There’s no arguing that Adobe Photoshop isn’t still the industry-standard graphics editor for windows, whether it be to create new images from scratch or to edit existing photos. However, Photoshop is certainly not your only option. Many people who use this software for simple purposes, don’t really need all the features that are provided. Moreover, Photoshop is a significant outlay …

It might come as a shock, but I tell you: The web has changed! The last eight years have seen the rise of Ajax, JavaScript, HTML5, and countless front-end frameworks. Consequently, the internet is no longer a place of static HTML pages, as funny as they sometimes are. Rather, it has become a playground for complex, almost desktop-like web applications, …

WordPress frameworks are becoming increasingly popular to build themes with. They allow for rapid development based on best practices, without the need to reinvent the wheel each time you design a new theme. via 4 of the Most Popular WordPress Theme Frameworks.

Finding great images for our projects is a task that many of us devote much time and money to. With that in mind, we’re going to be taking a look at some of the more popular stock image sites today and putting them head-to-head to see which, if any, come out on top. There are a lot of decent stock …

Zend Technologies is the company which funds the development of the Zend Engine (the engine PHP is based on), as well as Zend Framework and some other projects like Apigility. They also build proprietary software of high professional caliber, designed for high intensity PHP work in large companies – software like Zend Studio and Zend Server – though both are …

There are dozens of popular tools to help theme developers test the quality of their code. Not only can this help reduce errors in your themes, but it also helps ensure that your theme is reliably rendered on multiple devices and browsers. Also, with WordPress performance being such a hot topic, the ability to identify potential performance issues while you’re …

We last looked at the best languages to learn in February 2014. The results were ranked by data obtained from: Jobs Tractor; a company which analyzes job adverts on Twitter Lynda.com; an online video training course provider, and the RedMonk survey which examined the frequency of projects on GitHub and questions on StackOverflow. via The Best Programming Language to Learn …

In the past week, I’ve worked on projects that have required me to write HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. In working on those projects, I’ve had to employ various technologies, including responsive design, AJAX, WordPress theme development, API integration, and modular javascripting. Let’s not forget that most (if not all) of these projects involved a preprocessor, build tool, or method …

If you have worked with responsive design, you have probably used media queries. Media queries are a clean and simple way to create responsive websites using CSS. They work by allowing you to change the style of the page when the user’s screen is a certain size. Here is a simple example: via Media Queries: A Look at Different Media …