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
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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
How to Fix Wide Angle Distortions Fast
If you shoot with ultra wide angle lens, you know the distortions it creates. Photoshop has a tool called “Adaptive Wide Angle” which can correct this but it has its flaws including the amount of time it takes to do it. In this tutorial, you’ll learn a technique called “Volume Deformation” which will save you… Continue reading How to Fix Wide Angle Distortions Fast
How to Build a Pebble Application
What You’ll Be Creating The Pebble smartwatch has been around since its very successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and is a popular choice amongst smartwatch users. This is due to its excellent battery life, low price, various models to choose from, and compatibility with both iOS and Android. Pebble has had a developer SDK since day one, encouraging developers… Continue reading How to Build a Pebble Application
Kick-Start WordPress Development With Twig: Timber Image, Menu, and User
By now you have read about the basic concepts of using Twig through Timber, while building a modular WordPress theme. We’ve also studied block nesting and multiple inheritance with Twig, based on the DRY principle. Today, we are going to explore how to display attachment images, WordPress menus, and users in a theme with Twig… Continue reading Kick-Start WordPress Development With Twig: Timber Image, Menu, and User
How to Enable Deep Links On Android
What Are Deep Links? Android deep links open a specific page within an app and optionally pass data to it. Developers may find deep links particularly useful for actions, such as clicking a notification or sending an app link via email. Let’s take an email client as an example. When the user clicks the notification of an email… Continue reading How to Enable Deep Links On Android
SpriteKit From Scratch: Fundamentals
Introduction SpriteKit, available on iOS, tvOS, and OS X, is a framework that allows developers to create high quality 2D games without worrying about the complexities of graphics APIs, such as OpenGL and Metal. In addition to handling all of the graphics for developers, SpriteKit also offers a wide range of extra functionality, including physics simulation, audio/video playback, and… Continue reading SpriteKit From Scratch: Fundamentals
How to Code Multiple Loops While Only Querying the Database Once
I’m a big fan of the WP_Query class: I use it in many of my client sites to query and output content in custom ways. If you want to run multiple loops on a page, the easiest way to do it is to run WP_Query each time you need to run a loop. But there… Continue reading How to Code Multiple Loops While Only Querying the Database Once
20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins
Several WordPress versions ago, putting together an image gallery wasn’t the easiest thing to do, let alone a gallery of videos or products for sale. Today, however, there are many WordPress gallery plugins that are creative, powerful, and highly configurable. Sure, the Jetpack gallery is great in comparison to the early days of WordPress, but… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins
Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”
Drop caps are a form of decoration sometimes used at the beginning of a block of text; the initial letter running several lines deep and indenting the body text within these lines. Drop cap example, as found on The Walrus Drop cap example, as found on Nautilus It’s a typographic tradition as old as the… Continue reading Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”
What Are WordPress Themes?
We recently wrapped up a series that covered How to Get Started With WordPress. Though it’s not a pre-requisite for reading the following article, I recommend reading through the four posts, especially if you’re someone who is just now getting started with WordPress. The people who visit Envato Tuts+ come from a variety of backgrounds, both… Continue reading What Are WordPress Themes?
Looking to Code Your Designs? 9 Hand-Picked Services
Most website designers leave the coding to professional developers; since they have neither the time, the inclination, nor the necessary skills to do so themselves. Even designers who are proficient in coding, often prefer to leave the work up to professionals who they know will get the job done right. If you’re still fairly new… Continue reading Looking to Code Your Designs? 9 Hand-Picked Services
Take a Free Course on Programming Interactive Art With p5.js
What You’ll Be Creating Do you want to learn a new way of creating animations and interactive graphics, in less than an hour? If so, check out our new course on How to Program Interactive Art With p5.js, in which you’ll learn how to create an interactive, animated web page with p5.js. The course consists of just… Continue reading Take a Free Course on Programming Interactive Art With p5.js