Tag: basics

Who Do Web Designers Really Work For?

It would be way too easy to answer this question with: “Whoever pays your bills.” And, honestly, I don’t think you can be a very successful web designer if you’re only driven by what the person paying you tells you to do. Then again, that doesn’t mean you should swing to the exact opposite end… Continue reading Who Do Web Designers Really Work For?

20+ Affinity Publisher Tutorials (Including Free Affinity Publisher Templates!)

Affinity Professional Creative Software is the latest challenger to Adobe’s decades-long dominance. With Affinity Publisher offering similar interface and functions to Adobe InDesign, it provides an excellent alternative for those who prefer to pay for a single app download rather than be tied to a subscription plan.  If you are interested in mastering Affinity Publisher, here are over… Continue reading 20+ Affinity Publisher Tutorials (Including Free Affinity Publisher Templates!)

How to Choose the Best Font for your Website

5 Shares Designing websites is a very intense process that entails lots of hard works. There are various things that you need to think about, such as the logo, color scheme, layout, text designs, and navigation. But the trickiest of designing a website perhaps lies in getting all the elements together to come up with… Continue reading How to Choose the Best Font for your Website

PHP Namespace Tutorial: The Basics

In this tutorial, I’ll go through the basics of namespaces in PHP. I’ll explain why you might need namespaces, and I’ll show you how to use PHP namespaces in your day-to-day development. More often than not, you will end up using third-party libraries from different vendors in your PHP applications. Now, there could be collisions… Continue reading PHP Namespace Tutorial: The Basics

Why UX Personas Matter in Web Design (+2 Persona Examples)

What’s the one thing that designers, coders, and writers all seek in unison? Besides an easy to work with clients, of course.  It’s clarity.  When achieved, it makes quick work of even the most daunting task. If absent, even a mind-numbingly menial job can break a seasoned professional down to tears.  It’s always a lack… Continue reading Why UX Personas Matter in Web Design (+2 Persona Examples)

What Are the Best Online Web Design Certificate Programs?

August 5, 2020 by Clarence Web design is a continuous learning process. As our technology develops day by day, the number of new things we need to learn to be well-versed in web design increases as well. Good thing there are already online classes that teach web design. Whether you’re a beginner or a professional,… Continue reading What Are the Best Online Web Design Certificate Programs?

9 Beginner Photoshop Tutorials

Digital skills are very important nowadays. As the internet and technology govern more aspects of our daily lives, learning a few digital skills could be helpful in the long run. Beginner Photoshop tutorials are everywhere and are available on almost any platform. Is Photoshop hard to learn? The answer could be both a yes and… Continue reading 9 Beginner Photoshop Tutorials

How to Install PHP in Ubuntu

Today, I’m going to show you how to install PHP in the Ubuntu OS. First, I’ll show you how to install the default stable version of PHP, and then I’ll show you how you can install other versions of PHP. PHP is a server-side scripting language which is mostly used to build web applications—these may… Continue reading How to Install PHP in Ubuntu

What Is Composer for PHP and How to Install It

Today, we’re going to discuss one of the most important tools in PHP: the dependency manager Composer. In this article, we’ll look at the ins and outs of Composer and how to install it and use it in your day-to-day PHP development.  If you’ve been coding in PHP for some time, you’ll be aware of how PHP libraries… Continue reading What Is Composer for PHP and How to Install It

How to Redirect With PHP

Redirection allows you to redirect the client browser to a different URL. You can use it when you’re switching domains, changing how your site is structured, or switching to HTTPS. In this article, I’ll show you how to redirect to another page with PHP. I’ll explain exactly how PHP redirects work and show you what… Continue reading How to Redirect With PHP

What Does PHP Stand For?

In this quick post, we’re going to discuss what PHP stands for and what you can build with it. If you are new to PHP, this article should help you to understand the basics. What Is PHP? PHP is an open-source, server-side scripting language which is mostly used to build web-based applications. You could use… Continue reading What Does PHP Stand For?

