What’s New in Core ML 2?

Last year, Apple launched Core ML—a segue into the world of machine learning for Apple developers. Before that, we were already using machine learning with technologies like AutoCorrect, Siri, and a predictive keyboard, but Core ML brought a new level of power and flexibility into the hands of developers. During WWDC 18, Apple announced Core… Continue reading What’s New in Core ML 2?

Keyboard Accessibility Tips Using HTML and CSS

Making your website accessible for keyboard-only users is an important part of the bigger accessibility picture. Here are some keyboard accessibility tips you can quickly implement using basic HTML and CSS. A11y From the Beginning These tips are part of Web Accessibility: the Complete Learning Guide, where we’ve collected a range of tutorials, articles, courses, and… Continue reading Keyboard Accessibility Tips Using HTML and CSS

Draw with CSS: Using CSS To Draw Elements

With clever use of CSS properties, it is in fact possible to draw very complex shapes. All the shapes below were drawn with CSS alone. It might be that CSS isn’t the best way to render shapes in the browser window, but it’s very fast and included for “free” on all modern browsers. Learn how… Continue reading Draw with CSS: Using CSS To Draw Elements

How to Quickly Build Layouts With Bootstrap 4’s Responsive Flexbox Utilities

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to quickly build layouts with Bootstraps 4’s responsive flexbox utilities. To gain a better understanding of these utilities, we’ll examine four different examples. Note: this tutorial assumes you’re familiar with Bootstrap 4 as well as flexbox. Take a look at these courses to get you going in the right… Continue reading How to Quickly Build Layouts With Bootstrap 4’s Responsive Flexbox Utilities

4 Key Design Principles That Videos Should Leverage

September 30, 2018 by Spyrestudios Design principles can be applied to any visual medium – and videos are no exception. In fact it is essential that you consider the design of the elements in your videos if you want them to look impressive. While there are many design principles that you should take into account,… Continue reading 4 Key Design Principles That Videos Should Leverage

How to Digitally Paint Dimension and Texture in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating How do you add volume and texture to digital paintings? Simple. Just reference real-life objects! Digital painting is difficult for many people, but it’s really all about patience and giving yourself adequate time to develop details to the best of your ability. So today, we’re going to tackle this challenge by… Continue reading How to Digitally Paint Dimension and Texture in Adobe Photoshop

What Elements are Associated with Effective International E-Commerce Solutions?

It is estimated that the online e-commerce industry will enjoy more than £2.8 billion pounds worth of sales in 2018 (1). This figure is expected to represent an increasingly influential portion of the entire retail market. One of the reasons for this stunning observation is that the virtual retail community is associated with a global… Continue reading What Elements are Associated with Effective International E-Commerce Solutions?

Resize and Manipulate Images in PHP (With Examples)

In my previous tutorial, we discussed basic image manipulation using the PHP GD library. In that tutorial, I gave a brief introduction to the library and showed you how to load images from a file or create them from scratch in PHP. After that, we learned how to crop, rotate, scale and flip an image… Continue reading Resize and Manipulate Images in PHP (With Examples)

4 Insider Secrets to Building Persuasion in Every Pixel

One of the fundamental mistakes you can make as a web designer is to divorce your designs from business goals. Few websites exist just for the sake of it. If you want to be a well-paid designer, you’ll have to align your work with your clients’ business demands. Most businesses have a simple goal for… Continue reading 4 Insider Secrets to Building Persuasion in Every Pixel

Get Started With Pusher: Using Presence Channels

In this series, we’ve been learning about Channels from Pusher, a platform that allows you to give your users the seamless real-time experience they want. Presence channels build on the security provided by private channels, but they add the benefit of knowing which users are subscribed and connected to that channel. The best part is how… Continue reading Get Started With Pusher: Using Presence Channels

Soft Skills Needed to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Practical Guide

What You’ll Be Creating Looking on the internet, it’s fairly simple to find articles and information on creating a book—from how to do layout to character design, writing your own story, and so on. In my travels I found that unless you sat down with an experienced illustrator over a cup of coffee, you would… Continue reading Soft Skills Needed to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Practical Guide

Invisible Design – What It is and Why You Should Care

Most designers are, oftentimes, expected to maintain an amount of sensibility toward interfaces that are more well-crafted; however, there are some experiences that actually require virtually little to no new pixel work at all. This is due to the fact that any new kind of interface requires some amount of effort in order to make… Continue reading Invisible Design – What It is and Why You Should Care

