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Component Inheritance in Angular 2

Angular 2.3 is released! One of the exciting new feature is component inheritance. Component inheritance is very powerful and it can increase your code reusability. What does component inheritance provide us? Component Inheritance Component Inheritance in Angular 2.3 covers all of the following: Metadata (decorators): metadata (e.g. @Input(), @Output), etc. defined in a derived class… Continue reading Component Inheritance in Angular 2

Knox Regular: A font inspired by american western culture

Today’s freebie is Knox Regular, a free weight from Knox font family designed and released by Mcraft. It is inspired by american western culture and tattoos and it’s ideal for vintage-themed designs. That makes Knox suitable for any project that requires an old western feel as the core design elements and for logo and graphic design. Download font

5 Ways Freelancers Can Increase Productivity with Pre-Built Websites

Posted · Category: Best Collections As a freelance web designer, you no doubt enjoy working to your own schedules. And not having to commute to work, or a boss that likes micromanaging are also good perks. You work hard to improve your skills, and to keep up with the latest trends. As a result, you have little difficulty… Continue reading 5 Ways Freelancers Can Increase Productivity with Pre-Built Websites

Stressful Holiday? This Tool Will Make Next Year Easier

Posted · Category: Tools There’s no doubt that the Q4 holiday shopping season is the busiest time of year for online store owners and ecommerce businesses. If your freelance business or agency works with these online merchants, the last few weeks have almost certainly been hectic and stressful. Performing last minute site updates, troubleshooting broken… Continue reading Stressful Holiday? This Tool Will Make Next Year Easier

Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers

If you’re a long-time freelance web designer, you may be experiencing a rather common problem. As freelance web designers gain experience, they naturally become more proficient. This generally leads to attracting more clients, and results in taking on more work. Freelancers have obvious benefits. Like not having to work to someone else’ schedule, not having a… Continue reading Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers

Settle Design Debates With Data

Posted · Category: Tools Zarget, a full-service CRO tool, helps marketers drive email subscribers, guide users through the funnel, and get to know their website visitors. Using hard data can help you make vital decision about your website. The point of every website is to bring in conversions, and the point of conversion optimization is… Continue reading Settle Design Debates With Data

Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource

Dropsource is a brand new mobile application development platform that was built with the developer’s needs in mind. What does this mean exactly? It means that its sole purpose is to make a developer’s job easier and to make building a data-driven native mobile app as simple as drag and drop. Dropsource comes equipped with… Continue reading Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource

10 Totally Free WordPress Backup Solutions

Backing up your precious data is a common best practice these days. But, what about your WordPress powered website? Yes, most web hosting companies do perform regular system backups. But beware – not every host is reliable when it comes to backups. And you certainly don’t want to wait until disaster strikes to find out… Continue reading 10 Totally Free WordPress Backup Solutions

Datedropper 3.0: A powerful jQuery UI datepicker

Thought we have already talked about datedropper JQuery plugin in a previous post, we can’t help but to do it again since version 3.0 has just been launched. The new version have been completely redesigned as well as it introduces new amazing features (e.g. translate and large modes) for creating beautiful date picker calendars. That’s definitely one of the… Continue reading Datedropper 3.0: A powerful jQuery UI datepicker

The Big Interview: Kevin Ball and Rafi Benkual talk all things ZURB

This month we got the opportunity to interview Kevin Ball and Rafi Benkual from ZURB. We got to talk about the future of the web, the state of web design today, and of course, about Foundation. WebdesignerDepot: Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I am Ezequiel Bruni for Web Designer Depot, and today we are talking to… Continue reading The Big Interview: Kevin Ball and Rafi Benkual talk all things ZURB

Capture User Actions with FullStory

Have you ever wanted to know exactly what a user did while on your website? Have you ever thought about the sheer importance of that data? It may just change the way you think about web design. Using FullStory, you’ll get all the user action data you’ve ever wanted. No more guessing at where to… Continue reading Capture User Actions with FullStory

Popular design news of the week: November 28, 2016 – December 4, 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: November 28, 2016 – December 4, 2016

The ultimate guide to CMS, part 2

On Tuesday we presented the Ultimate Guide to CMS, Part 1; today, we’re going to complete the picture… Choosing a CMS OK, so you’ve got an idea of how many different kinds of CMS there are out there. Now you want to pick one. Or perhaps you’re building a client-facing site, and a internal wiki,… Continue reading The ultimate guide to CMS, part 2

How to Completely Remove Comments from WordPress

WordPress comments are an integral part of building a community with a WordPress blog. They allow your audience to connect with you by responding directly to your posts. They allow you to extend the conversation surrounding the topic you wrote your post about by letting members of your community pitch in. They even allow members… Continue reading How to Completely Remove Comments from WordPress

Google Data Studio: a Nifty, Free, Easy-to-use Data Vis Tool

As a digital marketer, you can often be overwhelmed with the amount of information and data needed to be analyzed in order to evaluate your efforts. Traffic, conversion rate, user location, behavior and acquisitions — just to name a few — all have to be examined to define the progress of your digital marketing campaign.… Continue reading Google Data Studio: a Nifty, Free, Easy-to-use Data Vis Tool

How to use breadcrumbs (the right way)

Bread crumbs…they bring up associations with the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves bread crumbs to help him find his way home again. Although the association with bread crumbs is perhaps still stronger in the realm of Grimm stories, that’s gradually changing as breadcrumbs in navigation help web designers create a better… Continue reading How to use breadcrumbs (the right way)

Cloudinary Enhances Media Delivery with Multi-CDN Offering

Posted · Category: Information Cloudinary is well known for solving the challenges you face when managing images and videos. With its newest enhancement, the company is also eliminating the complexities of media delivery by enabling the use of multiple content delivery networks (CDNs) to ensure end users quickly and reliably receive content. Today, images account… Continue reading Cloudinary Enhances Media Delivery with Multi-CDN Offering

The ultimate guide to CMS, part 1

Gather ’round friends, and I’ll tell you a story that is pure fabrication on my part, and also probably how it happened: Once upon a time, around 1995 (as far as I can figure out from searching around the web), some poor guy who worked as the “webmaster” for some large company was putting nearly… Continue reading The ultimate guide to CMS, part 1

Httpster – A Curated Showcase of Really Hot Web Designs

Posted · Category: Inspiration Httpster is a showcase of damn fine website design, lovingly curated and categorised so we can perv on it at our whim. They love good typography, and effective, unpretentious design; in short, simple ideas executed perfectly. While they aim to showcase excellent development as well, they apologise in advance for including… Continue reading Httpster – A Curated Showcase of Really Hot Web Designs

Essential design trends, December 2016

Do you ever find yourself noticing that a certain design element just keeps popping up? Even those tiny details that look somewhat insignificant can be indicators of design trends. That is particularly true with the elements in this month’s roundup. Each of these trends—white edges framing a web design, cinemagraphs and tiny loading animations—are seemingly… Continue reading Essential design trends, December 2016

Popular design news of the week: November 21, 2016 – November 27, 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: November 21, 2016 – November 27, 2016