How To Create Tabs On WordPress Settings Pages
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 21. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments
Using tabs in a user interface can help you better organize content, so it’s only natural that WordPress themes that have a lot of options would benefit from tabs on their settings page. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a tabbed settings page, and you’ll get to download a WordPress [...]
Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 21. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments
Usability and user experience testing is vital to creating a successful website, and only more so if it’s an e-commerce website, a complex app or another website for which there’s a definite ROI. And running your own user tests to find out how users are interacting with your website and where problems might [...]
Supporting Your Product: How To Provide Technical Support
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 11. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments
Whether your product is an open-source script, a Web application or a downloadable product, you will need to provide some form of technical support. This article explores the subject based on my experience of supporting our company’s product, Perch, a small content management system (CMS) that we sell as a download for people [...]
WordPress Essentials: The Definitive Guide To WordPress Hooks
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 11. Oct, 2011 | 1 Comment
If you’re into WordPress development, you can’t ignore hooks for long before you have to delve into them head on. Modifying WordPress core files is a big no-no, so whenever you want to change existing functionality or create new functionality, you will have to turn to hooks. In this article, I would like [...]
An In-Depth Study Of Symbols In Illustrator CS5
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 18. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
For drawing and painting digital illustrations, Adobe Illustrator is a favorite among designers for many reasons. One of the reasons is some of the amazing time-saving features that come with it. The Symbols feature in Illustrator does just this: it saves valuable time by creating a “symbol,” or copy, of an object. This means [...]
Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 1: Getting Customers To Your Products
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 18. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
Amazon turned sweet sixteen this year, and, by extension, so did online shopping as we know it. As online shopping has grown over the past 16 years, so have user needs and expectations related to the online shopping experience. Setting up shop online is easy, but creating an experience that satisfies target users is [...]
Freebie: Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 14. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD, designed by Hike and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The PSD will speed up the process of creating previews, thus sparing you from drawing all the comps and letting you customize all the texts, buttons and [...]
The S.M.A.R.T. User Experience Strategy
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 14. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
I was a competitive road cyclist for four years. My bikes were good, but my race results were much less impressive. Instead of medals and trophies, all I had to show for it were shaved legs and a farmer’s tan. Regardless, on the road to becoming a competitive athlete, I followed a rigorous training [...]
Interaction Design Tactics For Visual Designers
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 11. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
Anyone designing Web-based properties today requires a basic understanding of interaction design principles. Even if your training is not formally in human-computer interaction, user experience design or human factors, knowing the fundamentals of these disciplines greatly enhances the chances of your design’s success. This is especially true for visual designers. Many visual designers are [...]
An Introduction To LESS, And Comparison To Sass
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 11. Sep, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’ve been using LESS religiously ever since I stumbled upon it months ago. CSS was never really a problem for me, in and of itself, but I was intrigued by the idea of using variables to create something along the lines of a color palette for my websites and themes. Having a color palette [...]
