Nowadays, freelancing has become a popular professional choice. Today, freelancers bring their specialized skills in social media marketing, copywriting, and many other sectors. They can serve every demand that a business venture might have. These include marketing and writing along with technical and financial support. When it comes to freelance writing, several freelancers are adept at writing business-oriented articles and blog posts while catering to the web programming and graphic design needs of a business. So, why is this shift happening? This is because the Globalization and the Internet revolution have been leading more and more workers to look for … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com

Mark Zuckerberg once said, "The biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, long term, really excited about it." And who wouldn't be excited by the prospect of a single code base that works across multiple platforms? Unfortunately, Facebook felt that HTML5 didn't offer the experience it was looking to build, and that's what it's really about: the experience. I believe what Mark was really trying to say was that their biggest mistake was making a technology-driven decision instead of a user experience-driven decision. At the end of the day, we should be making decisions that deliver value to our customers, and sticking to a particular technology is generally not the best way to achieve that.The post Building A First-Class App That Leverages Your Website: A Case Study appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

We take a look at the benefits and challenges of having a singular focus in web design. And hear from a web designer who's taken the plunge. The post Behind the Scenes: Having a Singular Focus for Your Web Design Business appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Security is often neglected by website owners. Everything is cared for, new features are implemented and a neat design is created. Then one day, your website gets hacked. To prevent this unpleasant scenario, a strategy and some effort is necessary. If you happen to own your own server, that’s just another reason to take care of security. In many cases, this is rather simple. To help you protect your website, I’ll now introduce you to the online tool securityheaders.io, which shows you the weaknesses of your server or shared space, and provides advice on how to remove them. Securityheaders.io – Analysis of the HTTP Headers Securityheaders.io is the name of the online service that can determine how safe your server is, judging by the sent HTTP response headers. Of course, there are many services that can analyse HTTP response headers. But the unique thing about securityheaders is its rating system, into which it sorts the results. The system orders the results in an area from A to F. Here; A is a perfectly protected server while F is given out for destitute protection. The service and its operator Scott Helme want to contribute to more safety on the internet. Not […]

This week's Designer News (N.379) includes AI that generates Color Palettes, a Responsive Font Calculator, Free Photoshop and Sketch UI Resources, 8 CSS Gotchas, Tips for Designing Charts and more. The post Weekly News for Designers (N.379) appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The beginning of a new year seems like a perfect time to think about what we web professionals do, why we do it, how we could do it better and even how we could have more fun doing it. Like everyone, we learn lessons as we make our way through life and work. If we're lucky, we pick up some good advice along the way, so we thought it might be useful to find out what kind of advice you all have found to be particularly valuable.

Microsoft announced TypeScript 4.5 RC, which includes Nightly-Only ECMAScript Module Support in Node.js, support for 'lib' from 'node_modules', and more features. The TypeScript 4.5 beta initially added new settings to support directly running ECMAScript modules in Node.js; however, Microsoft believes that the current experience needs more "bake time" before it can be used more broadly, … continue reading The post TypeScript 4.5 RC introduces new utility type, “Awaited” appeared first on SD Times.

Akeneo Product Association Position Changer: This module allows the admin to change the product association and as well as product model association position using the drag and drop technique. The same position of the product and product model association will be used while exporting the products. Product association can be thought of as a marketing strategy [...]

Lettering and calligraphy are quickly becoming desired skills in a designer's toolbox. Designers such as Marian Bantjes, Jessica Hische, Sean Wes and Martina Flor, just to name a few, have become not only an inspiration to the rest of us, but also a standard. Their work is not only client-based; they have become their own brand by providing products to their followers as well. Other designers have followed suit, and now it would seem that lettering and calligraphy are everywhere.The post Left-Handed Brush Lettering: How To Get Started appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Latest PECL Releases:oci8 3.0.1 This version is for PHP 8 only. Updated Windows build environment to build with newer Oracle Client libraries. (cmb) yaml 2.2.1 Bugs Fixed: - #80324: Segfault in YAML with anonymous functions (cmb69) - Fix memory leak in y_write_object_callback() (cmb69) - Fix memory leak in handle_mapping() (cmb69) orng 0.0.2 - Fix missing LICENSE in package.xml for Windows DLL build. orng 0.0.1 - Initial Release. inotify 3.0.0 * PHP 8 compatible release