Category: Web Development

Ideas for block reveal effects with 3D Transforms

Latest experiment by Codrops consists of a small set of block reveal effects uncovering content of any kind in a schematic box look. On the demo page you can also find nice ready-made examples for revealing menus, modals, forms, etc. This approach takes advantages of scrollMonitor (a simple API to monitor elements as you scroll) and Flexbox and 3D Transforms, so… Continue reading Ideas for block reveal effects with 3D Transforms

Luminar: Complex Photo Editing Made Easy and Enjoyable

Finding a source of high-quality photos isn’t all that difficult. Gaining access to absolutely stunning, special effects photos for online use can be a different story; and generally requires the use of a photo editor. Edited images in presentation and e-commerce websites are used to attract and engage visitors, increase sales, and encourage visitors to… Continue reading Luminar: Complex Photo Editing Made Easy and Enjoyable

Google’s Material Design UI Components

Some time after the release of Material Design as a prototyping tool for designers, Google has just launched a new project called Material Components, a set of modular and customizable UI components for creating iOS, Android, and Web apps. The Material Components set is now available for download on Github to allow developers of iOS and Web apps as well… Continue reading Google’s Material Design UI Components

6 Online Tools for Graphic Design To Keep an Eye on in 2017

December 15, 2016 by Veronika The online design sphere is constantly advancing and welcoming new platforms to its previously humble list of tools. The demand for quick and intuitive design on the go has inspired the creation of many browser-based online design tools. In this article, we’ll examine some of the newest additions to the… Continue reading 6 Online Tools for Graphic Design To Keep an Eye on in 2017

Component Inheritance in Angular 2

Angular 2.3 is released! One of the exciting new feature is component inheritance. Component inheritance is very powerful and it can increase your code reusability. What does component inheritance provide us? Component Inheritance Component Inheritance in Angular 2.3 covers all of the following: Metadata (decorators): metadata (e.g. @Input(), @Output), etc. defined in a derived class… Continue reading Component Inheritance in Angular 2

Knox Regular: A font inspired by american western culture

Today’s freebie is Knox Regular, a free weight from Knox font family designed and released by Mcraft. It is inspired by american western culture and tattoos and it’s ideal for vintage-themed designs. That makes Knox suitable for any project that requires an old western feel as the core design elements and for logo and graphic design. Download font

5 Ways Freelancers Can Increase Productivity with Pre-Built Websites

Posted · Category: Best Collections As a freelance web designer, you no doubt enjoy working to your own schedules. And not having to commute to work, or a boss that likes micromanaging are also good perks. You work hard to improve your skills, and to keep up with the latest trends. As a result, you have little difficulty… Continue reading 5 Ways Freelancers Can Increase Productivity with Pre-Built Websites

Stressful Holiday? This Tool Will Make Next Year Easier

Posted · Category: Tools There’s no doubt that the Q4 holiday shopping season is the busiest time of year for online store owners and ecommerce businesses. If your freelance business or agency works with these online merchants, the last few weeks have almost certainly been hectic and stressful. Performing last minute site updates, troubleshooting broken… Continue reading Stressful Holiday? This Tool Will Make Next Year Easier

Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers

If you’re a long-time freelance web designer, you may be experiencing a rather common problem. As freelance web designers gain experience, they naturally become more proficient. This generally leads to attracting more clients, and results in taking on more work. Freelancers have obvious benefits. Like not having to work to someone else’ schedule, not having a… Continue reading Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers

Settle Design Debates With Data

Posted · Category: Tools Zarget, a full-service CRO tool, helps marketers drive email subscribers, guide users through the funnel, and get to know their website visitors. Using hard data can help you make vital decision about your website. The point of every website is to bring in conversions, and the point of conversion optimization is… Continue reading Settle Design Debates With Data

Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource

Dropsource is a brand new mobile application development platform that was built with the developer’s needs in mind. What does this mean exactly? It means that its sole purpose is to make a developer’s job easier and to make building a data-driven native mobile app as simple as drag and drop. Dropsource comes equipped with… Continue reading Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource

10 Totally Free WordPress Backup Solutions

Backing up your precious data is a common best practice these days. But, what about your WordPress powered website? Yes, most web hosting companies do perform regular system backups. But beware – not every host is reliable when it comes to backups. And you certainly don’t want to wait until disaster strikes to find out… Continue reading 10 Totally Free WordPress Backup Solutions

Datedropper 3.0: A powerful jQuery UI datepicker

Thought we have already talked about datedropper JQuery plugin in a previous post, we can’t help but to do it again since version 3.0 has just been launched. The new version have been completely redesigned as well as it introduces new amazing features (e.g. translate and large modes) for creating beautiful date picker calendars. That’s definitely one of the… Continue reading Datedropper 3.0: A powerful jQuery UI datepicker

Capture User Actions with FullStory

Have you ever wanted to know exactly what a user did while on your website? Have you ever thought about the sheer importance of that data? It may just change the way you think about web design. Using FullStory, you’ll get all the user action data you’ve ever wanted. No more guessing at where to… Continue reading Capture User Actions with FullStory

How to Completely Remove Comments from WordPress

WordPress comments are an integral part of building a community with a WordPress blog. They allow your audience to connect with you by responding directly to your posts. They allow you to extend the conversation surrounding the topic you wrote your post about by letting members of your community pitch in. They even allow members… Continue reading How to Completely Remove Comments from WordPress

Google Data Studio: a Nifty, Free, Easy-to-use Data Vis Tool

As a digital marketer, you can often be overwhelmed with the amount of information and data needed to be analyzed in order to evaluate your efforts. Traffic, conversion rate, user location, behavior and acquisitions — just to name a few — all have to be examined to define the progress of your digital marketing campaign.… Continue reading Google Data Studio: a Nifty, Free, Easy-to-use Data Vis Tool

Webinar: 10 Ways Angular 2 Makes Development Easier

This will be our very first webinar! We recently moved into making video courses in our Scotch School; now we’re continuing the Scotch video movement and creating our first webinar! Here are the straight details: What? Learn the 10 Ways Angular 2 Makes Development EasierWhen? Thursday, December 8 at 2pm EST Links to the videos.… Continue reading Webinar: 10 Ways Angular 2 Makes Development Easier

Open Source Week at SitePoint

If you are reading this, chances are you have stumbled upon something remotely related to Open Source. opensource.com defines it in a simple manner: More from this author Ilya Gelfenbeyn, CEO of Api.ai, on AI and the IoT Why the Internet of Things Still Has a Long Way to Go The term “open source” refers… Continue reading Open Source Week at SitePoint

Bookshop With React & Redux II: Async Requests With Thunks

Previously, we got ourselves started with React with Redux fundamentals and touched all the core concepts of Redux including Actions, Reducers and Stores. We also had a look at the features of React-Redux library including connect and Provider. What we can do now is move further to complexity and reality by fleshing out the application… Continue reading Bookshop With React & Redux II: Async Requests With Thunks

Angular 2 Transclusion using ng-content

Free Course Getting Started with Angular 2 Angular 2 is the shiny new framework that comes with a lot of new concepts. Learn all the great new features. Get Started Wait a minute… What is transclusion? Understanding Transclusion Don’t get confused by the term Transclusion. It’s best explained using an example. Let’s say we have… Continue reading Angular 2 Transclusion using ng-content

Build a Bookshop with React & Redux I: React Redux Flow

At some point in your complex React project, you are going to need a state management library. Redux is a good choice because of it’s simplicity and centralized data management. This piece is a practical approach to the fundamentals of Redux in building React application for managing a book store. If you are unfamiliar with… Continue reading Build a Bookshop with React & Redux I: React Redux Flow

Deadline: Free UI kit for Photoshop

Deadline is a free UI kit for Photoshop including hundreds of elements and 82 awesome screens in 6 different categories: generic, sign in / sign up, ecommerce, blog, profile and menu. You can take advantages of this kit to create a minimum viable product in a few hours, it’s free for personal and commercial use! Designed and released… Continue reading Deadline: Free UI kit for Photoshop