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4 Key Design Principles That Videos Should Leverage

September 30, 2018 by Spyrestudios Design principles can be applied to any visual medium – and videos are no exception. In fact it is essential that you consider the design of the elements in your videos if you want them to look impressive. While there are many design principles that you should take into account,… Continue reading 4 Key Design Principles That Videos Should Leverage

A Collection Of 10 Well-Designed Wedding Websites

Okay — you have clients, and they need websites for their weddings — like, asap! How do you choose the best wedding website builder, though? Superb query. Well for starters: You want to use a wedding website building platform that saves you time, saves them money, cuts out uncalled for stress and effort, helps you… Continue reading A Collection Of 10 Well-Designed Wedding Websites

Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re like me, you’ve been using Google Maps to add maps to your WordPress sites for years, but you sometimes get a little frustrated about the lack of customization options. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use an alternative—a WordPress plugin called MapSVG that lets you… Continue reading Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin

A Guide to Getting Ready for iOS 12 Notifications for Designers

Now that iOS 12 is out and some users have upgraded to the operating system, you’ll want to start revising your application to take advantage of the new features of iOS 12 notifications. What’s new in iOS 12 Notifications? iOS 12 brings a number of changes to how notifications work. While no single change completely… Continue reading A Guide to Getting Ready for iOS 12 Notifications for Designers

Render Text and Shapes on Images in PHP

In the previous, we focused on loaded and manipulating images with PHP. We learned how to rotate, resize, scale or flip an image. We also learned about different filters and the convolution matrix. Those tutorials also covered some practical uses of the GD library like resizing all images in a directory or adding watermarks on multiple… Continue reading Render Text and Shapes on Images in PHP

How to Boost Email Conversions With Personalization and Dynamic Content

Did you know, that instead of sending the same email to everyone on your mailing list, you can improve your results and conversions by sending highly-targeted messages to laser-focused audiences? I’m not just talking about just personalizing the message subject line or the greeting–those things help, but what I’m talking about is using dynamic content… Continue reading How to Boost Email Conversions With Personalization and Dynamic Content

How to Create a Pastel Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an amazing pastel photo effect in Adobe Photoshop. I will explain everything in so much detail that anyone can create it, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time.  The effect shown above is the one I will show… Continue reading How to Create a Pastel Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

Resize and Manipulate Images in PHP (With Examples)

In my previous tutorial, we discussed basic image manipulation using the PHP GD library. In that tutorial, I gave a brief introduction to the library and showed you how to load images from a file or create them from scratch in PHP. After that, we learned how to crop, rotate, scale and flip an image… Continue reading Resize and Manipulate Images in PHP (With Examples)

4 Insider Secrets to Building Persuasion in Every Pixel

One of the fundamental mistakes you can make as a web designer is to divorce your designs from business goals. Few websites exist just for the sake of it. If you want to be a well-paid designer, you’ll have to align your work with your clients’ business demands. Most businesses have a simple goal for… Continue reading 4 Insider Secrets to Building Persuasion in Every Pixel

How to Develop and Test a Site Using Mobile-First Design

You’ve spent hours honing in the branding. You’ve followed SEO best practices for every page.  You’ve even painstakingly mapped out user flows to find the optimal page architecture. In short, you’ve built a beautiful website that you’re sure your visitors will love. It looks gorgeous on your 17” retina display. But how’s it going to… Continue reading How to Develop and Test a Site Using Mobile-First Design

5 Photoshop Effects for Mind-Blowing Web Graphics

Utilizing the right images on your website can make a huge impact. Images can get your message across in a way that words alone cannot. It’s one of the most surefire methods to stand out from the crowd. To get the most out of your images, you’ll want to use a professional-grade tool like Adobe… Continue reading 5 Photoshop Effects for Mind-Blowing Web Graphics

How to Draw a Ball

What You’ll Be Creating Drawing a ball may sound like something very simple, yet if you try it, you may discover that there are certain rules that must be followed. You need to know them if you want to draw a perfect ball!  In this tutorial, I will show you how to draw a soccer… Continue reading How to Draw a Ball

