We offer advice on how to determine which freelance design clients are good and which ones aren't before you begin to work with them. The post Working With Good and Bad Design Clients appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

For starters, we at Creative Overflow love Envato! Briefly, Envato consists of 5 “products”; Market, Studio, Tuts+ (tutorials), Sites (coming soon), and the product I’ll

We explore some ideas for making the handoff from web design to web development as easy and productive as possible. The post Tips for Handing off Your Website Mockup to a Developer appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Now and then, Jetpack by Automattic is dug out, and new features are added. While you can think whatever you want about Jetpack, you cannot deny that some features are very useful. A brand-new feature is the WordPress desktop app, which can be used for every WordPress website that has Jetpack activated. Today, we’ll take a look at this app together, and decide if and which advantages it offers. The WordPress Desktop App Of course, you need to download the app first. It is provided for free for all operating systems, including Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Download Desktop App for WordPress As said before, an activated Jetpack plugin on the self-hosted WordPress website, and, of course, a WordPress.com account is required to use the app. After the installation, you need to log in using your WordPress.com account. If you already have Jetpack installed or if you own a VaultPress account, you also own a WordPress.com account. Afterward, you gain instant access to self-hosted WordPress websites and your WordPress.com websites, if you have some. The app attempts to be an all-in-one solution, and can manage all WordPress activities as well as create articles for all websites. Your website is […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesHow Will REST API Affect WordPress Developers?WordPress Security: Turn Off the XML-RPC InterfaceWordPress Multisite Tutorial: Multiple Blogs on a Single InstallationWordPress: This Checklist Helps you Optimise your ArticlesBoon or Bane? The Jetpack Plugin for WordPressTwo Fresh Solutions for Code Display in WordPress

In the information age, time is a valuable commodity and something people don't want to spend too much of. As a result, the average visitor only reads about 20% of the content of a page. For web designers and developers, that means a few things: first, you need to ensure that the web pages you […] The post Quick Ways to Make a Webpage More Scannable first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Access All Areas members have a useful collection of picture frame mockups to download this week, courtesy of Frisk Web Studio. The aptly named Framezilla is a huge collection of 30 mockup templates, featuring a variety of minimalist frame styles, each conveniently layered to allow you to easily present your own artwork. Each frame mockup […] The post 30 Minimal Frame Mockups for Access All Areas Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

The North Meets South podcast, hosted by PHP community members Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda, has posted their latest episode - Episode #47: Reinventing form controls, typing ahead, and converting MySQLi to Query Builder In this new show Jacob and Michael return after a hiatus during the summer to talk largely about accessibility in applications (including forms and the overall UI) and updating the Query Builder to work with MySQLi versus MySQL. You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 of the show. If you enjoy it, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to stay up to date on when new shows are released.

This week's Designer News - No 539 - includes How to Create a Color Theme Switcher, a Morphing Gooey Text Hover Effect, Free UXUI Doc Kit for Sketch/Figma, Design System Interview Questions, Faking 3D Elements with CSS, the StyleStash Chrome Extension, Teach Yourself Code and a bunch more! The post Weekly News for Designers No 539 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Microsoft Word is the perfect tool for quickly putting together a professional brochure or a proposal in a very short amount of time. What makes it even better is the ability to use templates. With Word templates, you can instantly produce a high-quality brochure design without having to spend hours perfecting it. They simply help […]

In terms of development, best does not always mean popular; choosing the best depends on the context. We consider popularity as a credible tool to judge the performance or applicability of a tool, and that is because many people are using it for their work.  There are a few Java tools that web developers can... The post Most Popular Java Tools For Every Phase Of Development appeared first on noupe.