In an era in which SMS and other text messaging technologies have become the dominant means of communication for individuals, email continues to hold a pivotal position for businesses in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape. It serves as the primary channel of interaction between businesses, their customers, and other organizations. As a developer, you are… Continue reading Validating Email Addresses With Emailvalidation.io
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The big picture and the small designer
The importance of understanding and designing for a connected world I was on my train commute home and heard the familiar “tickets please”. Opposite me sat an elderly lady, with a printed paper in her hand, readily awaiting the train conductor to check it. When the train conductor glanced at the lady’s paper, she only said,… Continue reading The big picture and the small designer
Designing for scalable Dynamic Type in iOS
Designing for scalable Dynamic Type in iOS for accessibility When we wanted to implement accessibility settings on our iOS mobile app, I had to figure out where to start. Looking online, I could only find engineering resources. It was all about code and how to implement it with UIKit or SwiftUI with plenty of great… Continue reading Designing for scalable Dynamic Type in iOS
16 Free Looped Animation and Samples to Use for Your Projects
October 4, 2021 by Sangalang Kristine Leave a Comment Animation in websites has reached new, incredible levels since the increased availability of free looped animation on the internet. The great news is that there are numerous sources available. These could be samples, templates, or ready-to-use animations you can simply embed on your website. Why Use Looped… Continue reading 16 Free Looped Animation and Samples to Use for Your Projects
Cartoon Fundamentals: How to Draw a Cartoon Face Correctly
In this easy cartoon drawing tutorial, you’ll learn how to draw cartoon characters. A good cartoonist is one who can extract the main details of an object or a human being and represent them with simple shapes. The goal is that a child can recognize the drawing and be attracted to what they’re looking at.… Continue reading Cartoon Fundamentals: How to Draw a Cartoon Face Correctly
Small animations; big impact
[unable to retrieve full-text content] The effect of small animations on the user experience and how they improve important KPIs such as conversion rates and discoverability. Two user studies were carried out with more than 140 participants to underpin the findings. Animations are often included in modern user interfaces to bring life into the design… Continue reading Small animations; big impact
Top-Notch Cybersecurity for a Low-Budget Business
Most small business owners are more concerned about someone breaking into their offices than someone breaking into their systems. However, with cyberattacks on the rise, all businesses should invest as much as possible into cybersecurity. Data breaches can prove to be very expensive, even to a small business. More than half of all small businesses… Continue reading Top-Notch Cybersecurity for a Low-Budget Business
How to Use a Free Responsive Portfolio WordPress Gallery Plugin
There are a lot of free and paid gallery plugins out there which you can use of your website to showcase images to visitors. Some of them simply allow you to display images in a neat manner on the website while others try to provide an all-in-one package with features like lightbox and social sharing… Continue reading How to Use a Free Responsive Portfolio WordPress Gallery Plugin
The Age of Digital – 7 Trends That Will Shape Digital Marketing in 2019
Any brand that doesn’t have a specific, comprehensive digital marketing plan is truly missing out on game-changing opportunities. As of 2019, digital marketing is raking in revenue for thousands of brands all over the globe, and this trend is only set to move upward. The quickly changing trends of digital marketing are both a pro… Continue reading The Age of Digital – 7 Trends That Will Shape Digital Marketing in 2019
Design Web Tables Without Screwing It Up – A 2019 Guide
Web tables are antiquated technology. If you don’t know this, welcome to the club that everyone else joined in 2010. Tables as a layout tool are a hack, a corruption of HTML used to create layouts that the code hadn’t thought of yet. When tables were added in HTML in 1996, this was in the… Continue reading Design Web Tables Without Screwing It Up – A 2019 Guide
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
9 Effective Invoicing and Time Management Apps You Should Pay Attention To
