Image source: thestorefront.com[2] Well-executed and beautiful icons look like tiny and cute images, but they are much more than that. They are extremely advantageous to every website because they attach visual cues to the essential elements of a website (headings, sections, buttons, etc) and they make the site/app look professional and sophisticated. Generally speaking, icons… Continue reading Icons In Web Design
New Course: Surreal Digital Painting
What You’ll Be Creating What story would you like to tell the world? Surrealism is a style that allows you to express your feelings and thoughts on the world through your art. In our new course, Surreal Digital Painting, you’ll learn how to create a symbolic painting inspired by real-life events. What You’ll Learn First… Continue reading New Course: Surreal Digital Painting
10 fresh examples of diffuse shadow UIs
It seems like some of web design trends aren’t going anywhere soon. We’ve seen Material Design initiation and evolution, advanced animations and microinteractions, vibrant color schemes, beautiful typography, great use of minimalism, new responsive design technique and tools and much more interesting stuff. We also noticed a new trend that is making its way through… Continue reading 10 fresh examples of diffuse shadow UIs
Animated GIFs of the week
Time flies by ARM Sattavorn Merry (late) Xmas and a Happy New Year by Andreas Running Dumbbell by EJ Hassenfratz Happy New Year 2016 by Pumika Hello Dribbble! Here’s a BB-8. by Justin Au POLLOS! by Aarón Martínez Bumpy Ride by Linn Fritz T70 X-Wing by Jérémy Paul $_$ by Joel Plosz Kylo Ren : dark woods by Dimz Another year has passed by Emanuele… Continue reading Animated GIFs of the week
How To Create And Customize A WordPress Child Theme
The WordPress platform is a magnet for those who want to take matters into their own hands, who want complete control over their websites and want to be independent in running them. WordPress does make it really easily to completely customize a website. If you have a bit of knowledge of HTMl, CSS and/or PHP,… Continue reading How To Create And Customize A WordPress Child Theme
How to Create an Elastic SVG Progress Loading Bar
Codrops has published a tutorial of how to create an elastic SVG progress loader based on the Dribbble shot “Download” by xjw and implemented with SVG and TweenMax. The button starts as an icon with an arrow and once it’s clicked, it animates into a fun little wire and a label that indicates the download… Continue reading How to Create an Elastic SVG Progress Loading Bar
A Rundown of Bourbon Neat Variables
In this last section about Bourbon Neat we’ll look at the various “built-in” Sass variables it gives us. This will be a short ride, but knowing how to tweak your grids is important. Variables We’ll be covering the following: default-layout-direction visual-grid-opacity border-box-sizing visual-grid-index disable-warnings visual-grid-color default-feature grid-columns max-width visual-grid column gutter Before we start, I… Continue reading A Rundown of Bourbon Neat Variables
Enfold – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – 4519990
Enfold is a clean, super flexible and fully responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for business websites, shop websites, and users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous Avia Framework and offers support for the WPML MULTI LANGUAGE plugin, just… Continue reading Enfold – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – 4519990
14 Best Resources For Learning CSS3
Are you looking for some detailed and useful CSS3 tutorials and techniques that you use to create better results? If your answer is yes then you are at right place. In this compilation, we are presenting top 14 useful and detailed CSS3 tutorials and techniques for you. All these tutorials and techniques are designed by… Continue reading 14 Best Resources For Learning CSS3
Understanding JavaScript Comparison Operators: Equality
The primary difference between arithmetic and comparison operators is that comparison operators don’t change values; instead, they compare them, producing a true or false evaluation. As such, they are frequently used in branching decisions, such as if conditions. In comparisons, equality operators compare two operands, checking if they are equal or not. The greatest source… Continue reading Understanding JavaScript Comparison Operators: Equality
Generating SVG With React
React1 is one of today’s most popular ways to create a component-based UI. It helps to organize an application into small, human-digestible chunks. With its “re-render the whole world” approach, you can avoid any complex internal interactions between small components, while your application continues to be blazingly fast due to the DOM-diffing that React does… Continue reading Generating SVG With React
How To Design An App Walkthrough
Image source: Dan Machado[2] There are so many walkthroughs-misuse situations, that it is questionable whether designers really understand their purpose. There are many complex apps which don’t have walkthroughs, the same as simple ones which don’t need them, but they still incorporated them in their design. This makes the decision on whether to use walkthroughs… Continue reading How To Design An App Walkthrough
Pointy Slider In CSS and jQuery (tutorial)
