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Infographics have become a popular means of displaying information. It is a well known fact that the attention of viewers is attracted and held better through images than text, and people are more likely to digest the information in images. Road signs were probably among the first infographics; they needed to impart necessary information at a glance, and they have achieved that by using graphics and very large text, and that is the basis of modern infographics, which are becoming available for all trades, services, products and niches. Today we are bringing you a collection of online infographic tools, some tutorials, guides and articles on infographic creation and some beautiful free infographic elements and kits. All in all, you should be able to gather your data and create your masterpiece with the help of these resources.

As you've already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend. It's kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of trends emerge.

The quality of the blur has come to be known as "bokeh". Bokeh in terms of photography referring the area in the photo which are out of focus light to increase beautiful and dramatic image. The origin of the term is from the Japanese word "romaji" (english characters) is spelled "boke" (pronounced bo-keh) and which means "fuzzy". For good Bokeh, ideally points and lines would blur smoothly as they fell out of focus, in the manner, for example, of a smooth Gaussian blurring.

Responsive web design gets plenty of attention, and rightfully so, but in some situations you may prefer to use a separate theme specifically for mobile visitors rather than going with a responsive design. WordPress users have a number of themes available that have been specifically created with mobile visitors in mind. These themes will not replace your desktop theme, instead the mobile theme will only be seen by visitors on mobile devices. This setup typically includes a plugin to determine what device the visitor is using, and then it will display the appropriate theme. In this post we'll showcase 27 different options for mobile sites on WordPress. Most are themes, but some are plugins.

Breads are one of the most popular stomach-filler and is considered as the basic food until now. Having a lot of styles, techniques and proportions of ingredients, it can come in a huge variations of tastes, sizes, shapes, appearances, colors, etc. It's no wonder why there are millions of bakeries operating around the globe. However, for these bakeries to stand out from the others, aside from having a tasty bread, it is just as important for them to have the logo design that would amplify their branding and in turn would make them easier to be recognized by the market. Today, we will be showcasing 26 Yummy and Creative Examples of Bread Logo Designs. Scroll down and observe this compilation that includes some of the most artistic bread logo designs and maybe get some idea and inspiration on how you want your own logo design to look like. Come, take a peek, and enjoy.

Back in the days, trains were the primary land transportations that first transported goods, then after a few years the passenger trains. For these vehicles to reach one destination to another, it required railroads to guide the train to its proper track. Today, only a few railroads are being actively used by trains. Nevertheless, they can still be appreciated as wallpapers for our everyday screens. For our next article, we share to you 30 Astonishing Free Railroad Wallpapers for Your Desktop. In this collection, we have included some of the loveliest railroad wallpapers which you can download for free. Enjoy as you scroll down through our list. Come, Take a peek, and choose your pick.

Landing page is considered to be the most viewed page of any website. It usually serves as an intro section that consists of brief information about your business, including such essential stuff as logo, menu, welcoming photo-based or illustration-driven mascotes and, last but not least, tagline. The latter is mainly associated with opening headline which duty is to: Clarify what your agency does; emphasize difference between you and your competitors; encourage users to explore your website further; give a glimpse of your brand; promote your potential; show benefits; build emotions; establish proper atmosphere; add creativity. It's also imperative to take into account psychological side of the issue while choosing emotional background of your headline, since funny and serious statements can reflect on users differently.

High-quality usability has been the center of discussions in the industry in the past ten years, as it becomes more and more important for users. Good usability can also help build brand awareness and can generally improve a user's opinion of a website and even a company. There is so much focus on usability today because big and small companies showed how important a good usability strategy can turn out to be. Good usability has been in the past couple of years at the heart of successful start-ups. Simple ideas are most of the time the most innovative and this is mainly what usability is about: making a feature or a product easy to use, while still keeping the product quality at a high level. Today's article comes a lot down to common sense. It seems that after years and years of discussing this issue, web designers still have a hard time understanding it. Usability is not a joke anymore and the advices below should be printed out and pinned on the wall in front of your desk.

PHPUnit has hinted at parallelism since 2007, but, in the meantime, our tests continue to run slowly. Time is money, right? ParaTest is a tool that sits on top of PHPUnit and allows you to run tests in parallel without the use of extensions. This is an ideal candidate for functional (i.e Selenium) tests and other long-running processes.

