I remember the first job I had back in the day. I used to be a Social Media Manager at a digital agency. Of course I had some ideas about what I was supposed to do and how things should have worked, but I had no idea where to start from. What tools should I… Continue reading Web Design Tools for Beginners 2017
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10 Tips for Improving Your Photo Manipulation Skills
Over it’s 20+ year history, Photoshop has proved itself useful for a great many things. One of the primary applications is photo manipulation. In fact, it’s photo manipulation that is meant by the colloquial term “to Photoshop”. Yet pulling off a successful photo manipulation isn’t quite as easy as it sounds. So whether you are… Continue reading 10 Tips for Improving Your Photo Manipulation Skills
Beginner’s Tips & Tricks for Learning Icon Design
Aside from regular web & graphics design, the process of designing icons is vast and complex. Iconography can be created with a sketch or from a blank document in digital software. Digital icons can be created using either pixels or vectors. There are many options and the outcome is heavily reliant on the medium, such… Continue reading Beginner’s Tips & Tricks for Learning Icon Design
Best Node.js Tutorials and Resources for Beginners
Node.js is increasingly gaining popularity among web developers. Due to all hosting companies Node.js remains the prerogative of dedicated servers and VPS. Actually VPS is a solution that even a small startup can afford. For more details refer to the documentation on nodejs.org. As you know, Node.js supports modules. You can find the folder for… Continue reading Best Node.js Tutorials and Resources for Beginners
20+ HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Working with HTML forms can be somewhat daunting. They not only use some niche HTML elements, but also blur the line between static content and user interaction. Let’s review some things to remember when creating your next form. Good HTML forms require attention on at least four… Continue reading 20+ HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners
30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} PHP is the most widely used language for server-side programming on the web. Here are 30+ best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals. We have also written posts like these for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. HTML & CSS 30 HTML Best… Continue reading 30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners
A Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Tools
Web designers use the most powerful photo editor, Photoshop, as a web design app. It comes with a vast array of tools. Today, Adobe Photoshop has become so powerful that you actually start using it as a verb. It’s no exaggeration to say that it is the most amazing software application on the earth. It’s… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Tools
Beginners Guide to Working with jQuery Animation
In this tutorial, we are going explore the basics of jQuery animations for you to get prepared for advanced designs. Animations is the core functionality behind the interactive elements in web design. The design of a website plays a major role in attracting visitors on a consistent basis. Interactive designs get more attention compared to the… Continue reading Beginners Guide to Working with jQuery Animation
Working with Types: Typography Tutorial for Beginners
In this typography design tutorial, I will guide you on how to transform boring texts to your advantage. You will learn how to utilize typography for your website, or even for your print needs. This article will extend from web page design, to printing to graphic images. They say letters are boring. Unlike videos and… Continue reading Working with Types: Typography Tutorial for Beginners
Create Your Own Landing Page: The Ultimate Guide For Beginners
If you already know what is a Landing Page and what it is for, I will call you a “Smarty Pants”, but please give me just 58 seconds to explain it to those who don’t really know what it is. So a Lead Capture Page, Lander or as most of us know it, a Landing… Continue reading Create Your Own Landing Page: The Ultimate Guide For Beginners
Foundation for Beginners: Progress, Alerts, Tooltips and the Elusive Mega Drop
Foundation for Beginners: Custom Forms and Switches
Following on from our look at buttons in Zurb’s Foundation, let’s now take a look at custom forms and switches. During this tutorial we’re going to work on an exercise; a contact form which you can add to your projects or just play around with. Once we’ve built that, we’ll move onto other form elements.
Adobe Illustrator for beginners: 10 top tips
Adobe Illustrator is a vector drawing tool, meaning you can create artwork that can be scaled infinitely without any loss of quality. It’s a fantastic tool for logo design, creating complex vector artwork and playing with illustrated typography design. But coming from Photoshop you may not be savvy with Illustrator and its unique ways: so we’re here to help.
From using Bézier points and curves to strokes and fills and adding a more natural look to your vector artwork, read on for some Illustrator secrets for those new to the application.
Best Free WordPress Tutorials for Beginners
WordPress is one of the most popular CMS and blogging platform around, mainly because it is free and it is 100% customizable. WordPress is a dynamic content management system based on MySQL and PHP. With over 25 million websites and blogs powered by this award-winning web software and a continuously expanding community of developers,… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Tutorials for Beginners