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How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to create a realistic 3D gold text effect using layer styles in Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: Download the file Gold_Text_Effect-Assets.zip and extract both files inside. Install the Pattern file “Patterns.pat“. Install the Contour file “CustomContours.shc”.… Continue reading How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

How to Add a Free WordPress Post Slider to Your Site

In this article, we’re going to explore how to make posts slider in WordPress by using a slider plugin. We’re going to use one of the best WordPress slider plugins—Responsive Posts Carousel. More often than not, when you’re creating your website, you would like to have a carousel on your website which displays posts filtered… Continue reading How to Add a Free WordPress Post Slider to Your Site

International Artist Feature: Guatemala

Welcome back to our International Artist Series. Today, we’re catching up with five incredible artists from Guatemala, a Central American country that is home to Mayan cities and a long history of artistic production. I asked each artist how their country and culture influenced their work, and they delivered great responses. Wilker Velásquez… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Guatemala

How To Fix ‘503 Service Unavailable’ WordPress Error

One of the few very frustrating errors you’ll ever encounter when using WordPress is the ‘503 Service Unavailable’ error. This error can be quite confusing to most WordPress users as it could completely render your website offline without giving you any clear reason to what caused the error. There can be a few different causes… Continue reading How To Fix ‘503 Service Unavailable’ WordPress Error

How to Make a Sticky Menu in WordPress

What You’ll Be Creating Navigation menus are changing. Instead of just throwing one into a site without considering what form it’ll take, designers are taking the time to consider the design of navigation menus, the space they take up on the page, and how users interact with them. One growing trend is for sticky menus.… Continue reading How to Make a Sticky Menu in WordPress

How to Use Animation in Angular 6

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the importance of animations in improving the user experience. I’ll show you how to incorporate animations in Angular 6 applications with the help of animation components and Bootstrap. The Role of Animations in User Design Most web users are visual creatures and therefore respond to visual objects. This means… Continue reading How to Use Animation in Angular 6

How to Make a Bi-Fold Brochure in InDesign

What You’ll Be Creating In this quick and simple tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a bi-fold brochure template using Adobe InDesign. You’ll create the basic structure and style for your brochure template, using an on-trend color palette and stylish fonts.  An adaptable pamphlet template for any creative business, this bi-fold brochure can be customized… Continue reading How to Make a Bi-Fold Brochure in InDesign

A Solopreneur Checklist for Promoting a New Website

If you’re reading this, chances are you launched a brand new website a couple of weeks or even months ago. During the initial setup phase, everything felt easy. You could register and host your domain on the same platform, build a professional-looking website without code — everything seemed like they’re going your way. You may… Continue reading A Solopreneur Checklist for Promoting a New Website

How to Make a Banner With an Online Banner Maker

What You’ll Be Creating Need to create a banner design but don’t have the required tools or skills? Well, what if I told you that you can use an online banner maker that comes with a large selection of banner templates that you can choose and customize? If that sounds interesting, follow me in this… Continue reading How to Make a Banner With an Online Banner Maker

WordPress in the Year to Come

What a year! At the end of 2017, I remember thinking that the previous year had been one of the biggest when it came to change in WordPress. But I didn’t know what was in store for 2018! 2018 has seen some of the most fundamental and farthest-reaching changes in WordPress since its inception, embodied… Continue reading WordPress in the Year to Come

Show WordPress Related Posts With Taxonomy and a Custom Post Type

What You’ll Be Creating Sometimes you want your blog posts to appear on more pages in your WordPress site than just your blog. You’ve already got the option of using category and taxonomy archives, as well as tags. This can help you divide up your content and add a variety of sections to your blog… Continue reading Show WordPress Related Posts With Taxonomy and a Custom Post Type

Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re switching to WordPress from a static site, from a site builder provided by your hosting provider, or even from an old WordPress site, you’ll want to ensure that your old site still works while you’re setting up the shiny new WordPress installation. The good news is that you don’t… Continue reading Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running

Boost Your Vue.js Workflow With Vue CLI 3

We can hardly imagine modern web development without the help of Command-Line Interface (CLI) tools. They tremendously facilitate and speed up the development workflow by reducing the amount of repetitive and tedious tasks. Setting up a project manually, with all the linting, building, testing, preprocessing, optimizing, and dependency tracking features, doesn’t sound like a fun… Continue reading Boost Your Vue.js Workflow With Vue CLI 3

CSS Variables: An Introduction, With Code Examples

CSS variables, also known as CSS custom properties, expand the script-like functionality of CSS into something that resembles a programming language. If you’re at all familiar with any type of programming language, you know that variables are the foundation of any action. Variables are set, compared, altered, and saved throughout the program as the means… Continue reading CSS Variables: An Introduction, With Code Examples

Why Graphic designing is a rapidly growing industry!

Graphic design is the art that allows you to plan your projects with creative ideas and communicate through graphical representation. What is Graphic Design? The past decade has seen a massive surge in graphic designing and content marketing strategies. Graphic designing stands way tall than other means of promoting businesses. This is merely because of… Continue reading Why Graphic designing is a rapidly growing industry!

How to Add Multiple Selection to Android RecyclerView

The RecyclerView widget is an integral part of most Android applications today. Ever since it was added to the Android support library in late 2014, it has eclipsed the ListView widget as the most preferred widget for displaying large, complex lists. However, there’s one important feature missing in it: support for selecting and tracking list items. RecyclerView… Continue reading How to Add Multiple Selection to Android RecyclerView

Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?

Web design is an industry that is loaded with opportunities for upsells and extra revenue. Odds are that your clients will benefit from services that go beyond basic design and development. However, just because you can offer extras doesn’t necessarily mean that you should. One such area is web hosting. While there is the potential… Continue reading Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?

File Upload With Multer in Node.js and Express

When a web client uploads a file to a server, it is generally submitted through a form and encoded as multipart/form-data. Multer is middleware for Express and Node.js that makes it easy to handle this multipart/form-data when your users upload files. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use this library to handle different file upload situations… Continue reading File Upload With Multer in Node.js and Express

Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma

UX and UI Kits help designers in all kinds of ways, and at different stages in the design process. In this roundup I’ll show you some of the best-selling UX and UI kits available from Envato, to get you started wireframing, prototyping, and designing your next website or app. What Are UX and UI Kits?… Continue reading Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma

Design Persuasive Websites With These Basic Principles

November 5, 2018 by Alex Fox Web design has become the focal point of the online industry. Why? Entrepreneurs are now concentrating all their resources on improving their online image, reputation, and brand. That brand is defined most strongly through an official website. Official websites are by far the most common tool used to attract… Continue reading Design Persuasive Websites With These Basic Principles

How to Make Cool Photoshop Text Effects Fast With Actions

What You’ll Be Creating Learn how to create Photoshop text effects in this beginner’s tutorial. You’ll be shown how to create a Photoshop action for your text effect and more. This text effect that we are going to create is part of Super Bundle Styles. This is a collection of 146 unique styles and is… Continue reading How to Make Cool Photoshop Text Effects Fast With Actions