How to Design a Powerfully Persuasive Above the Fold Area

There are few parts of a website that command more attention than the area above the fold. This is the screen section users look at after immediately landing on a website. The punchier and more persuasive the above the fold is, the better your conversion rates. Despite its importance, this crucial real estate often gets… Continue reading How to Design a Powerfully Persuasive Above the Fold Area

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

What’s New in Core ML 2?

Last year, Apple launched Core ML—a segue into the world of machine learning for Apple developers. Before that, we were already using machine learning with technologies like AutoCorrect, Siri, and a predictive keyboard, but Core ML brought a new level of power and flexibility into the hands of developers. During WWDC 18, Apple announced Core… Continue reading What’s New in Core ML 2?

Step Up Your Photography Game With 5 Simple Rules

It is easier than ever for anyone to pick up their smartphone, take a few pictures, post them on social media and buoyed by positive feedback call themselves a photographer. However, there are several fundamental rules that you should follow which we will outline below. If you are keen on becoming serious with a good… Continue reading Step Up Your Photography Game With 5 Simple Rules

Trigonometry, Random Numbers and More With Built-in PHP Math Functions

Basic maths is used a lot during programming. We need to frequently compare, add, multiply, subtract and divide different values when writing code.  Sometimes, the maths required in a program can be more involved. You might need to work with logarithmic, trigonometric or exponential functions. In this tutorial, I’ll discuss how to use each of… Continue reading Trigonometry, Random Numbers and More With Built-in PHP Math Functions

New Free Text Effect Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials (20 Tuts)

Free text effect tutorials to create basic and advance typography, lettering styles and fonts. These tutorials help to learn how to create 2D, 3D, Retro & Vintage and 80’s text effects in Photoshop and Illustrator. In this article you will find the new released text effect tutorials. These high quality tutorials help to design amazing wooden, neon and glowing text effects with basic and… Continue reading New Free Text Effect Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials (20 Tuts)

Monstroid Revamped: New Features and Possibilities

Web designers, coders, and entrepreneurs, we have exciting news for you! The multipurpose Monstroid template got revamped and updated! Our loyal customers know that this theme had been our flagman for a long time (before Monstroid2 came out). You may be wondering: Why would anyone remake Monstroid if there is a bestselling successor – Monstroid2?… Continue reading Monstroid Revamped: New Features and Possibilities

21 Awesome WordPress Podcast Themes to Make Audio Sites

If 2017 was the year of the podcast, then 2018 is the year of the podcast website–here’s a collection of WordPress themes to build your perfect podcast site. The Unstoppable Rise of the Podcast The NPR Podcast sketch from comedy show Portlandia has all the hallmarks of peak podcasting: soft-spoken hosts, quirky background music, a Blue… Continue reading 21 Awesome WordPress Podcast Themes to Make Audio Sites

Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re like me, you’ve been using Google Maps to add maps to your WordPress sites for years, but you sometimes get a little frustrated about the lack of customization options. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use an alternative—a WordPress plugin called MapSVG that lets you… Continue reading Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin

How to Digitally Paint Dimension and Texture in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating How do you add volume and texture to digital paintings? Simple. Just reference real-life objects! Digital painting is difficult for many people, but it’s really all about patience and giving yourself adequate time to develop details to the best of your ability. So today, we’re going to tackle this challenge by… Continue reading How to Digitally Paint Dimension and Texture in Adobe Photoshop

How to Boost Email Conversions With Personalization and Dynamic Content

Did you know, that instead of sending the same email to everyone on your mailing list, you can improve your results and conversions by sending highly-targeted messages to laser-focused audiences? I’m not just talking about just personalizing the message subject line or the greeting–those things help, but what I’m talking about is using dynamic content… Continue reading How to Boost Email Conversions With Personalization and Dynamic Content

Save time on image design with graphic editor Crello

Are you looking for a professional tool for your digital designing needs that helps making your marketing strategies better? Then, Crello is perfect for you. There are many visual graphic design tools out there in the market. Some of them are quite expensive. Other free tools need a forced sign up to use few of… Continue reading Save time on image design with graphic editor Crello

