Understanding How WordPress Images Work (For Better Responsive Design)
What You'll Be Creating One of the biggest challenges facing web developers today is properly handling images for responsive design. We face issues like sizing the image properly for the screen it's...
View ArticleA Flexible jQuery Plugin for Sorting & Pagination
Advertise here via BSA jPList is a flexible jQuery plugin for sorting, pagination and filtering of any HTML structure. It supports data sources: PHP + MySQL, ASP.NET + Sql Server, PHP + SQLite. It...
View ArticleDon’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming
Functional programming is the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms. Originally relegated to the annals of computer science academia, functional programming has had a recent renaissance that is...
View ArticleTechniques For Creating Custom Textures In Photoshop
Textures are everywhere — the concrete of a sidewalk, the fabric on your chair, even the glass (or plastic) surface of the screen you’re staring at right now. It’s natural that textures appeal to us...
View ArticleCase Study: PixelMogul, A Simulation Game For iOS
Are you a web designer or developer who dreams about creating a mobile game and bringing it to the app store? We have good news: Your road to the app store might be shorter than you think! And if you...
View ArticleTips to Help You Properly Mix Text With Imagery
The pattern of using text on top of background images has been popular for years. Originating well before web design, text on an image can provide a more emotionally engaging and contextually rich...
View ArticlePhotoshop CC 2014: What’s New for Web Designers?
Last month saw the launch of the all new Photoshop CC 2014 , with lots of great new features, especially for web designers. In this tutorial, you'll learn about the following new or improved features,...
View ArticleHow to Manipulate and Animate SVG With Snap.svg
In this tutorial we're going to introduce Snap.svg, a JavaScript library which assists in animating and manipulating SVG content. To demonstrate some of the features available, we're going to animate...
View ArticleTips for Best Practices in WordPress Development
In this series, we're going to cover the most important things you should consider when developing a WordPress Plugin or a WordPress Theme. This guide aims to provide a set of good practices that...
View ArticleAnalyzing Your Website With the Screaming Frog SEO Spider
The right tools can make the SEO audit of a website so much easier. One such tool is the Screaming Frog SEO Spider . It can be used to review a website and identify flaws which can hurt a website’s...
View ArticleHow Limitations Led To My Biggest App Store Success and Failure
Look at your calendar. If you’re anything like me, all you see are meetings, places to go, things to do, people to meet and not a lot of white space. Few people love their calendar. So, we set out to...
View ArticleGenerate Nice SVG Background Images with Trianglify JS
Trianglify is a javascript library for generating colorful triangle meshes that can be used as SVG images and CSS backgrounds. It was inspired by btmills/geopattern, and uses d3.js to build the...
View ArticleDesign Responsive Websites In The Browser With Webflow
This article is the first part of a series of articles on emerging responsive design tools. Today, Richard Knight explores the advantages of Webflow and how you can use it today to build responsive...
View ArticleA Closer Look At Personas: What They Are And How They Work (Part 1)
In my experience as an interaction designer, I have come across many strategies and approaches to increase the quality and consistency of my work, but none more effective than the persona. Personas...
View ArticleUseful Adobe Fireworks Resources: Tutorials, Articles And Freebies (Part 2)
A few weeks ago, I mentioned some of the best extensions 1 that are currently available for Fireworks. Today, I’ll cover some of the best tutorials and articles, as well as many freebies (styles,...
View ArticleUseful Adobe Fireworks Resources: Tutorials, Articles And Freebies (Part 2)
A few weeks ago, I mentioned some of the best extensions 1 that are currently available for Fireworks. Today, I’ll cover some of the best tutorials and articles, as well as many freebies (styles,...
View ArticleA Closer Look At Personas: A Guide To Developing The Right Ones (Part 2)
How can designers create experiences that are custom tailored to people who are unlike themselves? As explained in part 1 1 of this series, an effective way to gain knowledge of, build empathy for and...
View ArticleThe Current State Of E-Commerce Search
When e-commerce search works, it’s fast, convenient and efficient. It’s no wonder that so many users prefer searching over clicking categories. Unfortunately, our recent large-scale usability study...
View ArticleThe Current State Of E-Commerce Search
When e-commerce search works, it’s fast, convenient and efficient. It’s no wonder that so many users prefer searching over clicking categories. Unfortunately, our recent large-scale usability study...
View ArticleWays To Avoid Overwhelming Users: Lessons Learned From My High-School Teachers
High school. I won’t lie: I did not have the highest grades in my graduating class. Some classes and lessons were so poorly designed and delivered that I would frequently become frustrated and...
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