In the previous part of this series, we talked about two popular WordPress managers out in the field. In this second part, we’ll be checking out a few more of them. Also, there will be one bonus tip about a core WordPress feature that may help you manage your (or your clients’) websites. So, without… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: ManageWP, CMS Commander & MainWP
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New Course: Write Customizer-Ready WordPress Themes
What You’ll Be Creating Themes let you customize every aspect of the design and functionality of a WordPress site. But what if you want to let your client customize some aspect of the theme? Perhaps you want to sell a theme on Envato Market and you want to let buyers adjust the color scheme and logo to… Continue reading New Course: Write Customizer-Ready WordPress Themes
Coding for Entrepreneurs: Learn Python, Django, and More.
Never coded before? No problem. We’ve worked with over 120,000 students just like you. Entrepreneurs like you are a rare breed. You create incredible businesses and come up with ideas that change the world. Technology has made the 21st century, the century of the entrepreneur. Thanks to the power of the internet, you can reach… Continue reading Coding for Entrepreneurs: Learn Python, Django, and More.
Project: Build a Complete Website With Middleman
In part three of this series we’re going to get our hands dirty and start building a site for a fictitious podcast site: “Matcha Nerdz”. We’ll be using Middleman, Bourbon, Neat and Bitters. Let’s go! In This Post Roadmap Basic Blog Setup LiveReload Organizing Posts GitHub Pages Deployment Smarter Assets Bourbon Setup Normalize and jQuery… Continue reading Project: Build a Complete Website With Middleman
Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP
When you have a lot of clients with WordPress-powered websites, or a lot of WordPress projects that you work on, it might get messy to deal with all those updates and maintenance. Logging in to each website with different usernames and passwords, then moderating comments, updating plugins and themes, maybe occasionally (or periodically) making database… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP
Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python
Ever wondered about a quick way to tell what some document is focusing on? What is its main topic? Let me give you this simple trick. List the unique words mentioned in the document, and then check how many times each word has been mentioned (frequency). This way would give you an indication of what… Continue reading Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python
10+ Useful Sketch 3 – Tutorials
The best way to learn design is to copy other works and watch tutorials. It’s not enough to know the how to design, we need to know how our tools are working. That’s why at the main beginning you should look for articles or tutorials about the tools. Today I’m talking about my new favourite… Continue reading 10+ Useful Sketch 3 – Tutorials
Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern
What You’ll Be Creating This Islamic tiling pattern is atypical in its use of curves, as most of the traditional designs are made up solely of straight lines (even though circles are used extensively to create the underlying grids). It is based on the seven-circle grid which we learned to draw in more detail in… Continue reading Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern
JavaScript from Beginner to Expert
The total length of the course is over 12 hours! You will learn theory and you will also gain lots of practice. During the course I will explain you how to write real life applications like for example galleries with thumbnails, image sliders etc. I will do everything so you understand JavaScript. After this course… Continue reading JavaScript from Beginner to Expert
Building Angular and Node.js Apps with the MEAN Stack
Course info Level Intermediate Duration 4h 2m Released 31 Jan 2014 The MEAN stack is becoming more and more popular. Angular has become the hottest new MVC framework, and using it with Node and Express means a high level of harmony between the client and server. Throw MongoDB on for data storage, and you… Continue reading Building Angular and Node.js Apps with the MEAN Stack
20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources
As a developer, your design skills may not be that great. But you want your applications to look great. Right? In this quick tip, I list 20 graphic resources for iOS you can find on GraphicRiver. Not only will they save you time, they will make your applications look great. 1. Application Icons The application… Continue reading 20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources
Top New WordPress Themes of 2016
2016 is already and off and running. It’s time to take action! Are you wanting to kickstart your business and launch a new website? Or is your current site falling behind and in need of a fresh design reboot? It would take some heavy lifting to design a WordPress theme on your own. It’s a… Continue reading Top New WordPress Themes of 2016
How to Install WordPress: The Application
In this introductory series for how to achieve some tasks in WordPress, we’ve talked about themes and plugins and how to install our web server. The one thing we haven’t covered, though, is how to install WordPress. In this tutorial, I’m going to walk through the process of downloading a copy of the WordPress source… Continue reading How to Install WordPress: The Application
Ultimate Web Designer & Developer Course: Build 23 Projects!
