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A blog created by web design professionals for web design professionals. Articles cover Web Design, Marketing, WordPress, Photoshop, Typography, and UX design. 1stWebDesigner helps you build a better web.
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1y ago
CSS offers an array of tools that, when used correctly, can improve the visual experience on your website. In this introductory tutorial, we’ll explore a straightforward way to design a retro text effect with pure CSS. The approach, while not overly complex, yields a visually appealing result and serves as a foundation for further customization.
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The HTML Setup
We’ll begin with our markup, containing the text we’ll be styling – “1stWebDesigner“.
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1y ago
UX surveys can be pivotal tools for designers seeking to understand user preferences, opinions, and behaviors. They foster alignment between design strategies and user expectations and can improve product or service usability. Our overview unravels the process of conducting UX surveys, highlighting how both quantitative and qualitative approaches can yield essential user insights.
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Conducting UX Surveys: Their Role and Execution
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1y ago
Offering an array of choices might seem like an excellent way to cater to diverse user preferences, but more often than not, it can cause decision fatigue, negatively impacting the user experience and conversion rates. So, how do we strategically minimize this fatigue through effective web design?
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Decision Fatigue in Web Design
Decision fatigue can lead to a decline in the quality of decisions after a continuous decision-making process ..read more
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1y ago
Web design can serve as a playful exploration ground for learning new techniques. In today’s guide, we’ll dive into the creation of an underwater CSS text effect, not just for the visual outcome, but to deepen our understanding of how different CSS properties harmonize to create dynamic text effects.
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Setting up the Structure
Our journey into the deep sea starts with a simple HTML structure: a div element with the class underwater, wrapping ar ..read more
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1y ago
Optimizing your WordPress workflow often involves tweaking a few settings and functions. One of these features is post revisions. This built-in functionality can be a lifesaver, especially when you want to revert changes or restore an earlier version of a post. However, having an excessive number of revisions can be overwhelming and may clutter your database.
We’ll guide you through the steps to limit post revisions in WordPress, without turning to specific plugins.
Understanding WordPress Post Revisions
Post revisions, a core feature of WordPress, allows you to undo changes and revert to pre ..read more
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1y ago
Creating a user experience that is accessible and inclusive to all visitors, including those who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers, is a priority for any modern website. This article provides an outline on adapting UX design for screen readers, an important step in shaping an inclusive digital ecosystem.
Screen Readers: Vital Tools for Accessible Experiences
Screen readers interpret digital content for visually impaired users by converting visual information into speech or Braille. A tailored UX design for screen readers requires understanding this linear, sequential content i ..read more
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1y ago
Your website’s command center, the WordPress dashboard, arrives with several widgets that enhance functionality. However, not all of these may be beneficial for every user. As plugins introduce more widgets over time, your dashboard may start to feel crowded and less straightforward to navigate. WordPress offers the ability to remove these unnecessary widgets, either manually or programmatically. We’ll guide you through both of these methods, aiding in decluttering your dashboard and promoting better website management.
Understanding Widgets
Widgets are elements you can include in your WordPr ..read more
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1y ago
Google’s Material Design guidelines introduced the ripple effect, a subtle animation that indicates user action. The ripple effect rapidly gained popularity in web design as a sophisticated visual feedback form that refines user interaction, particularly on buttons. Today, we’ll show you how to create a ripple button effect using nothing but pure CSS.
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Building the Button
The basic structure of our button is quite simple. It’s a single line of HTML:
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1y ago
Web design takes a captivating turn when CSS comes into play. It enables a world of transformations, such as taking static text elements and infusing them with life. Our focus today is one such engaging transformation – animate gradient text using CSS.
So, let’s demonstrate how a seemingly complex effect can be achieved with a few lines of code.
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Setting Up the Text in the HTML
We begin by defining our text element in HTML, which in this case is a simple heading ..read more
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1y ago
WordPress is generally a secure platform, but there are ways to make it even more robust. Hiding the version of your WordPress instance is one such way to beef up security. While this might seem a bit technical, we’ll guide you through the process step by step.
Why Hide the WordPress Version?
By default, WordPress discloses its version information on your site. While it’s a helpful detail for developers, it may provide potential hackers with a road map to your site’s vulnerabilities. If they’re aware of the version you’re running, they can tailor their attacks accordingly. Hence, obscuring th ..read more