Articles by Web Design Ledger from September 2015

While many events around the world focus on programming for Apple devices, #Pragma Conference is the only major event found in Italy. While it is hosted in Europe, the event is open to anyone around t...

Frontend devs should already know a little about Gulp. It’s a JavaScript-based automation library for handling tasks that you’d rather not perform manually. These tasks can include file co...

There’s no shortage of custom plugins for building almost any type of interface for the web. JavaScript is the underlying factor among all web interfaces, but jQuery is perhaps the largest open ...

With the dozens of Photoshop and Illustrator freebie websites online, it should come as no surprise that Sketch users have felt a little behind the times. If you search websites like Behance or Dribbb...

While design trends will always be popular, they’re not necessarily the best methods for constructing a new website. Trends do not always fit into every project and sometimes you’ll need t...

If you’ve ever wanted to learn specific design techniques free of charge, then Method of Action is the site for you. It’s a collection of resources for learning specific skills related to ...

Infographics have become all the rage with Internet lovers. They provide quick & easy factual information related to a certain topic. I have always loved the idea but never thought it would catch ...

I simply love WordPress as a blogging platform, and as a quickly-advancing content management system. The use of plugins within your WP installation can provide an inordinate amount of support to your...

People have taken to the web as a cheaper and simpler way to learn new things. Some topics can be learned for free, but others may be worth paying for premium content. This is where you get into sites...

Apple tries to make their development process as simple as possible and Cocoa is a major part of that process. Cocoa is an API for common programming techniques used in Mac OS X applications. A simila...

Building a website or web application is a tremendous process. Most developers rely on 3rd party apps to generate codes, compile CSS/JS, and launch websites online. Each of these individual processes ...

Every UI designer should at least know about Sketch as it’s been making waves through the online design community. This OSX-exclusive application is an alternative to Photoshop made solely for g...

Powerful chat platforms like Slack have been dominating the marketplace for a few years now. Teams have moved onto these powerhouse systems to quench their thirst for communication, coupled with a lac...

When it comes to form inputs there’s nothing quite like file upload fields. These are often the most difficult to style and also require the largest amount of backend server logic. Over time the...

Recently I was able to ask some questions about a new money management application named Qapital. It’s an interesting program that can connect into your accounts and help you save money for futu...

Having developed smaller projects using Objective-C/iOS I learned there are many benefits and drawbacks to native applications. HTML5 mobile web apps provide a quicker all-around experience for any mo...

Digital jobs span the gamut of in-house to part-time gigs and freelance/remote projects. Many opportunities are out there for designers and developers if you know where to look. Among the handful of j...

Delight is a rather diverse conference spanning the gamut from technology, design, programming, and overall user experiences. 2015 will be the fourth annual occurrence of Delight which will be hosted ...

Sass/SCSS has changed the way developers create websites. It saves time, frustration, and offers a powerful new workflow to hasten web projects. This excitement has naturally caused developers to jump...

A brand new update to GitHub allows all comments to include much more than just images. GitHub users have always been able to attach images to their comments in pull requests or support issue threads....

When visitors find your website online they are expecting a certain experience or depth of information. Landing pages are the single webpages that visitors are directed onto, either from search result...

To build a conveniently interactive application or website, youll have to create a noticeably usable UI. The UI of a product (app or site) is crucial. Its powerful enough to create a positive or negat...

Many web applications & social networks have features that are delivered via e-mail. While in development these features often require a testing sandbox of some kind. It is possible to set this u...

Bohemian Coding created Sketch App for Mac OS X as a means to help designers mockup user interfaces, and for that reason many of the styles are CSS-centric. Shadow is one of them, where the values are...

The traditional HTML select menu has been around for decades and is widely supported in all browsers. It’s a staple of online forms and all areas of web UI design. But what if there was a way to...

Often times problems with your server environment can occur from a lack of security updates. These exploits allow hackers to force their way into part of your server whether it’s a database setu...

Google continues its inherent platform as a tech leader by teaching free marketing lessons to anyone with a smartphone. A new app Primer is powered by Google and meant to offer the best way to learn w...

