Web Designing Course offered by ITP Abbottabad

Web design plays a vital role in this scenario and the firm with successful website can excel in online as well as offline business by attracting big number of customers. Only a professional and proficient website designer can fulfill their purpose by making an attractive and successful website. Making the first impression remarkable is the first priority of a good web designer and then effectively converting visitor into customers.

This course is created to match the present standards of web technologies with a commitment to make you a professional and successful web designer.

Eligibility:

No pre skills required but must have basic knowledge of computer.

Course Outline:

This program enables students to:

To create digital images

Build standard-compliant Websites using HTML and CSS code and Dreamweaver

Convert PSD to HTML

Manipulate and optimize photos, design responsive interface by using Photoshop

Understand importance and types of typography in web designing

Working with contact and inquiry forms of php and implementing in to website

Use of CMS

Duration of Course

The duration of the Course is 1 month

Classes – 5 days a week, 1.5 hours per day

1 month Free Guaranteed Internship after course with our one of international partner companies

Course Road map

The course is spread over a total period of 4 weeks.

During the internship period,

the students will get hands-on experience of what they have learnt in the training classes. Awards & Certificates

Upon the successful completion of this course, you will receive a Completion Certificate.

If you successfully complete the 1 month Internship period at our Software House, you will receive an Experience Certificate by one of our partner companies world wide.

Duration 4 weeks 

For Further Information Feel free to contact

ITP Supply Abbottabad Pakistan

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Tel: +92 992 400 376

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Web Design with Drupal Platform Experience

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The Roads to Reading Initiative is looking for a web designer to assist us in maintaining and updating our website content. We are launching a new website that is decimated to improving the health and healthcare of women of color. We currently have someone working on the website, but needs assistance. but we need assistance in uploading new forms.

We would like a 6 month commitment, with approximately twelve (12) hours of work per month. If this sounds like a volunteer job you would like to take on, please contact Kathryn Jenkins at director@pwirtr.org. In your responds to me, please let me know the best time to reach you. You may also call reach me by telephone at: 617-515-7084. Please do not call us if you are selling software or services. Please visit our website at: http://www.unfittofit.com

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Start and end dates: I would like to have the project done by the end of March 2017

Duration: 3 months or longer

Time commitment: Occasional (weekly or monthly)

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Schedule: Flexible schedule

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What Are Software Design Patterns Hiding From You?

We can all get overwhelmed at times by jargon terms like MVC (Model View Controller), Abstract Factory, and GOF (Gang of Four) patterns. Let me admit something: for a long time I was comfortable with only one pattern, Singleton. I completely understood Singleton and used it in many software projects. As a result, I know all the tradeoffs that Singleton offers.

If you're familiar with Singleton, you may laugh because it's such an easy pattern to apply. It was the only pattern I knew, and I used it everywhere. Unfortunately, in some situations Singleton is inappropriate, so I ended up misapplying it. The problem was that I did not fully understand the software design patterns. If I had understood how to use a pattern, I would not have misused or overused Singleton.

Eventually, I met an experienced web developer who understood what I was doing and let me know there was a better way. That motivated me to start developing my own software design patterns and principles. The strategy I developed helped me to understand the software design patterns available in the literature and to make my peace with the often confusing plethora of patterns available to software designers.

Discovering your own software design patterns is an important skill, which we forget to learn when we force ourselves to learn patterns developed by others. In this article, I will share how you can develop your personal arsenal of patterns, while continuing to learn patterns already developed by experts and senior programmers.

What Is a Software Design Pattern?

A pattern is a guideline or step-by-step instruction to address a recurring problem. The problem can be in any domain, and it is not restricted to the programming world.

Though you probably understand the basics of design patterns, in our discussion we'll consider the following three features of software design patterns:

1) The recurring problem2) Steps to solve/avoid the problem3) Common names or vocabulary

The focus of this article will be the first two features.

Everyday Examples of Patterns and Principles

We use patterns whenever we commute home after work. For example, I avoid going home between 5pm and 7pm. This is because it's the peak traffic time, and I know from past experience that I will waste about a half hour in traffic.

In this example, the recurring problem is the traffic conditions between 5pm and 7pm. It is a recurring problem, as it happens every working day. My solution is to avoid going during the peak traffic times. I always try to get off from work at 4pm. If that is not possible, I leave the office after 7pm. Therefore, I have a guideline for a recurring problem that I face during my work life.

As you can see from this simple example, recurring problems and solutions are part of all of our lives.

I have been involved in the integration and testing of numerous systems. One solution to a recurring problem during integration and testing is to follow a sequence. If you don't follow a particular sequence during integration, then it is quite possible that the system you're integrating will damage the other systems you're connecting it to.

To solve this problem we use a checklist. A checklist outlines the steps and the order in which they need to be performed. A checklist for a particular system integration allows me and other team members to follow a sequence during integration.

From this example, it is clear that you don't necessarily need to refer to a handbook to look for best practices. People in your organization may have developed a solution for their recurring problem, as in the case of our checklist, which is developed by senior engineers. These are local patterns developed by our seniors or ourselves that you will not find in any textbook.

Hence in any field around you where there is a recurring problem, either you have to develop a solution for it (if the problem is related to you), or someone else may already have developed a solution for that problem.

How I Developed My Programming Patterns

In my current position, I acquire data, process that data, and produce graphs or files that explain how the data works.

Data acquisition can be challenging. There are many formats that data can come in, and each scenario presents different challenges including latency, data rate, and multiple streams of data, to name only a few.

To address these recurring challenges and problems, I developed a solution, which I called the Data Acquisition Library. I keep this library in a separate folder and whenever I am developing, I pull up the library and use the information it contains.

