A website can be as big as you want it to be. Or worryingly, as big as your stakeholders want it to be. For some organizations content production for websites is like a conveyor belt that’s always moving. There’s no limit to the amount of content that can be added and this presents challenges around… Continue reading How to Prioritise Website Content for Your Next Project
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40 Most Popular Script Fonts for 2021
Looking for the most popular script fonts of 2021? Check out this awesome collection of popular script fonts from Envato Elements. These popular handwritten script fonts are a perfect addition to any font library. Whether you’re looking for the perfect wedding invitation font or popular tattoo script fonts, there’s something for everyone. Download popular script… Continue reading 40 Most Popular Script Fonts for 2021
Custom neural voice: designing for human-centered policy
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Co-authored with Josh Lovejoy Credit: Delivering the benefits of Custom Neural Voice What’s in a voice? What is it about the way someone speaks that makes them memorable? Why do subtle imperfections in speech — like the thoughtful pauses and false starts when thinking on one’s feet — help us perceive a person as sincere or… Continue reading Custom neural voice: designing for human-centered policy
How to Create and Customize Procreate Brushes
What You’ll Be Creating Have you ever wanted to create your own Procreate custom brushes? Maybe you’d like to customize some of your favorite brushes or just get more familiar with Procreate’s wealth of brush settings. In this tutorial, we’ll take look at some Procreate brush basics and settings, and you’ll learn how to create… Continue reading How to Create and Customize Procreate Brushes
4 Quick Steps to Make a Website Responsive
Responsive web design as a concept has been around a long time now; in fact, it’s the de facto way of building websites nowadays. Right now people are accessing websites with mobile phones more than any other device, so it’s really important to ensure that your website is suited to small and large screens. It’s… Continue reading 4 Quick Steps to Make a Website Responsive
15 Best Web Fonts That Look Great at Small Sizes
Beautiful web fonts aren’t particularly difficult to find. A quick search will undoubtedly turn up a number of attractive typefaces that will complement your website’s look and messaging. However, many of these fonts tend to have very specific use cases. For instance, a wide font may be perfect for header text but would work poorly… Continue reading 15 Best Web Fonts That Look Great at Small Sizes
Design lessons from the National Football League (NFL)
[unable to retrieve full-text content] While growing up in Western PA, like most kids, I grew up loving and playing football and becoming a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. As NFL devotees, we endured a surreal 2020 football season with the pandemic from empty stands replaced by cardboard fans to injury reports containing COVID19 infections. Yet, with… Continue reading Design lessons from the National Football League (NFL)
Analysing micro-expressions from a (failed) user testing session
[unable to retrieve full-text content] In a recent professional experience, I was unexpectedly sent to Spain for a user test of a system I did not design with the promise of a translator. Once there, no translator. Nice. But the possibility of capturing the video of the faces of the users and their interactions with… Continue reading Analysing micro-expressions from a (failed) user testing session
A Comprehensive Guide to Flexbox Sizing
Flexbox sizing makes it possible to create flexible layouts that fully adapt to the screen. If you set up everything correctly you won’t have to rely on media queries to support different viewports, layouts, and orientations. In this guide I’ll show you how to use the following flexbox sizing properties: flex-grow flex-shrink flex-basis flex Explainer: Flexbox… Continue reading A Comprehensive Guide to Flexbox Sizing
Website Design: 32 Modern Websites with Amazing UI/UX
42 Shares Check out the Award winning websites for inspiration. These website designs shows the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the web design industry. If you are a web designer or website developer and you are looking for creative website designed, you might want to look into the… Continue reading Website Design: 32 Modern Websites with Amazing UI/UX
Crash Course in the PHP Ternary Operator With Examples
In this article, we’ll discuss the ternary operator in PHP. Along with the syntax, we’ll go through a couple of real-world examples to understand how it works. What Is the Ternary Operator? The ternary operator (? and :) is a conditional operator which allows you to execute a condition, and based on the result of… Continue reading Crash Course in the PHP Ternary Operator With Examples
How to Increase max_execution_time in PHP
In this quick article, we’ll explore the different options that allow you to increase the maximum amount of time a script is allowed to run before it’s terminated by a the parser in PHP. What is the max_execution_time Directive in PHP? The max_execution_time directive sets the maximum amount of time a script is allowed to… Continue reading How to Increase max_execution_time in PHP
