Category: Tutorials

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20 Best Social Plugins for WordPress

With around 3 billion people in the world using social media, you can’t afford not to use social plugins on your WordPress site.  Adding social widgets, such as the Facebook like button, Twitter buttons and social share buttons, can help to drive some of those billions to your site and social accounts, and can even… Continue reading 20 Best Social Plugins for WordPress

New Short Course: WordPress SEO Without Plugins

We all want our sites to be SEO-friendly, don’t we? A boost in search engine ranking can result in huge increases in traffic and sales. In our new short course, WordPress SEO Without Plugins, you’ll learn some techniques and best practices you can use for better SEO on your WordPress site without having to install… Continue reading New Short Course: WordPress SEO Without Plugins

Create Style Variations for WordPress Gutenberg Blocks: Part 2

In the previous post we learned all about block style variations and how they’re used in the brand new WordPress 5.0 editor to switch between predefined styles easily. We’ll take things a little further in this post by providing more examples to give you a solid base for implementing block style variations in your own… Continue reading Create Style Variations for WordPress Gutenberg Blocks: Part 2

Responsive Design in Adobe XD

When you’re showing your client a web design mockup, they’re going to want to see how it looks on different devices. Learn how to create a fully responsive mockup in our new course, Responsive Design in Adobe XD. Screenshot from Responsive Design in Adobe XD What You’ll Learn XD is Adobe’s contribution to the world… Continue reading Responsive Design in Adobe XD

The Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript

In this post, I’ll compare linear search and binary search algorithms. You’ll learn pseudocode for linear and binary algorithms, see examples to demonstrate both the methods, learn about time complexity, and get a step-by-step guide on how to implement the algorithms. Introduction As a programmer, you want to find the best solution to a problem… Continue reading The Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript

How to Draw a Cartoon Nose

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at different ways of drawing cartoon noses. We’ll start with the nose’s construction, and then use this in the context of experimenting with stylistic renditions of this part of the face. When in doubt, I recommend looking at references, even when drawing stylistically! They can be… Continue reading How to Draw a Cartoon Nose

Comparing the 5 Best PHP Form Builders

If you’re developer using PHP to build a website for yourself or a client, chances are at some point you’ll need to add a form to the site. The most common forms on the average website are contact forms. They enable visitors to contact you quickly and easily.  But other forms can come in handy… Continue reading Comparing the 5 Best PHP Form Builders

Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 16

Welcome back to our Diversity in Design series on Envato Tuts+. Discover four talented artists with inspiring styles you’ll love. 4 Artists You Should Know: Diversity in Design Celebrate the work of these extraordinary artists. Each with their own unique background, they draw inspiration from their culture and surroundings to create phenomenal designs. Kenal… Continue reading Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 16

How to Make a Great (Coming Soon) Website Product Launch Page

Launching a new product is an exciting business venture, one that could mean a world of difference for your business. However, as you’re prepping for the launch, it’s important to think about how you’re going to promote your product as well as make it possible for people to buy it. Here are two options: Create… Continue reading How to Make a Great (Coming Soon) Website Product Launch Page

20+ Great Product Landing Page Templates (2018 Design Examples)

When it comes to promoting your product online, a well-designed product landing page can make all the difference for a successful launch. Given the fact that landing pages incorporate a minimal design that eliminates unnecessary distractions, it’s easy to understand how visitors have higher chances of converting into customers and clients. As such, it’s essential… Continue reading 20+ Great Product Landing Page Templates (2018 Design Examples)

Object-Oriented PHP With Classes and Objects

In this article, we’re going to explore the basics of object-oriented programming in PHP. We’ll start with an introduction to classes and objects, and we’ll discuss a couple of advanced concepts like inheritance and polymorphism in the latter half of this article. What Is Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)? Object-oriented programming, commonly referred to as OOP, is… Continue reading Object-Oriented PHP With Classes and Objects

How to Create a Menorah Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we’ll be creating a Hanukkah holiday card and illustrating one of the most popular Jewish symbols, the Hanukkah Menorah. The Menorah is one of the oldest symbols in Judaism. Sometimes called the ‘Chanukiah’, the Menorah is a nine-branched candelabrum that is used on Hanukkah. It stands for light, wisdom,… Continue reading How to Create a Menorah Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

15 Best WordPress Audio Player and Video Player Plugins

There are so many creative ways to embed audio and video content in your website, once you step away from default players and explore custom plugin options. Whether you are showcasing content that you created yourself—as a musician, podcaster, filmmaker, or YouTuber—or simply want to add music or video content to your website, you know… Continue reading 15 Best WordPress Audio Player and Video Player Plugins

Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)

In this tutorial we’re going to take a bunch of ordinary thumbnail links and turn them into a responsive CSS grid gallery with a blurred hover effect. We’ll also use a great CSS trick to make sure touch screen users don’t miss out! Here’s what we’ll be creating: A Little Background Recently, Rachel McCollin wrote a… Continue reading Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)

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

Create Style Variations for WordPress Gutenberg Blocks: Part 1

Now is an exciting time for WordPress developers with the official release of version 5.0 just around the corner. This will mark the debut of the brand new editor, code-named Gutenberg. If you have anything to do with WordPress on a regular basis, whether as a developer or as a user, then you’ll probably understand… Continue reading Create Style Variations for WordPress Gutenberg Blocks: Part 1

How to Create a Vintage Photo Effect in a Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Style

What You’ll Be Creating This week is dedicated to Russian culture, so I would like to introduce you to the artworks of the famous Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. He made a large number of color photographs of the early 20th century using his three-image method of photography.  He was able to capture in his photos not… Continue reading How to Create a Vintage Photo Effect in a Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Style

Try This New Short Course on JavaScript Form Validation

JavaScript form validation is now a lot easier than it used to be, thanks to HTML5 and the Constraint Validation API. Learn how it works in our new short course, Practice JavaScript and Learn: Form Validation.  What You’ll Learn In this short course, Jeremy McPeak will show you how to take advantage of the Constraint… Continue reading Try This New Short Course on JavaScript Form Validation

25+ Best Free Gothic Fonts for Fantasy Lettering Art Designs

Need a Gothic font that is also free? Then dive into this amazing list of freebies below! The Best Free Gothic Fonts So what is a Gothic font? Gothic fonts draw their influence from the medieval period in European history. Now designers use this inspiring age to create artistic recreations of blackletter handwriting and hand-made… Continue reading 25+ Best Free Gothic Fonts for Fantasy Lettering Art Designs

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

8 Best SEO Plugins For WordPress

You can build a beautiful WordPress site, but if you don’t optimize your site for search engine rankings, there is a good chance that very few people will see it. Google and other search engines use complex algorithms to boost some websites to first-page rankings and relegate others to obscurity. Search Engine Optimization is the… Continue reading 8 Best SEO Plugins For WordPress