Design can make a statement. It evokes feeling and can encourage thought and conversation. That’s the common theme among the three trends in website design this month. Each trend is rooted on the time and place where we live and includes elements that provoke thought. Kudos to these designers and design teams for jumpstarting conversations.… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, October 2020
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Create a Burning Vector Match Using Gradient Meshes
What You’ll Be Creating If you want to create vector flames in Illustrator, in this tutorial I will show you how to create an illustration of a burning match using a fire gradient. You’ll learn how to make a realistic match flame that is also fully scalable. And if you need some vector flames, but… Continue reading Create a Burning Vector Match Using Gradient Meshes
Performance Tip: Use the Media Attribute for Faster Page Load Times
Sometimes web performance optimization takes a lot of work, and sometimes performance can be improved in just a moment. Adding the media attribute to conditional CSS files is an easy and quick way to speed up web page load times. TL;DR In short, if you add the media attribute to the <link> tag that calls… Continue reading Performance Tip: Use the Media Attribute for Faster Page Load Times
Biggest Graphic Design Trends for 2020
2020 has rung in the new decade, and what a decade it has been so far! It has brought with it a new evolution of design within the graphic design world. Almost as if marking the start of a new era, new trends, ideas and looks have started appearing and making themselves seen and heard… Continue reading Biggest Graphic Design Trends for 2020
How to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and SEO
Contentful; Webster’s Dictionary defines “contentful” as… not found. Clearly someone made up this word, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. The world of user experience metrics is moving quickly, so new terminology is needed. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of a number of metrics measuring the render time of content on a… Continue reading How to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and SEO
MarketStack API – A One Stop Platform
2 Shares In simple words, MarketStack is an API that is stock related which returns for indices and stocks from all across the globe. MarketStack is a reliable source, which is trusted by more than thirty thousand companies as well as around a hundred universities all around the world. If you are unsure about MarketStack,… Continue reading MarketStack API – A One Stop Platform
Everything You Need to Know About Affinity Designer Brushes
What You’ll Be Creating Welcome to this Affinity Designer tutorial, in which you’ll learn everything you need to know about Affinity Designer brushes, from how to create and install brushes to how to use Photoshop and Illustrator brushes in Affinity Designer. You’ll also learn where you can find Affinity Designer halftone brushes and other valuable… Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Affinity Designer Brushes
25 Best Photo Retouching Photoshop Tutorials
32 Shares Free learn high-end photo editing, beauty and skin retouching in Photoshop tutorials. The best experts-taught photo retouching tutorials have everything you need to learn removing blemishes, dodging and burning, and portrait retouching techniques. We have already published 2000+ Photoshop tutorials for every level of designers, photographers or digital artists. All Photoshop video tutorials… Continue reading 25 Best Photo Retouching Photoshop Tutorials
50 Awesome Photo Effect Tutorials
Photoshop is clearly our favorite photo editing software. In this article, we have listed 50 best Photoshop tutorial effects that will show you how to perform a wide range of tasks including age progression, Instagram-like effects, lomo effects, and light leaks, as well as vintage and retro effects that you can use to help improve… Continue reading 50 Awesome Photo Effect Tutorials
15+ High Quality Vector Graphics and Illustration Sets
22 Shares A beautiful collection of Vector Graphics, vector patterns, watercolor illustrations, vector floral illustrations accompanied with matching design vector elements. Vector graphics illustrations are perfect for design wedding invitations, flower backgrounds, floral patterns and seamless lovely designs. In this list you will find a lot of floral compositions, floral alphabet, frames, greeting cards, seamless patterns, watercolor backgrounds… Continue reading 15+ High Quality Vector Graphics and Illustration Sets
Perfect Your Feedback Process With BugHerd
When you’re designing a website, the single most important thing you can do is gather strong feedback, so your team knows what’s approved, what needs improvement, and what direction to take the project. Unfortunately, the most important group to gather feedback from, your stakeholders, is also all-too-often the least technically able. BugHerd should be your… Continue reading Perfect Your Feedback Process With BugHerd
Serif vs. Sans Serif Fonts: What Is the Difference?
Want to find out what the difference between serif and sans serif fonts? Join us in this quick article to find out the characteristics of serif vs. sans serif fonts. Serif vs. Sans Serif Fonts Do you know your typefaces? Knowing the ins and outs of different font styles is essential for any budding graphic… Continue reading Serif vs. Sans Serif Fonts: What Is the Difference?
