Design
Noupe Site Check: Bloomberg
News portals don’t always seem to be receptive to contemporary design and the use of new technologies such as HTML5 or CSS3. Often, a fixed layout is used, only supporting the ...
Monthly Archive: October 2015
Business Online
Swiftype: Powerful Smart Search for Your Website
Alongside a clear navigation, a good search functionality is one of the most important features, especially for large and complex web projects. That’s the only way of making sure ...
Themes
Best of WordPress: 10 Free Themes of October 2015
WordPress users cannot get enough of free themes. Fortunately enough, you can find great and completely free themes provided through WordPress.org for your new blog layout. The scope of ...
Development
The Full Stack Overflow Developer
In a few talks and interviews I lamented about a phenomenon in our market that’s always been around, but seems to be rampant by now: the one of the full Stack Overflow ...
(Free) Services
Infinit.io is a Dropbox Without the Cloud
The digital cloud is just as much loved as it is feared. Especially services such as Dropbox are used for fast and easy data exchange by private users and businesses alike. But not ...
Design
20 Code Snippets for Interactive Buttons
Can you imagine a website without buttons? I bet you can’t. And it is not surprising since these tiny, mostly rectangular-shaped objects much like navigation or copyright ...
Cartoons
Cartoon: I’ll Know it When I See it
Spit out that design. Are you a designer or a mouse? The client sure will tell you if he likes it. He’ll know it when he sees it. Don’t you understand that getting a new ...
Business Online
SEO Basics: Backlinks – The Good, the Bad, and … [Infographic]
If you are currently working on search engine optimisation, you will notice quickly that most people in this business only talk about one thing: the so-called “Link ...
Boilerplates & Other Tools
Facebook’s Design Assistants United Under One Roof
It’s slowly but constantly becoming a trend that big platforms provide their design tools and other helpers to the community. Twitter has stood out the most lately by making ...
Inspiration
A Glimpse Into the Windows 10 Upgrade Notification
There’s been a lot of press lately about the Windows 10 upgrade notification appearing for users of Windows 7, 8 & 8.1. I wanted to publish an article about the experience. Whether ...
Plugins
Ten Fresh Free WordPress Plugins in October 2015
For friends of WordPress, there is barely anything more important than plugins, which allow them to “drill into” the functions of the content-management-system. This is ...
Development
Creating an Accessible Breakout Game using Web Audio and SVG
As the co-author of Babylon.js, a WebGL gaming engine, I was always felt a little uneasy listening to folks discuss accessibility best practices at web conferences. The content created ...
Essentials
Free Helpers: Three Note-worthy Panels for Adobe Photoshop
Panels are small expansions for Photoshop. They are able to do more than actions but are lesser in functionality than full-fledged plug-ins. We are going to introduce you to three of ...
(Free) Services
Unsplash.it: Use Placeholder Photos From Unsplash.com
Unless you have been living under a stone for the last year or two, you’ll certainly know that you can find ten new freely usable photos on Unsplash.com every ten days. Now, the ...
Cartoons
Cartoon: The Perfect Web Designer
Are you a professional designer or developer? I know a more professional one than you will ever be able to become. This guy has literally been born to build the web. He needs not even ...
Development
How to: Circle Marks With Traceit.js and jQuery
In classic whiteboard or flipchart presentations, keywords are often circled to underline their importance. This option of marking can now be transferred to web projects using the ...