What is a mentor? Plenty of people think it’s some formal, master/apprentice agreement that lasts for a certain number of years, but it doesn’t have to be.…
Minimalism has gained popularity in the past few years and has been among the top web design trends in 2017. Minimalist sites load faster, take fewer server resources, and are often faster to develop than more graphically complicated designs.…
Ah, Halloween. The one time of year when children are encouraged to dress up like goblins and ghouls, run from house to house, and demand free food from total strangers.…
Unlike any other industry web development is changing by leaps and bounds. There are new tools, methods, and frameworks developed almost every day to cater to newer trends and technological advancement in the web industry.…
How often do you go looking for snippets to solve your coding problems? I’m guilty of searching at least once a day.
Big sites like Stack Overflow have millions of snippets and there’s plenty more on blogs, social sites, and tech forums.…
Creating a portfolio website is easier today than it was not too long ago. Once upon a time, you had to learn HTML and CSS to build an online portfolio that was more than above average.…
Prototyping tools play vital roles in web and mobile app design and development. They benefit project leaders, teams, and clients. They provide them with enhanced abilities to share important design information.…
Here’s the time of the month to feature yet another fresh resource collection for my fellow web developers. In this month’s batch, I have picked the best tools from various programming languages like a PHP framework to create an avatar image, a Node.js…
Finding a piece of software that can ease your job as a designer or developer is a hard and time-consuming task. There are thousands of solutions on the market, some are great and some not so good.…
Either you want to learn a new tool or just want to brush up your web and UI design skills, learning from e-books is the best and quickest way to do that.…
When it comes to building your website with the most perfect design and usability, web templates always come in handy. These ready-made web themes take the pain out of creating a website from scratch and come with all sorts of useful and advanced features.…
It seems that the development community is more active lately as there have been quite plenty of new tools released in the last few months. In this round of the series, I’ll highlight some of the tools that are worth mentioning.…
July is the month that brings hight of summer and so for this month’s batch of fresh resources, we have some hot new tools from some well-established as well as novice developers.…
Are you leading a team of designers or developers or are a team member? Then, you know the value of good communication and collaboration. Even if you’re freelancing, you still need to communicate with your clients.…
When you are working on an online project, anything from collaboration to testing services and task management can add a lot to your productivity. Fortunately, there are tons of tools that can help us do online projects faster and better.…
There are many tools for building web-apps yet putting them all together and making them fit in our workflow could be real cumbersome. We also tend to do repetitive tasks when building web apps such as creating files, creating folders, installing a number of front-end libraries.…
In this installment of the fresh resources, we have a mixed variety of resources in the list. Aside of some code-based tools like new JavaScript libraries and frameworks, we’ve also included a couple of handy GUI applications that I’m sure both developers and designers will appreciate.…
When properly applied, technology solves many problems. Web designers are usually quick to take advantage of technological advances.
On the other side of the coin, changing technologies often brings new problems.…
Data visualization is the key to better understand bulky or complicated information. There are many ways to visualize your data i.e. you can design cool infographics or create interactive charts ‐ it all depends on your data and how you want to present it.…
If your website is image-heavy i.e. a portfolio or photography website etc., then there are two things that you’ll be needing the most – photo gallery plugins to help you better manage the images on your website, and image slideshows to showcase your images to the world.…