6 Best WordPress Lightbox Plugins

What Is a WordPress Lightbox Plugin? If you have a website with multiple images that you want to highlight, you could definitely benefit from using a lightbox. Generally, a lightbox allows people to click on an image or other content to view its enlarged version overlaid on the rest of the page. While the lightbox… Continue reading 6 Best WordPress Lightbox Plugins

5 Unexpected UX Design Skills to Help You Level Up

Whenever a hiring boom like this happens, you have to consider how it could work against you. Sure, there are more job openings. However, that means that more UX designers (and designer wannabes) are going to come out of the woodwork, trying to snag up the highly coveted gigs. So, let’s assume that you’re all… Continue reading 5 Unexpected UX Design Skills to Help You Level Up

How to Build a MouseOver Navigation Slide Effect

Have you ever used the Slider Revolution WordPress plugin in a project? If the answer is “yes”, you might have noticed the mini toolbar that appears in the right corner of the plugin’s configuration page. Initially, only the icons are visible, keeping the whole thing nice and compact. Then each time you hover over an icon, its… Continue reading How to Build a MouseOver Navigation Slide Effect

Are You Too Old to Be a Web Designer?

There’s nothing nice about asking the question “How old is too old to …?” So, I’m going to start by getting the answer out of the way, right now:  You’re never too old to…  …become a web designer… …transition from web designer to UX designer… …become a full-stack designer-developer powerhouse… …or do whatever the heck… Continue reading Are You Too Old to Be a Web Designer?

Easiest Solution to Scrape Web: Scrapestack | Resources

Scrapestack is a simple and easy to use solution for people who want to access websites with IP blocks and proxy issues. Users are only required to put the full website URL and the page will be accessible without revealing their geo location or any technical issues. The scrapestack IP address data comes from numerous… Continue reading Easiest Solution to Scrape Web: Scrapestack | Resources

Start With These Courses and Tutorials

For those looking to build hybrid mobile apps, Ionic is one of the first frameworks that you’ll run into. There’s good reason that it has gained significant usage among developers looking to create apps for several mobile devices from a single code base. Ionic has a number of features that go beyond other offerings though,… Continue reading Start With These Courses and Tutorials

What’s New for Designers, September 2019

While there aren’t as many new tools out there to play with right now, the ones available are a lot of fun. From tools to help speed up workflows and manage productivity, to creative gamification and funky typefaces, these new tools for designers will make you want to stick to your desk. Here’s what new… Continue reading What’s New for Designers, September 2019

20 Best New Portfolios, September 2019

Every month we roundup the best portfolios launched by agencies, freelance designers, and other creative professionals, into one easy-to-digest collection. And now we come to September. The kids are off to school (the poor dears), the teachers are off to school (the poor dears), and you’re free to spend some time thinking about the most… Continue reading 20 Best New Portfolios, September 2019

An Introduction to CSS-in-JS: Examples, Pros, and Cons

CSS-in-JS libraries provide us with a new approach for writing CSS. They aim to tackle the limitations of CSS, such as the lack of dynamic functionality, scoping, and portability. In spite of its advantages, CSS-in-JS is a controversial technology, as many developers ask if it’s worth further complicating front-end development.  This article intends to give… Continue reading An Introduction to CSS-in-JS: Examples, Pros, and Cons

Leon Sans: A geometric typeface based on JavaScript

Leon Sans is a free geometric sans-serif typeface made with code (it’s based on JavaScript) by Jongmin Kim. It allows to adjust the font-weight and other properties dynamically via JS for creating custom animations, effects or shapes in an HTML canvas. Super cool, is it? View examples Download font

Build a Simple Weather App With Vanilla JavaScript

We have a lot of interesting things to cover, so grab a cup of coffee and let’s get started! Here’s a quick navigation menu for you. What You’ll Learn In This Weather API JavaScript Tutorial: Scaffolding the Weather App Find a Weather API What is OpenWeather? Where To Find Weather Icons and… Continue reading Build a Simple Weather App With Vanilla JavaScript

How to Create a Web Booking Form With the Smart Forms Script

Booking forms can serve a lot of purposes on a website. You can use them to allow your visitors to book a hotel room or tickets to a popular event. They can also be used for other things like booking appointments with clients. They are a great way for people to simply give you all… Continue reading How to Create a Web Booking Form With the Smart Forms Script

