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)
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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
What Are the WordPress PHP Coding Standards?
What are the WordPress PHP coding standards? In this video from my course, Learn PHP for WordPress, you’ll learn all about the coding standards and why they’re important. The WordPress PHP Coding Standards What Are the WordPress PHP Coding Standards? You can find the full WordPress PHP coding standards in the official WordPress handbook. They’re… Continue reading What Are the WordPress PHP Coding Standards?
Uber Eats: An Experience
Kunal, 28, Average physique, a software engineer working in Bangalore. Who had a rough week, enters the weekend, in his bed orders his beloved food that he thought of eating over weekdays. But didn’t because of his big fluffy tummy. He decides to smash it now. This poor guy has only one good night out… Continue reading Uber Eats: An Experience
Why SEO Matters More Than Ever
If you aren’t familiar with the acronym, SEO stands for search engine optimization. When you plug in a question, product, or item you’re looking to purchase on Google, the results are far from arbitrary. Search engines like Google use a complex algorithm to produce results for whatever your query might be. If you want your… Continue reading Why SEO Matters More Than Ever
Design with the engineering constraints
No matter how good your engineers are, the application you are building will not feel the same between two devices. Internet speed, data usage, and device bandwidth are all technical limitations that result in distinct experiences. Network speed (3G, LTE etc) across the world and network quality across your living room may vary. In addition,… Continue reading Design with the engineering constraints
Shhh… a UX designer’s mistakes
A few days ago was my 2 year anniversary at StatMuse (visit us) and subsequently also my 2 year anniversary as a UX/UI Designer! Although I am happy that we’ve shipped multiple responsive websites, a brand new iOS app, and a some platform bots, I do recognize that I’ve made a whole bunch of mistakes… Continue reading Shhh… a UX designer’s mistakes
How To Design Better Illustrations
As an illustrator, you’ll know that you have your own process that you use to create your designs. You’ll be familiar with a range of tools and techniques that you’ve developed over time. You’ll have developed your own style and learned to bring your own interpretation to your work. This article isn’t here to show… Continue reading How To Design Better Illustrations
10 Examples of Enticing Corporate Design
If you want a corporate identity then it’s important that you nail the corporate design. After all, this is what your clients and customers are going to see every time you communicate with them via email, letter, social media, invoice, order forms etc. Here are 10 examples of corporate design which you’ll struggle to ignore.… Continue reading 10 Examples of Enticing Corporate Design