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How To Use Google’s Material Design On Your Own Site

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Google Material Design is a major part of the modern web’s design language. This is especially true for mobile websites and apps. It’s a clean, legible design with visually distinct elements to draw the eye and make user interaction simple. Material design apps, by and large, use flat, paper-based designs that rely on graphic color […]

15 Great Gifts for Web Designers

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Buying gifts for the technologically inclined can be challenging. Here’s fifteen great ideas for gifts for web designers. Responsive Sketch Pad This unique sketch pad is created to help developers design websites for both desktop and mobile platforms. If you don’t like this pad, UI Stencils has an awesome collection of similar gifts for web […]

Best PHP Books, Courses and Tutorials in 2017

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While JavaScript has gained popularity for animation and interaction, PHP still rules the server-side scripting world. Developers with strong PHP skills are more competitive in the job market, and can build better sites with improved user experiences. If you want to freshen up your PHP skills or get started with the language from scratch, you […]

9 Design and Formatting Tricks to Make Your Content Easier to Read

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In a perfect world, content would be judged solely on the information it provides. The strength of a piece would depend exclusively on its subject matter, and how that subject is articulated through words and images. But in the online world, great information isn’t enough—you also need to present that information efficiently, and in an […]

Are You Underestimating The Power Of Color In Design?

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The colors you use in your website’s design have the potential to captivate and influence a sale. They also have the potential to distract and disrupt your visitors’ attention and make them bounce. Don’t underestimate the power of color when it comes to influencing your visitors. A beautiful color scheme isn’t necessarily an effective one. […]

Tips for Using Gradients In Web Design

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Gradients are on-trend for 2017, and they’are a good way to make your design look a little more up to date. They also provide a pleasing illusion of depth and distance, which can add some volume to one-dimensional layouts. Check out these tips for using gradients in web design to get acquainted. Put Gradients in […]

Psychology Hacks to Improve Your Website’s Effectiveness

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Psychological research has yielded a ton of fascinating precepts that can help us create better websites. By utilizing these psychology hacks, we can improve our websites’ effectiveness, increasing revenue and driving more traffic. Beneficial Defaults In the United States, we have a problem with organ donations: very few people participate. This means that life-saving operations […]

7 Ways Your Design Can Improve Customer Security

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Security is an interesting issue for the digital age, because it takes so many forms and can be handled in so many different ways. Almost every device, app, and piece of software is going to have vulnerabilities, and most reputable businesses make it a top priority to minimize those vulnerabilities. Better By Design The conventional […]

25 Summer Website Themes and Summer Design Templates for Inspiration

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It’s summertime, and the designing is easy. In these dog days of summer, designers are pulling out all the stops to grab the last licks of warm weather and beach vacations for their clients and viewers. Many fashion websites embrace this in particular, using sun-bleached photos and vacations vistas to capture a sense of the […]