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23Mar By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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This Week In Web Design – March 19, 2021

We’re back again with another roundup of all the web design and development related articles we’ve found published on the web in the past week. Whether you’re looking for tips, tutorials, or just something to read in the field, we’ve got you covered. Let’s have a look! Your Web Designer Toolbox Unlimited Downloads: 500,000+ Web Templates, Icon Sets, Themes & Design AssetsStarting at only $16.50/month! DOWNLOAD NOW CSS Generators — Smashing MagazineIn a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. This time it’s all about CSS Generators: from CSS shadows to easing gradients to CSS overlays to CSS doodles.Read More Video Tutorial: How to Create a Vintage Pin-Up Effect in Adobe PhotoshopIn today’s Adobe Photos...

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22Mar By Geoffrey ColonNo Comments

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What Consumers Want to See on Company Websites [New Data]

For many businesses, a website is undeniably critical for reaching new audiences — and is often the first impression someone will have of your brand. (more…)

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21Mar By Alex BulatNo Comments

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1500+ Free Photoshop Custom Shapes

When it comes to custom shapes, I can't stop remembering my drawings from childhood. All kids in the yard had a competition in designing the best shape. We drew ships, cars, people, ornaments, and more to get the right to be called a creativity master, lol. However, today's innovations make things much easier, hence, you can easily enrich any web project with a large number of free Photoshop custom shapes. By the way, custom shapes were introduced in the 6th Photoshop edition, they allow you do much more with vector graphics than a pen tool. Photoshop custom shapes are very useful, if you do not have an appropriate brush you can use a readymade custom shape preset. Shapes differ from brushes greatly they can be easily scaled to large sizes without loss of quality and sharpness and can be g...

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19Mar By Ben MossNo Comments

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Ghost 4.0 Released | Webdesigner Depot Webdesigner Depot » Blog Archive

We’ve been big fans of Ghost since it first launched via a Kickstarter campaign way back in 2013. Ghost 4.0 has just been released, and the host of new features is another giant leap forward for the popular blogging platform. The content management space is one of the most crowded for startups; there are traditional CMS, headless CMS, site builders, and the omnipresent WordPress, which, if current trends persist, will power 729% of the web by next Thursday. Ghost is a blog-focused CMS, as WordPress is. Unlike WordPress, it’s minimal, fast, and a pleasure to use. To survive in the competitive space, Ghost has niched-down to specializing in monetized content — charging membership for sites to bring in revenue for the site owner (Ghost doesn’t charge any commission on this income). As part of...

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18Mar By Eric KarkovackNo Comments

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Why Thinking Ahead Is Crucial in Web Design

The difference between building a great website and a mediocre one is usually determined very early on. It’s often a matter of a web designer painting their project into a virtual “corner”. That’s where a design becomes inflexible and unable to accommodate various use cases. This tends to happen in the prototyping phase. We spend lots of time and creative energy on an idea that looks awesome. Our clients might love it just as much as we do. But only when we actually start to build it do we begin to fully understand the consequences. A design mockup serves as a compass for our website projects. If we fail to think ahead with regards to what certain elements require, it could mean being stuck in a bad situation. The end result is a site that has to make some serious compromises in order to w...

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16Mar By byNo Comments

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Keeping Your Design Mind New and Fresh – A List Apart

“Only a fool knows everything.” Article Continues Below — African Proverb Since March 2020, most of us have been working from home, and the days blend into each other and look the same. This is not the first time I have experienced this type of feeling.  My commute — New York to New Jersey — is what folks in my area call the reverse commute.While going to the office, my days began to look the same: riding the subway to a bus to a shuttle to get to my job. Have you ever arrived at a destination and not even realized how you got there? This is how I began to experience the world everyday. I stopped paying attention to my surroundings. Because I worked a lot, the only time I would take off was for the holidays. During this time, I was a consultant and was coming to the end of a...

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14Mar By MarisaNo Comments

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Spring Flowers Clipart Collection for Your Blooming Ideas

Spring is a wonderful time of the year when everything wakes up from the winter cold. Simultaneously, this is a series of holidays, which means that it is an excellent occasion to develop new bright designs for gifts. Designers often use small ready-made elements to create patterns, sketches, and postcards. Today we will take a closer look at spring flowers clipart, find out why it is beneficial to use them, and apply them to implement any ideas.  There are many such elements because they are easy to create, edit and combine. Where does history originate from? Let's find out. Spring Flowers Clipart Through a Prism of History The history of clientele begins in the 1980s. With the advent of color printing, people found an original way to decorate their crafts - they cut out colored pictures...

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13Mar By Carrie CousinsNo Comments

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27 Exciting New Tools For Designers, March 2021

Looking for something new to get you excited about design work? This list is packed with all kinds of goodies to help you feel inspired and ready to work. Here’s what new for designers this month. Top Picks for March Same Energy Same Energy, in beta, is a visual search engine. You can search with a minimum number of words or an image. The website is designed to help you find art, photography, decoration ideas, and practically anything. It uses deep learning and algorithms to create images on the home page, and you can create feeds in the same manner. The coolest part of this tool is that it tries to match the visual and artistic style you ask for with image mood and objects. SVG Repo SVG Repo is a collection of more than 300,000 SVG vectors and icons that you can download and use in proje...

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11Mar By Addison DuvallNo Comments

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The Personal Process of Choosing the Right Design Tool

Every chef has their favorite tool. Mine happens to be a wooden spoon I’ve had since forever. I call it “Suzie” (because I’m a weirdo). Some people actually keep their wooden spoons in the family for generations – talk about a collector’s item! Today, I’m going to share some tips on how the tools you select as a designer can help improve your creative process, and aid you in creating work you can really stand behind. Unlimited Downloads: 49,000+ Print Design Templates Brochures, Business Cards, Resumes, Documents, Powerpoint & Keynote Templates, Mockups & much, much more! You’ve Gotta Have Standards Do you know why so many chefs and cooks prefer wood over other materials? Well, it’s much the same reason many designers prefer Macs and software by Adobe: it’s the industry standar...

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9Mar By byNo Comments

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How to Get a Dysfunctional Team Back on Track – A List Apart

Maybe you’ve been part of a team that you’ve seen slowly slide into a rut. You didn’t notice it happen, but you’re now not shipping anything, no one’s talking to each other, and the management’s Eye of Sauron has cast its gaze upon you. Article Continues Below Maybe you’ve just joined a team that’s in the doldrums. Maybe the people who used to oil the wheels that kept everyone together have moved on and you’re having to face facts—you all hate each other. However you’ve ended up in this situation, the fact is that you’re now here and it’s up to someone to do something about it. And that person might be you. The first thing to understand is that you’re not the only person to ever encounter problems. Things like this happen all the time at work, but there are simple st...

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7Mar By MarisaNo Comments

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Free St. Patrick’s Day Wallpapers

It's St. Patrick's Day today, and we have suddenly found ourselves struck by a sudden touch of Irish inspiration (yeah, that's what we call this sort of inspiration). And the only way to fight this inspiration (yeah, sometimes you have to fight it) was to design something that would be a) free and b) in Celtic and St. Patrick's Day style. Which is exactly what we did and are now happy to present here. Alright, what we're trying to say is that today is the day of holiday freebie from TemplateMonster - this time, we're giving away the Irish style wallpapers, each made in two variants - for desktop computers and iPhone. Check out these wallpapers below; feel free to click to see them in full size and save them. Free St. Patrick's Day Products Are you looking for more assets to diversify the ...

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6Mar By Simon SterneNo Comments

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Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Anatomy of a Typeface?

The constituent parts of a typeface design have some bizarre names. Any ideas what a beak might be? How about a crotch? Take our fun quiz and find out how well you know typeface anatomy. Featured image via Unsplash. Source p img {display:inline-block; margin-right:10px;} .alignleft {float:left;} p.showcase {clear:both;} body#browserfriendly p, body#podcast p, div#emailbody p{margin:0;} The post Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Anatomy of a Typeface? first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

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4Mar By Eric KarkovackNo Comments

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The Right Way to Add Recurring Revenue to Your Web Design Business

Booking new projects is a key revenue driver for any freelance web designer. But a lot of time and effort goes into both finding projects and getting the details hammered out. Then you still have to do the actual work. It’s not always an efficient process. And, unless those projects are quite large, you might also need to find other ways to boost cashflow. Constantly chasing that next opportunity can be tiring – and may not be enough to sustain your business. That’s why recurring revenue is so attractive. As the name suggests, it’s money that comes in regular intervals – weekly, monthly or yearly. It’s something you can depend on and, once a client is signed up, won’t require repeated sales pitches. Ideally, it will allow you to better focus on design and development. Sound like something ...

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2Mar By byNo Comments

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The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets – A List Apart

The future of web-based software architectures is already taking form, and this time it’s server-rendered (again). Papa’s got a brand new bag: HTML-over-WebSockets and broadcast everything all the time. Article Continues Below The dual approach of marrying a Single Page App with an API service has left many dev teams mired in endless JSON wrangling and state discrepancy bugs across two layers. This costs dev time, slows release cycles, and saps the bandwidth for innovation. But a new WebSockets-driven approach is catching web developers’ attention. One that reaffirms the promises of classic server-rendered frameworks: fast prototyping, server-side state management, solid rendering performance, rapid feature development, and straightforward SEO. One that enables multi-user coll...

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1Mar By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (January 2021)

We’ve finally made it to 2021! Wishing this year will bring joy, love, peace, and happiness to everyone. To start 2021, we’ve gathered a number of fresh resources for our fellow web developers. In this round of the series, we have gathered some self-hosted applications that you can easily manage on your own such as an app for social networking, an SVG editor, and an app for marketing automation to name a few. Without further ado, let’s see the full list below. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (December 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (December 2020) We are finally at the end of 2020, an unprecedented year of the decade, and with that we... Read more Coding Fonts A list of fonts for coding that shows each font with HTML, CSS, and ...

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27Feb By MonsterPost EditorialNo Comments

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22 Free CSS3 Hover Effects Tutorials

CSS3 creates unlimited possibilities for website UI designers. Its main advantage is that almost any idea can be easily implemented without resorting to JavaScript. It is incredible how simple things can change a regular web page making it more accessible to users. Today we will talk about CSS3 hover effects with which you can allow any element to transform and change its style on mouse hover. The below CSS3 animation examples will help create a responsive design of your site and improve the pages’ overall look. First of all, a brief explanation of what hover effects are. These are various transition effects applied to web page elements when you approach a mouse cursor over them. These effects can be implemented using multiple jQuery plugins or pure CSS3. CSS3 Hover Effects Examples Imag...

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25Feb By Suzanne ScaccaNo Comments

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12 Tips to Improve Your Web Design Skills in 2021

There are many reasons you might be wanting to improve your design skills this year. Perhaps you have extra time on your hands and want to put it to good use. Or maybe you’re new to web design and finding that there’s a lot you still don’t know how to do. It could also be that you recognize that the web is changing, and your skills could use some refreshing to keep up. Whatever the reason, there are many ways to level up your web design skills in 2021. Here are 12 ideas to get you started: Tip 1: Niche Down If You Haven’t Already Jack-of-all-trades designers might be able to say “yes” to everyone. However, they’re going to be stretched very thin as they attempt to strengthen every skill needed to keep up with demand. It’s much easier to become a trusted designer and to improve your skills ...

