Create a WordPress Image Gallery: Code the Plugin

What You’ll Be Creating People like pictures. They like looking at them, they like clicking on them. So it makes sense to use them in the navigation for your site. You may already use featured images in your archive pages, letting users get a greater insight into what a post is about and making your… Continue reading Create a WordPress Image Gallery: Code the Plugin

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

Keyboard Accessibility Tips Using HTML and CSS

Making your website accessible for keyboard-only users is an important part of the bigger accessibility picture. Here are some keyboard accessibility tips you can quickly implement using basic HTML and CSS. A11y From the Beginning These tips are part of Web Accessibility: the Complete Learning Guide, where we’ve collected a range of tutorials, articles, courses, and… Continue reading Keyboard Accessibility Tips Using HTML and CSS

An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools

Your Photoshop selection tools are perhaps the most powerful part of the application. By making effective selections, you unlock the power of the rest of the application. This includes localized image adjustments, compositing, and accurate mockups and object placement. Sloppy selections always show in the final product, so it pays to learn to make a… Continue reading An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools

How to Create an Isometric Map Mockup Action in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating From this tutorial, you’ll learn some new techniques and tricks. We’ll be using the Isometric Map Mockup product as an example and seeing in detail how it was created. At the end, you’ll have a fully workable action and confidence in building “transformation actions”.  Got no time and need this action as soon as possible?… Continue reading How to Create an Isometric Map Mockup Action in Adobe Photoshop

Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks

The best banner ads capture our attention and are irresistible to click. What goes into these effective ads? Discover ten tips to creating the best banner ads. Are you struggling to come up with creative and engaging banner ads for your business? Having people interact and be interested in your ads is difficult if you… Continue reading Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks

Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks

The best banner ads capture our attention and are irresistible to click. What goes into these effective ads? Discover ten tips to creating the best banner ads. Are you struggling to come up with creative and engaging banner ads for your business? Having people interact and be interested in your ads is difficult if you… Continue reading Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks

How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at drawing multiple hairstyles that tend to be popular choices for natural, afro textured hair: afros, locs, braids, and twists. While these styles could potentially be worn by people with other hair types, we will primarily focus on Type 4 hair. We’ll take a stylistic approach… Continue reading How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)

How to Make Your Photos Better: 5 Free Image Editors For Non-professionals

Visual content is surely taking the lead in modern digital marketing. Nobody in their right mind would now publish an article without a single image in it. That would be a sheer suicide with a current competition of over 2 million blog posts published each day. With this cut-throat competition, you need to make sure… Continue reading How to Make Your Photos Better: 5 Free Image Editors For Non-professionals

How to Formulate an Email Design and Development Strategy

In this tutorial I’ll explain how to focus your efforts on the email clients and webmail clients being used by your target audience. Note: this tutorial is part of a whole week’s worth of email content on Tuts+ Web Design–check out the Mastering HTML Email learning guide for more! 1. Understand the Importance of a Strategy Your target… Continue reading How to Formulate an Email Design and Development Strategy

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

Best Online Shopping Stores WordPress Themes

Best eCommerce / WooCommerce themes. Responsive WordPress Themes for online Shopping Stores websites with modern and advanced features. Clean and unique looking WordPress Themes which will impress all of your Customers and give you a better chance to grow your income from your Online business. All themes are coded with HTML5 and CSS3 with modern UI and UX design, suitable… Continue reading Best Online Shopping Stores WordPress Themes

Understand Arrays in PHP

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;} In this post, you’ll learn the basics of arrays in PHP. You’ll learn how to create an array and how to use associative and multidimensional arrays, and you’ll see lots of examples of arrays in action. What Is an Array? In PHP, an array is a data… Continue reading Understand Arrays in PHP

Testing Components in React Using Jest and Enzyme

This is the second part of the series on Testing Components in React. If you have prior experience with Jest, you can skip ahead and use the GitHub code as a starting point.  In the previous article, we covered the basic principles and ideas behind test-driven development. We also set up the environment and the tools… Continue reading Testing Components in React Using Jest and Enzyme

Why Is A Free Online English Grammar Checker Preferred over Others?

An English Grammar checker tool is available for the general public for 24 hours a day and seven days a week free of charges. A grammar check tool offers you different options for using this tool. You may choose to either type the text in the blank box directly or to copy/paste your document. You… Continue reading Why Is A Free Online English Grammar Checker Preferred over Others?

How to Create Presentations that Don’t Suck

The presentation is a convenient way to provide a short yet concise information about any of your projects whether you are a student, office manager, businessman, startupper, or financial advisor. Sad to say but bad presentation happens oftener than the good one. As a result, your audience gets bored and want the presentation to be… Continue reading How to Create Presentations that Don’t Suck

Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block

Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor and everyone is talking about it. It has introduced an all-new way of writing content with WordPress. So not only the developers can benefit from its block-modeled layout but the end-users will also be able to create dynamic page layouts with it.  However, building custom blocks with Gutenberg can… Continue reading Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block

5 Best Design Collaboration Tools For Teams That Want to Scale

Those of us working for agencies in a creative context are, all too often, plagued by deadline after deadline. That’s why having solutions in place for effortless collaboration is the most important prerequisite for delivering striking design and thoughtful functionality – for each and every client and always on time. Whether it’s between your internal… Continue reading 5 Best Design Collaboration Tools For Teams That Want to Scale

Dos and Don’ts of Designing the Perfect Website Form

When designing modern websites, it is important to bear in mind the criticality of creating a well-balanced, user-friendly form as visitors make their first impression about a business by looking at their online portal. In several cases, the design of the form can make or break the future of the website. User experience plays a… Continue reading Dos and Don’ts of Designing the Perfect Website Form

20 Must-Have Wireframe Templates and UI Kits for Your Design Library

Wireframing. User journeys. Content maps. User-centered design. Information architecture. Animated prototypes. Conversion paths. Iterative features. Sitemaps. Uhh, what? Let’s be honest, the world of UX (user experience) and UI (user interface) is full of jargon and overcomplicated terms. Take, for example, this real line I copy-pasted from a job description for a senior content specialist… Continue reading 20 Must-Have Wireframe Templates and UI Kits for Your Design Library

A Guide to CrocoBlock Service – How to Create a Website Without Any Experience

Creating a website seems to be a fascinating idea, at least, at first thought. However, when you start looking for the right way to put it together, you discover that the things are actually more complicated than you expected. That’s when page builders come into play. Lately, there are lots of them. One of the… Continue reading A Guide to CrocoBlock Service – How to Create a Website Without Any Experience

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