Want to give your design a quick facelift? Using new and interesting typography trends might be the answer. Designers are opting for less elaborate typefaces and pairing them with bold color, cutouts, gradients, and even customizations to create lettering that stands out. Changing typefaces or recreating an image or header in a trending style can […]

This week's Designer News (No 513) includes Replacing Font Awesome with Line Awesome, Adobe Photoshop Camera, Lesser Known Coding Fonts, Things We Can't (Yet) Do In CSS, Uncommon Use Cases For Pseudo Elements, Designing the Facebook Company Brand, Easy Peasy Password and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 513 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Just recently, we discussed a tiny trend in mouse cursors, exploring a dozen examples of lonely but eye-catching effects. Today it has come under the spotlight again, this time with... The post Clicking Around: The Use of Circular Mouse Cursors appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

In the first article of this series, we walked through how to put together the hardware board and all of its additional components into a single rig. I also gave you a glimpse of the decision-making process behind the selection of the board. In this second (and last) article of the series, we will go over the code that will drive the sensor and the communication to the cloud. Additionally, we will configure a custom dashboard on Adafruit IO, so that we can visualize our data in real time.The post How To Prototype IoT Experiences: Configuring The Software (Part 2) appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Telling a good story just isn’t as simple as it used to be. At one time, all you had to do was adopt some silly voices for the different characters,... The post Visual Storytelling: Designing for the Web in a Nonlinear Format appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

In this article, I’m going to introduce you to the CSS Fragmentation specification. You might never have heard of it, however, if you have ever created a print stylesheet and wanted to control where the content breaks between pages, or multi-column layout and wanted to stop a figure breaking between columns, you have encountered it. I find that quite often problems people report with multicol are really problems with browser support of fragmentation.

The concept behind the design of most multipurpose WordPress themes is simple. It's the ability to produce a template that can create different kinds of websites. These websites usually suit any type of company, brand, agency, or cause. A multipurpose website would, therefore, have all the necessary features. There is an argument against multipurpose themes. […] The post 15 Best Multipurpose WordPress Themes to Use This Year appeared first on Line25.

When running an online shop, you should invest some time into the creation of a good marketing concept. Marketing doesn’t always mean running ads or placing advertisement blocks on different websites. A good idea would be starting an affiliate program. However, this can lead to a couple of tripwires. Today I’ll help you avoid the most fatal mistakes. What’s An Affiliate Program? An affiliate program is like a snowball system. You start the program for your products, and other people advertise them. They integrate your ads on their websites. Each time an advertising medium results in a purchase, the affiliates earn a small share of the sale. You can think of it as a small army of vendors that you don’t need to pay wages to; only a small share of each sale via your advertising media. By using cookies, the affiliate program finds out which vendor the recommendation came from, and then it assigns the sale to said affiliate. The Salary System You can choose your own salary system for your affiliates, and you are not bound to strict standards. The following versions are common: Cost per Sale (percentual salary for each purchase in the online shop) Cost per […]

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Whether you're working on a flyer design for your band’s next gig, or planning a big music festival, you’re going to need an awesome music or band flyer template. We’ve tracked down some of the best modern, stylish music flyer templates to help you start designing a flyer for your band’s next event. It doesn't […]