Tag: Resources

How to Auto Align in Photoshop

Today, we’ll be looking at how to use the auto align tools in Photoshop, as well as guides and snapping! Photoshops auto align tools are simple but powerful, and they’ll keep you from sending out a design with the always annoying uncentred text or misaligned words.  If you’re looking to speed up your workflow, try… Continue reading How to Auto Align in Photoshop

Looking for the best Tools and Resources for Designers and Agencies? They’re in this article

Posted · Category: Design, Tools <!– –> An effective, well-organized workflow is an important web design asset. It can be a critical asset for a professional web designer. But less experienced designers and beginners also appreciate having design tools or resources at their disposal. It makes their work easier and more efficient. There are many… Continue reading Looking for the best Tools and Resources for Designers and Agencies? They’re in this article

Decolonizing typography: creating a font for Afrikan writing systems

The driving force behind my relentless mission to create digital fonts for Afrikan writing systems, one letter at a time. In this case study I’ll walk you through the process of designing a font for the Bassa Vah Alphabet. The name ‘Bassa’ and a Bassa proverb. Background Bassa language is spoken by about 600 000 Bassa… Continue reading Decolonizing typography: creating a font for Afrikan writing systems

PHP Type Casting: A Complete Guide

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} When you are writing a program, you will need to create and manipulate multiple variables. These variables might store the same or different types of data. For example, some of them could have an integer value while others could be a string or float. Different programming languages… Continue reading PHP Type Casting: A Complete Guide

Design lessons from the National Football League (NFL)

[unable to retrieve full-text content] While growing up in Western PA, like most kids, I grew up loving and playing football and becoming a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. As NFL devotees, we endured a surreal 2020 football season with the pandemic from empty stands replaced by cardboard fans to injury reports containing COVID19 infections. Yet, with… Continue reading Design lessons from the National Football League (NFL)

14 Tools for Choosing the Perfect Color Scheme

Editor’s note: This post was written by Shah, who writes about web design & development. If you want know about more useful tools for web design or more tips & ideas for web development, designews.org is the place for you to see what has been shared for design, creativity & inspiration hungry audience.  Designing a website is a long… Continue reading 14 Tools for Choosing the Perfect Color Scheme

5 Best Free Courses and Resources to Level Up As a Web Designer

I often see freelancers on social media asking what the secret is to working fewer hours, making more money, and helping new clients to find them. While those things tend to happen the longer you’ve been freelancing, it doesn’t happen without some effort. If you’re wondering how you can change things so that your business… Continue reading 5 Best Free Courses and Resources to Level Up As a Web Designer

Build vs. Buy: Automated Accessibility Tools

If something can be automated, developers will try to build it to save them time. In the field of accessibility, some automated tools out there can catch up to 50% of accessibility defects (like axe-core). On top of that, there are a lot of free accessibility rules libraries out there already for developers to choose… Continue reading Build vs. Buy: Automated Accessibility Tools

Keep Up with Digital Technology & the Latest Web Design Trend with These 15 Top Tools and Resources

Posted · Category: Best Collections Keeping up with the latest design trends is a challenge. It’s always been that way. But these days, changes come more frequently. This is thanks to the rapid pace of digital design technological advancements. If it weren’t for the tools that allow us to keep pace, it would probably be… Continue reading Keep Up with Digital Technology & the Latest Web Design Trend with These 15 Top Tools and Resources

Ways to Make Investments an Amazing Side Hustle

There are tons of people who are afraid of investing. They don’t like the idea of losing money. While it’s not fun for anyone to lose money, it’s important to remember that a person loses more money by purchasing fast food instead of cooking meals at home. Depending on the type of investment, you don’t… Continue reading Ways to Make Investments an Amazing Side Hustle

8 Ways to Reduce Your Android App APK Size

Since the Android Marketplace launched in March 2012, the size of the average Android app has quintupled. Some of this increase makes sense: the memory available to the typical Android device has increased, so why not use this extra memory to deliver a better user experience? However, there is a point where all of those… Continue reading 8 Ways to Reduce Your Android App APK Size

Top 15 Reliable Tools and Resources for Designers in 2018

Posted · Category: Best Collections The only thing certain about technology is that it is constantly changing. The same is true with Internet design. The preferred way to present information has become through graphics. This trend is giving graphic designers a field day. However, at the same time, it requires them to constantly invest in… Continue reading Top 15 Reliable Tools and Resources for Designers in 2018

