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The Beginner’s Guide to Translating a WordPress Website With Polylang

February 25, 2018design tips
If your client serves a non-English speaking audience, you may need to produce a website that works in multiple languages. Given that implementing multiple languages means a potential wealth of new custom, don’t let the fear of tackling a multilingual website stop you from working with these types of clients. While handling multiple languages increases …
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Working Towards Better Naming

February 25, 2018design tips

There is a quote that I bet every one of you has heard many times. You know the one. The one that reminds you how hard naming is.

Let’s talk names.

We talk often about how hard naming is, but it’s less common see people talk about how to get better at it. Even naming philosophies lend structure to naming, but don’t pick names for you. Names are more than just some hard thing we get needlessly caught up in. …

Working Towards Better Naming is a post from CSS-Tricks

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13 Best Ways to Learn CSS Grid

February 25, 2018design tips
CSS Grid an increasingly popular method for creating complex responsive web design layouts that render more consistently across browsers. Now is the time to familiarize yourself with CSS Grid, so we’ve collected 13 of the best ways to get started learning today. Rather than old-school methods such as tables or the box model, CSS Grid […]
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Wix Code Review: Building Web Apps With Ease

February 25, 2018design tips
One of the common problems most front-end web designers face is building the back-end of website projects. Usually, designers have to team up with web developers to work on projects such as web apps and eCommerce platforms. What if there was a way to easily design both the front-end and back-ends of websites such as […]
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Complexity

February 22, 2018design tips

Frank Chimero published a new talk-turned-essay, Everything Easy is Hard Again.

May we all be as wonderfully self-reflective and eloquent as Frank one day. There is a lot there, so please read it. Part of the theme is that web design and development has seemingly repetitive cycles that can kick even quite experienced people back down the ladder:

I don’t feel much better at making [websites] after 20 years. My knowledge and skills develop a bit, then things change, …

Complexity is a post from CSS-Tricks

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30+ Best Food & Drink Menu Templates

February 22, 2018design tips
Using a pre-made menu template can be a great starting point for your restaurant or cafe. This is our collection of the best food and drink menu templates out there, to give you some delicious inspiration! If you’re a restaurant owner or a designer working for the food industry, it can be helpful to start […]
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How to Design a Professional PowerPoint Presentation

February 22, 2018design tips
Our series of tips on presentation design outlined some generic rules and ideas that you can live by to create better, more professional presentations. Today we want to follow that up by taking you through the actual process of designing a presentation from start to finish. We’ll break down every step of the design process, […]
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modern-normalize

February 21, 2018design tips

Another don’t call it a reset from Sindre Sorhus. It’s a port of Normalize that, as the name suggests, is modernized to remove some of the older stuff and add a few opinionated bits. I’m good with light sensible opinions, like in this case, box-sizing: border-box; everywhere. This looks similar to sanitize.css which is also based on Normalize and brings a few more sensible opinions. Same with Reboot.

If you’re interested in some of the history and thinking behind …

modern-normalize is a post from CSS-Tricks

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