Designers & Programmers

Many opinions lean towards hating pop ups for being intrusive, rude and a place to lose your soul (I joke, but see my recent tweet). There are however those who swear that pop up forms are super effective for increasing email signups (see Problogger's tweet). So maybe you're considering a pop up form on your site but are wary of how it will affect your visitors and rub them the wrong way. Thankfully there are ways to use pop up forms and still give visitors a great experience. Here are 5 things you can do that will boost conversion rates on email pop ups while not annoying your visitors.

The thing about design patterns is that there is a wide variety of them and it would be near impossible to do justice to each of the patterns in a series here on the blog. Nonetheless, hopefully taking a look at these three have helped kickstart your interest in using design patterns in your work.

In the first part of this series I gave a quick overview of the popular CSS preprocessors LESS and SASS. I also shared a few of the frameworks in which they are used. I plan on taking a deeper dive into LESS and talking about the parts of the language I use most often. I also plan on showing you how to get started using it with CodeKit. Let's dig in!

The very first version of WordPress was released 10 years ago today, and there are meetups happening all over the world to celebrate, probably even one in your area! Here on Wptuts+, I'd also like to take a look at how far WordPress has come since its initial release.

Work on WordPress 3.6 commenced in January this year, and with Beta 3 being announced on 11th May 2013, we can expect a Release Candidate and hopefully the final stable release in June. This release is an exciting development for a number of reasons.

CSS background animation has been a hot topic for a long time, mostly because they look pretty sweet and don't require additional elements. I was recently asked if it was possible to have multiple background animations on a given element and the answer is yes...with concessions. Let's take a look at how it's done!

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Organic website design is a style of design that uses natural textures such as wood and paper, as well as scenic or floral imagery. There are many, many sites that could be considered organic in their design, and in this collection we have selected 30 of the best we could find that are beautifully presented and use organic elements to their very best effect.

There are a number of great methods for handling user redirects on mobile. Wordpress is one of the most popular CMS brands on the market. So it makes sense to work around these problems by putting together a two-way split for website themes.

Finally I found some new themes which may help you if you are looking for a new WordPress theme for your website. In this post I have showcased some of the latest themes that were released during last couple of months, and hopefully you will find something that match your website.

Whether you offer free or premium themes, testing should be a major part of your development process. By planning in advance, you can foster a development environment that deters some bugs by design and that helps you prevent others.

WordPress is a good CMS option for anyone who wants to maintain a personal website or blog. It's free, easy to setup with most hosting accounts, offers all the functionality needed for a personal website, and there are plenty of quality themes available.

With the vast number of information we can get from the internet, it is sometimes hard to stay original especially that it seems that everything you need are already there.

If you are in search of wallpapers brimming with splashes of colors to liven up your desktop background screen then this post will offer you something that attracts your eyes. Today, we have collected some wallpapers consisting of different visible colors from red to violet which can really cheer you up and make you feel good - the spectrum wallpapers.

Just in time for Google's annual I/O developers conference, the web giant launched a pretty dramatic redesign to its Google+ social networking arm and Google Maps. And Google is on-trend. The design scheme, while not completely flat, is almost flat and could evoke a whole new design trend of its own.

We are gradually getting used to the fact that professional designers don't have limits; they just simply push boundaries of general conceptions and recreate whatever comes to their minds. One of the best examples confirming this notion is website design with depth perception. Despite the fact that initially it is a two-dimensional medium, nowadays, designers [...]

The quality of users' experience with your website is the deciding factor of its success. If visitors are able to use your site quickly and without problems, they are likely to return. On the other hand, if your site is confusing and frustrating to use, they'll be happy to find a better one.

Today I will teach you how to create a simple contact form in HTML5 and CSS3 that you can download for free. Many WordPress plugins come with fully functional contact forms that can be installed and used right away, but we believe in beautiful design and in your right to style it however you choose.

Final Product What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a magma hot text effect using layer styles and textures in Photoshop. Let's get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

Tutorial Details Estimated Completion Time: 9 Minutes Difficulty: Beginner Apps Used: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Final Product What You'll Be Creating This entry is part 28 of 35 in the Shortcuts on Psdtuts Session " Previous Next " If you have been working with Photoshop for a while, chances are you've developed some custom settings that you prefer to work with.