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
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Migrating a WordPress Website In Under 10 Minutes: The Ultimate Guide To The Duplicator Plugin
Thinking about migrating your WordPress site? Most people aren’t aware of how they can migrate their site and then upon searching, they come across so many complex ways that they decide to not to do it altogether. But, then there are a few ways that can help you in moving the site to the server… Continue reading Migrating a WordPress Website In Under 10 Minutes: The Ultimate Guide To The Duplicator Plugin
Debugging with Truffle CLI — SitePoint
Debuggers have been crucial software development tools for over thirty years. A modern debugger enables us to: run the code line-by-line set breakpoints in the code put conditions on the breakpoints evaluate expressions during runtime. Most modern debuggers are also highly integrated into development environments of languages they are serving. They enable setting breakpoints by… Continue reading Debugging with Truffle CLI — SitePoint
Entrepreneurs: Tips to Maximize your Online Presence and Fire up Your Business
Entrepreneurship in the 21st century For the past several centuries and for years after the turn of the millennium, the definition of business could be summed up as providing goods and services to satisfy human needs and desires. However, the internet has changed all this and even before we knew, the virtual world has taken over… Continue reading Entrepreneurs: Tips to Maximize your Online Presence and Fire up Your Business
Why SEO Matters More Than Ever
If you aren’t familiar with the acronym, SEO stands for search engine optimization. When you plug in a question, product, or item you’re looking to purchase on Google, the results are far from arbitrary. Search engines like Google use a complex algorithm to produce results for whatever your query might be. If you want your… Continue reading Why SEO Matters More Than Ever
How to Optimize Node Requests with Simple Caching Strategies ― Scotch
One of the things that affect how users interact with our applications is its speed. Even though some users generally have a poor connection, they are expecting some minimum level of speed when using the application. To give our users a seamless experience, we are going to consider the possibility of optimizing our requests in… Continue reading How to Optimize Node Requests with Simple Caching Strategies ― Scotch
Design Conferences are broken, but we can fix them
I just got back from a design conference. It was just one in a sea of poorly-designed design conferences I’ve attended over the years. I wont beat around the proverbial bush. Here are 3 easy ways for organizers to step up their game and put on an impactful, memorable, and successful design conference. Speakers are… Continue reading Design Conferences are broken, but we can fix them
30 Minimal Movie Posters for Inspiration
Minimal posters are best medium and effective way to deliver your message. Minimalist design is to use as few shapes, describes the style not the content and get huge attraction. Today I gathered fresh and creative examples of minimal movie poster design. The all posters are designed by “ChungKong” and named “Minimal Movie Posters”. So Let’s take a quick look… Continue reading 30 Minimal Movie Posters for Inspiration
DevOps Automation with MongoDB Atlas ― Scotch
Configuration Management Configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef and Ansible, which provide the ability to quickly automate config and deployment processes, have become a critical part of many engineering teams’ plans when building new systems. Implementing an additional cloud service should fit alongside the configuration management methods you already use. Luckily, the MongoDB Atlas… Continue reading DevOps Automation with MongoDB Atlas ― Scotch
Which Web Design Company? 5 Things to Consider Before Picking a Web Design Company
Your website is one of the most important online marketing tools to aid your business’ success. Visitors to your website will make assumptions about your company and services within the first few seconds of seeing your website design. A poorly designed, below average website will deter visitors from using your services. So, you need a… Continue reading Which Web Design Company? 5 Things to Consider Before Picking a Web Design Company
How to get work as a freelance digital designer
Getting started as a creative professional is never easy. Although the market for freelance and independent digital designers is booming at the moment, most newbies still find it hard to get their foot in the door. Here are some of the ways you can get started and find work in the industry: 1. Join an… Continue reading How to get work as a freelance digital designer
Different Strokes: How Brands Build Logos Using Typeface
The concept of something as intangible as a design calling consumers’ attention to a tangible product is a concept that goes back more than one hundred years with brands such as Pepsi, Valvoline and Jack Daniel’s. These logos of yesteryear might be largely unfamiliar, but the way designers chose how to construct a likable image… Continue reading Different Strokes: How Brands Build Logos Using Typeface
A Beginner’s Course on Blogging for Lawyers
