s Encrypt is an emerging, free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by a California public benefit corporation called the Internet Security Research Group—it also has nonprofit status.  Its… Continue reading Using Let's Encrypt SSL With Your WordPress Project

Reason – Meta Language Toolchain to Build Systems Rapidly

Posted · Category: Framework, MIT License Reason is a meta language toolchain to build systems rapidly. It is a new interface to OCaml – a highly expressive dialect of the ML language featuring type inference and static type checking.Reason provides a new syntax and toolchain for editing, building, and sharing code, and will evolve in… Continue reading Reason – Meta Language Toolchain to Build Systems Rapidly

How to Create a Dory-Inspired Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating To celebrate Finding Dory, the upcoming sequel to the classic Finding Nemo, I’ll show you how to create realistic fan art easily in Adobe Photoshop. Inspired by the movie, learn how to use photo manipulation and digital painting techniques to make any character come alive. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The… Continue reading How to Create a Dory-Inspired Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

Create an Awesome Underwater Scene Depicting a Dragon and a Treasure Hunter

In this tutorial we will create an awesome underwater photo manipulation. I’ll explain some of the more complex techniques I use in the first steps to make it easy for beginners but intermediate and advanced users can also learn a thing or two.I like doing underwater scenes because there is something mysterious about the depths… Continue reading Create an Awesome Underwater Scene Depicting a Dragon and a Treasure Hunter

Color Choices You Must Avoid – Quick Guide

Creative Market released an infographic guide to help you make the right choices in selecting the correct color combinations for your next web design project. There’re reasons why certain colors shouldn’t be used altogether, here we have 5 color combinations you should use with extra care. Never use pure black Red and green don’t play… Continue reading Color Choices You Must Avoid – Quick Guide

Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles

Cocycles is a new code search service that enables code to be found by functionality. In this article, Cocycles team member Jonathan explains the idea behind this approach to code searching. We’re all familiar with it: that moment when you’re forced to abandon your code editor, interrupt your workflow and open your browser to search… Continue reading Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles

New Course: How to Use Live Shapes in Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating Want to learn a new Illustrator skill in just ten minutes? In our new Coffee Break Course, illustrator Simona Pfreundner will introduce you to Live Shapes in Adobe Illustrator CC. You’ll get a brief introduction to what Live Shapes are, and then you’ll learn how to create something using this very handy… Continue reading New Course: How to Use Live Shapes in Illustrator

Free Course: Create Content in WordPress With Posts and Pages

What You’ll Be Creating WordPress is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating websites, but for beginners it can still be a little hard to know where to get started. What’s the best way to fit your content into the WordPress content management system? In our new course, Create Content in WordPress With Posts and… Continue reading Free Course: Create Content in WordPress With Posts and Pages

9 Fresh Free WordPress Themes

  ADVERTISEMENT Here, we have come again with yet another exciting and fresh compilation of 9 new and fresh WordPress themes that are all new and eye-catching. The list contains WordPress themes for real estate websites, portfolio websites, WooCommerce, businesses, creative agencies, fashion blogs and more. In addition to huge variety, all the themes are responsive… Continue reading 9 Fresh Free WordPress Themes

Ruby Templating With Slim: Part 2

In the second and last part of this mini series, we’ll finish this introduction with sections about outputting Ruby code, interpolation, plain text and how to customize Slim to your needs. After that article you should be ready for some Slim action.  Outputting Code You have already seen a bit about how to use Ruby in… Continue reading Ruby Templating With Slim: Part 2

What Salary Could You Be Earning?

Posted · Category: Information If you want to know what you’re worth, Hired has the answer: with data from thousands of real interview requests and job offers, we’ve put together a salary calculator that can tell you what you could be making in your job based on the skills you have. If you want to… Continue reading What Salary Could You Be Earning?

20 Useful WordPress WooCommerce Plugins Available on CodeCanyon

WooCommerce is a free plugin that transforms WordPress into a powerful eCommerce solution. This WordPress eCommerce plugin now powers over 37% of all online stores and offers a wide variety of plugins that extend and customize WooCommerce in many different ways. Here are 20 useful WordPress WooCommerce plugins available on Envato Market that are worth your… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress WooCommerce Plugins Available on CodeCanyon

30 Free and Premium Shopify Themes for Various Purposes

Posted · Category: Best Collections We always try to keep you updated on new free and premium eCommerce themes that can save loads of your time and energy on web development. When choosing the best eCommerce platform for their online stores, many retailers opt for Shopify due to its extensive functionality and a powerful community… Continue reading 30 Free and Premium Shopify Themes for Various Purposes

It’s Tough Out There: A Look at Brutalism in Web Design

Brutalist websites were thrust into the spotlight recently when Pascal Deville’s brutalistwebsites.com hit Hacker News and went viral. This collection showcases the less warm and fuzzy side of the web–let’s take a look and see if we can pull some inspiration from brutalism. Brutal Buildings “Brutalism” (or “New Brutalism”) is a term which has been rattling… Continue reading It’s Tough Out There: A Look at Brutalism in Web Design

How to Use Pantheon to Set Up and Maintain a Production-Safe WordPress Site

Today, WordPress powers 25% of all of the world’s websites, so it’s safe to say that what started as blogging software has grown into something much bigger than its humble origins, and is ready to be used on production-level sites from news portals to complete web applications. With this level of professionalism, new needs arise.  On a personal blog read by… Continue reading How to Use Pantheon to Set Up and Maintain a Production-Safe WordPress Site

5 Common Problems Faced by Python Beginners

More from this author How to Launch Your Next Tech Product for Free (Almost!) API Building and Testing Made Easier with Postman Are you in the process of learning Python? It’s a fantastic language to learn, but as with any language, it does present challenges that can seem overwhelming at times, especially if you’re teaching… Continue reading 5 Common Problems Faced by Python Beginners