Pointy Slider is a slideshow with sliding-in panels that unveil new, fixed background images.Pointy Slider is simple, responsive slider, with a sharp design and an interesting motion effect: with each new slide item, a sliding-in block of content covers the old one, and unveils a new image. It ‘s been created by Codyhouse using CSS… Continue reading Pointy Slider In CSS and jQuery (tutorial)
Responsive Images Now Landed In WordPress Core
While the growing adoption of responsive images cannot be ignored, it can be very difficult to employ the functionality under the constraints of a large CMS like WordPress. Although it is entirely possible to write the feature into your theme on your own, doing so is a challenging and time-consuming endeavour.Thankfully, with the launch of… Continue reading Responsive Images Now Landed In WordPress Core
Code Clinic JavaScript
Successful programmers know more than a computer language. They also know how to thinkabout solving problems. They use “computational thinking”: breaking a problem down into segments that lend themselves to technical solutions. Code Clinic is a series of ten courses where lynda.com authors solve the same problems using different programming languages. Here, Ray Villalobos works… Continue reading Code Clinic JavaScript
20+ Free WordPress Themes to Start the Year With (January 2016)
Let me welcome you to the first issue of our monthly themes roundup for 2016 – the January edition. I hope you’ve had an excellent special season and switched years comfortably. Now is the time to start anew. What have you promised yourself to change this year? If the design of your WordPress website is… Continue reading 20+ Free WordPress Themes to Start the Year With (January 2016)
11 Examples Of Websites Designed With HTML5
Looking for some inspiration on HTML5 designed websites? Here we have come up with 11 great examples of websites designed with HTML5. There is so much that designers can do with HTML5 as it has the potential to take web design to a whole new level of creativity. In this post, we have collected some… Continue reading 11 Examples Of Websites Designed With HTML5
NodeJS Framework – An Easy Way To Develop High Performance Apps
We are well conscious of the fact that applications development has been successful in creating a buzz all over the world. Therefore, with this advancement, different frameworks are deployed in order to develop highly scalable and real time applications and that too, in a simpler way. The augmenting popularity of Javascript has led to the… Continue reading NodeJS Framework – An Easy Way To Develop High Performance Apps
International Artist Feature: Germany
For this article in the international artist series we turn to Germany, featuring seven illustrators and designers who create fantastic work from digital paintings to textile design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Cloudy Thurstag Cloudy is an illustrator and designer… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Germany
An Introduction to Intel RealSense Technology for Game Developers
Intel RealSense technology pairs a 3D camera and microphone array with an SDK that allows you to implement gesture tracking, 3D scanning, facial expression analysis, voice recognition, and more. In this article, I’ll look at what this means for games, and explain how you can get started using it as a game developer. What is… Continue reading An Introduction to Intel RealSense Technology for Game Developers
Methodologies For Effective Mobile App Usability
The volatile growth in the sales of mobile devices and their usage signifies that only a desktop-optimized website is not enough to stay ahead of the curve. Today, almost everyone owns an Internet-enabled mobile device, and thus, they expect to have apps and websites specifically designed for their devices. Certainly, to ensure a successful product… Continue reading Methodologies For Effective Mobile App Usability
Tips about how to Design the Great Logo
The fundamental shapes of universe’s geometry derive from the knowledge of ancient civilizations. These fundamental forms and functions have constantly helped us to divide time and space and have now motivated every known science (technology, languages, math, physics, civil evolvement, etc.). Art and culture have actually mostly benefited from shapes such as for example circles;… Continue reading Tips about how to Design the Great Logo
Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists
What You’ll Be Creating WooCommerce gives you a few options as to what you can display on your archive pages: products categories (on the main shop page) or subcategories (on category pages) both products and categories. When I’m setting up a store, I normally select the third option: products and categories/subcategories. This means visitors to… Continue reading Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists
Designing Websites With Big Hero Images – Best Practices
One of the most important trends nowadays in web design are website hero images, which are generally defined as being a type of large banner that is typically located at the top of a website. Oftentimes, these images are the very first things that people see when they log on to a website. This, in… Continue reading Designing Websites With Big Hero Images – Best Practices