Check the Stats of Your Text with Word Count Tool

Are you tired of counting the words of your work and in the middle of lines you forget then have to start counting again and this cycle keeps wasting your time? Word Counter helps you to calculate the stats of your syllables, sentences, the average length of words and phrases. If you are currently doing… Continue reading Check the Stats of Your Text with Word Count Tool

Top Best Tools to Improve Your Skills in Graphic Design

Seeking to improve your skills is always good idea. This is even more relevant, when it comes to ever evolving craft like design. Whether you are looking for a “quick fix” or prefer to take a more long-term approach to improving your design skills, you need to start somewhere. It is important to keep in… Continue reading Top Best Tools to Improve Your Skills in Graphic Design

Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets

Flutter is fast becoming one of the most popular frameworks for developing cross-platform mobile apps. Most Android and iOS developers today are starting to agree that it is a faster and more future-proof alternative to other cross-platform frameworks such as React Native and NativeScript. Google itself is leaving no stone unturned to attract more developers to… Continue reading Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets

The Impact WordPress Has Had on the Web

WordPress recently celebrated its 15th birthday. Not only is it quite an achievement for anything web-related to last that long, it’s also impressive to see that the content management system is still at its peak relevancy. That got me thinking about the impact WordPress has had on the web and specifically on web designers. Frankly,… Continue reading The Impact WordPress Has Had on the Web

Building a mobile app UX testing setup for under $50

What we learnt testing different versions of the sled: The first version had a flat sled which the user had to hold with the phone in their hand (rather than having it on a flat surface) — whilst this is more in line with how a user will naturally hold their phone it meant that the setup… Continue reading Building a mobile app UX testing setup for under $50

Shards Dashboard Lite: A ready to use dashboard template

Shards Dashboard Lite is a free ready-to-use admin dashboard template built on the top of Bootstrap 4. It comes packed with dozens of custom components and admin dashboard templates that you can use to kick-start your app. Freebie includes both SCSS and Sketch files so you can tailor the admin dashboard template pack to your own… Continue reading Shards Dashboard Lite: A ready to use dashboard template

How to Optimize, Compress, and Save Images For the Web

It’s not a sudden discovery that the size of web pages are increasing. Developers minify their code, ditch expansive libraries, and shift code to the server side, all in an attempt to shave 100 kB off their code base. You may even be asked to drop valuable libraries like jQuery in an attempt to speed… Continue reading How to Optimize, Compress, and Save Images For the Web

5 Professional Website Builders to Use Instead of WordPress

When it comes to professional website building, using WordPress is undoubtedly a reasonable solution. The platform comes with a powerful feature set, abundance of design customization tools, themes, plugins and extensions. It can boast a trusted user community, the members of which are always ready to provide any kind of web design assistance to newbies.… Continue reading 5 Professional Website Builders to Use Instead of WordPress

Tips To Help You Improve As a Graphic Designer

When you think of your future as a designer, you imagine creating awesome watercolor illustrations, websites which are simple, sleek and sophisticated. You want to be successful, and you’re looking to find a way to get there. There are many different ways to become a graphic designer. Although some people might learn a single computer… Continue reading Tips To Help You Improve As a Graphic Designer

How to Create a Logo Design with Designhill?

Today, logo makers such as Designhill have made designing and selecting logos easier and affordable. Anyone can design a professional looking logo within minutes with the user-friendly interface and step by step guide by this logo maker. As Designhill leverages artificial intelligence, the result is a huge collection of logo designs based on your choices… Continue reading How to Create a Logo Design with Designhill?

Debugging Node Code in VS Code ― Scotch

Visual Studio Code has an amazing amount of functionality built in, including support for debugging applications. Although the functionality is there, it took me several tries to figure out how to get things configured to debug Node applications. It became even more tricky when using Nodemon, so I figured it was worth it to share… Continue reading Debugging Node Code in VS Code ― Scotch