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A Guide to Overriding Parent Theme Functions in Your Child Theme

If you’ve had any experience working with parent and child themes in WordPress, you’ll know that the template files in your child theme override those in your parent theme. For example, if your parent theme has a page.php file and you create a new one in your child theme, WordPress will use the one in the child… Continue reading A Guide to Overriding Parent Theme Functions in Your Child Theme

Submit A Form Without Page Refresh Using jQuery

A great way to improve the user experience of your website is to validate and submit forms without a page refresh. In this tutorial I’ll show you how easy it is to do just that—validate and submit a contact form that without page refresh using jQuery! Let’s get started. What We’re Building In this example,… Continue reading Submit A Form Without Page Refresh Using jQuery

What To Know to Create a Better UX Blockchain Design

Blockchain is an emerging technology that not many people are still familiar with. While it is trying to slowly integrate itself into our daily lives, it’s still not fully utilized since not many people see its use. Moreover, not many people specialize in designing solely for blockchain or have experience designing one. If you’re planning… Continue reading What To Know to Create a Better UX Blockchain Design

Gotham Font History: From GQ to the Barack Obama Campaign

Have you ever wondered what font Obama uses? In this article, we uncover the story of the Gotham font, the most used typeface of the 21st Century. If typefaces could represent one specific person, that would be Gotham as the Obama font. In the 2008 American election, you’ll notice that Barack Obama used typography as… Continue reading Gotham Font History: From GQ to the Barack Obama Campaign

The dangers of emotive writing in a post-rational era

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Hot damn! We writers never had it so good — and we all know the reason why: the written word has never been as pervasive, powerful or emotionally loaded as it is today. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a copywriter, UX writer, journo, speech writer, influencer, blogger, swivel-eyed Facebook ranter or whatever. You’re… Continue reading The dangers of emotive writing in a post-rational era

Build vs. Buy: Automated Accessibility Tools

If something can be automated, developers will try to build it to save them time. In the field of accessibility, some automated tools out there can catch up to 50% of accessibility defects (like axe-core). On top of that, there are a lot of free accessibility rules libraries out there already for developers to choose… Continue reading Build vs. Buy: Automated Accessibility Tools

Case Study: Storytelling Through Brand Design

A successful rebrand goes far beyond flashy graphics and high-res photos. It tells a story. It positions a product to fulfill the wants and needs of the consumer. Following the rebrand journey of Lettuce Grow, take a look at how visual elements can enforce the mission of your brand, engage your consumer and cultivate incredible results.… Continue reading Case Study: Storytelling Through Brand Design

20 Unmissable Websites, June 2020

Every month we publish a roundup of the 20 most unmissable websites newly launched, or updated in the previous four weeks. In June’s edition you’ll find everything from corporate sites for global power-houses, to personal sites for innovative designers. This month we’re seeing a lot of flamboyance, a lot of passion, and the color of… Continue reading 20 Unmissable Websites, June 2020

17 Most Useful PHP Scripts (and 5 Great Free Scripts)

Whether you need to create a dating website, add a shopping cart to your eCommerce store, or launch a marketing campaign, there is a PHP script that is right for you. Add a new set of features and functionality to your website with these scripts and create a more robust platform for your customers.  Today’s website… Continue reading 17 Most Useful PHP Scripts (and 5 Great Free Scripts)

Exciting New Tools for Designers, April 2020

While there’s a lot going in the world with the COVID-19 pandemic, the design world is also reacting. You’ll notice that some of the newest tools and resources for designers are for working through or with the virus’ impact or are inspired by this change to our lifestyles. Here’s what new for designers this month.… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, April 2020

How Freelancers Can Stay Positive During the Coronavirus Crisis

There are a lot of negative emotions swirling around right now: fear; stress; frustration; anxiety; depression. And what’s worse is that it feels like there’s no escape from them. We don’t know how long the coronavirus crisis is going to last, so we can’t allow these negative emotions to overwhelm us day in and day… Continue reading How Freelancers Can Stay Positive During the Coronavirus Crisis

31 Best Twitch Stream "Starting Soon" Overlays Using a Twitch Overlay Maker

A stream “starting soon” overlay is the perfect way to let your audience know that you’re getting ready to come online. One of the terrific Stream Overlay Templates at Placeit.net And the best way to make sure that your overlay is on point is with a stream overlay template from Placeit. Placeit offers a wide… Continue reading 31 Best Twitch Stream "Starting Soon" Overlays Using a Twitch Overlay Maker

Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, February 2020

Each month we publish a roundup of the best new portfolios, launched in the previous four weeks, by freelancers, agencies, and other creative professionals. This month’s edition is packed with color and animation. Almost every site in this list animates some part of its interface, and many are dependent on animation entirely. You’ll find tons… Continue reading Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, February 2020

How Does WordPress Work?

