Are you ready for the countdown to Christmas? Today, we're merrily releasing a brand new Christmas Advent Icon Set, a set of 25 icons that are all available in AI, EPS, SVG, PNG and PDF formats. These icons were all designed and created by Manuela Langella and are free to be used in private as well as commercial projects. You may modify the size, color or shape of the icons. No attribution is required, however, reselling of bundles or individual pictograms isn't cool. Please note that this icon set is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. We'd kindly like to ask you to provide credits to the creator and link to this article if you would like to spread the word about the freebie.The post Freebie: Christmas Advent Icon Set (25 Icons, AI, EPS, SVG, PNG, PDF) appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Looking for a great polygon background texture for your design? Then you're going to love this collection of free and premium geometric and poly background textures. Low poly and geometric backgrounds are now turning out to be one of the most popular trends in design this year. They’re being used for both website and graphic […]

When it comes to flyer design, choosing the right font can make a big difference. This collection of the best fonts for flyers can help you find a unique typeface for your next design project. Whether you're working on a flyer design for a business event, a party, a music festival, or a club event, […]

With several billion monthly active users on social media, attracting customers is the name of the game for any business. The dog-eat-dog nature of the business world today means that business owners need to up their game. Getting new customers is becoming more difficult due to the amount of competition out there. One of the latest ways to reach new customers is using hashtags. People as individuals are already using hashtags on social media to attract followers and connect with new people. Businesses are increasingly using hashtags to connect with prospective clients. This is part of the shrinking global community … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com

Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe […] The post Popular Design News of the Week: April 18, 2022 - April 24, 2022 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Latest PEAR Releases:HTML_QuickForm 3.2.16 HTML_QuickForm 3.2.15

Ever since online stores first emerged they've faced one big challenge compared to their real world rivals; yes, it's convenient to shop wherever, whenever you want, and delivery options permitting, buy from anyone anywhere in the world. But it's a minimal experience compared to the fuller sensory experience of shopping in the real world. Online […] The post 20 Best New Sites, June 2021 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

If you're developing web apps using Ruby on Rails, you probably already know that Rails is an MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework, which means that you have your Models responsible for data, Views responsible for templates, and Controllers responsible for request handling. But the bigger your app gets, the more features it has - the more business logic you will have. And here comes the question, where do you put your business logic? Obviously, it's not viewed that should handle it. Controllers or Models? That will make them fat and unreadable pretty soon. That's where Service Objects come to the rescue. In this article, we'll find out what are Rails Service Objects and how you can use them to make your app cleaner and keep it maintainable. Let's say you have a project for handling cab trips; we'll take a look at the particular controller action, which updates trip records. But it should not only update trips based on user input params (e.g., starting address, destination address, riders count, etc.), but it should also calculate some fields based on those params and save them to the database. So, we have a controller action like this:

You already know the value of your nonprofit website. Your website serves as the touchpoint for most online engagements and centralizes all relevant information about your organization and mission. With COVID-19 pushing many to remote work and with in-person interactions on pause, fundraising has become a challenge for many nonprofits. Your nonprofit website is more...

With a long list of end-to-end (e2e) test frameworks available to choose from, it's hard to know which one you should be using. Cypress and Selenium are leading the market as the most widely used options, but there's also Appium for mobile app testing, Puppeteer for automating tasks in Chrome, and Protractor for Angular and AngularJS applications, just to name a few. Recently a newcomer has joined the pack: TestProject, a free, open-source test automation platform for e2e testing that helps simplify web, mobile, and API testing. The TestProject SDK has language support for Java, C#, Python, and, most recently, JavaScript.