When you have a lot of clients with WordPress-powered websites, or a lot of WordPress projects that you work on, it might get messy to deal with all those updates and maintenance. Logging in to each website with different usernames and passwords, then moderating comments, updating plugins and themes, maybe occasionally (or periodically) making database… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP
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Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python
Ever wondered about a quick way to tell what some document is focusing on? What is its main topic? Let me give you this simple trick. List the unique words mentioned in the document, and then check how many times each word has been mentioned (frequency). This way would give you an indication of what… Continue reading Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python
Create a Mystical Photo Manipulation of the Great Ragnarok in Photoshop
Rate this post Create a mystical picture and wallpaper for your desktop. In this tutorial you will learn many interesting effects such as creating lightning, fog and carved and burning runes and much more. I’ll show you an interesting example of the image toning and sharpening, a lot of interesting tricks and techniques. What you’ll… Continue reading Create a Mystical Photo Manipulation of the Great Ragnarok in Photoshop
Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern
What You’ll Be Creating This Islamic tiling pattern is atypical in its use of curves, as most of the traditional designs are made up solely of straight lines (even though circles are used extensively to create the underlying grids). It is based on the seven-circle grid which we learned to draw in more detail in… Continue reading Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern
20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources
As a developer, your design skills may not be that great. But you want your applications to look great. Right? In this quick tip, I list 20 graphic resources for iOS you can find on GraphicRiver. Not only will they save you time, they will make your applications look great. 1. Application Icons The application… Continue reading 20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources
Top New WordPress Themes of 2016
2016 is already and off and running. It’s time to take action! Are you wanting to kickstart your business and launch a new website? Or is your current site falling behind and in need of a fresh design reboot? It would take some heavy lifting to design a WordPress theme on your own. It’s a… Continue reading Top New WordPress Themes of 2016
Designers Freebie Pouch of February, 2016
Designers Freebie Pouch is a monthly collection of the latest design freebies from all over the internet. In this pouch, you will find the freshest design resources like icons, mockups, UI kits, textures, templates and much more. Use these freebies to learn new techniques, bootstrap your next project or build your business, but always remember… Continue reading Designers Freebie Pouch of February, 2016
A Beginner’s Guide to AJAX with jQuery
In the first article of this series, we covered the fundamentals of AJAX. In the second, we looked at a working example using vanilla JavaScript. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through a few of jQuery’s AJAX-related functions and methods. More specifically, we’ll take a closer look at the shorthand load method and the generic ajax… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to AJAX with jQuery
How to Create a Surreal Space Scene in Photoshop
How to Create a Surreal Space Scene in Photoshop 3.33/5 (66.67%) 3 votes This is a simple tutorial about how to make an awesome space image with a couple of simple pictures. Made in Photoshop Cs5 on a Macbook pro. What you’ll be creating Jupiter Fall is a piece I did out of a dream I… Continue reading How to Create a Surreal Space Scene in Photoshop
How to Grow Your App Team
You can find a lot of online resources that help you on your way to make a successful app. Once you reach that point, you’re looking to retain or even expand on that success. This is the moment that you, a single person who has built an app, grows into something bigger, a team that continues… Continue reading How to Grow Your App Team
An Example of AJAX with Vanilla Javascript
Following on from our introduction to AJAX, here’s an example which uses the XMLHttpRequest API to initialize an AJAX request. AJAX Example Have a look at the following basic structure: <div> <img src=”http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/Einstein.jpg” alt=”Einstein”> <button id=”request”>Learn more about Einstein</button> <div id=”bio”></div> </div> Also, consider the related visualization: Here’s what we want to happen: when we… Continue reading An Example of AJAX with Vanilla Javascript
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
Icons In Web Design
Image source: thestorefront.com[2] Well-executed and beautiful icons look like tiny and cute images, but they are much more than that. They are extremely advantageous to every website because they attach visual cues to the essential elements of a website (headings, sections, buttons, etc) and they make the site/app look professional and sophisticated. Generally speaking, icons… Continue reading Icons In Web Design
