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
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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
10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame
The design field is pretty crowded. If this is your “calling,” then you have to accept that you are in competition with a lot of creatives that may know more than you. You have to accept that you will have to take all of that creativity you have and translate it into products that others… Continue reading 10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame
The greatest portfolio that is new, January Edition
Hello all! And welcome to January’s portfolio roundup. There will be a lot to appreciate about each portfolio listed here, so why not grab a coffee and browse through some of the best sites that are new display design work. You’ll find a few of the most exciting designers working away in studios throughout… Continue reading The greatest portfolio that is new, January Edition
Designing For Small Businesses: 10 Websites That Can Change The Game
Source: Be Digital[2] First impressions count. This is where pre-built websites can play a key role in creating any business-oriented website. There has to be a follow-through of course, but the importance of creating a great first impression can never be overemphasized. The problem facing the web designer is what makes a great first impression… Continue reading Designing For Small Businesses: 10 Websites That Can Change The Game
How to Streamline Your Logo Design Process
Creating a identity that is unique any brand can be quite a challenge, because there are so many things to factor in. The process is not as simple as throwing your creative juices into the project – that’s just a fraction that is small of. Company logo demands a great deal more from any musician,… Continue reading How to Streamline Your Logo Design Process
Inspiring Web Designs #1 2016
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User Experience Design: Complete UX Fundamentals Course
Course Description Interested in learning what makes a great web or mobile app? How to understand users? Or do you want to expand your web design or development skills? If so, you’ve come to the right place. User Experience Design: The Accelerated UX Course is the quickest, and most cost-effective UX course you’ll find on… Continue reading User Experience Design: Complete UX Fundamentals Course
20 Templates For Creating High-Fidelity Wireframes
Wireframing can be something quick and dirty, or it can be a large task that takes time to perfect. So here are some wireframe templates to help you save ton of time. With these templates you can easily create effective mockups and prototype of your web and mobile apps in no time. This is the… Continue reading 20 Templates For Creating High-Fidelity Wireframes
Learn Advanced High End Beauty Retouching in Photoshop
High End Beauty Images are desired product in advertisement of luxurious products as well as in Fashion and Beauty magazines. In this course You will learn the best techniques for High and Beauty Retouch, which are going to place Your retouching skills on a totally new level. So first of all what is High End… Continue reading Learn Advanced High End Beauty Retouching in Photoshop
Build a Custom WordPress User Flow — Part 3: Password Reset
In the first two tutorials in this series, we have built custom pages for logging in and registering a new user. Now, there is only one part in the login flow left to explore and replace: what happens if a user forgets their password and wants to reset their WordPress password? In this tutorial, we’ll… Continue reading Build a Custom WordPress User Flow — Part 3: Password Reset
Posts, Pages and Post Types
In this part of this series on WP_Query, you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to query for posts, pages and custom post types. You can query for specific posts and pages or you can run a query to return posts of one or more post types. A Recap on How Arguments Work in WP_Query Before… Continue reading Posts, Pages and Post Types