While a simple, clean website design might seem easy at first, the fact of the matter is the process is a lot more complex than you think. There’s a lot of stuff going on underneath the surface that makes the clean website functional. Most people don’t need or care about that makes these sites function,… Continue reading How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites
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WordPress CV Templates for Recent Graduates
When you are a former student, finding the profession of your dream seems to be only a matter of time. If you wait for a little, you will easily find what you need. But the reality is a bit crueler than you may think. You have to be aware of how to sell your knowledge… Continue reading WordPress CV Templates for Recent Graduates
Shoelace: A lightweight CSS starter kit
Shoelace is a CSS starter kit, not a framework: Think of it as a CSS reset sprinkled with helpful components. Bootstrap users will find it familiar, yet refreshing. Shoelace is highly customisable through CSS variables and it doesn’t require Less, Sass, or any preprocessing at all. The minified version is only 32KB View project page … Continue reading Shoelace: A lightweight CSS starter kit
5 Steps to Create Your Own e-Commerce Site from Scratch
Being a designer nowadays goes hand in hand with staying up-to-date with technology; owning a high-spec PC or Mac is quintessential and knowing every Photoshop and Illustrator shortcut like the back of your hand is a given. Yet building your own website from scratch in order to showcase or even sell your work is a… Continue reading 5 Steps to Create Your Own e-Commerce Site from Scratch
The Best Design to Code Services for You in 2017
Posted · Category: Best Collections Given a choice, web designers prefer to focus on the aesthetics of web design. What they produce doesn’t always have to look all that gorgeous however. What’s more important is that it’s user-friendly, cross-browser compatible, fast loading, and semantic. Incorporating these nuts-and-bolts features into a website can be tedious, and… Continue reading The Best Design to Code Services for You in 2017
How to Create a Website to Compliment Your Logo
When it comes to creating your website and logo design, nothing but the best will do. You need to consider your branding always when creating any STD or web property. You also should consider your logo design and how your website works with your logo to help your branding. Remember that branding is a concerted… Continue reading How to Create a Website to Compliment Your Logo
The ultimate guide to CMS, part 1
Gather ’round friends, and I’ll tell you a story that is pure fabrication on my part, and also probably how it happened: Once upon a time, around 1995 (as far as I can figure out from searching around the web), some poor guy who worked as the “webmaster” for some large company was putting nearly… Continue reading The ultimate guide to CMS, part 1
Some of the Best eCommerce Themes for Building an Online Store
Posted · Category: Best Collections Choosing an eCommerce theme puts you on the right track for building a quality online store. But making that choice is only half the battle. The look and feel of your online store is critical. Your eCommerce theme can perform the tasks to make that happen, but you have to… Continue reading Some of the Best eCommerce Themes for Building an Online Store
How To Design A Great Portfolio Website
Advertisement Designing a great portfolio, whether it is a web design portfolio or a graphic design portfolio, is a challenging task for every designer. Designing a project for ourselves, such that could meet our highest requirements, can be tough. Still, it doesn’t mean that we cannot create an online portfolio which is entertaining, accurate, and… Continue reading How To Design A Great Portfolio Website
A Comprehensive Guide to Typography Basics
If you’re learning web design from zero and want to significantly improve your typography chops, then this article is written for you. We will cover typefaces, fonts, typographic anatomy, hierarchy and how to choose typefaces. You will learn enough to become dangerous in no time. Topics As is usual for these comprehensive guides, we’ll be… Continue reading A Comprehensive Guide to Typography Basics
A Comprehensive Introduction to Color in Design
This article aims to give you a comprehensive introduction to the deepest of design rabbit holes: color. It will introduce you to the most important lingo and concepts to get you started, helping you make better decisions applying color in your designs. Topics As usual for these guides, we’re going to cover a great deal,… Continue reading A Comprehensive Introduction to Color in Design
Kick-Start WordPress Development With Twig: Blocks, Nesting, and WP Cheatsheet
In the previous article, I wrote about integrating the Twig templating engine with WordPress through Timber and how developers can send data from the PHP files to the Twig files. Let’s discuss how to create a base template with Twig, the benefits of this DRY technique, and a Timber-Twig WordPress Cheatsheet. Creating a Base Template… Continue reading Kick-Start WordPress Development With Twig: Blocks, Nesting, and WP Cheatsheet
Quick Tip: Using CSS Counters to Style Incremental Elements
