Striking out on your own as a freelance designer can be incredibly exciting and rewarding, but to be successful, designers who go this route must hone much more than their... The post Critical Mistakes To Avoid When Quoting A Web Design Project appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

This week's Designer News (N.456) includes Vapid CMS, Choosing the Right Design Deliverables for Your Clients, Designing UI with Color Blind Users in Mind, A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development, a Tool for Creating Progressive Color Sets, Having Fun with Link Hover Effects, How To Learn Calligraphy (For Beginners) and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 456 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

There’s no such thing as “too early” in web design. By the time you implement the user experience (UX) design trends of today, the industry is already looking to tomorrow.... The post The UX Design Trends to Watch out for in 2018 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

The main principles of content development are familiar to every online writer: uniqueness, quality, value, and focus. You know you have to provide top-notch content that will awaken the interest of your target audience, and you need to commit to a publication schedule to make your loyal readers happy. The only question is: how exactly...

Business-to-business trade, or B2B for short, refers to the recent commercial trend of selling goods and services between businesses online. Instead of traditional sales transactions... The post B2B Omnichannel Software: Important Things You Should Know appeared first on Web Development & Technology Resources.

Google announced the general availability of Vertex Pipelines, which is a machine learning (ML) pipeline. Vertex Pipelines supports Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP) and TensorFlow Extended (TFX), two widely used open-source libraries, meaning users can define their pipeline using one of these libraries and run it on Vertex Pipelines. In addition, Vertex Pipelines operates entirely server free. … continue reading The post SD Times news digest: Vertex Pipelines general availability; AudioEye issue reporting; Crystal 1.2.2; Habu Series B appeared first on SD Times.

In a new post to his site Christian Scheb has written up a guide to help you set up inspections in PHPStorm to help make your continuous integration process simpler. Did you know that PHPStorm (or any other Jetbrains IDE) can run inspections from command line and generate XML files for the results? This is a great "hidden" feature of those IDEs and machine-readable output means it can be somehow integrated with a continuous integration (CI) process. So let's do this! He walks you through the full process to get the integration set up to easily report the results of various code inspections: Setting Up PHPStorm on a Server Plugin installation (such as the PHP annotations checker) Running the inspections (including configuration) Publishing the result All commands and configuration examples are included.

Earning money from advertisements is not that easy anymore. Certainly, services like Google AdSense make it completely simple for website owners to display ads on their blog, for example. However, the sheer presence of ads doesn't make them successful. The placement, as well as the size of the ads, plays an important role when it comes to how the ads will be perceived by your website's visitors. Luckily, Ezoic has developed the Ad Tester tool, which will identify the best performing ad units for you. This article will teach you how to get started improving your site today. Log in, Integrate a Website and Get Started After you registered a free Ezoic account, you need to integrate your site. This can be done by switching your nameservers at your registrar. If you are using CloudFlare on your site, Ezoic has a partnership with CloudFlare that allows you to integrate via your CloudFlare account. If you do not have control over your DNS, there is a JavaScript integration method, though it is not recommended. The service's dashboard will inform you about the current state of progress. Integration of Your Website, Setup of the Ad Tester and “Turn On.” After that, you […]

Without the right poster mockup to showcase your work professionally, your poster design doesn’t have the chance to stand out from the crowd. It’s often easy to overlook the way you present and showcase your poster designs! That’s why it’s worth investing in a set of useful poster mockup templates, to showcase your work in […]

Forms. I know, your pulse doesn't start racing with excitement. Forms get a bad rep. Love or hate them, from registration to collecting payments, forms are here to stay. Forms equal input, they mean collecting data from anyone who interacts with your business. A form is successful when it engages rather than frustrates your user,...