Access All Areas members have a really unique collection of Photoshop mockup templates to download this week, courtesy of New Tropical Design Studio. These Pantone Colour Swatch Mockups help you quickly and easily create trendy photographs, style guides, and cool social media content. Choose from 5 templates to create endless layouts that incorporate colour schemes […] The post Pantone Colour Swatch Mockups for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships" Ting Tong!! Sports Tournaments build character, teach and develop strategic thinking, analytical thinking, leadership skills, goal setting and risk-taking. So, this is the reason we organized the tournaments for Webkulites. Numbers of sports were chosen to be played like CHESS, TABLE TENNIS, CARROM BOARD, FOOSBALL, BADMINTON, [...]

All released this year, each of these free web-based apps offer a time-saving solution to many of the web design tasks you will need to perform from time to time.... The post 50 Tiny, Time-Saving, and Free Tools for Web Designers from 2016 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

WiFi is an amazing technology that enables everyone to connect to fast internet wirelessly. It can be frustrating to lose WiFi signal in certain areas... The post How to Find and Fix WiFi Dead Spots in Your Home appeared first on Web Development & Technology Resources.

While web builders have been around for a long time, it wasn't until recently that they became practical for professional use. Closing the gap between design and code has become the north star for many companies and we are seeing a wave of tools that deliver on this promise.

I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn't know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully. She was torn though. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

Every time I have checked my email over the last two weeks, it has been full of Black Friday deals. We will get a short respite before the New Year offers start to roll in. I like a bargain as much as anyone, however, I think that plenty of sites will be covering the best offers on electronics and tech. I thought we would do something different this year at Smashing.

You can add your own email layout and variables from your module, they will then be included during email generation. Each time you install a language or if you generate them via the back office your layout will be rendered, translated, and exported in the appropriate folders. So let’s start by creating a mail layout [...]

On the StarTutorial.com site, they've posted the latest in their article series covering design patterns and their implementation in PHP. In this latest tutorial they cover the simple factory pattern. To help illustrate the point of the pattern they use an example of a toy company with an ever-expanding line of toys. Dragon Inc. is one of the top toy manufacturers in China. In fact, they're a pioneer in toy manufacturing. They started production at a time when few toys were being produced commercially. Hence, they dominated the market and became the leader in the toy production industry. The initial version of their produceToy method only had to worry about toy cars and helicopters. As their line expanded, it needed to be updated for "jumping frogs" too. Adding each new toy to the single function would be difficult to maintain but the simple factory pattern came to the rescue. It allowed for the abstraction of the toy object creation out to other handling and other objects, breaking the functionality up in accordance with the Single Responsibility Principle.

Many business models thrive on ingeniously deceptive and manipulative digital products. Not because they have to; mostly because dark patterns have become such an accepted norm. But what happens when ad-blockers, cross-browser tracking protection and data regulation (e.g. GDPR & CCPA) become a norm, too? That's when an honest, ethical design could be a competitive advantage. To grow a sustainable business, we need to learn how to leave dark patterns behind.