It is often said that competition brings out the best in all of us. Whether we’re running in a race or building software, knowing that others are out there doing... The post Imagining a Single-Browser Web appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Question: What happens when someone gets lost on your website or when someone stumbles upon a bad link or missing content? Answer: They get to see your 404 page. Now here's the real question: Is that 404 page a well-designed Easter egg that will help users on their journey or did you forget to add […]

When it comes to creating and maintaining a website, the first thing that comes to any person's mind is a site's design. Well, design matters indeed, moreover, it can even influence your website's traffic, which in turn has an impact on the amount of money you make. In fact, a decent layout makes any website...

Access All Areas members have a brilliant collection of vector resources to download this week, courtesy of Freepik. These spring patterns contain a range of watercolour style floral illustrations, ranging from colourful blossom to leafy stems. Each one is made up of 100% vector graphics, meaning they can be scaled to any size for use […] The post Watercolour Style Floral Patterns for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

We’ve all made excuses for why we haven’t gotten started on something we really want to do. We’re too busy, or we haven’t prepared enough to get started. The truth... The post Is It Time to Quit That Failing Creative Idea? appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Laravel eCommerce PayTabs Payment Gateway module allows the admin to integrate PayTabs payment services to the online store for the payment of orders. The admin can set the title for the payment method that will be visible to the customers. This module supports multiple languages including RTL Arabic. Once the payment is made by any [...]

WordPress is a CMS platform that is written in PHP. It is one of the most popular platforms for creating your website and stands tall in front of other worthy competitors like Squarespace, Shopify, and other CMS’s. Many people rely on WordPress for creating their websites. It is also a controlled environment with a lower […] The post 8 Must Have Debugging Tools for WordPress Websites first appeared on Line25.

The success of any web site is not determined by its visual design, but by its utility, and most importantly usability. The user is in the center of attention because the user is the one who is clicking the mouse and using the page, so everything must revolve around him. The user-centric approach to design […] The post Follow these principles to design an effective website appeared first on DesignM.ag.

In a new post to their blog, Exakat looks at the use of eval in PHP applications and how, despite all of the warnings against using it, it's still found in quite a few codebases (based on their scans). It is 2018, and we can still find eval() being used in more than 28% of every PHP code source. It is repeatedly reported as a security issue and a performance bottleneck, and a memory hazard. Yet, we can't get rid of it. It seems reasonable to think that most of eval capabilities are available as a PHP features. So, we took examples from 2000 PHP open source projects, and reviewed the situation. Here are real-life examples of eval usage : for each of them, we'll discuss the actual replacement. Their examples include the use of eval for: JSON decode replacement Creating missing classes Rewriting classes on the fly Code compatibility Dynamic variabling ...and several more. Each comes with a summary of the method and code showing how it's being used. While some of the suggested replacements are built-in features of the language, others are recommended packages that can provide the same or similar functionality to what the original author was trying to accomplish.

This week's Designer News - No 535 - includes CS Visualized: Useful Git Commands, Why Design-isms are a Problem, Friendlier Unix Manuals, CSS Section Separator Generator, LCH Colors in CSS: What, Why, and How?, Coronicons Covid-19 Icon Pack and lots more! The post Weekly News for Designers No 535 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.