Archive for: August, 2016

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20 Awesome PHP Libraries For Summer 2016

Initially released in 1995, the PHP language is now of legal drinking age, but this doesn’t stop it from still being one of the most popular languages out there, and the first choice of many back-end developers. The PHP community on GitHub is also one of the biggest and most active, with new awesome projects com...

What Is Hookr for WordPress?

Introduction Hookr provides two super useful features for WordPress developers. First, its website offers a fast, easy-to-browse index of hooks, classes, APIs, constants, etc., for the WordPress core as well a growing number of popular plugins and themes. Second, Hookr now offers a plugin for WordPress that ...

High Performance SVGs

I recently worked on a project that was getting a ton of traffic but users were bouncing because the page load was too long at around 10 seconds. They called me in because the majority of the images on that site were SVGs, and they were animated. I trained the team how to decrease the file size on the SVGs while preser...

CSS Writing Mode

Ahmad Shadeed with a bonafide CSS trick:I noticed a CSS property called writing-mode, this was the first time that I know of it. After some research, I learned that its purpose is for vertical language scripts, like Chinese or Japanese. However, the interesting thing is that when using it with English, we can create ...

User Memory Design: How To Design For Experiences That Last

   The two charts pictured below changed the way I think about thinking. Reproduced from a classic 1996 psychology study, the story behind these charts is a vivid illustration that the way we humans feel in the moment as we experien...

Ornate and Florid: 20 Free Texture Packs

Although the interfaces around us still look flat, it does not mean that there is no space for some dose of artistry achieved through skillfully applied textures. Of course, overall usage of these high-quality crafty images or pixel-perfect close-up photos has been decreased and the technique slightly fell back into th...