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Power Up Your Mobile Game With Design, Sound, and Music

A successful game needs to be beautifully designed and immersive. Most game developers aren’t good designers, though. And it doesn’t stop with design. Sound and music are just as important to captivate people playing your game. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a design or team up with one to create a fantastic game. You… Continue reading Power Up Your Mobile Game With Design, Sound, and Music

How to Create an AJAX Driven Theme for ProcessWire

In this tutorial we will look at setting up a simple theme in ProcessWire, we’ll investigate delayed output (now the default theme strategy within ProcessWire), and setup our site to request new content using AJAX. To accompany this tutorial I have created a new theme for ProcessWire, making use of both AJAX and delayed output,… Continue reading How to Create an AJAX Driven Theme for ProcessWire

4 Point Checklist on Choosing Most Serious Coding Agency

Posted · Category: Best Collections Choosing the right coders for your project can be painfully similar to looking for a needle in the haystack. There are thousands of people out there offering their services, but who are the best ones for you and your business? Who among them understands your vision, aligns with your goals,… Continue reading 4 Point Checklist on Choosing Most Serious Coding Agency

20 Best Shopify Themes With Beautiful eCommerce Designs

When it comes to eCommerce, the design of your site plays a crucial role. It can make or break your website—leading to sales either falling flat or converting profitably.  Even though you are probably eager to get your new site up and running as quickly as possible, it’s important to first make sure you pick… Continue reading 20 Best Shopify Themes With Beautiful eCommerce Designs

20 Useful WordPress WooCommerce Plugins Available on CodeCanyon

WooCommerce is a free plugin that transforms WordPress into a powerful eCommerce solution. This WordPress eCommerce plugin now powers over 37% of all online stores and offers a wide variety of plugins that extend and customize WooCommerce in many different ways. Here are 20 useful WordPress WooCommerce plugins available on Envato Market that are worth your… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress WooCommerce Plugins Available on CodeCanyon

10 Amazing Photoshop Templates That Every Designer Should Own

What You’ll Be Creating Photoshop templates are a great way of transforming your images instantly into something more eye-catching and professional-looking. Creating a vintage-style collage? Using a vintage PS template will give your photos that authentic aged look. Looking to improve a set of so-so wedding photos? Using a soft focus template will make them… Continue reading 10 Amazing Photoshop Templates That Every Designer Should Own

How to Draw Trees

What You’ll Be Creating Trees seem like one of the few things that are easy to draw. However, if you know nothing about drawing, you may either go too simple… … or too literal: Neither of these is what a real tree looks like. The first is a symbol of a tree, and the other… Continue reading How to Draw Trees

Photoshop in 60 Seconds: What Are Artboards?

Interface Design on Envato Market Welcome to our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute! Artboards in Photoshop Artboards are a welcome recent addition to the lineup of Photoshop features. The premise is to be able to work on several different “canvases”… Continue reading Photoshop in 60 Seconds: What Are Artboards?

Hands On Improving Google PageSpeed

What You’ll Be Creating What Is Google PageSpeed? Google PageSpeed is a free tool that assesses the performance and usability of your website for mobile and desktop platforms. It’s extra important because Google uses it in determining key elements of our SEO ranking, i.e. how high we appear in their search results. If you want more background… Continue reading Hands On Improving Google PageSpeed

How Designers and Developers Can Collaborate Using Sketch and Zeplin

Collaboration between designers and developers is essential to the success of a web project, and it’s a measure of a team’s success. Whilst sharing the same workspace is invaluable, having an online source of truth that helps with this collaboration is incredibly helpful. In this article we’re going to look at Zeplin and how it… Continue reading How Designers and Developers Can Collaborate Using Sketch and Zeplin

Material Kit – A Badass Bootstrap UI Kit Based on Material Design

Material Design, a visual language designed by Google to demonstrate good design and a unified experience across platforms and device sizes. Not just visual design, it includes meaningful and appropriate motion serving to focus attention and maintain continuity. In the other hand, we have the popular Twitter Bootstrap Front End library that provides all the… Continue reading Material Kit – A Badass Bootstrap UI Kit Based on Material Design

6 Principles for Timeless Web Design

How do you stay relevant when your audience always changes? Just like fashion, film, and food, web design and UI are subject to an ever-changing set of standards and expectations. While you might sometimes want to cater to the crowd, having the know-how to create something that does the job and does it well is always… Continue reading 6 Principles for Timeless Web Design

20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins

Several WordPress versions ago, putting together an image gallery wasn’t the easiest thing to do, let alone a gallery of videos or products for sale. Today, however, there are many WordPress gallery plugins that are creative, powerful, and highly configurable. Sure, the Jetpack gallery is great in comparison to the early days of WordPress, but… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins

Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”

Drop caps are a form of decoration sometimes used at the beginning of a block of text; the initial letter running several lines deep and indenting the body text within these lines.  Drop cap example, as found on The Walrus Drop cap example, as found on Nautilus It’s a typographic tradition as old as the… Continue reading Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”

Material Kit – Free Bootstrap UI Kit for Google Material Design

Advertise here via BSA Material Kit is a Free Bootstrap UI Kit with a fresh, new design inspired by Google’s material design. You asked for it, so we built it. It’s a great pleasure to introduce to you the material concepts in an easy to use and beautiful set of components. Along with the restyling… Continue reading Material Kit – Free Bootstrap UI Kit for Google Material Design

20 Fascinating Examples of Bold Design

If you’re subscribed to my list, you know that in the first email, I ask you what is your biggest struggle with design in business. A huge number of people reply to this email (and I respond to almost all of them). And it turns out that many readers seem to be struggling with finding… Continue reading 20 Fascinating Examples of Bold Design

Good Email Copy From Great Companies

Their mission at Front is to help people communicate better. Usually, it means building the best communication software possible, but today they are doing something different. They are releasing a collection of emails that we think have great copy called Good Copy, so the everyone can get inspiration for their own communication. You never have… Continue reading Good Email Copy From Great Companies

11 of The Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps

A wireframe is essentially a web designer’s plan for a web page. This frame can be hand-drawn with simple pen and paper, but wireframing tools are much more effective as they enable you to use drag-and-drop tools, collaborate with other designers and show clients your ideas before you even build them. The designer uses plain… Continue reading 11 of The Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps

Style Guides in Sketch

Product design is a team sport. The best teams tend to have lots of moving parts: designers and developers and managers and researchers all working in concert on a single, refined vision. All those moving pieces come with a cost, though, in the form of meetings, emails, and file versioning—all things we do in order… Continue reading Style Guides in Sketch

Essential Design Trends, March 2016

One of the great things about looking at trends each month is catching a glimpse of what designers are experimenting with. In particular, you start to see a distinct crossover of elements that you might have missed at first glance. That exact thing happened with this month’s collection. Note all the yellow and gold tones. Even… Continue reading Essential Design Trends, March 2016

10 Top Tips for Creating Unique Character Designs

Everyone has a favorite cartoon character, but how did they first come to life? A lot of research and love goes into creating universally recognized characters.  So today we’re bringing you ten great tips for everything you need to know about character design, using amazing examples from Envato Market. 1. Pick a Theme Starting a new… Continue reading 10 Top Tips for Creating Unique Character Designs

What Are WordPress Themes?

We recently wrapped up a series that covered How to Get Started With WordPress. Though it’s not a pre-requisite for reading the following article, I recommend reading through the four posts, especially if you’re someone who is just now getting started with WordPress. The people who visit Envato Tuts+ come from a variety of backgrounds, both… Continue reading What Are WordPress Themes?

How to Optimize Images on Websites to Improve Performance and UX

As the number of images and videos on a website continue to grow, slower load times, which result in a negative user experience, are growing concerns for any company. An article in The Fiscal Times, citing Internet data measurement company HTTP Archive, noted that the average website is now 2.1 MB in size, compared to… Continue reading How to Optimize Images on Websites to Improve Performance and UX