To create a native Android app, one that can directly use all the features and functionality available on an Android phone or tablet, you need to use the Android platform’s Java API framework. This is the API that allows you to perform common tasks such as drawing text, shapes, and colors on the screen, playing… Continue reading How to Create Your First Android App Step-by-Step
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What Makes WordPress a Great Choice for Creating Websites?
If you’re planning on setting up a website for yourself or your business, chances are you’ve come across WordPress. You might be wondering what WordPress is and what sets it apart form other website systems. In this article, you’ll learn what WordPress is, how it compares to other web platforms and what its benefits are.… Continue reading What Makes WordPress a Great Choice for Creating Websites?
How to Lint CSS Using Stylelint
Linters have been around for a good while; but if you’re new to CSS this might be the first you’ve heard about them. A CSS linter will keep your stylesheets in check and make you a better coder! What Are the Benefits of CSS Linters? As front end developers we hope that the code we… Continue reading How to Lint CSS Using Stylelint
How to Create a Pizza Logo & Pizza Box Design
What You’ll Be Creating Always wanted to create a packaging design, but never knew exactly how to do it? Well, why not start with your own design for custom pizza boxes because we all love pizza. Follow this tutorial and learn how to draw a simple but effective pizza logo and a pizza box design.… Continue reading How to Create a Pizza Logo & Pizza Box Design
Graphic Design Junction
A logo is where brand development as such usually begins. This is what will cause the most powerful associations of customers, and with the help of which they will recognize your brand among hundreds of others. This is the main starting point, so in this article, we decided to tell how to use the latest… Continue reading Graphic Design Junction
Using Bootstrap to Create Material Design Web Apps
Google’s Material Design is ubiquitous in modern mobile apps. Perhaps it’s because most people today have come to love its bold colors, subtle shadows, and minimalist layouts. Wouldn’t it be great if you could easily apply the same design language to your websites and offer visitors a user experience they’re are well accustomed to? Well, with… Continue reading Using Bootstrap to Create Material Design Web Apps
Proceeding from the Latest Logo Design Trends to Make a Powerful Brand Identity
A logo is where brand development as such usually begins. This is what will cause the most powerful associations of customers, and with the help of which they will recognize your brand among hundreds of others. This is the main starting point, so in this article, we decided to tell how to use the latest… Continue reading Proceeding from the Latest Logo Design Trends to Make a Powerful Brand Identity
Easy to Follow SEO Best Practices for Web Designers
Most graphic and website designers have a general knowledge about what search engine optimization (SEO) is and why it’s important. However, many still think that SEO is not relevant to the design process or can be implemented after the website is designed. Unfortunately, both of these beliefs are false. How Web Design Impacts SEO Website… Continue reading Easy to Follow SEO Best Practices for Web Designers
How to Add a Booking Calendar to WordPress With a Plugin
What You’ll Be Creating If you run a business that takes bookings or appointments, adding a booking calendar plugin to your WordPress website will win you more business. Here’s how to do it with the Bookly Pro plugin. This will help you get more business and reduce the time spent taking bookings manually. In the… Continue reading How to Add a Booking Calendar to WordPress With a Plugin
How to Make a Photoshop Vignette Effect Action
What You’ll Be Creating In this beginner’s tutorial, we’ll take a look at some Photoshop action basics and create a customizable vignette action—ready to use and adapt in any way you like! So grab your favorite photograph, and let’s get creating! What You’ll Need You’ll need the following assets in order to complete this project:… Continue reading How to Make a Photoshop Vignette Effect Action
How to Use HTML5 “picture”, “srcset”, and “sizes” for Responsive Images
<picture> is an HTML5 element designed to give us more versatile and performant responsive image functionality. Instead of loading a single image and trying to resize it to suit all possible viewport sizes and layouts, the picture tag loads multiple images of different sizes and resolutions, choosing the best fit for different scenarios. How Does <picture>… Continue reading How to Use HTML5 “picture”, “srcset”, and “sizes” for Responsive Images
How to Create a Church Newsletter Template in InDesign
