Moodle is a powerful learning management system which is widely used by academics and students to build online course management and e-learning websites for universities and institutions around the world. Moodle templates and themes let you quickly establish a great looking platform, without too much development time and resource. These templates are easy to implement […]

Modern design needs to work everywhere, not just on the desktop. In order for that to work, it has to be as compartmentalized as much as possible. In the following article, I’ll show you the best way to atomize your design. In the Past: Design was Space-Consuming Edenic times. Designers used to design for a...

(This is a sponsored article.) Mobile devices can be problematic for displaying complex tables and charts that would otherwise stretch the entire width of a laptop or desktop screen. This may leave some of you wondering whether it's even worth showing tables to mobile and tablet visitors of your website. But that doesn't make sense. In many cases, a table isn't some stylistic choice for displaying content on a website. Tables are critical elements for gathering, organizing and sharing large quantities of complex and valuable data.

LogoLounge is one of the most respected and best-selling logo design book series in the world and I'm happy to share that 8 logos of mine were selected to be in published in the upcoming LogoLounge Book 10.

Microsoft announced a new open-source initiative, SimuLand, to help security researchers deploy lab environments that reproduce well-known techniques used in attack scenarios. Participants can use the labs to then test the effectiveness of Microsoft 365 Defender, Azure Defender, and Azure Sentinel detections. The simulation steps are mapped to detection queries and alerts to the aforementioned … continue reading The post Microsoft tests if security teams are prepared for hack attacks with SimuLand appeared first on SD Times.

Some folks love it, some hate it. Today's icon set, designed by Manuela Langella, is dedicated to both lovers and haters of... football! That's right, the 2016 UEFA European Championship starts tomorrow. Clink! Clink! Let the games begin! You may modify the size, color or shape of the icons. No attribution is required, though reselling bundles or individual pictograms isn't cool. Please note that this icon set is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. We'd kindly like to ask you to provide credits to the creator and link to this article if you would like to spread the word about the freebie.The post Freebie: Soccer Icon Set (13 Icons AI, EPS, SVG, PNG) appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Despite what some may think, brand awareness and brand equity aren't the same. While brand awareness is how aware customers are of a brand, brand equity refers to customers' perceived worth of the brand. We often see the terms "brand awareness" and "brand equity" used interchangeably in the branding space, as if they're one and...

A great thing about the iPhone is that it has evolved steadily over the years. All of the handsets released by Apple have similarities, with a gradual design evolution. Today we’re featuring a selection of iPhone 6 and iPhone 7 mockup templates to help show your design on these popular handsets. These steady, subtle hardware […]

Visitor engagement, user retention and conversion rate are issues that are hard to deal with. But before you start worrying about them, there is still a more important thing you'd have to think about. Traffic. Generating traffic and keeping it constantly coming back is one of the biggest problems bloggers and website owners struggle with....

In the last few years, I've seen a lot of code. As a freelancer working on multiple big projects with a lot of people, you'll inevitably see all varieties of code styles. But I also realized how much writing JavaScript changed over the past years. Having learned JavaScript before ES6 was there, a great mentor (Hans Christian Reinl) taught me the most important lesson: Always write clean, understandable code. Avoid ternary operators, declare variables in one place, make functions as simple as possible. Basically things that so many JavaScript style guides also advise. But with the growing adoption of ES6/ES2015, I also saw an increase of code where most of these principles (except for keeping functions small) are ignored.The post Web Development Reading List #151: Microinteraction UX, Feature Policy, And Passport.js appeared first on Smashing Magazine.