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23Feb By Eric KarkovackNo Comments

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Thoughts on WordPress Achieving 40% Market Share

The continued growth of WordPress is something to behold. It seems like just yesterday that we were watching it surpass 30% market share (it was at 29.2% on January 1, 2018), according to the W3Techs survey. Now, the versatile content management system (CMS) has reached a whopping 40%. While there is a wide array of CMS options on the market, WordPress continues to outshine the competition. As of this writing, Shopify occupies second place with a 3.3% share. From January 1, 2020 through February 15, 2021, WordPress usage grew by 3.7% to Shopify’s 1.3%. Even as some competitors grow, WordPress outpaces them. It’s quite an achievement – and one that brings up a few key questions. How did WordPress gain such a massive market share? And what does it have to do in order to maintain its dominanc...

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22Feb By by ,No Comments

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Designing Inclusive Content Models – A List Apart

In the 1920s, Robert Moses designed a system of parkways surrounding New York City. His designs, which included overpasses too low for public buses, have become an often-cited example of exclusionary design and are argued by biographer Robert A. Caro to represent a purposeful barrier between the city’s Black and Puerto Rican residents and nearby beaches.  Article Continues Below Regardless of the details of Moses’s parkway project, it’s a particularly memorable reminder of the political power of design and the ways that choices can exclude various groups based on abilities and resources. The growing interest in inclusive design highlights questions of who can participate, and in relation to the web, this has often meant a focus on accessibility and user experience, as well as on ...

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20Feb By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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Anatomy of High Converting Mobile Web Pages

In 2020, smartphone sales were 1.57 billion units worldwide, an increase from 1.52 billion units in 2019. Such impressive figures continue when we look at the world’s tablet shipments and deliveries. In the third quarter of 2020, Apple alone shipped 13.9 million units of tablets. These figures, as surprising as they are, make us think about the impact on mobile websites and website owners. The demand for smartphones and other mobile devices have been responsible for connecting 4.66 billion people with the internet. This number has gone up by 7.3 per cent since last year. Out of this, mobile internet traffic has been more than half of all the internet traffic all around the world. As a website owner whose website is not mobile-friendly, this is a matter of great concern and something to hel...

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18Feb By MarisaNo Comments

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17Feb By Ben MossNo Comments

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Variable Font Reveals The Full Horror of The Climate Crisis

Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has developed a variable font, that is designed to make the effects of human-driven climate change tangible in a simple graphical form. Whereas most type designers use variable font techniques to embed a range of weights in a single font file, the team — lead by Helsingin Sanomat’s art director Tuomas Jääskeläinen, and typographer Eino Korkala — used the technique to “melt” the typeface. In the design process, we tried out countless letter shapes and styles, only to find that most of them visualized the disaster right in the earliest stages of the transformation. That’s something we wanted to avoid because unlike a global pandemic, climate change is a crisis that sneaks up on us. — Tuomas Jääskeläinen The default typeface represents the volume of Arc...

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15Feb By Eric KarkovackNo Comments

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Tips for Maintaining a Legacy WordPress Website

One of the best ways to measure how far technology has come is to use a legacy product. It’s true of devices like computers and smartphones. And it also applies to websites as well. For instance, compare a WordPress website you built recently with one from a decade ago. You’ll likely notice a lot of differences – both cosmetically and under-the-hood. It can certainly lead you to better appreciate the progress that has been made. This is a process I’ve found myself doing a lot lately. A few websites that I built way back in the early 2010’s are still in use. Beyond keeping those installs updated, part of my job has been to replace abandoned plugins and retrofit for newer features. The experience has been interesting. Not only have these past projects offered perspective, but they’ve also be...

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13Feb By byNo Comments

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The Never-Ending Job of Selling Design Systems – A List Apart

I’m willing to bet that you probably didn’t start your web career because you wanted to be a politician or a salesperson. But here’s the cold, hard truth, friend: if you want to work on design systems, you don’t have a choice. Someone has to pay for your time, and that means someone has to sell what you do to an audience that speaks value in an entirely different language.  Article Continues Below It’s not exactly easy to connect the benefits of a design system directly to revenue. With an ecomm site, you can add a feature and measure the impact. With other conversion-based digital experiences, if your work is good, your customers will convert more. But because a design system is (usually) an internal tool, it’s just harder to connect those dots.  This article boils down the m...

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11Feb By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (December 2020)

We are finally at the end of 2020, an unprecedented year of the decade, and with that we are also back with bring fresh resources for our fellow web developers. This year specifically, I’ve seen Laravel ecosystem thrived with new packages, libraries, and tools. In this round of the series we will explore Laravel ecosystem more such as the latest new tool to spin up a localhost environment with Docker and a couple packages that makes creating web application quicker and easier, along with other type of resources. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (November 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (November 2020) We are almost at the end of 2020. Many things unprecedented have happened this year, but it does... Read more DevFonts A collectio...

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10Feb By MarisaNo Comments

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TemplateMonster Gift Card – Present a Website!

Love is a beautiful feeling that unites the whole world. Each of us wants to make a special gift to our loved one. To truly surprise and conquer the heart of your soul mate, we offer a unique solution - meet TemplateMonster gift card! TemplateMonster Gift Cards Are you planning to launch your business on the Internet but not sure of the concept yet? Now you have a special discounted offer and two months to decide!  Do you want to help improve your loved one’s Internet resource? You have the opportunity to give a real digital miracle - our gift card. How Does TemplateMonster Gift Card Work? We provide three cards with different denominations for your choice. After purchasing such a card, you can use the funds to buy any product on our marketplace: What Are the Values of TemplateMonster Gi...

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8Feb By Carrie CousinsNo Comments

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23 Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2021

We’re going to try something a little different this month; with this roundup of tools and resources for designers, we’re going to pick a few of our favorites and group everything else in a manner that makes it even easier to find elements that will work for you, and your projects, right now. Here’s what’s new for designers this month… February’s Top Picks Pika Pika is a new Mac app that is an open-source color picker. It helps you find color swatches on-screen, saving time and design headaches. Plus, it’s packed with bonuses such as the ability to confirm accessibility compliance for colors, compact size and style, easy to access from your desktop, and format-friendly with plenty of color code options. Iconduck Iconduck is a searchable database of more than 100,000 icons in one place. (N...

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6Feb By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 578

Pika – Download this easy to use, open-source, native color picker for macOS. Luxa CSS – A minimalist CSS framework to help you design and build quickly. KTRZ Monokai – Coders, check out this minimal Visual Studio Code theme with the Monokai color scheme. Where Two-Factor Authentication Falls Short – 2FA’s dependence on a mobile device can cause all sorts of problems. Uniwidth typefaces for interface design – Examples of how to implement this handy type technique. Measuring, Defining and Improving Productivity: The Design Productivity Blueprint – An inside look at Spotify’s tool for measuring designer productivity. How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts – Real-world solutions to keep typography from causing large shifts in page layout. Are High-Quality Free WordPress Themes a Thing...

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5Feb By Hongkiat LimNo Comments

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15 Animated Progress Bars For Your Inspiration

15 Animated Progress Bars For Your Inspiration - Hongkiat Please enable JavaScript in your browser to enjoy a better experience. Close Search FacebookTwitterInstagramPinterestLinkedInGoogle+YoutubeRedditDribbbleBehanceGithubCodePenWhatsappEmail

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3Feb By MonsterPost EditorialNo Comments

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Gestalt Proximity Law in Website Templates [Die Gestalt im Design]

What do you know about Gestalt psychology? This is probably something you've never heard of before. And that is why we must challenge the lack of knowledge and fill this long-felt want. Gestalt proximity principle is known to be applied to the perception and form-generating capability of our senses. In other words, it is all about visual recognition of unified wholes instead of just a collection of simple units. And as people often tend to draw some far-fetched analogies between different things, we can see these principles sufficiently exploited in web design. Commonly 6 Gestalt laws show how people tend to organize visual elements. Those are proximity, similarity, continuity, closure, symmetry, and common fate. Today we will start by introducing you to the proximity principle in the con...

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1Feb By Carrie CousinsNo Comments

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3 Essential Design Trends, February 2021

It’s hard to believe we are more than a month into 2021 already. But that means more trends to dive into this year, right? So far, the biggest trend of 2021 in website design is an overall lack of people in imagery. It’s not that surprising with a worldwide pandemic happening, but it can mean that designers are branching out in other ways to enhance visual interest in their designs. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. Non-Traditional Nav An interesting way to create visual interest can be to mix up the location, size, or placement of the main navigation menu. While it can be hard to think about not using a top navigation element or a corner placement for a hamburger menu or icon, it is a solid option depending on the number of menu items and surrounding content. And there are s...

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30Jan By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 577

Video Tutorial: How to Create a Stained Glass Window Effect – Craft a stunning effect in Adobe Illustrator with this tutorial. The State of Design in 2021 – A survey of over 1,000 designers, asking them how they work, what they value, and what kinds of challenges they’re facing. 8 Examples of Icon-Based Navigation, Enhanced with CSS and JavaScript – Some interesting examples of how icons can improve website navigation. VISIWIG Vector Pattern Generator – Create seamless patterns and export them to your favorite editing software. Doing Away With Bad Design Ideas and Moving on to the Good Ones – A few strategies creative professionals can use to quickly do away with all those bad design ideas, and move on to the good ones. On-Scroll Letter Animations – A small set of examples showing how lett...

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29Jan By Nancy YoungNo Comments

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Christmas Design Resources – Fonts, Icons, Vectors, Tutorials And More

Christmas is that magical time of the year when everyone becomes a kid again. The thought of finding gifts under the Christmas tree, Santa and his flying reindeer, Christmas dinner and family get-togethers – it’s the most wonderful time of the year (commercialized, or not). If you are looking to give a holiday look to your website design, you know you are at the right site. I spent a lot of time collecting the following Christmas-themed fonts, icon sets, Photoshop/Illustrator tutorials and vectors for your use. A note of warning, your fingers are going to get tired from scrolling down. If you like what you see, please click into the link to go straight to the goodies you need to download them, and maybe leave a thanks to the nice designers who are offering these resources to you for free. ...

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27Jan By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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This Week In Web Design – January 22, 2021

Another week in the books, so here’s another edition of our weekly roundup of web design and development articles that were published in the past seven days. Let’s get right to it! Vandelay DesignHere are over 50 sets of free Photoshop patterns of all different styles and varieties. You can download and use them today.Read More 5 Tips for Working With Design Influencers (Or Becoming One!)Who do you look to on social media when you need extra design inspiration? Those are the people that you see as design influencers. Have you ever thought about working with designers, illustrators, and photographers with a strong social media presence (or becoming one yourself)? There are ...Read More 7 easy tips to negotiate your salary as a developerThis article was originally published by E...

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25Jan By Freepik.comNo Comments

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Valentine’s Day Freepik Lovely Invitations and Posters

Are you gearing up for Valentine’s themed party this year? Check fully customizable lovely designs of Valentine’s Day Freepik and Flaticon invitations and posters. No other party could be as lovely as yours when the invites and posters look this good. Like all Freepik and Flaticon vector designs, this Lovely Valentine’s Party invitations and flyers set is ready to be personalized to your needs. Add your invites names, the date, time and location of your party and even change the message and wording to fit your party details. The backgrounds and elements were carefully designed to depict a happy and enjoyable Valentine’s Party for your business and your friends. Pink and red roses, framed by leafy decorations give these designs a fresh feel. Choose the black background for night time theme ...

