How to create a color ramp used in design systems

Whether you’re a brand designer putting the finishing touches on a color palette or a product designer laying the foundational work for a design system, I will walk you through how to create color ramps utilized in design systems. If you’re new to creating color palettes for digital spaces, check out my previous article, Color for… Continue reading How to create a color ramp used in design systems

SVG Viewport and viewBox (For Complete Beginners)

In this quick SVG viewport and viewBox tutorial, we’re going to break down exactly what viewport and viewBox are in SVG for the web. You’ll learn: The difference between the viewport and viewBox The aspects of your SVGs you can control with each How they are each applied Let’s begin! SVG Viewport  If you literally… Continue reading SVG Viewport and viewBox (For Complete Beginners)

How to Increase max_execution_time in PHP

In this quick article, we’ll explore the different options that allow you to increase the maximum amount of time a script is allowed to run before it’s terminated by a the parser in PHP. What is the max_execution_time Directive in PHP? The max_execution_time directive sets the maximum amount of time a script is allowed to… Continue reading How to Increase max_execution_time in PHP

How to Create a Vintage Type Postcard

What You’ll Be Creating In the following steps, you will learn how to design a vintage postcard in Adobe Illustrator. Harken back to an era when postcards were all the rage with this friendly type style. The tutorial will delve into clipping masks, using bitmap images, working with layers, effects, and blends.  What You’ll Learn… Continue reading How to Create a Vintage Type Postcard

WordPress Troubleshooting: HTTP Error When Uploading Images

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to fix the HTTP error sometimes seen when uploading images to WordPress. This is actually a pretty common error and there are several ways to fix it, so let’s break it down. Troubleshooting Uploading Errors in WordPress Here’s a complete video version of this tutorial. Follow along with us… Continue reading WordPress Troubleshooting: HTTP Error When Uploading Images

How to Create a Stylish Magazine Layout in Affinity Publisher

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a simple and stylish magazine spread using Affinity Publisher, the great-value and easy-to-use alternative to Adobe InDesign. Affinity Publisher templates are great foundations for creating your own unique magazine designs—here you’ll learn how to create an editable magazine spread for an online magazine,… Continue reading How to Create a Stylish Magazine Layout in Affinity Publisher

How to Create a Newsletter Template in Affinity Publisher (Free Newsletter Template)

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a newsletter template in Affinity Publisher. This simple newsletter template is easy to put together and quick to customise, and it also features an on-trend color palette and contemporary typography, making for one of the best newsletter templates you can find for corporate… Continue reading How to Create a Newsletter Template in Affinity Publisher (Free Newsletter Template)

Popular Design News of the Week: April 13, 2020 – April 19, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: April 13, 2020 – April 19, 2020

How to Design a Money Management App UI in Sketch

What You’ll Be Creating In this Sketch app tutorial you will learn how to create a money management mobile UI design. Take a look at the final design to see what we’ll be working towards. Feel free to download the source files too. What We’ll Learn For starters, you will learn how to set up… Continue reading How to Design a Money Management App UI in Sketch

Automatically Create a Multilingual WordPress Site With a Translator Plugin

A multilingual WordPress site is one that offers content in more than one language. For example, a site can provide content in English, French, German, and Spanish. Since most countries have more than one official language, it makes sense to have content in multiple languages. Having a multilingual site is one of the best ways… Continue reading Automatically Create a Multilingual WordPress Site With a Translator Plugin

Emergency Lead Marketing Services for Plumbing Needs

Are you running a plumbing company but you don’t have much to do. If you are not earning $80,000 as net profit per annum approximately then you are on the right page. You being the owner of a plumbing company spends more time online to seek ways to maximize the profit then you should have… Continue reading Emergency Lead Marketing Services for Plumbing Needs

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

9 Handful Tutorials For Learning WordPress As Per Your Need

WordPress is fastest growing CMS around and by the time the thirst of it’s learning is increasing as well. To arrange the possibilities of learning WordPress for everyone, we have hand-picked some easy to understand and useful tutorials consist of tips, tricks and how-to guides. With the help of these tutorials, any WordPress learner can… Continue reading 9 Handful Tutorials For Learning WordPress As Per Your Need

How the Quality of Your Website Affects Marketing Opportunities

The fortunes of any website depend on a wide range of factors. Some of these are obvious, but among the less considered factors is the overall quality of a website. Not many web owners seem to realize it, but a well-designed website will present many more marketing opportunities than an amateurish one. Increase the Chances… Continue reading How the Quality of Your Website Affects Marketing Opportunities

How and Why to Optimize Images On the Site?

Everyone who runs a website knows that the loading speed is the most important factor for high convension, especially, if this is an online market. Studies made by Walmart clearly show that the longer it takes to load the page, the less operations made on the site by potential customers, because no one simply wants… Continue reading How and Why to Optimize Images On the Site?

The Best Email Design Hunt 2017 – Showcase Your Email Design Talent

Emails have paved a long way from being a plain text personal communication to an effective marketing channel with amazing animations and interesting interactive elements. The entire email industry is sure to experience many more revolutionary trends in the years to come. EmailMonks, one of the largest email template production company, is happy to announce,… Continue reading The Best Email Design Hunt 2017 – Showcase Your Email Design Talent

20 Time Saving & Free Photoshop Plugins

There are many rivals to Photoshop. Sketch app, Acorn, Gimp, Autodesk Pixlr, PaintShop Pro and others. I can honestly say that all of these tools are really nice and good. But it’s really hard to compare with the Photoshop. The interface of the tools I’ve mentioned before is really nice, it’s easier to use it,… Continue reading 20 Time Saving & Free Photoshop Plugins

15 Incredibly Useful Tools To Increase Your Poductivity

If you’re starting a business, new project or even a daily task, you will want to find useful productivity tools to manage all tasks easier and faster. During past few years of freelancing I’ve tried many tools. Some of them were to save time, some of them were to find a shortcut and others were to… Continue reading 15 Incredibly Useful Tools To Increase Your Poductivity

8 Scientifically Proven Ways to Increase Your Happiness

We can take charge of our happiness by choosing to engage in activities like physical exercise and performing acts of kindness to help us find happiness. The good news is that there are also several other scientifically-proven activities which when done habitually, can help us in our quest for happiness. After looking through many of… Continue reading 8 Scientifically Proven Ways to Increase Your Happiness