If you’re just getting into online advertising or hoping to boost your online traffic with better advertisements, ad banners are the way to go. Ad banners are currently one of the most ubiquitous forms of marketing used on the internet. Companies use them for everything from raising their brand profile to increasing engagement, announcing discounts,… Continue reading 20+ Online Ad Banner (Maker) Template Designs to Customise Now
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How to Create a Menorah Illustration in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we’ll be creating a Hanukkah holiday card and illustrating one of the most popular Jewish symbols, the Hanukkah Menorah. The Menorah is one of the oldest symbols in Judaism. Sometimes called the ‘Chanukiah’, the Menorah is a nine-branched candelabrum that is used on Hanukkah. It stands for light, wisdom,… Continue reading How to Create a Menorah Illustration in Adobe Illustrator
Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)
In this tutorial we’re going to take a bunch of ordinary thumbnail links and turn them into a responsive CSS grid gallery with a blurred hover effect. We’ll also use a great CSS trick to make sure touch screen users don’t miss out! Here’s what we’ll be creating: A Little Background Recently, Rachel McCollin wrote a… Continue reading Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)
How to Create a Vintage Photo Effect in a Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Style
What You’ll Be Creating This week is dedicated to Russian culture, so I would like to introduce you to the artworks of the famous Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. He made a large number of color photographs of the early 20th century using his three-image method of photography. He was able to capture in his photos not… Continue reading How to Create a Vintage Photo Effect in a Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Style
Building a Legal Website: 5 Major Mistakes to Avoid
If you are a website designer, you probably already know that every niche is different and there are certain rules to follow if you want to meet the users’ expectations. Some designers have already learned from their own mistakes but if you have almost no experience designing legal websites, it is better to be safe… Continue reading Building a Legal Website: 5 Major Mistakes to Avoid
Figma Project, Page & Artboard Tips
Welcome to the next in our series of Figma tips and tricks! This time we’ll be improving the way you work with Figma projects, pages, and artboards. Watch Tips 1. Customize Project Thumbnails It’s perfectly possible to create custom project thumbnails which will show up in your dashboard drafts area. Make sure that the first page… Continue reading Figma Project, Page & Artboard Tips
Draw with CSS: Using CSS To Draw Elements
With clever use of CSS properties, it is in fact possible to draw very complex shapes. All the shapes below were drawn with CSS alone. It might be that CSS isn’t the best way to render shapes in the browser window, but it’s very fast and included for “free” on all modern browsers. Learn how… Continue reading Draw with CSS: Using CSS To Draw Elements
An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools
Your Photoshop selection tools are perhaps the most powerful part of the application. By making effective selections, you unlock the power of the rest of the application. This includes localized image adjustments, compositing, and accurate mockups and object placement. Sloppy selections always show in the final product, so it pays to learn to make a… Continue reading An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools
How to Quickly Build Layouts With Bootstrap 4’s Responsive Flexbox Utilities
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to quickly build layouts with Bootstraps 4’s responsive flexbox utilities. To gain a better understanding of these utilities, we’ll examine four different examples. Note: this tutorial assumes you’re familiar with Bootstrap 4 as well as flexbox. Take a look at these courses to get you going in the right… Continue reading How to Quickly Build Layouts With Bootstrap 4’s Responsive Flexbox Utilities
How to Create a Mental Health Themed Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Although mental health is just as important as physical health, it’s often misunderstood and treated too lightly. After all, a person suffering from depression or anxiety looks completely fine on the outside, and nobody can tell what they’re really feeling. That’s where art can help—it allows the artist to show their… Continue reading How to Create a Mental Health Themed Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop
Monstroid Revamped: New Features and Possibilities
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
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 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