What You’ll Be Creating Creating a sports magazine cover can prove to be a difficult task, especially if you don’t have the required tools or skills. But what if I told you that there’s an easy solution that can help you create an awesome-looking magazine cover design in a manner of seconds using Placeit‘s online Magazine Cover Maker? Why go …

The Airtable web app is pretty neat. You can use it like a spreadsheet but it’s useful for all sorts of other things too. The neatest thing about it for me is that it has an API so that you can treat it like a database. I’ve been thinking about making weekly notes for the different teams I work with …

As a teacher, you’re always looking for ways to get your students’ attention and to improve their understanding and retention of the subject. Research shows that the use of slideshow presentations in the classroom can increase students’ learning compared to traditional textbooks and lectures. Students today have always been surrounded by digital media: they expect visual and dynamic content, both …

After the State of JavaScript, help us identify the latest CSS trends I’ve been using CSS for 10+ years, so I know it pretty well by now. I can handle flexbox, I’ve mastered SASS, and I even know the difference between ems and rems. But wait, now there’s Grid, too? And position: sticky? And what’s this I hear about this CSS-in-JS …

Email forms have many shapes and sizes. Sure, there’s the classic “contact form” you’ll find on just about every website, but sometimes you need something more robust—or maybe you should be using something more advanced in the first place? Different kinds of websites need different form features. Many of them simply need a basic contact form. However, some need forms …

One way to deal with long, complex forms is to break them up into multiple steps. You know, answer one set of questions, move on to another, then maybe another, and so on and so forth. We often refer to these as multi-step forms (for obvious reasons), but others also take to calling it a “wizard” form. Multi-step forms can …

Apple Keynote is a popular presentation design tool. It’s a bit more streamlined and easier to use than PowerPoint, and it packs in all the tools you’d need to make a great presentation with. But, even with the power of Apple’s flagship presentation tool at your fingertips, it can still be time consuming to begin the presentation design process from …

When a design feels a bit too static and you want to add a little bit of motion to it (either animated or simply implied), think about adding some rotation or skew to your design. However you use it, at the end of the day, if you’re rotating or skewing something, then you’re dealing with angles. And for a lot …

Regardless of niche, adding a calendar plugin to your WordPress site is a great way to improve user engagement and retention. Creating such a plugin doesn’t take much effort because there are lots of cloud-based calendaring packages available today. Google Calendar is the most popular of them all, and it offers a free to use API. In this tutorial, I’ll show …

About The Author Slava is a designer from Ukraine. He works as a Lead Designer at ELEKS, a software consultancy, and is a journalist by education. Slava gives talks and conducts … More about Slava… Tables frequently appear on the web but aren’t easy to design and code. This illustrated guide explains the table anatomy and how to build a table, keeping in mind its future elaboration. Imagine you design …