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re new to WordPress, or switching over from a static website, you might want to know exactly how WordPress works. WordPress is a content management system, or CMS. It works by combining some core files, a database, files that you add or install, and a dashboard for Pat to manage… Continue reading How Does WordPress Work?

30 Examples of Creative Typography that Will Blow Your Mind

If you wanna blow your mind just step in and see yourself, how much hand-lettering creativity can improve simple words in dashing and memorable sentences. Today I’ shared best examples of lettering and typography designs that will blow your mind. Typography is always inspiration for those who know the importance of words. Good handmade lettering… Continue reading 30 Examples of Creative Typography that Will Blow Your Mind

Can Best Practice Replace Design Research?

Heart-warming or not, co-creation with a client—the utopian ideal of shared vision—has its drawbacks. There are only so many times you can hear the words “brand strategy” before actually chewing your own face off. In the age of WordPress, Drupal and, dare I say it, Wix, it’s never been more tempting to pay lip-service to… Continue reading Can Best Practice Replace Design Research?

6 Tips for Writing Content Regularly

Okay, you need three to five new ideas for articles, all on the same general topic. Go… Now here’s where we separate the people who have to come up with regular content all the time from the people who don’t. The people who have things they want to write about but can never get around… Continue reading 6 Tips for Writing Content Regularly

Less is (Almost) Definitely More: An Introduction to Hick’s Law for Web Designers

Imagine the public excitement when, in 1951, William Edmund Hick (“Hickey” to his friends?!) and Ray (with an “a”) Hyman published research about people’s responses to a bunch of flashing lights. I’m sure no-one could imagine how important this work would be for the information age since, of course, at that time, a bank of… Continue reading Less is (Almost) Definitely More: An Introduction to Hick’s Law for Web Designers

Automatically Create a Multilingual WordPress Site With a Translator Plugin

A multilingual WordPress site is one that offers content in more than one language. For example, a site can provide content in English, French, German, and Spanish. Since most countries have more than one official language, it makes sense to have content in multiple languages. Having a multilingual site is one of the best ways… Continue reading Automatically Create a Multilingual WordPress Site With a Translator Plugin

Build a Tabbed Product Archive for Your WooCommerce Store

In this tutorial you will learn how to make your WooCommerce store a little more stylish by organizing the product archive with tabs. We’ll create tabs with a multi-column layout, a multi-row carousel, and a grid layout. What We’re Going to Build Over the coming steps we will create a WordPress plugin, inside which we … Continue reading Build a Tabbed Product Archive for Your WooCommerce Store

How to Build an Engaging (And Functional) Event Website

Hosting an event, a birthday or even planning for your own wedding or retirement party? No matter what it is, having a website to help promote the event and share information with your audience is great. If you are hoping to attract as many participants as possible, you need to make a website and also… Continue reading How to Build an Engaging (And Functional) Event Website

Exploding 3D Objects with Three.js

A set of WebGL demos that show an exploding 3D object animation inspired by “Kubrick Life Website: 3D Motion”. From our monthly sponsor: HelloSign API: Everything IT wants and developers love. Try it free today. Today we’d like to share an exploding object experiment with you. The effect is inspired by Kubrick Life Website: 3D… Continue reading Exploding 3D Objects with Three.js

The 7 Programming Languages Web Developers Need To Know in 2019

March 19, 2019 by Alex Fox It might not seem important for web developers to learn programming languages. After all, HTML and CSS can develop some incredible sites all on their own. But JavaScript, PHP, and Swift can all extend the functionality of your web page significantly in was that CSS can’t hope to accomplish.… Continue reading The 7 Programming Languages Web Developers Need To Know in 2019