The Complete Guide to Lazy Loading Images

Images are critical. Whether it is marketing banners, product images or logos, it is impossible to imagine a website without images. Sadly though, images are often heavy files making them the single biggest contributor to the page bloat. According the HTTP Archive’s State of Images report, the median page size on desktops is 1511 KB and images account for nearly 45% (650 KB) of that total.

That said, it’s not like we can simply do away with images. They’re …

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20+ Halloween Flyer Templates

With Halloween just around the corner, everyone is busy preparing for fun costume parties, festivals, and events. We picked out some of the best Halloween flyer templates to help you promote those events like a pro. In this collection, we’re featuring a set of professionally-designed Halloween-themed flyer templates you can use to quickly design a […]
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20+ Best Facebook Cover & Post Mockups

If you’re a social media manager or a small business owner looking to supercharge your Facebook content strategy, then you’ve come to the right place. Developing high-quality content for Facebook can be tough when you’re managing everything by yourself. It’s easy for big corporations with big budgets to design unique and beautiful content to grow […]
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How to Use Case Studies to Win More Work

Winning new clients is a primary concern for many freelance developers and agency owners. However, making sure a project goes swimmingly is also a key consideration, not least because the quicker a project wraps, the faster you can begin the next one. In our opinion, case studies are one of the best ways to do …
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Control the Internet With Chrome Extensions!

As a web UI developer and designer, there are countless things to learn and only so many hours in the day. There are topics I’ve purposefully avoided, like mobile and offline application development because, at some point, you have to draw a line somewhere in the millions of shiny new topics and get some work done. One of the areas I’ve avoided in the past is browser extension development. I didn’t understand how they worked, what the development environment was, …

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The Golden Ratio in Design: Examples & Tips

This might feel like a math lesson but hang in there. The golden ratio combines a little bit of math, a little bit of nature, and a lot of practical application for designers. Let’s take a look at what the golden ratio means for design, and a few tips for using it in your design […]
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How to Improve UX with the Right Front-End

These days, a lot of companies choose to hire a dedicated WordPress developer to create affordable and simple websites with interactive front-end components. The journey commences with finding someone you can trust at a rate you can afford. This typically translates into spending endless hours conducting conference calls, drafting long emails, and dealing with other …
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Having fun with link hover effects

A designer I work with was presenting comps at a recent team meeting. She had done a wonderful job piecing together the concept for a design system, from components to patterns and everything in between that would make any front-end developer happy.

But there was a teeny tiny detail in her work that caught my eye: the hover state for links was a squiggle.

Default link (top) and hover effect (bottom)

Huh! Not only had I not seen that before, …

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