Google’s Material Design is ubiquitous in modern mobile apps. Perhaps it’s because most people today have come to love its bold colors, subtle shadows, and minimalist layouts. Wouldn’t it be great if you could easily apply the same design language to your websites and offer visitors a user experience they’re are well accustomed to? Well, with… Continue reading Using Bootstrap to Create Material Design Web Apps
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Create Adverts For Your WordPress Site
Advertising is one of the main ways that websites generate revenue. Perhaps you created a blog specifically to drive people towards your website’s Store page, and want to give visitors that extra little push? Maybe you run several websites, and want to promote your biggest-earner across your entire portfolio? Or maybe you don’t have anything… Continue reading Create Adverts For Your WordPress Site
Show an Event Calendar With a Free WordPress Calendar Plugin
Many businesses need to share event calendars with customers. For example, a restaurant can use an event calendar to advertise special musical events, or holiday menus. Similarly, schools can use event calendars on their websites to let students and teachers know about any upcoming activities in school related to sports, exams or other events. Event… Continue reading Show an Event Calendar With a Free WordPress Calendar Plugin
Create an Interactive World Map With a WordPress Plugin
There are many options to choose from when you are looking to add a map to your WordPress website. There are even free options for plugins that use Google Maps. However, the problem with many of the existing WordPress map plugins and free options is the lack of customization available to you. In order to… Continue reading Create an Interactive World Map With a WordPress Plugin
How to Create Custom Login and Registration Forms in WordPress
The login page is the first thing users will see when they need to access your site, so it needs to be beautiful and user-friendly. A boring login page can give users a bad impression of your site! Customizing the login to match your brand will lead to a better experience for users. In this… Continue reading How to Create Custom Login and Registration Forms in WordPress
How to Create a Trivia Quiz with Viral Quiz for WordPress
Generating traffic to your website and successfully marketing to this website traffic should be the number one concern for a website owner. Without this traffic and without a mechanism to get these website visitors to take action, you will have an incredibly difficult time building your business. One unexpected but effective way to draw in… Continue reading How to Create a Trivia Quiz with Viral Quiz for WordPress
Using the Services of a Graphic Designer
When you’re an artist or another type of creative professional, it makes sense to be really protective of the work you produce. It’s nice to have full autonomy over what happens and what’s produced in the marketplace. However, it’s also really important to have filters. Just because you feel one way about the work you’re… Continue reading Using the Services of a Graphic Designer
How Can Professional Headshots Build Trust in Business?
In business, one of the key elements to predict its success is through building trust and rapport among customers. Trust is something that has to be gained for a long time, as it can establish good relationships and breakthroughs, yet can have the worst effects when destroyed. Essentially, customers are more likely to trust a… Continue reading How Can Professional Headshots Build Trust in Business?
How to Make a Simple Flyer in Adobe InDesign
What You’ll Be Creating This simple flyer tutorial shows you how to create a rainbow-themed flyer template to promote IDAHOBIT at your workplace, college, or school. Perfect for beginners to Adobe InDesign, this is a quick and simple flyer design to put together. On 17 May, people worldwide are invited to celebrate IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia,… Continue reading How to Make a Simple Flyer in Adobe InDesign
Reasons for Web Designers to Stick with WordPress
Sometimes, even the best of friends can have a disagreement. That’s the sort of vibe that WordPress and its community have been dealing with for quite some time. There’s still a lot of love, but it goes along with some undertones of frustration. No, it’s not everyone who feels this way. It may not even… Continue reading Reasons for Web Designers to Stick with WordPress
How to Create a Rolling Stone-Inspired Magazine Cover
What You’ll Be Creating The first issue of iconic music magazine Rolling Stone was put on sale on 7 November 1967. Featuring John Lennon on the cover, the San Francisco-founded publication went on to become the go-to magazine for music fans worldwide. In this tutorial, we’ll pay tribute to the iconic graphic style of Rolling Stone, which… Continue reading How to Create a Rolling Stone-Inspired Magazine Cover
How to Make a Purchase Icon in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating Love icon design? If so, follow this tutorial and learn how to make a minimal purchase icon in three different versions. We will use only basic shapes, and with the help of the Align options and the Pathfinder options, we will build these icons step by step. By the end of… Continue reading How to Make a Purchase Icon in Adobe Illustrator
