The Benefits of Creating a Design System
Styleguides have been around for years and have always been important to the visual identity of a company, but the rebrand of the term has given a new dimension to…
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6 Free Starter & Barebone Themes for WordPress Development
A collection of free starter themes for WordPress that will allow you to quickly build a theme to your own custom specifications.
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10 Free Open Source CSS and JavaScript Select Box Snippets
The default HTML select boxes have served us well for decades. But in the modern era, it’s fair to say they’re a little… stale. Designers can do better and thanks…
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Weekly News for Designers № 401
This week’s Designer News (N.401) includes a Free CSS Animation Library, a Resource for Type Pairings, a Study Web Development eBook, Free Icons, UI & UX Kits, Mirrored Atomicity, How to Create a Sketch Plugin, Medium’s New Logo Reviewed, Online Only and more.
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How does a combination of paragraph spacing with indentation rate for legibility and aesthetics?
Conventional wisdom says either indent paragraphs or have a space between them but don’t do both. The argument is that since the point of both methods is to show where one paragraph ends and another begins, either way is sufficient.
Suffi…
Why Designers Need Creativity and Practicality to Succeed
One of the lasting messages we see across the world of web design is the idea of inspiring creativity. Designers everywhere are encouraging us to find our inner artist by…
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7 Questions to Ask your Client as a Freelancer
Understanding what your client wants is absolutely crucial as a freelancer. Bad communication can threaten your livelihood as a freelancer, putting you at risk of not only not getting clients,…
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Envato Elements Now Gives You Access to 240+ Web Design eBooks
We web designers are always reading, trying to gain that extra knowledge to improve our skills. It’s that constant flow of learning that helps us to become better at our…
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8 Free Maintenance & Coming Soon Plugins for WordPress
A collection of the best free WordPress plugins for creating a coming soon page or adding a maintenance page to an existing website.
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10 Super-Useful React Components, Libraries & Tools
React is an open source JavaScript library developed by Facebook that allows for building advanced UIs. What makes React so interesting is that you can set different views for a…
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