Tag: Using

How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to create a realistic 3D gold text effect using layer styles in Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: Download the file Gold_Text_Effect-Assets.zip and extract both files inside. Install the Pattern file “Patterns.pat“. Install the Contour file “CustomContours.shc”.… Continue reading How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

Using the New WordPress Default Theme

Twenty Nineteen is the latest WordPress default theme currently available and was included with the WordPress 5.0 release. It’s already proving pretty popular with over 800,000 active installations to date. It’s also also available to WordPress.com users too which bumps up the user base even more. It’s described as a minimal and non-generic theme with simple but sophisticated… Continue reading Using the New WordPress Default Theme

Choosing the Best Image Format in 2019: WebP, SVG Vs. Everyone

What, did you think JPEG would live forever? It was introduced in 1992, more than twenty-five years ago! The modern generation of web developers uses WebP for images, not the archeological specimen that is JPEG. Here’s a quick introduction to WebP, SVG, and why they’re better. TL;DR: they’re way smaller, producing faster, and more responsive… Continue reading Choosing the Best Image Format in 2019: WebP, SVG Vs. Everyone

How to Improve Your Website’s Performance?

Not sure why your online business is not as competitive as you’d like it to be? Or maybe you’re experiencing conversion rate loss, especially during peak times? One of the reasons why you could be losing potential customers is poor website performance. Sadly, nowadays, potential clients won’t wait even a few seconds for you –… Continue reading How to Improve Your Website’s Performance?

Adding a Music Player to Your WordPress Site

Thinking about adding a substantial amount of audio to your site? Or maybe just a clip for a single song? When working with WordPress, there are dozens of different ways to add a music of audio player to your site. Choosing the one that works best for you can be tough. In this piece, we’ll… Continue reading Adding a Music Player to Your WordPress Site

Top 8 Presentation Design Trends in 2019

Every year, new trends are introduced in video presentation designs. Some trends that are good have been adapted into the standard for video presentation while those that only add aesthetics are usually the ones that change every year. It is important to consider these design trends if you want to use your presentation as a… Continue reading Top 8 Presentation Design Trends in 2019

Why You Should Use Slider Revolution for Your WordPress Site

WordPress Sliders are a dime a dozen, but few can match the amazing Slider Revolution for WordPress when it comes to features, speed, and ease of use. Today we’ll take an in-depth look at: what sliders are the pros and cons of using a WordPress slider plugin on your site why Slider Revolution is the best… Continue reading Why You Should Use Slider Revolution for Your WordPress Site

The 6 Best Aweber Alternatives for Ecommerce

With the success that email marketing provides for online merchants, it’s no surprise that choosing the right tool is at the top of everyone’s minds. Choosing the right email marketing tool can make or break your email strategy. Aweber has been a leader in email marketing for some time, however, with many other email marketing… Continue reading The 6 Best Aweber Alternatives for Ecommerce

How to Compress Video For Online Streaming

Depending on where you’re uploading your video content, you’ll need to find the correct file settings to get the right result. Choosing a container format Source A video container format is a digital wrapper for your content. They determine the extension of your video file. Popular container formats include MP4 (.mp4), AVI (.avi), QuickTime (.mov)… Continue reading How to Compress Video For Online Streaming

GutenMag – Gutenberg WordPress Theme for Magazine and Blog

WordPress is changing the way that users write and publish content. But also, the way in which users can design their pages. Gutenberg is the all-new WordPress Content Editor that’s introducing a dynamic Blocks system. Blocks are reusable multimedia content elements that provide a new way to publish posts and design pages. Starting with WordPress… Continue reading GutenMag – Gutenberg WordPress Theme for Magazine and Blog

Boost Your Vue.js Workflow With Vue CLI 3

We can hardly imagine modern web development without the help of Command-Line Interface (CLI) tools. They tremendously facilitate and speed up the development workflow by reducing the amount of repetitive and tedious tasks. Setting up a project manually, with all the linting, building, testing, preprocessing, optimizing, and dependency tracking features, doesn’t sound like a fun… Continue reading Boost Your Vue.js Workflow With Vue CLI 3

Target CSS for Specific Content With WordPress Template Tags

What You’ll Be Creating Learning WordPress development isn’t just about learning to code PHP. You’ll also need some HTML and CSS skills if the sites, themes and/or plugins you create are going to work well. In this tutorial, I’ll show you an incredibly useful feature of WordPress that mixes PHP with some simple CSS. It’s… Continue reading Target CSS for Specific Content With WordPress Template Tags

How to Create an Engraved Stone Text Effect in Adobe InDesign

What You’ll Be Creating You can’t miss this Games of Thrones-style type effect. Perfect for posters and social media that need to command attention, this effect is also super quick and easy to create using Adobe InDesign.  Learn better with video? Follow along on our Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel: How to Create an Engraved Stone… Continue reading How to Create an Engraved Stone Text Effect in Adobe InDesign

What’s New in Core ML 2?

Last year, Apple launched Core ML—a segue into the world of machine learning for Apple developers. Before that, we were already using machine learning with technologies like AutoCorrect, Siri, and a predictive keyboard, but Core ML brought a new level of power and flexibility into the hands of developers. During WWDC 18, Apple announced Core… Continue reading What’s New in Core ML 2?

Using pre-built websites to get rid of the 5 most annoying web design pains

Posted · Category: Best Collections Every job has its ups and downs, but that doesn’t mean you have to live with every one of the downs. Getting started on a new assignment is almost always a thrill. Before you get too far into it, little problems make their presence known. The net result can be… Continue reading Using pre-built websites to get rid of the 5 most annoying web design pains

Step Up Your Photography Game With 5 Simple Rules

It is easier than ever for anyone to pick up their smartphone, take a few pictures, post them on social media and buoyed by positive feedback call themselves a photographer. However, there are several fundamental rules that you should follow which we will outline below. If you are keen on becoming serious with a good… Continue reading Step Up Your Photography Game With 5 Simple Rules

Draw with CSS: Using CSS To Draw Elements

With clever use of CSS properties, it is in fact possible to draw very complex shapes. All the shapes below were drawn with CSS alone. It might be that CSS isn’t the best way to render shapes in the browser window, but it’s very fast and included for “free” on all modern browsers. Learn how… Continue reading Draw with CSS: Using CSS To Draw Elements

Trigonometry, Random Numbers and More With Built-in PHP Math Functions

Basic maths is used a lot during programming. We need to frequently compare, add, multiply, subtract and divide different values when writing code.  Sometimes, the maths required in a program can be more involved. You might need to work with logarithmic, trigonometric or exponential functions. In this tutorial, I’ll discuss how to use each of… Continue reading Trigonometry, Random Numbers and More With Built-in PHP Math Functions

New Free Text Effect Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials (20 Tuts)

Free text effect tutorials to create basic and advance typography, lettering styles and fonts. These tutorials help to learn how to create 2D, 3D, Retro & Vintage and 80’s text effects in Photoshop and Illustrator. In this article you will find the new released text effect tutorials. These high quality tutorials help to design amazing wooden, neon and glowing text effects with basic and… Continue reading New Free Text Effect Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials (20 Tuts)

Hands-on With ARIA: Accessibility for eCommerce

Looking to make your site more accessible? Or maybe you want to make it easier to traverse your site overall using browsers and other interfaces? Using ARIA, you can do both. Let’s take a look at what ARIA is and how it can benefit an eCommerce site. We’ll also go through some examples step by… Continue reading Hands-on With ARIA: Accessibility for eCommerce

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