Elevate Your Designs with the Perfect Mockups

As a designer, you work hard to create unique and interesting designs, but you also know that a great design isn’t enough to get your work noticed. One of the easiest and most effective ways to ensure that all of your hard work gets the recognition it deserves is by displaying it in a way… Continue reading Elevate Your Designs with the Perfect Mockups

12 Elementor Themes, Plugins and Templates

The World of web design has changed. We are able to witness and sense the rapid development of this industry, which simplifies lives for millions of people. However, such a fast enhancement provokes an influx of new products and makes a website creation quite confusing. Today, we are going to tell more about the hottest… Continue reading 12 Elementor Themes, Plugins and Templates

How to Optimize, Compress, and Save Images For the Web

It’s not a sudden discovery that the size of web pages are increasing. Developers minify their code, ditch expansive libraries, and shift code to the server side, all in an attempt to shave 100 kB off their code base. You may even be asked to drop valuable libraries like jQuery in an attempt to speed… Continue reading How to Optimize, Compress, and Save Images For the Web

Tips To Help You Improve As a Graphic Designer

When you think of your future as a designer, you imagine creating awesome watercolor illustrations, websites which are simple, sleek and sophisticated. You want to be successful, and you’re looking to find a way to get there. There are many different ways to become a graphic designer. Although some people might learn a single computer… Continue reading Tips To Help You Improve As a Graphic Designer

5 Things to Consider Before Building a Website

There are multiple reasons why people want a website nowadays. It’s not even strange to have a personal website for who you are and what you like to do. Mostly, however, people build websites for growing their business. We don’t recommend getting caught in having a website simply because everyone is doing it. Really figure… Continue reading 5 Things to Consider Before Building a Website

How to Create a Logo Design with Designhill?

Today, logo makers such as Designhill have made designing and selecting logos easier and affordable. Anyone can design a professional looking logo within minutes with the user-friendly interface and step by step guide by this logo maker. As Designhill leverages artificial intelligence, the result is a huge collection of logo designs based on your choices… Continue reading How to Create a Logo Design with Designhill?

What is Z-Index and How Does It Work?

June 18, 2018 by Alex Fox Elements on a web page can stack for a variety of reasons. With basic CSS positioning tools, it’s possible to stack elements on top of one other with negative margins, floats, and other tools. Even without specific position, elements stack, with div stacking on backgrounds on table cells stacking… Continue reading What is Z-Index and How Does It Work?

WordPress Plugins: How To Talk Clients Out Of Hoarding Plugins

When you first connect with a client, it’s natural to be agreeable in order to build rapport with them. You’re going to be working closely with them for a while, and you need to earn their trust as well as their confidence. Especially when you’re working with a high paying client. Being too agreeable, however,… Continue reading WordPress Plugins: How To Talk Clients Out Of Hoarding Plugins

Flattening Contracts and Debugging with Remix — SitePoint

Smart contracts on the Ethereum main-net use real money, so building error-free smart contracts is crucial and requires special tools like debuggers. Remix IDE is the most fully-featured IDE for Solidity. Among other tools, it has an excellent step-by-step debugger. You can perform various tasks such as moving in time, changing the current step, exploring… Continue reading Flattening Contracts and Debugging with Remix — SitePoint

4 Under Construction Premium & Free WordPress Themes 2018

In the modern era, WordPress has proved to be the most powerful platform to develop a website. There are always new updates coming in the procedure, themes and what not. Here we are going to talk about some of the best WordPress themes coming soon. Themes that you can use as ‘coming soon pages’ or… Continue reading 4 Under Construction Premium & Free WordPress Themes 2018

UX debt symptoms

User experience (UX) design has a wide scope and touches many things in both a product and in an organization. The field itself is fairly new and evolving rapidly along with technology. It’s no wonder that many of us in the technology and business world can lose track of UX’s latest evolution. It can be… Continue reading UX debt symptoms

Solving distraction: iOS Do Not Disturb concept

Reverse Engineering Habits “Smartphone addiction” is a bit of a misnomer as people aren’t addicted to the phones per se, but to the actual apps installed on them. In order to understand how to combat habitual behavior, we first need to understand how these apps are designed to suck our attention. Several years ago, “behavioral… Continue reading Solving distraction: iOS Do Not Disturb concept