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Find the Perfect Bootstrap Theme for Your Project

Have you ever found yourself stuck looking for the ideal Bootstrap theme?

Choosing a template to design your project can either be super fun, abundantly overwhelming or somewhere in between. I’m proposing you a simple project-oriented criteria that you can base your choices on.

Looking for something that’s mobile first? Check out these incredible list of the best mobile app templates out there.

Here is a list of possible projects and a theme correlated with specifically that:

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Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #10)

Fun fact in history this week: On the 18th of October, 1697 Giovanni Canaletto was born in Venice. He is an Italian painter and printmaker, best know for his “Regatta on the Grand Canal” painting (which you can see as the featured image for this blog post).

Here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:

  • The highly popular PHP 5.x branch will stop receiving security updates at the end of the year. This meand around 62 percent of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version. You can read more about it here.

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Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #9)

Fun fact in history this week:

  • On the 12th of October, 1928 Al Held was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is a known expressionist painter and sculptor, especially praised for his hard edge-style. The featured image is called Roberta’s Trip.

Here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:

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Minimalism Is a New Trend in Web Designing. Why?

Although the ideas underlying the concept of minimalism have been around for quite a while, the application of minimalism to more sectors than one is quite fresh. Overtime, various professionals have come to discover a kind of beauty and serenity of being reserved and minimalistic that was previously unnoticed. These features are observed in intricate works and visual concepts- and in simpler ones too.

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Does an era of responsive website design call for a plunge into the popularity of jQuery?

Over the last few years, mobile users have successfully overtaken desktop users. More websites are adopting a responsive design with strong CSS additions. Responsiveness is not JavaScript or jQuery. It is the concept of making your website look good on all devices. The evolution of smart devices means more people are ready to access your site on the go. Therefore, you need to be prepared to serve them a beautiful and fully functioning website on their respective devices. Does that mean you need to do away with jQuery? Not! A media query is an integral part of responsive website design, and you can use media query (as a CSS module) with jQuery as well.

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10 Websites to Search for UX Design Inspiration

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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5 Common Web Designer Mistakes and How to Correct Them

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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Are You Making These 5 Web Design Mistakes?

As a web designer, you have to create magic. On numerous occasions, you’re required to take a staggeringly complex process and make it simple, easy and wonderful.

Building a site can overwhelm you yet the genuine test lies in making it usable. One of the common issues that most website designers have is they are building for themselves and not for users. They prefer creativity over usability.

Web designers tend to be perfectionists by nature. Sometimes we are our own worst critic. We take our mistakes personally.

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