This Week In Web Design – November 13, 2020

In this guide for freelancers and entrepreneurs, learn how to create a recognizable brand that will help attract better, higher-quality clients.

A detailed guide about website design and how to create a good and useful websites for your users and clients. Examples and a detailed guide.

With custom post types and taxonomies you can create highly-specific ways of organizing content. We show you how you can use them in your own projects.

In this live stream you'll learn how to code the exploding particles video effect seen on the website of M-Trust with WebGL.

User experience does matter! Get to know all the secrets of creating good multilingual UX design across your entire digital ecosystem.

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are crucial development practices, especially for teams. Every project is prone to error,

UX Engineers have unique design roles and serve the vital purpose of developing components. UX Engineers bridge the gap between design and development, with a focus on the user.

An outline of the steps you need to take in order to become a professional graphic designer without going to school.

Despite great diversity in the workflows and end users supported by complex applications, these 8 design guidelines are generally applicable.

I've learned some valuable lessons about gaining confidence with clients. Read this for some tips you can use in your day-to-day interactions.

Website design trends change so fast, sometimes it is hard to follow. Patterned backgrounds have existed since website design started to be considered in developing webpages.

We bring you a collection of wonderful free Gothic fonts. These fonts can be very useful for adding a dark vintage charm to your projects.

An inline menu layout with a playful hover animation and a gallery content preview panel.

This gallery includes the best free Photoshop watercolor brushes you can find online. Download them and start using them in your own designs.

The irritating SSL connection errors may suddenly appear from nowhere, or maybe the result of lousy SSL certificate setup. No matter what the reason is, you surely don’t want your visitors to see any kind of dangerous warnings when surfing your website. These browser notifications can be: “Your connection is not private“, “Your connection is […]

When you apply a CSS property to an element, there's lots of things going on under the hood. For example, let’s say we have some HTML like this: <div

When you are working with low fidelity wireframes simple "Lorem Ipsum" text sometimes doesn't seem to look that good..

For the millionth time: We need container queries in CSS! And guess what, it looks like we're heading in that direction. When building components for a

Today I was reflecting on what I learned in the last few years, specifically related to programming and computer science. It is fair to say that I explored many new things — IoT, computer vision, deep learning, blockchain development, and more on the programming side. I was thinking of making a series of posts about …

Learn what a Venn diagram is and how to create such an interactive data visualization for the Web using JavaScript HTML5, in a special Venn diagram tutorial.

A built-in commenting system is one of the reasons people reach for WordPress (and often stay there long-term). While I do think having a comment system

I love this little CSS stylesheet to give you a simple but pleasant little change of color on your site throughout the days of a year. James Stanley’s little project is a better-version of some of the first WordPress code I ever wrote, so the concept is very near to my heart.

In 2013, Jake Archibald introduced this cool trick of animating an SVG path to look like it’s drawing itself. It’s 2020 now, and the trick is still

Have you ever committed your time to a project only to discover your responsibilities growing beyond the requirements? You have experienced scope creep.

Usability testing is a core component of User Centered Design and can be used at any stage in the process. It provides valuable insight into the mind of the user, giving us a better understanding of users’ mental models, and it helps to highlight issues that might negatively impact the experience, while also pointing to … Continue reading Usability Testing Guide

Learn where to add custom css in WordPress, plus other tips on templates, the WordPress CSS editor, templates, and more.

There is a multitude of interactive websites available on the internet. The more playful and controllable a website design is, the more interesting it becomes for users. 

Earlier this year I wrote a bit about autogrowing textareas and inputs. The idea was to make a <textarea> more like a <div> so it expands in

In this article, we look at three key parts of a digital store and what you can do to design each to help customers more quickly and effortlessly get to the checkout stage.

Recently, I finished a sixty-day sprint where I posted hand-coded zombie themed CSS animation every day. I learned a lot, but it also took me back to film

Living in a digital world makes everything easier including finding graphic design inspiration. Holding a magazine and leafing through the pages may seem a litt

To draw or not to draw — that is the question, and it’s a controversial one among designers. Some say it isn’t mandatory for designers to know how to draw nowadays, but others maintain that it’s a must-have skill for every artist. Famous concept artist Bryant Koshu shares these vie...

Here are ways to boost your website's coversion rates.

What is serverless architecture? When should you use it? Learn the pros and cons of serverless and when it might be the right fit.