Gogs – An Open Source Self-Hosted Git Service

Gogs (Go Git Service) is a painless self-hosted Git service. The objective of this mission is to make the simplest, quickest, and most painless approach of establishing a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this may be achieved with an independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and… Continue reading Gogs – An Open Source Self-Hosted Git Service

Knowledge Persistence and Sessions With React

Having a “remember me” function is a very useful feature, and implementation with React and Express is relatively easy. Continuing from our last part where we set up a WebRTC chat application, we will now add Mongo-backed persistent sessions and a database-backed online user list for good measure. Sessions? If you have not used sessions… Continue reading Knowledge Persistence and Sessions With React

Freebie of the Month: Car RE – Auto Mechanic & Car Repair HTML Template

The template is built for Auto Mechanic, Car Repair Shops, Car Wash, Garages, Automobile Mechanicals, Mechanic Workshops, Auto Painting, Auto Centres and other Auto and Car related services and it is suitable for any kind of small business activity – Car Service Mot, Tyres, Brakes Hire, Car Rental, Auto Care, Maintenance, Vehicle Diagnostics, Auto Glass,… Continue reading Freebie of the Month: Car RE – Auto Mechanic & Car Repair HTML Template

Vertical Navigation in CSS and jQuery

A smart vertical navigation, with round indicators that turn into labelled icons when the user interacts with them. [sociallocker]Demo Download[/sociallocker] Our first concept of vertical fixed navigation is one of our most popular resources. This time, we tried to push this concept a little further. The basic idea behind putting round indicators on the side of… Continue reading Vertical Navigation in CSS and jQuery

The awards for design, creativity and innovation on the internet

Winners of the Year We have reached the end of 2015 and the moment has come to choose the winners of the year at Awwwards. A recognition of the effort, talent and innovation of the biggest professionals to create unique, innovative and beautiful websites that allow the internet to continue being a magical channel with… Continue reading The awards for design, creativity and innovation on the internet

36 Free Linear Finance Icon Set (exclusive)

Our friends from Vector4Free shares today on idevie with all our readers a complete pack that includes an amazing variety of FREE Linear Finance Icon Set that you can use in your design projects.This collection of icons includes a PNG file, a PSD file, AI formats and EPS files with SVG files. The pack is… Continue reading 36 Free Linear Finance Icon Set (exclusive)

International Artist Feature: Spain

For this article in the international artist series, we turn to Spain, featuring four illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from lettering to character design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Baimu Studio Baimu Studio focuses on Art Direction and… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Spain

Essential elements for creating a successful UX design

In a modern world, most of the companies and business organizations realize the importance of the UX design support on a website. These companies are investing huge amount in developing attractive UX designs that enable their website to deliver a good user experience in a custom website development. In a digital world, user experience has… Continue reading Essential elements for creating a successful UX design

How To Create a Text Portrait Effect in Photoshop

In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to create a cool portrait effect using a long passage of text that bends and deforms around the contours of the face. Known as a Calligram, this effect is particularly powerful when used to present famous quotes or speeches by depicting the author/speaker with the actual words. Photoshop’s Displace… Continue reading How To Create a Text Portrait Effect in Photoshop

WP REST API: Setting Up and Using Basic Authentication

In the introductory part of this series, we had a quick refresher on REST architecture and how it can help us create better applications. We then explored the history of REST APIs in WordPress and introduced ourselves to the latest addition: the WP REST API plugin. We set up a basic working environment for testing… Continue reading WP REST API: Setting Up and Using Basic Authentication

Create a MEAN Stack Google Map App (Part I)

Introduction “MEAN Apps with Google Maps” (A tongue twister to be true). And yet, whether you’re building an application to visualize bike lanes in your city, designing a tool to chart oil wells across the globe, or are simply creating an app to help choose your next date — having access to interactive, data-rich maps… Continue reading Create a MEAN Stack Google Map App (Part I)

Create this Poster Design with Abstract Effects in Photoshop

Create a creative poster with beautiful visual effects. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to quickly and easily create a unique poster using abstract rendering and many interesting effects like lightning, glowing lines and police tape. And all of these effects you can create your own in Photoshop. Read this tutorial and see how… Continue reading Create this Poster Design with Abstract Effects in Photoshop

