Windows Phone apps that use live tiles, authenticate users with single-sign on, and share data between devices and users generally employ cloud services. Most cloud platforms offer general purpose capabilities to store data and execute code, but you have to add a lot of infrastructure code to glue these capabilities together. Azure Mobile Services let you add cloud… Continue reading How To Add Azure Mobile Services to a Windows Phone App
Use Prototyping’s Best Practices and Tools for the Best Results
It’s common feeling to consider the most effective device in the event that you don’t adhere to best practices if you want to get something done right, but even the best of tools may not be enough. Several of the very prototyping tools that are best in the marketplace are described below, along side three… Continue reading Use Prototyping’s Best Practices and Tools for the Best Results
Designers Freebie Pouch of January, 2016
Designers Freebie Pouch is a monthly collection of the latest freebies from all over the internet. In the pouch you will find latest design resources like icons, mockups, UI kits, textures, templates and much more. Use freebies for learning new techniques, bootstrapping next project or building your business but always remember to check the license. Here is the… Continue reading Designers Freebie Pouch of January, 2016
The Recently Released Webdev Resources You Would Need
Want to use Vanilla JS but find native APIs a bit unwieldy? Bliss is for you. Bliss is just a collection of helpers and light syntactic sugar over Vanilla JS. It does not account for browser bugs or lack of support of certain APIs, although it only uses features that are both supported across most… Continue reading The Recently Released Webdev Resources You Would Need
Managing Your Freelance To-Do List While Keeping Some Shred of Sanity
A day in the life of a freelance web designer can be a real whirlwind. Without ever leaving your desk, you might be working on dozens of sites, communicating with lots of clients, writing several proposals and still find time to network on social media. This is my 17th year of freelancing. Last year, I… Continue reading Managing Your Freelance To-Do List While Keeping Some Shred of Sanity
22 Must Reads For Web and Graphic Designers
Stay updated with the latest design news, read some personal development books, learn how to grow your business and how to design better! This is what this roundup will offer you! We selected 22 must reads for web and graphic designers. These are some really useful articles we found on the web. These are both… Continue reading 22 Must Reads For Web and Graphic Designers
Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop. This is a fun and simple tutorial, aim to get you familiar with the Shape Tool in Photoshop. Have an attempt! This is an intermediate degree difficulty guide plus some actions can be tricky. Note: The Photoshop guide is… Continue reading Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop
Fullscreen Scrolling Tiles with pagePiling.js
Parallax and page scrolling plugins are rather popular among the open source community. A new one to add into the mix is pagePiling.js. This completely free open source plugin runs on top of jQuery for a unique “slide” design. Each section of the page slides out of the way while scrolling. It’s not exactly parallax,… Continue reading Fullscreen Scrolling Tiles with pagePiling.js
How to Overcome your Creative Block
Creative blocks, while unnerving, are normal and regrettably an element of the creative process. It’s not something to be feared – rather, something that affords you the opportunity to rethink your concept and the direction you’re pursuing. “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things a way that is different”–… Continue reading How to Overcome your Creative Block
12 Corporate & Creative Business Card Mockups
ADVERTISEMENT In this round up, we have for you 12 excellent corporate and creative business card mockups that you can use for your next client meeting or design project. These mockups are not only covering corporate professional designs but also include profession specific business card designs as well. We hope that you will like this… Continue reading 12 Corporate & Creative Business Card Mockups
15 New HTML5 Web Templates (PSD & HTML)
Modern HTML5 website templates are completely responsive coded with HTML5, CSS3 and Bootstrap by the professional team with significant experience in web development. Responsive HTML5 templates are perfect for landing pages with multi-pages and onepage options. All web templates are easy to customize and hundreds of icons can be added dynamically and also by utilizing shortcodes. These website templates are suits for… Continue reading 15 New HTML5 Web Templates (PSD & HTML)
Freebie of the Week: Rhobo – Creative Coming Soon Template (Under Construction)
Rhobo is a responsive HTML5 coming soon template. Rhobo was built with latest Bootstrap framework so this template will look great on any devices. Rhobo comes with 5 homepage background variants and it will provide you a nice page transition between each section. Check out the other features below. Main Features Fresh and Clean Design… Continue reading Freebie of the Week: Rhobo – Creative Coming Soon Template (Under Construction)
Profi – Multipurpose Corporate HTML Template – 14123685
