The week has come to an end so we’ve rounded up a bunch of web design and development related articles we’ve found that were published on the web over the past week. This week’s collection features topics include JavaScript tutorials, freelancing tips, headless CMS, minimalist fonts, WordPress, and much more. Let’s have a look!
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What Are The 7 Types Of Graphic Design
Graphic design is all around us. It’s on the coffee you drink, the car you drive, and the stationery you use.
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How to Improve Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) on WordPress
Cumulative Layout Shift is a vital core web metric system. Following are some of the most important things to consider when improving CLS in WordPress.
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Many Plugins, Many Styles: Creating a Consistent User Experience with WordPress
We share techniques for keeping the often opinionated CSS of an installed WordPress plugin from disrupting the UX of your site.
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Top 7 Headless CMS Platforms in 2021 | Resources | Graphic Design Junction
If you are creating any kind of online assets like an app, catalogue, forum, blog or website; you will need a content management system (CMS). That is where you’ll manage all the images, designs, text and video associated with your project. We’ll explore the top 7 headless CMS platforms in 2021 during this 10-minute read,
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How to Work for Free Without Wrecking Your Career | Webdesigner Depot
Choosing to work for free, pro bono, gratis, without charge is something that most of us find ourselves doing at one time or another. Whether we’re filling a hole in our portfolio, there’s a friend or relative we feel beholden to, or because there’s an opportunity to aid a cause we value. Recently, I agreed […]
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Native Search vs. Jetpack Instant Search in Headless WordPress With Gatsby | CSS-Tricks
Have you already tried using WordPress headlessly with Gatsby? If you haven’t, you might check this article around the new Gatsby source plugin for WordPress;
Read More 5 Ways to Get More Clients as a Freelancer in 2021 - noupe
Being a freelancer is fantastic and there are multiple perks. You get to set your own hours and work wherever you want. However, if there’s one downside
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6 Tips and Some Tricks to Grow Your Newsletter
Follow these tips and tricks, and you'll be on your way to producing the newsletter your brand (and your customers) need.
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The Grumpy Designer's Cure for Massive Expectations
It’s time for web designers to take back control over massive (and unrealistic) expectations. The following is my plan to help you do it.
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New Boilerplate Speeds Up Building “Nearly Headless” WordPress Themes
Alex Standiford, a WordPress developer at AffiliateWP, has released a boilerplate for what he is calling a “nearly headless” WordPress theme. It uses Underpin ,Nicholas, and AlpineJS to…
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Design Trend: Flat Cards UI
Cards are a design element that have been popular for a while. The look and function of them have continued to evolve in a number of ways, from tiny cards that are more of an oversized button to full-screen or split-screen cards that denote click or tap functionality. The reason this trend...
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Chrome Extensions Every Web Developer Must Have
Must-have Chrome extensions that will make your life easier as a web developer.
Read More Working with assumptions
If there is a taboo word in UX design, it’s probably “assumption”. While working on assumptions is considered risky and misleading, avoiding them completely is also a mistake. In this article, David Dikman shows why assumptions aren’t that scary if discussed and clarified properly.
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7 Reasons You Need to Be Using Landing Pages
You’ve come across them everywhere: Landing pages that take you to a website but aren’t the homepage. It’s a great strategy that helps get visitors directly to the information they want to see from a marketing source – social media, advertising, etc. – and is generally designed f...
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How to Receive Money on PayPal As A Freelancer (With & Without Fees)
You’re convinced you need PayPal in your life (amiright?), let’s get into how to receive money on PayPal now to get paid quickly.
Read More 10 Branding Mistakes Not to Make as a Designer
10 Branding Mistakes Not to Make as a Designer on WebDesignDev.com. Read about 10 Branding Mistakes Not to Make as a Designer.
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How to Harness Your Inner Creativity (For Freelancers) - Hongkiat
"I'd love to do creative work! But how do you think of all these crazy things?" It seems that creativity is magic, a mystical process, the
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7 overused logo letterforms to let go of
Get familiar with the most overused custom letterform designs in wordmarks.
Read More 10 Creative Animation Demos in CSS and JavaScript - 1stWebDesigner
10 eye-catching CSS and JavaScript animation demos that you can use as inspiration for incorporating animated effects in your next project.
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7 Landing Pages Comparisons To Improve Your Conversions in 2022 | Webdesigner Depot
Landing pages are crucial for conversions. User-friendly landing pages rank higher in the search engines and generate the maximum leads. Interestingly, user behavior changes every year, and new website design trends should be kept in mind to continue acquiring sales from your existing landing pages. If your high-performing landing pages in 2019 have suddenly started […]
Read More What is No-Code Development and Why Should You Care
No-code development has become increasingly popular recently. We wanted to introduce you to the concept and how no-code development works.
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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future — Smashing Magazine
The story of Jamstack CMSs goes all the way back to the 90s. In this article, we take a trip down memory lane to see how we got to the modern Jamstack CMSs we have today, and where they’re heading in the next decade.
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Beautiful Landing Pages (Tips and Examples) - Hongkiat
Hundreds of witty articles have been written around the topic of landing pages. We all know the basic facts – that these are the pages a visitor
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Using Nuxt and Supabase for a Multi-User Blogging App | CSS-Tricks
Nuxt is a JavaScript framework that extends the existing functionality of Vue.js with features like server-side rendering, static page generation, file-based
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