In addition to building your client contact list this year, you should be thinking of upgrading your knowledge base in critical areas, especially as competition in the digital economy gets stiffer and opens up wider opportunities for highly skilled web developers and designers. What exactly should you focus on when expanding your web development skills-set […]
How to Become a Professional WordPress Developer [Infographic]
Currently, there are over 1 billion websites on the interwebs, and it is reported that every minute, over 500 new websites are created. What is more interesting is that out of this huge number of websites, over 27% are being run by WordPress, which makes it the most popular CMS in the market today. That […]
TARS: Free, Ready-To-Use Markup Builder
Front End is really huge nowadays. We have to draw sprites, transpile ES to js, less/sass/stylus to CSS and so on. And it is only becoming more and more complex over time. A lot of routine processes, which developers had to perform manually 2-3 years ago get fully automated today. But for an every old […]
Top Trending PHP Frameworks in 2016
In 2016, Laravel is by far the most popular PHP framework. This list will help you decide which custom PHP framework to deploy. There are so many PHP frameworks, with almost all of them encompassing incredible features. PHP has gained widespread recognition and has become the world’s most versatile server-side scripting language. It is a […]
Development Trends that Will Shape the Web in 2016
Web development is a rapidly evolving industry. Every once in a while, a new trend comes by and introduces changes that everyone needs to adopt in order to remain competitive. These trends encompass the use of certain development products, SEO strategies, and of course, web design trends. Nearing the end of 2015, we have seen […]
Recreating Photoshop Effects in CSS – Part 2 – The CSS Code
In part 1 of this tutorial series I demonstrated how to create vector shape buttons with layer styles in Photoshop. For part 2 I’ll explain how to write code to recreate these layer styles in CSS. Modern development techniques have advanced along with browser support to make CSS3 a viable option for everyone. Photoshop layer […]
Modern Tools for Advanced CSS Development
Web development has taken a turn towards more candid and fluid information. More people are willing to release free open source code just to help the community and other developers working on similar projects. But aside from free code samples there are dozens of handy webapps, resources, tools, and programs built to enhance the frontend […]
28 Free Open Source CSS3 Code Snippets
Web developers are constantly building awesome stuff and releasing the code online for free. Open source code allows other developers to recreate page elements without spending hours of time writing code again from scratch. This can range from website navigation to image sliders and even CSS dropdown menus. As a developer myself I have learned […]
40 CSS Apps, Tools, and Resources for Web Developers
The task of coding a new website is often repetitive and time-consuming. It takes effort and hard work to build an HTML/CSS layout fitted properly in all browsers. Alternatively the design process is much more fluid to allow for new ideas and thought patterns. If you feel the web development cycle takes a bit too […]
40 Resources for Getting Started with jQuery Development
Each year a new batch of young web developers are jumping into the field head-first. Often times frontend web development is the easiest barrier to jumpstart learning. HTML/CSS work is quite simple, but delving into JavaScript provides a deeper realization of general programming topics. These include functions, loops, variables, along with an understanding of how […]