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24Jan By Ben MossNo Comments

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6 Best Ecommerce Solutions for 2021

It’s never been easier to set up an ecommerce store and start selling. There are a dizzying array of ecommerce solutions available in 2021, and most are feature-rich and competitively priced. Ecommerce sites are notoriously difficult to migrate from platform to platform, so more often than not, you’ll be committed to your chosen solution for years. The key when choosing an ecommerce solution to maximize your return on investment, is to consider not just what your business needs today but what it will need tomorrow. There are two basic approaches to ecommerce. The first is a dedicated platform that handles everything. The second is a plugin that adds ecommerce features to an existing CMS. Both approaches have benefits and drawbacks. 1. Shopify: Best for Almost Everyone Shopify is a well-kno...

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22Jan By Eric KarkovackNo Comments

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Create a Local WordPress Development Environment for Free with DevKinsta

Having a local development environment for WordPress websites is incredibly useful. It allows you to design, develop and experiment with projects – all on your own computer. This is both a powerful and efficient way to create websites. File edits are reflected with a refresh of your browser as opposed to uploading via FTP. Need a new WordPress install? You can deploy one with a single click. Best of all, you can work on a local site without interfering with visitors. Everything is in its own self-contained environment. And you can now bring the power of local WordPress development to your macOS or Windows machine with DevKinsta. This completely free tool from Kinsta has everything you need to start building. And, you don’t even need to be a Kinsta customer to use it! Let’s take a look at w...

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20Jan By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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This Week In Web Design – January 15, 2021

Halfway through the first month of the year and we’re back with another one of our collections of all the web design and development articles we’ve found that were published online in the past seven days. This time around we have topics including predictions and trends for the new year, JavaScript tutorials, WordPress, portfolio design, freelancing tips, and much more! So pull up a chair and let’s get at it! 9 Tips for a Successful Design RetrospectiveSometimes the best way to inspire a creative team is by looking back at projects. A design retrospective can help you evaluate projects upon completion, look back at workflows and results, and take lessons learned to future work. Too often there’s a negative association with a design ret...Read More

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18Jan By Katherine CrayonNo Comments

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St. Valentine’s Codepens – Romantic CSS Love Animation

Just a few weeks till the entire world will immerse into the romantic atmosphere of St. Valentine's Day. While millions of loving hearts are searching for the sweetest presents for their beloved ones, MonsterPost offers you to get inspired by romantic CSS love animation pens from CodePen.io. Some of them are static, others are beautifully animated and feature impressive designs. CodePen.io is an online playground for the front end side of the web. It's all about sharing, learning and getting inspired. This is the place where you can show your latest creations, find bug fixes, get feedback about your works, etc. Looking for ideas/examples of the possible design patterns for your site? CodePen is perfectly suited for the purpose. It's always a great pleasure to watch creative people shari...

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16Jan By Natasha ColyerNo Comments

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6 Tools for Rapid Cross-Device Website Testing

When creating a website, it’s vital to remember that not only does it need to work and look great on the device you are creating it on, but on all the other devices, it might be used on too. Mobile and tablet optimization is important not only for the user journey but from an SEO point of view too, and badly created mobile sites just don’t cut it anymore. With more and more devices entering the market, you need to check any website you create is compatible across the board. One bad experience and users are likely to leave and not come back again, which can be catastrophic for a business, particularly if it is just starting out. It’s vital to check how a site looks and behaves when browsed differently from how you would use it. A common mistake is to assume users only browse websites on mob...

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15Jan By Eric KarkovackNo Comments

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An Ethical Dilemma for WordPress Plugin Developers

I recently discovered that a popular WordPress plugin had enabled automatic updates without explicitly informing users. How did I find out? I received emails from each site where the plugin was installed informing me that an update had been completed. But it gets better. Over a holiday break, a colleague asked me to look at a website that wasn’t loading properly. I turned on debugging to find that – you guessed it – this particular plugin was the culprit. The automatic update failed, and some key files were missing. Thankfully, manually uploading a fresh copy of the code fixed the issue. The incident got me thinking about the ethics behind this move. Not just with a specific plugin author, but all WordPress theme and plugin developers as a whole. So, I reached out to others on the Advanced...

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13Jan By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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First Week In Web Design – January 8, 2021

After taking a brief break for the holidays, we’re back with the new year’s first edition of “This Week In Web Design”. For the uninitiated, each Friday we publish this roundup of all the web design and development articles we’ve found around the interwebs that were published in the past seven days. So here we go again, kicking off 2021 with the articles you’ll find below. Let’s get the new year started right! You want overflow: auto, not overflow: scroll | Kilian ValkhofEvery now and then a web developer using a Mac discovers that their beautiful design is littered with scroll bars on other platforms. Either because someone points it out to them or because they attach a mouse to their laptop, both of which make the scroll bars appear. Often, MacOS hiding scroll bars by default […]Read M...

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11Jan By MonsterPost EditorialNo Comments

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Stylish Winter Backgrounds For Your Frosty Designs

Many modern website templates come with full screen, parallax, or multiple backgrounds support. Given this web design trend, many users would like to know where to find high-resolution background images. In this section, you can find beautiful background images related to winter thematic that you can use for your site or as a desktop background. Usually, most images on the web are protected by copyright laws. Even if copyright is not present, you'd better automatically consider that it's implied to avoid trouble. There are various websites on the Internet where you can find free images that you can legally use on your site. But since background images take up the entire screen, you need to find huge pictures. Of course, you can enlarge them, but this can lead to a noticeable loss of qual...

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10Jan By Ezequiel BruniNo Comments

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How CentOS Became 2020’s Final Victim

If you were paying close attention to your IT department around the 8th of December, you might have heard some quiet sobbing and the occasional wail of, “Why? Why?! WHY?!” Now, it was the year 2020, so this might have seemed normal to you, but it’s actually something of a problem that could affect your business: CentOS is pretty much dead. For the non-total-nerds among us, here’s the skinny: CentOS is a Linux-based operating system, typically used on servers. CentOS has been incredibly popular, and quite a few businesses run on it. But now, that’s changing. CentOS is a Linux-based operating system, typically used on servers…But now, that’s changing CentOS used to be released in thoroughly tested versions, the latest being CentOS 8. CentOS 8 was released in September of 2019 and was suppos...

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8Jan By Addison DuvallNo Comments

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Finding a Niche as a Designer Isn’t Just an Overused Cliché

Here’s a scenario for you. Post-COVID, you’re out with your friends, and you’re getting hungry. The members of your group start suggesting places where you can go and grab some dinner. There are a lot of eclectic suggestions being thrown about – Chinese, Mexican, Thai, Greek – and none of you is sure what you’re going to choose. Here’s one thing you probably won’t do, however: go to an “all-purpose” restaurant which serves all of the above types of food, plus about 10 more. Does that kind of restaurant even exist? Probably not, and that’s exactly my topic for today’s article. When you have too broad a reach with your design work, providing service to a range of clients who have little to nothing in common, you not only dilute the quality of service you’re able to provide each one individua...

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6Jan By MonsterPost EditorialNo Comments

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20 Printable Winter Patterns to Create Holiday Mood

For many decades Christmas and New Year remain the most long-awaiting holiday season. No matter if you are going to promote your brand, work on corporate identity, or redesign a personal project, your visitors are expecting it to be winter-like. You can’t skip the decoration process, but you can further it and even have some fun with the help of pre-made winter patterns. They suit numerous occasions, from blog backgrounds and eCommerce designs to greeting cards, t-shirts, and other prints. Neat Watercolor Winter & Autumn Pattern First things first, Creator is a simple-to-use watercolor pattern collection. Thanks to a 100% creator-friendly design, you can create your own unique layouts without losing much time. You only need to have basic knowledge of Adobe Illustrator CS2 or higher. ...

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4Jan By Carrie CousinsNo Comments

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3 Essential Design Trends, January 2021

Don’t drop the ball on these website design trends for the new year. All of the trends featured here this month are visual in nature – not as many user interface elements as previous months, but all just as stunning and usable. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. 3D Scenes on White (Light) Three-dimensional scenes are not just a trend this month but are likely to be one of the biggest website design trends that you see all year. They offer a great way to show off product imagery, design something with illustrations or animation for visual impact, and provide usability and understandability cues for users. It’s a versatile technique that can work with real or created images and are also “COVID-friendly,” something designers have had to think a lot about in the past few months. (...

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3Jan By Paul AndrewNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 573

Our 50 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools from 2020 The Rules of Margin Collapse – Joshw Comeau unravels the mystery that is known as “margin collapse.” 50 Best Websites of 2020 – Here’s a collection of the websites that Webdesigner Depot loved in 2020. Typography Principles – The Obys Agency shares some of their typography principles that help improve your experience. Reducing Motion in Animations – This article will demonstrate how to use the prefers-reduced-motion media feature in both CSS and JS to offer alternative interactions for users. Infinite Scroll: What Is It Good For? Uisual – A collection of minimally designed free HTML & CSS (no JS) landing page templates for startups. Deadlines – A simple, offline deadline tracker made with Vue.js and localForage. 10 M...

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31Dec By Rebekah CarterNo Comments

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The Potential of AR in Web Design

Over the years, experts have repeatedly discussed the possible impact of mixed realities on web design. Concepts like AR and VR are expected to have the potential to change the way that we interact with websites on a fundamental level. Now that we’re in the year 2021, however, discussions about AR aren’t just observational anymore. The age of mixed-reality interfaces is here, in everything from Pokémon Go, to Snapchat filters. The question is, how do web designers create incredible user experiences in a world where there are now multiple digital realities to consider? The Benefits of Experimenting with AR Before we look at some of the steps that web designers can take to enhance their projects with AR, it’s worth examining the benefits of interacting with augmented reality in the first pla...

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30Dec By Oksana PredaNo Comments

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50 Best Corporate Website Templates That Are On Top In 2021

Are you looking for a collection of corporate website templates which would make your project glow and your customers say “wow”?  Do you want your website to look better than the websites of your competitors? Do you know how to code and how to make a good website? If you do not, then you can take advantage of a website template - all the design work is already done for you, all you have to do is create the content. By the way, recently, we have launched a new subscription service ONE. ONE by TemplateMonster gives you an awesome opportunity to save your precious money! Joining ONE Subscription, you can for only $19 a month download as many templates, themes, etc. with no limits and restrictions! Instead of buying just one template for $60 or even much more, you get access to any template ...

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29Dec By WebdesignerDepot StaffNo Comments

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Deal: The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations

Google Fonts is one of the most useful tools designers have, with hundreds of amazing fonts provided for free. But if you just grab one of the top ten suggestions, you’re missing out on a vast wealth of typographic gems. Just about every font on Google Fonts is worth trying out, but the very best designs — designs that engage, inspire, and delight — combine two or more fonts. It’s the same principle as sweet and sour; two competing tastes that are both familiar and surprising; that’s a good font combination. But how do you pick out those flavors? How do you know what complements and what clashes? Does Inter work okay with Open Sans? Does Merriweather look good with Roboto? Well, today we’ve got a deal for you that will answer those questions and more. Our sister site, MightDeals.com, has a...

