Tag: CSS

Solving Problems With CSS Grid: The Gantt Chart

We recently published a tutorial explaining how to build a JavaScript-driven Gantt Chart. I think it’s the perfect case study for CSS Grid, so in this tutorial we’ll see how well suited CSS Grid Layout is for building a flexible Gantt Chart. Our CSS Grid Gantt Chart Here’s what we’re building. It uses CSS Grid… Continue reading Solving Problems With CSS Grid: The Gantt Chart

What’s New for Designers, August 2019

Some of the new tools in this month’s roundup are designed for productivity and getting ahead, from a tool that converts text to speech to a font that’s made for the winter holidays. That’s the whole point of new tools – to make our design lives that much easier. Here’s what’s new for designers this… Continue reading What’s New for Designers, August 2019

Popular Design News of the Week: July 22, 2019 – July 28, 2019

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: July 22, 2019 – July 28, 2019

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

The Ultimate WordPress Page Builder: WPBakery

Web development and design come at a high price.  For many entrepreneurs just starting out or who are in the early stages of their business, they will have difficulties finding developers and designers who will build their website on this low budget.  Thankfully, WordPress plugin developers have seen this need for fast and cost-efficient ways… Continue reading The Ultimate WordPress Page Builder: WPBakery

Use the WooCommerce API to Customize Your Online Store

WooCommerce is the world’s most popular eCommerce platform. That’s partly because it’s built on the world’s most popular content management system (WordPress), and also partly because it’s free. But it’s also because WooCommerce, like WordPress itself, is incredibly flexible. If you install WooCommerce on your site, not only can you use it to quickly set… Continue reading Use the WooCommerce API to Customize Your Online Store

4 Ways to Use Visual Composer Hub to Harness Faster, Simpler Web Design

Drag and drop editors are wonderful tools, but they’re only as good as the elements you can give them access to. The Visual Composer Hub’s library of the types of templates and content elements is massive. What you have then is a fast and efficient drag and drop editor and access to a massive array… Continue reading 4 Ways to Use Visual Composer Hub to Harness Faster, Simpler Web Design

Avoid these 4 Website Redesign Mistakes that Sabotage SEO

As a freelance web designer/dev, one of the most common projects is a website redesign.  Clients want their existing site (or specific pages) transformed into something superior. But this often comes with a price where SEO is concerned. Massive changes to site structure, architecture, and page elements can negatively impact their search engine optimization. And… Continue reading Avoid these 4 Website Redesign Mistakes that Sabotage SEO

How to Code a Landing Page in Your WordPress Theme

What You’ll Be Creating If you’ve bought anything on the internet, you’ve probably come across a landing page. They’re a highly effective way of maximizing conversions from a website. But just what is a landing page, and how do you create one for your WordPress site?  In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate what makes a landing… Continue reading How to Code a Landing Page in Your WordPress Theme

Best Free WordPress Plugins for Optimizing Website Performance

Did you know that search engines like Google give preference to fast-loading websites in their rankings? Visitors are also less likely to abandon your site if it loads quickly. Everyone expects a website to load as quickly as possible—if it doesn’t, they will likely abandon it and visit the competitor instead. This means that a… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Plugins for Optimizing Website Performance

How to Add a Free WordPress Music Player to Your Site

Any website which lets users discover, buy, share, or download music or other sound effects should always have an audio player. Every user would like to preview the audio or music to determine if they want to purchase or share it or not. Giving users the option to play this audio from the webpage itself,… Continue reading How to Add a Free WordPress Music Player to Your Site

Create a JavaScript Contact Form With the Smart Forms Framework

In our earlier posts, we listed some free plugins and tools that you can use to create your own forms. One major downside to using free tools to create forms is that the end product might not look as professional and polished as you expect. Similarly, using free libraries to code your own forms might… Continue reading Create a JavaScript Contact Form With the Smart Forms Framework

