Envato Tuts+ Community Challenge: Created by You, March Edition

Welcome to our monthly feature of fantastic tutorial results created by you, the Envato Tuts+ community! Every day, visitors like you take the time not only to read our tutorials but also to try them out. This is an assortment of those comment submissions found throughout the Design & Illustration section. Check out this set… Continue reading Envato Tuts+ Community Challenge: Created by You, March Edition

Making an Original Corporate Theme in WordPress: Designing Other Page Types

Let’s recap: My claim is that the reason of the magnitude of WordPress’s market share is because it’s so darn easy to create corporate websites with WordPress, and this is also the exact reason why the top-selling WordPress themes are corporate (or multi-purpose) themes.  Theme makers might have clogged the market a bit by putting… Continue reading Making an Original Corporate Theme in WordPress: Designing Other Page Types

How to Streamline Your Logo Design Process

Creating a identity that is unique any brand can be quite a challenge, because there are so many things to factor in. The process is not as simple as throwing your creative juices into the project – that’s just a fraction that is small of. Company logo demands a great deal more from any musician,… Continue reading How to Streamline Your Logo Design Process

Creating an Accessible Breakout Game using Web Audio and SVG

As the co-author of Babylon.js, a WebGL gaming engine, I was always felt a little uneasy listening to folks discuss accessibility best practices at web conferences. The content created with Babylon.js is indeed completely inaccessible to blind people. Making the web accessible to everyone is very important. I’m more convinced than ever about that as I’m personally touched… Continue reading Creating an Accessible Breakout Game using Web Audio and SVG

Some Of The Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a fantasy fiery portrait of a woman. You’ll learn how to use textures, add fire and create lighting effect. Advanced compositing techniques This photomontage by Serbian illustrator Becha was created for an haute couture fashion editorial called Silent Spring that appeared in her home country’s Faar… Continue reading Some Of The Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials

Vertical Navigation in CSS and jQuery

A smart vertical navigation, with round indicators that turn into labelled icons when the user interacts with them. [sociallocker]Demo Download[/sociallocker] Our first concept of vertical fixed navigation is one of our most popular resources. This time, we tried to push this concept a little further. The basic idea behind putting round indicators on the side of… Continue reading Vertical Navigation in CSS and jQuery

Essential elements for creating a successful UX design

In a modern world, most of the companies and business organizations realize the importance of the UX design support on a website. These companies are investing huge amount in developing attractive UX designs that enable their website to deliver a good user experience in a custom website development. In a digital world, user experience has… Continue reading Essential elements for creating a successful UX design

20 Templates For Creating High-Fidelity Wireframes

Wireframing can be something quick and dirty, or it can be a large task that takes time to perfect. So here are some wireframe templates to help you save ton of time. With these templates you can easily create effective mockups and prototype of your web and mobile apps in no time. Teracy wireframe kit… Continue reading 20 Templates For Creating High-Fidelity Wireframes

Guide to Creating a Perfect Responsive WordPress Theme

WordPress is remarkably popular, scalable, open-source and affordable CMS/blogging system. The vast majority of people are creating their websites on WordPress because it offers striking plugins and themes.  In fact, both big and small businesses are using WP sites to boost their productivity and increase their ROI. But with time it becomes necessary to design… Continue reading Guide to Creating a Perfect Responsive WordPress Theme

Best Practices for Creating Fullscreen Website Backgrounds

The artistic use of fullscreen backgrounds has become a large part of the web design lexicon. Many different layouts from landing pages to agencies and social networks have used this feature with great success. It’s a fantastic way to draw attention while simultaneously branding a company or project. In this post I’d like to cover… Continue reading Best Practices for Creating Fullscreen Website Backgrounds

15 Best Tools For Prototyping And Creating Apps

If you are building mobile app you need to get within many stages. You can’t build a mobile app only using just the native developer kit. You are creating wireframes and prototypes, these are the most essential stages of your project. Building an app requires that you have the right tools to deliver efficiently on… Continue reading 15 Best Tools For Prototyping And Creating Apps

Creating a Good Design Brief for Your Mobile App

Understanding well what a client has in mind for his/her mobile app can be a slippery process. As a designer, you surely want to deliver to the best of your abilities and make the client happy. But when it comes to ensuring the success of a mobile app design project (or any other design project… Continue reading Creating a Good Design Brief for Your Mobile App

Creating Useful Breakpoints in Responsive Layouts

In our modern technological era you can find devices with any screen size that all have access to the Internet. This means bored people around the world can visit their favorite websites from a laundry basket full of different screen dimensions. If this were Pee-wee’s Playhouse I’d say the word of the day is: breakpoint!… Continue reading Creating Useful Breakpoints in Responsive Layouts

Creating Your First Node.js Command-line Application

Command-line utilities are a must for every seasoned web developer. Node.js makes developing such tools extremely easy thanks to a wealth of open source modules and a great package manager. In this tutorial, we will convert our Cute File Browser, which we published last week, from PHP to Node. Our goal is to create a… Continue reading Creating Your First Node.js Command-line Application

20 Must Have Tools For Creating And Maintaining Your Website

As a web developer or designer nowadays can be both stressful and rewarding. Rewarding because your services are some of the most sought after ones in the current market and stressed because the expectations of your clients seem to increase with each passing day. It’s clear that we no longer need plain, functional websites, but… Continue reading 20 Must Have Tools For Creating And Maintaining Your Website

Typography Guidelines for Creating Balanced Website Layouts

Whether you design on paper, in graphics software, or in a web browser, typography is something that you’ll have to consider. No website or poster would be complete without some bits of text on the page. But text alone is not good enough – the symmetrical design and structure of text on a page is… Continue reading Typography Guidelines for Creating Balanced Website Layouts

Creating a Node Web App With Hapi and Twilio Integration

As a developer evangelist for Twilio, I spend a lot of time going to events.  When I’m chatting with event organizers and they realize I work for Twilio, one of the most common requests they have is for me is a simple application they can use to power voting at their events. Generally they are… Continue reading Creating a Node Web App With Hapi and Twilio Integration

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Adding a Loop – Part 4

Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In the first three parts of this series, you learned how to prepare static HTML for WordPress and to create a theme by splitting your HTML file into a set of template files and editing the stylesheet.… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Adding a Loop – Part 4

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme to WordPress – Part 3

Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In the first two parts of this series, you learned how to prepare static HTML for WordPress and to split your HTML file into a set of template files. You now have the beginnings of a theme,… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme to WordPress – Part 3

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Creating Template Files – Part 2

Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In the first part of this series, I showed you how to prepare your HTML and CSS files for WordPress, ensuring the structure would work, the code was valid and that the correct classes were being used. In this tutorial… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Creating Template Files – Part 2

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Preparing the Markup – Part 1

Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4   Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Last year I did a small (and admittedly very un-scientific) survey among other WordPress developers. What I wanted to know was this: When they built their first WordPress theme, how did… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Preparing the Markup – Part 1

HTML5 features with GWT Elemental

HTML5 is revolutionizing the web. The web application has features which are comparable to most of the desktop applications. The new features of the HTML5 make browser a powerful platform to develop next generation applications. The APIs and document object model (DOM) are fundamental parts of the HTML5 specification. The programming language of choice in… Continue reading HTML5 features with GWT Elemental

20 Photoshop Poster Tutorials

These 20 inspiring Photoshop poster tutorials in this post will teach you the basics of Photoshop, and also some advanced manipulations techniques for creating amazing designs. These tutorial are ideal for print designers or any other designers who want to improve their Photoshop skills. Which one is your favorite? Let us know in the comments… Continue reading 20 Photoshop Poster Tutorials