Nothing beats a block letter font when it comes to designing titles and headings. They are the perfect font for attracting attention as well as making text readable from a distance. Which is why block fonts are mostly used for everything from poster designs to flyer designs and even logo designs. Contrary to popular belief, […]

A blog is a great way to connect with customers and build loyalty. But the truth is, most company blogs could use some help with their user experience. Maintaining a blog is more than just uploading a bunch of content and calling it a day. There are certain features every blog needs in order to...

Concept art has been around for quite a while but we have started to hear and, in this case, see more about it only recently. Movies, video games, books, all utilize concept art during their creation and the internet allows us to glimpse into the journey a masterpiece takes before coming to life. Simply put,...

In my previous post, I examined video trends on the web today, using data from the HTTP Archive. I found that many websites serve the same video content on mobile and desktop, and that many video streams are being delivered at bitrates that are too high to playback on 3G speed connections. We also discovered that may websites automatically download video to mobile devices — damaging customer's data plans, battery life, for videos that might not ever be played.

In a new post to his site Matthias Noback walks you down a road to dependency injection, sharing his process of migrating a codebase from static calls to a more modern, robust dependency injection pattern. I've worked with several code bases that were littered with calls to Zend_Registry::get(), sfContext::getInstance(), etc. to fetch a dependency when needed. I'm a little afraid to mention facades here, but they also belong in this list. The point of this article is not to bash a certain framework (they are all lovely), but to show how to get rid of these "centralized dependency managers" when you need to. He talks about this common use case of "statics everywhere" and some of the problems with coupling your code to a static way of doing things. He walks through the steps towards modernization including injecting the container itself into the controller and shifting logic out into services. He also makes suggestions on what to do when constructor injection isn't possible and how to deal with "temporal coupling".

We web designers put a lot of hard work into our projects while keeping a number of goals in mind. For instance, we have to be cognizant of what our... The post Ready for Launch: Avoiding Chaos appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Stories are the most popular feature of Instagram. Everyone uses them to express themselves. Instagram even lets you select and highlight some of your best stories on your profile page. You may have noticed that some Instagram profiles have unique icons for Instagram story highlights. How do they do this? Well, many Instagram bloggers are […]

Design trends on top of design trends. This theme of this month's collection is trends that seem to build on each other. These examples use multiple trends listed here: hero typography, round buttons, and big branding. Here's what's trending in design this month... 1. Hero Typography Big, bold, and even unusual typography choices are the […] The post 3 Essential Design Trends, October 2021 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Are you starting a blog for the first time and looking for advice on how to get started? Maybe you've been at it a while and want to learn how to improve your writing, grow your email list, or make money blogging. No matter which stage you're at or what advice you're looking for, the […] The post Best Blogging Resources Worth Using in 2016 appeared first on Line25.

The concept of a paperless office has been around for decades, but most workplaces still use a lot of paper. Why? There are a few reasons, but the biggest one is the fact that human beings resist change. Doing everything digitally means learning new protocols. We've built habits around paper. But those habits cost time and money....