5 Photoshop Effects for Mind-Blowing Web Graphics

Utilizing the right images on your website can make a huge impact. Images can get your message across in a way that words alone cannot. It’s one of the most surefire methods to stand out from the crowd. To get the most out of your images, you’ll want to use a professional-grade tool like Adobe… Continue reading 5 Photoshop Effects for Mind-Blowing Web Graphics

How to Create a Glowing, Fireflies Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating Have you ever caught fireflies on a warm summer night? When I was a kid we used to call them “lightning bugs.” I was always fascinated by how they would shine and glow against the sky, and loved releasing them back into the night. So in this tutorial, I’ll show you… Continue reading How to Create a Glowing, Fireflies Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

Site Accessibility: Getting Started With ARIA

What You’ll Be Creating Using standard HTML alone, modern web apps can lock out users with accessibility needs.  HTML is the predominant markup language online, being used by nearly 83% of existing websites. While there have been some changes in the 25 years since its creation, even newer iterations, such as HTML5 and AMP, leave… Continue reading Site Accessibility: Getting Started With ARIA

The Best Promotional Tool for Your Online Business

When you have an online business, there are three things you need to keep in mind to be successful: credibility, visibility, and promotion. Having these three things down can seem difficult but if you have the right tools up your sleeve it shouldn’t be. Placeit is an online tool that enables you to generate graphics… Continue reading The Best Promotional Tool for Your Online Business

How to Reduce Image File Size for Your Website

Images are an enormous part of the modern online experience. To use them effectively, you’ll need to know how to reduce image file size for your website. As average connection speed has increased, images have become less of a deadly burden on page load times. With the bandwidth sufficient to push a huge amount of… Continue reading How to Reduce Image File Size for Your Website

Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg

What You’ll Be Creating WordPress Gutenberg is coming soon to a website near you. It will revolutionise the way you write posts and create pages, so get ready to use it by taking our new course, Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg. What You’ll Learn Gutenberg is a completely new way for people to create content… Continue reading Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg

How to Create a Sunburst Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating This sunlight photo effect is a part of the Rays Of Light Photoshop Action from my portfolio on Envato Market.  You can also the check the Animated Sunlight Photoshop Creator. The color tones of the sunlight rays and the flare effects are easy to edit and customize. Sunlight Rays Photoshop Action Tutorial Assets… Continue reading How to Create a Sunburst Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

A Guide to CrocoBlock Service – How to Create a Website Without Any Experience

Creating a website seems to be a fascinating idea, at least, at first thought. However, when you start looking for the right way to put it together, you discover that the things are actually more complicated than you expected. That’s when page builders come into play. Lately, there are lots of them. One of the… Continue reading A Guide to CrocoBlock Service – How to Create a Website Without Any Experience

Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets

Flutter is fast becoming one of the most popular frameworks for developing cross-platform mobile apps. Most Android and iOS developers today are starting to agree that it is a faster and more future-proof alternative to other cross-platform frameworks such as React Native and NativeScript. Google itself is leaving no stone unturned to attract more developers to… Continue reading Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets

7 Top Corporate and Business Web Designs

July 23, 2018 by Spyrestudios Web design trends aside, some things stay constant for a corporate or business website to stand out from among the hundreds and thousands in its industry. It must be contemporary, with a cutting-edge design that is appropriate for its business. It must provide a great user experience, a responsive design… Continue reading 7 Top Corporate and Business Web Designs

10 steps for a better queer user experience

Do allow users to change or write in their own gender, if this is something your application makes use of. Forcing a user to re-create their whole account if their gender identity should shift isn’t a great experience and it feels like a waste of resources. Consider not having users specify a gender. There are… Continue reading 10 steps for a better queer user experience

Pre-built websites: How to Refresh a Website’s Look on Fast-Forward

Posted · Category: Best Collections There’s an awful lot of dull, unattractive websites out there that are in dire need of upgrading or total redesign. The owners of those websites are either unaware of the problem or hesitant to ask how much redesign would cost. Web designers would of course welcome the work, even though… Continue reading Pre-built websites: How to Refresh a Website’s Look on Fast-Forward