Free icons are a great way to spice up your work with small effort. While some of them are plain useful, others give a project a fun twist. The following collection of free icon sets offers both -- payment provider icons just like summer goodness to help you over a rainy day. All icons can be downloaded and used for free.The post Free Icon Sets: E-Commerce, Food, Science, Avatars And Summer appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

The following is a listing of value stream management tool providers, along with a brief description of their offerings. Broadcom Software: Broadcom’s innovative ValueOps solution delivers on the promise of value stream management (VSM) as the first to combine business and investment-oriented product management, providing advanced operationally focused agile planning and management capabilities. The integration … continue reading The post A guide to value stream management tools appeared first on SD Times.

Fuse is a toolkit for creating apps that run on both iOS and Android devices. It enables you to create apps using UX Markup, an XML-based language. But unlike the components in React Native and NativeScript, Fuse is not only used to describe the UI and layout; you can also use it to add effects and animation. Styles are described by adding attributes such as Color and Margin to the various elements. Business logic is written using JavaScript. Later on, we'll see how all of these components are combined to build a truly native app.The post How To Create Native Cross-Platform Apps With Fuse appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Other than content, the link structure of a website is one of the most important ranking factors for Google. For the search engine’s crawlers, all links to a domain are of interest, but also the internal page navigation as well as the choice of links to foreign domains (outbound links). A frequent link audit should be on your to-do list. However, the Google algorithm pays particular attention to what sources the backlinks are from (inbound links). The explanation for that is very simple: the more high-grade the referring page is to Google, the more reliable is the quality of its recommendations. The same applies vice versa: the lower the quality of the link structure’s sources, the more the linked website’s reputation and ranking in the search engine decreases. Link Audit – The Optimization of the Link Structure Those that put a lot of effort into optimizing the internal link structure, and consequently equipped promotional outbounds links with appropriate tags, maybe because of a punishment from Google, should also take a look at the inbound links afterwards: For a general “house cleaning”, it makes sense to reduce poor links in regular time periods, to become more attractive for Google due to […]

The current iteration of voice-controlled digital assistants are still struggling to integrate as seamlessly as the big three voice players of Amazon, Google and Apple would hope. A 2017 report by Voicelabs states there's only a 3 percent chance a user will be active in the second week after downloading a voice application and 62 percent of Alexa's skills are still to get any kind of rating on its store (as of September 2017).

Before the Industrial Revolution, most goods were produced by hand by a single person. Master craftsmen labored over their work, producing a finished product they could be accountable for and... The post The Productivity Benefits of Scrum in Modern Web Development appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Drawing is one of the most common hobbies. It's a great way of having fun and expressing yourself. And now, with the help of technology, it’s really easy to draw and edit your work digitally. And, you don't need a high-end graphics tablet, you can just use your Android tablet or iPad to create real...

Since the very first programming languages, coders have used them to generate things at random. While common examples such as numbers and letters immediately come to mind, there is so... The post 10 Examples of Generating Randomness with Code appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

There's an enormous amount of responsibility that goes along with being a freelance web designer - especially if you're doing it full-time. Sure, it can seem like a carefree way... The post 5 Reasons Why Freelance Web Designers Fail appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Aloha to the last part of the series. I hope you are ready with the development environment. You know, secret Santa told me that you are very excited to jump in and build the app. In this article we will take a look at HTML5's cool features such as getUserMedia(), canvas and converting canvas paint...