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How to Curve Text in Affinity Designer

What You’ll Be Creating In the following steps, you will learn how to curve text in Affinity Designer. We’ll use this simple badge design to exemplify all the techniques that you can use to edit and stylize curved text in Affinity Designer. Once you’ve learned how to curve text in Affinity Designer, you can take… Continue reading How to Curve Text in Affinity Designer

Popular Design News of the Week: January 4, 2021 – January 10, 2021

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: January 4, 2021 – January 10, 2021

Popular Design News of the Week: December 21, 2020 – December 27, 2020

Popular Design News of the Week: April 27, 2020 – May 3, 2020

Popular Design News of the Week: September 23, 2019 – September 29, 2019

How to Clean Malware from a Hacked Website

Just the hint of a hacked site is enough to send jitters down the spine of every webmaster. In an event where something suspicious occurs on a website or where unexpected elements start to show up on the website, the doubt starts to pop up with a possibility inclined towards the absolutely negative event, i.e.… Continue reading How to Clean Malware from a Hacked Website

Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin

What You’ll Be Creating Plugins are what makes WordPress special. Without them, WordPress wouldn’t be much more than a humble blogging platform. But by adding plugins to your site, you can turn it into so much more. Depending on what you need, you can use a plugin to make your site more efficient and to… Continue reading Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin

Easier Apps With Ionic Templates, Frameworks, and Tools

One of the biggest problems in development is the idea of “limitless” possibilities. How do you choose what app to build when you can create anything? Which choice to get from point A to point B is the right one, when there are so many combinations on how to get there? This holds true when… Continue reading Easier Apps With Ionic Templates, Frameworks, and Tools

How Graphic Designers Can Work With Web Designers

November 28, 2018 by Spyrestudios Graphic design and web desig overlap a lot in the modern marketing world. For this reason, it can be challenging for graphic designers to showcase their value apart from larger web design agencies. On the other hand, graphic designers may not be able to identify why they should work with… Continue reading How Graphic Designers Can Work With Web Designers

The Zone of Infinite Creative Possibilities

Ideation is the third component in our Design Thinking process, as seen in the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design’s proposal which we’ve discussed in our previous articles: Image source: Interaction Design Foundation How Did We Arrive at the Ideate Stage? During the Empathize stage: you approach the user and gather data needed to define the challenge… Continue reading The Zone of Infinite Creative Possibilities

Social Media Business Trends to Watch in 2018

There’s no question that social media was a dominant business marketing tool in 2017. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and, to a lesser extent, Pinterest, became the most cost-effective way to engage customers, build brands and lengthen reach. Facebook’s recent algorithm changes are a sign of things to come, however. As social media platforms make changes,… Continue reading Social Media Business Trends to Watch in 2018

5 Tools You Need to Give Your Web Design Business a Boost

September 28, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger Part of the reason many young entrepreneurs are starting their own web design companies in today’s business climate is that there are so many cost-effective and easy-to-use support tools available. If you’re in the midst of launching or growing your own business, it can be helpful to know which… Continue reading 5 Tools You Need to Give Your Web Design Business a Boost

Streetlayer – Free Address Validation & Autocomplete API

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Obtaining international addresses from clients and customers just got a whole lot easier. Streetlayer offers a seamless address data processing add-on. The JSON API helps to analyze, validate, and format international addresses immediately upon entering the system. The primary benefit is that you get higher quality data sets. The… Continue reading Streetlayer – Free Address Validation & Autocomplete API

Opera Neon Concept Browser for Windows

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Opera Neon Concept Browser for Windows. What if this were the future of web browsing? Get a glimpse into what Opera for computers could become. Each Opera Neon feature is an alternate reality for the Opera browser. The Opera browser features you love have been rebooted, with a fun,… Continue reading Opera Neon Concept Browser for Windows

Generate the Admin Microservice of your App with Lumber

Posted · Category: GPL License, Tools Lumber is an opensource tool to generate an admin microservice. It serves a REST API hooked directly into your database. Lumber generates a lightweight web app serving a REST API hooked directly into your database, so it works out-of-the-box for MySQL and Postgres. If you’ve already architectured your application… Continue reading Generate the Admin Microservice of your App with Lumber

Winds – Open Source Personalized RSS Reader

Posted · Category: MIT License, Tools Winds is an open source & beautiful RSS reader built using React/Redux/Sails/Node 7 and Stream. It showcases personalized feeds (using machine learning similar to Facebook, Flipboard, Etsy, and Quora) powered by the http://getstream.io API. This tutorial explains how the personalization API works (http://bit.ly/personalization-winds). You can also check out the… Continue reading Winds – Open Source Personalized RSS Reader

Nuage – Managing Domains Has Never Been So Cool

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Nuage is a simple interface that allows you to buy, import and manage your domain names in just a few clicks. They know how painful it is to transfer all your domain names to a new provider. That’s why they had the idea to create a bypass between all… Continue reading Nuage – Managing Domains Has Never Been So Cool

Build Human-Friendly Databases for Free with Airtable

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Airtable is not just a spreadsheet replacement, nor just a user-friendly database. Their mission is to democratize software creation by enabling anyone to build the tools that meet their needs. Creators and creatives around the world use Airtable to do everything from cattle tracking to filmmaking, and they have.… Continue reading Build Human-Friendly Databases for Free with Airtable

Vectr – Free Graphic Editor Used to Create Vector Graphics

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Design software shouldn’t bring people a sense of struggle, yet that’s exactly how the troublesome design software we grew up on made us feel. With their incredibly steep learning curve and counter-intuitive tools, they would deter our potential as designers rather than helping us to unleash it. We’ve all… Continue reading Vectr – Free Graphic Editor Used to Create Vector Graphics

Get Notified when a DOM Element Enters or Exits

Posted · Category: MIT License, Tools You can Get notified when a DOM element enters or exits the viewport with in-view.js. It’s a small (~1.9kb gzipped), dependency-free, javascript utility for IE9+. With in-view, you can register handlers that are called when an element enters or exits the viewport. Each handler receives one element, the one… Continue reading Get Notified when a DOM Element Enters or Exits

Candy – Bookmarks for the 21st Century

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Most tools focus on delivering information to you today, but do not help in recording, retrieving and making use of it. Candy does. You can drop the meaningless links, lost articles in read later silos, and copy-pasting into docs. Candy helps you capture ideas in an easy and beautiful… Continue reading Candy – Bookmarks for the 21st Century

Scrollanim – Create Stunning Scroll Animations

Posted · Category: MIT License, Tools Scrollanim is a CSS3 and JavaScript library to create stunning scroll animations that work everywhere. It’s open-source (MIT), free and easy to use Oh, and it’s 9KB. Also, this is possible to add the animations using the JavaScript API. Scrolanim has many CSS3 animations to use. No JavaScript animations,… Continue reading Scrollanim – Create Stunning Scroll Animations

Create Complex Layouts with Tailor WordPress Plugin

Posted · Category: GPL License, Tools Tailor makes it easier than ever to create beautiful and complex websites. You can create complex layouts by simply dragging and dropping elements relative to one another; customize with minimal clicks. Even elaborate layouts will respond appropriately to the screen size on which they are viewed. Your website will… Continue reading Create Complex Layouts with Tailor WordPress Plugin

Build Scalable Newsfeeds & Activity Steams with Stream

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Stream is the API for scalable feeds for you to build scalable newsfeeds & activity streams. Whether you want to build a feed like Twitter, Instagram, Spotify or Facebook’s we have you covered. Stream handles the storage technology for the feed and you keep full control over the user… Continue reading Build Scalable Newsfeeds & Activity Steams with Stream