Tutorials

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

An Example of AJAX with Vanilla Javascript

Following on from our introduction to AJAX, here’s an example which uses the XMLHttpRequest API to initialize an AJAX request. AJAX Example Have a look at the following basic structure: <div> <img src=”http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/Einstein.jpg” alt=”Einstein”> <button id=”request”>Learn more about Einstein</button> <div id=”bio”></div> </div> Also, consider the related visualization: Here’s what we want to happen: when we… Continue reading An Example of AJAX with Vanilla Javascript

10 Adobe Lightroom Tutorials For Photographers

Here we’ve gathered 10 wonderful and practical Adobe Photoshop Lightroom tutorials for the photographers, professionals and amateurs. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an tool that is amazing is super easy to master. Therefore, then do not worry if you are new to Lightroom. These tutorials will help you learn a wide variety of techniques that you… Continue reading 10 Adobe Lightroom Tutorials For Photographers

Design an App Landing Page in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will walk you through the design process of a simple and conversion-oriented app landing page. We’ll use the Tuts+ Android app for the demo, emphasizing its features and benefits, and employing calls to action throughout. Essentials of High Conversion When designing landing pages there are some things you need to get… Continue reading Design an App Landing Page in Photoshop

How to Create a Greyscale Monochrome Vector Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a monochrome portrait from a photograph. Today’s subject is the inspiring Aydian Dowling, who has given us permission to use one of his photos for this tutorial. If you’re not aware who Aydian Dowling is, let me introduce you to… Continue reading How to Create a Greyscale Monochrome Vector Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

New eBooks Available for Subscribers

Do you want to learn more about data analysis with Python? How about iOS 9 game development, Django, or Swift 2? Our latest batch of eBooks will teach you all you need to know about these topics and more. What You’ll Learn In the past couple of months we’ve made 16 new eBooks available for… Continue reading New eBooks Available for Subscribers

CSS Fundamentals

This course contains a high-level overview of Cascading Style Sheets, while exploring the basic concepts, terminology, and tools of the language. Beginning with an exploration of CSS syntax, author James Williamson explains how CSS modifies text, borders, backgrounds, and color; demonstrates CSS and HTML integration; and contextualizes the current state of CSS. The course also… Continue reading CSS Fundamentals

User Experience Design: Complete UX Fundamentals Course

Course Description Interested in learning what makes a great web or mobile app? How to understand users? Or do you want to expand your web design or development skills? If so, you’ve come to the right place. User Experience Design: The Accelerated UX Course is the quickest, and most cost-effective UX course you’ll find on… Continue reading User Experience Design: Complete UX Fundamentals Course

How to Develop a Processwire Theme

In this beginner’s tutorial you’ll learn about creating your own ProcessWire CMS themes. We’ll create a super simple site, covering templates, fields, theme structure and PHP variables. Don’t forget to get up to speed by following the first of our tutorials How to Install and Setup ProcessWire CMS. Where to Find Your ProcessWire Theme Unlike other CMSs like… Continue reading How to Develop a Processwire Theme

How to Create a Retro Funfair Vector in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating Wanna have some fun in the amusement park? Then join me in this tutorial and create a retro-style flat funfair scene, inspired by the Grease movie! No special drawing skills are required here—we’ll be working with simple geometrical shapes and the Pathfinder operations of Adobe Illustrator. What is more, we’ll learn… Continue reading How to Create a Retro Funfair Vector in Adobe Illustrator