Category: Web Development

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

Flexbox Patterns: Ready-To-Use Building Blocks for Your Design

If you ever delved into Flexbox as an alternative to the classic CSS box model, you probably don’t want to go back. The hitch is, that you need to deal with it in-depth, and who has enough time for that these days. Thus, we’re often stuck with old methods of getting things done, just because… Continue reading Flexbox Patterns: Ready-To-Use Building Blocks for Your Design

Switch: A simple javascript plugin

Switch is a simple but powerful javascript plugin (no dependencies) for creating iOS style switches from simple checkboxes. The plugin comes with a set of options (size, colour, text, etc.) and callbacks that help you to get integrate a switch in your UI in a few clicks. View Demo   View on Github

15 Free Responsive PSD Website Templates

Free PSD website templates, which you can download and use for free! These web templates well organized, fully customizable and very easy to use. All templates are modern and follow the new trends and will looks nice in any resolution and on any device. These free website templates are suitable for e-commerce store, business websites, Photo Studio, Freelancers, Portfolio Theme, Personal, Restaurant,… Continue reading 15 Free Responsive PSD Website Templates

Free iOS Wireframe kit for Sketch

A free iOS Wireframe kit for Sketch designed by Megan Dolan at Savvy including a lot of useful pre-built elements to be dragged and dropped into a mockup. This kit is different from all the other ones because it takes advantage of Sketch symbols that allow to quickly insert a specific element from the symbol menu. Hope you enjoy… Continue reading Free iOS Wireframe kit for Sketch

Diverse Device Hands by Facebook

The design team at Facebook has just released another great free resource called Diverse Device Hands: it is basically a set of phone mockups held by hands that you can use in any presentation of your designs. The package includes PNGs of the hands holding various devices as well as a Sketch file of the hands with vector… Continue reading Diverse Device Hands by Facebook

20 Free CV / Resume Templates & PSD Mockups

New designed Free Resume Templates and PSD mock-ups. These templates are 100% customizable and ready to print. All CV / Resume templates are very helpful to make your online CV/Resume. All template are perfect for photographers, designers, and developers with easy to customize fully Photoshop  layered PSD files. Remember your first impression starts with your Resume / CV, make… Continue reading 20 Free CV / Resume Templates & PSD Mockups

Barba.js: A plugin for page transitions

Barba.js is a lightweight and dependency free javascript plugin to create fluid and smooth transitions between your site pages. It uses PJAX to enhance the user’s experience. Coded by by Luigi De Rosa. It helps reducing the delay between your pages, minimising browser HTTP requests and enhancing your user’s web experience. Project page

Chart.js A Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers

Chart.js was first introduced in year 2013, for 3 years of intensive development by many contributors, it has became quite a powerful open source Javascript charting plugin. It’s designed for both developers and designers. It supports 8 types of charts – Line, Bar, Radar, Polar Area, Pie & Doughnut, Scales charts. With version 2.0, you… Continue reading Chart.js A Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers

How to Send a Pull Request using the Github Desktop Client

In one of my previous posts, I outlined the process of contributing to open source software with a detailed account of each step. One of those steps was sending a pull request to the owner of the repository you forked from. I showed you how to send a pull request using Github‘s web interface. In… Continue reading How to Send a Pull Request using the Github Desktop Client

A slider with SVG radial transition effect

Today we want to share with you another gem by CodyHouse: it’s a tutorial that shows you how to create a simple responsive slider powered by SVG radial transition effects. In the article you can also find a link to download the resource and create your custom slider in a matter of seconds. View Demo   Project… Continue reading A slider with SVG radial transition effect

Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles

Cocycles is a new code search service that enables code to be found by functionality. In this article, Cocycles team member Jonathan explains the idea behind this approach to code searching. We’re all familiar with it: that moment when you’re forced to abandon your code editor, interrupt your workflow and open your browser to search… Continue reading Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles