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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 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

Best WPBakery (Visual Composer) Add-Ons and Templates on Envato Elements

WPBakery (formerly Visual Composer) is one of the most well-known and feature-packed visual page builders available for WordPress. While the team at WPBakery is always improving on their product, the number of variations of web projects out there make it impossible to rely on a single plugin for all of your needs. Luckily, though, WPBakery… Continue reading Best WPBakery (Visual Composer) Add-Ons and Templates on Envato Elements

Mason Is a Front-End Builder Worth Exploring

Building a front-end for your site from scratch might be the hardest part of building a great web app. The idea and logic can be perfect, but if the user interface is a wreck, you’ll never be a success. That’s where tools like Mason’s front-end-as-a-service become so valuable. With Mason, you can visually build a… Continue reading Mason Is a Front-End Builder Worth Exploring

How Ransomware Attacks Target WordPress Sites

WordPress remains THE most popular platform for blogging and content management, with a a full 30% of websites on the internet using it. As a result of this popularity, hacking attempts and other instances of cybercrime, especially ransomware attacks, are on the rise. Starting in 2017, analysts began to see an increase of the EV… Continue reading How Ransomware Attacks Target WordPress Sites

Top 8 Presentation Design Trends in 2019

Every year, new trends are introduced in video presentation designs. Some trends that are good have been adapted into the standard for video presentation while those that only add aesthetics are usually the ones that change every year. It is important to consider these design trends if you want to use your presentation as a… Continue reading Top 8 Presentation Design Trends in 2019

Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins

If you run a WordPress site, you need a reliable contact form so that visitors can reach you with their questions and comments. However, with so many WordPress form builders on the market, it can be difficult to find the very best contact form WordPress has to offer. To save you the time-wasting and head-scratching… Continue reading Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins

Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re switching to WordPress from a static site, from a site builder provided by your hosting provider, or even from an old WordPress site, you’ll want to ensure that your old site still works while you’re setting up the shiny new WordPress installation. The good news is that you don’t… Continue reading Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running

How to Choose a Software Development Company For a Startup?

An idea. This is what every great project starts from. An idea is essential, but you won’t go far if you don’t know how to turn it into a real product. If a startup founder lacks the necessary expertise but doesn’t want to give up the idea, there are three possible ways out: – Learn… Continue reading How to Choose a Software Development Company For a Startup?

How to Draw a Cartoon Nose

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at different ways of drawing cartoon noses. We’ll start with the nose’s construction, and then use this in the context of experimenting with stylistic renditions of this part of the face. When in doubt, I recommend looking at references, even when drawing stylistically! They can be… Continue reading How to Draw a Cartoon Nose

Types of Software Your Online Business Should Use

Running a business online is becoming an increasingly popular way to become an entrepreneur. Not only does it require less startup costs than traditional businesses, but can often be done from a single computer (at least when starting out). Also, due to the advancement and innovation of technology, there are a variety of online tools… Continue reading Types of Software Your Online Business Should Use

How To Create An Amazing and Engaging Blog

Creating a blog is something that you shouldn’t take lightly. Why? Because if you want your blog to be successful you need to put time and energy into it to make it up to the level that you’re looking to get it to. If you’re new to blog platforms and blog creation, then this article… Continue reading How To Create An Amazing and Engaging Blog

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

File Upload With Multer in Node.js and Express

When a web client uploads a file to a server, it is generally submitted through a form and encoded as multipart/form-data. Multer is middleware for Express and Node.js that makes it easy to handle this multipart/form-data when your users upload files. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use this library to handle different file upload situations… Continue reading File Upload With Multer in Node.js and Express

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

Create a WordPress Image Gallery: Code the Plugin

What You’ll Be Creating People like pictures. They like looking at them, they like clicking on them. So it makes sense to use them in the navigation for your site. You may already use featured images in your archive pages, letting users get a greater insight into what a post is about and making your… Continue reading Create a WordPress Image Gallery: Code the Plugin

Introduction to Firebase

We are in an era of rapid prototyping. We may get bright ideas, but sometimes they don’t get implemented if they take too much work. Often, the back-end is the limiting factor—many ideas never get implemented due to lack of knowledge or time for server-side coding. As a mobile developer, using a back-end as a service (BaaS) platform can… Continue reading Introduction to Firebase

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)

5 Most Clever WordPress Tweaks to Improve Your Site (Without Plugins)

WordPress is one of the best CMS out there for a number of reasons. Aside from being flexible and highly customizable, you can supercharge it using powerful plugins. Regardless of your goals for your website, you can be sure there’s a plugin for that. However, it’s always better to forego plugins and hard-code them into… Continue reading 5 Most Clever WordPress Tweaks to Improve Your Site (Without Plugins)

Testing Components in React Using Jest and Enzyme

This is the second part of the series on Testing Components in React. If you have prior experience with Jest, you can skip ahead and use the GitHub code as a starting point.  In the previous article, we covered the basic principles and ideas behind test-driven development. We also set up the environment and the tools… Continue reading Testing Components in React Using Jest and Enzyme

The Impact WordPress Has Had on the Web

WordPress recently celebrated its 15th birthday. Not only is it quite an achievement for anything web-related to last that long, it’s also impressive to see that the content management system is still at its peak relevancy. That got me thinking about the impact WordPress has had on the web and specifically on web designers. Frankly,… Continue reading The Impact WordPress Has Had on the Web

Tracking Users In An Age of Ad Blockers

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, 26 percent of desktop users employ ad blocking extensions while using the Internet. 15 percent of mobile users employ similar content blockers, with the largest segment of both groups being men between the ages of 18 to 24. While this might be higher among your own peer group of… Continue reading Tracking Users In An Age of Ad Blockers

What’s the impact of Design, you ask?

A quick introduction Design, to me, is to bring compelling ideas to life. Having come from an Engineering background with a bit of experience in Product Marketing, I quickly realized the importance of Design. I dream of being in the front row in creating experiences that positively impact a million people’s lives. Like I want… Continue reading What’s the impact of Design, you ask?