Show WordPress Related Posts With Taxonomy and a Custom Post Type

What You’ll Be Creating Sometimes you want your blog posts to appear on more pages in your WordPress site than just your blog. You’ve already got the option of using category and taxonomy archives, as well as tags. This can help you divide up your content and add a variety of sections to your blog… Continue reading Show WordPress Related Posts With Taxonomy and a Custom Post Type

How to Draw a Cartoon Nose

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at different ways of drawing cartoon noses. We’ll start with the nose’s construction, and then use this in the context of experimenting with stylistic renditions of this part of the face. When in doubt, I recommend looking at references, even when drawing stylistically! They can be… Continue reading How to Draw a Cartoon Nose

What WordPress 5.0 Taught Me About Stress

2018 has certainly been an exciting year for WordPress. The CMS celebrated its 15th birthday and released its revolutionary version 5.0, featuring the new Gutenberg block editor. It seemed like there was something new to discuss on a daily basis. A lot of it was controversial. As someone who uses WordPress and cares about its… Continue reading What WordPress 5.0 Taught Me About Stress

How to Migrate Your HTTP Website to HTTPS Without Affecting SEO

A robust security system is an aspect that further amplifies the performance of your website, regardless of the platform, it is being hosted upon. This security system ensures that all kind of sensitive data such as the usernames and passwords, credit card information exchanged via your website remain secure. This is important because the visitors… Continue reading How to Migrate Your HTTP Website to HTTPS Without Affecting SEO

How to Create a Menorah Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we’ll be creating a Hanukkah holiday card and illustrating one of the most popular Jewish symbols, the Hanukkah Menorah. The Menorah is one of the oldest symbols in Judaism. Sometimes called the ‘Chanukiah’, the Menorah is a nine-branched candelabrum that is used on Hanukkah. It stands for light, wisdom,… Continue reading How to Create a Menorah Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

How to Design a Travel Website that Accepts Booking and Reservation

Lots of people are relying on travel websites for their travel needs. From plane tickets to hotel bookings and everything else in between, travelers now have the option to customize their travel experiences. Any travel booking website can get you from point A to point B, but the best ones will get you to your… Continue reading How to Design a Travel Website that Accepts Booking and Reservation

How to Add Multiple Selection to Android RecyclerView

The RecyclerView widget is an integral part of most Android applications today. Ever since it was added to the Android support library in late 2014, it has eclipsed the ListView widget as the most preferred widget for displaying large, complex lists. However, there’s one important feature missing in it: support for selecting and tracking list items. RecyclerView… Continue reading How to Add Multiple Selection to Android RecyclerView

Templates, Icons, UI Kits, and More

Figma came out as a strong new player in 2016 allowing design and software development teams to collaborate on any platform. This browser-based application eliminated problems such as updating software, syncing screens, and waiting for a team member to upload the latest design. Real-time collaboration is where Figma shines most. It launched with features like… Continue reading Templates, Icons, UI Kits, and More

How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Photoshop adjustment layers to create a fantasy photo manipulation featuring a rock goddess.  First, we’ll build the base scene using several arch, rock and landscape images. After that, we’ll add the ground, the model’s face, and a rock texture. Later, we’ll add… Continue reading How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation

Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?

Web design is an industry that is loaded with opportunities for upsells and extra revenue. Odds are that your clients will benefit from services that go beyond basic design and development. However, just because you can offer extras doesn’t necessarily mean that you should. One such area is web hosting. While there is the potential… Continue reading Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?

Design Persuasive Websites With These Basic Principles

November 5, 2018 by Alex Fox Web design has become the focal point of the online industry. Why? Entrepreneurs are now concentrating all their resources on improving their online image, reputation, and brand. That brand is defined most strongly through an official website. Official websites are by far the most common tool used to attract… Continue reading Design Persuasive Websites With These Basic Principles

How to Design a Powerfully Persuasive Above the Fold Area

There are few parts of a website that command more attention than the area above the fold. This is the screen section users look at after immediately landing on a website. The punchier and more persuasive the above the fold is, the better your conversion rates. Despite its importance, this crucial real estate often gets… Continue reading How to Design a Powerfully Persuasive Above the Fold Area

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

An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools

Your Photoshop selection tools are perhaps the most powerful part of the application. By making effective selections, you unlock the power of the rest of the application. This includes localized image adjustments, compositing, and accurate mockups and object placement. Sloppy selections always show in the final product, so it pays to learn to make a… Continue reading An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools

How to Create a Mental Health Themed Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating Although mental health is just as important as physical health, it’s often misunderstood and treated too lightly. After all, a person suffering from depression or anxiety looks completely fine on the outside, and nobody can tell what they’re really feeling. That’s where art can help—it allows the artist to show their… Continue reading How to Create a Mental Health Themed Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

New Free Text Effect Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials (20 Tuts)

Free text effect tutorials to create basic and advance typography, lettering styles and fonts. These tutorials help to learn how to create 2D, 3D, Retro & Vintage and 80’s text effects in Photoshop and Illustrator. In this article you will find the new released text effect tutorials. These high quality tutorials help to design amazing wooden, neon and glowing text effects with basic and… Continue reading New Free Text Effect Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials (20 Tuts)

Hands-on With ARIA: Accessibility for eCommerce

Looking to make your site more accessible? Or maybe you want to make it easier to traverse your site overall using browsers and other interfaces? Using ARIA, you can do both. Let’s take a look at what ARIA is and how it can benefit an eCommerce site. We’ll also go through some examples step by… Continue reading Hands-on With ARIA: Accessibility for eCommerce

A Collection Of 10 Well-Designed Wedding Websites

Okay — you have clients, and they need websites for their weddings — like, asap! How do you choose the best wedding website builder, though? Superb query. Well for starters: You want to use a wedding website building platform that saves you time, saves them money, cuts out uncalled for stress and effort, helps you… Continue reading A Collection Of 10 Well-Designed Wedding Websites

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

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)

How to Upload a File in PHP (With Example)

In this article, I’ll explain the basics of file upload in PHP. Firstly, we’ll go through the PHP configuration options that need to be in place for successful file uploads. Following that, we’ll develop a real-world example of how to upload a file.  Configure PHP Settings There are a couple of PHP configuration settings that… Continue reading How to Upload a File in PHP (With Example)

Understanding The Meaning of Webpage Not Found or 404 Error

Page Not Found Errors I’m sure I’m not the only person who has come across this error during their Internet browsing sessions: And of course, whenever this happens, you might say to yourself, “What the hell does that even mean?” Well, think of your place of residence. Whether it be a house, apartment, car, cardboard… Continue reading Understanding The Meaning of Webpage Not Found or 404 Error

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

Understand Arrays in PHP

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;} In this post, you’ll learn the basics of arrays in PHP. You’ll learn how to create an array and how to use associative and multidimensional arrays, and you’ll see lots of examples of arrays in action. What Is an Array? In PHP, an array is a data… Continue reading Understand Arrays in PHP