Top 5 Email Scams For 2018: Gullible People Beware

October 31, 2018design tips
For as long as email has existed, email scams have also existed. But that being said, email scams have hardly remained the same, because as internet scams, in general, have become more sophisticated with each passing year so have email scams as well. Today, email scams are more deceptive and advanced, and unfortunately also more …
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Symbolic Links for Easier Multi-Folder Local Development

October 31, 2018design tips

You know how you open a “project” in a local code editor? I guess different editors have different terminology for it, but essentially what you are doing is opening a folder/directory and it shows you a sidebar full of files and folders you can navigate through and such.

Typically there is one parent folder, and everything else is within that folder. Right? Well, it doesn’t have to be! That’s where symbolic links come in.

Otherwise known as symlinks, they …

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monday.com, a new way to manage your work! Meet the new visual project management tool

October 31, 2018design tips

(This is a sponsored post.)

monday.com is a centralized platform for teams to manage every detail of their work, from high-level roadmap planning to the specifics of day-to-day tasks, while building a culture of transparency. It is a tool for an any-sized team, which can start with two freelancers working together to thousands collaborating across the globe. The tool is really popular amongst non-tech teams, often replacing burdensome excel files, whiteboards, and excessively long meetings.

The main thing is …

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SVG vs PNG vs JPG: Image Format Pros & Cons

October 31, 2018design tips
When it comes to creating images for the web and other digital purposes, what file formats will give you the best result? You have to think about speed versus image quality and scale. So what should you use: SVG vs PNG vs JPG? There was a time when you just used a JPG sized to […]
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Gutenberg Cloud Plugin for WordPress is Now in Beta

October 30, 2018design tips
Frontkom, the team behind the Gutenberg Cloud project, has published the beta version of its WordPress plugin to the official repository. Cloud Blocks serves as a connector, allowing WordPress users to browse and install open source blocks from Gutenberg Cloud. The blocks are hosted on NPM and their assets are (more…)
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Getting Started With React Unit Testing For WordPress Development

October 30, 2018design tips
When I first looked at Vue vs React, I chose VueJS. One of the reasons was that I felt like Vue was a better choice was the complexity of React classes and life-cycle events. I felt like that was a lot of extra complication that would help with developing frameworks, but preferred the simplicity of …
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Freemius Launches The “We Got Your Back” Program To Push WordPress Plugin & Theme Branding Forward

October 30, 2018design tips
Sometimes, when I stumble across certain WordPress products in our business sphere (more with plugins than with themes) I think to myself: “I bet that the logo/icon/featured image/homepage design for this one was either created by the same person who coded the product, or perhaps through a Fiverr gig”. At some point, after having said …
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How to Get Web Design Clients: 10 Ideas to Try Today

October 30, 2018design tips
Who was it that said working as a freelance web designer was easy? While the work might not be a problem, the business of finding new web design clients is another issue. It can be tough to keep a steady number of clients coming through so that you stay busy and maintain the right income […]
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Subset Numerals so They’re as Awesome as the Rest of Your Content

October 30, 2018design tips

You’re putting the finishing touches on your new million-dollar-idea — your copy is perfect, your color scheme is dazzling, and you’ve found a glorious font pairing (who knew Baskerville and Raleway looked so great together? You did.) but there’s one problem: Raleway’s pesky lowercase numbers make your shopping cart look confusing and overwhelm the user.

This is a fairly mundane problem, but an issue that can make beautiful typefaces unusable if numbers are an important part of your site; a …

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