In this tutorial I will show you how easy it is to extend the HTML language with custom tags. The custom tags can be used to implement various behaviors, so they are a very convenient way to write less code and keep your HTML documents simpler. What Is a Custom HTML Tag? With HTML you… Continue reading Extending HTML by Creating Custom Tags
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Build a successful creative portfolio with Allyou
Every creative needs a good portfolio. Whether you’re focussed on typography or photography, layout or user experience, your portfolio is what defines you professionally. As with most things, the quality of your portfolio is determined by the appropriateness of the tools you use. All too often we see great work, presented poorly, because the designer… Continue reading Build a successful creative portfolio with Allyou
3 Ways to Help your Website Drive Sales
We all know the importance of a good website, one that reflects our brand identity and can help to boost traffic and drive sales. However, working out the best ways to go about this isn’t always as easy as it might seem. Web design can get incredibly complicated incredibly fast, but having a great website… Continue reading 3 Ways to Help your Website Drive Sales
Mobile App Development 2.0: Build Data-Driven Native Apps On-The-Fly
Posted · Category: Information Everyday, startups and enterprises alike find themselves asking the question: Should we build a mobile app? In 2017, for most, the answer is certainly “Yes we should, but… (insert seemingly insurmountable challenge associated with mobile development here).” The most common challenges include: 1. It’s too expensive2. It requires expert level coding… Continue reading Mobile App Development 2.0: Build Data-Driven Native Apps On-The-Fly
How UberEats could make ordering for groups of friends simpler — a UX case study
The Problem — I find myself using UberEats (launched early last year) more frequently than the likes of DoorDash primarily because of two reasons: Continuous promotions — They have had some really cool promotions all this while. (No delivery cost upto $5 for an order) Ordering experience — From searching for food to ordering and waiting for it, the… Continue reading How UberEats could make ordering for groups of friends simpler — a UX case study
6 Ways to Keep Your Blog From Getting Hacked
Many businesses from small to big use WordPress for their blogs. WordPress is a customizable and in-depth blogging tool with lots of features that attract bloggers and businesses alike. But WordPress can be vulnerable to hacking, which means any business information you store in your account and your posts themselves are vulnerable. Protect your WordPress… Continue reading 6 Ways to Keep Your Blog From Getting Hacked
How fast is your site and is there a way to control the response time for the clients?
It is known that response time of a web server has a great role in indexing of the hosted sites in search engines. The slower is a web site, the lower is its rate among the competitors. Nobody is going to like such consequences: site is displayed on the bottom of the search, less clients… Continue reading How fast is your site and is there a way to control the response time for the clients?
Form is Functional: Why Design is More Than Gold Plating
When budgets are tight in the software world and companies want to save money, form is usually the first to go. In these situations, the design tends to be considered ‘gold plating’ and not a necessity. It’s thought to only make the product ‘look nice’. This assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. Form has… Continue reading Form is Functional: Why Design is More Than Gold Plating
Common UX Mistakes and How to Avoid (or Fix) Them
Have you ever fumbled through a complicated contact form on a mobile website or wished for a button or link that wasn’t there? If so, you’ve experienced what a lack of foresight in user experience (UX) design causes. Don’t fall victim to the same common UX mistakes. Make sure potential customers poor UX design doesn’t… Continue reading Common UX Mistakes and How to Avoid (or Fix) Them
Is Email Marketing Important For e-Commerce?
Enhancing revenue off your e-commerce business requires tactful planning and timely execution of ideas and strategies. Combined knowledge of what to do and when to do it is essential if you want to take your business to the “next level”. E-commerce market has grown exponentially over the past few decades with more businesses springing up… Continue reading Is Email Marketing Important For e-Commerce?