How to Make an InDesign Presentation Template
What You’ll Be Creating Ready to present your amazing business ideas? This InDesign presentation template will help you get what you need to launch your next project. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an InDesign presentation template. You will learn how to create a multi-page document and organize it with multiple layers. Paragraph… Continue reading How to Make an InDesign Presentation Template
Create an Animated SVG Logo for International Women’s Day 2019
To mark International Women’s Day 2019 we’ll be creating an animated SVG version of the event’s logo you can use along with this year’s hashtag #BalanceforBetter. In the process we’ll be learning about using Figma and its boolean operations, as well as inline SVG animation via the animateTransform element. This is what we’ll be creating:… Continue reading Create an Animated SVG Logo for International Women’s Day 2019
How to Make a Time Magazine Cover Template
What You’ll Be Creating Iconic, timeless, and visually appealing. In this tutorial, we show you how to make your own Time magazine cover template. Time magazine is well known and easily recognisable for its signature cover and its red border. First published in March 1923, this weekly magazine has the world’s largest circulation for a… Continue reading How to Make a Time Magazine Cover Template
How to Create Beautiful Custom YouTube Thumbnails without Photoshop
Are you a budding YouTube content creator? A new designer without much experience with YouTube? If you’re looking to increase your views and grab a user’s attention, you might need to think about your video thumbnails. YouTube video thumbnails serve as sort of a book cover for videos. If a thumbnail appears to be high-quality,… Continue reading How to Create Beautiful Custom YouTube Thumbnails without Photoshop
How to Make a Beating Heart Animation for St. Valentine’s Day With SVG
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Let’s get into the spirit of St. Valentine’s day, getting all pink and smooshy in the process, and code ourselves a simple beating heart animation with SVG. Here’s what we’re going to create: This is a great exercise for familiarizing yourself with SVG syntax and authentic animation.… Continue reading How to Make a Beating Heart Animation for St. Valentine’s Day With SVG
International Artist Feature: Slovenia
Welcome back to our International Artist Series. Today, we’re catching up with seven incredible artists from Slovenia, a central European country with vast mountainous scenes and landscapes. I asked each artist how their country and culture influenced their work, and they delivered great responses. Jernej Myint Our first artist, Jernej Myint, is a… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Slovenia
8 Ways to Reduce Your Android App APK Size
Since the Android Marketplace launched in March 2012, the size of the average Android app has quintupled. Some of this increase makes sense: the memory available to the typical Android device has increased, so why not use this extra memory to deliver a better user experience? However, there is a point where all of those… Continue reading 8 Ways to Reduce Your Android App APK Size
How to Draw Anime Hair
What You’ll Be Creating Hair is a very complex subject to draw, because it’s like a substance that can take many shapes and forms. Because of this, manga artists have developed a special method of simplifying hair. In manga or anime, you draw hair as a mass or a cloth. This way it can be… Continue reading How to Draw Anime Hair
How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Photoshop adjustment layers to create a fantasy photo manipulation featuring a rock goddess. First, we’ll build the base scene using several arch, rock and landscape images. After that, we’ll add the ground, the model’s face, and a rock texture. Later, we’ll add… Continue reading How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
How to Create an Engraved Stone Text Effect in Adobe InDesign
What You’ll Be Creating You can’t miss this Games of Thrones-style type effect. Perfect for posters and social media that need to command attention, this effect is also super quick and easy to create using Adobe InDesign. Learn better with video? Follow along on our Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel: How to Create an Engraved Stone… Continue reading How to Create an Engraved Stone Text Effect in Adobe InDesign
How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at drawing multiple hairstyles that tend to be popular choices for natural, afro textured hair: afros, locs, braids, and twists. While these styles could potentially be worn by people with other hair types, we will primarily focus on Type 4 hair. We’ll take a stylistic approach… Continue reading How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)
Best Practices For Website Footer Design
September 17, 2018 by Alex Fox Almost everything in website design has changed over time, but the core elements have always remained the same. There’s a header, navigation, a body, and a footer. But what’s a website footer for? Is it truly necessary, in 2018, to run a footer on your site? Why should I… Continue reading Best Practices For Website Footer Design