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a four-page newsletter template. We’ll put this template together in no time, and you’ll be able to reuse it for your future projects. Newsletter templates are great to communicate with your community and update them of… Continue reading How to Create a Church Newsletter Template in InDesign
How to Link Your WordPress Site with Your MailChimp Mailing List and Get More Signups
What You’ll Be Creating There are a variety of ways of keeping in touch with people who visit your websites. You can encourage them to become subscribers by adding a Subscribe widget. You can use the Jetpack plugin to make it easier for existing WordPress.com users to keep up to date. Or you can encourage… Continue reading How to Link Your WordPress Site with Your MailChimp Mailing List and Get More Signups
Mastering UX Writing With UI Powered Tips
UX writers create the copy that users interact with when using software, apps, and other products. This includes button text, error messages, policy and terms documents, help text, prompts, and instructions. Good UX writing improves user experience by making your product easier and more enjoyable to use. The best UX writers understand the ways in… Continue reading Mastering UX Writing With UI Powered Tips
How to Create a Vector Infographic Template in Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating In the following steps, you will learn how to create an infographic template in Adobe Illustrator. For starters, you will learn how to set up a simple grid. Using basic tools and taking full advantage of the grid and snap to grid features, you will learn how to create the infographic… Continue reading How to Create a Vector Infographic Template in Illustrator
Organic & Green WordPress Website Templates
Are you going to build a website for an eco product, organic food store, olive oil, vinegar, honey production, vegetarian food, farming, smoothie, juice bar, bakery, or any other similar business? We are here to help you simplify the process. Don’t try to do everything from scratch. Below you will find 20 incredible organic and… Continue reading Organic & Green WordPress Website Templates
Create Beautiful Forms With PHP Form Builder
If you are a PHP developer, creating forms, validating form submissions, and managing PHP sessions are probably tasks that are part and parcel of your job. All these tasks, although rather repetitive, require lots of time and attention, especially if you care about best practices relating to design and security. By using a well-tested form… Continue reading Create Beautiful Forms With PHP Form Builder
24 Premium Business Card Templates (In Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign Formats)
Are you rebranding or launching a new business? Do you have a big conference or meetup fast approaching? Is your current business card at the quality level you’d like? Now’s a great time to update your business cards or create a new set. Hand a well-designed card to the people you connect with and leave… Continue reading 24 Premium Business Card Templates (In Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign Formats)
Use a Drag-and-Drop Form Builder for WordPress
Forms have always been an integral part of the Internet. As a WordPress website owner, you have no choice but to use them if you want your users to communicate with you. Creating a modern form that follows best practices and conforms to the look and feel of your site, however, can be a daunting… Continue reading Use a Drag-and-Drop Form Builder for WordPress
Create Websites Fast With the Elements Plugin for WordPress
Envato Elements, as you may already know, is a massive repository of creative digital assets. By subscribing to it, you gain access—with unlimited downloads and commercial rights—to over a million premium themes, templates, plugins, and other handy items that facilitate website development. In an attempt to make this repository more accessible to WordPress users, Envato… Continue reading Create Websites Fast With the Elements Plugin for WordPress
How to Create a Google Calendar Plugin for WordPress
Regardless of niche, adding a calendar plugin to your WordPress site is a great way to improve user engagement and retention. Creating such a plugin doesn’t take much effort because there are lots of cloud-based calendaring packages available today. Google Calendar is the most popular of them all, and it offers a free to use API.… Continue reading How to Create a Google Calendar Plugin for WordPress
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 Anime Hair
What You’ll Be Creating Hair is a very complex subject to draw, because it’s like a substance that can take many shapes and forms. Because of this, manga artists have developed a special method of simplifying hair. In manga or anime, you draw hair as a mass or a cloth. This way it can be… Continue reading How to Draw Anime Hair
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