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

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