Since the dawn of commerce, marketing has been a part of our world. Whether it was getting three figs for the price of two at the bazaar or saving a... The post The Grumpy Designer: Annoying Web Design Marketing Tactics appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

For the WordPress users out there, the RIPSTech.com blog has posted an invaluable "cheat sheet" sharing details on securing your configuration to prevent exploits and other issues down the line. WordPress is the most frequently installed web application in the world. The system is operated not only by experienced developers but also by beginners. In this blog post, we summarize what to look out for when configuring your WordPress installation's security. In our series about misconfigurations of PHP frameworks, we have investigated Symfony, a very versatile and modular framework. Due to the enormous distribution and the multitude of plugins, WordPress is also a very popular target for attackers. This cheat sheet focuses on the wp-config.php file and highlights important settings to check when configuring your secure WordPress installation. Suggestions made in the guide cover values involving: debugging, database credentials, keys/salts, database repair, external requests and many more. The post provides examples for each of the settings and a recommended value to make it easy to drop in the changes and harden your WordPress installation.

On the Laravel News site, there's an article posted covering the use of factory callbacks and closures in guards in Laravel. This feature was snuck into a recent release and allows you to provide a bit more dynamic functionality to your models and guards. Two undocumented (before today anyhow) features were recently added to the Laravel 5.6 documentation, and they are both fantastic! The post details each of the two new additions starting with the factory callbacks allowing you to perform additional tasks when a model is made or created (code examples included). The guard changes allowing closures and the Auth::viaRequest method to define new guard drivers.

Photoshop is the most preferred software for many designers. Any designing course has to learn Photoshop as a pre-decided element of the syllabus. Many professionals and creative individuals have been using the software for all of their graphic design needs. However, this power tool is not as easy to access and make use of for […] The post Gimp Vs. Photoshop – Which is Better for Designers? appeared first on Line25.

Most web administrators and developers are aware that the loading time of a site is crucial to the site’s overall success. A typical user will not wait a millisecond more... The post Implementing AMP to Boost Your Page Loading Times appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The Ampersand is loved by all types of creatives! Its shape has evolved into a variety of styles since it was conceived as a ligature of the letters ‘e’ and ‘t’ from the Latin ‘et’ for ‘and’. You can find a range of ampersand designs across different fonts and typefaces, from cursive script variants to […] The post Art of the Ampersand: 35 Creative Examples of The '&' Character appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

When you're choosing an LMS platform for your site, it's important to consider at least a few popular options and compare them to get a better idea of which one will suit your requirements. We understand this, which is why we're doing a complete series on the comparison of LearnDash (the most popular LMS platform) […] The post LearnDash vs TutorLMS: Which is the Better Choice for Your E-Learning Site? appeared first on WisdmLabs.

In today’s tutorial we’re going to play around in Adobe Photoshop and have fun creating a faceless man with a window to his soooouuuul! We’ll use some simple photo manipulation techniques to digitally cut away the face and tidy up the edges, then we’ll place a vibrant cosmic space image inside the head and finish […] The post How To Create a Surreal Hollow Face Portrait in Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

We've recently released our Merge-powered integration with Storybook that allows you to bring Storybook components to UXPin editor and design with them, keeping all the interactions available in Storybook. It helps break down the design and development silos and finally, let product teams use the single source of truth.  It's the second integration (we also The post How to Import Your Components into Storybook and Use Them in UXPin appeared first on Studio by UXPin.

Why write requirements? Well, let's imagine you want to produce a mobile app, but you don't have the programming skills. So, you find a developer who can build the app for you, and you describe the idea to him. Surprisingly, when he showcases the app for the first time, you see that it is not exactly what you want. Why? Because you didn't provide enough detail when describing the idea. To prevent this from happening, you need to formalize the idea, shape it into something less vague. The best way to do that is to write a requirements document and share it with the developer. A requirements document describes how you see the result of the development process, thus making sure that you and the developer are on the same page.The post From Idea To Development: How To Write Mobile Application Requirements That Work appeared first on Smashing Magazine.