Articles by Noupe from June 2015

Website designs with fixed width centered layouts are like a blast from the past that remind us of those good old days when a majority of web sites were based on the formerly popular 960px grid system...

The SVG format provides various options for realizing complex graphical content. Among other things, you can create textures and add them to shapes using the <pattern> element. Especially when u...

Im working on a silly Polymer project right now, which parses a Pokmon database and returns a picture of a Pokmon, then speaks the creatures name over your speakers. Heres the source code for my proje...

Rapid prototyping is an essential way of saving time in our modern age where billions of apps compete for the customers attention. Is the great idea you had for just another app actually that great or...

Recently at //BUILD/ 2015 we announced vorlon.js an open source, extensible, platform-agnostic tool for remotely debugging and testing your JavaScript. I had the opportunity to create vorlon.JS with ...

As creative professionals, we always need proper stock material. Time does not allow to shoot all necessary photos ourselves, nor does it allow to create all required design elements from scratch. If ...

It comes without further explanation that we here at Noupe are big fans of JotForm. If you are one of our hundreds of thousands of frequent readers, you were unable to get around the praises we shared...

Staying afloat the news stream is not easy. If you manage to you can be confident that you are not too far away from recent developments in our industry. And you can make an educated decision which to...

Recently at //BUILD/ 2015, Microsoft announced manifoldJS the simplest way to build hosted apps across platforms. While John Shewchuk, Technical Fellow and the CTO for the Microsoft Developer Platfor...

Most people who work with WordPress have already heard of custom post types. Unfortunately, only a few web designers and bloggers know what this function actually is and how to make use of it. Custom ...

I host a podcast called The Indie Dev Podcast where I interview game developers from around the world in 30 minute segments. I’m always fascinated by what people are able to create, and I’...

This is a promise. Our beautiful hand-drawn calligraphy font will really make you wonder. It will make you wonder how you could get along without it for all these years. No wonder that its name is Won...

As a freelancer or even more so as an agency in the field of web design and development you have to cope with a plethora of challenges. Pantheon cannot take all the burdens off your shoulder but subst...

Numbers and statistics are usually bone-dry and sometimes not really clarify but obscure even more. By visualizing data with charts, you can attract much more attention. The JavaScript library Chartis...

You’re working for a startup. Suddenly that hard year of coding is paying off with success comes more growth and demand for your web app to scale. In this tutorial, I want to humbly use one of ...

Plugins are the icing on the WordPress cake. Can you imagine your favorite CMS without them? These helpful tools have become essential in many areas and save us a lot of developing time. In our little...

As a JavaScript developer, Im sure youve already been falling into this scenario: something goes wrong with the production version of your code, and debugging it directly from the production server is...

Video backgrounds are growing in popularity. Now with the first services offering HD videos for free commercial use popularity will increase further and faster. Pexels, known for its free imgaes, has ...

A web designer’s reputation in all things social is not overwhelmingly positive. I guess we could agree on that. A designer’s humor is a bit special, too. Sometimes as special as in “...

More and more people use mobile devices like smartphones or tablets rather than Notebooks or PCs to surf the web and read their favorite websites. Even though responsive web design is a step in the ri...

Constantly looking for great fonts? If so, you should check out this Mighty Deal. Dozens of possibilities to support your next Material Design or other modern geometric design project are there to exp...

While designing babylon.js v2.0 (a library for building 3D on the web), I recently found myself wishing that more APIs were fluent that is, I wish the community could more easily read, understand, an...

Next in our infrequent series of typography setups is splendid multi-faceted 3d typography. For sculptural type artists opt in favor of Cinema 4D or Zbrush, while for creating an illusion of dimension...

In a previous tutorial, I gave a high-level overview of HTML5 video and many of the transport standards that we can use. In this tutorialthe second in a series on using Azure Media Services to create ...

Training routes can be long and winding and sometimes lead to nowhere. At the very least conventional training routes in the field of information technology are time-consuming and demand your undivide...

You have worked hard on your WordPress theme, followed all best practices, and now want your theme to exist in the WordPress directory, framed by almost 2k other themes. The sheer number of themes rai...

Creativity needs inspiration. Even the greatest designers on earth are nothing without some inspiration from here or there. Look at Android and iOS for example. Armies of designers work on both and ye...