New Trends WordPress Themes for 2016

New trendy design elegant & creative Business WordPress Themes which have many powerful features to allow you build websites very easy and unlimited your creative to make impressed websites. All themes are build with builder and most important all the designs are responsive. This means that it is compatible and looks comfortable on both a pc and… Continue reading New Trends WordPress Themes for 2016

Popular design news of the week: January 4, 2015 – January 10, 2016

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular design news of the week: January 4, 2015 – January 10, 2016

How to Edit Thousands of Images at Once in Photoshop with Batch Processing

How to Edit Thousands of Images at Once in Photoshop with Batch Processing 4.00/5 (80.00%) 4 votes Don’t waste your time doing the same thing over and over in Photoshop. This tutorial will show you how to apply the same editing to thousands of images at once in Photoshop using your own Actions with the… Continue reading How to Edit Thousands of Images at Once in Photoshop with Batch Processing

10+ New Sketch Plugins to Improve Your Design Workflow

It’s been over a year since I wrote this article in which I showed you how to extend Sketch through plugins and different resources. The Sketch community continues to grow and during recent months it’s given us tons of new and interesting ways to make our daily job even easier. Let me share with you a… Continue reading 10+ New Sketch Plugins to Improve Your Design Workflow

23 Of The Best CSS And HTML Frameworks Available To Download

Bootstrap makes front-end web development faster and easier. It’s made for folks of all skill levels, devices of all shapes, and projects of all sizes. Bootstrap ships with vanilla CSS, but its source code utilizes the two most popular CSS preprocessors, Less and Sass. Quickly get started with precompiled CSS or build on the source.… Continue reading 23 Of The Best CSS And HTML Frameworks Available To Download

Bonsai | Multi-purpose HTML5 Template for Digital Agency

Bonsai is a HTML5 template developed for Creative Agency and People. Its comes with around 50 pages including 8 home pages. Features Latest Bootstrap 8 home variation 14 Portfolio page style Super Responsive Parallax effect Valid HTML5 & CSS3 Awesome Look effects and functionality Smooth transition effects Cross Browser Optimization Google font What do you… Continue reading Bonsai | Multi-purpose HTML5 Template for Digital Agency

Advanced Photo Manipulation for Advertisements

In this course you will learn how to create stunning photo manipulations using Photoshop, Illustrator and Lens Flare. You will be creating an advertising campaign using stock photos and learning some advanced photo manipulation techniques, such as lighting effects and text effects that will allow you to enhance your clients’ advertising campaigns or promotional material.… Continue reading Advanced Photo Manipulation for Advertisements

Important UX Elements for Optimizing Ecommerce Product Pages

Designing ecommerce websites are a whole world onto itself due to how they’re used compared to other sites on the web. First of all, ecommerce is a service that customers use for purchasing goods, so the usability of an ecommerce website is a serious topic. For anyone out there with a business, you know how… Continue reading Important UX Elements for Optimizing Ecommerce Product Pages

Crew – FREE HTML5 Bootstrap Template

Today’s free design resource ”Crew” is a HTML bootstrap template from FreeHTML5.co. Crew is a versatile, responsive and free HTML5 bootstrap template suitable for any type of websites. Crew have unique features such as a preset of 8 colour variations, smooth and sleek animations upon scrolling, beautiful and ready to use elements, such as pricing… Continue reading Crew – FREE HTML5 Bootstrap Template

Weekly Inspiration: Big Type Reading Experiences

Everyone has their own guilty pleasure where it comes to web design; with me, it’s big typography. I love reading on the web when content is presented with large, unapologetic type. Couple that with cleverly used color, confident whitespace, and well designed typefaces–I’m hooked. This week’s inspiration pulls together some of my favorite examples. Font-Size 1rem If a… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Big Type Reading Experiences

This Year’s Most Useful WordPress Themes

The fact that Enfold is ThemeForest’s best rated top seller is reason enough to give it a closer look. Enfold, with its drag and drop layout editor is extremely user friendly. Simply drag and drop your content into place. An especially useful feature is its ability to import demo files with a single click, select… Continue reading This Year’s Most Useful WordPress Themes