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Monday, December 18, 2017

My Favorite Bookmarks on Dec 18 2017

Limiting The Visibility Of Posts In Wordpress Via Usernames

Controlling who is able to view a post is a simple task once the system is established. Limiting access to certain users has several applications, such as enabling a design studio to distribute artwork to its various clients, or enabling a small school to arrange for homework to be posted online using a cheap and easy solution. The easiest method to get this system working is to make the recipients of the information ?subscribers? (since they need not be able to post) and the distributors of information ?authors? (since they should only be able to edit their own posts).



Are You Loosing Traffic By Poor Website Performance?

Website performance is a hugely important topic, so much so that the big companies of the Web are obsessed with it. For the Googles, Yahoos, Amazons and eBays, slow websites mean fewer users and less happy users and thus lost revenue and reputation. In your case, annoying a few users wouldn’t be much of a problem, but if millions of people are using your product, you’d better be snappy in delivering it.



Photo Retouching Tips And Tips In Photoshop

Two weeks ago we published the first part of Photoshop tips and tricks for photo retouching. Today, we’ll be presenting the rest of the article. We hope that these techniques will be quite useful for your workflow. You may know some of them, but hopefully not all of them. We have had articles on various tools in Adobe Photoshop but this one is focused more on the techniques rather than the tools provided.



When Your Code Has To Work Complying With Legal Mandates

Douglas Crockford famously declared browsers to be “the most hostile software engineering environment imaginable,” and that wasn’t hyperbole. Ensuring that our websites work across a myriad of different devices, screen sizes and browsers our users depend on to access the web is a tall order, but it’s necessary. If our websites don’t enable users to accomplish the key tasks they come to do, we’ve failed them. We should do everything in our power to ensure our websites function under even the harshest of scenarios, but at the same, we can’t expect our users to have the exact same experience in every browser, on every device.



Responsive Web Design Techniques Tools And Design Strategies

Back in January, we published an article on responsive design, Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How to Use It. Responsive design continues to get a lot of attention, but considering how different it is from the ?traditional? way of designing websites, it can be a bit overwhelming for those designers who have yet to try it. To that end, we’ve compiled this round-up of resources for creating responsive website designs.



jQuery And Javascript Programming Examples And Top Practices

When used correctly, jQuery can help you make your website more interactive, interesting and exciting. This article will share some best practices and examples for using the popular Javascript framework to create unobtrusive, accessible DOM scripting effects. The article will explore what constitutes best practices with regard to Javascript and, furthermore, why jQuery is a good choice of a framework to implement best practices. [Last updated: Nov/15/2016] You may want to take a look at the following newer posts:



Guidelines For Successful Communication With Clients

OK, so this is a yet another article about dealing with clients. But let?s face it ? it doesn?t matter how well you can design or code; as a freelancer or if you’re running a digital agency, if you don?t get the client management right, it can spell disaster for your business. By getting it right from the very beginning, you?ll most likely see things flourish. In a previous article on How to Explain to Clients they are Wrong, I discussed one aspect of client management, but oh my, there are so many and that is why I would like to discuss yet another aspect in this article: how to maintain project productivity and momentum when working with clients.



Community Discussion How Do You Survey Your Readers?

As the end of the year nears, you might be thinking about plans for your blogging in 2018. One thing that will help inform that is a reader survey. On both ProBlogger and Digital Photography school I do an annual survey, usually around November. As we plan our surveys, I ...more

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Out Of This World Typography

Today, we will be showcasing outer space typography. This is probably my favorite style of design. There is so much that you can do with the outer space, galaxy style. While it is not really appropriate to use in most client projects, it is a very fun effect to implement on your own personal projects. Because I really enjoy this design style, this will be a two series post. Be sure to check out the following articles: 32 Stunning Outer Space Science Fiction Photoshop Tutorials Stunning Space Photography Space Wallpapers and Nebula Wallpapers It’s amazing what artists are able to create using this design style.



10 Places For Design Inspiration

When Leonardo Da Vinci attempted to build the world?s first robot in 1495, his inspiration had come from the ancient Greek texts of Ctesibus and Vitruvius. Likewise, Auguste Rodin cited Lorenzo Ghiberti?s ?Gates of Paradise? as the inspiration for his famous sculpture ?The Gates of Hell?. Designers and artists have traveled the world for centuries looking for those brilliant moments of inspiration. [Last updated: Oct/14/2016] Changing your surroundings is the easiest way to find new perspective on old ideas and common emotions.



Tuesday, July 26, 2016

My Favorite Bookmarks on Tuesday, 26 Jul 2016

How The Web Forced A Redesign Of The Tokyo Olympics Logo

How the Web forced a redesign of the Tokyo Olympics logo Today, the organising committee behind the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics announced its new logo: a circle that looks like a re-arrang...



10 Splendid Seo Books To Reach The Top

Learn Search Engine Optimization Books For Website Owners

In today?s world, every business should have a website. People go to the Internet when searching for products or services to buy. A business website is its storefront online. Therefore, it should be easily accessible and able to provide consumers what they want.

Consumers go to a search engine, for example Google, and search for the items they desire. The engine returns results that are full of links to business websites that provide that particular product. In most cases, the consumers click on the links in the first page and ignore all the other pages.

Therefore, it is ideal that your business website be listed on the first page. This can be accomplished using Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Designing The Perfect Notification UX

Notifications are all around us on the web and on mobile. Originally intended to help our user experience and usability in general, that?s not always been the case in practice since notifications can quickly become an annoyance if they?re designed poorly or not managed properly. From desktop-based notifications to the notifications you can toggle on […]



The Secret Life Of YoYos

I go there a lot and I’ve seen them do it—they’re lethal.” He made a sudden gesture, like Spiderman throwing a web .



10 New Yet Free Wordpress Plugins

WordPress plugins are quite a useful commodity as they allow designers and developers to bring in some additional functionality into their website or blog. WordPress plugins are specially popular in designing community because of their widespread variety and easy availability. In this post, we are also presenting...



Watch And Listen To Nasa Crack Giant Barrels In The Name Of Space Science

An essential part of making new materials for space is pushing them to their limits. Watch as NASA tests a potential new material by cracking a huge barrel of it. The noise is pretty satisfying and the barrel is sparkly.



These Old Ladies Moonlight As Badass Sea Snake Catchers

Sea snakes are incredibly venomous creatures, but that doesn't stop either of these grandmas from reaching into pitch black pools of water to grab em' by the neck.



How To Become A Gmail Power User [Infographic]

The Internet has been trying to kill email for forever and so far, it’s not doing a good job. Why else would there be so many guides and articles out there teaching you how to achieve Zero Inbox or how to be a Gmail power user? This infographic adds to the pile with plenty of…



The Evolution Of Web design

“I said we should abandon this CD-ROM stuff and try this wacky new technology called the World Wide Web and we should use a browser called Mosaic,” he recalls.



Give Adobe Reader A Dark Theme For Easier Ebook Reading

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You can do a whole lot with PDFs; they’re such a common format that you probably work with PDF files pretty regularly. From making sure a document looks right on different operating systems to preserving an important contract that you don’t want changed, PDFs are useful. However, most PDFs contain black text on a white background, which makes for a blazing light when you’re trying to read at night ? perhaps if you have textbooks in PDF and are up studying late. If Adobe Reader is your PDF viewer of choice, here’s how to invert the colors for an experience...

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