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28Dec By Paddi MacDonnellNo Comments

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50 Best Websites of 2020

2020 has been one of the most memorable years in our history. Few of us have been alive long enough to experience a more turbulent time. But throughout the year, we saw design respond to challenging events with positivity, color, and a desire to elevate those people and projects working to make the world better. As we head into 2021, there’s no denying that 2020 has changed our outlook on life and marked a major turning point in web design trends. Here’s a collection of the websites we loved the most this year. Enjoy! Looks Like You Need Iceland On Looks Like You Need Iceland, you are invited to record a scream, which will then be broadcast into the Icelandic wilderness. It’s meant as a form of therapy. The idea is that you will one day visit Iceland in person. That might still be some way...

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28Dec By VictoriaNo Comments

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How to Create a Categorized Portfolio

In this article, I will help you add a portfolio page to your website with the help of Elementor Page Builder. Also for this, you need to check to see if you have JetElements plugin installed. This is a multifunctional WordPress Elementor theme add-on which contains the very widget we will need today. If you’re all packed and ready, let’s proceed. Open Elementor and look for the Portfolio widget in the search field over on the left. Grab it and drop it on a new section. It will give you a basic layout consisting of six sections. On the left, you will see Content Settings. Here you have a number of options for the layout: masonry, grid, justify, and list. Under this block of settings you will see the Items tab where you can add the images. The next step is customizing every single item in ...

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27Dec By Cameron ChapmanNo Comments

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Popular Design News of the Week: December 21, 2020 – December 27, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. Minimal CSS Loader Collection   Webdesign Toolbox: Find the Perfect Web Development Tools   Facebook: Free as in Bullsh*t   New Year Edition: Top UX/UI Design Trends Rushing to Us In 2021   Our 50 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools from 2020   404 Page Inspiration – The Best 404 Pages from Around the Web   7 Best Instagram Tools for Designe...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Daily Ethical Design – A List Apart

Suddenly, I realized that the people next to me might be severely impacted by my work. Article Continues Below I was having a quick lunch in the airport. A group of flight attendants sat down at the table next to me and started to prepare for their flight. For a while now, our design team had been working on futuristic concepts for the operations control center of these flight attendants’ airline, pushing ourselves to come up with innovative solutions enabled by the newest technologies. As the control center deals with all activities around flying planes, our concepts touched upon everything and everyone within the airline. How was I to know what the impact of my work would be on the lives of these flight attendants? And what about the lives of all the other people working at the ai...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Resilient Management, An Excerpt – A List Apart

In Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development, the Storming stage happens as a group begins to figure out how to work together. Previously, each person had been doing their own thing as individuals, so necessarily a few things need to be ironed out: how to collaborate, how to hit goals, how to determine priorities. Of course there may be some friction here! Article Continues Below But even if your team doesn’t noticeably demonstrate this kind of internal Storming as they begin to gel, there might be some outside factors at play in your work environment that create friction. During times of team scaling and organizational change—the water we in the web industry are often swimming in—managers are responsible for things like strategy-setting, aligning their team’s work to company object...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Part II – A List Apart

You and the rest of the dev team lobbied enthusiastically for a total re-architecture of the company’s aging website. Your pleas were heard by management—even up to the C-suite—who gave the green light. Elated, you and the team started working with the design, copy, and IA teams. Before long, you were banging out new code. Article Continues Below It started out innocently enough with an npm install here and an npm install there. Before you knew it, though, you were installing production dependencies like an undergrad doing keg stands without a care for the morning after. Then you launched. Unlike the aftermath of most copious boozings, the agony didn’t start the morning after. Oh, no. It came months later in the ghastly form of low-grade nausea and headache of product owner...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Getting to the Heart of Digital Accessibility – A List Apart

Quick! Think of the word “developer” or “coder” — what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Maybe a whiteish male in his twenties living in a busy metropolis, wearing a nerdy t-shirt and hoodie? Someone a bit like Mark Zuckerberg? Or maybe a younger Bill Gates or Sergey Brin? Any of the dudes from the HBO series Silicon Valley, perhaps? Certainly no one like me. Article Continues Below By tech standards, I’m old. I’m also female and a mother. I live in a midwestern town you’ve never heard of and will never visit — a town where the cows vastly outnumber the people. My hair color is (almost) natural and is no longer part of the ROYGBIV collection, so I have no perceived conference street cred. I own about a thousand geeky T-shirts, but never actually wear them in public, opting fo...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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An Essential Tool for Capturing Your Career Accomplishments – A List Apart

Imagine you’re ready to apply for your next job. Like most busy professionals, you probably haven’t updated your résumé or your portfolio since you looked for your current job.  Article Continues Below Now you need to update both, and you can’t remember what work you’ve done over the past few years. (In fact, you can barely remember what you’ve done over the past few months!) So you scramble to update your résumé with new content. Then you spend all weekend scraping together a new portfolio using screenshots of whatever work evidence you can find on your laptop. You submit the résumé and portfolio with your application, hoping you didn’t forget to include any major career milestones you achieved over the last few years.  This is the process most of us use to approach our jo...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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The Untapped Power of Vulnerability & Transparency in Content Strategy – A List Apart

In marketing, transparency and vulnerability are unjustly stigmatized. The words conjure illusions of being frightened, imperfect, and powerless. And for companies that shove carefully curated personas in front of users, little is more terrifying than losing control of how people perceive the brand. Article Continues Below Let’s shatter this illusioned stigma. Authentic vulnerability and transparency are strengths masquerading as weaknesses. And companies too scared to embrace both traits in their content forfeit bona fide user-brand connections for often shallow, misleading engagement tactics that create fleeting relationships. Transparency and vulnerability are closely entwined concepts, but each one engages users in a unique way. Transparency is how much information you sha...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Part III – A List Apart

You’ve done everything you thought was possible to address your website’s JavaScript problem. You relied on the web platform where you could. You sidestepped Babel and found smaller framework alternatives. You whittled your application code down to its most streamlined form possible. Yet, things are just not fast enough. When websites fail to perform the way we as designers and developers expect them to, we inevitably turn on ourselves: Article Continues Below “What are we failing to do?” “What can we do with the code we have written?” “Which parts of our architecture are failing us?” These are valid inquiries, as a fair share of performance woes do originate from our own code. Yet, assigning blame solely to ourselves blinds us to the unvarnished truth that a sizable onslaught...

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27Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (June 2020)

PHP turns 25 this month, and the alpha-stage of PHP 8 will be released this year. PHP was once developed as merely a tool to create a “Personal Home Page” and its developer never intended it to be a programming language. But today PHP is a full-fledged programming language that powers more than half of the websites, services, tools, and servers on the planet. To celebrate its birthday, in this round of the series, we put together various PHP resources. From WordPress plugins, an MVC framework, tool to run automate testing with a browser to a couple of references to create PHP extensions. Let’s get started. How to Upgrade PHP to Latest Version How to Upgrade PHP to Latest Version PHP7.4 has been released with a handful of new features — like the arrow function array_map(fn (F...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Caching Strategies in the Age of PWAs – A List Apart

Once upon a time, we relied on browsers to handle caching for us; as developers in those days, we had very little control. But then came Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), Service Workers, and the Cache API—and suddenly we have expansive power over what gets put in the cache and how it gets put there. We can now cache everything we want to… and therein lies a potential problem. Article Continues Below Media files—especially images—make up the bulk of average page weight these days, and it’s getting worse. In order to improve performance, it’s tempting to cache as much of this content as possible, but should we? In most cases, no. Even with all this newfangled technology at our fingertips, great performance still hinges on a simple rule: request only what you need and make each request ...

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27Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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The Importance of Documentation for Web Developers

In the development realm of mobile, web, and desktop apps or JavaScript libraries, documentation plays an important role in determining the app’s success. But if you have ever done documentation, you’d agree with me that it is pretty much the least favorite things for developers to do. Unlike writing code (which is what developers signed up to do), documentation has to be easily digested by everyone. Technically, we have to translate a machine language (code) into a language that is understandable to humans, which is tougher than it sounds. Although it can be a real burdensome, writing the documentation is important and will deliver advantages for your users, your colleagues, and especially yourself. Learning Programming: 10 Misconceptions That Are Not True Learning Programming: 10...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Making Room for Variation – A List Apart

A note from the editors: A List Apart is pleased to present this excerpt chapter from Yesenia Perez-Cruz's new book Expressive Design Systems, available now on A Book Apart. Making a brand feel unified, cohesive, and harmonious while also leaving room for experimentation is a tough balancing act. It’s one of the most challenging aspects of a design system. Article Continues Below Graphic designer and Pentagram partner Paula Scher faced this challenge with the visual identity for the Public Theater in New York. As she explained in a talk at Beyond Tellerrand: I began to realize that if you made everything the same, it was boring after the first year. If you changed it individually for each play, the theater lost recognizability. The thing to do, which I totally got for ...

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27Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2020)

At the time of this writing, Google has just completed web.dev live webinar. A 3-day event featuring the latest of web development, performance, and tools to build the web. So, in today’s post, we’ll feature a couple of the interesting outputs of the event as well as a number of handy tools to ease your work and workflows as web developers. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (June 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (June 2020) PHP turns 25 this month, and the alpha-stage of PHP 8 will be released this year. PHP was... Read more Core Web Vitals An overview of Google latest performance metrics for the Web called Core Web Vitals. The Core Web Vitals feature metrics such as as Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), and ...

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27Dec By by ,No Comments

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Standards for Writing Accessibly – A List Apart

Writing to meet WCAG2 standards can be a challenge, but it’s worthwhile. Albert Einstein, the archetypical genius and physicist, once said, “Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” Article Continues Below Hopefully, this entire book will help you better write for accessibility. So far, you’ve learned: Why clarity is importantHow to structure messages for error states and stress casesHow to test the effectiveness of the words you write All that should help your writing be better for screen readers, give additional context to users who may need it, and be easier to parse. But there are a few specific points that you may not otherwise think about, even after reading ...

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27Dec By Hongkiat LimNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (August 2020)

While we tended to focus our list on specific fields in the previous installment of this series, our list for today will be more diverse. In fact, we’ve put together, not only some handy tools, but also sites where you can find more references and various tools within design and web development fields. So, let’s take a look at this month’s list of fresh resources. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2020) At the time of this writing, Google has just completed web.dev live webinar. A 3-day event featuring the... Read more DesignResourc.es A collection of resources for designers. Here you can find tools, websites, and inspiration for any category related to design, both paid and free. For ex...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Cross-Cultural Design – A List Apart

When I first traveled to Japan as an exchange student in 2001, I lived in northern Kyoto, a block from the Kitayama subway station. Article Continues Below My first time using the train to get to my university was almost a disaster, even though it was only two subway stops away. I thought I had everything I needed to successfully make the trip. I double- and triple-checked that I had the correct change in one pocket and a computer printout of where I was supposed to go in the other. I was able to make it down into the station, but then I just stood at a ticket machine, dumbfounded, looking at all the flashing lights, buttons, and maps above my head (Fig 5.1). Everything was so impenetrable. I was overwhelmed by the architecture, the sounds, the signs, and the language. Fig 5...

