Is It Time for Web Designers to Retire the Slider?

Is It Time for Web Designers to Retire the Slider?

There are many reasons not to use a slider, including performance, accessibility, and the cliché factor. Is it time we let the slider just go?

Weekly News for Designers № 600

Weekly News for Designers № 600

This week’s Designer News – № 600 – includes Schema API for the Semantic Web, a Glassmorphism CSS Generator, Free Proposal Templates via BidHeap, Detecting Hover-Capable Devices, GitHub Copilot, Using CSS to Enforce Accessibility, Today Minimal Planner and so much more.

20 Oriental-Themed Logo Designs for Inspiration & Ideas

20 Oriental-Themed Logo Designs for Inspiration & Ideas

These inspiring logo designs include fantastic examples of Asian-themed products or services targeting English-speaking consumers.

How Taylor Arndt Brings a First-Person Perspective to Accessibility

How Taylor Arndt Brings a First-Person Perspective to Accessibility

The importance of accessibility is often preached to web designers. Thankfully, many of us have taken it to heart. In this day and age, there’s no reason why a website…

Weekly News for Designers № 599

Weekly News for Designers № 599

This week’s Designer News – № 599 – includes User Inyerface, Find a Font with Wordmark, CSS Selectors: The Full Reference Guide, Towards a Better Responsiveness Metric, Organize Your CSS declarations Alphabetically and a whole lot more.

How to Help Your Clients Overcome Fear of Commitment

How to Help Your Clients Overcome Fear of Commitment

Fear of commitment and web design go together like oil and water. So here are some ways to help even the most skittish of clients move forward.

The WordPress Widgets Screen Joins the Gutenberg Era

The WordPress Widgets Screen Joins the Gutenberg Era

The Widgets screen will soon take on the same look as the Gutenberg block editor. We take a quick look at the new block-based widgets.

Weekly News for Designers № 598

Weekly News for Designers № 598

This week’s Designer News – № 598 – includes Drawing Graphics with the CSS Paint API, Loaf Animated SVG Icons, Media Queries in Times of @container, Creating Rhythm with Typography, Perfect Tooltips with CSS Clipping and Masking, Indiepen, Free Resume Templates and a much, much more.

WebP Images: A Primer

WebP Images: A Primer

We take you on a tour of what WebP is all about. We also perform some tests to see if the format really does live up to the hype.

The Ingredients of a Great WordPress Plugin

The Ingredients of a Great WordPress Plugin

What makes a WordPress plugin great? How do you quantify something so subjective? We attempt to answer these questions.

Weekly News for Designers № 597

Weekly News for Designers № 597

This week’s Designer News – № 597 – includes Don’t Use Custom CSS Mouse Cursors, a Free Bootstrap 5 Portfolio Template, Visual Design Principles in UX, The Button Cheat Sheet, Free Health Icons, Glassmorphism CSS Effect Generator, Predesign Printable Device Mockups and a whole lot more.

Scenarios Where WordPress May Not Be the Best Option

Scenarios Where WordPress May Not Be the Best Option