The online cloud IDE platform CodePen has become a popular tool amongst frontend developers. It was co-founded by Chris Coyier, Alex Vazquez, and Tim Sabat a few years ago as a way to offer real-time ...

A modern trend in web design places focus on custom typefaces hosted via open source platforms. Google Webfonts is undoubtedly the most popular choice with a growing library of fonts to choose from. A...

A fun three-day PHP event opens up the first weekend of October in Manchester, England. This is none other than PHP North West 2015 and it’s bound to be an incredible experience for anyone inter...

How many times have you been digging through folders in search of a particular icon or iconset? This has always been my traditional workflow, but it seems a new app Iconjar offers a sleek alternative....

Looking back into history the Internet has gone through many phases. Back in the 1990s there was a lot of mis-direction among the changing character sets. These basically outlined a library of symbols...

Anyone who’s familiar with the Apple Watch should know about the radial ring design. This was created as a way to display data on the very small Apple Watch screen. It’s an easy thing to c...

If youre freelancing then you need a contract, full stop. If theres only one thing you take away from this article, take that. But read on to learn the basics of what each contract should include and ...

Clothing & accessory brands traditionally earned profit from in-store sales. But in recent times we’ve seen a lot of transactions move from department stores & shopping malls onto the ...

Rails development is perhaps one of the best choices for building modern web applications. PHP is still a widely-accepted choice powering frameworks like WordPress – but Rails has grown into its...

Flat design has seeped into the fabric of website design and mobile apps alike. Many popular interfaces are switching over to flat design because it’s simpler and easier to create. Some users pr...

Every major social media website uses some type of sharing button. Facebook has their like/share buttons, Pinterest has re-pin buttons, and Twitter has follow/retweet buttons. A recent forum post on T...

The world-renowned prototyping tool InVision has consistently been on top of platform updates & new tools for designers. In a recent blog post they’ve announced a new feature called Motion....

If you’re a mobile developer with a focus on Apple devices then today is a big news day. It seems Apple has finally put out beta 2 versions of both iOS 9.1 and tvOS for development testing. Ther...

There’s a lot to be said about the success of Django. It’s gained plenty of traction on the web as a serious framework for developing all types of applications at lightning speed. Many dif...

The beauty of open source is built within the community, along with all the many derivative works to follow. Designers and developers can benefit from working with each other’s graphics and sour...

Out of the litany of mobile app development conferences, Mobiconf seems to draw a lot of attention from all forms of developers. In 2015 Mobiconf will be held in Krakow, Poland from October 1st-2nd. T...

With millions of mobile applications on the market, competition is more vigorous than ever. And as new applications continue to release the number of applications is only going to escalate. But an int...

The Midwest UX conference reappears again in 2015 with three days of exciting talks and workshops. User experience is a hot topic among all interface designers and this conference will cover everythin...

As more and more people embrace the smartphone age, the number of consumers online continue to multiply each day. Unlike their counterparts on desktops and laptops, the average smartphone user has gra...

The design industry has been rocked by some amazing conferences and we can expect a whole bunch of incredible events gathering in Q4 of 2015. Design Matters is a digital design conference hosted in Co...

When first leaping into a new subject there’s often a bit of hesitation. This is natural as humans don’t often like to fail, so it’s tough to get started and pursue something on own ...

Version control has become a must-have technology for programmers & web developers. Over the years it has become much more influential and now it’s a practical powerhouse of tools for manag...

Most web developers know of Opera as a major player in the web browser market. Opera was built in Norway in 1995 under Opera Software. This year celebrates two decades of growth, innovation, and wonde...

With so many options for jQuery slideshows it can be tough to know where to start. But since there are so many options, there really is no right or wrong answer. Each project comes with its own set of...

Recently the folks at WP Kube launched a free “coming soon” WordPress theme. Named Launch, this theme is what you would use to act as a placeholder as you gear up for the launch of your ne...

Do you ever notice how familiar web content always seems to catch that twinkle in your eye? Fewer distractions allow for quicker reading material – and in these crazy times with Twitter and Just...

