Designers & Programmers

You should know by now that we love every shiny product that Apple brings into the market especially the iPhone. Although iOS6 had some let downs, the aluminum body of the iPhone 5 is undoubtedly still one of the best looking smartphones you can buy, with plenty of stylish accessories to keep it looking good...........

Using LESS to Create Twenty Twelve Child Theme We are going to be creating a child theme for the default Twenty Twelve theme. For those of you who are unfamiliar with creating child themes, the only thing we need to create a child theme is a style.css file. For more info, visit the WordPress Codex...............

We are back with another freebie, the team of Freepik, our friends from sunny Spain, put together exclusively for you, Noupe's readership. Today we have 200 symbols compiled together in a "Flat Icon Set" for you to download. All these little pictograms stick to the principles of flat design, a major trend in design right now. You can use them freely for any type of project, but you can only get them here…

Today's front-end developers don't just need to understand how to write CSS, we need to know how to write it efficiently. And what "efficiently" means can depend on your project and environment. Perhaps you have a team with several members working in the CSS and you need an efficient way to work together. Or maybe you have a huge enterprise site and you need your CSS optimized for speed. You could even be working with a legacy system that restricts access to HTML, which means you need efficient selectors to effectively style elements without ids or classes. You might even face all these situations and more.

Adaptive images are the current hot topic in conversations about adaptive and responsive Web design. Why? Because no one likes any of the solutions thus far. New elements and attributes are being discussed as a solution for what is, for most of us, a big headache: to provide every user with one image optimized for their display size and resolution, without wasting time, memory or bandwidth with a client-side solution..............

I want to share a fantastic little tool that I've only recently come across; Live.js, written by Martin Kool. This JavaScript file automatically checks for changes to your CSS and JavaScript files, and refreshes them. That means you can have your text editor in one half of the screen, and a web browser in the other. When you save changes in the editor, the updates are reflected immediately in your browser. It really helps to speed up your development time. A lot of text editors offer HTML previews and such, but they only work for plain .html pages. The great thing about Live.js is that it works on any webpage, including a working WordPress theme...............(.read more.)

I recently travelled 2517 miles to try to solve 50 problems in 50 days using design - a journey that would challenge me to fundamentally rethink my understanding of the user-experience design process. I set myself a challenge. I wanted to test the limits of design's ability to solve problems - big and small. To do this, I left the comfort of my computer chair and set out into the unknown. Each day, I had 24 hours to observe a problem, attempt to solve it and then communicate the solution.............read more

Once again, it's time to join in on a Smashing Magazine photography contest. You might remember or took part in our popular Coffee Mug Contest in 2011, which drew over 470 entries. This time, we are not interested in the vessel that holds your daily intake of caffeine, but rather in the object that fuels your creativity and inspiration.

Responsive Web design has been around for some years now, and it was a hot topic in 2012. Many well-known people such as Brad Frost and Luke Wroblewski have a lot of experience with it and have helped us make huge improvements in the field. But there's still a whole lot to do.

Responsive Web design has been around for some years now, and it was a hot topic in 2012. Many well-known people such as Brad Frost and Luke Wroblewski have a lot of experience with it and have helped us make huge improvements in the field. But there's still a whole lot to do.

Fries by Jaune Sarmiento just reached version number 1.0. The project offers a framework for the development of web apps in the look and feel of native Android apps. If you are familiar with Android's UI from version 4 on, you will definitely know your ways around, once you get a hold of Fries. In its current iteration, Fries is optimized to cooperate with PhoneGap, thus letting you build native Android experiences.

Bookmarking services are a dime a dozen. So, I wasn't too keen on checking out yet another iteration by the name of Keeeb. But, and I honestly mean it, I'm glad I did. Keeeb is not simply a social bookmarking service, it is a knowledge management system and it levels up the quality of my research on longer and more complicated articles easily. I am both an avid user of Pocket and Evernote Premium, yet Keeeb still closes a gap I didn't even know existed. Let's take a closer look, shall we?!

AtContent plugin helps content owners to reach new audiences, provides backlinks for their posts and gains content control across the Internet. With this plugin, professionals are able to prevent plagiarism, monetize reposts and sell their work: articles, books, magazines, files.

With WordPress powered website, it is possible you can instantly transform your site into a powerful learning management system with different WordPress Plugins and Themes. With a click of a button you can create and sell courses, set-up quizzes, automatically award certificates, and download robust user activity reports. In the following list you will find WordPress Plugins and Themes to run your own LMS on your own.

WordPress themes have become popular across the world, as it is best suited for building websites with attractive themes and templates. To make WordPress even more lucrative and user friendly, Bootstrap framework is utilized which helps in developing innovative and creative applications and websites. With different bootstrap frameworks, it has become easy to create a website, which is responsive and comprehensive in every manner. Amidst different bootstrap frameworks, twitter bootstrap framework has become quite popular.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to power your favorite websites? In this inforgraphic we take a look at some datacenter history, today's largest datacenteres, and some of today's greenest datacenters. A datacenter is a facility that is designed and built specifically to house computers, storage arrays, and telecommunications (networking) systems. Some datacenters have incredible security measures to protect what is inside, and the largest datacenters are known to use more electricity than entire towns. Exact locations of datacenters are generally kept secret for security, but here are some interesting facts about them.

Articles with pictures accompanying them are proven to get clicked on at a higher rate than text-only articles. Our eyes gravitate to the imagery we spot when we land on a page. This has always been true, dating back centuries. When news was delivered daily inside of newspapers, the papers always featured a prominent and attractive photo on their covers. Today, on the internet, a primarily visual medium, the raw communicative power of imagery has increased exponentially. Picking the right photo, though, can be daunting, difficult, or time-consuming.............................

With the massive growth in technology and increase in the number of platforms, there is a huge increase in the number of people starting technology and internet based businesses . One thing that has been common to all businesses is the need for a creative and responsive web developer - someone who understands exactly what they need and how they need it. And someone who delivers on time............

Transitions (basic animations) are one of the most popular additions in CSS3, and one of the easiest to implement for big gains on your site. A transition is simply an animation from one set of CSS properties to another. So for example; whilst before you may have had links with blue text, which suddenly turned orange when you hovered on them, you would now replace that sudden jump with a more graceful animation.

On the 5th of March, Twitter is going to retire version 1 of its API. The replacement, version 1.1 is very similar, but with one major difference; every single call must be authenticated. This means that come March, your existing API calls will break; including simple things like displaying tweets on your site. To fix this, you need to move to the new v1.1 API, and authenticate with Twitter. Let's look at how to do this in WordPress, by embedding a list of tweets on your site

The trend of blogging is at its peak, these days' people are establishing blogs for personal and professional reasons. Individuals create blog to share information, to communicate with the users and to have an online presence as compare to that professional organization set up blog to interact with their customers and share latest news about the company, so everyone has its own reasons. WordPress is the most powerful blogging tool so far, it offers variety of features to support bloggers. It is an open source CMS developed in PHP and has the largest community online.