Background Design Trends & Styles for 2019

One of the most important early design decisions you will make is what kind of background will carry a project. Should it be a single color, colorless, use trendy elements such as geometric shapes, gradients or wood grain patterns? Or would a solid background design can help make a project shine? Staying on trend with […]
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Primary SEO Factors in WordPress Theme Development

There is always a lot of buzz around the SEO-friendliness of the WordPress themes. Many people in the community are putting effort into making WordPress websites the most easily searched around. WordPress powers over 30 percent of the web, and that number could grow if every user focuses on SEO. If you are new to …
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Ease-y Breezy: A Primer on Easing Functions

During the past few months, I’ve been actively teaching myself how to draw and animate SVG shapes. I’ve been using CSS transitions, as well as tools like D3.js, react-motion and GSAP, to create my animations.

One thing about animations in general and the documentation these and other animation tools recommend is using easing functions. I’ve been working with them in some capacity over the years, but to be honest, I would never know which function to choose …

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How to Worry About npm Package Weight

It’s all too easy to go crazy with the imports and end up with megabytes upon megabytes of JavaScript. It can be a problem as that weight burdens each and every visitor from our site, very possibly delaying or stopping them from doing what they came to do on the site. Bad for them, worse for you.

There is all sorts of ways to keep an eye on it.

You could have a peak on Bundlephobia

Bundlephobia will give you …

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30+ Best Minimal PowerPoint Templates 2019

Delivering a minimalist PowerPoint presentation can clearly convey your message, and remove any clutter. This collection of modern, minimal PowerPoint templates is a great place to start—they put the focus on you as the speaker, and what you have to convey! These files are all fully editable and can be easily tweaked according to your […]
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50+ Best Photoshop Actions of 2019

Adobe Photoshop Actions are a great feature of the app, allowing you to create a process or workflow, record how it worked, and then easily repeat the process again for other photographs or design elements. Today we’ve collected some of the best Photoshop actions out there, for photographers and graphic designers alike. They cost just […]
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Nobody is quite wrong.

There are two opposing views on using non-polyfillable new web features that I find are both equally common in our industry:

  1. Websites don’t need to look the same in every browser. The concept of progressive enhancement helps with that. There are tools, even native language features, that help with this.
  2. If browser support isn’t where I want it to be, it’s just exotic eye candy for demos and not to be used.

I’m not sure I’d say either one of …

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A CSS Venn Diagram

This is pretty wild: Adrian Roselli has made a series of rather complex Venn diagrams using nothing but CSS. With a combination of the Firefox dev inspector, plus a mixture of CSS Grid and the shape-outside property, it’s possible to do this and without a ton of hacks, too.

I also think it’s super cute that Adrian has made the code snippets in this post look like the display from an old monitor, like the one Chris recently broke down.…

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6 of the Best Event Registration and Ticketing Solutions for WordPress

If you’re planning to use your WordPress website to promote events, you’ll need a dedicated tool. WordPress doesn’t offer event registration functionality by default, nor does it easily enable you to sell tickets and track attendance. Fortunately, there are plenty of tools that can get the job done. Of course, not every event registration solution …
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