Articles by Noupe from October 2015

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 vintage banner adv...

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 that your visit...

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 features is mo...

In a few talks and interviews I lamented about a phenomenon in our market thats always been around, but seems to be rampant by now: the one ofthe full Stack Overflow developer.Prompted by Stephen Hay ...

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 everybody trusts th...

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 information are one of ...

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 design is like get...

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 Building”. This, put si...

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 Recess available to ...

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 your dev ...

Adding textures in a pixel editor such as Photoshop or a software such as Cinema 4D cares for that realistic touch to your designs. A diverse plethora of different textures is needed. Think of metal, ...

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 understandable as i...

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 with Babyl...

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 these topical add...

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 additional servi...

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 think about it. ...

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 jQuery plugin tracei...

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 information is filled in....

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 of now. N...

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 wink at Microsoft&#...

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 excellent softwar...

Over the years, Ive heard developers say, you can always tell when its a web app, insinuating that web apps are lacking when compared with native apps. These same folks will claim that web app perform...

Good icons and fonts have a lot of things in common. One being that you can never have enough of either of them. To strengthen your supply of good symbols we have again surfed the web far and wide to ...

In general, images in social media posts help to achieve greater success than plain text posts. Experiments have shown that posts supported by images get a larger amount of clicks, shares and replies....

Are you a professional designer or developer? If you are I am sure you got your dander up more than once on these people poaching on your stamping ground while not even having a hunting license. I kno...

In April 2015, our team of engineers and tech evangelists at Microsoft released vorlon.jsan open source, extensible, platform-agnostic tool for remotely debugging and testing your JavaScript. This art...

An image is worth a thousand words. This is even truer when it comes to moving pictures. Written content in many cases is not sufficient to gain attention in the world wide web. Videos have become a m...

Edge is Microsoft’s new web browser sporting a new rendering engine EdgeHTML and an underlying OS to boot in Windows 10. Since upgrades from Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 will be free for most, you can...

Thanks to numerous website builders and homepage generators you can quickly and easily click together a website. You wouldn’t even need to know HTML, CSS or JavaScript to do so. More often than ...

Do you like yourself a good challenge? Do you feel like a real JavaScript pro? Is node.js in your veins? If so, IBM has a more than interesting contest for you. Although it has already started, it sti...

The creation of a logo is subject to very specific rules. You are well-advised to put a thorough amount of time into researching and evaluating the trends and techniques of the moment. A logo will alw...

The job of developers is great. They are always creating something new. Whether it is a web app based on PHP or a mobile app for iOS or Android or just about any other thinkable app for devices out th...

You don’t need an entirely new skill set to develop games. In fact, your current Web development skills in HTML, JavaScript, CSS and so on are just fine for a wide range of games. When you build...

Clients tend to think Photoshop is not just very easy to handle but also almost capable of anything you want it to be. All of that with a few simple mouse clicks of course. The creative industry is no...

Before you stop reading because of the name 123ContactForm, keep calm and carry on. They have a lot more different form types in store than just simple contact forms. You can even build a purchase for...

I had the great pleasure of delivering the closing keynote at Responsive Day Out 3: The Final Breakpoint. Held in Brighton, UK on 19 June 2015, the conference is a gathering of designers and developer...