Web Design Learning Guides

In this three part series about creating a license controlled plugin and theme update system for WordPress, you will learn how to create a plugin for managing software products and licenses.

Bootstrap 3, arguably the most popular front-end framework available today, brought with it some significant changes from version 2. We recently had the opportunity to collaborate with Syncfusion to offer you one of their popular eBooks, Bootstrap 3 Succinctly, as a Learning Guide. Follow along as Peter Shaw takes you through the most important differences, introduces new features, and gives you a firm understanding of how Bootstrap 3 works.

When building a website, you have a few ways to approach doing so.

Welcome to a series exploring a number of responsive navigation patterns. During these four tutorials we'll look into how to develop them yourself, rather than leaning on a copy-paste approach. Everything from top nav bars, through select dropdowns and footer patterns, to off-canvas navigation will be examined.

2014 has witnessed some grand changes made to Adobe Muse; the web design application for Graphic Designers. It's seen an improved interface, greater integration with other Adobe services and all this has helped its vibrant community grow even stronger. We've featured Adobe Muse in several ways recently, and there's more to come!

In your day-to-day HTML coding you'll undoubtedly use <div> elements, hopefully even <section>, <aside> and <article> tags where more appropriate. You'll describe semantic relationships between headings using <h1> through to <h6>. Your form inputs are probably of the correct type, dictating whether entered data should be a valid email address, or number - but there are loads of obscure HTML tags and attributes which you might not be familiar with. Some are simple, others are still in development and the occasional one is just downright weird! This collection of tutorials and quick tips will get you up to speed with some of the more unusual HTML tags.