Working with Data, Assets, and Templates in Middleman

This second tutorial about building static websites with Middleman dives a little deeper into the framework. By the end, you should know enough to build your own project from scratch. We’ll cover topics such as Data Files, Pretty URLs, Project Templates and the Asset Pipeline, so let’s get stuck in! Data Files So, having already… Continue reading Working with Data, Assets, and Templates in Middleman

Icons In Web Design

Image source: thestorefront.com[2] Well-executed and beautiful icons look like tiny and cute images, but they are much more than that. They are extremely advantageous to every website because they attach visual cues to the essential elements of a website (headings, sections, buttons, etc) and they make the site/app look professional and sophisticated. Generally speaking, icons… Continue reading Icons In Web Design

10 fresh examples of diffuse shadow UIs

It seems like some of web design trends aren’t going anywhere soon. We’ve seen Material Design initiation and evolution, advanced animations and microinteractions, vibrant color schemes, beautiful typography, great use of minimalism, new responsive design technique and tools and much more interesting stuff. We also noticed a new trend that is making its way through… Continue reading 10 fresh examples of diffuse shadow UIs

How To Create And Customize A WordPress Child Theme

The WordPress platform is a magnet for those who want to take matters into their own hands, who want complete control over their websites and want to be independent in running them. WordPress does make it really easily to completely customize a website. If you have a bit of knowledge of HTMl, CSS and/or PHP,… Continue reading How To Create And Customize A WordPress Child Theme

How To Design An App Walkthrough

Image source: Dan Machado[2] There are so many walkthroughs-misuse situations, that it is questionable whether designers really understand their purpose. There are many complex apps which don’t have walkthroughs, the same as simple ones which don’t need them, but they still incorporated them in their design. This makes the decision on whether to use walkthroughs… Continue reading How To Design An App Walkthrough

Pointy Slider In CSS and jQuery (tutorial)

Pointy Slider is a slideshow with sliding-in panels that unveil new, fixed background images.Pointy Slider is simple, responsive slider, with a sharp design and an interesting motion effect: with each new slide item, a sliding-in block of content covers the old one, and unveils a new image. It ‘s been created by Codyhouse using CSS… Continue reading Pointy Slider In CSS and jQuery (tutorial)

Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists

What You’ll Be Creating WooCommerce gives you a few options as to what you can display on your archive pages: products categories (on the main shop page) or subcategories (on category pages) both products and categories. When I’m setting up a store, I normally select the third option: products and categories/subcategories. This means visitors to… Continue reading Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists

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

20 Free Vectors to Use in Your Designs

If you’ve been searching far and wide for high-quality free vector graphics, a quick look through the superb selection should convince you that your efforts have finally been rewarded. Most of these are royalty free and many are yours for the asking. Vector graphicsserve a multiplicity of purposes.You can use them tohighlight your brand. Some… Continue reading 20 Free Vectors to Use in Your Designs

Weekly Inspiration: Good Golly, Gradients

Gradients are making a sneaky comeback. For a while they belonged to the world of Miami Vice and Tequila Sunrise, then they added depth to 1980’s magazines, then there was Geocities–ok, let’s not dwell on the past. Nowadays gradients are being used on the web in bold fashion; mixing highly saturated colors for extremely rich… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Good Golly, Gradients

How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Learn how to create this fantasy photo manipulation of a pirate house scene set in warm scenic dreamscape with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create rocky mountain using photos of rock and stones, combine ruin of castle to create dramatic pirate house in the dreamscape with warm vivid lighting. Throughout the tutorial,… Continue reading How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Quick Tip: Don’t Forget the “noscript” Element

JavaScript is a powerful language which brings websites to life with interactivity, until that dreaded moment when JavaScript is disabled in the browser, out of the blue. In this quick tip we’ll look at providing fallbacks with the <noscript> element. No JavaScript Users might disable JavaScript for a number of reasons. They might be doing so to… Continue reading Quick Tip: Don’t Forget the “noscript” Element

100+ Logo PSD & Vector Mockup Templates

Elegant Logo Mockup Pack This fantastic logo mockup pack includes 6 different styles for your logo, 3 different front view backgrounds, 2 different perspective view backgrounds, and is fully layered for use in Photoshop. Mix Branding Logo Mockups A beautiful assortment of 14 branding logo mockups, handpicked from multiple logo mockup categories. This bundle gives… Continue reading 100+ Logo PSD & Vector Mockup Templates

