10 Tips for a Perfect Facebook Cover Image

April 17, 2018design tips
Almost every business and individual – from personal pages to freelance business pages – uses Facebook. It’s likely an integral part of your marketing strategy. It might even be your main professional website. So it is important that you make the most of this platform to ensure that your social media profile is polished and […]
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Creating a Panning Effect for SVG

April 17, 2018design tips

Earlier this month on the Animation at Work Slack, we had a discussion about finding a way to let users pan inside an SVG.

I made this demo below to show how I’d approach this question:

See the Pen Demo – SVG Panning by Louis Hoebregts (@Mamboleoo) on CodePen.

Here are the four steps to make the above demo work:

  1. Get mouse and touch events from the user
  2. Calculate the mouse offsets from its origin
  3. Save

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Getting Ahead of Gutenberg

April 16, 2018design tips
One of the biggest changes to WordPress ever is coming soon. Are you ready? How can you prepare? Why is WordPress making this change anyway? These questions and many more have been flying around the WordPress space for nearly a year since the new Gutenberg editor was announced by Matt Mullenweg in Summer of 2017 …
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20+ Best iPhone 8 Mockups

April 16, 2018design tips
Having a set of up-to-date iPhone mockups to use when presenting your designs to clients is a crucial part of being a professional designer. In this post, we bring you a set of iPhone 8 mockups to add to your ever-growing collection. iPhone 8 was one of the most anticipated devices in the Apple’s lineup. […]
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Hey hey `font-display`

April 16, 2018design tips

Y’all know about font-display? It’s pretty great. It’s a CSS property that you can use within @font-face blocks to control how, visually, that font loads. Font loading is really pretty damn complicated. Here’s a guide from Zach Leatherman to prove it, which includes over 10 font loading strategies, including strategies that involve critical inline CSS of subsets of fonts combined with loading the rest of the fonts later through JavaScript. It ain’t no walk in the park.

Using font-display…

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Doc Pop’s News Drop: Plugin Madness 2018 Recap

April 15, 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. Congrats to Smush Image Compression for winning Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness competition! Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted this year, it was a huge success. …
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Smush Image Compression Wins 2018 Plugin Madness

April 15, 2018design tips
For the second year in a row, WPMU Dev’s Smush Image Compression has won Plugin Madness! This year’s competition was fierce, but in the end, the image compression plugin came out on top. The plugin beat out Autoptimize, ShortPixel Image Optimizer, Hummingbird Page Speed Optimization, previous winner Advanced Custom Fields, Custom Sliders, and finally Restrict …
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3 Revenue Streams for First-Time Freelance Developers

April 15, 2018design tips
Beginning your journey as a freelance developer can feel like one small step for man, and one giant pain when trying to find work. You’ll want to find prosperous areas in which to apply your trade, but you’ll often encounter saturated markets that require hard work if you want to be successful. Finding a profitable …
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