Installation and Setup First, we will set up our development environment so that we can run our code on our own computer. Alternatively, you can test code examples in an online editor like OneCompiler. The easiest way to do so would be to use your web browser. This is especially true if you have no… Continue reading Learn to Code With JavaScript: Part 1, The Basics
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How To Create a Great Looking Layout For Your Website
The foundation of any website is its layout. It is there to guide the site’s visitor and highlight the important things. The entire site’s aesthetic depends on its layout, so it is very important to plan ahead on how to compose it. Finally, a good original layout improves the user’s experience, which goes a long… Continue reading How To Create a Great Looking Layout For Your Website
Build Better Contact Forms with These Guidelines
Look around the web, and you’ll see that web developers (and their clients) love contact forms. And for good reason: they collect important information about customers cheaply and effectively. But so many of these forms are clumsily designed or poorly implemented, cutting companies off from their customer. Avoid these problems and learn to build better… Continue reading Build Better Contact Forms with These Guidelines
Designing for Tech Clients – How Pre-built Websites Will Help
Posted · Category: Best Collections If you are reading this article, you most likely have worked with a tech company or startup. You’ve noticed that this niche has its own rules. And you probably had to answer some hard questions. What’s the audience’s main treat? What’s the suited design style for tech clients? Do web… Continue reading Designing for Tech Clients – How Pre-built Websites Will Help
Learn Xcode And Swift To Develop iOS Apps
Advertisement I know you want to learn Xcode and you are not the only one. Yet, you might think that creating an app for use on an iPhone or iPad is too complicated and simply out of your reach. However, app design and creation has never been simpler than it is today. Using tools such… Continue reading Learn Xcode And Swift To Develop iOS Apps
Designing for Apple Watch: Designing a Glance in Sketch
What You’ll Be Creating If this is the first time you are designing for a wearable device, you will notice that there are some key differences compared to designing a product for a smartphone or a desktop computer. In this quick tip, I cover some of these differences while also teaching you how to design… Continue reading Designing for Apple Watch: Designing a Glance in Sketch
Designing for Apple Watch: Product Strategy
When Apple launched the Apple Watch, there was a lot of excitement. Wearables are a new category to design experiences for. The caveat? Translating your app to a smartwatch experience is different from building a responsive product for example. It’s not a matter of fitting content onto a smaller screen. In fact, it starts much… Continue reading Designing for Apple Watch: Product Strategy
10 Mistakes to Avoid While Designing an App
Every good app developer constantly learns how to create the best apps avoiding the common pitfalls. How can you be up to date with the current methodologies and ensure that the app is bug free? There are two ways to learn. One is from the experience of developing an app and the other from other… Continue reading 10 Mistakes to Avoid While Designing an App
The Importance Of Usability When Designing A Site
Web usability is an approach to make web sites easy to use for an end-user, without the requirement that any specialized training be undertaken. The user should be able to intuitively relate the actions she needs to perform on the web page with other interactions she sees similar contexts, e.g., press a button to perform… Continue reading The Importance Of Usability When Designing A Site
Tips about how to Design the Great Logo
The fundamental shapes of universe’s geometry derive from the knowledge of ancient civilizations. These fundamental forms and functions have constantly helped us to divide time and space and have now motivated every known science (technology, languages, math, physics, civil evolvement, etc.). Art and culture have actually mostly benefited from shapes such as for example circles;… Continue reading Tips about how to Design the Great Logo
Designing Websites With Big Hero Images – Best Practices
One of the most important trends nowadays in web design are website hero images, which are generally defined as being a type of large banner that is typically located at the top of a website. Oftentimes, these images are the very first things that people see when they log on to a website. This, in… Continue reading Designing Websites With Big Hero Images – Best Practices
A Collection Of Useful Photoshop Typography Tutorials
Type art is popular at the moment for all sorts of reasons – and it’s a highly versatile skill to have. You can use illustrated lettering in projects ranging from posters to brochures – making it a great technique to add to your creative toolset. But beware: type art is so popular at the moment… Continue reading A Collection Of Useful Photoshop Typography Tutorials
Designing an iOS App in Sketch
In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) we’ll be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Before we start the tutorial, there’s a few things you’ll need: Once you have the items installed, let’s go ahead and create some awesome… Welcome Screen Let’s… Continue reading Designing an iOS App in Sketch
A Useful Guide To Designing Website Footers
In order for any website to be truly successful, there are many different aspects that need to be considered and put into motion. For instance, aspects such as visual design, the consistency of your brand, and overall usability are all things that can determine whether or not a user is truly happy with your website.… Continue reading A Useful Guide To Designing Website Footers
5 Must Have Free eBooks for Web Designers
We have gathered 5 ebooks regarding web design for you to download and read. In the era of Internet, you can get good quality free content instead of buying with cash. Here we have a list of ebooks that’s worth reading. Enjoy. 1. Designing for the Web by Mark Boulton This snappy, extensive book from… Continue reading 5 Must Have Free eBooks for Web Designers
Tips & Tricks for Designing Uniform Website Icons
Featured image source Beautiful icons are the rainbow sprinkles on top of a delicious website sundae. The ability to craft icons that blend together is almost compulsory. Any UI designer should be more than willing to jump onto the path of icon design. Although it is jarring and difficult, consistent icon design greatly improves the… Continue reading Tips & Tricks for Designing Uniform Website Icons
10 Points to Consider When Designing a Responsive Website
For the last few years with the widespread increase in internet access from mobile or handheld devices, responsive web design became the order of the day. Offering a web layout that opens across all types of devices without making any difference in the ease of accessing the site is the prime motto of responsive web… Continue reading 10 Points to Consider When Designing a Responsive Website
8 tips for designing great posters
Posters have been around from the time of Jules Cheret, the father of posters, and intriguingly, some of the things that worked back then still work today. A sharp departure from the 1800s, however, is that posters are no longer only meant for the roadside. They can fit anywhere, online or offline. When talking graphic… Continue reading 8 tips for designing great posters
Designing a Responsive Navigation Your Users Will Love
The process of creating a website should always start with general ideas. These turn into wireframes or low-fidelity mockups to give the designer a sense of direction. It’s fairly straightforward, but the creative process requires a large visual library of existing layouts to understand which interfaces are usable and well-designed. Navigation is a huge part… Continue reading Designing a Responsive Navigation Your Users Will Love
Tips for Designing a Beautiful Single-Page Portfolio Website
Many trends in general web design can also be applied to single page layouts. But there are some unique features to the lone webpage which can add more flavor into a design. Like most of the web design field, common sense and user experience always trumps inessential creative ideas. But that doesn’t mean anybody can… Continue reading Tips for Designing a Beautiful Single-Page Portfolio Website
Designing a Simple Instagram Based Portfolio in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I’ll guide you through the process of creating a simple and clean Instagram-based portfolio. We’ll use some striking imagery, a clean color palette and smooth typefaces. We’ll start off by creating a web version and then I’ll show you how to quickly adapt it for mobile view. Tutorial… Continue reading Designing a Simple Instagram Based Portfolio in Photoshop
The Art of Designing User Driven Websites
If you’re a woman, you probably know that when you go shopping to the mall, you have to enter every store at least once until you actually decide to buy something. If you’re a man, you probably never do this, unless, of course, you’re acompanying a woman. So, in this case, imagine how great it… Continue reading The Art of Designing User Driven Websites
Designing an Elegant Blog Layout in Photoshop
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a simple, elegant blog layout in Photoshop. We’ll use a strong image above the fold (wherever that may be) with some straightforward messaging, followed by very clean and elegant typography. Tutorial Assets In order to follow along you will need the following (freely… Continue reading Designing an Elegant Blog Layout in Photoshop
Top 15 Platforms for Designing Pixel Perfect Websites
Many small and medium-sized businesses still lack an online presence. This means that designers are in for a busy year. A huge number of proficient platforms testify that technical skills are no longer necessary, but optional. This level of creative freedom for designers was unimaginable a decade ago, when the only way to create decent-looking… Continue reading Top 15 Platforms for Designing Pixel Perfect Websites