In our field it is important to know how to do specific tasks and use creativity to achieve our goals, however it is necessary to have the right tools in order to get our aims in a more efficient way. Here you have several tools for different steps on our daily work, from scratch to production...
These days any time you talk mobile app development or operating systems, HTML5 is a key part of the conversation.
Perhaps the biggest development for HTML5 in 2012 was its non-development. At the end of 2011, HTML5 seemed like a young athlete that had no limits to its potential. Yet, just as we watch many athletes mature into professional players, the development was marred by maturation and performance issues that took some of the luster off the subject. From a technological standpoint, the HTML5 stack saw good improvement in 2012 as companies like Google, Mozilla, appMobi, Sencha, Research In Motion, Facebook and others have developed towards the stack. HTML5 is well on its way to being a mature technology.
We are already in December; time seems to be running too fast, right? Much like the previous few months, we are going to feature some useful resources for web designer and developers.
This time we have some cool resources from one that capable of slicing your design in Photoshop to some fresh new jQuery plugins with stunning effects.
Lots of freeware is available on the Internet for download. You can find programs for both OSX and Windows for designing and coding websites. Unfortunately not everybody has the money for premium software or the time to learn the interfaces.
I have put together this guide with just a few examples of some great software applications. Each example is totally free to download and install for your own personal use. Designing websites is a very difficult job and requires the right set of tools. This article may not contain everything you need, but I’m hoping to share these resources as a starting point for web designers on a budget.
There are a number of new great tools and resources out to give web designers and developers that extra leverage for their job. This month we have some great free tools and resources worthy of a try, starting from a plugin to create cool photo effects to a plugin for content and image sliding with genuinely cool transition.
If Marc Andreesen is right (and I happen to believe he is) then talented software developers will soon be the most sought after type of employee for just about any company, whether that company’s main business is building software or not. Attracting and hiring great software developers for your company is difficult, but it’s not impossible. Here are some tips to get you started...
Being a designer or a developer isn’t your average work as it is constantly developing, giving you new tools to either become more dynamic or to simply create better work. Podcasts is an engaging way of learning new techniques or staying up to date with what other designers. We often read books, refresh our skills with tutorials, subscribe to blogs and even attend conferences but we most of us still overlook one medium It is an engaging standard that is available in both audio and video formats. Podcasts often refer to audio casts, but now with iPods and other media players being able to play video, video casts are just as popular. A handful of web design podcasters convey both audio and video formats.
If you are a designer or developer, you probably know that this field is one of the most innovative and fastest growing industry in the world. If you want to keep up to date and stay ahead of your competitors you must learn new things all the time and follow trends. Even though the Internet is the best place for the Creatives to learn anything for free, I would highly recommend you to spend a few bucks and get some design and development books. There are a lot of experts who have encountered problems and found solutions which they share with us in the books, so why not take advantage of their best practices and smart approaches to problems?
Most of the designers and developers have their own favorite tools to use everyday.These tools offer a wide variety of options for both designers and developers to make things easier and they definitely affect the quality of your projects.But it is always good to look for new tools whether free or paid.So in today’s post,we have collected 14 tools which you might find useful and give a try.
Every month there are dozens of free stuff that are shared by very generous people in the web design and web development community; it’s almost impossible to keep up with all these new stuff. Nonetheless, you should not worry; in this post we have selected 10 useful ‘stuff’ ranging from code snippets to tools, frameworks to plugins to make your work and life as web designers and developers easier.
Are you overlooking something important that you could use to advance your design career?
If you’re not participating in online forums, you may be missing out.There are a significant number of benefits to being part of a high quality online design forum.
In this post, I’ll share the benefits of taking part in online design forums and I’ll explain how to find a good one. I’ll also list 12 popular online design forums for you to consider.
This time we are going to showcase a collection of free online HTML editors. Designers and developers frequently use to code HTML at different stages and every time they need to write some lines of HTML code for a particular purpose. However our desired HTML editor or application may not always be available on other computers. To overcome these inconvenience online HTML editors were introduced, have a look below and find some useful online HTML editors. Enjoy!
It seems to me that there is an ever-increasing chasm between the fields of web design and web development. (I'm using the terms here to distinguish between the design of a website [web design] and the programatic execution of the design [web development]).
And, thought I know many designers who dabble in development and developers who dabble in design, I don't know many who are experts at both disciplines. Even among the most talented developers, it is rare to find those familiar with more than a few platforms.
Web developers should always be abreast of the latest news. And to make their work easier and to help in saving their time a lot of talented web developers from all around the world always try to bring some new decisions and tools. To your attention, we would like to showcase some fresh timesaving tools among which you’ll find useful services, resources, generators and frameworks that you might find very interesting.
Apps are in. There’s no denying it. Seems everyone these days has a great idea for a mobile app: apps to find food, apps to find rides, apps to find more apps. The list goes on.
But just how do you become an app developer anyway? As with so many paths to success, there’s no one rote way. But there are some common, helpful and progressive steps to turn your great kernel of an idea into reality, or land you a gig with that hot startup you’ve had your eye on.
A degree in computer science or software engineering is a very strong foundation. Alternatively, there are specialized courses you can take that are geared toward mobile app development specifically. Getting certified in different aspects of development will only make your case stronger to employers looking to hire. But the best way of all to prove you can build something great? Build something great!
In this advance era each and everything is developed than before because one has to work in a most creative manners because there is very hard competition in every field. If we look at the field of web, there are now hundreds and thousands of new websites who are working in more successful manners. And in the world of web HTML5 is also a well-known name, basically HTML5 is a markup language for structuring and presenting content for the world wide web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software.
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a design language but designers have to use different tools like (flash, jquery, ajax script etc) for attractive and appealing results. But it’s time to obsolete these tools, HTML5 has launched. It’s the 5th revision of HTML language with advance animation features and additional tags. Today’s roundup will bring you useful HTML5 tutorials for you to learn techniques and tricks of HTML5. So let’s start exploring these useful HTML5 tutorials and make your base strong with HTML5.
In the age of high-speed internet people like to create their websites for new business, online business is a new trend nowadays or rapidly increase by and by, to create a awe-inspiring websites people have to join a creative designer or developer, but now you can create your own stunning website yourself, tutorials make this a lot of easy to create a website, you can use useful tutorials to create websites or can also get inspiration, you can use asp tutorials for development of your website, ASP is most important thing in web developing, you can easy learn about asp using asp tutorials, by getting information or introduction of asp through tutorials you will able to use asp language code in your website.
When it comes to mobile app design and development, the best way to learn is often by observing what works in successful apps.
This doesn’t mean copying every interface or design element from a popular app — on the contrary — it means looking at what features in a successful app make it both beautiful and functional and applying those lessons to your own projects.
Perusing through our favorite apps for iOS and Android — and a few excellent mobile UI pattern blogs — we’ve come up with some lessons that developers and designers can learn from some of the best mobile apps.
Have a mobile app? Wondering if advertising can help you make money from that app? Here are eight must-know tips to help you turn mobile app inventory into dollars.
