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Building a Weather App With the DarkSky API
Building for the web is just about as much fun as anyone can have, especially when you’re working with an API to dynamically pull in data. Some might call this building “web apps”, others may call it...
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15 Best HTML5 Video Players
With the recent change of YouTube's policy of requiring creators to reach 10,000 views before earning advertising revenue, we see the sun setting on the Golden Age of YouTube. Now more than ever, there...
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New Course: Exploring Creative Web Design Patterns
Are you ready to get creative? Then try our new course, Exploring Creative Web Design Patterns. It's a quick, half-hour dive into some of the most creative approaches to contemporary web design.What...
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What Exactly is a “Deliverable”?
The “deliverable”. A simple concept to understand (something you “deliver”), but difficult to explain properly.One way to describe a deliverable would be as a piece of work or an artifact that is a...
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The State of CSS Animation
CSS has matured in many ways over the years, not least in terms of CSS animations. With each day that passes more and more developers are creating living, breathing interfaces. In this article we’ll...
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How to Create a Split-Screen Slider With JavaScript
In today’s video tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a “split-screen” slider element (or UI, whatever you prefer to call it) using JavaScript. Inspiration for this came from a page on the...
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20 Best Minimal WordPress Themes: With Simple, Elegant Designs
Minimalist design is popular right now, mainly because of the success of Google’s Material design and flat design trends that have all but eliminated gradients, bevels, and drop shadows. Also, minimal...
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7 Tricks and Tips to Help You Become a ProcessWire Master
From admin tricks to modules, API and templating, here is a list of tips and tricks to help you become a ProcessWire master!1. Bulk Delete Images in AdminSometimes pages in ProcessWire will store a few...
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New Short Course: Lightweight Carousels With Siema
If you want to learn some new techniques for making animated carousels quickly, our new short course, Lightweight Carousels With Siema, is for you.What You’ll LearnSiema is a lightweight JavaScript...
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How to Use CSS Variables for Animation
When we mention CSS in discussions we often speak of it as a dumbed down language. A declarative language, lacking logic and insight; but that isn’t the true reality. For years developers have been...
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Confused About "em" and "rem"? Try Our New Course
If you're not sure whether to use em or rem units in your web design projects, our new course is for you. A Visual Guide to “em” and “rem” Units will explain the whole concept to you in simple visual...
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How to Collaborate With Non-Designers
As the modern day workplace gradually becomes a more distributed and global environment, collaboration across time zones and cultures becomes more commonplace than ever before.A designer’s role is to...
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6 Preprocessor Features Coming to Native CSS
Using preprocessors such as Sass, LESS and Stylus, has always given developers more control over their stylesheets, but native CSS is gradually closing the gap. CSS features such as variables, calc and...
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Best MailChimp Templates to Level Up Your Business Email Newsletter 2017
People love MailChimp because of its ease-of-use and beautiful designs. The problem is, it’s often cumbersome to try and use your own customized templates if they’re not specifically optimized for...
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New Short Course: Getting Started With Nucleus
Writing documentation for a web project can be pretty tedious. But there's good news. If you’re using Sass, you can also use a tool called “Nucleus”, a style guide generator based on the principles of...
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3 Tips for Collaborating With Your Design Team
Design is an iterative process, requiring the commitment and collaboration of a functioning team to give the best outcome. Here are three tips to make your team’s design workflow easier and faster....
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How to Decide Whether Gamification is Right for Your Website
Let’s take a refreshed look at the term “gamification”; where it stems from, how it’s been used in web design over the years, and whether or not it’s appropriate for your website.Gamification and...
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How to Build Web Form Layouts With CSS Grid
In this tutorial we will explore how to build a couple of different web forms using CSS Grid. For each example we will first use floats, and then see how the same layout could be done using CSS Grid.If...
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Tips For Creating a Rockin’ Band Website
The evolution of music consumption has gone from physical (think CD’s, cassettes, minidiscs? and vinyl) to digital. And, while a good website has long been an important part of a musician’s repertoire,...
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Understanding Design Conventions
When it comes to design patterns, one saying to keep in mind is: “Don’t reinvent the wheel”. This suggests you avoid creating new solutions that don’t offer significant improvement to a problem when a...
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