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27Dec By Graham BillNo Comments

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80+ Best Cafe & Restaurant WordPress Themes Free Premium

In this collection, we have choosing many various of free and premium restaurant and cafe WordPress themes with modern design to achieve the desired results, consider this bright design. Every element of this food oriented theme, from typography to photography , was chosen to convey a certain atmosphere and suggest the refined taste of the served dishes to the viewer. Every cafe or restaurant owner understands that the way they present their establishment online highly influences their popularity among visitors. Visitors can quickly browse foods or service, menu options, and the location you’re going through a purchase or a quick meal. All high quality restaurant and cafe WordPress themes are help you to create professional cafe and restaurant websites. People go to restaurants to relax, e...

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27Dec By Hongkiat LimNo Comments

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40 Free Unique Cartoon and Comic Fonts

40 Free Unique Cartoon and Comic Fonts - Hongkiat Please enable JavaScript in your browser to enjoy a better experience. Close Search FacebookTwitterInstagramPinterestLinkedInGoogle+YoutubeRedditDribbbleBehanceGithubCodePenWhatsappEmail

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27Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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Bootstrap 4 Code Snippets – 1stWebDesigner

Do you use Bootstrap 4 in your projects? If so, you may be interested to see these examples of it in action that we’ve collected. From modals, sidebars, and thank you pages, to drag and drop, responsive menus, and buttons, we’ve gathered a few samples of code snippets to help you further how you build your next website. So have a look, play with them on CodePen, bookmark, and be sure to check out our other collections while you’re at it. Your Web Designer Toolbox Unlimited Downloads: 500,000+ Web Templates, Icon Sets, Themes & Design AssetsStarting at only $16.50/month! DOWNLOAD NOW See the Pen Modal Demos by SitePoint (@SitePoint) on CodePen.dark See the Pen Sidebar template by Mohamed Azouaoui (@azouaoui-med) on CodePen.dark See the Pen Thank You Page Template by Jacob Lett (...

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27Dec By NataliaNo Comments

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Best Shopify Gift Shop Themes for Holidays Festive Mood

Intro Review of the Best Shopify Gift Shop Themes for Holidays Conclusion Intro The essence of the word "gift" is aimed to express attention, gratitude, an impulse of love, strong friendship, and other warm feelings. Every year the popularity of online sales is growing faster and faster. Selling gifts on the Internet is no exception. Buying a gift, souvenir, flowers, or a cool gadget from all over the world became even easier and more convenient. Internet access is all you need to buy an exclusive gift for your family and friends. The best Shopify gift shop themes for holidays were designed for those whose business is related to the world of gifts, flowers, and delivering happiness. Attention Shopify Theme Makers! Start selling your Shopify themes at the TemplateMonster marketplace. ...

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27Dec By Ben MossNo Comments

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Pantone Color of the Year 2021

It’s that time again: the self-fulfilling prophecy that is the Pantone Color of the Year has been announced for 2021. For 2021, we’re getting two colors of the year. The colors selected to grace museum gift shops, and end-of-year blog posts are Ultimate Gray (a mid-range gray somewhere around #939597) and Illuminating (a citrus yellow that’s approximately #F5DF4D). A marriage of color conveying a message of strength and hopefulness that is both enduring and uplifting. The last time Pantone selected two colors was Rose Quartz & Serenity in 2016, and we all know what a tranquil, serene year that was; so 2021 will presumably unleash the curse of an ancient mummy on the world, or see us collide with the Sun. 2020’s color, “Classic Blue”, probably wasn’t much of a color of the year unless...

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27Dec By Paul AndrewNo Comments

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25 Fantastic Adobe Illustrator Text Effects Tutorials

Great typography can elevate any project and make it look more polished. But when you take text and apply creative and unique text effects, you create a completely different work of art. In this roundup, we’ve gathered the best Adobe Illustrator tutorials for designing highly creative text effects. By following these tutorials, you’ll take your Illustrator skills to a whole new level and be able to make your design projects more interesting. You might also like these Photoshop text effect tutorials or these free Photoshop layer styles for creating stunning text effects. Unlimited Downloads: 13,000+ Adobe Illustrator Templates 1,000,000+ Illustration & Vector Templates, Brushes, Logos, Icons, and much more! In this video tutorial you will learn how to slice text, create your own t...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Usability Testing for Voice Content – A List Apart

It’s an important time to be in voice design. Many of us are turning to voice assistants in these times, whether for comfort, recreation, or staying informed. As the interest in interfaces driven by voice continues to reach new heights around the world, so too will users’ expectations and the best practices that guide their design. Article Continues Below Voice interfaces (also known as voice user interfaces or VUIs) have been reinventing how we approach, evaluate, and interact with user interfaces. The impact of conscious efforts to reduce close contact between people will continue to increase users’ expectations for the availability of a voice component on all devices, whether that entails a microphone icon indicating voice-enabled search or a full-fledged voice assistant waiti...

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27Dec By Graham BillNo Comments

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50+ Best Gaming WordPress Themes Free & Premium

Free and premium gaming , gaming blog, review games or online games WordPress themes make the gaming website! The portal theme game has everything for proper function. Visitors can easily register in the club game. The search box is moved-to-top button is used to develop the comfort of your website. Users must newsletter, blog and twitter section displays the latest posts and tweets can get new game updates. All the elements summarized in a single Web site design offers visitors an immersive gaming experience. Subjects were developed for the game website. The gaming WordPress themes will appreciate the easy navigation of impressive images and web pages. The latest game is displayed in the header slider. Popular games are placed in a large banner. The rest of the games are classified. You c...

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27Dec By DainisNo Comments

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50 Free Gothic and Horror Fonts to Download

50 Free Gothic and Horror Fonts to Download - Hongkiat Please enable JavaScript in your browser to enjoy a better experience. Close Search FacebookTwitterInstagramPinterestLinkedInGoogle+YoutubeRedditDribbbleBehanceGithubCodePenWhatsappEmail

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27Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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This Week In Web Design – October 23, 2020

As another week comes to an end, we are back again with our weekly roundup of web design and development related articles that have been published in the past seven days. In this edition, you will find articles about freelancing, design trends, Tailwind CSS, “classless” CSS, design mentoring, WordPress, and much more. So let’s have a look! How to Prevent Pasting into an InputEvery once in a while I get to a website that doesn’t allow me to paste into a form input. In most cases it’s something to do with login credentials (username and or password) and auth codes. So how are they preventing me from pasting information? It’s as easy as you’d think! Let’s start with …Read More PHP code quality tools to check and improve your codeThey were coded by Dave, your colleague developer. The c...

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27Dec By MonsterPost EditorialNo Comments

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Ideas of Christmas Presents for Graphic Designers

Picking out Christmas presents for graphic designers is always thrilling for me, especially if I sincerely love a person. Maybe I am too serious and worry too much about things that should bring nothing but joy and happiness. In any case, I can do nothing about it and start preparing for a coming event beforehand. Hate grabbing some useless stuff at the last moment and presenting it to the guest of honor taking an educated guess and squealing “Surprise!” How do you choose presents for your friends? Do you have any secrets to share? I take person’s occupation and passion into consideration. As I work for the IT company, it’s quite understandable that most of my friends and acquaintances are designers, artists, and simply creative people. That’s why this blog post is actually a compilatio...

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27Dec By Milan SavovNo Comments

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2 Smartest Ways to Structure Sass

Depending on the size of the project you are working on, you can structure your Sass code in two ways: a simple one for smaller projects and a more complex one for bigger projects. Read on to find out how. Sass – the extended arm of CSS; the power factor that brings elegance to your code. With Sass, it is all about variables, nesting, mixins, functions, partials, imports, inheritance, and control directives. Sass makes your code more maintainable and reusable. And now, I will show you how to make your code more structured and organized. The organization of files and folders is crucial when projects expand. Modularizing the directory is necessary as the file structure increases significantly. This means structuring is in order. Here is a way to do it. Divide the stylesheets into separate ...

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27Dec By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 570

Why it’s good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages – Separating structure, styles and interactivity isn’t so bad, after all. Viral – A free typeface that bills itself as a “recipe for quarantining in 2020”. Download it, if you’re into that sort of thing. Atkinson Hyperlegible – This free font provides greater legibility for low vision readers. Examining the Evolution of the Typical Web Design Client – A look at how clients have changed since the early days of web design. Native Aspect Ratio Boxes in CSS thanks to aspect-ratio – Learn how to define a preferred aspect ratio for your design elements. Avoiding ‘Wasteful’ CSS in Your Projects – Tools and techniques that will help rid your site of unused CSS styles. Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts – Why self-hosting your fo...

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27Dec By byNo Comments

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Jobs To Be Done – A List Apart

In this chapter, you’ll learn about these plays: Article Continues Below How to create a jobs-driven roadmapUsing job stories to solve specific design problemsHow to architect the structure of a solutionTesting assumptions directed by JTBD A software company I once worked for held what were called “hackweeks” once a quarter. This was a time for developers to work on “whatever they wanted,” as it was framed. Give engineers time to play around with technology, and they’re bound to find the next innovation, or so the theory went. Hackweek was a big deal for us. Dozens of people organized it, and every developer in the company stopped work to contribute to the effort. It was costly, but we were committed to hackweek. After all, new software offerings come from new development, ...

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27Dec By Graham BillNo Comments

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50+ Best Wedding WordPress Themes Free & Premium

Collection best free & premium responsive wedding WordPress themes for wedding agency, wedding gallery, pre wedding page and wedding planning. Planning on getting married? Don’t forget to setup your wedding site using the WordPress. The Wedding features an elegant and classy look to give your wedding site an outstanding look. Setup your wedding site now using The Wedding theme. This high quality responsive wedding WordPress themes, fully responsive, Retina-Ready WordPress theme with a minimal and clean design. It’s very code-light, making it quick to load, and has a pleasingly clean look that’s ideal for wedding websites. With these themes, you can easy to customize your theme like changing the colors of almost every elements, changing the font available in our theme options. Specially...

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27Dec By Nancy YoungNo Comments

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60 Beautiful Large Background Website Design

60 Beautiful Large Background Website Design - Hongkiat Please enable JavaScript in your browser to enjoy a better experience. Close Search FacebookTwitterInstagramPinterestLinkedInGoogle+YoutubeRedditDribbbleBehanceGithubCodePenWhatsappEmail

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27Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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Justinmind 9 is here! UI Design and Prototyping Come Together

In case you are unaware, Justinmind is an all-in-one UI design, wireframing and prototyping platform for web and mobile apps. It lets you preview ideas on various screens, including web browsers, Android and iOS. The drag-and-drop interface makes it easier for beginners to get started using templates and customize them according to their own requirements. The platform comes with UI Kits preloaded that enable you to design beautiful interfaces with clickable regions and functional UI prototypes. Transitions, gestures, animations, effects and more are also covered, while data tables, smart forms and dynamic behavior ensure realistic simulation of your ideas. Now version 9 of Justinmind has been released with a revamped UI, frictionless developer handoff, 10x speed increase, and dozens of new...

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27Dec By MonsterPost EditorialNo Comments

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Compilation of Best Christmas Newsletter Templates that Convert

For so many years, Christmas remains a happy time for anyone. Families all over the globe get together to celebrate this day. However, nowadays, Christmas is not only about presents and family dinners. It is also the best time for vendors, retailers, startup owners, marketers, business people, and anyone else who wants to bigger their sales. Even if you are not planning to have a sale, Christmas newsletter templates make a simple way to remind customers about your business and promote best-selling items. All in all, some of the prospects may be looking for presents right now. Who knows, maybe your email would just call customers to action and guide them through your top-rated products. Who Needs Premade Christmas Newsletter Templates Premium Christmas newsletter template is a set of profe...