If you took a look at this library, you would find that it is just a bunch of classes of code. I write code in certain classes (usually the Device class if I am dealing with a new system or a new interface), and I am able to develop software quickly, which can be extended or changed according to variable requirements.

My solution to recurring data acquisition problems is an example of a pattern.

Another example of pattern creation comes from a web developer who is a friend of mine. He keeps code snippets in a file. This file contains short C# code snippets for each control that you can use in a web app, and a short description of a situation where that control works best. If I asked him to help me with a control, he'd open that file, see how to use a given control, and then let me know how to proceed.

You may be wondering why he doesn't just use the MSDN. MSDN is useful, but it mostly provides generic help and only gives you syntax information. My friend's snippet file is developed from personal experience and helps us solve specific problems that we often face. I face recurring problems with web app programing, but my friend and his file provide me with a solution; thus, I have another pattern that helps me design software.

It's quite possible that you have developed some principles, guidelines, rules of thumb, and checklists for your own workplace. It's also possible that someone else like a senior developer has created such tools for you. My advice to you is that before moving on to documented software design patterns (e.g. GOF patterns) you first focus on your own home-grown software design patterns. If you don't have them right now, then start developing them, even if you are a student or a junior developer.

How to Develop Your Own Patterns — Even If You Are a Beginner Keep a Log Journal

For years I have maintained a log where I put my observations, ideas, or anything that I feel is important. I put a date on a sheet of paper and then write the entries for that day (and sometimes I keep multiple days on a single sheet of paper). This typically takes 5 to 10 minutes daily and hardly ever any longer than that.

Sometimes I miss my entry for a day or a couple of days. That isn't a big deal to me because I can make it up later by writing anything I can remember for the missed day. I suggest you do the same. In a couple of months you will see around 40 entries in your journal, and that is good enough to start detecting patterns.

This is the first step in recognizing the problems you face in your day-to-day job responsibilities. The entries made in your log will help you identify patterns of problems  when you do your reviews. In addition to that, maintaining a log will help you identify your productive days and the type of tasks and skills you are good at.

Once you identify your strong areas, you can utilize them more to be super productive. Writing a log is the single most effective technique that I wish I had known earlier, and it has helped me to be more productive.

What to Write in Your Journal

People are usually confused about what to write in their journal, or they want to make everything perfect from the start. It doesn't have to be perfect. You just have to be consistent enough to make regular entries.

If you see a challenging problem, write about that. If there is an error or bug in your code that you caught recently, then write it down. If you see how a team has debugged and tested something, and you find it interesting, write about it.

If you still don't know what to write, then check out tip number five in this article. Kayleigh has a great take on maintaining your log register.

Review Your Journal

The next step is to review your journal. I do a comprehensive review of my log journal quarterly. I look for repeating problems, the steps that I have taken to solve them, and then I document them in a file.

With the help of a log journal and quarterly reviews, you can easily come up with a handful of patterns that are yours, and, if you want, you can share them with your colleagues.

This method is very efficient for junior developers who have little or no software development experience. Senior developers can open their old projects and look for recurring problems that they have solved earlier and then document them.

Usually, senior developers have their patterns in their head, and they can write them down from memory and share them with their colleagues.

For students, you can maintain a log register and reflect about the class assignment or programming project in which you are currently involved or have completed in the past. If you want to learn exponentially and you are not involved in any programming project, you should get involved as soon as possible. Here is a great article by Latish on involving yourself in a side programming project.

From Private Patterns to Public Patterns

After you have developed your own repository of software patterns and practices (don't worry if it's small), you should check out the design principles and patterns of others.

This way, you will become more comfortable using those patterns in your programs. You will not only remember those patterns but also apply them in your own programs without much difficulty. This is because, by developing your own patterns, you have already developed competency in identifying the recurring problem and applying solutions.

Let me share a personal example with you. I have a rule of thumb that dictates that I create another class if a change in one class causes changes in certain variables and/or methods.

For example, if a class has three variables and any change in the code causes only two particular variables to change independently of the third variable, then there is a problem. The solution to the problem is: I have to create another class which consists of those two variables. This practice, or pattern, helps me write modular code.

After using this pattern for some time, I read a book called Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, a benchmark to improve software design. A very similar rule exists in that book as a guideline to improve the design of your code.

He described a problem very similar to mine and called it "divergent change" ( he refers to problems as "bad smells" in code), and he outlines a solution that involves the creation of an "extract class," which is similar to my solution. It was extremely gratifying to see my pattern recommended in such an important work.

While reading that book, I was able to quickly understand how to relate the "bad smells" Fowler identified to the "bad smells" I already had a solution for.

For example, it took me minutes to understand "Shotgun Surgery" and "Large Class" bad smells (read the book to learn what these are), and it took one week to implement them in a project on which I was working.

The point is, because I am used to identifying patterns in my own software design practice, I am able to more easily understand the patterns used by other designers.

It will be super easy for you to learn software design patterns if you start learning by recognizing your own software patterns.

What Patterns Will You Discover?

In conclusion, I ask for you to not try too hard with the documented software design patterns (especially when you are starting). We use patterns all the time in our daily lives, and you should focus on these first. The key to identifying our own patterns is to reflect upon our daily experiences, and for that, keeping a log is a very good tool.

Identifying your own patterns will not only enhance your knowledge, but through this practice you will also develop the competency to intelligently learn and apply the patterns that have been developed by other experts.

I would love to read about your design patterns. No matter how small or useless it seems to you, if it solves your problem, then maybe it will solve someone else's problems, too.

If you are already maintaining a repository of personal patterns, then share your two best patterns in the comments below. Start a dialogue with some of your peers to see if your pattern is similar to theirs, and get a discussion going.

Finally, if you want to learn more about software design patterns, then please visit here.