Interface designers should already know about prototyping and the myriad of tools available online. One such example is FramerJS which happens to be a dynamic prototyping tool for any type of interfac...

The major 1-day event for web designers and developers has once again popped up in 2015. Rustbelt Refresh has been running for a few years drawing a large handful of interest from developers and desig...

Most web developers know about the significance of speed testing. It offers advice regarding how quickly certain elements of a page load, helping webmasters pinpoint areas that cause laggy speeds. Som...

The Bose QuietComfort 25 headphones are an absolutely superb piece of audio technology that get their design, noise cancellation, and overall sound performance almost perfectly right. They are a bit o...

Many posts and guides have been published online with a direct focus on web design & user experience. These resources have ultimately become scattered but still operate as serious tools for anyon...

The purpose of a lazy-loading script is to speed up a website’s performance without pushing extra HTTP requests through a full page refresh. The goal is to save bandwidth on visitors who may nev...

A few old men working for Walt Disney back in the early 20th century came up with a dozen working properties for lifelike animation. These “12 principles of animation” have lasted for deca...

To build your own backend e-mail script requires some understanding of a programming language like PHP or RoR. It’s not exactly hard, but for a newbie it’s not exactly easy either. Often t...

The ever-growing market for sports content has only strengthened through support over the Internet. Online interactive communities like forums or fantasy football leagues provide a digital connection ...

CMS engines come packed with their own WYSIWYG editors that include the most prominent features you could ever need. WordPress is one great example. But often times developers would rather edit text d...

The Internet allows creators from all over the world to release their ideas online whether they be webapps, books, tools, plugins, or anything similar. Product Hunt is notorious for collecting many of...

Reddit is the most popular social news website drawing tens of millions of eyeballs every day. Many developers have created alternative Reddit apps for all devices from smartphones to tablets. An inte...

Live testing is a huge part of the design world. How do you know if an interface would function if you don’t know how it’ll look? One of the biggest aspects of testing is a gauge for inter...

A very cool new video was recently published onto Google’s official channel detailinig the progress of the company since initial conception. It was originally founded back in 1998 by Larry Page ...

Adobe’s multi-day MAX conference will be held in Los Angeles from October 3rd-7th. It’ll feature plenty of workshops, tutorials, speakers and plenty of food breaks. Tickets are rather pric...

The official public release of iOS 9 just hit consumers in mid-September and it’s already drawn lots of attention. While updates do push out to devices and with iTunes syncing, it’s rare t...

A brand new app for Mac users offers a powerful method of organizing typefaces. RightFont is a powerful application that can run standalone, or integrate directly with Sketch or Adobe CS/CC programs. ...

A small group of PHP developers organized a gathering just a few years back in Sofia, Bulgaria. This has in turn grown into a unique conference titled PHP Conference Bulgaria with a growing list of at...

Few people can say they’ve made as much of an impact on web performance as Steve Souders. He’s the author of High Performance Web Sites and a corollary Even Faster Web Sites with great tip...

From SVG to CSS3 and modern jQuery, website animation is here to stay. What was once considered an excruciating task has now become more forthright and easier to manage than ever before. Developers al...

The word Premium is a proper description for many of the multipurpose WordPress themes included in this listing. Every theme listed here has a great deal going for it. Even the relative newcomers, of ...

Hand-lettering is an artistic craft so beautiful that the bewilderment only makes it more alluring. Whether you’re a calligraphist or just an appreciator of the arts, these 10 examples of hand-l...

Launching a new startup or website idea can take a lot of effort. But most people gloss over the process of researching other competition within your market. It doesn’t take a lot of work, but i...

Input elements within form fields have historically been the toughest to style. New CSS properties offer a much easier time, but user experience is still a tricky gray area. One performance technique ...

Unless you’ve been asleep for the past couple years, you should know a little about Google’s material design language. This was originally built for the newest version of Android OS, but h...

Along with the many new features and device updates for iPhone 6S and iOS 9, another change has recently been seen in action. The new in-house font San Francisco will be part of Apple’s newest O...

As the name suggests, AgileCamp is basically a super fun camp for learning Agile development. It’s not like summercamp where you’re gone for weeks; in fact it’s only a one-day event....

