What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a realistic embroidery text effect in Photoshop using stitch brushes and layer styles. The end result will be a font that look like it’s embroidery! This is part of my embroidery effect Photoshop action, which is part of Embroidery and Stitching Photoshop… Continue reading How to Create a Realistic Embroidery Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
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How to Make Your WordPress Theme or Plugin Multilingual-Ready
Multilingual compatibility is a core requirement for any premium WordPress theme nowadays. There are many plugins that offer multilingual tools, but arguably the most popular are WPML and Polylang. Let’s look into them! Meet the Players WPML is a premium-only plugin that makes it easy to build and run multilingual sites. It’s powerful enough for… Continue reading How to Make Your WordPress Theme or Plugin Multilingual-Ready
14 Firefox Developer Tools You Might Not Know About
In this roundup we’re going to be checking out some of the awesome tools Firefox has in its collection of Developer Tools. Even if Google Chrome is your primary development browser, Firefox has some tools that Chrome doesn’t. In fairness the reverse is also true–Chrome has some tools that Firefox doesn’t, but the tools in… Continue reading 14 Firefox Developer Tools You Might Not Know About
A Solopreneur Checklist for Promoting a New Website
If you’re reading this, chances are you launched a brand new website a couple of weeks or even months ago. During the initial setup phase, everything felt easy. You could register and host your domain on the same platform, build a professional-looking website without code — everything seemed like they’re going your way. You may… Continue reading A Solopreneur Checklist for Promoting a New Website
The Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript
In this post, I’ll compare linear search and binary search algorithms. You’ll learn pseudocode for linear and binary algorithms, see examples to demonstrate both the methods, learn about time complexity, and get a step-by-step guide on how to implement the algorithms. Introduction As a programmer, you want to find the best solution to a problem… Continue reading The Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript
Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma
UX and UI Kits help designers in all kinds of ways, and at different stages in the design process. In this roundup I’ll show you some of the best-selling UX and UI kits available from Envato, to get you started wireframing, prototyping, and designing your next website or app. What Are UX and UI Kits?… Continue reading Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma
Monstroid Revamped: New Features and Possibilities
Web designers, coders, and entrepreneurs, we have exciting news for you! The multipurpose Monstroid template got revamped and updated! Our loyal customers know that this theme had been our flagman for a long time (before Monstroid2 came out). You may be wondering: Why would anyone remake Monstroid if there is a bestselling successor – Monstroid2?… Continue reading Monstroid Revamped: New Features and Possibilities
Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks
The best banner ads capture our attention and are irresistible to click. What goes into these effective ads? Discover ten tips to creating the best banner ads. Are you struggling to come up with creative and engaging banner ads for your business? Having people interact and be interested in your ads is difficult if you… Continue reading Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks
Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks
The best banner ads capture our attention and are irresistible to click. What goes into these effective ads? Discover ten tips to creating the best banner ads. Are you struggling to come up with creative and engaging banner ads for your business? Having people interact and be interested in your ads is difficult if you… Continue reading Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks
How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at drawing multiple hairstyles that tend to be popular choices for natural, afro textured hair: afros, locs, braids, and twists. While these styles could potentially be worn by people with other hair types, we will primarily focus on Type 4 hair. We’ll take a stylistic approach… Continue reading How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)
A Collection Of 10 Well-Designed Wedding Websites
Okay — you have clients, and they need websites for their weddings — like, asap! How do you choose the best wedding website builder, though? Superb query. Well for starters: You want to use a wedding website building platform that saves you time, saves them money, cuts out uncalled for stress and effort, helps you… Continue reading A Collection Of 10 Well-Designed Wedding Websites
4 Must-Have Features for Your Agency’s Web Development Platform
The ultimate end game of every manager in today’s ever-so-competitive agency space is the ability to swiftly scale. Whether it’s your client base, revenue or resources, ensuring everything advances quickly and effectively, without sacrificing quality, is a must-do. Unfortunately, scaling remains one of the biggest challenges of digital agencies today. How so? Consider how agencies… Continue reading 4 Must-Have Features for Your Agency’s Web Development Platform
How to be a Product Designer.