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MindVision’s Professional Web Designs Help Increase Valuable Website Traffic and Return on Investment

One of the most trusted and highly recommended full-service digital agencies of Adelaide – MindVision has a new web design and user experience team dedicated to ensuring that the websites they create work for their clients' business, look fantastic and convert visitors into customers. This is the reason why when it comes to professional Software Development, Web Design, SEO and Data-Driven Digital Marketing Strategies – MindVision is always the first choice of several successful companies.

MindVision's team has been offering top-notch digital solutions since 1996 with Adelaide Web Design and development being at the forefront. The best thing about MindVision is that unlike other website developers – MindVision professional team fully understands that a website should not be only 'good looking', but it is also highly necessary for a website to be easy to navigate – which will ultimately have a positive impact on the sales and will help the company increase Return on Investment.

"We are dedicated to putting your business first. Listening, understanding, and learning about your market, opportunities, and goals are vital to our, and your, success. So, if you are looking for a full-service digital agency in Adelaide, and a company whose team puts clients' needs as first priority & is always ready to go an extra mile to help get their customers increase their Valuable Website Traffic and ROI. Then come to us and you will never be disappointed by our services", stated the spokesperson of MindVision.

In summary, if any company is in search of a full-service digital agency in Adelaide, that offers a comprehensive range of services including Software Development, Web Designing, Mobile App Designing, Social Media Marketing and SEO; believes in adopting new techniques and technologies in order to improve their customer service; and most importantly – has a highly qualified & well experienced team that puts customers' demands as its top priority & has successfully served hundreds of companies by now. Then MindVision could the perfect choice, as it offers all of this and more.

About: MindVision is an experienced and capable software, website development and digital marketing firm based in Adelaide. MindVision has been offering top-notch quality Software Development, Web Design, and SEO services; and professional Data-Driven Digital Marketing Strategies – since 1996. The highly-experienced team of MindVision has by now helped hundreds of companies in achieving their website development and digital marketing goals, and have helped them increase Valuable website traffic and ROI. For more information about MindVision and its services, please contact:

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Doc Pop’s News Drop: Worst Web Design Trends of 2016

Doc's WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you.

With 2017 right around the corner, I thought it would be fun to wrap up some of the worst web design trends of 2016.

Love WordPress news, but have a hard time reading because they used a dark grey font on a light grey background? This is Doc Pop's News Drop.

I don't know about you, but I think 2017 can't get here soon enough. So this week, we thought it would be fun to talk about some of the worst web design trends of 2016 and resolve to make the web a better looking place in 2017.

Hiding everything in a hamburger menu– Minimal is definetly a trend these days, so I can see the idea behind wanting to declutter your site, but it sucks when I land on your store and literally can't find any text, links, or images to click on. The trend of sticking important features into a little hamburger menu isn't just bad for me, consider the difficulties it creates for visually impaired or non-web savy web users. "We'll I want to order some flowers for a friend, so clearly I should be on the look out for a button with 3 small lines on it." If users can't quickly find what they are looking for on the front page of your site, they probably aren't going to stick around to click on random icons.

Missing search bars-Speaking of navigation, while website styles may change, it's always true that you can find whatever you are looking for by using a site's search tool. But what happens if you can't even find that search tool. Every page should have a search bar that's easy to find and preferably up top. A common trend these days is to replace that bar with an icon (usually a magnifying glass). Even worse, these search buttons are sometimes tucked in with other social media widgets and can be extra hard to find. Once again, keep in mind visually impaired readers who may visit your site. These readers often rely on these search bars as an easy way to navigate, but if you are using an image with no text this makes the search bar innacesable to their screen reader software and won't even show up if the user uses command F to scan your page for the word search.

Harder to read fonts-Somewhere along the way, folks decided that true black text on actual white backgrounds ws overrated. That makes sense, there's plenty of room to go for a warmer hue background and a softer black font, but I feel like that trend is starting to get out of hand. Especially when combined with a trend towards lighter and thinner fonts. Thanks Medium.

Carousels–Another trend that seems to be spinning out of control is Carousels, also known as "slide shows". They don't really take away functionality, but I don't think they offer any extra functionality either. It's just another distracting thing that's probably not going to show me the thing I'm looking for. Not to mention the stress all those extra images and javascript add to load time. At one point, carousels may have been a good way for your design skills to really stand out, but these days carousels really give most sites a cookie cutter kind of feel.

That's it for this week's News Drop. Think we missed a terrible web trend of 2016? Share it in the comments below or tweet at us at @thetorquemag on Twitter.

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Graphic Design Software

Articles By Morley | December 23, 2016

In this fast growing virtual world, the element of graphic designing cannot be denied. The concept of graphic designing is nothing but to present visual communication using topography and images to provide relevant and useful present information to attract people. With the graphic designing tools, you can create an interesting mix of presenting various kinds of information in attractive formats to increase the overall users' base. The element of graphic design is always presents in our lives in many ways. Whether you read a book, you will come across many illustrations and designing, watching a movie will give you lots of animation and other interesting patterns to enjoy, which simply explains the usability of graphic designing.

Having a command on graphic designing software can help you to create a good web design that will fulfill the needs of the business and the market as well. Graphics software programs are also a key to your success. In graphic design, many software are used to give an expression to the creativity. This modern software not only brings efficiency to the work but also give you many ways to play with graphics and create wonders. There are several tools that are essential to graphic design. Here is a list of what is absolutely necessary to work in graphic design, as well as some things that are recommended.

While there are of course a lot to choose from, the Adobe Creative Suite is extremely popular among designers. This package includes an array of software which will help you to generate better graphics for your websites.

Photoshop, for photo retouching and creating graphic elementsIllustrator, for creating illustrations such as logosInDesign, for page and book layoutsFlash, for creating animated, interactive websitesDreamweaver, for website development

The Corel Graphics Suite and Quark are also popular for design work.

Graphic design services are getting a bounce in this showcasing world, where making a good website is absolutely necessary. Fro a customized graphic designing, you can contact graphic design India services and get the best of creativity and fulfill your dreams. Indian professional are equipped with all the latest technology ad software and skilled in their work. You can get the bets quality work in comparatively less time and enjoy the flavor of the growing market place.

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Each online promotion campaign a business employs is directed towards its business website, which is responsible for the online presence of a company on the world wide web. With the website serving as the base for your business marketing campaigns, it needs to be presentable and effective enough to support the prominence of your brand. Thus, alarming the need of superlative web design services for your business website.Endive Software, a renowned leader in the field of Web Design India and overseas has served hundreds of businesses over the globe with cutting-edge web design services. Endive with its ideology to serve you with the best has employed some of the most proficient web designers in the field to craft technically adept and purely effective web design solutions for you. Your website serving as an integral part of your business, we understand the importance of its effectiveness and thus carry a result-oriented approach towards our services. Serving as a prestigious web des ign company we believe in making healthier and everlasting business relations with our clients and have made our peerless services affordable enough to be availed by each business.A brief outline of our design process:Contact with ClientEstimation of Project ScopeProject Initiation on AcceptanceConcept Building and DesigningProject Completion

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4 Useful Types of Software That Can Help People Get a Job

We live in an age when online jobs, outsourcing, and freelancing are quite a frequent occurrence, and since more and more small businesses are opening up each month, there are more jobs for everyone. In other words, all you need is an internet connection and willpower to learn and master new tools, if you want to earn money.

Learning how to work in a particular software is also not too difficult. You can do it by watching online tutorials, considering that almost anything nowadays has an available tutorial video or article for it, or you can enroll in a course, and learn from professional tutors.

Based on the highly sought after online jobs, and services that are outsourced, here are the types of software that you should learn to use, if you want to be a viable freelancer or an outsourcing solution.

Photo editing software

People need logo designers, cover designers, poster designers, and all other kinds of jobs that require photo editing. The more you know how to manipulate photography the more you will be able to achieve in this department. People were able to create all kinds of images using Photoshop, and their work managed to create a lot of online buzz. In other words talents like these are highly sought after, and with active work, you can get pretty far on your own.

There are so many online tutorials for Photoshop that you won't even need a tutor. Sure you won't be able to be as quick as the pros, but as you progress the editing time will become significantly shorter. Moreover, you can simply create images for fun and they will act as your portfolio on your freelancer's platform, so getting a job won't be too difficult.

Website builder

As mentioned, new small businesses pop up on a daily basis, and as we all know every business needs a website. So, if you master web design, you will have a lot of opportunities to turn those skills into profit. The best thing about creating a website is that it is much easier today than, say 10 years ago. You can use plugins and web builder tools, and end up with a fairly decent and above average design.

Many business owners are not even interested in fancy solutions, they simply want a site that looks good, is easy to navigate and serves as a good business card online. In case they want to have a blog and something to update content frequently, you will have even a better situation, since you can have an easy and ongoing job.

Make sure you go over themes for websites, see which of those come with an SEO tool kit, see their speed etc. Also, pick some good web builder tools you can master quickly and use them to design websites.

PCB design

Now for something that delves into the very essence of technology – circuit boards. If you want to have a reliable gadget, you need a quality and well-designed circuit board. PCB stands for printed circuit board, and knowing how to design them will surely help you land a job, and you get to be creative on your own, and design all sorts of circuit boards to improve your own gadgets. You can use Altium designer to learn how to create a quality circuit board, and very soon, you will be able to hold your own against experienced professionals, since it is a tool they use as well.

Sound editing software

Lastly, let us not forget sound manipulation as an important skill for today's digital market. Video games, apps, movies, TV series all require quality sound editing. You can easily land tons of good paying jobs if you learn how to edit sound files. You can even be a voice actor, using solely your own voice, considering how it can be altered beyond recognition. You can try software like Cubase and see what it has to offer in terms of sound manipulation, since it has a wide variety of options.

To sum up, finding a source of income is really not that difficult, all you need is to actively work for a month or two on improving your skills. Furthermore, these are all fun skills to know, and if you are creative you will be able to put them to good use.

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Adobe Tips & Tricks: Building an Optimal Workspace in Illustrator & Photoshop

In this series, Adobe Certified Instructor Bill Carberry shares some of his most helpful secrets for optimizing your workflow and creating different effects using the most common software for professional design work.

The most important lesson I teach in my Illustrator and Advanced Photoshop classes is how to create an efficient workspace—that is, the arrangement of panels such as Layers, Appearance, Adjustment Layers, Properties, etc. An optimal workspace stimulates and accelerates creativity.

If working in Illustrator or Photoshop were like driving a car, your rearview mirror would be the Control Panel at the top; the tools panel on the left would be your driver's side mirror; and the panels on the right would be your passenger side mirror. Some panels are more important than others, depending on where you want to go and what you want to do when you get there. Just like driving, you need to keep your eyes on everything, or you may wind up in a ditch!

[Related: Adobe Tips & Tricks: Photoshop CC vs. Photoshop Elements]

I like to keep Layers, Artboards and Appearance on the left side so they are always visible. The Appearance and Layers panels are the most essential panels; think of them like your Phone and Messages apps. You can control all attributes of any selected object with the Appearance panel.

Notice that objects can have multiple fills, strokes, effects, etc. If you don't keep your eye on what is selected in the Appearance panel, you'll be forever frustrated with Illustrator. I also like to position Layers on the left in Photoshop, by itself, since some of the files I work on have so much going on that there's a scrollbar.

Looks can be deceiving: Notice how the Appearance panel indicates the selection is simply a rectangle with multiple fills, strokes and a 3D effect applied. Click each swatch thumbnail to change the colors and click the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect to modify it.

It's a good idea to frequently X-ray your artwork in Outline Mode using Command-Y on the Mac, or Ctrl-Y on Windows—the same shortcut since the '80s. This is especially important if you've ever selected an object like the 3D box shown in the screenshot above and wondered why you can't select each individual piece. You can use the Object > Expand Appearance command for that, but you might wind up with a really complex group of objects.

Complicated software: Notice how the Photoshop Properties panel controls Stroke & Fill, not the current Foreground/Background color at the bottom of the Tools panel, which in Illustrator is Stroke & Fill. Artboards appear in the Layers panel in Photoshop, along with Layer Styles (somewhat similar to Illustrator's Appearance panel) instead of separate Illustrator Artboards & Appearance panels.

The Layers panel in Photoshop combines Artboards and Layer Styles, which are somewhat similar to the Appearance panel in Illustrator. Don't confuse the Stroke & Fill at the bottom of the Tools panel in Illustrator with Foreground/Background Color in Photoshop, which looks identical. You can control Stroke & Fill in the Photoshop Properties panel. Of course, we constantly adjust the workspace to accommodate additional tasks, which is why I like to leave empty spaces in each "file cabinet drawer," as you can see in the screenshots above.

A side effect of having panels on both sides of the screen is that it can get a bit claustrophobic, even on a 27-inch iMac. You can tap the Tab key to temporarily hide the side panels, and then move your mouse over the sides of the screen to make them appear again and disappear when you move away. Tap Tab again, and you're back to normal. Whether you use it frequently or not, this Tab key behavior is especially important to understand. If you mistakenly tap the Tab key three times, you'll be wondering where your panels went.

If you don't like to have too many vertically stacked panels in your way, double-click the name of the panel to collapse or expand it. Some panels—Stroke, for example—behave like a three-way light switch: You may need to double-click three times to get back to normal.

Learn more Adobe tips and tricks in Bill Carberry's online workshop, Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop Tips & Tricks, via HOW Design University.

Source: Adobe Tips & Tricks: Building an Optimal Workspace in Illustrator & Photoshop

User Interface Design for Different Age Groups

Users of the internet are incredibly diverse.

On one end, you have software development martyrs, like Ara Karim, certified by Microsoft who aren't even old enough to attend high school. On the other end, you have senior citizens like my grandpa who don't quite understand the difference between a touch screen and a touch pad.

Part of user experience research is narrowing down your target market to a specific age group. For the purpose of this article, the market is split into four age groups: children, teenagers, adults, and senior citizens.

Of course, the standardization versus localization debate comes into play. You may decide that rather than catering to one specific age group, you would rather design your website in a way that can appeal to each of the different age groups.

Children

There was once a time when giving a child unsupervised access to the internet was considered insane. Parents would have much rather trusted young Johnny with the keys to the family car than the password to their primitive personal computers.

Young kids are renowned for having short attention spans, and don't expect any improvements. According to Science Daily, the number of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) prior to entering high school has increased 43% in the last eight years.

Perhaps this explains why heatmaps depict young children randomly clicking different links until they find something that interests them.

For this reason, it is important to use recognizable images, lots of animations, and link activated sound. Vibrant colors are also a must.

Let's analyze the screenshot below of a website that pertains to a Fruit Ninja like game.

Notice that text is kept to a minimum, and recognizable imagery is used. In the example below, the designers use imagery of fruit. Not only are fruit universally recognized, but they also appear frequently within the game.

One of the best marketing ploys when you're targeting young children is to make a game that pulls the kids back to your site.

You don't necessarily have to have any experience in game design. The website Kongregate offers free flash based games that you can add to your site simply by copying the source code into an embed window.

There's another way to gamify your site without literally adding a stand alone game. If a user visits your site 3 days in a row (for example), you can reward them. Depending on your generosity, the reward could be anywhere from a promotional discount code to a simple dialogue window with a congratulatory message.

Teenagers

Young adults and millennials born in the 90s are generally very comfortable navigating the internet. Computer programming is taught at many high schools, and even some middle schools.

In 2015, a grant passed that mandated every incoming freshman in the Washington public school system would be given a Chromebook in order to increase student productivity (I recall many of them were sold almost instantly).

Just because teenagers understand how to navigate the internet doesn't necessarily mean that they're any more willing to read your content than their younger siblings.

It is important to keep the user interface clean. A clean interface serves a double purpose: not only is it a strong aesthetic choice, but it may also help your site run better on computers that are low on RAM.

If your site is designed with teenagers in mind, be sure to have some kind of social media integration. Research site PewInternet claims that 92% of teenagers in the United States check some sort of social media daily, and 24% check social media "constantly".

By offering the incentive for teens to share that they are using your site, you open a lane for free marketing. A share from a visitor to your site will give you exposure to individuals with similar interests as the visitor who shared.

Here's an example from the Jordan website. Chicago residents know that Michael Jordan did two things very well: win championships and sell basketball shoes.

The iPhone pictured here is an example of recognizable imagery for most teenagers.

Similar to the example above, there isn't much text that the user is expected to read. The sidebar to the left holds all the links, but they don't detract from the picture of the iPhone. The design and content is simple, but not simple enough to where it looks child-like.

As the kids who were once entertained with colorful pictures of food grow older, their short attention span is redefined as impatience. If they don't immediately see something that interests them, they are likely to move on

Teenagers have grown up in an era where technology is everywhere. What does this mean for UX designers?

It means that they expect to get information as fast as possible. If a user cannot find something quickly, than they will leave and look for it an another website, where the information is easily accessible.

Young Adults

Young adults are a subcategory of the Adult group, and typically fall between the ages of 18 and 30. Like the teenage group, young adults are "digital native". This means that they grew up during the age of digital communication (Meyer).

Unlike the teenagers, young adults don't appreciate interactivity unless it serves a purpose towards their task. Young adults are also more skeptical of what they read online, writes Kate Meyer of the NN Group.

In this group, more so than in any other, it important to be search engine optimized. Part of being "digitally native" means that they probably use Google as their compass.

Rather than pressing "alt + ←" to return to the previous page, they might just go straight to the search bar. If you have a collection of landing pages with strong search engine optimization, you might be able to bring the user right back to your site.

Adults

This is where UX design changes a little. Many adults have some sort of computer experience, but according to a recent Google survey, 90% of adults did not know what a browser was.

Despite this, young adults are generally very confident in their ability to maneuver in the web environment. This confidence often results in a "click first, ask questions later mindset".

Are you noticing a trend here? According to the NN Group, children, adults, and teenagers all tend to be prone to clicking links but not likely to read text.

Flash animations and click activated sounds might be intriguing to children and some (easily-entertained) teens, but they typically aren't appreciated by adults. This is where web design starts to become very detail oriented.

Adults generally expect to get answers as quickly as possible. Don't hide vital information behind a series of links. Try to phrase your writing with concision and cut straight to the point. Infographics with links are a great tool to use.

Senior Citizens

Senior citizens are often the forgotten demographic of the internet. Although the elderly didn't grow up around technology, some of the more brave old-folks are willing to put time into learning how to navigate the internet.

After all, many seniors find themselves with more free time than any prior stage of their life. Visual Hierarchy writes that compared to their younger counterparts, elderly are often the most willing to engage themselves in reading a block of text that they find online.

If you're hoping to appeal to seniors, the interface should be clean and the navigation self-explanatory.

(New York Times Print Form)

Compare the screenshot of the New York Times website to the New York Times in print form.If you've been a loyal New York Times reader, you would feel right at home with the online counterpart to the famous newspaper.

The decision of the New York Times web design team to recreate the layout of the newspaper on the website is sure to bring nostalgia to the elderly readers.

Conclusion: Don't Alienate Any Age Group

It's not easy to design a website that can simultaneously appeal to all four age groups. In order to understand which age group you really should target, you might need to do some ux research on the the demographics that your content appeals to.

At the same time, it's never a good idea to deliberately alienate or confuse any of the four age groups in your user interface design. Many young designers accidently estrange seniors in their web design because older viewers can't figure out how to navigate the site.

When you design your site, be aware of the four different age categorical ages of viewers that may stumble upon your site.

Source: User Interface Design for Different Age Groups

The tech turning Fastway Couriers into UberX

A transport and logistics software provider and a Sydney web design agency have helped Fastway Couriers roll out an on-demand driver program, dubbed 'Blu Couriers'.

Blackbay and Nirmal Web Studio, in conjunction with Fastway's IT team, provided the tech muscle behind the new program.

Blackbay supplied a mobile scanning solution called Delivery Connect, which has been integrated with the Fastway website, which is used in the field by Blu Couriers drivers.

Delivery Connect is used for tracking orders, remuneration, database management and reporting.

Meanwhile, Nirmal developed the Blu Couriers bulletin board, which has been integrated into Fastway's propriety software.

Blu Couriers allows Fastway franchisees to recruit extra drivers during peak periods. The program is currently being rolled out in Sydney and Brisbane.

Fastway chief executive Richard Thame said: "Following the success of our pilot program we anticipate in the next 12 months over 1000 Australians will take advantage of the flexible working style of Blu Couriers, with the jobs targeted to people wanting to work when it suits them like university students, parents between school runs and people looking for extra income.

"With three in four internet users in Australia now shopping online, delivery demand is going to continue to climb," he said.

"Blu Couriers will be integrated with the current Fastway platform and we are focused on ensuring a streamlined process for Blu Couriers."

Source: The tech turning Fastway Couriers into UberX

Top 10 Best Free Graphic Design Software for Windows and MAC

Graphic Design is the field, which is growing as fast as technology is growing. It is one of the fastest evolving fields. Graphic designers designs most of the digital pictures, logos, banners, posters, visiting cards etc. They use various graphic design software to make pretty and attractive designs. These programs are Free. Today in this article I'm gonna talk about Top 10 Best Free Graphic Design Software for Windows and MAC. Let's see all of them one by one.

Not every Program You find on the internet is free. But, Some of them are free under some license conditions. But, in this Ocean of information… You need to know the Right program for your work. Which suits all of your work needs. So, let's start with the first one.

One of the best free graphic design software SVG. The full form of SVG is Scalable Vector Graphics, which is a graphic format where the shapes are in XML. SVG-edit is fast and easy to use the program. The drawing editor is completely built on HTML, CSS, javascript etc. to make things easier for the user and editor. It also protects the source of the program from the end user. This provides better security to the source code. Most of the updated web browsers display SVG just like a JPG, PNG or GIF.

Paint.NET is an awesome program to edit images with Windows. It is an amazingly intuitive and innovative UI with multiple support for layers, undo, special effects, and various useful and powerful tools. Much more advanced than MS-Paint. and can think of as the competitor of Adobe Photoshop in some aspects.

Blender is a 3D supportive program. You can use it for making your 3D looking images. And the fun part is that you don't even need to pay the massive amount for this awesome program. It is free of cost. An Open-source application which Provides ability to 3D modelling, animation and rigging, compositing, simulation, CPU and GPU rendering, VR rendering etc. It is the first choice of every Animator out there.