How to Mirror an Image in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Whether you are a beginner or an expert, mirroring an image in Adobe Photoshop is one of the most commonly used skills. However, with so many tools available to you, it might be quite daunting to learn for someone who is just getting started. So for this tutorial we will learn… Continue reading How to Mirror an Image in Photoshop
How to Add Custom CSS to Your WordPress Site
The WordPress ecosystem is huge, so it can be a challenge to find the perfect theme to match your brand in every respect. A good starting point is by browsing the thousands of high-quality WordPress themes on ThemeForest. However, it frequently happens that you find an almost perfect design but you still want to tweak it a little—or… Continue reading How to Add Custom CSS to Your WordPress Site
Ugly Cities Transformed into Works of Art
Cities are the main attraction for visitors worldwide. And while we adore the cities that we’ve grown up in, not all of them are pretty to look at. The architecture of historic buildings is beautiful, however, not all cities are blessed with a lengthy architectural history and our modern landscapes are starting to look somewhat… Continue reading Ugly Cities Transformed into Works of Art
CSS Tips for Better Color and Contrast Accessibility
Color accessibility is an important part of visual accessibility. People with various types of visual impairments, such as color blindness and low vision, perceive colors in different ways. As a result, the meaning of colors becomes less significant or is completely lost for users with visual disabilities. Although most articles on color accessibility give design tips… Continue reading CSS Tips for Better Color and Contrast Accessibility
5 Rules That Govern WordPress Site Design Testing
Think website design, and the ideas and options are endless. There are thousands of website design components to explore and experiment with. There is also a significant increase in the number of personal devices are purchased around the globe. It has become all the more important to think about how websites would look on different… Continue reading 5 Rules That Govern WordPress Site Design Testing
How to Remove “Powered by WordPress” From the Footer
So you’ve spent days, weeks or perhaps even months perfecting your WordPress website, and you’re excited to finally publish it—and then you notice the Proudly Powered By WordPress disclaimer in your website’s footer. WordPress may be one of the world’s most popular content management systems, but chances are you’ll want people to view your website… Continue reading How to Remove “Powered by WordPress” From the Footer
5 Quick Ways to Start Your First Sketch
If you are trying to get into the world of graphic design and want to flex your artistic muscles, then you have come to the right place. Many aspiring artists are like deer caught in the headlights and are overwhelmed by the skill of others. The thing is that all of those artists also started… Continue reading 5 Quick Ways to Start Your First Sketch
All About Typography In UI Design – The Complete Guide
In this digital world, we are constantly digesting written words to be it on our phones, books or websites. Often, we are reflecting the power of the written word and so we barely consider the role of the designer for emulating the tone of the word or sentence. We have observed that only a small… Continue reading All About Typography In UI Design – The Complete Guide
5 Street Photography Tips To Capture New York City With Some Untapped Locations
The New York City or ‘The City That Never Sleeps’ is a complex yet beautiful destination that every person should visit at least once in their lifetime. This place has so much to offer from foods to clothing to mesmerizing locations and countless other things. The city is perfect for all the photo enthusiasts who… Continue reading 5 Street Photography Tips To Capture New York City With Some Untapped Locations
20 Freshest Web Designs, October 2019
You’ll find a few other trends, and sites that ignore trends altogether, in our roundup of the freshest web design this month, but it’s hard to ignore the vibrancy that’s taking over. Enjoy! Chevalvert Chevalvert is a French design agency whose site visually bombards you from the moment it loads. The maximalist approach is visually… Continue reading 20 Freshest Web Designs, October 2019
25 Best High Quality Photoshop Actions for Photographers and Designers
The Best Photoshop actions can instantly transform your photos into HDR photography. The hand-picked twenty five high quality Photoshop actions that will transform your Photography into Oily effect, newspaper print, abstract, watercolor effect, comic and dots effects within a seconds. Mostly Photoshop actions available with video tutorials that shows how to setup action files and how… Continue reading 25 Best High Quality Photoshop Actions for Photographers and Designers
An Introduction to CSS-in-JS: Examples, Pros, and Cons
CSS-in-JS libraries provide us with a new approach for writing CSS. They aim to tackle the limitations of CSS, such as the lack of dynamic functionality, scoping, and portability. In spite of its advantages, CSS-in-JS is a controversial technology, as many developers ask if it’s worth further complicating front-end development. This article intends to give… Continue reading An Introduction to CSS-in-JS: Examples, Pros, and Cons