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How To Build Rapport With Your Web Design Clients
smashingmagazine.com Sep 21, 2020
Working as a freelancer in the creative space is rife with obstacles. Some we can see coming, others we can’t. One of the challenges that many freelance web designers face in their first few years is managing client relationships. We’ve all heard...
Advanced GraphQL Usage In Gatsby Websites
smashingmagazine.com Sep 16, 2020
Before the release of GraphQL in 2015, Representational State Transfer (REST) was the main way to interface with an API. The introduction of GraphQL was therefore a major change in software development. As a modern static site generator, Gatsby...
Designing For Attention
smashingmagazine.com Sep 15, 2020
We face many competing interests for users’ time and attention. If we factor in perceptions of dwindling human attention spans, we might speculate capturing and holding users’ attention is based on luck as much as sound design. However, we can...
5 Tips for Designing One-Page Websites That Work
webdesignerdepot.com Sep 15, 2020
Smart design choices can help reduce the fatigue and frustration people would otherwise feel when using the web. There are a lot of ways web designers can minimize distractions, information overload, and analysis paralysis. For instance, designing...
The Latest Research for Web Designers, September 2020
webdesignerdepot.com Sep 14, 2020
In today’s look at the latest research for web designers, we’re going to look at studies and reports from Payoneer, Robert Half, Hootsuite, and Contentsquare to see what they have to say about things like: Payoneer’s The State of Freelancing During...
Should We Be Designing For Voice?
webdesignerdepot.com Sep 11, 2020
Voice is one aspect of technology that is getting bigger and bigger, and showing little sign of relenting. In fact, 2019 data revealed that 22% of UK households owned a voice-controlled digital home assistant device such as an Amazon Echo or Google...
Get Up And Running With Craft CMS
smashingmagazine.com Sep 10, 2020
Craft CMS is brought to you by the talented folks at Pixel & Tonic. It is actively maintained and kept in line with the changes in the modern web development world and is rising in popularity amongst CMS’s — with an impressive client list such as...
How To Build A Blog With Next And MDX
smashingmagazine.com Sep 9, 2020
Next.js is a React framework that enables you to build static and dynamic apps quickly. It is production-ready and supports server-side rendering and static site generation out of the box, making Next.js apps fast and SEO-friendly. In this...
Designing With Reduced Motion For Motion Sensitivities
smashingmagazine.com Sep 8, 2020
CSS has recently added features that allow us to recognize certain user preferences and qualities of the user’s current environment. One of those new features, specifically the prefers-reduced-motion media feature, can be especially useful for...
Smashing Podcast Episode 24 With Cassie Evans: What Is SVG Animation?
smashingmagazine.com Sep 8, 2020
Today we’re talking about SVG Animation. How can vector images, JavaScript and CSS all work together to provide engaging motion graphics? I spoke to SVG expert Cassie Evans to find out. Drew McLellan: She is a front end developer and speaker with a...
How To Automate API Testing With Postman
smashingmagazine.com Sep 7, 2020
One of my favorite features in Postman is the ability to write automated tests for my APIs. So if you are like me and you use Postman and you are tired of manually testing your APIs, this article will show how to harness the test automation feature...
Everything Developers Need To Know About Figma
smashingmagazine.com Sep 2, 2020
If you aren’t using it yet the name Figma is surely a name that you’ve heard more and more over the last few years. Figma is a relatively new design tool that is browser-based. This means you don’t need to install it locally or buy expensive...
Building React Apps With Storybook
smashingmagazine.com Sep 1, 2020
Storybook is a UI explorer that eases the task of testing components during development. In this article, you will learn what storybook is about and how to use it to build and test React components by building a simple application. We’ll start with...
How to Design the Perfect Developer Portfolio
webdesignerdepot.com Aug 31, 2020
As a freelance web developer, how many clients do you get from your website? If you’re like most, you’re probably lucky to get one client every 2-3 months. Unfortunately, that’s very common. These days it’s not enough just to be a web developer if...
September In All Its Facets (2020 Wallpapers Edition)
smashingmagazine.com Aug 31, 2020
September is just around the corner and, well, that means it’s time for some new wallpapers! Since more than nine years already, our monthly wallpapers series is the perfect opportunity for artists and designers from all across the globe to...
Demystifying Django’s Magic
smashingmagazine.com Aug 28, 2020
It is one of Python’s popular framework for building web applications and is most preferred for its scalability in creating a boilerplate with laid down configurations and files. This wraps up the whole goal of Django for developers; There are...
12 Best Google Design & Development Tools
webdesignerdepot.com Aug 28, 2020
Google resembles an iceberg: there’s the part above the water we can see and use everyday; there’s also the part beneath the water, that we don’t see and know little about. While many of us are concerned about the aspects of Google we don’t see —...
Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb
smashingmagazine.com Aug 27, 2020
Web 2.0 celebrated the idea of everyone being able to contribute to the web regardless of their technical skill and knowledge. Its major features include self-publishing platforms, social networking websites, “tagging”, “liking”, and bookmarking....
Using Mobx As A State Manager In React Native Applications
smashingmagazine.com Aug 26, 2020
State management is an integral part of developing JavaScript applications especially React and React Native applications. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to use the MobX library for state management; understand the core concepts, some...
How To Create Customer-Centric Landing Pages
smashingmagazine.com Aug 25, 2020
Establishing whether there’s a market for a specific product takes a lot of time and effort. Through years of exposure to the nuances of a particular industry, experienced entrepreneurs develop a keen sense for noticing “gaps in the market,” be it...
How To Build Your Own Comment System Using Firebase
smashingmagazine.com Aug 24, 2020
A comments section is a great way to build a community for your blog. Recently when I started blogging, I thought of adding a comments section. However, it wasn’t easy. Hosted comments systems, such as Disqus and Commento, come with their own set...
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