My new and improved portfolio. whoistaneisha.com I might be a Product Designer now, but I didn’t always know that’s what I would be when I started my career. Let me start at the beginning of my journey. I went to college for Fine Arts and had found my way to where I am through a… Continue reading How to be a Product Designer.
Let Your Audience Design Your Website: Why Online Casinos are Built on Logic Not Luck
Taking an activity that primarily existed in the physical world for decades and making it something internet users will enjoy is never easy. Indeed, when you look at the mixed response to online books, you’ll see just how tough it can be to convert people. According to Forbes’ review of Amazon’s Kindle sales in 2013,… Continue reading Let Your Audience Design Your Website: Why Online Casinos are Built on Logic Not Luck
How to Optimize the Design and Location of the Search Bar
The search bar is one of the most useful features on your website. It can help visitors find exactly what they’re looking for with just a few key presses. On a typical ecommerce website, search users convert at a rate 3.5x higher than those that don’t interact with search, so it makes sense to use… Continue reading How to Optimize the Design and Location of the Search Bar
The Anatomy of Flat CMS
With the advances in technology, users and search engines alike are demanding better and faster websites. Even Google is obsessed with speed on the web. Because of that, online services are also eager to improve their performances. And that’s where Flat-file CMS comes into the scene. When building a website, it can be confusing what solutions… Continue reading The Anatomy of Flat CMS
Online Website Builder and Online Database All In One Place
Online website builders have been around for over a decade, and used to bring relief to small businesses that couldn’t afford to pay a developer to bring their business online. But it seems that is no longer the case; what was once a sufficient solution to keeping costs low and productivity high is now just… Continue reading Online Website Builder and Online Database All In One Place
Which Metric Should You Use to Measure Customer Satisfaction?
The “Net Promoter Score” and the “Customer Effort Score” are two ways of measuring customer satisfaction. Let’s look at the similarities and differences. In UX design, metrics are used to measure how something is performing, and the “Net Promoter Score” (NPS) is recognised as being the gold standard of measuring satisfaction. Satisfaction may be a fairly… Continue reading Which Metric Should You Use to Measure Customer Satisfaction?
UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career
Advancing technology and the digital revolution are rapidly changing the career landscape for designers. Where web design once reigned as the career of choice for digitally-minded visual designers, that job has recently been dethroned by a new supreme leader of the design realm: UX designer. As more people do business digitally – not just on computers,… Continue reading UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career
How to Draw Trees
What You’ll Be Creating Trees seem like one of the few things that are easy to draw. However, if you know nothing about drawing, you may either go too simple… … or too literal: Neither of these is what a real tree looks like. The first is a symbol of a tree, and the other… Continue reading How to Draw Trees
Weekly Inspiration: Full-on Full Screen Home Pages
The full screen splash is one of the most familiar patterns on the web at the moment. Some love it, some loath it, but whatever your feelings let’s take a look at some noteworthy examples and talk about best practices while we’re at it. A Note on Design Convergence The term “design convergence” refers to… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Full-on Full Screen Home Pages
Deploying from GitHub to a Server
GitHub, and the Git version control system it’s based on, are fantastic tools for managing and collaborating on projects – code-based or otherwise. In this article, we’ll look at options for making Git and GitHub projects fit better into developer workflows, allowing for a smooth and hands-off deployment process. I’ll break these options into the… Continue reading Deploying from GitHub to a Server
WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination
In this part of the series on Mastering WP_Query, you’ll learn about some of the arguments you can use with the WP_Query class, namely those for status, order, and pagination. You can use these arguments to fetch scheduled posts from the database, to query attachments, to amend the way posts are ordered and what they’re… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination