Good plugin development and support lead to more downloads. More downloads mean more money and a better reputation. In this article, Jakub Mikita will share his five years of experience developing WordPress plugins. He’s written around 40 plugins for his clients, from really small ones to one that have been maintained for over a year now. Read on to learn how you can develop good-quality products with these seven golden rules!
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The modern solution to developing for both modern and legacy browsers is feature queries. They allow us to write CSS that is conditional on browser support for a particular feature. In this article Ire Aderinokun explains how she developed the Feature Queries Manager. Find out how this tool can help you suport older browsers, and also how to create your own DevTools extensions.
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Design is a constantly evolving discipline. A lot of things might change during each iteration. Designers will introduce changes, and developers will dive into the code to adjust the design. While jumping into code to solve an exciting problem might be fun, doing it to resolve a minor issue is the exact opposite. The process of content management should be as easy as possible for everyone involved. In this article, Nick Babich Introduces Elementor, a tool that offers flexibility to visually design an entire website.
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Design’s role in companies is becoming less about visual appeal and more about hitting business goals and creating value for users. Therefore, the need to build teams with diverse perspectives is becoming imperative. This article is for people who are part of a design team (or any team) that makes crucial business decisions with stakeholders and how they might go about building a diverse team through the use of the Competing Values Framework evaluation.
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Looking for an icon set that’ll take you on a journey through AR and VR technology? Augmented and virtual reality are changing the way we experience and interact with the world around us — from the way we consume media and shop to the way we communicate and learn. And today, Vitaly Friedman has got your back with these funky icons and illustrations brought to you by the Vexels team.
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What has happened in the web community in the past four weeks? Anselm Hannemann summarized everything that’s new and important in one handy reading list.
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Have you ever faced challenges when trying to sell Design Discovery to a potential client? As designers, it is important that we are equipped to be able to have conversations with senior stakeholders to be able to sell and justify the importance of the so-called “Design Discovery” within the design process. In this article, Kyle Cassidy takes a deep dive into the importance of research as part of the UX design process and the core purpose of Design Discovery.
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SVG supports the same kind of interactivity we’re used to with HTML. And with the addition of pointer-events, we can improve the way our SVG documents behave in response to user interaction. Every browser that supports SVG supports the property for SVG documents and elements. When used with HTML elements, support is slightly less robust. It isn’t available in Internet Explorer 10 or its predecessors, or any version of Opera Mini. In this article, Tiffany Brown will scratch the surface of pointer-events.
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Do sites that explain their ‘concept’ in a simple way have a better shot at mass-appeal with users? Being aware of the importance of ‘high-concept’ allows us — as designers — to really focus on user’s initial impressions. The most successful blockbusters are the ones that have an easy-to-understand concept that can be communicated in a single sentence. Web design should be approached in the same way. In this article, Andy Duke will show you how.
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Dynamic properties provide opportunities for new creative ideas, but also the potential to add complexity to CSS. Custom properties have a huge potential to change how we write and structure CSS and to a lesser extent, how we use JavaScript to interact with UI components. To get the most out of them, we might need a strategy for how we write and structure CSS with custom properties. In this article, Michael Riethmuller will show you how.
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