Web designers, coders, and entrepreneurs, we have exciting news for you! The multipurpose Monstroid template got revamped and updated! Our loyal customers know that this theme had been our flagman for a long time (before Monstroid2 came out). You may be wondering: Why would anyone remake Monstroid if there is a bestselling successor – Monstroid2?… Continue reading Monstroid Revamped: New Features and Possibilities
Tag: left
Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin
What You’ll Be Creating If you’re like me, you’ve been using Google Maps to add maps to your WordPress sites for years, but you sometimes get a little frustrated about the lack of customization options. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use an alternative—a WordPress plugin called MapSVG that lets you… Continue reading Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin
11 Quick Tips to Skyrocket Your Ecommerce Marketplace Conversion Rates
Currently there are many sites for selling and providing services in the world market of Ecommerce. Each marketplace in the competitive struggle tries to get the attention of potential customers, but, unfortunately, not everyone not everyone succeeds in this. Growth of the marketplace can only be ensured by knowing secrets of the conversion of site… Continue reading 11 Quick Tips to Skyrocket Your Ecommerce Marketplace Conversion Rates
Resize and Manipulate Images in PHP (With Examples)
In my previous tutorial, we discussed basic image manipulation using the PHP GD library. In that tutorial, I gave a brief introduction to the library and showed you how to load images from a file or create them from scratch in PHP. After that, we learned how to crop, rotate, scale and flip an image… Continue reading Resize and Manipulate Images in PHP (With Examples)
Your Guide to InDesign’s New Rival
Adobe InDesign has long been the market leader in publishing software. But rival layout design programs are starting to make waves in the market, with Affinity Publisher being the latest to offer a competitive alternative to InDesign. If you’re a seasoned print designer or are looking to dip a toe into publishing design, you’ll want… Continue reading Your Guide to InDesign’s New Rival
Save time on image design with graphic editor Crello
Are you looking for a professional tool for your digital designing needs that helps making your marketing strategies better? Then, Crello is perfect for you. There are many visual graphic design tools out there in the market. Some of them are quite expensive. Other free tools need a forced sign up to use few of… Continue reading Save time on image design with graphic editor Crello
How to use the wind blast effect in Adobe Photoshop
Feel like firing up Adobe Photoshop and creating something cool? Let’s leave boring posters behind and work with the wind blast effect to come up with a neoclassical-style poster template. Ready? Let’s go! What you’ll learn How to set up guides in Photoshop How to crop an image using Layer Masks in Photoshop… Continue reading How to use the wind blast effect in Adobe Photoshop
How to Create a Glowing, Fireflies Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Have you ever caught fireflies on a warm summer night? When I was a kid we used to call them “lightning bugs.” I was always fascinated by how they would shine and glow against the sky, and loved releasing them back into the night. So in this tutorial, I’ll show you… Continue reading How to Create a Glowing, Fireflies Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop
So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos
When you’re selling a theme, its demo is your sales pitch. If the demo falls short in some way, it’s doing a disservice to the theme and will lead to a loss of sales. If your theme includes hundreds of features, but buyers can’t see them in action, you may as well have no features… Continue reading So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos
Manipulating Images in PHP Using GD
The internet would be pretty dull without images. However, maintaining and manipulating hundreds or thousands of images for your web site can be a headache. As your site design changes, you might need to modify all your images—for example, you might need to convert all your images to grayscale or resize them to 50% of… Continue reading Manipulating Images in PHP Using GD
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
5 Practical Productivity Hacks to Improve Web Design Efficiency
When it comes to web design, creativity and productivity are central to your work. If you lack in either of these areas, it will be a struggle to come up with quality results. The challenge, especially with the productivity half, is that everyone is unique. What works for one designer might not work for you,… Continue reading 5 Practical Productivity Hacks to Improve Web Design Efficiency
How to hack people loyalty with care?
