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How to Customize Contact Form 7 for WordPress: Floating Labels

You might have seen forms where the placeholder text is animated when you start typing into that input. This pattern isn’t new, yet still remains a popular trend in UX form design. Today, we’ll learn the steps needed for adding this behavior into a form built with Contact Form 7 (CF7), one of the most… Continue reading How to Customize Contact Form 7 for WordPress: Floating Labels

2 Smartest Ways to Structure Sass

Sass – the extended arm of CSS; the power factor that brings elegance to your code. With Sass, it is all about variables, nesting, mixins, functions, partials, imports, inheritance, and control directives. Sass makes your code more maintainable and reusable. And now, I will show you how to make your code more structured and organized.… Continue reading 2 Smartest Ways to Structure Sass

How Using a Bespoke Software Company Can Revolutionise Your Business

Bespoke software, which is sometimes referred to as customized software is a software customized for a specific company or user. With the advancement of technology, users are evolving at a rapid pace, and to meet their complex demands, bespoke software has become a necessity.   A bespoke software solution is designed for your precise business… Continue reading How Using a Bespoke Software Company Can Revolutionise Your Business

How to Use ARIA Roles, Properties, and States in HTML

In this beginner’s accessibility tutorial we’re going to learn what ARIA is, why it is necessary to write our HTML with ARIA in mind, what ARIA roles, properties, and states are, and (very importantly) the 5 rules of ARIA use. What is ARIA? ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications and it was created by the World… Continue reading How to Use ARIA Roles, Properties, and States in HTML

How to Use Raygun to Identify and Diagnose Web Performance Problems

Web application development is difficult. There is no other type of application that is as involved, or requires you to understand multiple languages, frameworks, and platforms, as web applications. The most basic web application is comprised of two separate applications:  The server-side application to manage data. The client-side application displays that data to the user.… Continue reading How to Use Raygun to Identify and Diagnose Web Performance Problems

A Brief History of Display Fonts

What is a display font? And what is the best place to use a display typeface? Discover the answers to those questions and more in this article. As a budding designer, it’s important to get familiar with the term and when it’s used. In this article, I’ll go through a display font definition, the typeface… Continue reading A Brief History of Display Fonts

Why You Should Simplify Your Designs for the Smartest User

You probably know that putting too much food on your plate is usually a bad idea. Since research indicates that you’re more likely to overeat if you fill your plate, it’s not a good thing for your waistline. It’s also not a good thing for your eyes. If there’s no focal point, the food can… Continue reading Why You Should Simplify Your Designs for the Smartest User

5 Web Design Trends That You Should Implement Now to Face 2021

4 Shares Are you planning to have your website or redesign the one you already have? Well, you’ve come to the right place! We’ll bring you some of the most important web design trends for next year! Web design is an area that is in constant evolution, not only because it is made up of… Continue reading 5 Web Design Trends That You Should Implement Now to Face 2021

A Guide to Overriding Parent Theme Functions in Your Child Theme

If you’ve had any experience working with parent and child themes in WordPress, you’ll know that the template files in your child theme override those in your parent theme. For example, if your parent theme has a page.php file and you create a new one in your child theme, WordPress will use the one in the child… Continue reading A Guide to Overriding Parent Theme Functions in Your Child Theme

WP_Query Arguments: Categories and Tags

In the earlier parts of this series, you’ve learned how WP_Query is structured and what its properties and methods are. The next stage is to understand the various arguments you can use with it and how best to do so. WP_Query has a large number of possible arguments, which makes it extremely flexible. As you can use it… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Categories and Tags

How to Get Dark Mode Design Right

Dark themes are everywhere these days.  As human beings continue to spend more of their time interacting with technology, dark themes provide a more relaxing way to engage with the digital world. More often than not, these themes are easier on the eyes, more attractive, and perfect for the dedicated user.  Throughout 2020, countless leading… Continue reading How to Get Dark Mode Design Right

Submit A Form Without Page Refresh Using jQuery

A great way to improve the user experience of your website is to validate and submit forms without a page refresh. In this tutorial I’ll show you how easy it is to do just that—validate and submit a contact form that without page refresh using jQuery! Let’s get started. What We’re Building In this example,… Continue reading Submit A Form Without Page Refresh Using jQuery

