5 Image Manipulation Techniques You Can Use to Cut Page Load by 80%

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Images are crucial to any modern front-end platform. Media assets keep your design flawless and your content interesting to the viewer. However, images can also have a negative impact by increasing the overall page load time. For instance, if you’re adding uncompressed images to your apps, this can significantly increase the page size. To fix this issue, various image manipulation techniques are used by designers and developers to create and render images. Some methods work great with static assets whereas you need better methods for handling dynamic images. In this post, we’ve covered 5 popular image manipulation techniques that can be used to reduce the page load time by up to 80%.

 

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7 Ways to Enhance User Experience with Content Marketing

Freddie Tubbs Leave a comment

You’ve developed some great content you feel will add some real value to your users’ lives and keep them coming back. But your content is only as good as how well you utilize it. How well your site runs, your knowledge of your user base, your planning, your first impression, use of content formatting and writing tools, use of summary content blocks, and your level of focus all play a role in your user’s experience. Enhance user experience with these seven tips.

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13 Amazing Node Js Frameworks for Web Developers

Saurabh Leave a comment

Node.Js is by far the most popular server-side technology, and arguably the best in terms
of speed and performance. The development time is relatively short, and it extremely
scalable and optimal for growing projects. It’s all thanks to the asynchronous approach of
Node.Js that allows it to beat other technologies by freeing the server from being bound by
heavy queries and requests. Despite its relatively young age, Node.js is currently powering
approximately 500k websites, including some of the most popular services and websites
online such as Paypal, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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10 Websites to Search for UX Design Inspiration

Olivia Ryan Leave a comment

When your content is ready to be published and you have already selected a platform to use, all that’s left is to hammer out your website design. But, the job of a website designer is not easy. You can know all the tricks about UX design, but still lack that the bit of inspiration necessary to create the excellent design you need.

In times when inspiration doesn’t seem to strike us and we are fighting a creativity block, we need a little boost, a push to get us ahead. Most of the time, you can find inspiration in engaging websites and resources that get that creativity flow running again.

If you are in need of such an inspiration, check out these 10 websites.

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30 Free and Premium Material Design Resources for Designers

Lana Miro Leave a comment

Have you ever worked with Material Design? Since Material Design is hugely popular, there’re tons of tools and resources related to it. We’ve put together some of the best 30 Free & Premium Material Design resources for designers including framework, UI kits, icons, and many more. You can start by walking through Material Design fundamentals and use its components and styles to make the user interaction easier, simpler and more intuitive.

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4 Essential Tips You Need to Know to Become a Globally-Operating IT Freelancer

Brenda Leave a comment

Hands up if you’re sick of the traditional 9-5 grind and being stuck in an office all day? Thanks to modern-day technology and the boom of the internet, it’s never been easier to break free from the restrictive shackles of life and venture out into the world as your own boss in the form of an IT freelancer.

Freelance workers are nothing new, but more and more businesses are starting to invest in these workers making it the perfect time to enter the industry for yourself. If you’ve got the knowledge and the drive to succeed, this could be one of the best career choices you’ve ever made.

To give you a helping hand, today we’re going to explore all the tips you’ll ever need to know in order to become an IT freelancer and attract clients and work in location from around the world.

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7 Tools Teams in a Creative Startup Cannot Live Without

Vartika Kashyap Leave a comment

Every year many aspiring entrepreneurs decide to take the plunge and start a business. However, starting a business is not easy, especially if it’s a startup.

Out of the thousands of startups, only the creme de la creme manage to create a niche and become wildly successful. A lot of hustle, networking, resilience, and grit goes into making the startup a success.

You’ve got to learn how to multitask while keeping your costs low. Along with this, a startup demands things like fundraisers, marketers, web designers, and much more. As 62% of businesses in America do not have more than 5 employees, this means the founder ends up wearing multiple hats.

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5 Common Web Designer Mistakes and How to Correct Them

Jessica Radburn Leave a comment

Web design is not just about making your site look pretty, it can also make a significant impact on customer usage, engagement and even in marketing and optimizing your site for search engines.

Mistakes however can make you lose visitors and even sales for your site. These mistakes could be as trivial as typographical errors, improper and/or broken links, or it could also be as technical as coding mistakes that can hurt your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy.

A web designer should put a lot of thought into every part of the web design – and this is best done by avoiding the most common mistakes in web designing such as:

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