Building an AI assistant with Api.ai If you’re keen to learn more on AI, check out our screencast Microsoft Cognitive Services and the Text Analytics API, for AI sentiment in your bot. The potential of a personal assistant gets exciting when it has access to personal data and the real world via the Internet of… Continue reading How to Connect Your Api.ai Assistant to the IoT — SitePoint
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15 Best Bootstrap Themes for 2017
Part of Bootstrap’s magic is the robust and varied market for pre-built themes. These themes can be as simple as a collection of UI elements or as complete as fully-built websites with WYSIWYG page builders built it. Take a look at some of your options below and find the best Bootstrap themes for 2017. CoPro… Continue reading 15 Best Bootstrap Themes for 2017
3 Ways to Fund Your Professional Website Development Project
April 28, 2017 by David Jones You’ve launched a business but you still need a website; however, you’re not sure how to create one. You’ve seen DIY platforms like Wix, Weebly, and WordPress, but you also know people who have had a custom website developed. Which route should you take? Though many people are perfectly… Continue reading 3 Ways to Fund Your Professional Website Development Project
Futuristic Text Effect Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials (25 Tuts)
Fresh new Text Effects design Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials for beginners and advance graphic designers. There are 2D and 3D text effect tutorials to create posters, flyers, calendar and giving your typography a fresh touch with traditional and digital media, mixing patterns and textures to give your work outstanding spark. You can use illustrated lettering and typography in posters, brochures or… Continue reading Futuristic Text Effect Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials (25 Tuts)
25 New Adobe Photoshop Tutorials to Learn Editing & Photo Manipulation
The new releases of Photoshop CC 2017, rolling out with exciting new features photo editing and special effects for designers and digital photographers. Today we are gathered fresh new Adobe Photoshop Tutorials to learn how to edit photos, creating photo effects, manipulation, fantasy and retouching. These new 2017 tutorials are helpful to learn beginning and advance techniques to enhancement… Continue reading 25 New Adobe Photoshop Tutorials to Learn Editing & Photo Manipulation
The ultimate guide to CMS, part 2
On Tuesday we presented the Ultimate Guide to CMS, Part 1; today, we’re going to complete the picture… Choosing a CMS OK, so you’ve got an idea of how many different kinds of CMS there are out there. Now you want to pick one. Or perhaps you’re building a client-facing site, and a internal wiki,… Continue reading The ultimate guide to CMS, part 2
How to Completely Remove Comments from WordPress
WordPress comments are an integral part of building a community with a WordPress blog. They allow your audience to connect with you by responding directly to your posts. They allow you to extend the conversation surrounding the topic you wrote your post about by letting members of your community pitch in. They even allow members… Continue reading How to Completely Remove Comments from WordPress
Top 10 resources for designing email newsletters
The world of email marketing is constantly changing. There are dozens of tools out there tailor made to help marketers write emails, designers craft emails, and developers code emails. But with so many tools available, it can be frustrating to find the best ones. That’s why, in this post, I’ve curated the top ten best… Continue reading Top 10 resources for designing email newsletters
College Websites That Look Good
Advertisement It’s not just commercial businesses that need effective websites, but also educational institutions such as universities, colleges and schools. When college websites are appealing to users, they can help attract more student applications. A well-designed university website could also facilitate communication to donors, parents and students, bringing important information right to them wherever they… Continue reading College Websites That Look Good
Giveaway: Win One of Five Monstroid Licenses
Posted · Category: Announcement Do you remember Monstroid, a huge multipurpose WordPress theme we reviewed around a year ago? Since then, it’s grown even more as a result of multiple updates. Today, we’d like to review the latest one and give away 5 licenses for Monstroid. You can find a lot of WordPress themes designed… Continue reading Giveaway: Win One of Five Monstroid Licenses
Recommended Premium Fonts That You Can Buy Online
Advertisement Good and free fonts are ideal if you find them but very few of the ones you find can reach up to your expectations if you have a big and really serious design project. However, premium fonts guarantee to be the thing you want for every kind of design project. Of course, buying them… Continue reading Recommended Premium Fonts That You Can Buy Online
Create a Dark and Mysterious Landscape Matte Painting with Photoshop
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a dark and mysterious landscape using a range of photo manipulation techniques. You’ll learn how to combine different stock photos into a cohesive scene, create a misty atmosphere, adjust color, work with lighting and more. What you’ll be creating We’ll start this tutorial by creating a… Continue reading Create a Dark and Mysterious Landscape Matte Painting with Photoshop
Flexbox Patterns: Ready-To-Use Building Blocks for Your Design
If you ever delved into Flexbox as an alternative to the classic CSS box model, you probably don’t want to go back. The hitch is, that you need to deal with it in-depth, and who has enough time for that these days. Thus, we’re often stuck with old methods of getting things done, just because… Continue reading Flexbox Patterns: Ready-To-Use Building Blocks for Your Design
What's New in Android Studio 2.2?
