In one of my previous posts, I outlined the process of contributing to open source software with a detailed account of each step. One of those steps was sending a pull request to the owner of the repository you forked from. I showed you how to send a pull request using Github‘s web interface. In… Continue reading How to Send a Pull Request using the Github Desktop Client
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Power Up Your Mobile Game With Design, Sound, and Music
A successful game needs to be beautifully designed and immersive. Most game developers aren’t good designers, though. And it doesn’t stop with design. Sound and music are just as important to captivate people playing your game. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a design or team up with one to create a fantastic game. You… Continue reading Power Up Your Mobile Game With Design, Sound, and Music
Color Choices You Must Avoid – Quick Guide
Creative Market released an infographic guide to help you make the right choices in selecting the correct color combinations for your next web design project. There’re reasons why certain colors shouldn’t be used altogether, here we have 5 color combinations you should use with extra care. Never use pure black Red and green don’t play… Continue reading Color Choices You Must Avoid – Quick Guide
Learn the Basics of HTML in Our New Course
Do you need to learn HTML from the ground up? If so, our new course, Start Here: Learn HTML Basics, is perfect for you. What You’ll Learn The most critical first step to becoming a web designer is learning how to code HTML. By the end of this short course you’ll know what HTML is, how it… Continue reading Learn the Basics of HTML in Our New Course
Clean OnePage PSD template
Clean OnePage is a modern and elegant website template designed by Criss Samson you can inspire to for your next project. Free PSD available for download on MarketMe. Download freebie Posted on April 29, 2016 in Free PSD, Website templates and tagged templates, websites.
SpriteKit From Scratch: Constraints and Actions
Introduction In this tutorial, the second installment of the SpriteKit From Scratch series, you learn about constraints and actions. These features are used to easily add movement and animations to your SpriteKit game while limiting the position and orientation of nodes in the game. To follow along with me, you can either use the project… Continue reading SpriteKit From Scratch: Constraints and Actions
20 Free Mobile UI Kits for iOS & Android
If you have already designed a mobile app from scratch then you will no certainly know that creating the UI from can be a fun, but can also at times be an arduous and time-consuming task. To help take away some of the workload from you, and to help you get started on your next… Continue reading 20 Free Mobile UI Kits for iOS & Android
SpriteKit From Scratch: Fundamentals
Introduction SpriteKit, available on iOS, tvOS, and OS X, is a framework that allows developers to create high quality 2D games without worrying about the complexities of graphics APIs, such as OpenGL and Metal. In addition to handling all of the graphics for developers, SpriteKit also offers a wide range of extra functionality, including physics simulation, audio/video playback, and… Continue reading SpriteKit From Scratch: Fundamentals
What does simplicity in UX design look like?
For over a decade, designers have debated what constitutes simplicity in user experience design. As Robert Hoekman Jr. points out in his article When It Comes to UX Design, Simplicity is Overrated, the variation in semantics is confusing. Simplicity could refer to a clean design (then there’s the disparity of what “clean” actually looks like), the… Continue reading What does simplicity in UX design look like?
How to Code Multiple Loops While Only Querying the Database Once
I’m a big fan of the WP_Query class: I use it in many of my client sites to query and output content in custom ways. If you want to run multiple loops on a page, the easiest way to do it is to run WP_Query each time you need to run a loop. But there… Continue reading How to Code Multiple Loops While Only Querying the Database Once
New Course: Advanced Animation With GSAP Plugins
What You’ll Be Creating The GreenSock Animation Platform is a powerful JavaScript library for animating HTML elements in the browser. In our new course, Advanced Animation With GSAP Plugins, you will learn how to take your GSAP animations to the next level using the plugins that come with the platform. What You’ll Learn Our recent GreenSock Animation… Continue reading New Course: Advanced Animation With GSAP Plugins
Material Kit – Free Bootstrap UI Kit for Google Material Design
Advertise here via BSA Material Kit is a Free Bootstrap UI Kit with a fresh, new design inspired by Google’s material design. You asked for it, so we built it. It’s a great pleasure to introduce to you the material concepts in an easy to use and beautiful set of components. Along with the restyling… Continue reading Material Kit – Free Bootstrap UI Kit for Google Material Design
20 Fascinating Examples of Bold Design
If you’re subscribed to my list, you know that in the first email, I ask you what is your biggest struggle with design in business. A huge number of people reply to this email (and I respond to almost all of them). And it turns out that many readers seem to be struggling with finding… Continue reading 20 Fascinating Examples of Bold Design
Set Up Google reCAPTCHA in OpenCart
Whether you’re a pro or a fresher in the world of website development, the word CAPTCHA should not sound alien to you. It is an important and widely used technique to determine if the user is a bot or an actual human. There are lots of third-party scripts that allow you to set up CAPTCHA… Continue reading Set Up Google reCAPTCHA in OpenCart
Weekly Inspiration: Full-on Full Screen Home Pages
The full screen splash is one of the most familiar patterns on the web at the moment. Some love it, some loath it, but whatever your feelings let’s take a look at some noteworthy examples and talk about best practices while we’re at it. A Note on Design Convergence The term “design convergence” refers to… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Full-on Full Screen Home Pages
The Top 10 Super-Ultra-Very Bestest Photoshop Tips the Experts Don't Want You to Know!