How To Create And Customize A WordPress Child Theme
The WordPress platform is a magnet for those who want to take matters into their own hands, who want complete control over their websites and want to be independent in running them. WordPress does make it really easily to completely customize a website. If you have a bit of knowledge of HTMl, CSS and/or PHP,… Continue reading How To Create And Customize A WordPress Child Theme
An Introduction to Intel RealSense Technology for Game Developers
Intel RealSense technology pairs a 3D camera and microphone array with an SDK that allows you to implement gesture tracking, 3D scanning, facial expression analysis, voice recognition, and more. In this article, I’ll look at what this means for games, and explain how you can get started using it as a game developer. What is… Continue reading An Introduction to Intel RealSense Technology for Game Developers
How to Create a Scrolling Background in Affinity Designer
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we’ll go through the process of creating a horizontal, tileable background that is perfect for side-scrolling 2D games (action, adventure, hack & slash) for PC, mobile and browsers. We’ll be using the basic vector tools of Affinity Designer, and you’ll see how we can make the image seamless… Continue reading How to Create a Scrolling Background in Affinity Designer
How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Learn how to create this fantasy photo manipulation of a pirate house scene set in warm scenic dreamscape with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create rocky mountain using photos of rock and stones, combine ruin of castle to create dramatic pirate house in the dreamscape with warm vivid lighting. Throughout the tutorial,… Continue reading How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
12 Corporate & Creative Business Card Mockups
ADVERTISEMENT In this round up, we have for you 12 excellent corporate and creative business card mockups that you can use for your next client meeting or design project. These mockups are not only covering corporate professional designs but also include profession specific business card designs as well. We hope that you will like this… Continue reading 12 Corporate & Creative Business Card Mockups
WP REST API: Setting Up and Using OAuth 1.0a Authentication
In the previous part of the series, we set up basic HTTP authentication on the server by installing the plugin available on GitHub by the WP REST API team. The basic authentication method allows us to send authenticated requests by sending login credentials in the request header. While being quick and handy, there’s also a… Continue reading WP REST API: Setting Up and Using OAuth 1.0a Authentication
Advanced Photo Manipulation for Advertisements
In this course you will learn how to create stunning photo manipulations using Photoshop, Illustrator and Lens Flare. You will be creating an advertising campaign using stock photos and learning some advanced photo manipulation techniques, such as lighting effects and text effects that will allow you to enhance your clients’ advertising campaigns or promotional material.… Continue reading Advanced Photo Manipulation for Advertisements
UX Tips for Mastering Your Next Website Redesign
Businesses can change a lot in just a couple of years. 24 months ago, mobile represented about 10% of all internet traffic. Today, it’s jumped to 25%, and Google has rolled out ranking changes that prioritize mobile optimized websites on search engine result pages. Buyers have changed, as well. Today’s website visitor expects a different… Continue reading UX Tips for Mastering Your Next Website Redesign
Create Code-free Websites with Webyo’s Cloud-based Platform – Now with New Features!
Designing websites can be an arduous task for those of who have no or very little understanding of code. Freelancers and design agencies who service hundreds or thousands of clients must use tools that allow them to seamlessly operate several websites from one cloud-based content management system. Webydo is a cloud-based web design platform that… Continue reading Create Code-free Websites with Webyo’s Cloud-based Platform – Now with New Features!
Data Structures With JavaScript: Tree
What You’ll Be Creating * { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Trees are one of the most commonly used data structures in web development. This statement holds true for both developers and users. Every web developer who has written HTML and loaded it into a web browser has created a tree, which is referred… Continue reading Data Structures With JavaScript: Tree
WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination
In this part of the series on Mastering WP_Query, you’ll learn about some of the arguments you can use with the WP_Query class, namely those for status, order, and pagination. You can use these arguments to fetch scheduled posts from the database, to query attachments, to amend the way posts are ordered and what they’re… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination