Author: edi
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12 Essential free WordPress plugins that will make your life easier
One of the top reasons why I love working with WordPress is the amount and quality of free plugins that extend the functionality of the website. Even though WP was initially built for blogging, IMO it’s the best free CMS solution ever built. That’s why I wanted to share with you my list of essential…
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CSS Trick: How to get the height 100%
This is a fairly simple trick, yet many designers are unaware of why when you set an element’s height to 100% it just doesn’t work, or how to fix that. %CODE1% The thing is, your element is just as tall as it’s parent is, so if it’s parent’s height is not set, or set to…
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3 ways to colorize a Black & White image in Photoshop – Video tutorial
Have you ever wondered how those historical black and white photos got colors? There are several techniques for that in image editing software, and with some practice, you can do that too. In this Photoshop tutorial you’ll learn about 3 useful techniques for colorizing a black and white image, using the Color Replacement tool, painting…
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Get Ratio – a handy design tool that helps you calculate ideal dimensions
Web designers often have problems calculating the ideal proportions of the images placed on a web page, determining the most suitable height to a set width. Get Ratio is a very useful online tool lets you input the width of your layout and offers several standard ratios such as 4:3, 16:9 or the Golden Ratio.…
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Website Design & Development Process #Infographic
I found this infographic and thought it would be useful both to web design clients and less experienced designers to have a better understanding of the web development process, thus easing communication before and during the process.
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Top Inspiration and Learning Sources for Web Designers
The web is full of blogs, galleries and magazines that provide inspiration, education and insights for designers and web professionals in general, as well as for all niches. However, there are so many of them that one can’t possibly follow them all. Today I’d like to share with you some of my personal favorites that…
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Web design trends to watch for 2014
The web is constantly evolving and while a few things come as a (r)evolution by surprise, most are pretty much predictable and develop over the years. Keeping track with the current trends and the ones from the previous years, there’s pretty much chance to accurately predict what will dominate the web in the next year.
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Why you should (not) be a Freelancer #Infographic
Freelancing can be very rewarding, but it can also be frustrating. It depends on many factors, such as your lifestyle, organizational and self-promotional skills, but the business environment is also very important. The infographic below shows us some of the top pros and cons reported by some of the 42 million of freelancers in the…
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Easily convert Pixels to EMs online with PXtoEM
PXtoEM.com is a simple tool can be pretty useful when writting CSS. It allows you to convert Pixels to EMs and viceversa directly on the site.The tool was crafted by front-end engineer Brian Cray. Check out his homepage for some other cool resources.
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Random Thing Generator: generate placeholder Names, Addresses & Business names
If you happen to need a fictional name, street address and business name to use as a placeholder in your designs, the Random Thing Generator can be a very handy tool. Even more so if you’re designing a list of users, or greeting cards for various users. If you need more data than displayed at…