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27Dec By Cameron ChapmanNo Comments

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Popular Design News of the Week: December 7, 2020 – December 13, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. Web Typography Rules: What You Need to Know   How Microsoft Crushed Slack   Graphic Design Trends for Social Media in 2021   UX Christmas   Traxr – Monitor Links with 100% Accuracy   Hexometer 2.0: Monitor Website Issues and Performance Actively   Designing Data Science Tools at Spotify   Cow Pilot – The Deadline Driven To-Do List   Roy – A Simple ...

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27Dec By Eric KarkovackNo Comments

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Freelance Situations You Need to Fix Right Away

As a freelance web designer, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients. And it’s likely that some of them will want to enter into different types of working arrangements. One common example is billing. You may run into a client that prefers to pay a flat monthly fee rather than be charged hourly. Some might even aim for a yearly invoice. But it can go well beyond a unique invoicing schedule. Client preferences can be all over the map. They may include how you communicate, when you work, and how quickly things get done. Anything and everything are on the table. This calls for a certain level of flexibility on your part. The willingness to work with a client on such issues can be beneficial to your relationship. But the opposite can also be true. With certain clients...

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27Dec By by ,No Comments

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Figure It Out – A List Apart

Color is, without a doubt, the visual element most often misunderstood and misused. Article Continues Below As mentioned earlier, when designing visual representations, color is often the first visual encoding that people use. It’s also quite limited to about a dozen, distinguishable colors. It’s a potent visual element, but one fraught with accessibility and perceptual problems. A general rule of thumb: Save color for things you want to draw people’s attention to. Start with grayscale representations. Add in color only later, where it might be really, really useful. That’s it. We can move along. Except… We need to dispel some popular beliefs about colors, beliefs that are often held up as truth, when, in fact, this is not the case. What’s presented in this short chapter is...

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26Dec By Graham BillNo Comments

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70+ Best Best Transportation WordPress Themes 2020

The best premium logistics & transportation WordPress themes are easy to use, it provides everything you need to create great looking website.The best premium themes come with great option and powerful function for those who want to build a Web site for stylish transportation business. The user can easy to control and customize theme in the smart phone, as the content is automatically adapted to the display resolution will be able to reach the website. Full width header image slider is the perfect place to effectively deliver what about your business. Themes can be targeted, but mainly transportation companies, not easy to adjust to suit different projects. If you want to set up a great transportation services website, these beautiful niche themes is built and adapted to any business o...

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26Dec By Ashutosh KSNo Comments

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Top 10 Sites to Solve All Programming Questions

When learning to code or develop software, websites or apps, we usually will get stuck with a problem or a bug that refuses to be resolved, no matter what you do. In cases like this, programmers like you may need answers to questions related to various coding languages, development platforms, tools, APIs as well as services. Where can you go for the solutions you need? We had the same thought and after doing all the legwork, here are 10 are the best communities full of brilliant people who might have the answers you are looking for or tips that might be helpful to help you find the solution you need. 10 Programming Habits Developers Should Adopt 10 Programming Habits Developers Should Adopt These outcomes can bring down our confidence but in fact, they can be solved with pro...

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26Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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This Week In Web Design – October 30, 2020

It’s the last Friday of October, the day before Halloween, and, of course, time for our latest edition of “This Week In Web Design”. In this week’s roundup of all of the web design and development articles we’ve discovered that were published in the past seven days, we have a variety of topics, tips, tricks, treats, and tutorials for you. So let’s dive in! Detect Changed Files with gitThere are numerous reasons to want to know which files have been added or modified in a git repository, one of which is your text editor highlighting those files. Another use case is running tasks against only files which are presently changed, like lint or other validation routines. So how can we identify files which …Read More Collaborative Journey Maps - Boxes and ArrowsIn many organization...

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26Dec By StacyNo Comments

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Happy New Year Graphics for 2021 ❄ : PSD Templates, Illustrations, etc.

Happy New Year Graphics Premium Happy New Year Graphics Free Someone loves winter, while someone hates it and looks forward to summer. But practically everyone loves New Year and Christmas holidays. While you are thinking about what desire to make on New Year's Eve, I decided to please you with a selection of fresh Happy New Year graphics. It suits a web designer and any other creative person. I know that many designers will soon start planning creative New Year's designs, invitations, wallpapers, and anything else related to the holiday season. One of the largest digital marketplaces — TemplateMonster, includes over 37 thousand graphic items for any purpose. That is why the authors of TemplateMonster and I want you to feel today a special pre-New Year mood of the holiday and surprises. ...

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26Dec By Carrie CousinsNo Comments

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Exciting New Tools for Designers, December 2020

Jumpstart your next design project or speed up a workflow with some of these new tools and resources. With so many new tools being developed all the time, you are almost certain to find something that can help you with projects. Here’s what new for designers this month. Everypixel Patterns Everypixel Patterns solves a common design problem: Creating seamless patterns with graphic editors is such a long and exhausting process. That’s why some people choose to get patterns from stock websites but that can be a challenge too (and difficult to search). This tool makes getting patterns less time-consuming. It includes a gallery of well-designed content, which you can customize and edit as needed.  Multiavatar Multiavatar is a free and open-source multicultural avatar maker. Type something in th...

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26Dec By Addison DuvallNo Comments

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How a Culinary Technique Could Make You a Better Freelancer

I’m going to tell you the story of two cooks: David and Jenny. Both are equally talented in the kitchen, and both are about to prepare a 6-course meal for a table full of rowdy dinner guests. They’re hungry and they’re hungry now. David gets his pots and pans out, pulls what he needs from the fridge as it’s needed, and dives hands first into the cooking. He likes to follow his gut, and make the magic happen spontaneously. In the other room, his guests are talking and making quick work of the wine and the asparagus dip, and David is in the zone. Pan over to Jenny. Jenny is a more methodical cook – she opens up her recipe book and starts pulling out everything she needs to complete the meal. No cooking yet – just preparation. It takes her a while, but she manages to arrange all of her utensi...

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26Dec By byNo Comments

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Web Accessibility, Inclusion & Social Justice – A List Apart

What would your life be like without the internet? Not if it didn’t exist at all, but if you were locked out of it? Would your days be different? Unrecognizable, even? Keeping your answers to that in mind, do you think access to the internet is a human right? Do we need to be able to access it to fully participate in modern society? To answer “yes” to these questions would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. Article Continues Below Living without internet#section2 Globally, over 40% of people still do not have access to the internet. That lack of access and the issues it creates have helped motivate digital equity initiatives like Tech Goes Home and the Good Things Foundation. Having no access to the internet creates problems in many parts of modern life. In the UK, bank br...

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26Dec By Graham BillNo Comments

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30+ Best Fashion Model Agency WordPress Themes 2020

This best collection fashion model agency WordPress themes is suitable for fashion, model agency, talent agencies, management model, erotic, and artist management website. You also can update theme for free by download the update file from your download section and update your theme folder to replace the entire theme, you can discover the new features requested by users and immediately bugs continue to update the themes. The appearance of a fashion model agency WordPress theme site reactions, you can add a stylish touch. The theme are ideally contains beautiful high-resolution images to fit the fashion topic. Clean and exchange content section, they are also user-friendly overall design. WPML ready for this theme to derive the mobile traffic to web resources is optimized for all mobile dev...

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26Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Creating Sleek On/Off Button with CSS3

Using a button is, so far, the preferred way to interact with an electronic stuff; such as the radio, TV, music player, and even a smartphone that has a voice command feature still needs at least one or two physical buttons. Furthermore, in this digital age, the button has evolved in its digital form as well, which makes it more interactive, dynamic and real easy to make, compared to the physical button. So, this time, we are going to create a slick and interactive button which is based on this excellent design over at Dribbble using only CSS. Well, let’s just get started. HTML We will start off the button by placing the following markup on our HTML document. It’s really simple, the button would be based on an anchor tag, we also have a span next to it to create the indicator light, and th...

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26Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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This Week In Web Design – November 13, 2020

It’s Friday the 13th, and that means it’s time for another edition of our weekly roundup of web design and development related articles that were published around the web in the past seven days. Let’s dive in! Who is a UX Engineer SpecificallyUX Engineers have unique design roles and serve the vital purpose of developing components. UX Engineers bridge the gap between design and development, with a focus on the user.Read More 4 key learnings from an experienced React developerToday I was reflecting on what I learned in the last few years, specifically related to programming and computer science. It is fair to say that I explored many new things — IoT, computer vision, deep learning, blockchain development, and more on the programming side. I was thinking of making a s...

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26Dec By Anne LaingNo Comments

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How to Make Google Slides Timeline Template: Step-by-Step Instructions

They say that a ‘picture is worth a thousand words’. This holds particularly true if you need to present a series of events in a logical manner. For this purpose, take advantage of building a Google Slides timeline template. In fact, building a chronology from scratch may be a pretty time-consuming task for a newbie. Moreover, even if you work hard on it, it’s still likely to look less polished than professional designs. That’s why it makes perfect sense to create your timeline using a Google Slides theme. This will save you time designing a custom timeline and provide a sound basis for your upcoming presentation. Are you eager to learn more about working with Google Slides? Then, check out our ultimate guide. How to Make Google Slides Timeline Template Step #1: Get Hold of Your Te...

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26Dec By WebdesignerDepot StaffNo Comments

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Display the Latest News on Your Site With mediastack

What an extraordinary year 2020 has been for the news! From the ongoing coronavirus crisis, to a turbulent US election, to the unrelenting march of Bitcoin, this year like no other we’ve been glued to our phones micro-analyzing every tidbit of news. Which makes this the perfect time for mediastack, an awesome REST API that allows you to embed a customizable news feed, sourced from the world’s top news agencies, and updated by the minute, right on your site. Integrating Global News with Your Site News is the beating pulse of so many global industries. From political decisions that affect stock prices, to natural disasters that interrupt goods and services, to the whims of celebrities who overnight transform brands from unknown to must-have. Whether you’re building a site for a non-profit in...

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26Dec By Eric KarkovackNo Comments

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8 Ways for Bringing Creativity to Hyperlinks with CSS & JavaScript

Since the beginning of the World Wide Web, the venerable hyperlink has been a crucial feature. Remember the amazement when you found out that a single click could take you anywhere in the world? OK, maybe that gee-whiz moment has passed. But links are still as important as ever. And they’re something designers need to make both obvious and accessible. Though simplistic, the default behavior of underlining text links works well enough. Yet, modern CSS and JavaScript allow us to do so much more. Not only can links look prettier than ever, they can also provide greater context and fit into your overall branding. Today, we’ll show you some examples of link styles that go beyond the ordinary. They stand out and make for a better (or more interesting, at least) user experience. The Web Designer...

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26Dec By byNo Comments

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A Designer’s Life with Color Vision Deficiency – A List Apart

So, what is it like to be color blind and also work in the web design and development industry? I’ll answer that question throughout this article, but it’s something that’s always factored into my thoughts, given my passion for design and now my career. I wonder if having “normal” vision would have made me a better artist growing up. Would it make me better at my job now? Would I have pursued a more design-oriented career, as opposed to one that’s more dev-focused? These are just some of the things that pop into my head. Article Continues Below As to my job and my color vision, no, colorblindness doesn’t affect my work as much as you’d think. During design meetings, I can quickly point out areas where we need to reconsider our color palette. While reviewing layouts, I’m able to e...