Build An Eye-Tracking Alien with JavaScript ― Scotch

Hi and welcome to our Code Challenge #4. This week on the challenge we shall be delving into mouse tracking with JavaScript and simple animations with CSS. The Challenge The challenge is basically to build this Alien from Mars. We were browsing CodePen and saw this awesome CSS alien built by Eduardo Sada. View the… Continue reading Build An Eye-Tracking Alien with JavaScript ― Scotch

CSS Lightsaber Checkbox ― Scotch

Welcome to our Code Challenge #3. Way back when about five years ago when we started Scotch.io, one of our very first articles was to create lightsabers using plain CSS. Let’s bring that back and see how we can build out the same thing in this week’s code challenge. The Challenge The challenge is to… Continue reading CSS Lightsaber Checkbox ― Scotch

Manage Complex Projects with Merlin Project Express

February 8, 2018 by Alex Fox Managing a to-do list for an individual is a fairly straight-forward process. Write down all the tasks you need to do with their due dates. As you work, mark the items off as they get completed. When you’re done with the items on your list, you’ve completed your to… Continue reading Manage Complex Projects with Merlin Project Express

Avoiding Common Problems with CSS Grid

October 25, 2017 by Alex Fox For many dark days, properly aligning objects on a webpage with CSS alone was close to impossible. With mostly-functional semi-hacks like float, positioning and in-like block,  we could make it work, but it was far from perfect. When vexed by a particularly troublesome layout quirk, some event lamented the… Continue reading Avoiding Common Problems with CSS Grid

New Web & Graphic Design Freebies : 28 Resources

Fresh Web & Graphic Design Freebies for UI Design with amazing use experience. Useful free psd graphic resources are available for commercial use and instant download. Freebies included psd files, business cards, free psd mockups, fonts, UI Kits, Web Templates and many useful free files for web UI and graphic UI/UX design. You may be interested in the following modern related… Continue reading New Web & Graphic Design Freebies : 28 Resources

22 Mini Square Business Card PSD Templates Design

Mini square business cards are creative and cost effective innovation. Small square business cards are custom shape and professionally design  business cards. Each card is fully editable, very easy to use and customize in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. You can easily change the color of the element itself in just one click. All elements, including the logo, image and text… Continue reading 22 Mini Square Business Card PSD Templates Design

New Web & Graphic Design Freebies : 26 Resources

Fresh free Web & Graphic Design Resources for UI Designers are here. Handpicked freebies collection are available for commercial usage. Freebies included psd graphics, business cards, free psd mockups, fonts, UI Kits and many useful free files for web UI and graphic UI/UX design. You may be interested in the following modern related articles as well. Please join us… Continue reading New Web & Graphic Design Freebies : 26 Resources

Using Laravel Valet for WordPress Development

If you’re familiar with the PHP community, then you’re likely familiar with a number of the different applications and frameworks that are currently popular in the development space today. One of the more common frameworks that we’re seeing used to build web applications is Laravel. Though this tutorial is not specifically about Laravel, I recommend checking… Continue reading Using Laravel Valet for WordPress Development

How Good Is JavaScript for Building a Large Scale Web Application?

According to the most statistics that are recent on w3techs.com, significantly more than 89percent of sites presently utilize JavaScript as a client-side program writing language. As a cross-platform and programming that is lightweight, JavaScript makes it easier for programmers to build responsive websites and web applications that work with seamlessly with popular web browsers, operating… Continue reading How Good Is JavaScript for Building a Large Scale Web Application?

29 Of The Best Minimalist Icons For Web Design Projects

77 Essential Icons Line icon freebie Weather Icons The Nice and Serious UI Icon Set City Icons Tourism icon pack (free) Icon Set 350 Free Icons 100 Free Icons Random Stuff Iconset vol 3 Free Icon Set LINE ICON SET Meecons 1.0 Mini Material Free iconset Vol1 Freebie Icons set Outdoor Icons Startup – 150… Continue reading 29 Of The Best Minimalist Icons For Web Design Projects

10 Explanations Why Web Projects Fail

Nowadays every task utilizes some form of CMS. In place of painting a canvas in the old days of HTML, the necessity is always to build applications that require to follow more traditional development approaches. If the project is coded improperly, then quite often you have to throw it away and start over. The cost… Continue reading 10 Explanations Why Web Projects Fail