In this quick tip, we’ll cover the very basics of CSS counters; a useful, yet not so well-known CSS feature. When we’re done building our demo, we’ll take a look at some real world examples of sites which take advantage of CSS counters. The Goal: Styling an Ordered List As a first step, let’s look at the… Continue reading Quick Tip: Using CSS Counters to Style Incremental Elements
20 Fascinating Examples of Bold Design
If you’re subscribed to my list, you know that in the first email, I ask you what is your biggest struggle with design in business. A huge number of people reply to this email (and I respond to almost all of them). And it turns out that many readers seem to be struggling with finding… Continue reading 20 Fascinating Examples of Bold Design
Designing for Apple Watch: Product Strategy
When Apple launched the Apple Watch, there was a lot of excitement. Wearables are a new category to design experiences for. The caveat? Translating your app to a smartwatch experience is different from building a responsive product for example. It’s not a matter of fitting content onto a smaller screen. In fact, it starts much… Continue reading Designing for Apple Watch: Product Strategy
15 Premium Business Card Templates (In Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign Formats)
Are you rebranding or launching a new business? Maybe you have a big conference or meetup fast approaching? Or is your current business card just not at the quality level you’d like? Is it not representing you well anymore or does it have outdated info on it? You don’t want a wrong phone number, changed… Continue reading 15 Premium Business Card Templates (In Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign Formats)
7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX
A great user experience starts with the designer. You have to imagine and create something that people will want to touch and engage with, time and time again. Sounds easy, right? The key to delighting users is to think like one. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel with every new design project; use tools and… Continue reading 7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX
The Importance Of Usability When Designing A Site
Web usability is an approach to make web sites easy to use for an end-user, without the requirement that any specialized training be undertaken. The user should be able to intuitively relate the actions she needs to perform on the web page with other interactions she sees similar contexts, e.g., press a button to perform… Continue reading The Importance Of Usability When Designing A Site
How To Create Impressive Websites
Image source: reuters.tv[2] As we already mentioned, ‘wow’ is the word we want our users to say when they open our website. It shows that they are amazed by what we’ve done and that our work was successful. You could appreciate them liking the site or addressing it as nice, but it is much better… Continue reading How To Create Impressive Websites
Strategies For Creating Better User Interfaces
Believe it or otherwise not, perfect interfaces are created on an item of paper. It’s much later on that the exact same is used in Photoshop or Sketch App. The primary advantage of paper sketches may be the possibility to produce errors. Unlike limited design pc software, paper is ready to accept everybody’s imagination and… Continue reading Strategies For Creating Better User Interfaces
5 Things to Consider Before Becoming a Freelance Web Professional
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;} If you’re working as a web professional for an employer, chances are you occasionally daydream about going it alone. Maybe you do some freelance work in your spare time and would love to extend that to full time, or maybe you just want the freedom of being… Continue reading 5 Things to Consider Before Becoming a Freelance Web Professional
Think Your App Is Beautiful? Not Without User Experience Design
Lately, every app is “beautiful”. If you read tech news, you’ve seen this pageant: Beautiful charts and graphs1. Beautiful stories 2. Beautiful texting3. Beautiful notebooks4. Beautiful battery information5. Aspiring to beauty in our designs is admirable. But it doesn’t guarantee usability, nor is it a product or marketing strategy. Like “simple” and “easy” before it,… Continue reading Think Your App Is Beautiful? Not Without User Experience Design
30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} PHP is the most widely used language for server-side programming on the web. Here are 30+ best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals. We have also written posts like these for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. HTML & CSS 30 HTML Best… Continue reading 30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners
Migrating to a New Hosting Provider is Easier Than You Think
Most website owners look at migrating to a new host as one of the most painful processes imaginable. This fear can be paralyzing, keeping them at inferior service providers far longer than they need to be. If you’ve been thinking about changing hosts, but were scared that the pain of moving would be worse than… Continue reading Migrating to a New Hosting Provider is Easier Than You Think