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26Dec By Graham BillNo Comments

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80+ Best Architecture WordPress Themes For Architect Design 2020

This large collection of architecture WordPress themes are design in shades is intended for a wide range of websites related to architects design. It is completely reactive, so you do not have to configure a separate mobile version of your website to make it properly visible on mobile devices. It is built using blocks of content contrasting with dark and light backgrounds, highlighting different types of content. Through a variety of pre-designed pages included, you can create a blog, a business website, or an equally easy store. All WordPress Themes are SEO-friendly for architecture portfolio design website. Choosing the best themes is highly customization and easy to manage, making it a perfect option for your business to be represented online. It is compatible with popular plugins such ...

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26Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (October 2020)

Even though that the website would mostly consist of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it is built with many languages on the backend. We can also build website with Ruby, PHP, Python, Go, Java, etc. So, in this installment of the series, we are going to try widening our coverage of the list. You will find an e-Commerce platform built with Ruby, a end-to-end web testing tool with Python, and let’s jump in to see the full list. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (September 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (September 2020) We've seen a tremendous activity from the PHP as well as the JavaScript community, especially on Twitter. There... Read more Playwright for Python Playwright is a tool to automate interacting with browsers . DiagramPlus A ...

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26Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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Impressive Pure CSS Drawings, Animations, and More!

In today’s article we’ve compiled some impressive pure CSS drawings, animations, and other examples of what can be done with one of our favorite coding languages. Check out the various elements we’ve found on Codepen below, and be sure to check out our other collections of pure CSS code examples here on 1WD. The Freelance Designer Toolbox Unlimited Downloads: 500,000+ Web Templates, Icon Sets, Themes & Design AssetsAll starting at only $16.50 per month DOWNLOAD NOW Responsive No Div Car Animation See the Pen responsive <!– No Div –> car by abxlfazl khxrshidi (@abxlfazl) on CodePen.light No Div “Gary” Drawing See the Pen <no-div> Gary by Ritika Agrawal (@RitikaAgrawal08) on CodePen.light Animated Form Placeholders See the Pen Placeholders by Mikael Ainalem (@ainalem) o...

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26Dec By MonsterPost EditorialNo Comments

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Christmas Penguin Clip Art 🐧❄ – Cute Elements for Your Designs

Christmas Penguin Clip Art Advantages Cute Assets for Everyone Getting a Christmas Penguin Clipart Premium and Free Christmas Penguin Clipart Finding Inspiration  Vector or Raster Clip Art Software for Creating Clip Art Examples of Christmas Penguin Clip Art Christmas is a special holiday. We all want to impress our friends and families by creating something special for them. Sometimes, a unique design is a good present. A custom postcard or a party invitation flyer with your unique design will always look impressive. Drawing an image is challenging, especially if you do not have experience or skills. That is when pre-made visual elements, like a Christmas penguin clip art, become very useful. You may speed up the process by combining various graphic elements. There is nothing wrong with...

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26Dec By Rebekah CarterNo Comments

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5 Ways to Boost Engagement With Animation

Animation is a fun and interesting way to bring life to a website. Used correctly, it can capture audience attention, make your website more engaging, and even improve your chances of delivering conversions for your clients. Unfortunately, like many things in the web design world, it’s also easy to get too carried away with animation. As professional designers and developers, it’s up to us to find the line between making the most of animation on our website projects and creating a site that’s overwhelmed with too much activity. Fortunately, by the time you’ve finished reading this article, you’ll have a deeper insight into how you can use animation in web design, without going too over the top. Introducing Animation in Web Design Animations are virtually everywhere on the web today. In the...

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26Dec By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 571

How to Help Your Clients with Website Content Strategy – How to get the processes of creating and organizing content moving in the right direction. Devbook – A new kind of search engine made just for developers. What Makes CSS Hard To Master – Thoughts on what frustrates some developers about CSS. The Grumpy Designer Looks Ahead to 2021 – The definitive tongue-in-cheek look at how the new year will impact the web design community. 10 new rules of design – Leading experts say that it’s time to move past “Eurocentric” ideas. Do you agree? Adobe just released the last Flash update ever – The last update for the venerable app. Official support will stop at the end of 2020. Horizontal Smooth Scroll Layouts – Some ideas for horizontal smooth scrolling layouts powered by Locomotive Scroll. How to...

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26Dec By byNo Comments

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Connecting with Technology – A List Apart

People don’t always need another human being to experience a sense of connection. The deep emotional bonds many people have with their pets proves this. (So might the popularity of the Pet Rock in the 1970s but that’s just speculation.) Even Link in The Legend of Zelda had an inanimate companion: his trusty sword (see Figure 9.1). Article Continues Below Fig 9.1 Even the company of a wooden sword is better than venturing into Hyrule alone. It’s also possible for people to feel that sense of connection in the context of behavior change without having direct relationships with others. By building your product in a way that mimics some of the characteristics of a person-to-person relationship, you can make it possible for your users to feel connected to it. It is possible to coax...

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26Dec By Graham BillNo Comments

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80+ Best Factory & Industrial WordPress Themes 2020

The well-selected factory and industrial WordPress themes from the slider and the icons from the content area would immediately show your company is involved in the industrial company. Just check this elegant design! Just take a look at those gorgeous photos demonstrating industrial WordPress themes! those themes combines wonderful appearance with functional navigation for your industrial website to work safely and satisfy the needs of your customers. If you are ready for further evolution, you have to pay attention to the web. And out themes is a great choice for integrating in the modern business strategies through the internet. Textron Textron is a feature-rich, complex yet easy-to-use industrial WordPress theme with super flexibility, amazing eye-catching animation, unique and fully r...

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26Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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20+ Free Apple Watch UI Kits (and Templates) to Download

20+ Free Apple Watch UI Kits (and Templates) to Download - Hongkiat Please enable JavaScript in your browser to enjoy a better experience. Close Search FacebookTwitterInstagramPinterestLinkedInGoogle+YoutubeRedditDribbbleBehanceGithubCodePenWhatsappEmail

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26Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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This Week In Web Design – November 20, 2020

Another Friday has come, and therefore another edition of This Week In Web Design, our weekly roundup of web design and development related articles published over the past seven days. In this week’s roundup we have  CSS color mixing, new design tools, WordPress tips and tricks, client management, and many more interesting topics that could help you grow in your quest to become a better we designer and developer. So grab whatever your drink of choice is, pull up a chair, and let’s dive in. 43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid - Daily Blog TipsThere are several lists of web design mistakes around the Internet. Most of them, however, are the “Most common” or “Top 10 mistakes.” Every time I crossed one of those lists I would think to myself: “Come on, there must be more than 10 mi...

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26Dec By MonsterPost EditorialNo Comments

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Incredible After Effects Slideshow Templates for Your Videos

What Are After Effects Slideshow Templates? Where You Can Apply The After Effects Slideshow Templates How To Succeed With After Effects Slideshow Templates Top 15 After Effects Slideshow Templates For Your Projects The video industry has made a significant step forward. There are multiple versatile ways to improve promotions with stunning effects and grab your viewers’ attention. After effects slideshow templates are the best way to depict all the most valuable informative points in a few minutes promo. Today, we will check out the best representative of this category and determine why it’s good to use them.  What Are After Effects Slideshow Templates? With the development of video, people gradually looked for more and more new ways to make it more varied, more attractive, and at the sam...

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26Dec By Cameron ChapmanNo Comments

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Popular Design News of the Week: December 14, 2020 – December 20, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. The Best Design Tool of 2020 is not What You Expect   14 Top Design Trends to Watch Out for in 2021   UI Trends for 2077   Firefox was Always Enough   Wavelry – Create & Customise Wavey Svg and Png Backgrounds   Design Documentation   The Best 25 Black and White Web Design Inspiration   2020 Design Tools Survey   Web Design in 2021 – What to Ex...

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26Dec By Eric KarkovackNo Comments

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2020 Web Design Year in Review

A year “like no other” is about to come to a close. 2020 was certainly unique for everyone – web designers included. And it challenged us on several levels. Our daily grind was complicated by shutdowns, kids invading the home office, and clients who needed our help in rapidly changing their business models. Even though many of us were stuck in the house, there was rarely a dull moment. All of that aside, the year saw many developments that had nothing to do with pandemics or other chaos. New tools were brought to market, our favorite software saw important updates and the community was as creative and helpful as ever. In other words: 2020 had plenty of positives for designers and developers to celebrate. Let’s take a look back at some important and interesting developments that impacted we...

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26Dec By byNo Comments

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Connecting the Dots – A List Apart

Two plans: one for design, one for culture. Article Continues Below What I’ve found is that the DNA between both dynamics must be inextricable from one another. Creating with compassion in an environment fueled by compassion means we never lose sight of what it’s all about: people. Beyond functioning in this manner because “it’s the right thing to do,” quality of work, loyalty internally (team) and externally (users), and product innovation are all benefits to reap. Earlier we talked through the concept of “simplicity” and its application to creation and environment. Now, let’s revisit a few other examples of healthy benchmarks from a creative culture as we’ve discussed in this book: Slowing down / pausing with intentEveryone has a seat at the tableThe New Day One In tak...

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26Dec By Graham BillNo Comments

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40+ Best Winery & Brewery Beer WordPress Themes 2020

Drinking alcohol is a kind of culture and aesthetic pleasure for gourmets, so if you need to create a website for a wine store,  beer brewery, pub, whatever, you need to keep that in mind. Your design should look beautiful, be welcoming, and convey the main company message. For instance, it may be the notion that the enterprise has a long history, that the owner preserves best time-tested traditions of winery or brewery, but is not a stranger to modern technologies. The visitor should feel comfortable and relaxed on such kind of website, like a guest where everybody treats them on luxury level offering only top quality products. Not sure that you clearly understand how to build such an awesome website? In fact it’s really easy when you have one of the best winery and beer brewery WordPress...

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26Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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CSS Units: Pixels, EM, and Percentage

Unit takes an important role for measuring and building things like a house, a bridge or a tower, and building a website is not an exception. There are a number of methods of measurements used on the Web, specifically in CSS, namely Pixel, EM and Percentage. In this post, we are going to run through these units to get further insight into these units of measurements. Guide to CSS Viewport Units: vw, vh, vmin, vmax Guide to CSS Viewport Units: vw, vh, vmin, vmax Viewport-percentage lengths, or viewport units as they are more frequently referred to, are responsive CSS units that allow... Read more PX Pixel is a fixed unit measurement and the smallest unit on screen measurement but don’t confuse this with the Pixel that defines screen resolution. The Pixel in CSS has not...

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26Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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This Week In Web Design – December 4, 2020

Happy holidays and welcome to the first Friday of the last month of 2020! It’s time again for another edition of our roundup of all the web design and development articles we’ve found that were published in the past seven days. Let’s have a look! 8 Tips to Nail Your Design PresentationPresenting your design to a client is often a chance to make a key first impression. It can set the tone for how the project will be received. A spot-on design presentation can help you set the stage for success. There’s a lot that can go into a design presentation – the work itself, s...Read More 11 Tips for Creating a Usable Website Contact PagePeek at the analytics. Chances are that your contact page is among the most visited on our website. It’s for good reason. Visitors will seek out...

