Not everyone can afford to buy premium PowerPoint templates to create their slideshows. But, that doesn't mean you have to settle for a default template. There are dozens of incredible free PowerPoint templates to try out! A great thing about the design community is that there are designers out there who willingly share their amazing […]

The idea has been floating around for a while - web design has a sameness that's just kind of boring. Let’s dive into some unique and innovative website layouts that can break the mold! Blame user patterns, too many projects for too few designers, or just the desire of clients to have their site looks […]

Why would you sell your business after all the time and effort you put into building it from the ground up and getting it to a point where it's funding your lifestyle? And it's not just a business but a brand that you love: your baby. What you might not have considered is that when...

Any branding effort has persuasion at its core. You want to persuade your audience and potential customers and create a positive user experience that makes them interested in wanting to know more about you. And for getting persuasion right, you need to target your audience’s emotions. Generally, people think of words or images to have […] The post 14 Examples of Outstanding Use of Color in Branding first appeared on Line25.

Adobe has released a fix for the file deletion problem that had surfaced with the last update of Adobe Creative Cloud, and users are encouraged to install the fix at the earliest, in order to prevent loss of crucial files. Last week, following the updated release of Adobe Creative Cloud version 3.5.0.206, users encountered a weird and serious problem: Creative Cloud was deleting folders located in root folders on Mac machines, sans any authorization. While it was initially thought to be a problem limited only to users of online backup service Backblaze, it was soon discovered that this file deletion bug had put virtually all users of the latest CC version at risk. Adobe soon became aware of the issue, but only after repeated reports from different customers and online publications. The file deletion problem existed only in version 3.5.0.206, and users who had not updated to this build were safe. Plus, the bug was in effect only after you launched Creative Cloud, and the file deletion in the root directory seemed to be done in an alphabetical manner. The fix has since been released, and version 3.5.1.209 is now available for immediate download. To quote the release notes: Fixed […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesAdobe Announces Updates for Muse and Animate CCInfinit.io is a Dropbox Without the CloudAdobe Stock: The Best Stock Photo Provider (Not Only) For Creative…Adobe Portfolio: New Website Builder for CreativesAdobe Lightroom Mobile: Image Processing on the Go (including Android)A Life Without Adobe: Possible, but Pointless (IMHO)

Chris and Klare chat about the incredibly daunting task of planning a project that is huge and long-term. We know we’re pretty OK at planning smaller-scale projects. We plan, we kanban, we get the job done. But a single basic kanban isn’t going to cut it for a truly gigantic project. We get into talking […] The post #328: Large Scale Planning appeared first on CodePen Blog.

As part of Laracon EU 2019, Freek Van der Herten and Marcel Pociot announced their latest open-source package, Ignition. The post Ignition Is the New Error Page for Laravel appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newslett...

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Symfony Blog: SymfonyLive London 2018 is announced! Matt Sparks: Building a PHP Framework Series (Parts 1-4) Laravel News: Developing Laravel Packages with Local Composer Dependencies Exakat Blog: Weird operators in PHP Tomas Vortuba: How to Test Private Services in Symfony Paul Jones: Atlas 3.x ("Cassini") and PHPStorm Completion Zend Framework Blog: Zend Framework/Homestead Integration Laravel News: Introducing View Components in Laravel, an alternative to View Composers Jordi Boggiano: PHP Versions Stats - 2018.1 Edition StarTutorial.com: Understanding Design Patterns - Template Method PHPUgly Podcast: Episode #105 - Exposed Source Tomas Votruba: How to Load --config With Services in Symfony Console Joe Ferguson: Getting Lucky With Crystal in Homestead Junior Grossi: Querying and Eager Loading complex relations in Laravel

Let's first get a misconception about minimalism out of the way. Just because there's less to see doesn't mean it's easier. In fact, it is quite the opposite. The less you have, the more time you need to spend to make sure each element you have is right on the money. After all, if you've got a crowded interface then if something is aligned slightly left of center, or a font that isn't quite optimal for what you're using, it will probably not even get noticed among the other details. That won't be true if you're using a minimalistic web … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com

The “user” is a far too abstract description of the people that might want to use your new web project. You can neither orient nor optimize your project towards a description that abstract. You need something better, like Frank, the hasty single father, or Maria, the stressed-out accountant. User personas allow for this exact concretization....