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It’s easy to think about creating beautiful UIs for presenting data when you don’t consider the effort that goes into gathering and serving the data itself. Here’s the thing — thanks to apilayer, you can focus on your UIs and not the pain of API creation. No need to worry about licensing, load balancing, and […] The post Five Top Quality APIs appeared first on David Walsh Blog.

Knowing the key basics of design will help you to create better, more aesthetically pleasing works of art. When creating a design, there are both elements and principles to pay attention to. Knowing both pieces of the puzzle and how to successfully incorporate them into your designs will help you to create more beautiful pieces. […] The post Elements and Principles of Design Everyone Should Know appeared first on Line25.

I recently was on Jeff Bullas' website when I encountered a pop-up promoting an ebook. Nothing about that seemed too out of the ordinary. However, what struck me as odd was that the CTA wasn't an Email field and "Submit" button. Instead, it just had a blue "Send to Messenger" button. Jeff Bullas sends ebook leads to his Facebook Messenger chatbot. (Image source: Jeff Bullas) (Large preview) To be honest, I was shocked to see that anyone would send their website visitors to engage with a Facebook Messenger bot.

Used by millions of WordPress users, WooCommerce is one of the most popular eCommerce plugins that provide you features to create an online store with WordPress. The core plugin is free of cost, simple to set up and allows you to sell different types of products via your WordPress website. From physical, digital to virtual...

Branding helps a business form an identity. To create a brand identity, you need to have a visual identity system in place. Core identity of a brand is the following — Color, logo, and typography. How do you choose the right type? Where will you find it? How do you know if it is […] The post 14 Places to Find the Best Font for your Brand appeared first on Line25.

We’re in the digital age, abundant with clean, minimalist and crisp designs, but sometimes it’s like a breath of fresh air seeing hand drawn illustrations on websites and prints. Hand-drawn illustrations, doodles, drawings, and sketches will surely make any design stand out. They add a great dose of character and personality to any design and make it […] The post 25 Free Hand-Drawn Illustrations appeared first on Line25.

In a new post to the Exakat blog they try to answer the question "how many parameters is too many" when it comes to the structure of the methods and functions in your application. Now, that is a classic question, that is often a minefield for anyone writing an increasing long list of argument in a method, or simply trying to set up auditing tools. Obviously, the answer is not immediate. Parameters may be needed, but on the other hands, currying functions allows to reduce the amount of parameter to one for every function. In between, probably exists a reasonable level that is a golden rule, and also very elusive. So, we decided to check the current practice in PHP code. They started the research with some of PHP's own native functions that took in specific arguments, ignoring those that took an arbitrary number. Next they made a survey of 1900 open source projects to determine the common practice for parameters by function. The results showed that methods without at least one parameter were "less useful" and that a seemingly reasonable amount of parameters is 5. The post finishes with a spotlight of two they found during their research that had the most parameters: a generated class for database interaction and a dependency injection class.

The StarTutorial.com site has continued their series covering common design patterns and their implementation in PHP. In their latest article they cover the Template Method pattern. [This pattern] defines the skeleton of an algorithm in a method, deferring some steps to subclasses. Template Method lets subclasses redefine certain steps of an algorithm without changing the algorithm's structure. In their example, they have two workers that have different schedules but with one difference. Instead of having implementations that differ widely between the two workers (represented by classes) they refactor the main class and allow for a doWork method to be defined in the child. This makes the parent class a sort of "template" for handling the processing with the child filling in the blanks.

Lightweight, handy, cost-effective and powerful – Sketch App was a dark horse that took the web by storm not so many years ago and became an alternative to goliaths such as Photoshop or Illustrator. Although it is available just for aficionados and lucky owners of Macs, this does not stop it from conquering the creative offices around the world. The majority of the premium digital goods that are created these days, such as packages of icons, GUI sets, website templates or other designer’s stuff, come in several formats, and Sketch is one of them. The application has been well-received by the community, having occupied its solid niche. Today we are going to share with you a collection of the 100 best free resources for Sketch that assist you in crafting something valuable. Free iOS 9.3 iPhone UI Kit Creator: Rusty Mitchell License: Declared as Free, no proper license given. Slides Design Resources Creator: Designmodo License: Declared as Free, no proper license given. SketchApp Challenge Creator: Serhiy Semenov License: Declared as Free, no proper license given. iOS9 GUI for Sketch Creator: design+code License: Declared as Free, no proper license given. Instagram Android UI Freebie Creator: Arjun Rajkishore License: Declared as Free, no […]