Posted · Category: Best Collections “Time is money” may be a business cliché, but its truth is not to be denied. How you use your time when working for a company can influence your salary and your job security. How you do so if you are self-employed can impact your earnings. One way to use… Continue reading 9 Effective Invoicing and Time Management Apps You Should Pay Attention To
5 Reasons Why You Should Choose a Mirrorless Camera
If you are looking for a new camera the chances are high that you have already seen some new point-and-shoot or DSLR cameras on the market which offers quite impressive technical features. However, it’s important to note that with advancements in technology, a growing number of consumers are gradually switching from DSLRs to Mirrorless Cameras… Continue reading 5 Reasons Why You Should Choose a Mirrorless Camera
Finding Great Design Elements for Your Website
Fonts, images, logos, and videos are some of the most eye-catching elements of your website. While your content is what defines your site, the graphic elements act as the content setting — it helps it stand out. Design elements can quickly get expensive enough to affect any budget, which is why it’s so important to… Continue reading Finding Great Design Elements for Your Website
A Showcase of Great Typography Usage in Web Design
Good typography is vital to having an effective website. Visitors need to be able to read the info on a site, whether it is an eCommerce website or a purely informational website. If they aren’t able to read it, they will quickly leave. The site will not be linked to, so it won’t show up… Continue reading A Showcase of Great Typography Usage in Web Design
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
Illustrating the Web: deconstructing the trend
Illustrations are taking over the Web. Designers are creating websites with everything from full-screen illustrations to hand-drawn divots that are used throughout projects. It’s a trend that’s likely to keep growing because illustrations make a design feel custom (even if it’s not). Here’s how to make the most of them in your design. Website illustration… Continue reading Illustrating the Web: deconstructing the trend
Why Responsive Web Design is a Small Business Must Have
Technology is advancing on a daily basis, and more and more people are using their smartphones to browse online rather than their PCs or laptops. Tablets have become much more streamlined than heavy laptops, and users can access everything they need from wherever they are. If you run a small business you should be very… Continue reading Why Responsive Web Design is a Small Business Must Have
SVG Loaders – Loading icons and small animations built purely in SVG
SVG Loaders is a set of Loading icons and small animations built purely in SVG, no CSS or JS. Usage Download or bower install svg-loaders <img src=”svg-loaders/puff.svg” /> An icon’s color can be manipulated by changing the fill attribute in the SVG file. <svg fill=”#fff” width=”140″ height=”64″ viewBox=”0 0 140 64″ xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”> All SVG files… Continue reading SVG Loaders – Loading icons and small animations built purely in SVG
Work Smarter, Not Harder: How to Create Compelling Content on a Small Budget
As your competitors are angling for the best possible spot on Google search results, you can’t sit idly by and hope that your current and prospective customers will cut through the thicket in search of your website and social-media channels. At times, you’ll be fighting in the ring with bigger and stronger opponents. A cunning… Continue reading Work Smarter, Not Harder: How to Create Compelling Content on a Small Budget
5 Web Design Mistakes of Small Businesses
It’s happens many times that you have decided to put lots of money and time into building a better web presence for your company. But the final result you see from all efforts and money is no growth in traffic or business from the new website. Before you or your company should launch a new… Continue reading 5 Web Design Mistakes of Small Businesses
Build a Freshly Squeezed Responsive Grid System
I’d like to talk to you about Lemonade. Not the refreshing citrus drink, but a grid system I created. Lemonade is a grid system that was built in order to give designers and developers the confidence to make fully responsive websites, eliminating the frustration of flicking between browsers looking for bugs and errors. Let’s look… Continue reading Build a Freshly Squeezed Responsive Grid System
Cardinal: A Small & Mobile First CSS Framework
Cardinal is a small, “mobile first” CSS framework with some useful default styles, scalable typography, reusable modules, and a simple responsive grid system. Cardinal provides a new approach to scaling web typography and layout across multiple devices. It places little emphasis on pixel-precision, but does not restrict its usage. Instead, Cardinal leverages modular scale, unit-less… Continue reading Cardinal: A Small & Mobile First CSS Framework