March is here! With the days getting noticeably longer in the northern hemisphere, the sun coming out, and the flowers blooming, we are fueled with fresh energy. And even if spring is far away in your part of the world, you might feel that 2020 has gained full speed by now -- the perfect opportunity to bring all those plans you made and ideas you're carrying around to life! To cater for some extra inspiration this March, artists and designers from across the globe once again challenged their creative skills and designed wallpapers for your desktop and mobile screens.

The first and foremost thing that will stand out about your website is its header. A well designed header will immediately attract the viewer’s attention, which should be the main goal. Once you catch someone’s attention, you also capture their interest and curiosity, and they are much more likely to spend more time on your […] The post 50 Website Header Designs That Showcase Creativity and Wit appeared first on Line25.

OKR Approach Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is an approach that informs everyone in the organization where they should concentrate their efforts and directs the company to the common goal as a whole. In fact, it’s a simple way to ensure that everyone is striving for the same result and that all the operations are...

This week Access All Areas members have a new collection of textures to download, courtesy of Fox & Bear. The Aqua Modern Marble Ink Textures collection contains 7 images of beautiful gradients with a modern colour palette. They’re brilliant resources for all kinds of design projects to add interesting backgrounds, or colourful overlays to your […] The post 7 Aqua Modern Marble Ink Textures for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

There are quite a few wireless connectivity options available in the market. And each one has its advantages as well as disadvantages. Let me name them: 3G, 4G, 5G, WiFi, Bluetooth. These are commonly used for connecting several electronic devices. There are others whose usage is limited like Lower pan wide area networks (LPWANs), satellite...

2020 could be the year you start a new path learning a new skill or starting a new career path. Check out our 9 Best Courses on Coursera for Creatives here!

This week's Designer News (N.341) includes anime.js, Flex Layout Attribute, CSS Tooltip Library, Flexbox Landing Page Template, and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers (N.341) appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

An increasingly large number of publicly available APIs provide powerful services to expand the functionality of our applications. WordPress is an incredibly dynamic and flexible CMS that powers everything from small personal blogs to major e-commerce websites and everything in between. Part of what makes WordPress so versatile is its powerful plugin system, which makes it incredibly easy to add functionality. We will walk through how I made GitHub Pipeline, a plugin that allows you to display data from the GitHub API on WordPress pages using shortcodes. I'll give specific examples and code snippets, but consider the technique described here a blueprint for how to consume any service API with a plugin. We'll start from the beginning, but a degree of familiarity with WordPress and plugin development is assumed, and we won't spend time on beginner topics, like installing WordPress or Composer.The post Making A WordPress Plugin That Uses Service APIs, “From Soup To Nuts” appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

The Ampersand is loved by all types of creatives! Its shape has evolved into a variety of styles since it was conceived as a ligature of the letters ‘e’ and ‘t’ from the Latin ‘et’ for ‘and’. You can find a range of ampersand designs across different fonts and typefaces, from cursive script variants to […] The post Art of the Ampersand: 35 Creative Examples of The '&' Character appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Dependencies amongst the modules are one of the biggest challenges of distributed architectures. Microservices-based applications are distributed in nature – you might often have to tackle dependency challenges, i.e., dependency issues and concerns across different services. Since monolithic applications follow a layer model, you would come across fewer cyclic dependencies. In a monolithic application dependency […] The post Managing Application Dependencies in Distributed Architectures appeared first on Developer.com.