10 Best Mobile Apps for Learning to Code

What’s even better is that you don’t have to spend years mastering programming either. Thanks to numerous coding apps available for both Android and iOS devices, you can easily level up your coding skills even when you’re on the go. In this post, we’ve rounded up the best coding apps that will help you learn… Continue reading 10 Best Mobile Apps for Learning to Code

Build an Advanced Responsive Menu Inspired by Netflix

The other day I visited the Netflix Jobs website from my phone and had a look at its off-canvas menu. I really liked the staggering animations that fired every time you hit it. So I thought it might be a good exercise to take this menu as inspiration and show you how to build a similar responsive… Continue reading Build an Advanced Responsive Menu Inspired by Netflix

Is Google Toast?

For those too young to remember, the Browser Wars entailed a tech rush by, among others, Netscape and Microsoft, resulting in useless features being implemented because they were fast to bolt-on, and useful features being rushed because they were hard. After the Browser Wars, the internet entered an era of stability as the last vestiges… Continue reading Is Google Toast?

What’s New for Designers, July 2019

It’s hard to stay focused this time of year. With vacations coming up (or having recently passed) it’s easy to get distracted from work-related tasks. For that reason, this month’s roundup is full of design tools plus a few design diversions that you can have fun with. 404 Illustrations Have you ever wanted to create… Continue reading What’s New for Designers, July 2019

How to Code a “Click to Tweet” Button

With Instagram, Snapchat and other “young” social media platforms taking over the internet, Twitter still remains one of the most popular marketing channels. It has around 326 million active users per month which means that your target audience is likely using it. This is why you should at least consider using it as a marketing… Continue reading How to Code a “Click to Tweet” Button

Best Free WordPress Plugins for Optimizing Website Performance

Did you know that search engines like Google give preference to fast-loading websites in their rankings? Visitors are also less likely to abandon your site if it loads quickly. Everyone expects a website to load as quickly as possible—if it doesn’t, they will likely abandon it and visit the competitor instead. This means that a… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Plugins for Optimizing Website Performance

Easier Apps With Ionic Templates, Frameworks, and Tools

One of the biggest problems in development is the idea of “limitless” possibilities. How do you choose what app to build when you can create anything? Which choice to get from point A to point B is the right one, when there are so many combinations on how to get there? This holds true when… Continue reading Easier Apps With Ionic Templates, Frameworks, and Tools

Build an App With GraphQL, Laravel, and Vue

If you want to learn about a useful new web API that offers a more dynamic and robust API for fetching and submitting data, try our new course, Build an App With GraphQL, Laravel, and Vue. What You’ll Learn Join Jeremy McPeak in this course as he teaches you how to create GraphQL APIs with… Continue reading Build an App With GraphQL, Laravel, and Vue

How to Create a Mega Menu With a Free WordPress Plugin

In this post, we’ll explore the WP Mega Menu plugin which allows you to create content-rich navigation menus on your WordPress site. We’ll go through the different aspects of this plugin and we’ll also build a real-world example for demonstration purposes. A sticky menu stays at the top of the screen, so that however far… Continue reading How to Create a Mega Menu With a Free WordPress Plugin

Create Beautiful Forms With PHP Form Builder

If you are a PHP developer, creating forms, validating form submissions, and managing PHP sessions are probably tasks that are part and parcel of your job. All these tasks, although rather repetitive, require lots of time and attention, especially if you care about best practices relating to design and security. By using a well-tested form… Continue reading Create Beautiful Forms With PHP Form Builder

20 Best HTML5 and JavaScript Game Engines and Templates

With Flash end-of-life announced for the end of 2020, HTML5 and JavaScript games have quickly taken over, becoming a major source of gaming on the web. With this major shift in the landscape though came a move from largely using one tool to create online games, to using dozens (maybe hundreds!) of different engines, libraries,… Continue reading 20 Best HTML5 and JavaScript Game Engines and Templates

Tips for Enhancing Website Loading Speed by Proper Optimization

Today era is digitization world, where website accessibility is the most common task. Users use websites for a variety of reasons in their day to day tasks. If a user is searching a query using any digital assistant whether phone or desktop, they expect quick and relevant answers to that. For example, if a user… Continue reading Tips for Enhancing Website Loading Speed by Proper Optimization