Create Beautiful WordPress Pages with Optimized Images Using Elementor and ImageEngine
WordPress powers nearly 40% of all websites, thanks to its commitment to making publication possible for everyone, for free. Combined with premium plugins and themes, it’s possibly the ultimate tool for building attractive, unique, and feature-rich websites without any coding or design experience. However, you do pay the price for this experience, with WordPress and… Continue reading Create Beautiful WordPress Pages with Optimized Images Using Elementor and ImageEngine
The Complete Guide to Web Fonts in Email
When is a web font not a web font? When it’s an email font! In this tutorial I’ll walk you through implementing web fonts into your email campaigns. Web Fonts and Web Safe Fonts Web-safe fonts, like Arial and Trebuchet, Times and Georgia, are installed on most operating systems. As such, these “system fonts” will… Continue reading The Complete Guide to Web Fonts in Email
9 Social Media Marketing Myths to Dispel and Leave Behind in 2021
0 Shares Currently, the worldwide social network penetration rate is nearly 54%. That’s a very reason why it’s out of the question that social media marketing becomes essential for a business of every size and kind. However, it’s effective only if it’s used in the right way. Yet several annoying myths can harm your business.… Continue reading 9 Social Media Marketing Myths to Dispel and Leave Behind in 2021
Search and Replace Strings With Regular Expressions in PHP
PHP comes with a huge variety of functions to work with strings. You can use these built-in PHP functions to trim strings, join them, or replace them. String functions in PHP are pretty powerful by themselves. You can use them to make case-insensitive changes or do multiple replacements at once. However, they still require you… Continue reading Search and Replace Strings With Regular Expressions in PHP
How to Use cURL in PHP
Today, we’re going to explore the cURL extension in PHP which allows you to make HTTP requests from your code. Often you need to communicate with external websites in your day-to-day PHP development. Whether it’s calling third party REST APIs to fetch data or downloading resources from the external website, you want a library which… Continue reading How to Use cURL in PHP
Understanding Variable Scope in PHP
Variables are an important part of any programming language. You can use them to store all kinds of information like integers, floats, strings, arrays, the contents of a file, etc. The data stored in variables can then be manipulated by adding or removing information. Using variables also allows us to create loops and perform some… Continue reading Understanding Variable Scope in PHP
How To Create The Design For a Fleet Management Solution
Design plays a significant part in software development, regardless of the industry and target audience. After all, before even trying the array of features, that’s how users get acquainted with a product. No matter the type of solution, the design of software goes far beyond creating pictures. Instead, it’s all about showing customers the very… Continue reading How To Create The Design For a Fleet Management Solution
15 Psychology Principles Every Designer Should Know
So, really, you’re in the business of designing websites for your clients’ audiences. But how do you ensure you get it right? You could take what your client tells you at face value, but that’s only going to scrape the surface of who their audience is. What you need to do is figure out how… Continue reading 15 Psychology Principles Every Designer Should Know
44 Best Procreate Fonts (Calligraphy, Tattoo, Comic, and More!)
Looking to download fonts for Procreate? In this article, we’ll take a look at some awesome font choices for Procreate, as well as how to add fonts to Procreate, if you’ve never done it before. Add fonts to Procreate and use them in your next design, illustration, or project. If you love calligraphy fonts Procreate… Continue reading 44 Best Procreate Fonts (Calligraphy, Tattoo, Comic, and More!)
How Blogging Can Increase Footfall to Your Physical Store
If you are still running your business as a brick-and-mortar operation, the idea of blogging to get more customers might not have crossed your mind as being necessary. Nevertheless, this approach can generate a lot of interest and increase the foot traffic into your store. Starting a blog can be overwhelming, but such skills can… Continue reading How Blogging Can Increase Footfall to Your Physical Store
Functions in PHP: Return Values and Parameters
Functions are an important part of programming languages. They help us avoid code duplication by allowing us to run the same set of instructions over and over again on different data. In this tutorial, we will talk about functions in PHP. We will cover all the basic concepts of functions in PHP, and you’ll learn… Continue reading Functions in PHP: Return Values and Parameters
20 Amazing Brush Fonts and Script Fonts for Headlines
26 Shares Amazing hand-picked brush fonts and script fonts collection. Fonts are bold, condensed font, with brushy imperfections and an earthy realism. There are big bold, vintage and brush script font, with a slight punk attitude. Would be perfect for posters, packaging, advertising, headlines, branding, signage and anything where you want that urban look and… Continue reading 20 Amazing Brush Fonts and Script Fonts for Headlines