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26Dec By NataliaNo Comments

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Add Instagram Feed to WordPress Page with Elementor Page Builder

How to Add Instagram Feed to WordPress Page with Elementor Page Builder Review of 15 Best Elementor Themes Conclusion Social media is an effective source of new opportunities for any business. With the help of social networks, it is much easier to gain the trust of potential customers. There is no need to spend time on other means of communication and advertising. Originally created for personal communication, social media platforms are confidently turning into a great support for business. You can definitely run your business without Instagram today but usually, it means losing a significant part of your audience and potential customers. Modern people are rather active on social media so do not lose your chance to link a website to Instagram, as one of the most popular social networks t...

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26Dec By Marvellous Aham-adiNo Comments

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Top New CMS Plugins, December 2020

Looking for the best new CMS plugins to take your website to the next level? Well look no further.  In this post, we’ll cover a list of the best new CMS plugins for December 2020. This article will include useful plugins for WordPress, Shopify, Craft, and Joomla. Let’s get started… WordPress OptiPic images optimization OptiPic is a simple WordPress plugin that allows users to easily optimize and compress images. The plugin also returns the WebP versions of images if the web browser supports it; if the web browser does not support WebP images, OptiPic will return a compressed version of the image. It also returns responsive images on mobile screens when the website is opened on a smaller device. The image compression and WebP conversions occur in the background, so images load fast. The plu...

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26Dec By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 572

2020 Web Design Year in Review – A look back at some important and interesting developments that impacted web designers this past year. Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF) – Use this handy reference to solve your most tedious SEO issues. Wavelry – Create your own custom wave graphics with this browser-based tool. You can export your work in either PNG or SVG format. Radix UI – An open-source UI component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps. 8 Ways for Bringing Creativity to Hyperlinks with CSS & JavaScript – Dress up your links for better user experience and accessibility. Sticky CSS Grid Items – Learn the technique behind making an element sticky within a CSS Grid layout. Fluent Icons – Grab this huge library of open-source icons from none ...

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26Dec By byNo Comments

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Webwaste – A List Apart

A note from the editors: We’re pleased to share an excerpt from Chapter 9 of Gerry McGovern's Book World Wide Waste, from Silver Beach. In 1994, there were 3,000 websites. In 2019, there were estimated to be 1.7 billion, almost one website for every three people on the planet. Not only has the number of websites exploded, the weight of each page has also skyrocketed. Between 2003 and 2019, the average webpage weight grew from about 100 KB to about 4 MB. The results? Article Continues Below “In our analysis of 5.2 million pages,” Brian Dean reported for Backlinko in October 2019, “the average time it takes to fully load a webpage is 10.3 seconds on desktop and 27.3 seconds on mobile.” In 2013, Radware calculated that the average load time for a webpage on mobile was 4.3 se...

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26Dec By Graham BillNo Comments

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25+ Best Cake Shops and Bakery WordPress Themes 2020

In a word, these best selling cake shops and bakery WordPress themes let people launch their long-awaited websites without losing a lot of time or money. All in all, do you want to own a stylish and qualitative online project, which will be worthy of its guests’ attention? Believe me, now it takes much less time to adjust and launch a desired website, if compared to making it all from scratch. That is why using these cake shops and bakery WordPress themes will definitely further the process of website creation and save your time, even if you have never worked with such services before! What is more, these cake shops and bakery WordPress themes were made for your comfort, so they are easy-to-use and do not require any knowledge in computer programming. Furthermore, they are featured with a ...

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26Dec By Hongkiat LimNo Comments

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20 Progress Bar UI (Freebies) to Download

20 Progress Bar UI (Freebies) to Download - Hongkiat Please enable JavaScript in your browser to enjoy a better experience. Close Search FacebookTwitterInstagramPinterestLinkedInGoogle+YoutubeRedditDribbbleBehanceGithubCodePenWhatsappEmail

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26Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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22 Amazing Gifts For Designers – 2020 Edition

We have collected 22 fantastic Christmas gifts for all your creative web designer and graphic designer friends out there. While not exhaustive, these are some of the best gifts for designers available right now, just in time for your holiday shopping. Ready? Let’s get started with our 2019 gift guide! The Rocketbook notebook provides a classic pen and paper experience, yet is built for the digital age. Although it feels like a traditional notebook, the Rocketbook is endlessly reusable and connected to all of your favorite designer’s relevant cloud services. When your designer friend writes using any pen from the Pilot Frixion line, their writing sticks to Rocketbook pages like regular paper. But add a drop of water… and the notebook erases like magic. Designed for those who want an endle...

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26Dec By Webibazaar TemplatesNo Comments

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Product Social Media Marketing Tips by TemplateMonster Author

Product Social Media Marketing Tips Writing Good Contents Google Ads and Facebook Ads Focus on SEO Final Words on Product Social Media Marketing Every Author has one goal - to increase sales. Don’t think much about why your sales are not growing day by day. You just need to focus on keeping visitors engaged with your products because the more customers come to your product pages, the more sales you can drive. Before starting an effort to increase sales, you should ensure that your product is of high quality and meets all TemplateMonster guidelines. Once done, follow the product social media marketing promotion tips that I describe below.  There are numerous ways to increase your business sales : Social media image posting; Writing good contents for your product description; Creating a f...

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26Dec By Rebekah CarterNo Comments

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7 UX Principles to Apply to Your SEO

User experience is one of the most important aspects of web design, but many experts overlook that UX doesn’t just apply to web pages. User experience as a concept encompasses all aspects of end-user interaction with a company. That means you need to discover the right UX strategies for everything from your homepage to your email marketing and even your listings on Google. Today, we’re going to explore some of how you can apply UX principles to your client’s image on search engines. Why Your Search Engine Listing Matters Let’s start with the basics: 89% of customers start their purchasing process with a search engine. That means that whether you’re creating a portfolio to sell your services or building a website for a client, the first connection a customer has with your design isn’t on th...

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26Dec By Addison DuvallNo Comments

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What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. You tell yourself you’re going to turn over a new leaf and start a new habit that will help you elevate your career as a designer somehow. Maybe you want to start doing more interesting personal projects, or refining your marketing tactics to reach out to more and better clients. However, it never seems to go exactly as planned. You come up with some kind of excuse, and your great plans of achieving your design career goals are quickly flushed down the drain. What happened? Did the freelancer motivation fairy suddenly appear and deflate you like a balloon? Or is there a more practical reason? The Web Designer Toolbox Unlimited Downloads: 1,000,000+ Web Templates, Themes, Plugins, Design Assets, and much more! You Are The Way You Are Have you ever spen...

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26Dec By byNo Comments

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A Framework for Design Conversations – A List Apart

We’ve all been there. A client or coworker shows us this amazing thing they (and maybe their entire team) have worked on for hours or weeks. They are so proud of it. It’s new or maybe it just looks new. They may or may not ask you what you think—but you’re there to experience it. And your brain quietly screams. Article Continues Below As an experienced designer, you often have an intuitive reaction and can quickly spot bad designs; they may be visually incongruent, poorly structured, confusing, lack social awareness, or look like they are trying too hard. If your initial response is so negative that it slips through into your expression or voice or body language, it can completely sabotage any possibility of buy-in. And, far more seriously, it can ruin the relationship of trus...

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26Dec By Graham BillNo Comments

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50+ Best Kids & Kindergarten WordPress Themes 2020

First of all, are you ready to see a new selection of the coolest and the most stylish kids and kindergarten WordPress themes for your inspiration. Naturally, these products were made in order to help one with the launching of a powerful, unusual and beautiful website. Have you ever used such helpful services before? Unquestionably, the provided bestselling themes would be a nice and easy way to create your own online project just out of the box! In the beginning, these amazing kids and kindergarten WordPress templates are the awesome sets of the ready-made pages that were thoroughly designed to let one build a long-awaited site without issues, even if they have never worked with website building before! Moreover, the bestselling templates are easy in use, installation and modification. To...

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26Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (November 2020)

We are almost at the end of 2020. Many things unprecedented have happened this year, but it does not stop us to share fresh resources for our fellow developers. In this round of the series, we’ve put together resources that can help developers to improve their understanding of the Web such as a guide on DOM (Document Object Model), JavaScript, and Hacklang as well as tools to make them more productive. Let’s jump in to see the full list. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (October 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (October 2020) Even though that the website would mostly consist of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it is built with many... Read more Understanding the DOM DOM is an API provided in the browsers that allows you to access HTML ...

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26Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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This Week In Web Design – December 11, 2020

14 days until Christmas – what?!? Yes, 2020 has been quite a year, and somehow it’s almost over. So here’s you’re chance to take a break from the craziness that has been this year and have a look at the web design and development related articles we’ve found around the interwebs that were published in the past seven days. Enjoy! Web Typography Rules: What You Need to Know90% of all the information on the web is in writing. That means that typography is a skill that dictates that 90%. That’s a staggering figure that highlights just how important typography is. It’s absolutely everywhere: blog posts, social media, magazines, reports, books, and so much m...Read More When (And How) to Outsource Design Work to Someone ElseIf it has ever crossed your mind that a certai...

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26Dec By Katherine CrayonNo Comments

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Digital Marketplace at TemplateMonster Welcomes Vendors

Everyone knows TemplateMonster as a place where one can find literally any type of product for any purpose imaginable. With more than 20 years of experience in the web design industry, the ready-made designs from our inventory have been downloaded millions of times, the collection of quality web design products has reached over 85 000 items, with new designs and extensions being added on a regular basis. We've started educating the web audience and certifying partners. Now, it's time to move further, TemplateMonster has become a digital marketplace. With over 7 million potential clients, our digital marketplace is the right destination where beginner web designers can earn their first $1,000. This is also a place where experienced web developers can become $10,000 richer, way more recog...

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26Dec By Katherine RundellNo Comments

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9 Easy Ways to Deal With Difficult Clients

In the design industry, you may often feel like it’s you, the designer, vs. the client. Creative differences do arise and it’s hard to not blame the client when they do. But it shouldn’t be this way! Naturally, there are bad clients out there, but 90% of the time, it’s not really the client who is at fault. Poor communication, a lack of setting expectations, and a failure to qualify clients beforehand is usually the problem. If you’re dealing with a problematic client, there’s usually not a lot you can do to ‘fix’ things — you should focus on finishing the project as well as you can. However, what you can do is ensure this situation never arises again. We’ve been taught that the customer is always right. But to be honest, that’s not always the case. It’s your job as a designer and brand c...

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26Dec By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Our 50 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools from 2020

With all of the changes and rapid advancements CSS has gone through over the last few years, we should not be surprised at the vast volume of open-source resources and tools that are continually being released. These time-saving CSS libraries, frameworks, and tools have been built to make our lives that little bit easier and also offer a learning window into those CSS areas we may not fully understand. In this collection you will find 50 of our favorite CSS libraries, frameworks, resources and tools that have all been released this year. No doubt, you’ll find something useful! Quick Jump: CSS Libraries, CSS Frameworks, Web-Based CSS Tools & Generators, Useful CSS Cheatsheets, Useful CSS Items. The Web Designer Toolbox Unlimited Downloads: 1,000,000+ Web Templates, Themes, Plugins, Des...

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