Google Web Designer is a graphical design tool for creating HTML5/CSS3/Javascript banners and advertisements using animations and 3D transforms. Using their graphical tools such as drawing, text, and 3D objects, you can animate these objects and events on a timeline using keyframes. GWD is clearly not designed to create fully-fledged applications or entire websites, but rather banners, popup ads, sidebars, …

The barrier of entering the web development industry as a web developer is still low, but it’s getting increasingly complex. The dynamic nature of the whole industry makes requirements shift often to the most popular and “next best thing” tools and programming languages. Gone are the days when only one programming language or a very specific process was required from …

Welcome to On Our Radar, a weekly round-up of news, trends and other cool stuff from the world of web development. This week saw the release of iOS 8, which arrived sporting a plethora of new features. Here’s a (very) thorough review of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, here’s the TL;DR version and here are some of the best features …

Yii 2.0 was released into beta last April and the goal for a first stable release was set for the middle of 2014. The GitHub issue list has 300 open issues and 2913 closed while I’m writing this and both numbers are still increasing. The progress to the 2.0RC milestone was at 99%. My guess is that the team is …

In one of my recent articles, The Evolution of the Hamburger icon we talked about the history of this commonly-used pattern, and about who’s using it and why. In fact, there have been many recent discussions in UX circles that have raised the unintuitive nature of the hamburger icon and issues in several cases. In this article, I thought we’d …

Before installing software on your computer, you would probably do a bit of research on the software before loading it on your system, or maybe some video games you can play using some csgo resources online. Since the traditional software world has a handful of established vendors, vetting out bad software is relatively easy. via How to Protect Yourself From …

This week marks the release of PhpStorm 8. It’s no secret PhpStorm has been a long personal favorite of mine after having won me over from Zend Studio, Netbeans and Sublime Text, and we’ve covered the tool extensively before, most notably with the shortcuts guide by yours truly. By following the EAPs, we also taken a look at the new …

There are many benefits of Sass for WordPress developers. You’ve probably heard many arguments for using a pre-processor by now. CSS pre-processors provide the opportunity for better code organization by using partials and nesting styles. Pre-processors help developers style faster by writing mixins and functions. Pre-processors also allow us to write more maintainable, scalable code with logic and variables. via …

Since it was released over a decade ago, WordPress has become the most popular CMS choice for beginners and experts alike. Although the installation of WordPress, and the addition of data does not require any knowledge of the underlying structure, you might find yourself in a situation where some knowledge of the database is required. via The WordPress Database Demystified.

Icon fonts are all the rage nowadays, with more and more developers taking advantage of them in their designs. If you haven’t yet looked into icon fonts, this article can get you started. I’ll demonstrate the great things we can achieve using icon fonts but first I’ll take a look at what icon fonts are and what are their pros …