10 Tips for Perfect Brochure Design

Designing a brochure can be a rewarding project. There’s nothing like creating something that you can hold, touch, and read. Plus, the design is more than just an arrangement of parts—it includes texture and feel in a way that digital projects can’t convey. Designing the perfect brochure can be intimidating. In addition to all the […]
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Voice Search Optimization – How to Do WordPress SEO for Voice Search

Voice search optimization is something every WordPress website owner will need to deal with. It will be an important part of SEO in 2018 and beyond. The emergence of artificial intelligence and improvements in voice recognition are changing the way we interact with (mobile) devices. Speaking is more convenient than typing. For that reason, voice-controlled …
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Chrome DevTools “Local Overrides”

There’s been two really interesting videos released recently that use the “Local Overrides” feature of Chrome DevTools in order to play with web performance without even touching the original source code.

The big idea is that you can literally edit CSS and reload the page and your changes stick. Meaning you can use the other performance testing tools …

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Notched Boxes

Say you’re trying to pull off a design effect where the corner of an element are cut off. Maybe you’re a Battlestar Galactica fan? Or maybe you just like the unusual effect of it, since it avoids looking like a typical rectangle.

I suspect there are many ways to do it. Certainly, you could use multiple backgrounds to place images in the corners. You could just as well use a flexible SVG shape placed in the background. I bet …

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20+ Best Condensed & Narrow Fonts of 2018

Contrary to popular belief, condensed and narrow fonts don’t make your text cramped or crowded. You just have to know the appropriate time and place to use the font. Condensed fonts are widely used these days for headlines and portraying bold messages, and when deployed in the right place, they can give stunning impact! It […]
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A Better Sketch File, a Better Designer, a Better You

I’ve been thinking about this post by Isabel Lee for the last couple of weeks — it’s all about how we should be more considerate when making designs in Sketch. They argue that we’re more likely to see real efficiency and organizational improvements in our work if we name our layers, artboards, and pages properly. Isabel writes:

Keeping a super organized Sketch file has helped me smooth out my design process and saved me time when I was trying to …

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WordCamp Europe 2018 Announces Speakers

Editor’s Note: This post will be updated with each new group announcement.  WordCamp Europe, the biggest WordCamp in the world, is just around the corner in Belgrade, Serbia. Users gather from all over to celebrate the CMS. Organizers have started announcing speakers in groups based on the topic they’re talking about. Group One: Open Source …
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How to Add RTL Support to Your Custom WordPress Theme

About 75% of the internet speaks a language other than English. Some of these other languages read Right-to-Left (RTL), which can completely ruin the layout of many English-only designs. Thankfully, having a theme that flows well for RTL languages (such as Arabic) is largely a matter of updating your CSS. With a few design considerations …
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