Deploying a Serverless Jamstack Site with RedwoodJS, Fauna, and Vercel
This article is for anyone interested in the emerging ecosystem of tools and technologies related to Jamstack and serverless. We’re going to use Fauna’s GraphQL API as a serverless back-end for a Jamstack front-end built with the Redwood framework and deployed with a one-click deploy on Vercel.
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What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. You tell yourself you’re going to turn over a new leaf and start a new habit that will help you elevate your career as a designer somehow. Maybe you want to start doing more interesting personal projects, or refining your marketing tactics to reach out to more and b..
2020 Web Design Year in Review
A year “like no other” is about to come to a close. 2020 was certainly unique for everyone – web designers included. And it challenged us on several levels.
Our daily grind was complicated by shutdowns, kids invading the home office, and clients who needed our help in rapidly changing their busines..
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How to Help Your Clients with Website Content Strategy – How to get the processes of creating and organizing content moving in the right direction.
Devbook – A new kind of search engine made just for developers.
What Makes CSS Hard To Master – Thoughts on what frustrates some developers about CSS...
8 Ways for Bringing Creativity to Hyperlinks with CSS & JavaScript
Since the beginning of the World Wide Web, the venerable hyperlink has been a crucial feature. Remember the amazement when you found out that a single click could take you anywhere in the world?
OK, maybe that gee-whiz moment has passed. But links are still as important as ever. And they’re somethi..
How a Culinary Technique Could Make You a Better Freelancer
I’m going to tell you the story of two cooks: David and Jenny. Both are equally talented in the kitchen, and both are about to prepare a 6-course meal for a table full of rowdy dinner guests. They’re hungry and they’re hungry now.
David gets his pots and pans out, pulls what he needs from the fridg..
Freelance Situations You Need to Fix Right Away
As a freelance web designer, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients. And it’s likely that some of them will want to enter into different types of working arrangements.
One common example is billing. You may run into a client that prefers to pay a flat monthly fee rather ..
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Why it’s good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages – Separating structure, styles and interactivity isn’t so bad, after all.
Viral – A free typeface that bills itself as a “recipe for quarantining in 2020”. Download it, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Atkinson Hyperlegible – T..
25 Fantastic Adobe Illustrator Text Effects Tutorials
Great typography can elevate any project and make it look more polished. But when you take text and apply creative and unique text effects, you create a completely different work of art.
In this roundup, we’ve gathered the best Adobe Illustrator tutorials for designing highly creative text effects...
15 Best Free Disney Fonts You Should Have in Your Collection
Disney is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Whether it’s through their animated features, theme parks, Marvel movies, Star Wars films or their many video games, Disney is known to everyone around the globe. Their presence has had a viable and undeniable impact around the world, and m..