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
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How to Work With WordPress User Metadata
In the previous article, we discussed working with post metadata in WordPress using the provided APIs. We also covered a variety of tools, the ideas of security, and what would be required in order to set up the environment in which to work with the code that would be provided throughout the tutorial. If you… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress User Metadata
10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration
Fashion Patterns From clothes to accessories, fashion illustrations have a long history as a visual reference for a designer’s concepts or current fashion trends. What makes a good fashion illustration, though? With help from content from Envato Market, let’s count down 10 top tips for creating great fashion illustrations to better your own sense of… Continue reading 10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration
9 Free Cross Browser Testing Tools
Web developers constantly need to check the website compatibility across a variety of browsers in order to make sure that the website works perfectly on all the browsers. For this, there are plenty of cross browsers testing tools available that will help developers to check their websites before their website is up. Here is the… Continue reading 9 Free Cross Browser Testing Tools
12 WordPress Plugins For Handling Malicious Code
With this collection, we are aiming to present some of the finest examples of WordPress plugins that can handle malicious code for you. Take a peek over the list and see if anything catches your attention. We spent a large amount of time basking in the glow of a computer screen to sort out the… Continue reading 12 WordPress Plugins For Handling Malicious Code
12 Beautiful Cursive & Handwritten Fonts To Download
Designers’ love for font is not going to end because it is font that gives a design a special feel that designer wants to communicate. There are bundle of free fonts available on the internet and it is quite tough to find out a suitable one for your project. Therefore, it is important to organize… Continue reading 12 Beautiful Cursive & Handwritten Fonts To Download
How to Conduct an Interface Inventory With InVision
By definition: an inventory is a gathering of items tracked in a list. This term isn’t anything new, but the idea of using this concept towards interfaces is. Brad Frost, who coined the term “Atomic Design”, states that creating agnostic patterns helps to build far more versatile components that can be used widely across a… Continue reading How to Conduct an Interface Inventory With InVision
Card Grid Layouts: Showcase of 40 Beautiful Websites
Card grid layouts, made popular by Pintrest, Facebook, and Twitter, are becoming a fast-growing trend in web design, and have almost turned into the go-to format for nearly every website. They organize information in neat, little boxes, and they give any website a clean, minimalistic look. However, card grids are not just aesthetically pleasing, but also… Continue reading Card Grid Layouts: Showcase of 40 Beautiful Websites
10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame
The design field is pretty crowded. If this is your “calling,” then you have to accept that you are in competition with a lot of creatives that may know more than you. You have to accept that you will have to take all of that creativity you have and translate it into products that others… Continue reading 10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame
How To Choose The Best Font For Mobile User Interfaces
Image source: Gal Shir[2] It is a tricky task-we are not discussing content that will be opened once/twice, but such that will be browsed while users sit in waiting rooms, travel in the subway, rest in their beds, etc. Regular usage opens the door for other challenges too-mobile screens’ responsiveness depends on lighting, and it… Continue reading How To Choose The Best Font For Mobile User Interfaces
9 WordPress Advertising Plugins
Here, we are presenting another useful assortment of 9 WordPress advertising plugins for you. These plugins will allow you to place different advertisement on your WordPress blog in order to earn some extra money. You can place ads either into your posts or your sidebar – the choice is yours. With these WordPress advertising plugins,… Continue reading 9 WordPress Advertising Plugins
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
The Importance Of Usability When Designing A Site
Web usability is an approach to make web sites easy to use for an end-user, without the requirement that any specialized training be undertaken. The user should be able to intuitively relate the actions she needs to perform on the web page with other interactions she sees similar contexts, e.g., press a button to perform… Continue reading The Importance Of Usability When Designing A Site
9 Free Database Tools For System Admins
Database management is the most essential thing that a developer needs to do in order to make sure that the website is up and running fine. Although, there is a huge plethora of tools available for database management but here in this compilation, we are showcasing only the 9 best database management tools for developers.… Continue reading 9 Free Database Tools For System Admins
How to Create a Greyscale Monochrome Vector Portrait in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a monochrome portrait from a photograph. Today’s subject is the inspiring Aydian Dowling, who has given us permission to use one of his photos for this tutorial. If you’re not aware who Aydian Dowling is, let me introduce you to… Continue reading How to Create a Greyscale Monochrome Vector Portrait in Adobe Illustrator
10 Freelancing Tools & Apps To Manage Your Work
Freelancing comes with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. In order to keep yourself motivated and up to date with the latest tools and developments in your area of work, freelancers need to spend lots of time in searching for the appropriate tools and resources. In this post, we are presenting 10 amazing freelancing… Continue reading 10 Freelancing Tools & Apps To Manage Your Work
How to Install a WordPress Plugin
One of the challenges of writing articles focused on web development and software development is making sure anyone and everyone who wants to learn a skill is able to do so. When you provide as much content as Envato, it can often be a challenge to make sure you’re educating everyone. This includes people who are… Continue reading How to Install a WordPress Plugin
20 Useful WordPress Forms Available on CodeCanyon
Just about every WordPress-based website has some kind of online form. They range from the most basic—contact forms, polls, and email subscriber submissions—to more advanced forms like payment, calculator, and user-submitted content. WordPress users often use free plugins like Contact Form 7 or those included in Jetpack, while others may even take the plunge for a Gravity… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress Forms Available on CodeCanyon
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
14 Best Resources For Learning CSS3
Are you looking for some detailed and useful CSS3 tutorials and techniques that you use to create better results? If your answer is yes then you are at right place. In this compilation, we are presenting top 14 useful and detailed CSS3 tutorials and techniques for you. All these tutorials and techniques are designed by… Continue reading 14 Best Resources For Learning CSS3
How To Design An App Walkthrough
Image source: Dan Machado[2] There are so many walkthroughs-misuse situations, that it is questionable whether designers really understand their purpose. There are many complex apps which don’t have walkthroughs, the same as simple ones which don’t need them, but they still incorporated them in their design. This makes the decision on whether to use walkthroughs… Continue reading How To Design An App Walkthrough
International Artist Feature: Germany
For this article in the international artist series we turn to Germany, featuring seven illustrators and designers who create fantastic work from digital paintings to textile design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Cloudy Thurstag Cloudy is an illustrator and designer… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Germany
A Collection Of Useful Photoshop Typography Tutorials
Type art is popular at the moment for all sorts of reasons – and it’s a highly versatile skill to have. You can use illustrated lettering in projects ranging from posters to brochures – making it a great technique to add to your creative toolset. But beware: type art is so popular at the moment… Continue reading A Collection Of Useful Photoshop Typography Tutorials