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New Course: Practical React Fundamentals

If you want to build dynamic single-page applications quickly and easily, React is a wonderful solution. Learn how to use it—while building your own React app from scratch—in our comprehensive new course, Practical React Fundamentals. What You’ll Learn Millions of developers all over the world are beginning to see the power and ease with which… Continue reading New Course: Practical React Fundamentals

42 Best InDesign Template Tutorials

Whether you are a skilled designer or just starting out, Adobe InDesign templates are a great resource to have in your toolbox. Design templates have to be properly set up to let you or your clients update them easily. To help you get inspired, we’ve gathered a collection of 42 InDesign template tutorials, ranging from… Continue reading 42 Best InDesign Template Tutorials

16+ Best WordPress Themes for Writers and Authors (2019)

There is no shortage of professional WordPress themes for making a website in 2019, for every niche imaginable. Whilst you can use almost any theme for your writer’s website, there are some text-based WordPress themes out there that are better suited for anyone who wants to showcase their writing skills. Whether you’re a writer trying to break… Continue reading 16+ Best WordPress Themes for Writers and Authors (2019)

20 WordPress Video Plugins and Players to Add Engagement

Video is becoming an increasingly important element of a successful website. It has SEO benefits, increases engagement and the amount of time visitors spend on your site, and will also reflect well on your brand. WordPress lets you add embedded video out of the box, but you can make the process easier and enhance the… Continue reading 20 WordPress Video Plugins and Players to Add Engagement

How to Customize Bootstrap’s Sass Files With Grunt

Today, we’ll learn how to customize Bootstrap 4’s Sass files with Grunt. Instead of Grunt, we could just as easily use another task runner like Gulp, webpack, or npm scripts. Regardless of the build tool the process of customizing Bootstrap’s source Sass files will be the same. Note: This tutorial assumes you have some familiarity with Bootstrap 4, Sass, and build tools.… Continue reading How to Customize Bootstrap’s Sass Files With Grunt

Try These 3 Practical Projects to Learn WordPress Plugin Development

If you want to learn to code your own WordPress plugins, you should try our new course, 3 More Practical Projects to Learn WordPress Plugin Development. In this course with experienced WordPress developer Rachel McCollin, you’ll create three practical projects to help you learn WordPress plugin development. The plugins you create will help you: Create… Continue reading Try These 3 Practical Projects to Learn WordPress Plugin Development

Best jQuery Flipbook Plugins Compared

Are you looking for a creative and interactive way to showcase text, photos, and documents on your website? Adding a flipbook to your site can elevate your project and enhance the experience of your website visitors. For this article, I’ve chosen three great tools that will allow you to create realistic, animated flipbooks with ease.… Continue reading Best jQuery Flipbook Plugins Compared

23 Best Trifold Brochure Templates & Examples (Word, InDesign, & PSD)

Need a hand explaining your business? Try an amazing trifold brochure. Get the latest creative designs from this list of resources. 23 Best Trifold Brochure Templates (Word, InDesign, & PSD) Trifold brochures are one of the easiest ways to present your business. They feature a creative folded layout that gives you plenty of room for… Continue reading 23 Best Trifold Brochure Templates & Examples (Word, InDesign, & PSD)

20 Useful Video Plugins Available on CodeCanyon

What You’ll Be Creating Video is becoming an increasingly important element of a successful website. It has SEO benefits, increases engagement and the amount of time visitors spend on your site, and will also reflect well on your brand. WordPress lets you add embedded video out of the box, but you can make the process… Continue reading 20 Useful Video Plugins Available on CodeCanyon

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

Create a PHP Email Script and Form

Forms on websites can be used for a lot of purposes besides being a place to contact the website administrators. In previous posts, I covered how to create a fully functional contact form in PHP and how to build your own Captcha and integrate it in your contact forms. In this tutorial, our focus will… Continue reading Create a PHP Email Script and Form

