This week's Designer News - No 525 - includes 10 Useful and Hard-To-Remember CSS Selectors, The CSS Cascade, Goodbye Clean Code, The Complete Beginner's Guide to Design Systems, PHP in 2020, Optimising SVGs for the Web, gradientify Free SVG Icons and so much more! The post Weekly News for Designers No 525 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Every time I have checked my email over the last two weeks, it has been full of Black Friday deals. We will get a short respite before the New Year offers start to roll in. I like a bargain as much as anyone, however, I think that plenty of sites will be covering the best offers on electronics and tech. I thought we would do something different this year at Smashing.

The Laravel News site has a new tutorial posted showing how to speed up your PHP execution when developing with Docker by making use of the OPCache functionality. If you're on Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows, you might see some noticeable slowness and time to the first byte (TTFB) depending on your application's setup. One of the most important things you can do to improve performance is enabling the OPCache module (regardless of the development environment). There are other things like volume caching (if possible), but OPcache is a win that you want in any environment you're running PHP applications. The tutorial starts by sharing a basic Opcache configuration, setting values for timestamp validation, memory consumption, and fast shutdown. These values are static and not very flexible so they change things up by making them able to be set as a part of the Docker build process. The post includes the changes you'll need to make to your Docker configuration to make this setup work in two ways: either copying the file in on build or making use of environment variables to set the configuration options at runtime.

Everybody wants to receive positive feedback for a job well done. That's one reason why so many businesses include testimonials on their website. Beyond the warm and fuzzy feelings, testimonials... The post Spread the Word: Beautiful Testimonial UI Examples appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The team at GitLab recently announced the release of GitLab 14.9, bringing users new features such as epic to epic linking, integrated security training, a new Environments page design, and rule mode for scan result policies. This update supports linking epics using "related," "blocking," or "blocked" relationships, allowing users to track and manage epic dependencies … continue reading The post GitLab 14.9 now generally available appeared first on SD Times.

Not all website design gigs are created equally. The truth is that they will all vary in terms of compensation, scope and the overall experience you have. But just about... The post Beyond Money: The Hidden Benefits of Web Design Projects appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

If you need to translate or offer your WordPress content in multiple languages, we have the best free plugins that will do it for you. The post 8 WordPress Plugins for Translating Your Website appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

When undertaking any sort of performance optimisation work, one of the very first things we learn is that before you can improve performance you must first measure it. Without being able to measure the speed at which something is working, we can't tell if the changes being made are improving the performance, having no effect, or even making things worse. Many of us will be familiar with working on a performance problem at some level.

Email marketing is one of the top ways to communicate with an audience. You can inform users with stories and information, send discounts and coupons to encourage shopping, and help direct traffic back to your website. But not every email newsletter is created equally. My inbox is just as full of poorly designed messages as […]

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Oh Dear Blog: How to size & scale your Laravel Queues Three Devs & A Maybe Podcast: The Symfony Ecosystem with Nicolas Grekas TutsPlus.com: How to Use the Symfony Event Dispatcher for PHP Laravel News: Minimalist Sublime Text 3 Setup for PHP StarTutorial.com: Modern PHP Developer - Exception Sergey Zhuk: Managing Concurrency: From Promises to Coroutines RIPSTech.com: WordPress Configuration Cheat Sheet Christoph Rumpel: My Laracon EU Conference Chatbot Recap php[architect]: November 2018 Issue Release - Generics and Project Success Laravel News: Building a Laravel Translation Package - Scaffolding Christopher Pitt: Building a blog - Introduction & Posts CodeWall: Install Summernote With Laravel Tutorial Matthew Weier O'Phinney: Building a usable ext-tidy for Alpine-based PHP Docker images Tomas Votruba: 7 Tips to Get the Most out of Travis CI ThePHP.cc: The Future of Zend php[architect] Podcast: Episode 14 - Prototyping with PHP Michael Dryrynda: Using Laravel Telescope in specific environments Tomas Votruba: Why AST Fixes your Coding Standard Better than Tokens Delicious Brains: Hosting WordPress Yourself: Moving WordPress to a New Server PHP.net: PHP 7.3.0RC4 Released