Another amazing Program, which will allow you all graphic designers to do info-graphics. Easel.ly is one of the top free programs out there in the market, which will allow you to do Info-graphics and lot of graphical representations and designs. It requires very less time to do your work on this program as every plugin and setup is done in the Program templates already.

An Easy to learn and implement windows program made by Pixologic. The program is famous from the beginner to advance level programmers. The Zbrush capabilities are highly appreciable in the program, you must give it a try to know more about this awesome free program.

Professional vector graphics windows program, which will allow users to complete their work in no time at all. It can be assumed as the perfect competitor of the Corel Draw. While, this one is free as compared to Corel. The tools they provide are quite useful and important. The program is not only available for windows, but also for Linux. You need to have some terminal based knowledge to use it on your MAC machine.

One of my favourite and free of cost graphic designing program. Easy to use for a beginner to an advanced level user. GIMP is the short form for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Where GNU is the Public license terms for using this awesome program for free. This software helps for photo retouching, image composition, image authoring etc. It is another competitor of the Adobe Photoshop program, which is paid.

As Most of the graphic designers consists of animations, illustrations and 3d figures. So, Daz Studio is one of the best options for all those 3D artists out there. This awesome free program provides all the facilities that can help you create wonderful 3Ds, animations and illustrations and digital figures. Must give it a try.

Amazing MS-Paint kind of application, but such advanced in functions and capabilities like Adobe Photoshop. It works in your browser window and required adobe flash player to function. The basic version offers you all the standard tools that are required for graphic designing. Once you become familiar with the basic version, you can buy the pro version for few bucks on their official website.

The Final program of the list, which is amazingly full of options. When you try to edit and image in it, You can find each professional tool in the toolbar. It is considered as one of the highly valued, fast growing graphic design software. It is very easy to use, free program. One can create a huge quantity of graphic designs in this program. Have a try.

At last, I hope that you would like this Article. If you are in doubt or you have any query regarding anything related to this article. You can leave a comment below in the comment field. I will try to help you within 24 hours. Thanks.

Source: Top 10 Best Free Graphic Design Software for Windows and MAC

21 Free, Easy-To-Use Design Tools And Resources For Marketers

Is it just me, or is picking out the art to accompany a blog or social media post sometimes more difficult than the writing itself?

Everyone, including me, skims over big chunks of text. Half the battle of a strong post is making sure that you display your (stellar!) content in a way that's easily digestible and visually appealing.

What's awesome is the plethora of free design tools out there that are super easy to learn and don't require much tech-savvy, as is often assumed with learning new software. I'm a prime example. Not to mention it's just fun creating your own graphics.

As much for my own benefit as for yours, I researched and gathered some great options to consider for marketers who a) need to be able to create quality, social media ready images quickly and b) are working on a budget. (Free is everyone's favorite, regardless.)

Finding quality images

These options below take the pain out of worrying about copyright and image licenses. If you're writing blog posts even just once a week, buying photos gets pricey real quick.

1 – Unsplash A community where photographers have generously donated their exceptional photos to be used by the public. Giving credit is encouraged, but not required.

2 – Stocksnap You can sort photos by number of views, number of downloads, what's trending, and most relevant. You can also save your own favorites so you never lose track of a photo. (I found the featured image for this blog post here!)

3 – Snapwire

4 – Death to the stock photo Both cool options if you want to sign up to have new images delivered straight to your inbox.

5 – Pixabay.com

6 – Pexels.com Both decent go-tos for free stock photography.

Image editing software

7 – Pixlr Noteworthy editing software that's available as a mobile app, webapp, or desktop app. With Pixlr Express (the webapp), you can upload your own photos, paste in an image URL, use your webcam, or start a collage.

8 – Sumopaint A versatile photo editor that functions entirely within your browser. (You can download it to your desktop if you prefer.)

10 – Befunky This is a photo editor, collage maker, and graphic designer rolled into one – along with some great tutorials to get you started. It includes templates for everything from invitations, brochures, cards and posters, to social media posts and blog titles. (The blog title template discovery was my favorite.)

Creating graphics, infographics & charts

11 – Canva Canva made the top of most lists I found on graphic design software, but I'm still mentioning it here because I absolutely love Canva. They have tons of free images, illustrations, icons and templates – all come pre-sized for common marketing posts and collateral, or you can create your own custom sizes. Easily upload your own images, too, to overlay with text or illustration.

12 – Infogr.am Data visualizations can be a pain – and Infogr.am allows you to make professional looking charts, infographics and maps in minutes.

13 – Piktochart An excellent tool for creating infographics. The best part is that they have over 500 templates for you to choose from, and you can customize fonts and colors.

14 – Easelly Another great infographic creator. Thousands of templates to choose from, or start with a blank canvas and drag and drop a theme to get started.

15 – Venngage Hundreds of templates available for various types of graphics – reports, posters, promotions, infographics and social media posts.

16 – Google Charts A diverse gallery of chart options, customizable to fit the feel of your website, and of course the huge plus of connecting to your own Google Analytics data.

17 – Raw A very user friendly tool that allows you to easily (and safely) import your data, format it, and export the vector file to embed in your website. For the designers and developers out there – you can contribute to the project on Github.

Mobile apps for creating images on the fly

18 – Instaquote A fun way to customize text. Various colors, backgrounds and fonts to choose from so you can design a professional looking quote in about a minute. (I've used this to post an inspirational quote or two.)

19 – Snapseed Photo editor developed by Google (another personal favorite). 24 tools and filters to choose from.

20 – Font Candy A great tool for overlaying or masking photos with creative type.

21 – Prisma A way to mix things up. Upload your photos and transform them into works of art after the styles of Van Gogh, Picasso, Levitan and others.

Creating your own professional, visually stunning marketing materials has never been easier. Design away, fellow marketers!

