This week's Designer News (N.409) includes an Iconic Font and CSS Toolkit, Pretty Checkboxes, a Front-End Checklist, Breaking Down CSS Box Shadow vs. Drop Shadow, The Story of CSS Grid from Its Creators, Everything You Need to Know About Bootstrap 4, The Anatomy of Thousand Typefaces and more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 409 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

This is not new to all of us. Here at Noupe, we’ve already published a couple of cartoons on the topic. Internationally, hashtags like #nospecwork represent the battle against the exploitation of creative work. A [...]

Social media is an effective and cost-efficient way to attract positive attention to your company, product or professional services. With the right strategy, you can

Time moves pretty fast. A new year will be upon us soon, and most of us probably haven't even realized it. So while we're almost ready to leave the autumn season (and 2016!) behind, let's refuel our inspiration for another month and start working on our New Year's resolution list. Observe closely at the following techniques used, and how the colors have been applied to add contrast and character. As always, there is a lot to learn. I hope that these illustrations and photographs will inspire you to get creative and get ideas which you can apply in your own projects. Go ahead, don't let anything come in your way, and let your artistic juices flow so you can create something beautiful and unique yourself. Let's begin. The post Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration (December 2016) appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

What exactly are the benefits of a content hub strategy? Well, first of all, when done correctly, a content hub will capture a significant volume of traffic. And that's what most online businesses want, right? We have recently introduced several clients to the concept of a content hub and would like to share our experience in this article. The clients are high-quality portals filled with targeted, valuable and often evergreen articles that users can return to time and again.The post How To Deliver Large-Scale Projects Using A Content Hub Strategy appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

One day, you wake up and realize that your WordPress got hacked. Maybe the landing page shows a skull and mocks you, as you may have made a mistake allowing the hacker to access the page. Now, you have a real problem, because no matter what username and password combination you try, you just won’t get back into your website’s admin area. Stay calm; we have a solution to that as well. Of course, the trick that I’m about to show you will also work for forgotten access information. Whatever the problem may be, and for whatever reason, you don’t have access to the admin account, it can be solved. If you don’t have any website backups to restore, you need to fix the problem differently. However, if you have a good backup strategy, your website will be recovered with just a few clicks. If not, proceed as follows: Setting Up New Access Information in phpMyAdmin In about 98 percent of all cases, a hacker will not want to, or be able to compromise all areas of a website or a server. Thus, you’ll always have access to phpMyAdmin, including your database used by WordPress. If you don’t have access […]

Your customers have an active social media presence. This is really a fundamental reason to make social media an integrated part of your marketing strategy. Leading a good social media marketing helps you to increase your brand awareness and loyalty, drive traffic to your website, build strong business-customer relationships as well, engage your customers. Posting...

There’s a dangerous little lie the design community has propagated around the internet. Like every entrenched myth, it’s anchored in a bit of truth, which makes it difficult to weed... The post Three Common UI Trends eCommerce Loves But Should Hate appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

I've talked about how I love a nice pretty prompt in my Windows Terminal and made videos showing in detail how to do it. I've also worked with my buddy TooTallNate to put my real-time blood sugar into a bash or PowerShell prompt, but this was back in 2017. Now that I'm "Team OhMyPosh" I have been meaning to write a Nightscout "segment" for my prompt. Nightscout is an open source self-hosted (there are commercial hosts also like T1Pal) website and API for remote display of real-time and near-real-time glucose readings for Diabetics like myself. Since my body has an active REST API where I can just do an HTTP GET (via curl or whatever) and see my blood sugar, it clearly belongs in a place of honor, just like my current Git Branch! Oh My Posh supports configurable "segments" and now there's a beta (still needs mmol and stale readings support) Nightscout segment that you can setup in just a few minutes! This prompt works in ANY shell on ANY os! You can do this in zsh, PowerShell, Bash, whatever makes you happy. Here is a YouTube of Jan from OhMyPosh and I coding the segment LIVE in Go. If you have an existing OhMyPosh json config, you can just add another segment like this. Make sure your Nightscout URL includes a secure Token or is public (up to you). Note also that I setup "if/then" rules in my background_templates. These are optional and up to you to change to your taste. I set my background colors to red, yellow, green depending on sugar numbers. I also have a foreground template that is not really used, as you can see it always evaluates to black #000, but it shows you how you could set it to white text on a darker background if you wanted. { "type": "nightscout", "style": "diamond", "foreground": "#ffffff", "background": "#ff0000", "background_templates": [ "{{ if gt .Sgv 150 }}#FFFF00{{ end }}", "{{ if lt .Sgv 60 }}#FF0000{{ end }}", "#00FF00" ], "foreground_templates": [ "{{ if gt .Sgv 150 }}#000000{{ end }}", "{{ if lt .Sgv 60 }}#000000{{ end }}", "#000000" ], "leading_diamond": "?", "trailing_diamond": "uE0B0", "properties": { "url": "https://YOURNIGHTSCOUTAPP.herokuapp.com/api/v1/entries.json?count=1&token=APITOKENFROMYOURADMIN", "http_timeout": 1500, "template": "? {{.Sgv}}{{.TrendIcon}}" }}, By default we will only go out and hit your Nightscout instance every 5 min, only when the prompt is repainted, and we'll only wait 1500ms before giving up. You can set that "http_timeout" (how long before we give up) if you feel this slows you down. It'll be cached for 5 min so it's unlikely to b something you'll notice. The benefit of this new OhMyPosh segment over the previous solution is that it requires no additional services/chron jobs and can be setup extremely quickly. Note also that you can customize your template with NerdFonts. I've included a tiny syringe! Next I'll hope to improve the segment with mmol support as well as strikeout style for "stale" (over 15 min old) results. You're also welcome to help out by watching our YouTube and submitting a PR! Sponsor: Make login Auth0's problem. Not yours. Provide the convenient login features your customers want, like social login, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, passwordless, and more. Get started for free.(C) 2021 Scott Hanselman. All rights reserved.     

Hi, I'm Valerio Barbera, software engineer, founder, and CTO at Inspector. One of the most useful features of Laravel is the tasks scheduling system. The official documentation clearly explains what it is for: