The correct font for your project depends on its use. Consider what your website is for, and what the user will do when they arrive. Do you have long stretches of text, or just smaller headlines and descriptive language? Chose the best font based on how the website works, not what you like the look… Continue reading How To Select the Best Font For Any Project or Website
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How to Create Beautiful Custom YouTube Thumbnails without Photoshop
Are you a budding YouTube content creator? A new designer without much experience with YouTube? If you’re looking to increase your views and grab a user’s attention, you might need to think about your video thumbnails. YouTube video thumbnails serve as sort of a book cover for videos. If a thumbnail appears to be high-quality,… Continue reading How to Create Beautiful Custom YouTube Thumbnails without Photoshop
How to Use Animation in Angular 6
In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the importance of animations in improving the user experience. I’ll show you how to incorporate animations in Angular 6 applications with the help of animation components and Bootstrap. The Role of Animations in User Design Most web users are visual creatures and therefore respond to visual objects. This means… Continue reading How to Use Animation in Angular 6
Try a New Course on JavaScript Functions
Functions are one of the most important constructs in JavaScript. Without understanding functions, you’ll never master the JavaScript language. Luckily, our new course will set you straight: JavaScript Practice JavaScript and Learn: Functions Jeremy McPeak What You’ll Learn Despite their importance, there’s a lot of confusion around JavaScript functions—especially since JavaScript ES5 (ECMAScript 2015), with… Continue reading Try a New Course on JavaScript Functions
Create Style Variations for WordPress Gutenberg Blocks: Part 1
Now is an exciting time for WordPress developers with the official release of version 5.0 just around the corner. This will mark the debut of the brand new editor, code-named Gutenberg. If you have anything to do with WordPress on a regular basis, whether as a developer or as a user, then you’ll probably understand… Continue reading Create Style Variations for WordPress Gutenberg Blocks: Part 1
Target CSS for Specific Content With WordPress Template Tags
What You’ll Be Creating Learning WordPress development isn’t just about learning to code PHP. You’ll also need some HTML and CSS skills if the sites, themes and/or plugins you create are going to work well. In this tutorial, I’ll show you an incredibly useful feature of WordPress that mixes PHP with some simple CSS. It’s… Continue reading Target CSS for Specific Content With WordPress Template Tags
10 WordPress Tips and Tricks to Steal from the Pros
WordPress is one of the most popular website platforms in the world, powering around 30 percent of the Web. It also has about 60 percent market share, beating out platforms like Joomla and Drupal by a long shot. People who use WordPress generally love it, which may be one reason it’s so popular. The other… Continue reading 10 WordPress Tips and Tricks to Steal from the Pros
An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools
Your Photoshop selection tools are perhaps the most powerful part of the application. By making effective selections, you unlock the power of the rest of the application. This includes localized image adjustments, compositing, and accurate mockups and object placement. Sloppy selections always show in the final product, so it pays to learn to make a… Continue reading An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials: 32 New Vector Tutorials to Learn Design & Illustration
Latest free Adobe Illustrator tutorials to design and illustrations. These tutorials are best for beginners and advance graphic designers. As we know Adobe illustrator is widely used to draw illustration, vector graphics and background and many more useful fully scaleable illustrations. Illustrator Tutorials are the best way to learn how to create professional vector graphics and illustrations. These tutorials will provide’s a… Continue reading Adobe Illustrator Tutorials: 32 New Vector Tutorials to Learn Design & Illustration
Everything You Need To Look For When Choosing A VPN
We shouldn’t need to stress the importance of a virtual private network (VPN). By now, you should be aware of the dangers of using the internet without one. Identity theft is a very real risk. A VPN disguises your location and encrypts your data, giving you the basic security you need. But there are tons… Continue reading Everything You Need To Look For When Choosing A VPN
Writing Snapshot Tests For React Components With Jest ― Scotch
In this tutorial, we will be looking at what snapshot tests are and how we can use snapshot testing to ensure our User Interface does not change without the team knowing about it. To get started, you will need to familiarize yourself with the following NodeJS – A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript… Continue reading Writing Snapshot Tests For React Components With Jest ― Scotch
An Overview of JavaScript Promises
This tutorial covers the basics of JavaScript promises, showing how you can leverage them in your JavaScript development. The concept of promises is not new to web development. Many of us have already used promises in the form of libraries such as Q, when.js, RSVP.js, etc. Even jQuery has something called a Deferred object, which… Continue reading An Overview of JavaScript Promises
Photography Training Course For Improving Photography Skills
Capturing stunning images of impressive landscapes and attractive portraits is a popular pastime as well as a serious occupation for numerous people. Maneuvering the camera is a skill that can be learned only from experts in the field. If you are interested in a career in photography or just want to enhance your dexterity as… Continue reading Photography Training Course For Improving Photography Skills
College majors for UX design
I see this question a lot around the internet: “What should I major in if I want to pursue a career in UX design?” As a college student and incoming product design intern at Facebook, I’ve done a lot of research on this question. It’s important to recruit new people to the field of user experience,… Continue reading College majors for UX design
Best 7 Game Websites Design Examples for Inspiration
Here’s a fact: a great video game requires an equally awesome website. TV commercials, promotional videos, and teasers are a good start to gain exposure; however, it is not enough. For a successful and well-known brand, these kinds of promotional strategy are already sufficient. For a startup brand, you will need to do a little… Continue reading Best 7 Game Websites Design Examples for Inspiration
Tips On Educating Your Web Design Clients
You’ll often find that your web design clients simply do not know web design the way you do. They don’t follow the trends, they don’t really understand the terminology, and they don’t understand the reasoning behind certain web design decisions. You certainly know all those things. After all, it’s your job. You’re a web designer.… Continue reading Tips On Educating Your Web Design Clients
Best PHP Books, Courses and Tutorials in 2017
November 8, 2017 by Alex Fox While JavaScript has gained popularity for animation and interaction, PHP still rules the server-side scripting world. Developers with strong PHP skills are more competitive in the job market, and can build better sites with improved user experiences. If you want to freshen up your PHP skills or get started… Continue reading Best PHP Books, Courses and Tutorials in 2017
5 Essentials For Your First Business Website
Websites are essential for entrepreneurs looking to promote their brand. It creates a space for customers to learn about your product or services and can even be used to lure potential investors to grow your seed money. However, you can’t just create any website and hope to attract customers and investors. Your website needs to… Continue reading 5 Essentials For Your First Business Website
Why You Should Seriously Consider Outsourcing Web Development
Smart outsourcing is key to the success of most businesses today. The company contracts external professionals to carry out its often non-strategic functions to focus its resources towards more strategic matters. You can have your accounting functions outsourced or your recruitment taken care of by a professional HR agency, or can outsource web development to… Continue reading Why You Should Seriously Consider Outsourcing Web Development
Color Schemes in 2017 Web Design: Basics and Modern Trends
Choosing a color scheme for your website may not seem a time-consuming enterprise. However, if you truly understand the importance of making this choice, you may be rather puzzled and lurk in hesitation for a pretty long time. To go for the color scheme that would be the best match for your website, you should… Continue reading Color Schemes in 2017 Web Design: Basics and Modern Trends
Effective Methods of Creating Topnotch Web-Design
Web design is actually one of those jobs that are not too streamlined. The designer is only taught the basics and the codes, and is allowed to use creativity, personal skills and visualisation to bring the best out of every job they do. One of the best marketing tools of the present era is well… Continue reading Effective Methods of Creating Topnotch Web-Design
the Pros and Cons — SitePoint
This article is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The range of hosting options has become bewilderingly complex during the past few years. The basics are simple: a computing device has software installed which can respond to a network event such as… Continue reading the Pros and Cons — SitePoint
the Pros and Cons — SitePoint
This article is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The range of hosting options has become bewilderingly complex during the past few years. The basics are simple: a computing device has software installed which can respond to a network event such as… Continue reading the Pros and Cons — SitePoint
7 Great Ways To Learn Swift Online
As web developers, it’s our responsibility to make sure our clients have beautiful, functional and maintainable websites. But in today’s development environment, more and more clients need a mobile app solution of some kind, and they’re looking to web developers to help them create it. And in a world where some 91% of Americans have… Continue reading 7 Great Ways To Learn Swift Online