Introduction to Studio, the Screen Design Tool From InVision

Today I’m going to give you a quick introduction to Studio, a brand new screen design tool from InVision. With it, you can design your UI projects, but also build prototypes and collaborate with others to keep everything in sync. If you’re looking for an alternative to Adobe XD, or Sketch, or Figma, read on! Studio… Continue reading Introduction to Studio, the Screen Design Tool From InVision

International Artist Feature: Slovenia

Welcome back to our International Artist Series. Today, we’re catching up with seven incredible artists from Slovenia, a central European country with vast mountainous scenes and landscapes. I asked each artist how their country and culture influenced their work, and they delivered great responses. Jernej Myint Our first artist, Jernej Myint, is a… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Slovenia

How to Use Animation in Angular 6

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the importance of animations in improving the user experience. I’ll show you how to incorporate animations in Angular 6 applications with the help of animation components and Bootstrap. The Role of Animations in User Design Most web users are visual creatures and therefore respond to visual objects. This means… Continue reading How to Use Animation in Angular 6

How to Use Adobe Illustrator Files in Figma

In this quick tip I’m going to show you how to get an Adobe Illustrator file into Figma, without needing Adobe Illustrator. How to Open an Adobe Illustrator File in Figma Let’s say you have some icons, such as the example we’re using here, Flat Books Icons on Envato Elements: Flat Books Icons You’ll notice… Continue reading How to Use Adobe Illustrator Files in Figma

How to Make a Bi-Fold Brochure in InDesign

What You’ll Be Creating In this quick and simple tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a bi-fold brochure template using Adobe InDesign. You’ll create the basic structure and style for your brochure template, using an on-trend color palette and stylish fonts. An adaptable pamphlet template for any creative business, this bi-fold brochure can be customized… Continue reading How to Make a Bi-Fold Brochure in InDesign

Top WordPress Form Builder Plugins Compared

Without a doubt, Quform and FormCraft are two of the most popular and highly rated WordPress form builders on the market, but which of these two giants is right for you? Today, we take a peek under the hoods to see what makes these form builders so special. We’ll identify the best features of each… Continue reading Top WordPress Form Builder Plugins Compared

Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins

If you run a WordPress site, you need a reliable contact form so that visitors can reach you with their questions and comments. However, with so many WordPress form builders on the market, it can be difficult to find the very best contact form WordPress has to offer. To save you the time-wasting and head-scratching… Continue reading Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins

Going Beyond the Basics With InVision Studio

Want to get the most out of an awesome screen design tool? Try our short course, Going Beyond the Basics With InVision Studio. What You’ll Learn Studio is a free screen design tool from InVision. With it, you can design, prototype, and collaborate with others on your project, creating anything from mobile apps to full-blown… Continue reading Going Beyond the Basics With InVision Studio

8 Ways to Reduce Your Android App APK Size

Since the Android Marketplace launched in March 2012, the size of the average Android app has quintupled. Some of this increase makes sense: the memory available to the typical Android device has increased, so why not use this extra memory to deliver a better user experience? However, there is a point where all of those… Continue reading 8 Ways to Reduce Your Android App APK Size

How to Make a Banner With an Online Banner Maker

What You’ll Be Creating Need to create a banner design but don’t have the required tools or skills? Well, what if I told you that you can use an online banner maker that comes with a large selection of banner templates that you can choose and customize? If that sounds interesting, follow me in this… Continue reading How to Make a Banner With an Online Banner Maker

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

Two Ways to Create a CSS Frosted Glass Effect

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a frosted glass effect in CSS. You’ll already have seen this glass blur effect in action in UIs (User Interfaces) such as on MacOS and iOS, even Windows nowadays, so the glass background is definitely a trending effect.… Continue reading Two Ways to Create a CSS Frosted Glass Effect

Build Your Own CAPTCHA and Contact Form in PHP

People write code every day to automate a variety of processes. We exploit the fact that computers are a lot faster and more accurate than humans, which lets us simplify a lot of mundane tasks. Unfortunately, these same abilities can be used to program computers to do something malicious like sending spam or guessing passwords.… Continue reading Build Your Own CAPTCHA and Contact Form in PHP