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31 Fresh Design Elements for Spring and Easter

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Spring is in the air and Easter will soon be upon us! Spruce up your sites for spring with these design elements for spring and Easter designs. Golden Easter Egg Happy Easter Hand Inked Card Colorful Spring Clipart Spring Design Elements Vectors Spring Fling Design Labels Gentle Floral Decor Watercolor Spring Easter Egg Fern and […]

27 Spooky Halloween Design Elements For Scary Designs

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It’s Spooktober, and Halloween is almost upon us! Folks have changed their Twitter handles to spooky puns, Reddit has adopted the yearly skeleton memes, and cultural fads are being distilled into cheap Halloween costumes you can buy at Wal-Mart. They’re even playing Werewolf Bar Mitzvah on the radio. It’s surely the spookiest time of the […]

35 Autumn and Fall Design Elements For Your Next Project

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Second only to spring, the fall is a super popular time of year. As everyone below the Mason Dixon line asks what this “autumn” thing is all about, the folks in the Northern parts of the world cozy up in flannel button-downs and drink tea. For about three weeks, that is, and the bone-chilling blast […]

How to Optimize, Compress, and Save Images For the Web

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It’s not a sudden discovery that the size of web pages are increasing. Developers minify their code, ditch expansive libraries, and shift code to the server side, all in an attempt to shave 100 kB off their code base. You may even be asked to drop valuable libraries like jQuery in an attempt to speed […]

Make Sure You’re Ready For GDPR With Our GDPR Checklist

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GDPR is all about making sure companies are accountable for responsibly storing and using their users’ data. It has the effect of placing significant regulatory burden on companies that process and store user data, but this kind of thing has been a long time coming. Complete lack of oversight in storing personally identifiable information was […]

Tips and Tricks to Improve Your JavaScript’s SEO

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JavaScript usage can have a surprising impact on SEO. But how? As you probably know, basic web crawlers are pretty dumb. They just read through the text files associated with your domain, following links and trawling through your code. But they can’t really “see” the website: only the code that comprises it. As a result, […]

Modern Handwritten Fonts for Fresh Design Trends

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Handwritten fonts are on-trend for 2018, to the point where their use has become somewhat overwhelming. We’re smack in the middle of a aesthetic age focused on simplification: the removal of skeuomorphs, the simple use of color and direct expressions of design ideas. Handwritten fonts might seem to contradict that notion, but in fact support […]