25 Best Procreate Brushes For Procreate App

54 Shares The best Procreate brushes for amazing painting and sketching Procreate app. Download best effects, watercolor, patterns, textures, and pencil brushes for illustrations and drawing. Procreate is the most unique and most powerful drawing and illustration app for iPad. This app have tons of features including brushes, which is one of the most attractive… Continue reading 25 Best Procreate Brushes For Procreate App

New Business Cards PSD Templates – 30 Print Design

55 Shares Perfect business card templates for personal identity or any business. Business cards as a brand identity represent your business in the business market. In this article we are picked-up perfectly designed Business Card Templates. Each business card is ready to use and print ready. All business cards are well organized and easy to edit with… Continue reading New Business Cards PSD Templates – 30 Print Design

Hosting WordPress With SiteGround: Pros and Cons and How To

There are countless WordPress hosting providers on the market, but which one is right for you? Find the provider that’s the best possible fit for your website, and you can look forward to faster loading times, improved SEO, protection against the latest security threats, and all the storage and bandwidth your website could ever need.… Continue reading Hosting WordPress With SiteGround: Pros and Cons and How To

Accessible Routing in JavaScript Frameworks

Lost in Transition In my role as a Developer Consultant with Deque, I get asked a variety of questions on how to implement and fix technical accessibility issues. One topic that always seems to be at the forefront of everything else that developers have asked is ‘How do I manage focus in my JavaScript framework?’.… Continue reading Accessible Routing in JavaScript Frameworks

Lessons from setting up an internal research participant panel at Atlassian

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Sign up page for the Atlassian Research Group My first UX Research role was at a small digital agency, where the discipline was still new. Sales teams would frequently sell clients research, without fully budgeting in participant recruitment. Shoestring budgets meant I often had to find my participants using creative, scrappy… Continue reading Lessons from setting up an internal research participant panel at Atlassian

15 Best Free Twitch Overlays (Including a Free Twitch Overlay Maker)

Look, we get it. Money is tight, but you’re getting into streaming and need a well-designed Twitch stream overlay for your channel. Find the right Twitch Overlay Template for you at Placeit.net Well, we’ve got the perfect solution for you. We’re going to share how you can find top-quality free Twitch overlay templates at Placeit… Continue reading 15 Best Free Twitch Overlays (Including a Free Twitch Overlay Maker)

25 Professional Brochure Templates Design

30 Shares Clean and creative brochure design and graphic designer portfolio templates for corporate agency, annual reports or personal photography catalog. All brochure templates has been arranged specifically detailed with grid, separated layer, and paragraph + character styles. Brochure templates are designed with a strong theme, multi-functionality and fully editable. These brochures are perfect for corporate annual report, fashion… Continue reading 25 Professional Brochure Templates Design

4 Tips to Create Effective Enterprise Software

As the business technology market approached $4 trillion in 2019, technology and service providers will have greater opportunities to grow their businesses. Meanwhile, technology buyers will be allowed to innovate and upgrade their infrastructure, software, and services. Corporate software spending worldwide is expected to reach $483 billion in 2021, a 7.4% increase over the previous year. Like… Continue reading 4 Tips to Create Effective Enterprise Software

25+ Best Free Distressed Fonts (& Grunge Fonts)

If you want to give your text a weathered look, use a grunge or distressed font. Depending on the context, these fonts can convey either an edgy urban vibe or a vintage style. Portico Urban Rough is just one of many awesome distressed fonts available at Envato Elements Check out this list of the 25+ best… Continue reading 25+ Best Free Distressed Fonts (& Grunge Fonts)

Create Your First React Native Android App

React Native is an open-source mobile application framework created by Facebook you can use it to develop applications for Android and iOS devices with a single codebase. React Native powers some of the world’s most popular apps, such as Instagram and Facebook, and in this post I’ll show you how to create your first React Native… Continue reading Create Your First React Native Android App

25 Must-Read Books For Designers, Typography Lovers, And Freelancers

UPDATED AUGUST 2020 You may already know that I read a lot and of course, being a designer and a blogger there are many design blogs that I follow and read on a regular basis, but there’s also a lot of books about design, usability, typography, CSS, freelancing and a boatload of other related topics… Continue reading 25 Must-Read Books For Designers, Typography Lovers, And Freelancers