How to Lint CSS Using Stylelint

Linters have been around for a good while; but if you’re new to CSS this might be the first you’ve heard about them. A CSS linter will keep your stylesheets in check and make you a better coder! What Are the Benefits of CSS Linters? As front end developers we hope that the code we… Continue reading How to Lint CSS Using Stylelint

Understand Your Users with Positionstack

One of the best things about the Internet is that it (mostly) doesn’t care where you are. The person you’re interacting with might be in Rio or Rhode Island, Bahrain or Birmingham. The Internet opens up the world. But opening up the world doesn’t mean removing it. The geographic independence loved by users can be… Continue reading Understand Your Users with Positionstack

How to Get Started With an Android App Template

Creating an attractive user interface for Android apps is almost always a time-consuming task. It takes days, sometimes weeks, to conceptualize and design pixel-perfect layouts that look good on all screen sizes and pixel densities. Furthermore, with most users today expecting their apps to adhere to the guidelines of Material Design, the task has arguably… Continue reading How to Get Started With an Android App Template

11 Best Weather WordPress Widgets & Plugins

Running a venue is difficult to deal with as the weather can have a negative impact on your business. For golf courses, wedding destinations, and even restaurants with patios, bad weather can really take a toll on attendance.  Add a visually pleasing and powerful WordPress weather plugin on your WordPress website to let your potential customers… Continue reading 11 Best Weather WordPress Widgets & Plugins

9 Best Type Foundries for When You’Re Sick of Google Fonts

To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with Google Fonts. In fact, there are tons of reasons to use Google Fonts in your projects: they’re free to use, licensing is simplified, and they generally load pretty quickly on the web. But what if you want to shake things up and give other options a try? You… Continue reading 9 Best Type Foundries for When You’Re Sick of Google Fonts

When to Use Them and Tips for Good UX

Sliders, slideshows, carousels: call them what you will, they’re an incredibly popular way to enhance a WordPress site. When I create a site for a client, they almost always ask me to add one to their home page, if not to every page in the site. But although undeniably attractive, sliders aren’t always needed in… Continue reading When to Use Them and Tips for Good UX

20 Best Kindergarten & Preschool Children WordPress Themes for 2020

Whether you’re looking to advertise a school or childminding service, release a children-focused learning or play website, or even sell kids’ products, you need to make sure you get your site spot on. Parents are often extremely discerning customers, so producing a high-quality website to share your products or services couldn’t be more essential.  Luckily… Continue reading 20 Best Kindergarten & Preschool Children WordPress Themes for 2020

Is There a Viable Alternative to Javascript?

The short answer to the title question is “no.” The long answer is more complex, and begins with, “kindof…” There are several JavaScript alternatives for developers, but (for now) they have to be transpiled into JavaScript before they’re deployed. People Love to Hate JavaScript This is not a surprise, if we consider some obvious drawbacks… Continue reading Is There a Viable Alternative to Javascript?

All About Typography In UI Design – The Complete Guide

In this digital world, we are constantly digesting written words to be it on our phones, books or websites. Often, we are reflecting the power of the written word and so we barely consider the role of the designer for emulating the tone of the word or sentence. We have observed that only a small… Continue reading All About Typography In UI Design – The Complete Guide

5 Top Tools for Copywriters in 2019

Copywriting is a form of writing that drives readers in a certain direction, often enticing them to make a purchase. It requires careful planning, research, editing and more before reaching the point where it can be published. This can be a lengthy and fairly arduous process but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re a… Continue reading 5 Top Tools for Copywriters in 2019

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

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?

Mastering UX Writing With UI Powered Tips

UX writers create the copy that users interact with when using software, apps, and other products. This includes button text, error messages, policy and terms documents, help text, prompts, and instructions. Good UX writing improves user experience by making your product easier and more enjoyable to use. The best UX writers understand the ways in… Continue reading Mastering UX Writing With UI Powered Tips

How to Embed and Protect PDF Files With a WordPress Plugin

PDF files are a very popular way of sharing formatted documents due to their flexibility and lightweight nature—they work on most devices and operating systems. In this post, I’ll show you how to use a WordPress PDF plugin to embed and protect PDF files in your WordPress posts and pages. Why Use PDFs? PDFs can… Continue reading How to Embed and Protect PDF Files With a WordPress Plugin

How to Make Your WordPress Theme or Plugin Multilingual-Ready

Multilingual compatibility is a core requirement for any premium WordPress theme nowadays. There are many plugins that offer multilingual tools, but arguably the most popular are WPML and Polylang. Let’s look into them! Meet the Players WPML is a premium-only plugin that makes it easy to build and run multilingual sites. It’s powerful enough for… Continue reading How to Make Your WordPress Theme or Plugin Multilingual-Ready

Effective Examples of Useful Slide Out Panels and Sidebars

It should be noted that slide-out panels are indeed less accessible than fixed navigation options. They’re harder to discover and understand. Screen elements appearing and disappearing can confuse users and frustrate visitors. However, they’ve maintained their position as a consistently popular design choice, especially when screen space is limited, like on mobile devices. Their modularity… Continue reading Effective Examples of Useful Slide Out Panels and Sidebars

My take on language selectors

Zsolt SzilvaiBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Apr 16 In the past couple of years, I was fortunate enough to work on many interesting products, some of which had to be designed in multiple languages. Recently, I’ve bumped into some new issues with language selectors that I found quite exciting to take a closer look at. So, I decided to… Continue reading My take on language selectors

How to Create an Exit Popup With the Layered Popup Plugin for WordPress

Exit popups are messages that are shown to visitors when they are about to leave a website. They are mostly used to encourage visitors to complete their purchase or make a visitor subscribe to an email list, or simply make them stick around longer by suggesting products or content they might be interested in. They… Continue reading How to Create an Exit Popup With the Layered Popup Plugin for WordPress

The 7 Programming Languages Web Developers Need To Know in 2019

March 19, 2019 by Alex Fox It might not seem important for web developers to learn programming languages. After all, HTML and CSS can develop some incredible sites all on their own. But JavaScript, PHP, and Swift can all extend the functionality of your web page significantly in was that CSS can’t hope to accomplish.… Continue reading The 7 Programming Languages Web Developers Need To Know in 2019

Top Programming Languages For Mobile App Development In 2019

It doesn’t matter if you are someone who is just entering the app development industry or someone who holds expertise in the field of software development, programming languages act as a basic foundation for them. But there are a ton of programming languages out there and to find out the one that is suitable for… Continue reading Top Programming Languages For Mobile App Development In 2019

Using the New WordPress Default Theme

Twenty Nineteen is the latest WordPress default theme currently available and was included with the WordPress 5.0 release. It’s already proving pretty popular with over 800,000 active installations to date. It’s also also available to WordPress.com users too which bumps up the user base even more. It’s described as a minimal and non-generic theme with simple but sophisticated… Continue reading Using the New WordPress Default Theme

Great Design is Built on Great Research

If there is any secret to a good design, then it is to conduct good research beforehand. Great design does not happen by chance, it is always based on the understanding of the user and empathy. Research is a fundamental part in understanding context and narrowing down to the “right” problem users face, which is… Continue reading Great Design is Built on Great Research

Web Design History: Looking Back Through 20 Years of Design Evolution

The web has transformed how we do things. The first website went online nearly three decades ago and since that time, there has been a huge transformation. It is now possible for people to share information easily and efficiently. The evolution of the web has been marked by evolution in web design. Some of the… Continue reading Web Design History: Looking Back Through 20 Years of Design Evolution