22 High Quality Illustrator Brushes

High quality, Adobe Illustrator Brushes, super detailed and realistic brushes for Illustrator. This list contains twenty two sets of brushes with tons of different style of illustrator brushes. These brushes are professionally designed Hand Drawn, Watercolor Brushes for Adobe Illustrator. All brushes were hand-made. The brushes are great to use for simple black and white sketch or… Continue reading 22 High Quality Illustrator Brushes

Get to Know the WordPress Admin Dashboard

The very first thing you’ll see when you open the WordPress back-end—also known as “the admin panel”—is the dashboard. This is the starting place for the majority of tasks you’ll be performing in WordPress. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the dashboard, and also how to customize it to fit your preferences and… Continue reading Get to Know the WordPress Admin Dashboard

Start With These Courses and Tutorials

Ever since the catchphrase “There’s an app for that” played on a television commercial, there’s been a strong and growing interest in creating mobile apps, especially for Apple and iOS devices. Mobile apps are used by hundreds of millions of users per day, with more than 100 million iPhone users estimated to exist in the… Continue reading Start With These Courses and Tutorials

How to Recover SEO Ranking and Traffic After Website Restructure?

So, you’ve completed a major overhaul of your website and are now finally satisfied with the way it looks? Great! However, introducing new pages, making significant changes and all that kind of stuff can have a significant impact on your SEO ranking. And not in a good way, unfortunately. You can expect your ranking and… Continue reading How to Recover SEO Ranking and Traffic After Website Restructure?

23+ Best HTML Resume Templates to Make Personal Profile CV Websites (2019)

A personal website is one of the greatest assets you can have in 2019.  A personal resume website puts you in complete control over your name and your personal brand. It also increases your visibility and makes it easier for employers, or even clients, to find you online. Example of professional resume (CV) website design… Continue reading 23+ Best HTML Resume Templates to Make Personal Profile CV Websites (2019)

7 CSS Units You Might Not Know About

Learn CSS: The Complete Guide We’ve built a complete guide to help you learn CSS, whether you’re just getting started with the basics or you want to explore more advanced CSS. New CSS Techniques It’s easy to get stuck working with the CSS techniques we know well, but doing so puts us at a disadvantage… Continue reading 7 CSS Units You Might Not Know About

Photoshop Tutorials: 30 New Tutorials to Learn Amazing Manipulation Tricks

Latest Adobe Photoshop tutorials, video tutorials and amazing photo manipulation tutorials for beginners to expert Photoshop designers. There are 30 Fresh tutorials to learn tips and tricks on how to create Photoshop Actions, how to convert boring photos into dashing portraits, photo editing and much more. As we know Adobe Photoshop is the one of… Continue reading Photoshop Tutorials: 30 New Tutorials to Learn Amazing Manipulation Tricks

Show Course Schedules and Timetables With a WordPress Calendar Plugin

Websites often need to let users know about any upcoming events like movie shows, exhibitions and classes. Listing the schedule for upcoming events helps everyone save time and plan their activities. With a good event listing calendar, your users will be able to see upcoming events along with their timing, location, availability and pricing at… Continue reading Show Course Schedules and Timetables With a WordPress Calendar Plugin

Start With These Courses and Tutorials

For those looking to build hybrid mobile apps, Ionic is one of the first frameworks that you’ll run into. There’s good reason that it has gained significant usage among developers looking to create apps for several mobile devices from a single code base. Ionic has a number of features that go beyond other offerings though,… Continue reading Start With These Courses and Tutorials

How to Create a Mailchimp Subscribe Form Widget for WordPress

In this tutorial I’ll explain how to create a “Mailchimp subscribe form widget” using WordPress, the Mailchimp API, and AJAX. It will be aimed at competent beginner developers, and requires some understanding of PHP and WordPress development. There’s a lot to do, so let’s get stuck in! A Quick Note on APIs “The web has… Continue reading How to Create a Mailchimp Subscribe Form Widget for WordPress

10 Best Mobile Apps for Learning to Code

What’s even better is that you don’t have to spend years mastering programming either. Thanks to numerous coding apps available for both Android and iOS devices, you can easily level up your coding skills even when you’re on the go. In this post, we’ve rounded up the best coding apps that will help you learn… Continue reading 10 Best Mobile Apps for Learning to Code