This Week In Web Design – January 21, 2022

An auto-playing background video is a popular feature for many websites. Learn how you can optimize a background video in WordPress!

Review a bunch of practical web design examples devoted to the topic of traveling, sightseeing, recreation, booking, and getting amazed by the world's beauty.

An introduction into the basics of WordPress block themes, and discussion on how they compare and contrast to traditional themes.

Are you wondering what it takes to reach 6 figures as a freelancer? Find out truly what it takes by reading this incredible success story from Kate.

Images need to look their best. Compression methods — like lossy vs lossless — are one way to keep quality high and file sizes low.

Instead of using the indexOf() method to check if an element is in the array, you can use the includes() method.

Picture a dark office, blinds drawn. Picture a UX designer smoking a cigar. See the light filtered through the smoke whipped to fog by a spinning ceiling fan. Watch as the UX designer sits at a desk and considers the website. The UX designer has devised a series of tests to determine if a green

Using a local server is the safest way to develop your WordPress site. When you've done developing the site, the next step is to migrate the site from the

A complete list of the most popular front-end tools in 2021, according to the Web Tools Weekly newsletter. See which resources made the list.

One of the properties that are used quite often in CSS is color. It can be used with different types of values such as RGB, HSL and keywords.

For most of us, freelancing full-time seems like a dream come true. We get to be our own boss, work our own hours, and are responsible for our own

SVG is a very neat format to display any illustration, icon or logo on a website. Furthermore, they can be animated in C

A look at some of the scenarios where WordPress Gutenberg blocks can replace custom coding and speed up the development process.

There are a number of options for including a Table of Contents block in WordPress, including several plugins, or trying to do it yourself.

What is concept testing and how can you use it to improve your design process? Learn how concept testing works and the tools to help you get started.

Few things are more important to a web designer or developer’s chances of success than having the proper workflow. The term “workflow” applies to the set of standardized steps you or your company uses to create, test, and deploy designs or products. Over the years, as development processes have evolved, so too have the workflows

This post introduces two popular ways to create a range slider.

Shake up your everyday home or professional routine with a scavenger hunt. A web-based scavenger hunt can be a fun game for all ages and skill levels and help create interaction and engagement for teams, individuals, or large (virtually connected) groups. But how do you get started? We’v...

From currying to closures there are quite a number of JavaScript jargons (special words used within the field) knowing which will not only help you

What an amazing month it has been! I'm super excited to show this collection of fantastic websites that shine with their

Let's stop chasing a particular title or letting ourselves be defined by one. Instead, focus on tangible results.

We can create a life-like dappled light effect In CSS, adding a magic touch to what might otherwise be drab walls of content to bring them back to life.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a web form or a contact form in Bootstrap 5 and start collecting data using the Static.app service.

CSS3 was a massive success for CSS. No doubt loads of people boned up during that time. How has CSS changed since? Let's count the ways.

An aspect of web components is that a JavaScript function is called whenever a web component is added or removed from a page.

"There are no shortcuts—the trick is to find out what works and what doesn't." — Get inspired by designer and illustrator Diana Hlvenjak's career story and get her top tips on cultivating your own creative path.

Todo lists. Checklists. While there are differences in their purposes, their output is essentially the same. They are lists of items with boxes to tick off, and a plugin like David Towoju’s T…

This easy to follow, detailed guide provides all the steps you need to take to properly migrate from Joomla to WordPress.