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Learning From Hackathons and How Not to Fail at One

Learning From Hackathons and How Not to Fail at One

Web Design

Collaboration and education are two key words intrinsically associated with hackathons (the third being ‘free pizza’!). Hackathons promise a chance to meet other coders or designers, network with influencers and…

Learn Programming Without Paying a Penny

Learn Programming Without Paying a Penny

Web Design

Technology is all around us – in our offices, on our living room coffee tables, in our pockets, in our hands, and even in our cars. The technology revolution unfurled…

Your Guide to Becoming a Freelance Web Designer

Your Guide to Becoming a Freelance Web Designer

Freelance

Your Guide to Becoming a Freelance Web Designer has been written to help both those who are thinking of a freelance career and those who already have one. It’s a…

Lessons Learned From an Experienced Freelancer

Lessons Learned From an Experienced Freelancer

Freelance

As freelancers navigate their way into the world of contracted work, there are a variety of good times and bad times. The good times in particular involve a steady list…

Beginner’s Guide to Animated Website Tours

Beginner’s Guide to Animated Website Tours

UX Design

To make a compatible tour page for your website requires a lot of insight towards what your visitors need to know. Generally you can find a lot of examples using…

Using Web Design to Solve Creative Problems

Using Web Design to Solve Creative Problems

Web Design

Our modern technology has come about from centuries of human evolution. Even before computers we were using cars to get around and radio/television to broadcast media across large areas of…

A Quick Guide to Mobile App Usability Testing

A Quick Guide to Mobile App Usability Testing

UX Design

The launch of the iPhone in 2007 ushered in a revolution in computing that placed apps at the center of the mobile experience. The ubiquity of Apple’s iTunes store, and…

Guidelines to Follow when Building for the App Store (iOS & Android)

Guidelines to Follow when Building for the App Store (iOS & Android)

UI Design

There are a lot of factors to consider before building and submitting a mobile application. Developers have plenty of resources on the web for consulting official documentation. But there are…

How Much Code Should Web Designers Need to Know?

How Much Code Should Web Designers Need to Know?

Web Design

This is an interesting topic which isn’t often discussed between web designers. Getting started in Adobe Photoshop is difficult, and you feel an exhilarating rush when you complete your first…

11 Things I Learned From Freelancer to Agency Owner

11 Things I Learned From Freelancer to Agency Owner

Freelance / WordPress

I’ve spent the last 10+ years freelancing and bouncing back through different agencies. While there were plenty of perks both working for yourself and in an agency atmosphere, It always…

HTML & CSS Blog Layout – Theme Implementation for WordPress

HTML & CSS Blog Layout – Theme Implementation for WordPress

CSS / WordPress

In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to adapt a simple HTML blog layout into a WordPress theme. We’ll be using this static page as starting point. Grab the code…

Designers’ Guide to Float through the Invoicing Process Successfully

Designers’ Guide to Float through the Invoicing Process Successfully

Freelance

Designers are one of the most interesting professionals of the world. They love their work and do it at their best; however, most of them freak out when the project…

WordPress Plugin Development Resources, Tutorials and Guides

WordPress Plugin Development Resources, Tutorials and Guides

WordPress

Writing your own WordPress plugin is not that difficult if you are a web developer with basic PHP skills. The only thing you will need, coupled with your PHP skills,…

Guidelines for Creating an Elegant Email Newsletter Layout

Guidelines for Creating an Elegant Email Newsletter Layout

Web Design

Marketing is the lifeblood of the Internet industry. Running your own brand and corporation can be tiresome, not to mention extremely difficult. But with a powerful e-mail marketing campaign you…

Building Up Your Web Design Education

Building Up Your Web Design Education

Web Design

Walking the path of a web designer is one challenging road. There are many techniques to be studied, and the vast wealth of knowledge available can just slightly ease the…

How to Write More Efficient CSS to Speed up Your Site

How to Write More Efficient CSS to Speed up Your Site

CSS

As part of my new position as CTO of Speckyboy, I’ve decided to write a series of articles that will help you understand what it takes to make a truly…

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

Web Design

For years the web has been a static development block for housing information. It hasn’t been up until recently that micro-format designs have been released into the semantic web. These…

An Introduction to HTML Prototyping

An Introduction to HTML Prototyping

UI Design
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