Tag: uses

10 Best Responsive HTML5 Sliders for Images and Text… and 3 Free Options

In this post, I’ll show you some of the best free and paid HTML5 sliders. We’ll see responsive text sliders, responsive image sliders with text, banner sliders and more. All built with HTML5 and CSS. Why Use a Responsive HTML5 Sliders? HTML5 enables users to have a better and more consistent web experience across several… Continue reading 10 Best Responsive HTML5 Sliders for Images and Text… and 3 Free Options

20 Unmissable Websites, May 2020

The world is a strange place at the moment, but design moves on apace, and sites are still being launched. Every month we post a roundup of the freshest sites we’ve come across in the previous four weeks. This month we’ve included some exciting portfolio sites, a strong selection of health and beauty sites, and… Continue reading 20 Unmissable Websites, May 2020

Email Personalization: Your Secret To Better Engagement

One of the struggles that marketers face is how to send the right message at exactly the right time to target people in a way that will appeal to them. To solve the problem, businesses need to get themselves acquainted with new technologies and the power of personalization. In the past few years, digital marketing… Continue reading Email Personalization: Your Secret To Better Engagement

Raygun RUM: Know Your Users’ Experience

It goes without saying that building web applications requires a lot of work. Not only do you have to design, debug, and deliver a fast server-side application, but the same amount of time and care must go into designing, debugging, and delivering a fast client-side application. This means that everyone involved throughout the development process… Continue reading Raygun RUM: Know Your Users’ Experience

39 Best Futuristic Fonts

The future is now, and what better way to celebrate it in your designs than with futuristic fonts? Dreamland is one of the stunning futuristic fonts found at Envato Elements If you’re looking for cool futuristic fonts to complement your designs, Envato Elements and GraphicRiver offer some of the best futuristic font designs on the market… Continue reading 39 Best Futuristic Fonts

Using ipdata for Geolocation

When most people think of geolocation, they remember the familiar pop-up notifications saying that the “website wants to know your location”. But did you know that you can get geolocation information about your visitors with the IP address alone, without requiring any extra permissions? To web developers, geolocation is a treasure trove of information and… Continue reading Using ipdata for Geolocation

What Is a Slug in WordPress?

What You’ll Be Creating Slugs. Slimy little critters that have a nasty habit of getting into your vegetable garden… Or maybe not! In this post, we’re talking about a different kind of slug, and that’s the slug that forms part of the address (or URL) of the individual pages and posts in your WordPress website.… Continue reading What Is a Slug in WordPress?

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

How to Crop in Photoshop

Cropping in Adobe Photoshop is something that you’ll need to use often. From resizing images to stripping excess space in a photo, this is a fundamental skill you’ll use in just about any design project. 1. How to crop in Photoshop using the Crop Tool Step 1 The Crop Tool is a great tool if… Continue reading How to Crop in Photoshop

Is Your Design Team Consulting These People on Every Project?

Every design team wants to complete their projects quickly and efficiently without any fuss. Sometimes that involves excluding people whose input doesn’t seem necessary. However, sometimes there are reasons to consult people outside of your team.  To deliver a superior final product, think about consulting the following people throughout the life of each project.  1.… Continue reading Is Your Design Team Consulting These People on Every Project?

Create the 80s Style With Fonts, Text Effects, and More!

Ready to go down memory lane? Let’s explore the cool 80s style with neon lights, pastel colors, and cyberpunk! One of the most iconic eras in the last 100 years is the 80s. Everyone references it, talks about it, and reminiscences about it. What was so cool about the 80s, besides the cool toys and… Continue reading Create the 80s Style With Fonts, Text Effects, and More!

30 Best CV / Resume Templates for 2020

Professional and clean CV /Resume Templates for 2020 are here. Best resume templates with amazing modern features, ready to print design resumes are very helpful to update your resume before New Year 2020 and get your dream job. All resume templates are fully customisable; easily edit the typography, wording, colors and layout. These cv/resume template are… Continue reading 30 Best CV / Resume Templates for 2020

Should a Web Page Have a Single CTA?


Does adding multiple CTAs to your web pages just confuse your users? That’s a heavily debated question in the digital design space. Some web designers believe that multiple CTAs give visitors more choice on how they convert. Others feel that leads can only handle a single CTA at a time without getting overwhelmed and abandoning ship.… Continue reading Should a Web Page Have a Single CTA?

Less is (Almost) Definitely More: An Introduction to Hick’s Law for Web Designers

Imagine the public excitement when, in 1951, William Edmund Hick (“Hickey” to his friends?!) and Ray (with an “a”) Hyman published research about people’s responses to a bunch of flashing lights. I’m sure no-one could imagine how important this work would be for the information age since, of course, at that time, a bank of… Continue reading Less is (Almost) Definitely More: An Introduction to Hick’s Law for Web Designers

26 New Premium PSD Mockups for Print Design

New premium PSD mockups are best print design mockup templates to showcase your brand, identity design or print design in creative style. These mockup templates are full layered PSD and used smart object feature with ultra realistic presentation design that can be used for commercial or personal and save your time and make your brand look awesome… Continue reading 26 New Premium PSD Mockups for Print Design

3 Essential Design Trends, November 2019

There’s always a balance between visual design and functional design. Many of the “rules” of design as we know them exist to make visuals more functional. That’s not exactly true of all of the techniques that are trending right now. But sometimes rules are made to be broken, right? You can take these trends in… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, November 2019

7 CSS Units You Might Not Know About

Learn CSS: The Complete Guide We’ve built a complete guide to help you learn CSS, whether you’re just getting started with the basics or you want to explore more advanced CSS. New CSS Techniques It’s easy to get stuck working with the CSS techniques we know well, but doing so puts us at a disadvantage… Continue reading 7 CSS Units You Might Not Know About

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

How to Deliver Dramatic UX with Weatherstack’s API

weatherstack provides real-time, historical, and even forecast data up to 14 days in advance. Licensed from some of the world’s biggest weather stations and weather data providers, the information provided by weatherstack’s simple to use API gives you an accurate picture of the conditions on the ground, wherever your users access your site from. Trusted… Continue reading How to Deliver Dramatic UX with Weatherstack’s API

Is It Time to Embrace AMP?

If you own a website, you should have at least heard the term AMP before. If you haven’t, it’s likely you will hear more about it very soon. Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project has impacted the user experience of millions of mobile web users since its initial launch in 2015. Though primarily used to… Continue reading Is It Time to Embrace AMP?

Solving Problems With CSS Grid: The Gantt Chart

We recently published a tutorial explaining how to build a JavaScript-driven Gantt Chart. I think it’s the perfect case study for CSS Grid, so in this tutorial we’ll see how well suited CSS Grid Layout is for building a flexible Gantt Chart. Our CSS Grid Gantt Chart Here’s what we’re building. It uses CSS Grid… Continue reading Solving Problems With CSS Grid: The Gantt Chart

Create a Drag-and-Drop Contact Form With the FormCraft 3 WordPress Plugin

Whether you are running an online store, marketplace, or blog on your WordPress website, you will need a few essential elements displayed. One of these is a contact form.  Without a contact form on your website, your website visitors will have no way of contacting you with their questions and comments. The absence of this… Continue reading Create a Drag-and-Drop Contact Form With the FormCraft 3 WordPress Plugin