New World Order Reader caution: this article was posted on April 1st 2016 and should not be taken seriously. Hi there dear readers, you may recognize me. I’m a frequent contributor to this site, and it’s time for me to come clean. I’m blowing the whistle. Today, I’m pulling back the curtain and letting you… Continue reading The Top 10 Super-Ultra-Very Bestest Photoshop Tips the Experts Don't Want You to Know!
How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies
In a recent series, we talked all about how we could work with metadata for several of the major classes in WordPress. This included: Throughout the series, we talked a bit about how WordPress 4.4 introduced the idea of term metadata. I didn’t want to present the concept within the context of that series because… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies
What Are WordPress Themes?
We recently wrapped up a series that covered How to Get Started With WordPress. Though it’s not a pre-requisite for reading the following article, I recommend reading through the four posts, especially if you’re someone who is just now getting started with WordPress. The people who visit Envato Tuts+ come from a variety of backgrounds, both… Continue reading What Are WordPress Themes?
35 Amazing Geometric Poster Designs
Geometric shapes are fascinating to work within all design styles. Interesting designs can be made from one or more geometric shapes. There are myriads of geometric shapes that can be used while designing a poster including circles, diamonds, hexagons, triangles, and a lot more that can highlight the content, draw attention on some specific details,… Continue reading 35 Amazing Geometric Poster Designs
Tips for Designers Who Don’t Code
I hail from a design background and moved into front-end development some years ago. With responsive web design, the requirement of the designer is shifting. Here are a few tips collated to help designers who don’t code. In an ideal world, everybody designing for the web medium would also be a front-end developer. The reasons… Continue reading Tips for Designers Who Don’t Code
How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata
Throughout this series, we’ve looked at a number of the metadata APIs that are offered by WordPress. This includes the Post Meta API and the User Meta API. Today, we’re going to be rounding out the series by looking at the WordPress Comment Meta API. Note that this is that the final metadata API WordPress… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata
Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation of a Man Watching a Magical Sky
In this tutorial we’re going to create a surreal photo manipulation of a man watching what looks to be a magical portal to another world. This will take you through all the process with explanation at every step. Now… Shall we begin? What you’ll be creating Although this artwork has been created with Adobe Photoshop… Continue reading Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation of a Man Watching a Magical Sky
Envato Tuts+ Community Challenge: Created by You, March Edition
Welcome to our monthly feature of fantastic tutorial results created by you, the Envato Tuts+ community! Every day, visitors like you take the time not only to read our tutorials but also to try them out. This is an assortment of those comment submissions found throughout the Design & Illustration section. Check out this set… Continue reading Envato Tuts+ Community Challenge: Created by You, March Edition
10 Illustrator Tools Every Designer Should Be Using
What You’ll Be Creating In this article, we’re going to talk about the top ten most useful tools in Adobe Illustrator. Whether you’re into icon design, illustrations or any other craft, you’ll definitely want to read this article, since you’ll learn something new and interesting about the software that you use on a daily basis. So,… Continue reading 10 Illustrator Tools Every Designer Should Be Using