We’re all familiar with the likes of Microsoft Word and Google Docs. But what if there was a better alternative for constructing well-formed dynamic documents? Well according to Notion, this is ...

Over the last year or so Ive started to notice that health and sports websites tend to have highly-modernized websites that offer a heightened visual experience – usually with energetic imagery,...

Mobile devices like iPhones and iPads are perfect for on-the-go tasks. But they’re more limiting when it comes to more common interface features you’d expect on a laptop or desktop. One ar...

Marton Anka is the co-founder of LogMeIn which has gained a lot of attention in the startup scene. Just recently Marton announced a new project named Caret. The goal is to revolutionize how we use our...

There’s a lot of great info to glean from the users of Reddit. Unfortunately it’s not always the best site to have up on your monitor when your boss or supervisor traipses by on patrol. Bu...

Every year in Greece the Digitized design conference kicks off with talks, workshops, and lots of time for chatting. This year Athens will be home to the two-day conference full of learning and fun fe...

Designers often search for examples of other products or designs to examine trends that might help to influence their own work. This is especially true of icon design which can be a tricky subject whe...

Users of the InVision prototyping tool have found it to be a secure and reliable way to share design concepts with teams of all sizes. This has always made updating projects and creative briefs a whol...

While the actual task of invoicing clients is not likely something you look forward to, certainly the flip side of invoicing all of those receivable dollars can be seen as cause for celebration. The...

There’s no denying that the multi-billionaire Donald Trump is raising eyebrows at his position on the political stage. It seems his run for presidency has attracted lots of attention both good &...

CSS3 has brought many changes and recently includes a new document structure named Flexbox. It’s meant to replace old CSS hacks like floats for multi-column layouts, along with empowering design...

In this post we’re gonna take a look at Wildcard, a completely free news & entertainment application. Wildcard prides itself on providing a visually stunning platform that allows users to ea...

Code commenting is a very important part of the entire development process. Large blocks of functions and variable declarations can get bloated down after writing pages of convoluted backend logic. PH...

One of the largest and most prominent task management apps Todoist just released an update to their branding. This includes a new look for the company’s typography along with a sleek new icon de...

Every year multiple Python-related conferences set up & jam out to talks, training, and lots of group chat sessions. PyCon is the most recognized annual conference running events across a vast ar...

The Angular Material project integrates Googles Material Design with the AngularJS MVC framework and offers web engineers(especially AngularJS devs) a solid foundation of tools. Googles Design project...

Whether you’re a UI designer, Objective-C programmer, icon designer or user experience prodigy, CocoaConf is the hottest event for OS X & iOS app development. The CocoaConf staff tours all ...

For those unfamiliar with Mockup.io, it’s a visualization tool for showcasing how an application will look in a realistic frame. It’s specifically geared towards teams working collaborativ...

In an old converted barn just outside of Seattle you’ll find Invisible Creature, a graphic design studio run by Don and Ryan Clark. They’re brothers who produce fantastic artwork, illustra...

The large Q&A network Stack Exchange has prominently risen to Internet fame with its invention of Stack Overflow. This site is a safe-haven for developers & programmers to ask questions abou...

Jacob Cass is one of the most well-known designers specializing in branding/identities. He’s the founder of JUST Creative and has been working as a freelancer since 2007. His work includes a wid...

The Dribbble team in Salem, Massachusetts just recently published an option for bigger shot thumbnails. As of right now this option is visible from the top-right menu on all pages from tags, searches,...

I’ve been ecstatic to see substantial growth in modern web typography. More website layouts have been incorporating oddball typography that really stands out from the generic masses. Not every p...

A thrilling new event will take place this September in Portland, Oregon for professional designers & web developers. Under the moniker Responsive Field Day, this one-day fest brings together som...

If you’re new to Photoshop there is a lot you can learn by dissecting other PSD files. Professional designers work tirelessly creating beautiful graphics and sometimes release that work for free...

Digital color pickers are widely used by designers and developers to craft pixel-perfect interfaces. Most of the time these color pickers are utilized from programs like Sketch or Photoshop. But recen...

