How to Keep Your Site Secure Using a Web Application Firewall (WAF)

January 27, 2019design tips
If there’s one phrase more prevalent than ‘website security‘ in the conversations about running a WordPress site, we’re yet to find it. You may already know the ins and outs of protecting your site using security plugins. However, that’s not the only step you can take, especially if you want to leave no stone unturned …
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The Slow and Steady Refactor

January 27, 2019design tips

Over the past week or so, I’ve been reading Refactoring by Martin Fowler and it’s all about how to make sweeping changes to a large codebase in a way that doesn’t cause everything to break. I bring this up because there’s a lot of really good notes in this book that have challenged my recent approach to auditing and refactoring a ton of CSS. A lot of the advice is small, kinda obvious stuff, but I realized that I’ve … Read article

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Table design patterns on the web

January 27, 2019design tips

Chen Hui Jing has tackled a ton of design patterns for tables that might come in handy when creating tables that are easy to read and responsive for the web:

There are a myriad of table design patterns out there, and which approach you pick depends heavily on the type of data you have and the target audience for that data. At the end of the day, tables are a method for the organisation and presentation of data. It is

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What Are Dark Patterns? (And Why You Shouldn’t Use Them)

January 27, 2019design tips
Dark patterns are website interfaces that cause users to interact with a website in a way that isn’t what they intended. They cause users to click through to a page, or even add an extra item to a shopping cart, without intending to. From sneaky clicks to straight-up poor website practices, dark patterns are in […]
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How to Choose the Best Color Palette For Your Blog

January 24, 2019design tips
Have you ever wondered why many blogs struggle to get traffic while others just go with the flow and end up attracting more shoppers? Surprisingly a lot of it has to do with the color you use. It is important to note that every color has a meaning behind it and generates a certain emotion. …
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Need to Test API Endpoints? Two Quick Ways to Do It.

January 24, 2019design tips

Here’s a possibility! Perhaps you are testing your JavaScript with a framework like Jasmine. That’s nice because you can write lots of tests to cover your application, get a nice little UI to see the output, and even integrate it with build and deploy tools to make your ongoing development work safer.

Now, perhaps there is this zany developer on your team who keeps changing API endpoints on you — quite literally breaking things in the process. You decide … Read article

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Creating Your Own Gravity and Space Simulator

January 24, 2019design tips

Space is vast. Space is awesome. Space is difficult to understand — or so people tend to think. But in this tutorial I am going to show you that this is not the case. Quite the contrary; the laws that govern the motion of the stars, planets, asteroids and even entire galaxies are incredibly simple. You could argue that if our Universe was created by a developer, she sure was concerned about writing clean code that would be easy to … Read article

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30+ Best Line Patterns & Textures

January 24, 2019design tips
Whether you’re working on a product packaging design, a greeting card, or even a website background, incorporating one of these line patterns and textures can help you achieve a pro result. No need to spend hours of your valuable time searching for beautiful line patterns. We scoured the web to find the best line patterns […]
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Tips to Make WordPress Web Design Mobile-Friendly

January 23, 2019design tips
For some time, people who owned and ran WordPress websites thought of being mobile-friendly as more than an option than a necessity. That changed a couple of years ago when the mobile user population surpassed the number of desktop users. With the gap widening with each passing year, it would seem foolhardy for webmasters to …
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