There are few things about the legal field that are easy or simple. Potential lawyers need almost a decade’s worth of education just to become qualified, but then they still need to pass one of the more grueling, challenging exams in the professional world to begin practicing. Then there will be more years of learning… Continue reading A Beginner’s Course on Blogging for Lawyers
5 Essentials For Your First Business Website
Websites are essential for entrepreneurs looking to promote their brand. It creates a space for customers to learn about your product or services and can even be used to lure potential investors to grow your seed money. However, you can’t just create any website and hope to attract customers and investors. Your website needs to… Continue reading 5 Essentials For Your First Business Website
Airbnb First Date Concept
Iterations After synthesizing the insights, I re-iterated on the concepts to alleviate the weaknesses and further highlight the strengths. Idea 1: Bingo x Digital Gift Combining Bingo and Digital Gift Exchange Concepts Medium Fidelity Wireframes of Situations Where Their Interests Matched and Don’t After testing, I decided to remove the gamified portion of the concept and replaced it… Continue reading Airbnb First Date Concept
On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent
On Being Humble Be modest. Your accomplishments to date have brought you this far, but don’t depend on it to bring you any further. That design competition you won, painting sold to a museum exhibition, or local media sensation? Cheers to having your hard work rewarded. Keep it up. Your accomplishments in the future starts with… Continue reading On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent
Tips on Designing Site Architecture for Optimal SEO Results
Think of site architecture as a blueprint of a house. If effectively created, the site architecture can help you lay out the structure of your website so that it serves your target audience as well as the search engines. Your goal should be to create a fine balance between these two segments. As far as… Continue reading Tips on Designing Site Architecture for Optimal SEO Results
6 Pillars of Excellent Web Design
With the periodic changes to Google’s search algorithm, the methods of ranking that might have worked in the past are often abrogated – but that just means you have to find the ones that still provide returns and build on them. Additionally, in the ever-changing expanse of cyberspace, you must take the time to familiarize… Continue reading 6 Pillars of Excellent Web Design
Don’t have a Mobile Friendly Site yet? You will need one!
In the mobile world that we live in, by next year, it is expected that as much as 80% of all internet traffic will be mobile. So anything from a dating site to an online pet store will need to be mobile friendly and so, it is now more important than ever before. While desktop… Continue reading Don’t have a Mobile Friendly Site yet? You will need one!
Are You Using The Right CMS Platform?
CMS is short for Content Management System – and it’s easy to understand why many novices find the term confusing. Broken down, it sounds like a specialized tool, something you might use to store and organize materials before putting them online or saving reference materials. In reality, though, CMS platforms are everywhere. WordPress is a… Continue reading Are You Using The Right CMS Platform?
Split A/B Testing Graphical Elements of Your Landing Pages: Best Practices to Test and Quantify Conversion Value of Landing Page Elements
It is a known fact that one of the best ways of generating high conversion rates is by having high-converting landing pages. Landing pages are standalone web pages with a single purpose – to act as a point of entry for a particular website. Study has shown that designers have just 50 milliseconds to make… Continue reading Split A/B Testing Graphical Elements of Your Landing Pages: Best Practices to Test and Quantify Conversion Value of Landing Page Elements
Is your WordPress Website Fast Enough for Mobile Users?
Do you ever bother if your WordPress website is fast enough? Maybe you’re or maybe you’re not. In either case, since you haven’t figured it out yet. I am going to provide you some useful inputs to find out if your website is fast enough for mobile users or not. If it’s not fast enough… Continue reading Is your WordPress Website Fast Enough for Mobile Users?
Design for a Cause
Personal Design Projects Apart from the professional design work, most designers, especially aspiring designers invest a reasonable amount of time on personal ‘side projects’. These projects typically include redesign or UX analysis of an existing product, concept product design, usability testing etc. They are really good for practicing UX skills. Simultaneously, most designers showcase them in… Continue reading Design for a Cause
Best Directory and Listing WordPress Themes
April 20, 2017 by Veronika Step up your game on the directory and listing web design scene with these stunning WordPress theme tailored to meet the specific needs of the users, both employers, employees, sellers, and regular browsers. This collection contains few of the best WordPress themes for directories, listings, and classified ads. Price: $24… Continue reading Best Directory and Listing WordPress Themes