Preparing your content for the Extended Reality (XR) Future

April 23, 2018design tips
You’ve probably heard rumblings in the tech industry around the innovations in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. These mediums can broadly be defined as Extended Reality or XR. My first venture into development in XR was in 2010 when I was exploring Flash development. My application was straightforward; show the webcam a Quick …
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JAMstack Comments

April 23, 2018design tips

JAMstack sites are often seen as being static. A more accurate mental model for them would be that they are sites which have the ability to be hosted statically. The difference might seem semantic, but thanks to the rise of many tools and services which simplify running a build and deploying to static hosting infrastructure, such sites can feel much fresher and dynamic than you might imagine, while still capable of being served from static hosting infrastructure, with all …

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How Your WordPress Security and Activity Log Can Help You Move Towards GDPR Compliance

April 23, 2018design tips
Keeping an activity log of everything that happens on your WordPress websites and multisite networks is a vital security measure. As such, it’s important to understand how the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will impact the way you use your security and activity log. With the GDPR set to roll out soon, you’ll want …
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Server-Side Visualization With Nightmare

April 23, 2018design tips

This is an extract from chapter 11 of Ashley Davis’s book Data Wrangling with JavaScript now available on the Manning Early Access Program. I absolutely love this idea as there is so much data visualization stuff on the web that relies on fully functioning client side JavaScript and potentially more API calls. It’s not nearly as robust, accessible, or syndicatable as it could be. If you bring that data visualization back to the server, you can bring progressive enhancement …

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20+ Best Microsoft Word Brochure Templates

April 23, 2018design tips
Today, we’re bringing you a set of professionally designed brochure templates compatible with Microsoft Word to help you get a head start on your next brochure project. Every designer has a collection of pre-designed templates. These templates not only allow you to enhance your workflow, but also save hours of time otherwise spent searching for […]
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Doc Pop’s News Drop: 5 Ways You Are Breaking Accessibility On Your Site

April 22, 2018design tips
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. On this week’s News Drop video, we talk about 5 ways you may accidentally be breaking your site for some users. Love WordPress news, but hate …
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Improving Native WordPress Search

April 22, 2018design tips
If you have ever worked on a WordPress site with a massive amount of posts and pages, you might have noticed something about the WordPress search: it doesn’t perform well. In this article, we dive into why the default WordPress search doesn’t scale and some ways to make it better. How WordPress Searches By default, …
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How to Install & Use a Photoshop Brush in 3 Minutes

April 22, 2018design tips
Photoshop brushes can open up a whole new world of creativity. Brushes let you draw and paint in any way imaginable—creating anything from simple textures, to patterns in any imaginable element (from simple leaves to a beautiful night sky!) If you haven’t used a Photoshop brush before, it can be a little intimidating. But once […]
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Native-Like Animations for Page Transitions on the Web

April 22, 2018design tips

Some of the most inspiring examples I’ve seen of front end development have involved some sort of page transitions that look slick, like they do in mobile apps. However, even though the imagination for these types of interactions seem to abound, their presence on actual sites that I visit do not. There are a number of ways to accomplish these types of movement!

Here’s what we’ll be building:

Demo Site

GitHub Repo

We’ll build out the simplest possible distallation of …

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How to make your WordPress Posts go Viral

April 19, 2018design tips
An awesome blog is a sure-fire way to bring attention to what you’re doing, share your experience and expertise with others, and, of course, make a living. All these goals cannot be reached unless your posts are super popular. Getting the word out is the biggest challenge every beginner blogger faces, and often it becomes …
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