A popular trend in modern UX design is creating animated GIF images to demonstrate how an interface will behave with user interaction. The interface can relate to sliding menus, buttons, swipe-animate...

A lot of fuss has been made around the new modular development library termed Rucksack CSS. It’s built on top of a post-processor named PostCSS which allows developers to write code as a subset ...

One of NYC’s finest designers is Roberto Blake who just so happens to also run a small YouTube channel with advice on the design industry. Recently I stumbled onto this great 13min clip that cov...

Designers can always benefit from well-crafted freebies made for all digital design projects. Icons are often particularly useful since they require a lot of time and a consistent style to blend nicel...

The vast significance and impring that WordPress has left on the design community is practically incalculable. It’s one of the most popular open source CMS engines for building any website from ...

Shared Styles, Text Styles, and Symbols in Sketch App bare a striking resemblance to the way that we use CSS classes in web design. They let us reuse sets of already-defined styles in an effort to sav...

The SmartWeb Conference is an annual get-together for European designers and web developers. It’s a way to share new insights about the industry and meet other creatives residing in nearby count...

A common thread amongst all humans is that we seem to adore pizza, and that we all like the feeling of progress. It feels good to know you’re getting somewhere and it feels even better to see th...

Apple’s recent San Francisco event contained a whole lot of ravishing information for tech enthusiasts. But for business and marketing people, one fact mentioned by Tim Cook should stand out eve...

The Internet is full of free downloadable goodies for creative artists. Anyone teaching themselves how to design should be able to find plenty of resources online. Especially in the field of web desig...

Over the last few years, WordPress theme frameworks have gained tremendous popularity among both end-users and developers. They make it possible for users to create a unique and flexible site with abs...

Some of you may not be familiar with the Twitch-style video streaming site LiveCoding.tv. Much like Twitch.tv is made for video games, LiveCoding.tv is made for developers who write code. Most people ...

The Pantone factory has been hard at work crafting a new color guide for designers and print professionals. If you don’t know, Pantone offers a variety of colors and swatches that are used in ma...

The WebExpo design & development conference is central Europe’s single largest event for people who work on the web. For a two-day event this is perhaps one of the largest and most thrillin...

The very first official release of Adobe Photoshop was in February of 1990. This year is the 25th anniversary of our favorite photo manipulation suite and Adobe is celebrating with a classic party gam...

A new JS/CSS animation library has recently been updated & ported over from generic content sliders to controlling various page elements at once. Wallop was first created by Pedro Duarte as a way...

With so many frameworks and libraries it’s almost unreasonable for a developer to start any project completely from scratch. But sometimes this can be worthwhile if you’re unable to find e...

From building high-profile websites to lecturing or presenting at conferences, Brad has done a lot. He’s well known in the design community for covering a wide range of topics and co-hosting the...

With the release of Creative Cloud 2015 Adobe has continued their tradition of generating a buzz in the tech sector. In addition to major updates on their programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, Adob...

The Asus Chromebook Flip is basically a premium piece of portable computing hardware that happens to be selling for an amazing price. This affordable laptop knocks other cheaper notebook models right ...

The process of becoming a designer and developer can be excruciating and quite exhausting. Each of these fields has such a depth of study with a lot to earn. And becoming proficient in just design or ...

It’s rare to come across an e-commerce website that has more page than sellable items. It’s much easier to design a single-page website anyway, resulting in cleaner code & a higher lik...

Corporate business websites are often considered stuffy, outdated, and sometimes out-of-touch with clientel. Admittedly larger corporations can grow a bit too large and derail from their original inte...

The premiere destination for all your online shopping needs has recently birthed a fabulous tool for webmasters. Amazon Web Services(or AWS) is a collection of services and online technologies made fo...

Apple users who have been around the block should know about Camera+. It’s a 3rd party iOS app meant to provide an alternative to Cupertino’s default Camera app. For years it’s been ...

A resource site by the name of Creative Tim put together a brief Dribbble Meetup in early September. It seems to have been such a success that the organizer decided to write a blog post on the impress...

