Several WordPress versions ago, putting together an image gallery wasn’t the easiest thing to do, let alone a gallery of videos or products for sale. Today, however, there are many WordPress gallery plugins that are creative, powerful, and highly configurable. Sure, the Jetpack gallery is great in comparison to the early days of WordPress, but… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins
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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”
Android From Scratch: How to Run Your Application on a Physical Device
Most Android phones and tablets can be connected to a computer using a USB cable. However, by default, the USB connection established between an Android device and a computer is limited to file transfer only. Therefore, if you want to use your device for Android application development, you have to make a few configuration changes… Continue reading Android From Scratch: How to Run Your Application on a Physical Device
New Course: Productivity Tips for Your Web Design Business
If you’re struggling to stay on top of your business and its demands, try our new Coffee Break Course, Productivity Tips for Your Web Design Business. You’ll be in the company of Paul Boag, founder of UK Web design agency Headscape, as he shares the productivity tips that have enabled him to work less while at the same time… Continue reading New Course: Productivity Tips for Your Web Design Business
How to Adopt Model View Presenter on Android
In the previous tutorial, we talked about the Model View Presenter pattern, how it is applied on Android, and what its most important advantages are. In this tutorial, we explore the Model View Presenter pattern in more detail by implementing it in an Android application. In this tutorial: we build a simple application using the MVP… Continue reading How to Adopt Model View Presenter on Android
Advanced JavaScript Fundamentals
Without a doubt, JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world. While the web development industry is chock full of frameworks and libraries that simplify some aspects of JavaScript development, there’s something to be said about having the skills to write pure JavaScript. Frameworks, libraries and transpilers may come and go, but JavaScript… Continue reading Advanced JavaScript Fundamentals
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
Ink Transition Effect Powered by CSS Animations
This is a great tutorial to create ink transition effect using CSS animations.It’s been developed by Codyhouse inspired from the website Sevenhills. A PNG sprite and steps() timing function in CSS has been used to create video effects and use them as transitions.The process to create these effects is simple Demo Tutorial
How to create a floral typography text effect in Photoshop
What you’ll learn in this floral effects Photoshop tutorial How to create Photoshop floral effects How to create a flower text effect How to stylize your flower typography How to apply text to the floral typography What you’ll need You will need the following resources in order to complete this… Continue reading How to create a floral typography text effect in Photoshop
Weekly Inspiration: Comments, Discussion, and Feedback
In this age of content saturation on the web, one opportunity for online publishers to stand out is through their respective communities. The communities which surround and make use of websites are massively important, and how they interact with those websites, and each other, is equally important. We’re used to seeing comment threads on websites;… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Comments, Discussion, and Feedback
How to Create Flat Weather Icons in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating April showers bring May flowers! It is traditionally known that April is quite a rainy period, when the weather changes unexpectedly from the sun shining in a clear sky to raining cats and dogs. However, any weather has its own beauty, so let’s get inspired and prepare for springtime with this… Continue reading How to Create Flat Weather Icons in Adobe Photoshop
How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Term Metadata API
The first post in this series laid the groundwork for understanding taxonomies, terms, and their relationship within the context of WordPress. If you haven’t read it yet and you’re brand new to WordPress development, then I highly recommend reading through it as this post is going to build on top of everything covered in that… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Term Metadata API
Set Up Google reCAPTCHA in OpenCart
Whether you’re a pro or a fresher in the world of website development, the word CAPTCHA should not sound alien to you. It is an important and widely used technique to determine if the user is a bot or an actual human. There are lots of third-party scripts that allow you to set up CAPTCHA… Continue reading Set Up Google reCAPTCHA in OpenCart
Weekly Inspiration: Full-on Full Screen Home Pages
The full screen splash is one of the most familiar patterns on the web at the moment. Some love it, some loath it, but whatever your feelings let’s take a look at some noteworthy examples and talk about best practices while we’re at it. A Note on Design Convergence The term “design convergence” refers to… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Full-on Full Screen Home Pages
WP REST API: Creating, Updating, and Deleting Data
In the previous part of the series, we looked at how we can use the WP REST API to retrieve content from the server. We learned to retrieve content for different resources including posts, post meta, tags, categories, etc. This is a powerful feature since this content can be used anywhere inside or outside WordPress.… Continue reading WP REST API: Creating, Updating, and Deleting Data
The Top 10 Super-Ultra-Very Bestest Photoshop Tips the Experts Don't Want You to Know!
New World Order Reader caution: this article was posted on April 1st 2016 and should not be taken seriously. Hi there dear readers, you may recognize me. I’m a frequent contributor to this site, and it’s time for me to come clean. I’m blowing the whistle. Today, I’m pulling back the curtain and letting you… Continue reading The Top 10 Super-Ultra-Very Bestest Photoshop Tips the Experts Don't Want You to Know!
AMP in 60 Seconds
The AMP project is an open source initiative backed by Google, with the goal of making websites faster. Here’s what it is, in sixty seconds! Useful Resources 60 seconds?! This is part of a series of quick video tutorials on Envato Tuts+. We’re introducing a range of subjects, all in 60 seconds–just enough to whet your… Continue reading AMP in 60 Seconds
10 Top Tips for Creating Unique Character Designs
Everyone has a favorite cartoon character, but how did they first come to life? A lot of research and love goes into creating universally recognized characters. So today we’re bringing you ten great tips for everything you need to know about character design, using amazing examples from Envato Market. 1. Pick a Theme Starting a new… Continue reading 10 Top Tips for Creating Unique Character Designs
How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies
In a recent series, we talked all about how we could work with metadata for several of the major classes in WordPress. This included: Throughout the series, we talked a bit about how WordPress 4.4 introduced the idea of term metadata. I didn’t want to present the concept within the context of that series because… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies
Android From Scratch: Building Your First Android Application
What You’ll Be Creating After taking a look at the current state of Android development and how to set up your development environment, in this lesson, you are going to learn how to build and launch your first Android application. I won’t focus too much on the details, because those are covered extensively later in… Continue reading Android From Scratch: Building Your First Android Application
What Are WordPress Themes?
We recently wrapped up a series that covered How to Get Started With WordPress. Though it’s not a pre-requisite for reading the following article, I recommend reading through the four posts, especially if you’re someone who is just now getting started with WordPress. The people who visit Envato Tuts+ come from a variety of backgrounds, both… Continue reading What Are WordPress Themes?
Designing for Apple Watch: Designing a Glance in Sketch
What You’ll Be Creating If this is the first time you are designing for a wearable device, you will notice that there are some key differences compared to designing a product for a smartphone or a desktop computer. In this quick tip, I cover some of these differences while also teaching you how to design… Continue reading Designing for Apple Watch: Designing a Glance in Sketch
Handy Sketch Features for Designing Style Guides
What You’ll Be Creating This tutorial will show you how to organize a style guide using Sketch. Additionally it will teach you some core skills for using Sketch in other situations. We will go over everything from setting up typography, using assorted grid types, to best practices for using “symbols” and “shared styles”. Typography Setting reusable type… Continue reading Handy Sketch Features for Designing Style Guides
How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata
Throughout this series, we’ve looked at a number of the metadata APIs that are offered by WordPress. This includes the Post Meta API and the User Meta API. Today, we’re going to be rounding out the series by looking at the WordPress Comment Meta API. Note that this is that the final metadata API WordPress… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata