Having a local development environment for WordPress websites is incredibly useful. It allows you to design, develop and experiment with projects - all on your own computer. This is both... The post Create a Local WordPress Development Environment for Free with DevKinsta <span class="sponsored_text">Sponsored</span> appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

16 Free Geometric Backgrounds Sets to Add to Your Collection. Any design art generally has two dimension aspects to it. The texture of the design and the pattern over it. The smooth or the grainy surface that repeats itself at every regular interval is called a Pattern. Graphic design involves the use of lines, curves, […] The post 16 Free Geometric Backgrounds Sets to Add to Your Collection appeared first on Line25.

I hope you had a great start into the new year. And while it's quite an arbitrary date, many of us take the start of the year as an opportunity to try to change something in their lives. I think it's well worth doing so, and I wish you the best of luck for accomplishing your realistic goals. I for my part want to start working on my mindfulness, on being able to focus, and on pursuing my dream of building an ethically correct, human company with Colloq that provides real value to users and is profitable by its users.

Today, any brand's reputation and perception vastly depend on the relationships they have with their customers. It's easy to create competent products and spend money on advertising. But the brands that put in special efforts in creating meaningful customer relationships are the ones that stand out. Social media is one of the best platforms for...

We're opening up our Smashing TV webinars to everyone, and today you can follow along as Rachel Andrew builds a layout using CSS Grid and Flexbox. In the session, Rachel will be building a component of a layout, talking through her thinking as she does so. Is Flexbox or Grid the right method to use? How will the component respond to different screen sizes? And, what about those old browsers?

Moodle is a powerful learning management system which is widely used by academics and students to build online course management and e-learning websites for universities and institutions around the world. Moodle templates and themes let you quickly establish a great looking platform, without too much development time and resource. These templates are easy to implement […]

In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to take you through the process of creating a WW2 aircraft 'nose art' inspired image, featuring the classic 'girl-riding-a-bomb' style pin-up. Traditionally this style of artwork was hand-painted on bombers to boost morale and to bring good luck to the planes, perhaps the most well-known being the B-17 […] The post Video Tutorial: How to Create a Vintage Pin-Up Effect in Adobe Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman have made a big name for themselves in the world of design through their creative side projects and now they're sharing their secrets so you can do the same. Read More

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My most popular Photoshop video tutorial on the Spoon Graphics YouTube channel is my guide to creating the trendy Double Exposure effect, where two photographs are blended into one image to create a surreal picture. I’ve since noticed that a new style of double exposure photography is becoming pretty popular, where two different coloured images […] The post Video Tutorial: How To Create a Double Color Exposure Effect appeared first on Spoon Graphics.