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 ...
Design
HTML5: Improving Forms With Autocomplete
To complete form input faster, browsers offer the option of autocompletion. The entries made by the user are saved and suggested when the same or a similar form with the same ...
Development
ES6 for Now: Template Strings
ES6 is the future of JavaScript and it is already here. It is a finished specification, and it brings a lot of features a language requires to stay competitive with the needs of the web ...
Business Online
INK Creates Responsive Email Newsletters That Arrive
The first sentence on the website of the provider Ink tells us what their goal is: „Quickly create responsive HTML emails that work on any device and client. Even Outlook.“ With this ...
Business Online
Canva: Create Online Graphics Easily
Not every website operator is a good graphic designer at the same time. Does that mean that they are forced to forgo illustrations and images? No, it doesn’t. Nowadays there is ...
Apps
Designing Web Code in a Native App
Over the years, I’ve heard developers say, “you can always tell when it’s a web app,” insinuating that web apps are lacking when compared with native apps. These same folks will claim ...