How to Create a Mega Menu With a Free WordPress Plugin

In this post, we’ll explore the WP Mega Menu plugin which allows you to create content-rich navigation menus on your WordPress site. We’ll go through the different aspects of this plugin and we’ll also build a real-world example for demonstration purposes. A sticky menu stays at the top of the screen, so that however far… Continue reading How to Create a Mega Menu With a Free WordPress Plugin

Create Beautiful Forms With PHP Form Builder

If you are a PHP developer, creating forms, validating form submissions, and managing PHP sessions are probably tasks that are part and parcel of your job. All these tasks, although rather repetitive, require lots of time and attention, especially if you care about best practices relating to design and security. By using a well-tested form… Continue reading Create Beautiful Forms With PHP Form Builder

Kerning, Leading, Tracking, and Everything You Need to Know About Text Spacing

The space between letters is just as important for legibility as the text itself. If your website is hard to read, don’t just consider the typeface: consider the white space as well. With kerning, leading, tracking, and other spacing tools, you can make your text more readable without a major design overhaul using these text… Continue reading Kerning, Leading, Tracking, and Everything You Need to Know About Text Spacing

Code a Burger Menu for Mobile Users in WordPress

What You’ll Be Creating If you want your site to be responsive (and who doesn’t?), then it’s important to make sure that your main navigation menu works well on small screens. Large navigation menus can take up too much space on a mobile phone, or if they don’t, they can be too small to read… Continue reading Code a Burger Menu for Mobile Users in WordPress

Features, Syntax, and the Problem It Will Solve

CSS subgrid is slowly making its way into browsers. The CSS Working Group is actively working on it and the related W3C specification has already reached Level 2. This new feature will enable us to enhance grid items with subgrids that inherit the grid tracks of their parent grid and seamlessly align with it. As CSS subgrid is… Continue reading Features, Syntax, and the Problem It Will Solve

Tips for Enhancing Website Loading Speed by Proper Optimization

Today era is digitization world, where website accessibility is the most common task. Users use websites for a variety of reasons in their day to day tasks. If a user is searching a query using any digital assistant whether phone or desktop, they expect quick and relevant answers to that. For example, if a user… Continue reading Tips for Enhancing Website Loading Speed by Proper Optimization

How to Make a Drop-Down Menu in WordPress

What You’ll Be Creating Navigation menus are having a bit of a moment in the spotlight. From burger menus for mobile through mega menus for stores to sticky menus for enhanced user experience, there’s a great choice in the way you can present your navigation menu in your WordPress site. But what if you want… Continue reading How to Make a Drop-Down Menu in WordPress

Create a Contact Form in WordPress Using a Free Plugin

Today, we’re going to discuss the Formidable Forms plugin for WordPress, which allows you to create different kinds of forms easily. Specifically, we’ll look at how you could use this plugin to build a contact form for your site. We’ll start by exploring the basic settings provided by this plugin, and later on, we’ll go… Continue reading Create a Contact Form in WordPress Using a Free Plugin

Getting Started With CSS Multi-Column Layout

How do you create layouts in CSS? Maybe you use floats, Flexbox, or CSS Grid Layout. But there’s another layout method that’s not used much yet, and that is “multi-column”. Learn about it in our new course, Getting Started With CSS Multi-Column Layout. What You’ll Learn In this short course, Adi Purdila will teach you… Continue reading Getting Started With CSS Multi-Column Layout

Which Should You Use and When?

Flexbox and CSS Grid are two CSS layout modules that have become mainstream in recent years. Both allow us to create complex layouts that were previously only possible by applying CSS hacks and/or JavaScript. Flexbox and CSS Grid share multiple similarities and many layouts can be solved with both. When to use which is another… Continue reading Which Should You Use and When?

14 Firefox Developer Tools You Might Not Know About

In this roundup we’re going to be checking out some of the awesome tools Firefox has in its collection of Developer Tools.  Even if Google Chrome is your primary development browser, Firefox has some tools that Chrome doesn’t. In fairness the reverse is also true–Chrome has some tools that Firefox doesn’t, but the tools in… Continue reading 14 Firefox Developer Tools You Might Not Know About