UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications

UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications

Mobile iOS devices were a step towards popularizing the idea of web applications. Web developers could build pages with HTML meta tags creating app icons to be saved onto the…

How WordPress Custom Post Types Makes Updating Easier for your Clients

How WordPress Custom Post Types Makes Updating Easier for your Clients

A great challenge for any WordPress developer is ensuring that when the time comes to launch your new project, your clients will be able to make basic updates as needed….

ManageWP.org — Share, Explore and Vote on Everything WordPress

ManageWP.org — Share, Explore and Vote on Everything WordPress

Due to the popularity of WordPress, there is no shortage of WP-related material on the internet. Whatever it might be that you are looking for — news, themes, plugins, reviews,…

8 Free WordPress Plugins for Improving User Interaction

8 Free WordPress Plugins for Improving User Interaction

If there is a sense of community and vibrant life surrounding a blog it tends to be successful and ultimately popular – that is a fact. So, if you own…

Google Web Designer: Bringing Ideas To Life, Using HTML5

Google Web Designer: Bringing Ideas To Life, Using HTML5

Yesterday Google added a new tool to its wide array of offerings, and this time they have built something specifically for the web design community. Allow me to introduce you…

Is There a Wordcamp Near You?

Is There a Wordcamp Near You?

WordCamps are local/regional/international get-togethers where designers, developers and users meet to share their knowledge. Sure, lots of different software platforms, etc. have their own dedicated conferences. But attending a WordCamp…

25 Addons for Getting More Out of Thunderbird

25 Addons for Getting More Out of Thunderbird

With the added installation of the many freely available extensions and addons, you can bring Thunderbird many steps closer to becoming a viable alternative to the very powerful Microsoft Outlook…

Trends in Weather App Design

Trends in Weather App Design

Back in the day presenting the weather, regardless of the medium, used to be complicated and very, very boring. But in recent years designers have taken on the design challenge…

phpMyAdmin Turns 15 Years Old This Week!

phpMyAdmin Turns 15 Years Old This Week!

In an era when everything on the internet is shrinking in terms of life expectancy, be it smartphone operating systems or browser versions, phpMyAdmin, the extremely popular and often taken…

Flat Design – The Next Step Forward in the Evolution of Web Design

Flat Design – The Next Step Forward in the Evolution of Web Design

Flat design is nothing but simplicity put into practice. The fact that simple shapes such as rectangles and circles are being preferred over gradients and drop shadows shows that the…

Android Studio: The IDE built to help make the life of Android developers easier

Android Studio: The IDE built to help make the life of Android developers easier

If you are an Android developer, life has so far offered a rather straightforward approach: you would probably use Android Developer Tools atop Eclipse, and that is pretty much it!…

40 Creative Examples of Dark Color Schemes in Web Design

40 Creative Examples of Dark Color Schemes in Web Design

Although clean and minimal designs are popular in web design, dark website designs still have a unique appeal. A dark design can create a striking visual impact when used properly,…

Getting your Freelance Finances Back on the Right Track

Getting your Freelance Finances Back on the Right Track

If you’re freelance finances are not in the shape they should be, here’s some tips that’ll help you get your them back on the right track. Freelancing can be pretty…

Don’t Copy Shakespeare – The Art of Writing for Online Readers

Don’t Copy Shakespeare – The Art of Writing for Online Readers

Sometimes as web designers, it’s easy to get caught up in our own little worlds. We get stuck in the mindset that a good design will attract and keep a…

Brackets by Adobe: An Open Source Code Editor in the Making

Brackets by Adobe: An Open Source Code Editor in the Making

In this article, I shall be taking a look at Brackets, the free and open source code editor from Adobe. According to Adobe, the focus of Brackets is on ‘inline…

Specialty Sites You Can Build With WordPress Plugins

Specialty Sites You Can Build With WordPress Plugins

Both through the addition of core features and plugins, in recent years, WordPress has blossomed into a full-fledged CMS and is now flexible enough to power a wide variety of…

Things You Need to Know about Guest Blogging

Things You Need to Know about Guest Blogging

One of the ways to help improve your ranking with search engines, and especially Google, is with inbound links – those links that point back to you. Creating inbound links…

Designing a Website Around Your Products

Designing a Website Around Your Products