Design & UX
SitePoint Team, Dec 19
Finding the Right Font is Now Easy
This post provides an introduction to WhatFontIs, a cool little tool that will help you identify fonts easily and quickly.
Web
SitePoint Team, Dec 18
How to Handle Your Client's Design Tasks in 2018 like a Pro
Tips and advice for web designers on how to stay competitive, keep on top of workloads and keep your clients happy.
Design & UX
Vincent Feeney, Dec 18
How to Boost UX with Analytics and Customer Journey Mapping
Vincent Feeney explains the purpose of customer journey mapping, showing how you can use both Google Analytics and Hotjar to better understand user's needs.
JavaScript
Craig Buckler, Dec 17
How to Track JavaScript and Ajax Events with Google Analytics
Craig Buckler shows how to use Google Analytics to track not just page views but also events such as Ajax updates, file downloads and social interactions.
Design & UX
Luke Hay, Dec 15
Google Analytics: How to Perform User Research
Luke Hay explains the analytics-first methodology and how to conduct user research by using the tools provided by Google Analytics.
Ruby
Artem Sarkisov, Dec 14
RubyMine: Code Insight for Ruby and Rails
We answer take a look at the Code Insight feature from RubyMine to help answer the question: "what does RubyMine do that a text editor can't?"
Design & UX
Luke Hay, Dec 14
Google Analytics: the Basics Explained, and Pitfalls to Avoid
Luke Hay introduces Google Analytics, explaining the main tools it offers, what they're for, and pitfalls to avoid when interpreting their results.
Design & UX
Daniel Schwarz, Dec 13
An Introduction to A/B Testing
Daniel Schwarz explains A/B and multivariate testing, how to conduct tests in a structured and progressive way, and lists some popular testing tools.
Offers
SitePoint Team, Dec 13
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WordPress
Adrian Try, Dec 12
How to Find a Niche in the WordPress Ecosystem
Learn from the best in the business on how to build profitable WordPress themes business. Contains helpful tips and advice from industry experts
Design & UX
Craig Buckler, Dec 11
Uploadcare: Your Super-Powered Image CDN
This tutorial takes you through the various ways you can use the Uploadcare CDN API, including responsive images, resizing and progressive image loading
Design & UX
Daniel Schwarz, Dec 11
5 Myths About Data-driven Design
Daniel Schwarz exposes five common myths about data-driven design that cause designers to overlook user-related data that's critical for effective UX.
Design & UX
Daniel Schwarz, Dec 11
UX Analytics: What They Are, and Why They Matter
Daniel Schwarz introduces the meaning of the term UX Analytics, and explains why the data derived from analytics is so important in the field of UX.
Offers
SitePoint Team, Dec 06
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JavaScript
Tony Spiro, Dec 05
How to Build a Simple Blog Using React and GraphQL
This tutorial shows you how to easily create a simple blog that is both fast and light-weight, using React, GraphQL and Cosmic JS.
Design & UX
Nadav Soferman, Nov 30
The Complete Video Solution for Web and Mobile Developers
As videos take up more real estate on websites and mobile apps, we introduce Cloudinary's new cloud-based video management solution for developers.
PHP
Hayden James, Nov 29
PHP-FPM tuning: Using 'pm static' for Max Performance
Hayden James looks at how best to setup PHP-FPM for high throughput, low latency and a more stable use of CPU and memory.
Web
Ahmed Bouchefra, Nov 28
23 Development Tools for Boosting Website Performance
Ahmed Boucherfra presents 23 tools you should know about for boosting front-end and back-end website performance.
JavaScript
Ahmed Bouchefra, Nov 24
Progressive Web Apps: A Crash Course
Ahmed explains PWAs by showing how to build a PWA from scratch with ES6 and React, optimizing it step by step with Lighthouse for UX and performance.
Offers
SitePoint Team, Nov 24
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Web
Alex, Nov 24
24 Productivity Tools to Help You with Almost Everything
We've rummaged the internet to find you 24 productivity tools that will help you on your next big project, whatever that may be.
Entrepreneur
Adrian Try, Nov 23
How to Ship & Validate New Projects Fast
Adrian Try takes you through how to launch and validate your new business idea or project quickly, even if you're not a coder.
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HTML & CSS
Maria Antonietta Perna, Nov 23
Optimizing CSS: Tweaking Animation Performance with DevTools
Maria Antonietta Perna explores the Performance Tool available in the Firefox browser to find out more about CSS animation performance.
PHP
Colin O'Dell, Nov 22
Case Study: Optimizing CommonMark Markdown Parser with Blackfire.io
Colin O'Dell demonstrates how Blackfire helped with optimizations that resulted in a 53% performance boost in the league/commonmark parser.