Educational websites shouldn’t be created equal to business and corporate online projects. When it comes to the development of a new education website design, one needs to make it look appealing yet informative. A professional and thought-out online resource is the most powerful online marketing tool. With its help, you can engage with your audience, communicate with the online visitors, and encourage them to enroll on a new course. Interactive websites for education purpose have more chances of being noticed. Do you want to create one? Then take a few more minutes to read this guide.
Useful Bootstrap 4 Select Picker Options for Your Forms
If you are just starting to learn Bootstrap, we have created a series of tutorials called 14 Days of Bootstrap 4 that can help you.
The Bootstrap 4 Select Picker is one of the components most commonly used inside forms. When having to add a select picker, the first option is the default Bootstrap 4 component. This will not style the dropdown menu where the options appear though. Another popular option is to create your own classes and add them to the <select> tag for restyling.
But one of the easiest solutions is to search for jQuery select pickers or open-source projects created specifically for this purpose. This way you will be sure that if you want to need new functionalities for your select picker, you will not have to write them yourself. In this article we will go through the most popular option and what are the pros and cons to using it. We will also show how to integrate and use the Bootstrap select picker with examples.
Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #8)
Fun fact in history this week: Phyllis Pearsall was born on the 25th of September, 1906 in London. She is a British painter and writer best known for funding the Geographers’ A-Z Map Company. The featured image is a seascape painting by her called “Sailing boat watercolour”.
Here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:
- Lyft has shared their learnings about working with color, and open-sourced their color algorithm. They have also created a nifty tool called Color Box so you can easily use their algorithm if you want to.
Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #7)
Fun fact in history this week: On the 21st of September, 1912 Charles “Chuck” Jones was born in Spokane, Washington. He is an animator and cartoonist best know for his work with Warner Bros (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Porky Pig). The featured picture shows Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
Here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:
- Here is a guide with the basic web architecture concepts that you should understand as a developer.
Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #6)
Fun fact in history this week:Â On 12th of September, 1855 Jacobus of Looy was born in Haarlem, Netherlands. He is known as a writer and painter. The image featured in the article is called Summer Abundance and you can see it live at the Rijksmuseum.
Here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:
- Apple’s annual September conference was live on Wednesday. A lot of new release, including 3 new iPhones. You can see them here. The design and transitions on this page are pretty remarkable.
Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #5)
Fun fact in history this week: On the 6th of September, 1930 Andre Beullens, a Flemish painter, was born in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credit to the Tom Gerits gallery.
Here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:
- GitHub has completely dropped jQuery from its front-end. You can read the story of how this happened here.
Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #4)
Fun fact in history this week: On August 28th, 1915 Tasha Tudor, an American illustrator and children’s books author, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. The illustration is from one of her books: Around the Year.
And here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:
- Picular is a tool that helps you find colors. You can search for the specific color (e.g. “purple”) or any other noun that you think of (e.g. “ocean, city, night”) and you will get color suggestions.
15 Best Architecture Website Templates to Form a Well-Structured Architect Website
It’s a common knowledge that nowadays hardly any business success is possible without a strong online presence. An appealing highly-functional website is one of the main factors that determine the growth and flourishing of any brand. Of course, the construction industry isn’t an exception. Whatever construction field you represent, an attractive website with a carefully thought-out structure is a must. Don’t you still have one? Then it’s high time to examine several best architecture website templates that can help you launch a well-structured architect website.
Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #3)
Fun fact in history this week: On August 25th, 1724Â George Stubbs, a British painter, was born in Liverpool. He is known for his beautiful animal paintings. The featured image is Lustre, Hold by a Groom.
Here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:
- Here is an overview and walkthrough about starting to learn React.js. It covers fundamental concepts like components, state, props, submitting forms, pulling data through API and deploying your application.
Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #2)
Fun fact in history this week: On August 13th, 1912 Metten Koornstra, a Dutch painter and graphic artist was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. You can see the painting from the featured image here.
And here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:
- Vue CLI 3.0 is here. And it comes packed with a lot of great functionalities: searching and installing Node modules, managing different tasks, the ability to open the project in your default code editor, etc. It even has a dark theme.