First thing first: If you have a few friends in your life, care is not designed to fit your skillset. Having a lot of friends proves how much effort and time you have spent to build a loving community around you. Care requires the same effort and it should be mandatory for every startup. “Caring… Continue reading How to hack people loyalty with care?
Debugging Node Code in VS Code ― Scotch
Visual Studio Code has an amazing amount of functionality built in, including support for debugging applications. Although the functionality is there, it took me several tries to figure out how to get things configured to debug Node applications. It became even more tricky when using Nodemon, so I figured it was worth it to share… Continue reading Debugging Node Code in VS Code ― Scotch
What an iPhone notification dot told me last night
I am the red notification dot on your iPhone, I make sure you keep seeing me. I’ll create new tasks for you to finish, Come on, just tap on me. Why am I so irresistible? How do I make your finger tap? Do I provide you with the unconditional love you long for, Or am… Continue reading What an iPhone notification dot told me last night
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?
What Are the WordPress PHP Coding Standards?
What are the WordPress PHP coding standards? In this video from my course, Learn PHP for WordPress, you’ll learn all about the coding standards and why they’re important. The WordPress PHP Coding Standards What Are the WordPress PHP Coding Standards? You can find the full WordPress PHP coding standards in the official WordPress handbook. They’re… Continue reading What Are the WordPress PHP Coding Standards?
What I wish I’d known before designing digital products and user interfaces
2. Hick’s Law Delivering a good user experience requires that first you find out the functionalities that will answer their needs; second, you need to guide them to the specific functions they need most. If users end up stuck in the decision-making process of “what next?”, they may become confused, frustrated, or leave your website. Hick’s… Continue reading What I wish I’d known before designing digital products and user interfaces
Having a hard time with your graphics? Probably you haven’t heard about Crello
Hey you! Have you been having a hard time designing that amazing graphic you have in mind? Have you been spending a lot just to get your simple animations done? That your professional graphic designer hasn’t been designing for you designs that are professional, right? I’ve been in that state too, no until I got… Continue reading Having a hard time with your graphics? Probably you haven’t heard about Crello
Using CSS Pseudo-elements and Pseudo-classes like ::before and ::after
April 23, 2018 by Alex Fox CSS wasn’t always as flexible as it is today. By using CSS pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes, designers can target elements based on their dynamic states or positioning in relation to other elements. Pseudo-Elements and Pseudo-Classes There are two types of pseudo selectors: pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes. Either of these pseudo selectors… Continue reading Using CSS Pseudo-elements and Pseudo-classes like ::before and ::after
5 Tools that Web Developers and Programmers Need
Web developers are like digital poets. Their lines of code help bring ideas to life by way of beautiful and stunning websites and apps. The demand for more responsive sites is growing, which is a sign that site owners are becoming smarter on how they provide content for their target audience. As a result, programmers… Continue reading 5 Tools that Web Developers and Programmers Need
The Brand: the forgotten child in Design Thinking
Just as ‘we are our brain’, companies ‘are their brand’. It defines why they exist, why they do what they do and what distinguishes them from competition. The often quoted Simon Sinek framework of the ‘why, how and what‘ is a perfect way to answer the question: ‘why are we doing what we’re doing?’, and… Continue reading The Brand: the forgotten child in Design Thinking
Designing Happy
Health problems stemming from stress and loneliness include: obesity, high blood pressure, alcoholism, depression, heart disease, insomnia, and stroke. The solution In surveying the landscape, one might think there are already solutions for this problem including traditional mental health solutions as well as new up-and-coming behavioral health startups. Newer solutions often require high levels of customer… Continue reading Designing Happy
Note-taking during design reviews — and more UX links this week
News & ideas Netflix Sans, a new custom typeface developed with Dalton Maag Intel just open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system There’s a new trend on the internet of editing famous songs like if they were playing in an empty mall or from another room In case you were left wondering, this is what an inclusion… Continue reading Note-taking during design reviews — and more UX links this week