Design
How to Tell if a Design is Good or Bad
Your own taste is a bad guide when it comes to the question whether your design is good or bad. Let’s take a more objective approach.
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Design Resources: Curated Collection of Recommendable Designer Bookmarks
There are lots of collections of design resources. Only a few of them are curated properly. Jessica Paoli promises to do so with her Designresources.party.
Business Online
Modern Web Design Means Achieving Goals
Before you start sketching design suggestions, you should make sure you know the goal of the website you’re creating. If you do that, you can focus on the things that matter right away.
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Tool Tip: Quickly Uncover Image Theft With Copypants
Who doesn’t know this? You use your own image on your website. Others like them too, and suddenly, your image is being passed around. Copypants helps you protect your property.
Plugins
Managing Permissions With the WordPress Plugin Members 2.0
After eight years of development, the free WordPress plugin Members has recently made it to version 2.0. And it might well become the standard for member websites.
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Tool Tip: Sizzy Accelerates Responsive Designing
Sizzy is a web app and a Chrome extension that provides a fast way of testing your responsive designs. And by that, I mean really fast.
Design
Smart Text Detection and Manipulation in Images
Everyday Web Developers are looking for better ways to enhance user experience when it comes to images. Often, when dealing with user uploaded or 3rd party images, there could be ...
Business Online
Your Idea of Creativity is Wrong
I hear this everywhere I look. Nobody thinks they’re creative. You say you simply couldn’t do it. I think, your idea of creativity is just wrong.
Business Online
SEO: How to Deal With Duplicate Content
Why is duplicate content a problem, and how can you solve it? In the following article, we’ll answer these questions.
Design
WebVR Showroom: A Look Into the Future of Product Presentation
The WebVR showroom hints at what the future of product presentation on the web looks like impressively. When this establishes itself is mainly a question of costs.
Inspiration
Pixels: Collection of Beautiful Website Designs For Your Inspiration
Pixels is a steadily growing collection of current website designs. The service’s purpose is being an inspiration, and it keeps its promise to get you to new ideas very quickly.
Design
10 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Web Developers
Cheat sheets are great. They are one of those few things that both gurus and new kids on the block find extremely valuable.
Design
Full Control over Grids: Firefox’ New Layout Panel For CSS Grids
Previously, proper grid based layouts were only possible via inconvenient ways. The new CSS grids, which have been available in the newer versions of the popular browsers for a little ...
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UXTools.co: The Best Tools and Books For UX Designers
At UXTools.co, you’ll find everything you’ll need as a UX designer. The maintainer, Taylor Palmer, introduces you to the tools, but also provides you with interesting ...
Tips, Tricks & Tutorials
Cleaning Up WordPress For More Performance – 11 Practical Tips For You
Many people like a tidy environment, at home, as well as at work. Useless things are removed from the house, or the office, to feel comfortable. Cleaning up your WordPress website can ...
Design
Storytelling Kills Design: No Image Says More Than a Thousand Words
The age of visual design is moving towards its end. In the future, the beauty of a design lies only in its operability, not in its looks. However, designers will still be needed.