We Need Your Help- Fill Out the Torque Community Survey

November 26, 2018design tips
Five years ago Torque was created as a way to teach and communicate with the community. Ever since then, our community has grown and evolved. We want to carry on the tradition of community interaction by inviting you to participate in a survey to help make Torque better. We want to hear what you like …
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5 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work and That You Need to Retire

November 26, 2018design tips
The field of search engine optimization has gone through so many changes and keeps evolving so fast that it’s hard to keep track. As a consequence, things that used to net you a good chance of landing on the first page of Google no longer do so. However, you might not even be aware that …
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Front-end development is not a problem to be solved

November 26, 2018design tips

HTML and CSS are often seen as a burden.

This is a feeling I’ve noticed from engineers and designers I’ve worked with in the past, and it’s a sentiment that’s a lot more transparent with the broader web community at large. You can hear it in Medium posts and on indie blogs, whether in conversations about CSS, web performance, or design tools.

The sentiment is that front-end development is a problem to be solved: “if we just have the …

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FUIF: Responsive Images by Design

November 26, 2018design tips

Jon Sneyers:

One of the main motivations for FUIF is to have an image format that is responsive by design, which means it’s no longer necessary to produce many variants of the same image: low-quality placeholders, thumbnails, many downscaled versions for many display resolutions. A single file, truncated at different offsets, can do the same thing.

FLIF isn’t anywhere near ready to use, but it’s a fascinating idea. I love the idea that the format stores the image data …

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15+ Christmas Photoshop Brushes, Actions & Text Effects

November 26, 2018design tips
Christmas is a busy time of year for everyone, not least designers! To help ease your workload, we’ve handpicked a collection of Christmas-themed Photoshop brushes, actions, and text effects for creating all kinds of seasonal designs. With these add-ons, you’ll be able to make your own unique Christmas cards, social media posts, website banners, posters, […]
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30+ Best Cursive & Script Fonts

November 26, 2018design tips
If you’re looking for a different type of a font to make your design stand out, a cursive font can be a great choice. Cursive and script fonts aren’t new, but they’re a less common choice for many designers. This gives you a chance to use cursive fonts to add some originality to your next […]
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A Practical Guide to Developing a WordPress Plugin

November 25, 2018design tips
Lots of articles online discuss the ‘sexy’ side of development, such as coding strategies, framework choices, and other ‘fun’ elements. The more practical side of planning and developing WordPress solutions is less on display, although it can be just as interesting (and is absolutely vital). For example, honing and refining an idea into a laser-focused …
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CSS Grid in IE: Duplicate area names now supported!

November 25, 2018design tips

Autoprefixer is now up to version 9.3.1 and there have been a lot of updates since I wrote the original three-part CSS Grid in IE series — the most important update of which is the new grid-areas system. This is mostly thanks to Bogdan Dolin, who has been working like crazy to fix loads of Autoprefixer issues. Autoprefixer’s grid translations were powerful before, but they have gotten far more powerful now!

Article Series:

  1. Debunking common IE Grid misconceptions
  2. CSS

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