Are you looking for an all-in-one Web Design, Web Development and Career Building course that takes you step-by-step through the all of the skills you need know to start a working professionally? Are you a programmer looking to improve your design skills, so your designer colleagues can stop making fun of your bad designs? Or… Continue reading Ultimate Web Designer & Developer Course: Build 23 Projects!
Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Character Running
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we will be animating a cycle of a character running. In this case, the character will appear to be running in place. If this run cycle were to be incorporated into a movie, perhaps a background scrolling from right to left would be behind the character. Walks and… Continue reading Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Character Running
iOS 9: Additions to SceneKit
Introduction SceneKit is a high-level 3D graphics API that has been available in OS X since version 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and was introduced on iOS with the release of iOS 8. In this tutorial, I show you the major improvements and new capabilities the framework has gained with the release of iOS 9 and OS… Continue reading iOS 9: Additions to SceneKit
Learn SQL
Every web developer should know SQL. Although it has been around since the 70s, it is still widely used, and you can’t build a serious application without it. Most full-stack frameworks have libraries for dealing with the SQL complexity – ActiveRecord, Doctrine, Hibernate and more. But often times you need to get your hands dirty and write low-level… Continue reading Learn SQL
Code Clinic: Java
Code Clinic: Java 1h 34m Intermediate Jul 15, 2014 Updated Dec 16, 2014 Viewers: 11,167 Many successful programmers know more than just a computer language. They also know how to think about solving problems. They use “computational thinking”: breaking a problem down into segments that lend themselves to technical solutions. Code Clinic is a series… Continue reading Code Clinic: Java
A Beginner’s Guide to AJAX with jQuery
In the first article of this series, we covered the fundamentals of AJAX. In the second, we looked at a working example using vanilla JavaScript. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through a few of jQuery’s AJAX-related functions and methods. More specifically, we’ll take a closer look at the shorthand load method and the generic ajax… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to AJAX with jQuery
How to Create Mooncake and Dim Sum Icons for Chinese New Year
What You’ll Be Creating Celebrate Chinese New Year with mooncakes, steamed buns, and dumplings! In this tutorial we’ll illustrate dim sum food icons, perfect for use in a mobile game or other vector graphic needs. Start with circles and ellipses, and end with delicious food drawings. You can also supplement your icon designs with vectors… Continue reading How to Create Mooncake and Dim Sum Icons for Chinese New Year
How to convert PSD files to WordPress
Perhaps it would be best to start here with the why. About a quarter of all websites run on WordPress, the online blogging platform. This makes it by far one of the most popular open source content management systems on the planet. The vast majority of web designers still use Photoshop to design a website,… Continue reading How to convert PSD files to WordPress
Swift 2.0 Essential Training
Swift 2.0 Essential Training 6h 0m Beginner Apple introduced Swift in June 2014, describing it as Objective-C without the C. Yet with version 2, announced in June 2015, Swift is pulling away from its Objective-C origins and breaking new ground as a modern language that is safe, fast, and expressive. In this training course, Scott… Continue reading Swift 2.0 Essential Training
How to Grow Your App Team
You can find a lot of online resources that help you on your way to make a successful app. Once you reach that point, you’re looking to retain or even expand on that success. This is the moment that you, a single person who has built an app, grows into something bigger, a team that continues… Continue reading How to Grow Your App Team
Apple Swift Makes iOS and Mac Apps Development Easy
Apple’s New Free Programming Language – Apple Swift is set to make iOS App development easier than ever. Apple announced a totally new programming language known as SWIFT, for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, at WWDC 2014. It is a big deal for Apple as they launched a new programming language after a long break of… Continue reading Apple Swift Makes iOS and Mac Apps Development Easy