Strategies For Creating Better User Interfaces

Believe it or otherwise not, perfect interfaces are created on an item of paper. It’s much later on that the exact same is used in Photoshop or Sketch App. The primary advantage of paper sketches may be the possibility to produce errors. Unlike limited design pc software, paper is ready to accept everybody’s imagination and… Continue reading Strategies For Creating Better User Interfaces

Learn Advanced High End Beauty Retouching in Photoshop

High End Beauty Images are desired product in advertisement of luxurious products as well as in Fashion and Beauty magazines. In this course You will learn the best techniques for High and Beauty Retouch, which are going to place Your retouching skills on a totally new level. So first of all what is High End… Continue reading Learn Advanced High End Beauty Retouching in Photoshop

A Beginners Guide to Titan Framework: Adding an Enable Type Option

Providing end users with the option to enable or disable certain features of a premium plugin or a theme is pretty common. Titan Framework has recently pushed a new option to its core which does exactly that. Let’s see how you can add an enable/disable toggle button inside an admin panel, a metabox or a… Continue reading A Beginners Guide to Titan Framework: Adding an Enable Type Option

A Simple Responsive JavaScript Image Gallery

I’ve covered basic image galleries with CSS and PHP in previous articles, making it time to do the same thing with JavaScript. Image Options As with the other image gallery examples, we need a two versions of each image: a thumbnail image and a full-size image. In this case, you have two options for the… Continue reading A Simple Responsive JavaScript Image Gallery

CamanJS – Image Manipulation in JavaScript

CamanJS is (ca)nvas (man)ipulation in Javascript. It’s a combination of a simple-to-use interface with advanced and efficient image/canvas editing techniques. CamanJS is very easy to extend with new filters and plugins, and it comes with a wide array of image editing functionality, which continues to grow. It’s completely library independent and works both in NodeJS… Continue reading CamanJS – Image Manipulation in JavaScript

Free Image Editor: 4 Stellar Programs to Help You Create Beautiful Images

Need a new free image editor? Today we’re taking a look at four free tools you can use to design your own custom image graphics for sharing in blog posts or on social media. While toiling away in advanced image editing programs will always allow for unparalleled sophistication, there are some incredible free tools online that… Continue reading Free Image Editor: 4 Stellar Programs to Help You Create Beautiful Images

Posts, Pages and Post Types

In this part of this series on WP_Query, you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to query for posts, pages and custom post types. You can query for specific posts and pages or you can run a query to return posts of one or more post types. A Recap on How Arguments Work in WP_Query Before… Continue reading Posts, Pages and Post Types

10 Useful jQuery Image Slider Plugins

While working on various designing an development projects, there sometime arises the need of various plugins, tools and extensions that claim to solve the purpose with ease. What these extensions do is they ensure to help you get the desired results without having to undergo the entire process by yourself. In short, the plugins, tools, apps and extensions… Continue reading 10 Useful jQuery Image Slider Plugins

Image Comparison Slider with CSS3 and jQuery

Image Comparison Slider is a handy draggable slider to quickly compare 2 images, powered by CSS3 and jQuery. When you create a product page, there are some effective UX solutions that can be used to make the user ‘feel’ the product. A comparison image slider is one of those. If you look at the Sony… Continue reading Image Comparison Slider with CSS3 and jQuery

20 jQuery Plugins to Create Amazing Photo Galleries

Inspiring and creative webpage visual effects further enhance the charm of website, especially when we are talking about photo galleries and portfolio presentations. And when viewing is made more convenient with additional options and information with no loss of quality of presentation and performance of the website, it is one plus point previously considered a… Continue reading 20 jQuery Plugins to Create Amazing Photo Galleries

25 Fresh Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

When you are considering graphical editing or effects or visual enhancements, you go Photoshop. Photoshop is the most widely used software in any matter where graphical designing and refurnishing is concerned as it offers one of the most dynamic graphics editing practices ever. Anyone related to field of visual graphics depends on Photoshop as air… Continue reading 25 Fresh Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials