This week's Designer News - No 602 - includes Designing for the Unexpected, GradientArt CSS Editor, Refactoring CSS, Exploring Gridless Design, The New CSS Reset, Free Boxicons Collection, Double Your Image Size with ReSizr.in, SketchKeys Keyboard Stickers and a bunch more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 602 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Looking for inspiration to build your own beautiful WordPress website? You've come to the right place. A great thing about building a project with WordPress is that there's no shortage of themes for styling your website with any type of design. But, since there are so many themes out there, finding a design with a […]

Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences I have had in my career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond.

The latest version of the programming language Rust is now available. Rust 1.54 introduces a few new stable features. One new update is that attributes can invoke function-like macros. An example use case of is including documentation from other files into comments. "For example, if your project’s README represents a good documentation comment, you can … continue reading The post Rust 1.54 now available appeared first on SD Times.

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Tomas Votruba has a new post to his site sharing some of the ways you can get the most out of Travis-CI, the popular build service, for your PHP applications. Travis CI is the most spread CI in checking open-source projects. Do you want to know how to use it 3x faster? How to make Travis generate code for you? And how to make your tokens safe? He breaks down his suggestions into a set of seven tips: Skip x-debug Deliver PR Checks Fast Use ENV vars Use Travis to do More Just Watching Rebuild your GitHub Pages Daily Stay Secure Make use of Composer Scripts For each item in the list he includes an example of what's required, either a change in the Travis-CI configuration, code, or in the Composer configuration.

I've been a web developer for 15 years, but I'd never looked into accessibility. I didn't know enough people with (serious) disabilities to properly understand the need for accessible applications and no customer has ever required me to know what ARIA is. But I got involved with accessibility anyway - and that's the story I'd like to share with you today. At the Fronteers Conference in October 2014 I saw Heydon Pickering give a talk called "Getting nowhere with CSS best practices". Among other things, he made a case for using WAI-ARIA attributes like aria-disabled="true" instead of classes like .is-disabled to express application state. It struck me then and there that I was missing out on a few well-prepared standards, simply because ARIA belongs to that accessibility space that I had no idea of. The post Making Accessibility Simpler, With Ally.js appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Microinteractions are your website’s most important UI elements. Tooltips are a part of that, but they require even more diligence in terms of conception and realization. In the end, the microinteractions are what makes the difference between a good and a bad website. In times where basic design becomes increasingly more similar, a distinction is...

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. In this episode host Cal Evans has a returning guest: Joe Ferguson. In this episode Cal and Joe mention the Modernizing Legacy Applications In PHP book by Paul Jones, the Laravel training Joe has presented at several conferences and the Open Sourcing Mental Illness (OSMI) organization he's a part of. You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly and listening at your leisure. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get updates when new shows are released.

Social media platforms are a valuable source of customer data with a variety of insights on how to improve marketing campaigns and business strategies. Check out how businesses use social big data analytics to promote their brands effectively on social networks. The post Big Data, Big Impact: How Data Improves Your Social Media Marketing appeared first on SCAND.