Those who follow the rapidly growing(or decaying?) culture of dating in the western world should know about Tinder. It’s a “dating” app that allows you to pair up with people in your...

Some of us have likely seen the Apple signs and logos in storefront windows indicating the acceptance of Apple Pay. This is Apple’s method of breaking into the payment industry for competing aga...

The Mac OS X app Sketch is wonderful for designing user interfaces. Its artboard system only adds to the experience, letting users demonstrate how a single dynamic screen might vary depending how peop...

The recently bridged Generate Conference has grown to a tremendous amount of popularity. In 2015 it will be hosted in London, England in the Grand Connaught Rooms. It’s a 2-day event spanning th...

Recently a Senior Web UI Engineer by the name of Ashley Nolan published a wonderful blog post detailinig the results of a survey she conferred with various web developers. The results were meant to me...

Modern minimalism is vastly overrated for the value it adds to a website. When content is centered as the main priority users are free from excess distractions. Granted not everyone likes minimalism b...

Although sometimes overlooked, solid typography is one of the most important parts of web design. Simply put, the misuse of fonts can prove detrimental for a layout. It is a web designers job to entic...

A GitHub repo named Layout Grid is gaining notoriety among developers. It was first published by Ivan Kerin and has proven to be an amazing tool for web developers. This isn’t really a “fr...

People who know about Chrome’s Developer Tools should already know how amazing they can be. Web Inspector is the Safari/WebKit alternative with many of the same features. Just recently the WebKi...

The large San Francisco-based CRM company Salesforce is releasing a new piece to their management platform. Salesforce is already a cloud-based platform for customer & product management, while S...

One of the lesser-known European conferences, From the Front ran its own Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom theme in 2014. Their 2014 conference had big names from companies like Mozilla and Clea...

At the recent Apple event we learned quite a few things about the Apple Watch, iPad Pro, Apple TV OS, among many other products. One interesting update is that iOS 9 will be officially released to the...

The phrase “golden hour” holds special meaning in photography. This is a period at both dawn & dusk where the sunlight is strong and casts very wide shadows. Photographers love to shoo...

Video on the web is an ever-growing medium, shaping the way we learn things every day. Not sure how to use the newest Photoshop tools? Go to YouTube. Want to learn how to improve your portfolio websit...

Sketch App makes it very easy to make a properly sized artboard for iOS icons. It also offers an exceptional export feature for those icons that need to be exported for retina. But like any software, ...

Apple hosted a large special release event on September 9th in San Francisco. This included revelations of a new iPad Pro, new WatchOS, along with details about the iPhone 6S. But interestingly enough...

Modern startup design trends have come a long way since their initial inception in the early-to-mid 2000s. The field of web design itself has adopted a new paradigm with CSS3 properties, advanced Java...

If you’re a JavaScript developer then you probably love finding new tools. I’m always scouting GitHub and Twitter feeds to locate interesting new JS code libraries for project work. Siddha...

The beloved web design blog Smashing Magazine has been putting on a wonderful conference for the past 4 years, and 2015 will be no different. Smashing Conference is hosted and maintained by the overar...

The Node team has grown to 44 collaborators submitting ideas and bug reports on this open-source web framework. The team has just put together a final stable release of Node v4.0.0 with a lot of new f...

When we first heard about Slack we were ranting and/or raving. We compared it to HipChat, arguably the most well-known chat application. We somewhat humorously did the same with Sketch App: we compare...

Web designers are intimately familiar with the term “responsive web design”. This is a layout which adapts & responds based on the screen’s current size. Mobile applications hav...

Recently a poster on Reddit stumbled onto a curious point from a 1989 book named “Trademarks & Symbols of the World”. It just so happens to contain a logo mark that exactly replicates...

It’s surprising how many people move into the field of copywriting. It’s a much-needed position to fill in advertising and marketing agencies. But copywriters also manage content in public...

In one of our previous posts we spoke about the release of the universal, multi-purpose WordPress theme for everyone under the powerful name Monstroid. This time we are back with great news from Templ...

