The end of the year makes an ideal time to reflect on the year’s performances and to make new resolutions for the new year. As a business owner, your human resources department is the most important within your company. The unit is vital in hiring, firing, payroll, benefits, and understanding all tax and employment laws.… Continue reading 5 Essential Features of a Viable Human Resources Software
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A Comprehensive Guide to Typography Basics
If you’re learning web design from zero and want to significantly improve your typography chops, then this article is written for you. We will cover typefaces, fonts, typographic anatomy, hierarchy and how to choose typefaces. You will learn enough to become dangerous in no time. Topics As is usual for these comprehensive guides, we’ll be… Continue reading A Comprehensive Guide to Typography Basics
10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration
Fashion Patterns From clothes to accessories, fashion illustrations have a long history as a visual reference for a designer’s concepts or current fashion trends. What makes a good fashion illustration, though? With help from content from Envato Market, let’s count down 10 top tips for creating great fashion illustrations to better your own sense of… Continue reading 10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration
10 Tips for Improving Your Photo Manipulation Skills
Over it’s 20+ year history, Photoshop has proved itself useful for a great many things. One of the primary applications is photo manipulation. In fact, it’s photo manipulation that is meant by the colloquial term “to Photoshop”. Yet pulling off a successful photo manipulation isn’t quite as easy as it sounds. So whether you are… Continue reading 10 Tips for Improving Your Photo Manipulation Skills
How to Develop a Processwire Theme
In this beginner’s tutorial you’ll learn about creating your own ProcessWire CMS themes. We’ll create a super simple site, covering templates, fields, theme structure and PHP variables. Don’t forget to get up to speed by following the first of our tutorials How to Install and Setup ProcessWire CMS. Where to Find Your ProcessWire Theme Unlike other CMSs like… Continue reading How to Develop a Processwire Theme
Learning jQuery – Fourth Edition [eBook]
Add to your current website development skills with this brilliant guide to JQuery. This step by step course needs little prior JavaScript knowledge so is suitable for beginners and more seasoned developers alike. About This Book An introduction to jQuery that requires minimal programming experience Detailed solutions to specific client-side problems Revised and updated version… Continue reading Learning jQuery – Fourth Edition [eBook]
38 Absolute Best Tutorials for Learning Icon Design
Simple glyphs and icons communicate a graphical representation for interfaces, branding, and content. Icon design ranges from simple line icons to detailed works of artistic beauty. Every designer has to start somewhere and nobody claims the process will be easy – but it is very rewarding. This gallery focuses on 38 icon design tutorials geared… Continue reading 38 Absolute Best Tutorials for Learning Icon Design
Practical Tips for Learning and Experimenting with WordPress
WordPress is like a G.I Joe action figure to the kid inside me. It’s like Legos for a toddler and like a “truck that needs fixing” to a 40 something year old Texan. With a straw in his mouth. You see, there are endless possibilities when it comes to WordPress. It is so diverse and… Continue reading Practical Tips for Learning and Experimenting with WordPress
Beginner’s Tips & Tricks for Learning Icon Design
Aside from regular web & graphics design, the process of designing icons is vast and complex. Iconography can be created with a sketch or from a blank document in digital software. Digital icons can be created using either pixels or vectors. There are many options and the outcome is heavily reliant on the medium, such… Continue reading Beginner’s Tips & Tricks for Learning Icon Design
Learning to Code is Fun and Easy with Code Avengers
Learning to code is fun and easy with Code Avengers. Whether this is your first time coding, or you have tried it before – their courses guide you each step of the way. Scripted by educators, they offer practical coding skills to help you learn at your own pace. Their lessons are designed to be… Continue reading Learning to Code is Fun and Easy with Code Avengers
28 Photoshop Tutorials for Learning New Web Design Techniques
Some designers advocate skipping the Photoshop process and moving from wireframes directly into HTML/CSS. This is possible for smaller projects but not always advisable. Adobe Photoshop offers the best tools for testing color schemes, gradients, icons, and detailed page elements before moving the layout into your browser. If you’re a little rusty in Photoshop then… Continue reading 28 Photoshop Tutorials for Learning New Web Design Techniques
What Should New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning?
Today I’m speaking to those just getting started in design. Maybe you just graduated from design school, or you’ve read through all the fundamental lessons offered here and on other design blogs, and you feel you’re ready to start taking on clients. Or maybe you have a couple of projects under your belt and you’re… Continue reading What Should New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning?
26 Web Design Tutorials for Learning New CSS3 Properties
Over the past few years a number of prominent CSS3 tutorials have been published online. These are perfect for beginners who don’t have a lot of experience coding webpages. But developers who do have that experience may also find the more detailed articles quite insightful. Take a look over this collection of posts related to… Continue reading 26 Web Design Tutorials for Learning New CSS3 Properties
20 Impressive Examples for Learning WebGL with Three.js
In this informative article, there are an accumulation of demonstrations, tutorials and resources which will inspire and motivate you to master more about the collection. Experiments and Demos The impressive demos which you see here are created using the Three.js collection and WebGL as a renderer. You can utilize WebGL straight, but selecting Three.js makes development… Continue reading 20 Impressive Examples for Learning WebGL with Three.js
The Best Free Books, Videos, Tutorials and More for Learning jQuery
jQuery is undoubtedly the most popular JavaScript library on the web today. It is used by 70% of the top websites and is becoming a defacto standard in web development. If you are looking for a programming job, knowing the library is a big plus. Things have progressed as well in terms of the quality and availability… Continue reading The Best Free Books, Videos, Tutorials and More for Learning jQuery
Web Design Workshop #36: Gateway Learning
Web Design Workshop is our regular community project where we ask readers to submit their work for your friendly, constructive criticism. It’s the perfect way to learn, offer opinions and have your own work critiqued! This week, something you may have already seen if you follow Dan Eden.. Rules of Engagement Play nice! We… Continue reading Web Design Workshop #36: Gateway Learning
Your First 30 Days of Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up
Congratulations! Web design can be one of the most useful skills to acquire in your professional career. Your first 30 days of learning are crucial because many people simply give up after a week or two. In this article, we’ll go through some useful tips and tricks to help you get started with web design… Continue reading Your First 30 Days of Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up