Articles Tagged 'tools'
Eenox: Design HTML5 Websites for Desktop and Mobile without Coding
Rean John UeharaThe death of Adobe Flash for mobile was not shocking news for the majority of its proponents, we all saw it coming. With that, HTML5 will definitely gain control of both mobile and desktop websites in a few years. Right now there are a lot of HTML5 template generators, making it easy for designers and developers to create an HTML5 website. A French startup, Eenox, has developed a platform to help create dynamic HTML5 websites without writing a single line of code. If you are familiar with Wix, a Flash website builder with drag-and-drop features, it basically works the same. Eenox is an application that you can use right in your browser. Designing an application/website is easy. It is literally a drag-and-drop, draw and place, kind of application.
Put Your Website on a Diet with Minifiers
Rochester OliveiraDid you know that every second delay on page loading results in a 7% reduction of conversion rate? Actually you lose 7% (maybe even more!) of sales without even noticing... Sounds bad, huh? I mean, you work carefully to put things in the right place, good call-to-actions, nice design, spend a few bucks with ads.. And then you lose 7% of sales just because you forgot to minify your CSS. We'll, this is not going to happen again. We'll put every future project that you work on a diet. And this one, won't wait for next monday, or next january :) Here we'll see amazing tips to reduce your files size and increase your site performance without affecting important things like image quality or a files readability for future edits. Grab your meter and let's rock!
Divine Elemente Review and Contest: A PSD to WordPress Theme Software
It appears that the world has just gotten better with the introduction of Content Management Systems like WordPress and their customizable themes, but in order to create a fully functioning WordPress theme you'll need to be knowledgeable in both programming and design, right? Many people don't have all the required knowledge and skills to build a custom theme from scratch, and that includes yours truly. There are many designers out there with great concepts for themes, but their works only remain as JPEGs or PSD files. Good thing there is Divine Elemente that can semi-automatize the conversion of your PSD to a functioning WordPress theme. Don't forget to read through, there's a CONTEST waiting for you here. Winners will receive a License key! We will be choosing 3 winners! Brought to you by Divine-Project.com.
Use Join.Me to Train Staff and Collaborate with Customers
Ryan TaftDo you manage a website or a blog? Do you build websites for customers? If so, then you know all that's involved in getting your staff up to speed with tasks that need to be accomplished for the website. You know what's involved in showing customers how their project is coming along. It's a lot of work... especially when most of the time your staff is working remotely and your clients are miles away. In this article we are going to show you an online tool that can help make your life much easier. We will go over what it is and what it does, its benefits, how you can use it to make your life easier, and show you how to use it!
5 Must-Know Tips for Better WordPress User Management
WordPress is a great tool to use for managing content. It's really simple for developers, for managers and for users to use, especially when using a great theme. But if there is one thing that I think that needs to improve yet is its user management settings. I mean, even basic functions need to be coded, like editing a user's profile fields, add roles, edit capabilities, export user data. All of those need plugins or a little coding to get working. Here we'll see 5 amazing and simple tips that you can use right now and greatly improve your user management and you can use all this additional data to serve your loyal readers better and provide more focused content. We'll cover custom user fields to history functionality, and while we're at it you'll learn a lot about WordPress user management functions. So, let's rock!
Use Screenr to Record Screencasts for Your Website
Are you looking to make your website more engaging? Are you in need of a new way to explain some of your website features? What if you could use a free online tool to create engaging screencasts in as little as a few minutes? Screencast software has been around for years. There are some really great tools already out there. With that said, a new free screencast program has hit the streets and it's looking to make things even easier for users. In this article we are going to explain what Screenr is, how to use it, the benefits you'll receive, as well as, see how it stacks up against other free AND paid screencast software tools.
CSS Tools for Designers and Developers
Christian VasileCSS tools are important for web designers and developers because they help them by simplifying the jobs they have to do. Considering time is money and such generators spare time, it is easy to understand why many web developers are excited about these tools. The only problem is that some of them are not well-known, therefore I made a showcase for you with CSS tools and generators which developers and designers can use to create functional and optimized websites faster. Because the tools will be categorized, you will find at the end of each category a list with other applications that do the same as the ones reviewed, therefore there is no need to review them too.
12 Creative Web Applications for Creative People
Salman SiddiquiPhotoshop is still one of the most complex photo editing tools out there. Though the web is loaded with Photoshop tutorials and people have become accustomed to using Photoshop, there is this section of digital art lovers that are afraid of Photoshop. Somehow it seems over stuffed with options. It was to win over this genre of end-user that various web-based applications popped up and slowly became famous. We have already covered plenty of such tools but somehow the list seems to be growing exponentially. This article will list some of the new (and some that were missed earlier) tools that make our lives exciting. I will start with web-based tools for designers and then include few A.V. based tools to keep you intrigued.
Use Paper.li to Grow Brand Awareness and Website Traffic
Are you looking to grow brand awareness and website traffic, but don't have the time to create your own online content? You should consider using Paper.li to create an online Daily Newspaper about your website topic. In this article we will review what Paper.li is, how it works, the benefits to using Paper.li, how to get your Paper.li newspaper noticed, crafting the perfect Paper.li newspaper, and a list of the top Paper.li newspapers.
40+ Fresh jQuery Image and Content Sliders Plugins
Jameel KhanIn this round-up, you will find the best of the freshest jQuery Image and Content Sliders Plugins so that you can take advantage of them and produce startling image and content sliders. You may find it quite difficult to figure out which plugin is best for you because all these plugins have different functionality. Keeping this in mind, we compiled this post. Let’s have a closer look!