The last few months have been an exciting time for Android Studio. First came version 2.1 with support for Android N. Then Google I/O brought us a preview of the next major release in the form of Android Studio 2.2 Preview 1, only for this to be rapidly replaced by Preview 2, which contained some important bug… Continue reading What's New in Android Studio 2.2?
How Designers and Developers Can Collaborate Using Sketch and Zeplin
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Collaboration between designers and developers is essential to the success of a web project, and it’s a measure of a team’s success. Whilst sharing the same workspace is invaluable, having an online source of truth that helps with this collaboration is incredibly helpful. In this article we’re going to look at Zeplin and how it… Continue reading How Designers and Developers Can Collaborate Using Sketch and Zeplin
How to Prepare a Cool 3D Card for Post-Print Effects
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a laser-cut pop up card, perfect for showcasing retail offers or adapting for events. We’ll break down into simple steps some of the essential techniques for preparing your artwork for post-print processes, including laser-cutting and accommodating for folds. Suitable for beginner-to-intermediate users of… Continue reading How to Prepare a Cool 3D Card for Post-Print Effects
Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”
Drop caps are a form of decoration sometimes used at the beginning of a block of text; the initial letter running several lines deep and indenting the body text within these lines. Drop cap example, as found on The Walrus Drop cap example, as found on Nautilus It’s a typographic tradition as old as the… Continue reading Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”
Animated Animals in CSS and SVG
Learn some interesting animation techniques involving Sass and SVG filters for realistic motion effects on the example of animated animals. View demo Download source Today we want to show you how the clever use of HTML, CSS sequenced animations, and SVG filters can bring to life one of the most unlikely (yet adorable) things to… Continue reading Animated Animals in CSS and SVG
Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Child Themes
A child theme is a set of styling guidelines and/or functions which are utilized to incorporate functionality or replace the appearance of an existing WordPress theme. Child themes can be modified without altering the original code of your theme, allowing you to make changes as small as changing a couple of colors, or as extensive… Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Child Themes
11 of The Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps
A wireframe is essentially a web designer’s plan for a web page. This frame can be hand-drawn with simple pen and paper, but wireframing tools are much more effective as they enable you to use drag-and-drop tools, collaborate with other designers and show clients your ideas before you even build them. The designer uses plain… Continue reading 11 of The Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps
How to Work With Images in Shopify
When starting out with a new platform, such as Shopify, there’s a lot to learn. Whilst Liquid, the template language used in Shopify themes, is very readable and easy to get started with, one area of Shopify development which can often cause confusion for new theme developers is images. I believe the main reason for… Continue reading How to Work With Images in Shopify
50+ fresh resources for designers, March 2016
How’s it going, compadres? This month’s roundup hand-picked from all across the web includes icons, design assets, illustrations, vector artwork, UI kits, some really cool code snippets, fonts, templates, some awesome tools, and much much more. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the best freebies on the Web this month! The months of the year vector… Continue reading 50+ fresh resources for designers, March 2016
Getting Started With Ionic: Introduction
Ionic is a popular mobile app framework that helps you build hybrid mobile apps quickly, using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this series, you learn how to set up and build your own mobile apps with Ionic by creating a fully functional mobile app together. We start with an introduction to Ionic and learn how… Continue reading Getting Started With Ionic: Introduction
10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration
Fashion Patterns From clothes to accessories, fashion illustrations have a long history as a visual reference for a designer’s concepts or current fashion trends. What makes a good fashion illustration, though? With help from content from Envato Market, let’s count down 10 top tips for creating great fashion illustrations to better your own sense of… Continue reading 10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration