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Django Highlights: Templating Saves Lines (Part 2) Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 2, 2020
Some no-frills approaches to building websites require a developer to write every line of HTML by hand. On the other extreme, commercial no-code site builders create all of the HTML for the user automatically, often at the expense of readability in...
Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Apr 1, 2020
In this tutorial, youll learn what Headless CMS is, and the pros and cons of Headless CMS. In the end, youll have built a shopping cart using GraphCMS (a (backend-only content management system). After that, you can go ahead and build any web app...
What Should You Do When A Web Design Trend Becomes Too Popular? Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Mar 31, 2020
I read an interesting article on Forbes recently about language saturation. Heres the problem: Consumers dont always understand the technicalities of what businesses do or the solutions theyve created for them. So, copywriters use jargon that...
Visual Design Language: The Building Blocks Of Design Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Mar 30, 2020
Like written words are to language, fonts, colors, shapes and icons are to visual design. An effective visual design language not only acts as a communication framework for all stakeholders on a product development team, but unites a brand and its...
How To Make Life Easier When Using Git Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Mar 27, 2020
Git was released almost 15 years ago. In that time it has gone from underdog to unbeaten champion, git init is often the first command run on a new project. It is undoubtedly an important tool that many of us use on a daily basis and yet it is...
How to Manage Your Freelance Finances During a Crisis | Webdesigner Depot
webdesignerdepot.com Mar 26, 2020
Have you ever heard of disaster recovery and business continuity? Basically, theyre processes that enable businesses to survive a crisis no matter what its caused by: a natural disaster, economic downturn, personal emergency, or something else....
How Should Designers Learn To Code? Git, HTML/CSS, Engineering Principles (Part 2) Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Mar 25, 2020
Literally, tomes have been written on version control. Nevertheless, I will start by sharing a brief explanation and other introductory content to whet your appetite for further study. Version control (not to be confused with version history) is...
Free online resources for artists and designers stuck at home
creativebloq.com Mar 24, 2020
Life is changing in ways we never dreamed of due to the Covid-19 outbreak. But despite these uncertain times, the creative community is leading the way in its supportive efforts. Each day we are seeing more and more individuals and companies offer...
Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseparable Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Mar 23, 2020
For the past few years, books about HTML and CSS have almost vanished from my studio bookshelves. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Recently, I was browsing a new addition to my library and was captivated...
12 Best Web Design Podcasts for 2020 | Webdesigner Depot
webdesignerdepot.com Mar 20, 2020
How Should Designers Learn To Code? The Terminal And Text Editors (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Mar 18, 2020
How Indigo.Design Usability Testing Takes The Guesswork Out Of Web Design Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Mar 17, 2020
Usability is critical for a websites success, but it can be difficult to nail down in early design and development stages without a little help. Its not as though the research and preparation you do for a new site wont give you insights on how...
Implementing Infinite Scroll And Image Lazy Loading In React Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Mar 16, 2020
If you have been looking for an alternative to pagination, infinite scroll is a good consideration. In this article, were going to explore some use cases for the Intersection Observer API in the context of a React functional component. The reader...
Stay Calm And Read Smashing Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Mar 13, 2020
For all the times we asked folks about Smashing, most still seem to believe that were some sort of large publishing company situated somewhere in the United States both of which are wrong. It all started in Freiburg, Germany, and the team...
7 Deadly Graphic Designer Sins (And 4 Ways to Atone) | Webdesigner Depot
www.webdesignerdepot.com Mar 13, 2020
As a designer, youve probably wished you could know exactly what your clients were thinking at one point or another. Maybe it was when they were vaguely describing how they wanted their design to pop. Or maybe when they were trying to express...
5 Essential Social Media Tools to Boost Your Profile | Webdesigner Depot
webdesignerdepot.com Mar 11, 2020
Expelliarmus! shouts Harry Potter and the dark wizard loses his wand. Heroes of the fantasy world are incomplete without their tools: Thors Hammer, Captain Americas Shield, Iron Mans suit, and lets not forget the most tool dependent superhero...
Make Honest Design Work For Digital Business, With Ethical Design Handbook Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Mar 10, 2020
Many business models thrive on ingeniously deceptive and manipulative digital products. Not because they have to; mostly because dark patterns have become such an accepted norm. But what happens when ad-blockers, cross-browser tracking protection...
Building An E-Commerce Site With October CMS And Shopaholic Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Mar 10, 2020
October CMS is flourishing: With over 9000 stars in its GitHub repo, 2000 forks and 300 contributors, it is becoming a major force in the CMS space. It won the popular vote as the Best Flat-File CMS from 2018, new plugins are published on its...
Graphic design history: 25 landmark design events
www.creativebloq.com Mar 10, 2020
The past 25 years have been rich in terms of graphic design history. We've seen monumental changes, and our sister magazine Computer Arts has been there to bring you the lowdown on everything that's happened in graphic design and illustration. The...
Setting Height And Width On Images Is Important Again — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Mar 9, 2020
Introducing Alpine.js: A Tiny JavaScript Framework Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Mar 5, 2020
Like most developers, I have a bad tendency to over-complicate my workflow, especially if theres some new hotness on the horizon. Why use CSS when you can use CSS-in-JS? Why use Grunt when you can use Gulp? Why use Gulp when you can use Webpack?...
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