UX Interviews, Stop Trump’s Wall, What Designers Can Learn From Gyms, and more UX this week
What’s hot in UX this week: Designing Beyond Screens: an Interview with UX Author Dan Saffer → Dan Saffer is a product leader, designer and the author of the books Designing Devices (2011), Designing Gestural Interfaces (2008), Designing for Interaction (2006, 2009) and Microinteractions (2013). Since 1995, he has been helping shape our field, working with… Continue reading UX Interviews, Stop Trump’s Wall, What Designers Can Learn From Gyms, and more UX this week
The Best SEO Friendly Themes For Your Drupal Website
One of the most important things to do when looking to start a new website (or modify an existing one) is to land on the right theme for you. While having good content is incredibly important, that content won’t have the same impact if you’re using a theme that isn’t suited for what you’re trying… Continue reading The Best SEO Friendly Themes For Your Drupal Website
Ideas for block reveal effects with 3D Transforms
Latest experiment by Codrops consists of a small set of block reveal effects uncovering content of any kind in a schematic box look. On the demo page you can also find nice ready-made examples for revealing menus, modals, forms, etc. This approach takes advantages of scrollMonitor (a simple API to monitor elements as you scroll) and Flexbox and 3D Transforms, so… Continue reading Ideas for block reveal effects with 3D Transforms
5 Ways Freelancers Can Increase Productivity with Pre-Built Websites
Posted · Category: Best Collections As a freelance web designer, you no doubt enjoy working to your own schedules. And not having to commute to work, or a boss that likes micromanaging are also good perks. You work hard to improve your skills, and to keep up with the latest trends. As a result, you have little difficulty… Continue reading 5 Ways Freelancers Can Increase Productivity with Pre-Built Websites
Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource
Dropsource is a brand new mobile application development platform that was built with the developer’s needs in mind. What does this mean exactly? It means that its sole purpose is to make a developer’s job easier and to make building a data-driven native mobile app as simple as drag and drop. Dropsource comes equipped with… Continue reading Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource
5 ways to identify quality stock images
In association with iStock by Getty Images. A good stock image is like a good design: you want it to be powerful, persuasive, and memorable; without drawing attention to itself. It can seem like a difficult balance to achieve, but a little effort on your part will reap rewards. Stock images are used for a… Continue reading 5 ways to identify quality stock images
Essential design trends, November 2016
It’s time to break out of your (design) shell and try something bold. Larger-than-life bold techniques are the big theme this month as we look at three trends that incorporate items that make users look at the design. Here’s what’s trending in design this month: 1. The color purple Purple color palettes are traditionally somewhat… Continue reading Essential design trends, November 2016
What You Need To Do To Be A Great UX Designer
The concept of user experience design is a relatively new idea, and now it is an appropriate time to find a way of defining it, by identifying UX design skills and by looking at how these need to be put into practice. In design terms, everything that goes into user experience can make UX a… Continue reading What You Need To Do To Be A Great UX Designer
SVG Tools And Resources You Might Want To See
Advertisement SVG, also known as Scalable Vector Graphics, is one of the fastest and best tools being utilized by web developers, especially those who are looking to have different animations placed into the many websites and apps that they design. As mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets become more and more popular throughout the… Continue reading SVG Tools And Resources You Might Want To See
How to Simplify Image-Rich Website Development with Cloudinary
Posted · Category: Information Even the most talented developer knows that a great website is time-consuming to build and a challenge to maintain. The reason: You need to meet graphic design requirements for every device according to current design trends, while ensuring that your website performance is optimized for any browser. Cloudinary can eliminate many… Continue reading How to Simplify Image-Rich Website Development with Cloudinary
7 Top eCommerce Themes For Building Great Shops
Advertisement Designing an online store should be relatively straightforward. Still, some web designers have a tendency to overdesign their sites, or invest in themes encourage overdesign or inventiveness. You can avoid these pitfalls by following a few simple rules: Give Your Store a Familiar Look. “Don’t make me think.” This brief cautionary message is the… Continue reading 7 Top eCommerce Themes For Building Great Shops
Free iOS Wireframe kit for Sketch
A free iOS Wireframe kit for Sketch designed by Megan Dolan at Savvy including a lot of useful pre-built elements to be dragged and dropped into a mockup. This kit is different from all the other ones because it takes advantage of Sketch symbols that allow to quickly insert a specific element from the symbol menu. Hope you enjoy… Continue reading Free iOS Wireframe kit for Sketch
Taking Control of the tvOS Focus Engine
Introduction On iOS, users normally interact with your apps via the device’s touch screen. On tvOS, however, user interaction is handled by moving the current focus between views on the screen. Luckily, the tvOS implementations of the UIKit APIs handle the changing of focus between views automatically. While this built-in system works very well, for specific… Continue reading Taking Control of the tvOS Focus Engine
Free UI Kits That A Designer Should Have
Posted · Category: Best Collections UI kits are among designers’ favorite tools to work with, because they enhance their creativity, and clean the palette even for the most difficult projects. What makes UI kits even more loveable is that they help us explore other designers’ ideas, without expecting the client to come up with his,… Continue reading Free UI Kits That A Designer Should Have