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Web Design And Development Advent Roundup For 2019 Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 11, 2019
In the run-up to Christmas, there is a tradition across the web design and development community to produce advent calendars, typically with a new article or resource for each day of December. Last year, I did a roundup of these calendars, and now...
Struggling To Get A Handle On Traffic Surges Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 10, 2019
(This is a sponsored article.) When a traffic spike hits, you want your website to be able to ride the wave instead of drown beneath it. But how do you do that without constantly overspending on server resources in anticipation of a traffic surge...
Brand Illustration Systems: Drawing A Strong Visual Identity Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 9, 2019
In the flood of online content, companies live or die by their brand image. A brand image has to express the companys message and connect with users, who should instantly recognize it across different media, even away from the companys website...
How To Design Profitable Sales Funnels On Mobile Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com Dec 6, 2019
A sales funnel is a set of invisible steps you lay before visitors that takes them from the point of entry to the desired action. There are three stages in a sales funnel: Why do we call these three stages a funnel? Because, together, they form a...
How To Build A Real-Time Multiplayer Virtual Reality Game (Part 2) Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 5, 2019
In this tutorial series, we will build a web-based multiplayer virtual reality game, where players will need to collaborate to solve a puzzle. In the first part of this series, we designed the orbs featured in the game. In this part of the series,...
Get Started With UI Design With These Tips To Speed Up Your Workflow Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 4, 2019
This article is about creating limits and rules to follow throughout the entire design process. There is an unlimited number of ways in which you can combine elements in a user interface and so youll need to set some rules and boundaries, or...
20 top graphic design trends for 2020
creativebloq.com Dec 3, 2019
The start of a new decade is often the signal for fresh thinking and novel approaches to come to the fore, not least in the ever-evolving world of graphic design. So as we move from the 2010s to the 2020s, what are the emerging trends we should be...
Smashing Podcast Episode 4 With Heydon Pickering: What Are Inclusive Components? Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 3, 2019
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, Drew McLellan talks to Heydon Pickering about his new book, Inclusive Components. Heydon is known for his work and writing on Accessibility, so what is Inclusive Design, and where do components come into...
Beating The End Of The Year Rush (December 2019 Wallpapers Edition) Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 30, 2019
As the year is coming to a close, many of us feel rushed, trying to meet deadlines, finishing off projects, and preparing for the holidays. Do you remember what December felt like when you were little? It was a time of wonder and expectation, a...
Black Friday 2019: Support Indie Makers Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 29, 2019
Every time I have checked my email over the last two weeks, it has been full of Black Friday deals. We will get a short respite before the New Year offers start to roll in. I like a bargain as much as anyone, however, I think that plenty of sites...
Abstracting WordPress Code To Reuse With Other CMSs: Implementation (Part 2) Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 28, 2019
In the first part of this series, we learned the key concepts to build an application that is as CMS-agnostic as possible. In this second and final part, we will proceed to abstract a WordPress application, making its code ready to be used with...
Mastering OOP: A Practical Guide To Inheritance, Interfaces, And Abstract Classes Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 27, 2019
So far as I can tell, it is uncommon to come across educational content in the field of software development which provides an appropriate mixture of theoretical and practical information. If I was to guess why, I assume it is because individuals...
Programmatically Discovering Sharing Code With oEmbed Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 26, 2019
The web is full of services that host rich content such as videos, images, music and podcasts, maps and graphs, and all manner of different delights. Chances are, when you add your content to a site, it will offer you a way to embed that content in...
Is There A Future Beyond Writing Great Code? Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 25, 2019
Lets do a quick exercise. Say youve been working professionally as a developer for more than five years. Youve gained hands-on experience through dozens of projects and kept your skillset sharp by learning about new techniques, tools, and...
Getting Started With An Express And ES6+ JavaScript Stack Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 22, 2019
This article is the second part in a series, with part one located here, which provided basic and (hopefully) intuitive insight into Node.js, ES6+ JavaScript, Callback Functions, Arrow Functions, APIs, the HTTP Protocol, JSON, MongoDB, and more. In...
How To Use FOMO To Increase Conversions Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 21, 2019
Consumers are motivated by need and desire. And sometimes, just sometimes, theyre motivated by FOMO. Thats right: we can now add the Fear Of Missing Out to the list of drivers that get consumers onto our websites and into our apps. With that...
Performing iOS Animations On Views With UIKit And UIView Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 20, 2019
I have been an iOS developer for over a decade now and have rarely seen articles that consolidate all possible ways to perform animations in iOS. This article aims to be a primer on iOS animations with the intent of exhaustively covering the...
Smashing Podcast Episode 3 With Jina Anne: What Are Design Tokens? Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 19, 2019
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, were talking about Design Tokens. What are they, what problem do they solve, and how can they be used within an existing Design System? Drew McLellan talks to someone who is much more than a token expert:...
Abstracting WordPress Code To Reuse With Other CMSs: Concepts (Part 1) Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 18, 2019
Making code that is agnostic of the CMS or framework has several benefits. For instance, through its new content editor Gutenberg, WordPress enables to code components which can be used for other CMSs and frameworks too, such as for Drupal and for...
Become An HTML Email Geek With These Videos From Rémi Parmentier Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 14, 2019
Creating an HTML email can feel like stepping back a few years as a web developer. All of our new layout functionality is unavailable to us &mdasj; email clients render the same layout in completely different ways. Just when we think we have it all...
Better Design With Deep Thinking Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 13, 2019
Interruptions, administrative tasks, and too many meetings are among the common complaints voiced by todays professionals. When was the last time someone complained about a canceled meeting? In other words, everyone understands what hinders...
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