Although this site’s design is a little rough around the edges, Use & Modify is a brand new tool that’s more than just a homepage layout. At first glance you might not know where to b...

Some apps are made for fun, others for chatting with friends tracking costs or winning prizes. Turns out the hot iOS app gameit pairs fun and prizes together into one thrilling experience. I got the c...

A number of changes have been applied to Ghost’s newest release for bloggers. In particular, Ghost now supports a revamped administration panel with cleaner links and an easier-to-read code edit...

Designers of all skill levels can appreciate the value of an open source resource. Whether it’s a font family, iconset, or complete website PSD. And with so many online collections there seems t...

Typekit and Google Webfonts have paved a new superhighway for web typography. Designers have the option to choose from a growing library of fonts that include all font styles. Thin font families are g...

Adobe has recently introduced Adobe Stock, a major addition to its Creative Cloud collection, hoping to reshape the stock image industry to its own advantage. The move comes after Adobe acquired micro...

General Mills is a major manufacturer of breakfast(and other) foods in the US with a rather interesting website design. It feels modern and distinguished yet simple and usable at the same time. There&...

The Zurb team has been working on the successor of Foundation 5.5 and recently put together a few ideas for public scrutiny. Zurb dev’s are looking for feedback regarding important updates, chan...

Apple was the first major company to introduce standard retina screens on many devices. The newer MacBook Pro computers have been launched with a retina monitor, along with most iOS devices. This mean...

Learning to use the Adobe creative suite can be a grueling task. It requires a lot of practice(and failure) to achieve any semblance of familiarity. One crucial learning area is mastery of keyboard sh...

Each year at 3 different locations DrupalCon rocks the house with talks, workshops, and some awesome community gatherings. Drupal users can learn a lot by attending these conferences with the hope of ...

So far today Ive spent one hour perfecting the design of one of my clients new media packs, and honestly I am very happy with it. To tell you the truth I am super happy that I managed to get it lookin...

The best developers try to stay on top of the latest technologies. The old adage “why reinvent the wheel” comes to mind. Although there are plenty of JS-based libraries for lazy loading an...

How often have you needed to switch between apps to move/copy data? It seems like a common task, especially using communication apps and when messaging people. Well this has always been somewhat of a ...

The GitHub team recently put up an interesting blog post covering a new feature called “Protected Branches”. The goal is to save stress by protecting certain branches from being overwritte...

Ember.js is a common MVC framework for JavaScript developers. It’s meant to provide standard procedures that you’d expect in any other framework, but with the core basis running in JavaScr...

The Atalntic recently did a small video piece with Ryan Carson, CEO & founder of the online learning website Treehouse. Treehouse was founded as a way for people with little-to-no knowledge of de...

One of the biggest trends of the last few years is using fullscreen hero images combined with big typography. But like most trends, designers often abuse them only because theyre in fashion, with no r...

One of the smaller yet more intimate UX events is UX Cambridge in England. The event focuses on practical user experience guidelines for building better websites, mobile apps, and desktop programs. Th...

UI design is meant to follow ideas from the user’s perspective. Many ideas relate to typical page elements but others focus on user experience. These UX design ideas typically involve dynamic ac...

I have always been a supporter of CodePen ever since I found the website. It is an online HTML/CSS/JS code editor where you can build ideas and test them in real-time. Developers can also share their ...

In just a few days Apple is holding a release event discussing a few major product updates. It’s hard to say exactly what will be released, but there’s no doubt it’ll be a media circ...

eCommerce is a booming industry which is only growing larger by the year. Beyond physical products it has become easier than ever to sell digital items like e-books, music, videos, and even website gr...

CSS3 has paved the way for clean website animation without any reliance on JavaScript. Unfortunately it can’t handle every task but it’s got a fantastic track record so far. Modern website...

Most design editing suites take color into consideration. This usually involves a pre-built setup of color pickers that focus on a crisp user experience — they also often cost money. But React C...

Developers need to get the most out of their computers. After all, the computer is the primary tool that developers rely on each & every day. Over time there have been a number of applications cre...

Food & drink manufacturers follow many of the same design techniques. Website layouts differ from corporate conglomerates to small-town restaurants but the goals are often very similar. In the cas...