Parallax scroll has become mainstream, Ian Coyle created the very first parallax website for Nike "Nike Better World" on 2011, nowadays it is overused as a trendy effect but it is a great tool if it serves the user experience and is perfect for storytelling websites. The term is derived from the Greek παράλλαξις (parallaxis), meaning "alteration". Nearby objects have a larger parallax than more distant objects when observed from different positions, so parallax scrolling can be used to determine distances.

Here is a tool that is all about making it easier for developers and website owners to have email integrated into their websites. PostMark is a web app which removes the headaches of delivering and parsing transactional email for web apps, all with minimal setup time and zero maintenance. It is designed for web developers to integrate quality email functionality into their web apps easily without having to setup an SMTP server from nearly scratch. Let's take a look at the features of PostMark, how to use it, the advantages and disadvantages of PostMark.

Here is a tool that is all about making it easier for developers and website owners to have email integrated into their websites. PostMark is a web app which removes the headaches of delivering and parsing transactional email for web apps, all with minimal setup time and zero maintenance. It is designed for web developers to integrate quality email functionality into their web apps easily without having to setup an SMTP server from nearly scratch. Let's take a look at the features of PostMark, how to use it, the advantages and disadvantages of PostMark.

Unless you are really HTML-savvy, writing articles directly using HTML is not ideal. First, you have to wrap the content properly with the tags in order to format it, and secondly you will have to go back and forth from your code editor to the browser to see how it looks. If you are a frequent web writer, I think it's better for you to write using Markdown. Markdown allows you to write content in plain text that later can be translated into a valid HTML format, and with the help of a tool, you can instantly see the output.

Blogging, or more specifically writing, is a daily routine for us, here in hongkiat.com. In the process, we've accumulated a lot of resources that would be real helpful in jumpstarting one's blogging career. If you want to start writing your own blog, you can always check out the tons of materials we have on blogging, plus this amazing list of cheatsheets, infographics & resources you don't want to miss. The cheatsheets here help you write and promote your content, understand how to work better with free blogging services such as WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr, and we also have cheatsheets on basic HTML, CSS and Markdown to help you create beautiful blog themes. Now, let's get started!

This is great, I promise. We know Finland for a lot of things, rubber boots for instance or - ehm - Helsinki. Angelos Arnis and Tomi Hiltunen want to add to this ample variety. They just published a set of device mockups, all in PNG and CSS, that you can actually bring to life with real content. You've got a web app for mobile clients you want to show on your website? Not very impressive, unless you present it inside the frames of its mobile boundaries. That's what Arnis and Hiltunen have built…

The web is crammed full of words. There is enough content to keep you reading until you take your last breath, even if that moment is still 100 years from now. So far for the good news ;-) The bad news is, the web grows faster than you could ever possibly keep up with. Sooner or later, any netizen will suffer from information overload. I know I do already. This will become a growing problem for brands and their communication strategies as they will need to cut their messages short or risk to not get noticed. If you ask me, one of the best ways to deal with this necessity is the infographic…

WP RSS Aggregator version 3.1 is out now! There are some bug fixes and enhancements. As for new features, these are: Option to set the number of feed items imported from every feed (default 5) Import and Export aggregator settings and feed sources Debugging page allowing manual feed refresh and feed reset I hope you like how the plugin is developing, and as usual feedback is welcome. An official release of the thumbnails and excerpts premium add-on will follow soon.

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Online games are undeniably becoming more epic as they improve in terms of gameplay, characters and graphics. One of these online games is called Rift which was released a few years ago. In this game, there are several 'rifts' which are divided into six elements (earth, fire, air, water, life, and death) and it is where monsters emerge to destroy anything in its path. For this moment we will be focusing in air element wherein these monsters are able to control the wind, clouds, and air at their will.

When you work on your freelance jobs each day, you would go to your work station and see the usual place which you consider your own spot. But is your working environment healthy and positive? Does it affect your work performance? Well, we only hear of working environment if we speak of office work where co-workers exist and the bosses are there. You could picture a scene where everyone are in business suit and are working on their own cubicles or tables. In a big office, work environment would include good relationship with co-workers and a happy environment no matter how busy each one is. It also includes respect to each member of the company.

I do a lot of things, but I'm guessing you want to know more about my professional life. I mostly keep myself busy designing interactive and digital stuff, and I've been doing that for about 6 years. I also like to look over other people's shoulders and tell them they need to align something or make something or other red. Aside from that I like to do explorations with abstract geometry, patterns and typography. Some call it art, or at least want to put it on their walls or albums covers. It' s a lot of fun, and it gives some variety to my usual work of designing menus and layouts.