10 Key Ways to Secure a Typical WordPress Installation

10 Key Ways to Secure a Typical WordPress Installation

WordPress

In over a decade, WordPress has evolved from a fledgling content management system to the most-used solution online. This notoriety, generally speaking, is good for the entire community and has…

The 5 Most Overused Design Elements You Should Retire

The 5 Most Overused Design Elements You Should Retire

Web Design

Everybody has their design pet peeves. Some of them are pretty universal. We have all cringed when opening the website of an otherwise respectable company only to find that the…

What Direct Response Marketers Can Teach You About Designing Pages That Sell

What Direct Response Marketers Can Teach You About Designing Pages That Sell

Marketing

Direct mail marketers – and increasingly, designers – live and die by results. If the design is beautiful, but doesn’t sell – it’s scrapped. If the copy’s clever, but doesn’t…

Sketch.app & Craft: A Match Made in Real Data Heaven

Sketch.app & Craft: A Match Made in Real Data Heaven

UI Design

Sketch has just made a new best friend, and it’s called Craft. In the past I’ve been a great advocate of a couple of Sketch plugins that have saved me…

Improve Productivity by Properly Organizing Your Folders in Photoshop

Improve Productivity by Properly Organizing Your Folders in Photoshop

Photoshop

In the digital world, organising files is an essential part of efficiency. This practice even goes down to the smallest details, like organising every Photoshop layer and each line of…

Custom Web Design Is the Way of the Future, Not a Relic of the Past

Custom Web Design Is the Way of the Future, Not a Relic of the Past

Web Design

Websites are critical for businesses to succeed, so web design is more important than ever. However, the advent of hundreds of design platforms and web builders has sparked a debate…

A Quick Look into Black & White Typography

A Quick Look into Black & White Typography

Inspiration

Black-and-white typography was the first featured in printed books. It’s been around since ancient times, and everybody has seen some example of it first hand at some point. Why, especially…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 3

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 3

UI Design

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) well be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward*’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Just in…

The Design Principles of Simplicity

The Design Principles of Simplicity

Design / Freelance

We live surrounded by millennials that are growing up with extensive access to mobile devices and laptops. It is a common thought that millennials are not brand loyal. Nonsense! In…

Common CSS Errors Made by Beginners

Common CSS Errors Made by Beginners

CSS

With so many new web designers and committing themselves to creating standards-valid website with deep stylesheet formatting, a few patterns have emerged in terms of common errors. Whether it’s the…

How Building an App with My Friend Is Changing My Life

How Building an App with My Friend Is Changing My Life

Freelance

I used to be a happy man five months ago. Five months ago, I watched TV shows and had a few beers on Fridays. Five months ago, I didn’t even…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 2

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 2

UI Design

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) well be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward*’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. If you…

The Next Step in the Evolution of Responsive Web Design: Responsivity Analysis

The Next Step in the Evolution of Responsive Web Design: Responsivity Analysis

Web Design

Beyond any question, responsive web design (RWD) has become the standard for anybody who wants to make a strong presence on the internet. With the passage of time, rules, best…

Concepts & Design Trends for Modern eCommerce Web Design

Concepts & Design Trends for Modern eCommerce Web Design

UX Design / Web Design

eCommerce websites are especially unique in that designers must focus on product showcases within the layout. User interfaces are not much more complex, but they do require lots of additional…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch

Designing an iOS App in Sketch

UI Design

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) we’ll be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Before we…

Does Your Portfolio Give Clients What They (Really) Want?

Does Your Portfolio Give Clients What They (Really) Want?

Marketing / Web Design

Hands up… Who loves their portfolio? If you’re like most designers, your arm is high in the air. After all, your portfolio represents your best work — and it probably…

10 Reasons Why Web Projects Fail

10 Reasons Why Web Projects Fail

Web Design

Nowadays every project uses some sort of CMS. Instead of painting a canvas in the old days of HTML, the requirement is to build software applications that need to follow…

A Web Design History Lesson: 20 Years in Web Design

A Web Design History Lesson: 20 Years in Web Design

Web Design
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