Back in 2016, Vitaly Friedman asked me to design the cover and layout for a printed version of Smashing Magazine, a magazine for web designers and developers. The design I created back then for the cover and inside template layout, however, was shelved for a while as the project was paused for about two years owing to other priorities. Later, after Smashing Magazine launched its new website, a new style was born, and the design I had come up with didn't really match anymore.

Android stated that it would extend the September 30th deadline for adhering to the Google Play Payments policy to March 31st, 2022. Starting on July 22nd, developers can appeal for an extension through the Help Center. Android said it will review each request and get back to requests as soon as possible. Additional details are … continue reading The post SD Times news digest: Android giving extension to comply with new Play Payments Policy, Sentry performance monitoring for iOS and Release Health for Python, Sysdig to acquire Apolicy appeared first on SD Times.

In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’ll show you how to make your own tasty popsicles or lollipop graphics. We'll use a range of handy Illustrator tools to create the first colourful lollipop, then build upon each subsequent illustration with new additions which provide an opportunity to touch on different tools and techniques, then we'll add […] The post Video Tutorial: Watercolor Popsicles in Adobe Illustrator appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

We've searched for the best WordPress themes for niche sites, suitable for small businesses and entrepreneurs, and came up with this awesome list! These WordPress themes for niche sites are ideal for small businesses such as restaurants, catering, travel agencies, caretakers, handymen, consultants, construction businesses and many more. Whether you want to show the latest […] The post 40 Best WordPress Themes for Niche Sites appeared first on Line25.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. In this episode host Cal Evans has a returning guest: Joe Ferguson. In this episode Cal and Joe mention the Modernizing Legacy Applications In PHP book by Paul Jones, the Laravel training Joe has presented at several conferences and the Open Sourcing Mental Illness (OSMI) organization he's a part of. You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly and listening at your leisure. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get updates when new shows are released.

Like many others, I was initially skeptical of Facebook and Instagram's React. Initial demos of React's JavaScript language extension, JSX, made many developers uneasy. For years we had worked to separate HTML and JavaScript, but React seemed to combine them. Many also questioned the need for yet another client-side library in an ocean full of them. As it turns out, React has proved tremendously successful, both on my own projects, and with many others around the web, including large companies like Netflix. And now with React Native, the framework has been brought to mobile. React Native is a great option for creating performant iOS and Android apps that feel at home on their respective platforms, all while building on any previous web development experience.The post Why You Should Consider React Native For Your Mobile App appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Responsive web design has established itself as the way of modern web development for a while now. The increasing mobile internet usage makes it necessary for a website to be recognizable even on small displays. This is always a challenge for web designers and developers. Where do I put the complex navigation? How do I provide photos and graphics? What do I do with wide, multi-column tables? To the latter question, there are multiple answers. There is not just one correct solution for all responsive tables. Making Tables Scrollable A relatively easy way out would be making tables vertically scrollable. Here, the table is unaffected in its width. With a little CSS, it’s secured that the table doesn’t mess with the width of the layout, and instead, the visible area is cut down to the display width, or the layout width. You can use your finger to slide the table to the left or right. 1 2 3 4 table { display: block; overflow: scroll; } To make a table scrollable, all it takes are two CSS attributes. For one, you need to turn the table into a block element via “display”. Then, via “overflow”, you need to make sure […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesDisplaying Data Tables Fast Using Clusterize.jsHTML5 Brings Tables Back: Contemporary Grid Layouts with CSS Grids[Quick Tip] Dynatable for jQuery: Static Tables Are in Danger of…Flickity: Beautiful Galleries on All Devices – Responsive and…Chartist.js Creates Responsive, Animated Charts with SVGSVG Fallback in Older Browsers: Alternatives to JavaScript

When creating a mobile application, a developer imagines a model and the way users will use the application. One problem that developers face is that users do not always use an app the way it was envisaged by the developer. How do users interact with the app? What do they do in the app? Do they do what the developer wants them to do? Mobile analytics help to answer these questions. Analytics allow the developer to understand what happens with the app in real life and provide an opportunity to adjust and improve the app after seeing how users actually use it. To put it simply, analytics is the study of user behavior.The post Finding Better Mobile Analytics appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

This week's Designer News (N.413) includes Designercize, a Mobile Library for Parsing After Effects Animations, a Pocket Guide to Creativity, HTML5 Form Validation, Optimizing SQL Queries, 9 Must-Have Firefox Extensions, a Free Photo Bundle, The Cost of JS, a Free iOS 11 UI Kit and more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 413 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Frank de Jonge has a new post to his site covering something that always seems to be a difficult topic in development: time. In his post he suggests that date and time handling in your application is a "dependency" that could be difficult test. When developers talk about the infrastructural boundaries or external dependencies they often talk about databases and third-party integration. They're the first thing we'll put behind an interface so we can stub them out during our tests. This gives us some control over them. It's become relatively easy to spot these dependencies because we do it frequently. They're the usual suspects. However, some "dependencies" are much harder to spot. They even live right inside the standard library of PHP and often manage to seep through the cracks. Date/Time handling is such a thing. So what's the problem and how do we fix it? He goes on to talk about date/time handling programming languages in general and how its variance can can cause issues that might be out of our control. He suggests that when time "gets the best of you" you should opt to be more specific in your date/time handling (the cause is usually precision). He then gets into some code examples of how to "control time" by reducing the impact that direct date/time handling could have on your application. He also includes an example of testing this handling and finishes with the idea of "consuming time as a service".