Halloween Graphic Design: 10 Spooky Tips & Ideas

Witches, goblins, and ghouls can make for some pretty amazing design projects. While Halloween might not be top of mind when it comes to design, it’s an opportunity to do something a little different with projects. Halloween graphic design centers around something that will be around for a short time. It might be different than […]
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Using Recompose to Share Functionality Between React Components

Sharing functionality between React components is a pretty common need. The concept is that we can establish the behavior in one place and then extend it across different components. Higher-Order Components are one way to do this. Yet, there is another way using a library called Recompose.

GitHub Repo

What is Recompose?

The documentation helps us answer that:

Recompose is a React utility belt for function components and higher-order components. Think of it like lodash for React.

Basically, it’s a …

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50+ Apple Watch Mockups & Graphics

The Apple Watch is the latest gadget in Apple’s ever-growing product line-up. If you’re looking to display your latest application or web interface on the watch, then you’ve come to the right place. We’ve gone through and updated our collection of Apple Watch mockups with dozens more beautiful graphics, mockups and vector designs for you to […]
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Material Design Animation Guides

I’ve seen two guides posted to Medium about animation in the last month that have seriously blown up!

There is a lot to learn in each one! The demonstration animations they use are wonderfully well done and each guide demonstrates an interesting and effective animation technique, often paired next to a less successful technique to drive the point home. …

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How to Make Your Content SEO sing in 2018

SEO is a never-ending race and it’s important to always stay updated with Google’s latest trends and algorithm changes. When it comes to content, it’s incredibly important to understand User Experience, Keyword Density, and relevance when writing a new piece for your website, especially if you want to organically rank in a very quick way. …
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One Invalid Pseudo Selector Equals an Entire Ignored Selector

Perhaps you know this one: if any part of a selector is invalid, it invalidates the whole selector. For example:

div, span::butt {
background: red;
}

Even though div is a perfectly valid selector, span:butt is not, thus the entire selector is invalidated — neither divs nor span::butt elements on the page will have a red background.

Normally that’s not a terribly huge problem. It may even be even useful, depending on the situation. But there are plenty of situations …

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CSS Only Floated Labels with :placeholder-shown pseudo class

The floated label technique has been around for a good long while and the general idea is this: we have an text input with the placeholder attribute acting as a label. When a user types into that input, the label moves from inside the input to outside of it.

Like so:

Although I don’t see this pattern used on the web all that much, I do think it’s an interesting one! There are different approaches to it, but Nick Salloum …

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Best Free and Paid WordPress Themes for Bloggers

The Internet plays a vital role in helping us share ideas, concepts, and a way to deliver our voice to a broader audience. For example, if you are a blogger, you can share how you feel about ‘French-cuisine’ or  ‘one-foot island’ with hundreds of millions of people just by uploading it on your website or …
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