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Defining a Vision for Your Web Design Business
One of the great aspects of starting your own web design business is that you can tailor it to fit your vision. Work with who you want, when you want, and set your own pricing. Sounds pretty ideal, right?
But what if you don’t have a clear vision of what your business should be? If that sounds like..
Popular Design News of the Week: October 11, 2021 – October 17, 2021
Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site.
The best way to keep up with the most important stories..
Expandable Sections Within a CSS Grid
I love CSS Grid. I love how, with just a few lines of code, we can achieve fully responsive grid layouts, often without any media queries at all. I’m quite comfortable wrangling CSS Grid to produce interesting layouts, while keeping the HTML markup clean and simple.
But recently, I was presented wi..
7 Simple Ways to Boost Your Website’s CX
Many markets are saturated with competition; it’s no surprise that customers are expecting top-of-the-line experiences. Businesses must keep up with these ever-changing demands to remain competitive and drive forward.
One way to ensure customers have positive experiences is to take a look at your w..
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The 2021 State of Digital Nomads – Get the lowdown on who remote workers are with this report.
Learn How to Create a Headless WordPress Site With Vue.js – Learn about “headless” configurations and how to implement one.
How to Implement and Style the Dialog Element – Explore the native HTML dialog ..
25 Quirky & Highly Creative Free Fonts for Designers
Regardless of the project, fonts will always play a pivotal role in design. A carefully selected typeface has the power to completely change the message and feeling you are to convey, and can elevate your design from the average to the inspiring.
However, very few designers are brave enough to step..
Different Degrees of Custom Property Usage
One way to work with Custom Properties is to think of them as design tokens. Colors, spacings, fonts, and whatnot. You set them at the root of the page and use them throughout your CSS. Very useful, and the classic use case for not only Custom Properties but for preprocessor variables for the last o..
Embedded Analytics Made Simple With Cumul.io Integrations
Browse through SaaS communities on Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Discord, you name it and you’ll see a common theme appear in many of them. That theme can go by many names: BI, analytics, insights and so on. It’s natural, we do business, collect data, we succeed or fail. We want to look into all of tha..
20 Beautifully Designed Coming Soon Pages for Inspiration
If you are working on a new website, service, or app, you should consider getting a jump start on your marketing campaigns by having a presence online that you can show to potential users or buyers, so that when you do launch, you can hit the ground running.
Coming soon pages are the first step in ..
Bonsai Browser
Web-browser for research that helps programmers think clearly.
With Bonsai, rather than being like, I’m going to go use my web browser now, you hit Option + Space and it brings up a browser. It’s either full-screen or a very minimal float-over-everything window. You can visually organize things int..