Profi is a multipurpose corporate HTML template. It will perfectly suit the needs of any modern agency, small and medium business, corporate or personal portfolio. Will fit great on all type of devices: desktop, tablet, mobile phone… Template features Clean, Modern Design 4 types of landing page with blog and product page Callback popup Free… Continue reading Profi – Multipurpose Corporate HTML Template – 14123685
The Benefits of WP Engine Developer Tools
What You’ll Be Creating If you’re like me, you’ve been a passionate self-hosted WordPress developer for a long time. But there’s one managed host that’s consistently stepping forward to provide solutions to common publishing challenges: WP Engine. WP Engine isn’t your typical bare-bones managed hosting provider for WordPress. Instead they are developer-oriented and work hard… Continue reading The Benefits of WP Engine Developer Tools
The Languages And Frameworks You Should Learn In 2016
The Languages And Frameworks You Should Learn In 2016 A lot happened in the software development world in 2015. There were new releases of popular programming languages, new versions of important frameworks and new tools. You will find a short list of the new releases that we think are the most important below, together with… Continue reading The Languages And Frameworks You Should Learn In 2016
50 Free & Tremendous Cool Assets For Designers: January 2016
50 Freebies is a monthly collection of the latest handy and free digital goods perfect for the creative individual. The design freebies usually focus on mockups, templates, icons, free fonts and anything else we come across and think you maybe interested in. 50 Hand-Made Ornaments Financial Icons Rise Font Free Minimal & Clean Resume Template… Continue reading 50 Free & Tremendous Cool Assets For Designers: January 2016
WP REST API: Setting Up and Using OAuth 1.0a Authentication
In the previous part of the series, we set up basic HTTP authentication on the server by installing the plugin available on GitHub by the WP REST API team. The basic authentication method allows us to send authenticated requests by sending login credentials in the request header. While being quick and handy, there’s also a… Continue reading WP REST API: Setting Up and Using OAuth 1.0a Authentication
1100+ Free UI Icons for Web, iOS and Android UX Design
Beautiful UI/UX design pixel perfect free icons. You will find 12 different vector outline and solid <icon sets with 1100+ icons from various groups can be purchased in AI, EPS, PSD, SVG, Webfont and transparency PNG formats and free to install. All icons are highest-quality design, to help you effortlessly replace the relative line depth without loosing quality. These sets… Continue reading 1100+ Free UI Icons for Web, iOS and Android UX Design
Quick Tip: Don’t Forget the “noscript” Element
JavaScript is a powerful language which brings websites to life with interactivity, until that dreaded moment when JavaScript is disabled in the browser, out of the blue. In this quick tip we’ll look at providing fallbacks with the <noscript> element. No JavaScript Users might disable JavaScript for a number of reasons. They might be doing so to… Continue reading Quick Tip: Don’t Forget the “noscript” Element
Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Character Walking
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I will be taking you through the steps of how to animate a character walking in place. Basically you will be creating a walk that loops infinitely, so if you were to incorporate a walk like this into a movie, perhaps the background would be scrolling from right… Continue reading Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Character Walking
50+ fresh resources for designers, January 2016
Howdy friends! We’re back again with another roundup of some of the best freebies available for designers and developers. To help you through the post-Christmas blues and kick off 2016 in style we’ve packed this edition with flat, solid, and line icons; brushes and patterns for Photoshop; templates; UI kits; WordPress themes; fonts; snippets; dev tools; design… Continue reading 50+ fresh resources for designers, January 2016
Some Of The Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a fantasy fiery portrait of a woman. You’ll learn how to use textures, add fire and create lighting effect. Advanced compositing techniques This photomontage by Serbian illustrator Becha was created for an haute couture fashion editorial called Silent Spring that appeared in her home country’s Faar… Continue reading Some Of The Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials
Designing an iOS App in Sketch
In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) we’ll be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Before we start the tutorial, there’s a few things you’ll need: Once you have the items installed, let’s go ahead and create some awesome… Welcome Screen Let’s… Continue reading Designing an iOS App in Sketch
100+ Logo PSD & Vector Mockup Templates
Elegant Logo Mockup Pack This fantastic logo mockup pack includes 6 different styles for your logo, 3 different front view backgrounds, 2 different perspective view backgrounds, and is fully layered for use in Photoshop. Mix Branding Logo Mockups A beautiful assortment of 14 branding logo mockups, handpicked from multiple logo mockup categories. This bundle gives… Continue reading 100+ Logo PSD & Vector Mockup Templates