Free webfonts allow web designers to move far beyond system default typefaces. Now designers have dozens(if not hundreds) of free fonts at their fingertips. A new contender named Overpass has just bee...

While checking Dribbble I stumbled onto a really great shot by David Kovalev. Looking through the comments I noticed a fairly accurate point made by Claudiu Cioba: So what do you think? Are all of tho...

Whoever told you that you’d need math later on in life might be wrong in this case, because Sketch App takes care of all that math for you. If you’ve ever used a computer calculator then y...

For any website or blog, the contact form is an element that makes a very powerful statement. Just like a business card, the contact form speaks for itself, as it is the gateway people use for passing...

Some developers may remember Mozilla’s old Thimble development webapp. It was an online coding platform where you could write code and build simple interfaces without the need to save any files ...

Apple developers will be excited to know that Xcode 7 recently put out its sixth beta release. This marks a long period of testing for Apple developers to ensure that all features are ready to go for ...

Designers and creative professionals have taken it upon themselves to both visit and create meaningful events. These events have turned into yearly conferences with some of the biggest names flying ar...

The idea of machine learning is not new, but it’s also fairly unrecognized by developers. Its goal is to study machine operations and operations to create methods allowing computers to teach the...

Most people choose to communicate via SMS or iMessage. These are the two default text communication methods for all mobile phone users. But a recently contender WhatsApp has recently climbed into the ...

For years tech fans & web designers have been anticipating the release of Mozilla’s beloved Firefox on mobile devices. And for years there hasn’t been much of an answer – until ...

The developers in Redmond, WA just released a brand new update to Skype for smartphones(version 6.0). It focuses on improved usability for for small and larger screens. Plus with newer devices on the ...

Pre-made Layouts are a valuable asset When you are looking for a multipurpose WordPress theme that best fits your needs, you are likely to discover that, in terms of the features they have to offer, t...

As of August 4th Microsoft has had readied for consumers a new, beefed up version of Outlook for Office 365s web version. According to the Office blog, this revamp of Outlook for the web is part of Mi...

At Webydo, we understand the importance of creating websites that work well and look great across a wide range of devices being used today. Responsive websites with layouts that change based on a visi...

This year’s DjangoCon 2015 US conference is just around the corner and is scheduled to begin September 6th. The event runs all week long from Sunday the 6th to Friday the 11th. It’ll be he...

According to Verizon’s featured article, the company has just released a brand new logo only 1 day after Google’s update. I can’t help but notice that Verizon is going in a similar f...

As the web continues to progress more people are turning to CSS pre-processors to help style their web applications. Although there are several options theres no doubt that two of the most popular pre...

Last spring the development team at Telerik unveiled its biggest project yet: NativeScript. NativeScript is a runtime for building completely native applications for iOS and Android using either JavaS...

A massive revamping took place when Elegant Themes released Version 2.4 of their flagship theme Divi a couple of months ago. A number of key features were improved, and Divis authors took a step forwa...

Each year in Brighton the first Friday of September gives host to a day full of tech enthusiasts, coders, designers, and creators sharing their ideas with one another. This one-day event is called dCo...

Mostly everyone who works on the web should know the name Jeffrey Zeldman. He’s been working on the web for almost as long as I’ve been alive, and he’s one of the biggest contributor...

In a decision that plenty of Chrome users will certainly be happy about(this writer definitely included), Google has put a date of September 1st when the latest version of their browser will start blo...

A Kickstarter Campaign (Click To View Campaign) for a WordPress theme called Czar has been in talks recently. The team behind Czar is trying to raise funds to develop this WordPress Theme which they p...

WordPress is remarkably popular, scalable, open-source and affordable CMS/blogging system. The vast majority of people are creating their websites on WordPress because it offers striking plugins and t...

Every developer knows that workflow automation is extremely important to web development. Luckily there are tons of programs built around this concept of automating workflow. In this article Im going ...

It takes real skill to create a usable design from nothing but imagination. However the creative part is only the first half of the puzzle – the rest is figuring out how to technically create yo...