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Author: Breanna Jacobs

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Source: 21 Free, Easy-To-Use Design Tools And Resources For Marketers

21 Examples Of The Best SaaS Business Blogs You Need To Read

Everyone has advice and content they want to share…

Right now, type your issue into Google and a plethora of solutions will greet you.

But finding content that is valuable, provides insight, and teaches you something, is an entirely different story.

SaaS (software as a service) companies have seen substantial growth over the last few years, with the barrier to entry decreasing all the time.

Even better, many of these companies (especially in the marketing space) are leading the way when it comes to content marketing and blogging.

So, if you're looking to boost your traffic, increase sales, give your marketing a facelift, or just want to improve yourself, there are some amazing SaaS blogs out there that you can draw inspiration from.

After reading them, I'm confident you'll walk away with a new stride in your step. Check out these highly influential blogs and SaaS services, see what they have to offer, sign up for their newsletter, and try their services.

They are in no particular order because all 21 are exceptional.

1. Groove HQ

GroveHQ's blog is a customer service solution designed to improve response times, organize inquiries, and streamline customer service.

Their mission for their blog is to help clients and businesses shine within their blog content. Each piece dives deep into customer service-related queries and concerns. They provide clear, actionable content that helps any business owner improve growth and satisfaction rates.

It's not about promoting their service; instead, it is about empowering businesses to take hold of their customer service, improve it, and grow.

2. FlypChart

FlypChart is a new kid on the SaaS block, but I felt compelled to share their story.

The software itself is designed to help marketers overcome "tool overload" when it comes to running marketing campaigns. The idea is that you can prepare and schedule emails, social media posts, webinars, blog posts and ad campaigns all from one easy-to-use calendar interface. So instead of having six or seven tabs open in your browser, you can just have one.

The FlypChart blog is sharing their startup journey, all the way from idea, through validation, to MVP and beyond. It's well worth checking out.

3. KISSMetrics

KISSMetrics provides powerful analytics that you can implement into your marketing and web development strategies. They give you insight so that you can predict visitor behavior – and ultimately, improve your conversions.

The KISSMetrics blog is all about tackling those pressing business concerns, such as recovering lost customers, enticing readers, and even colors to use for your website.

They don't just tickle the surface. Instead, they dig deeper into results (results driven by their software) and show you how to build a better site and create higher conversions.

4. Close.io

Close.io revolutionized customer data and cold calling. Representatives can make and receive calls quickly, send emails automatically, and create a streamlined sales workflow process.

Their blog focuses on improving your sales team – including teaching you how to hire a dominant sales representative, how to craft your email templates and close deals.

5. Track Maven

Track Maven offers integrated marketing analytics that help you optimize your content over 15 different channels. Their product is all about optimization and improving your competitiveness online.

The blog over at Track Maven provides you with marketing insights, guest blogging tidbits, and even how to take your infographics viral.

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6. SaasMetrics

SaasMetrics helps entrepreneurs grow and retain their company's recurring revenue. They give insight on valuable customers, segments that yield higher profits, and even project growth rates.

The blog on SaasMetrics focuses on interpreting their data, implementing strategies, and a compilation of podcasts.

7. Help Scout

Help Scout offers help desk software through a web-based platform for easier access.

The blog at Help Scout focuses on improving customer service as a business owner, and they even have their blogs categorized by most recent, popular posts, growth-centric posts, support, culture, and products.

8. Crazy Egg

Crazy Egg launched their revolutionary application that gives you eye-catching tools, including heat maps, scroll maps, overlays, and confetti, to track real-time metrics on your site.

The blog at Crazy Egg is equally innovative. They highlight common analytics issues (and interpretation issues) that business owners have on their blogs and websites. Most of the blogs on Crazy Egg are lengthy, but every word counts. When you walk away from their posts, you are armed with so much information you will keep yourself busy for days.

9. Vero

Vero is an email platform designed for the modern, online business. It helps automate workflow, creates real-time tracking data, and provides insightful CRM information.

When it comes to the blog on GetVero.com, you will find equally astute information. They don't just boast about their products – they also highlight other companies and how using their software correctly can boost your business.

10. Canva

Canva is a marketer's dream. It takes the task of creating beautiful images and simplifies it.

Canva's Design School Blog is breathtaking. They offer everything from social media tips to using creativity in designs to their list of highly recommended fonts for impact. The blog is categorized perfectly for easy navigation.

11. Unbounce

A website can't succeed without a great landing page. Unbounce helps the ordinary web designer or business owner create extraordinary landing pages.

The blog on Unbounce goes beyond just landing page design. They also discuss conversion optimization skills, copywriting resources, and more.

12. Shopify

Shopify is a web platform for eCommerce businesses. If you sell something online, on social media, in store, or out of the trunk of your car, their software has you covered.

The Shopify blog is packed full of helpful information. List posts, how-to's, infographics, case studies, podcasts… Just about anything you can think of. It's the perfect knowledge buddy if you run an online business.

13. Leadpages

Leadpages is a leading landing page building software solution. They help you generate more leads, create captivating page headers, and give you a bunch of templates you can make into your own.

The Leadpages blog talks about reaching your audience, features case studies, and helps you unlock hidden marketing opportunities. They have a mixture of long-form and short-form blogs and even link in with free Ebooks.

14. Salesforce

SalesForce is a leading CRM platform that is entirely cloud-based. It works for all industries, all services, and just about any size of business.

On their blog, you will find business motivation. SalesForce believes in encouraging business owners, but also their sales staff and team managers. Their blogs discuss upcoming features, events, and team-building opportunities.

15. Moz

Moz is a market leader in SEO, inbound marketing and marketing analytics. They help marketers improve search engine rankings, linking best practices, and branding.

On the Moz blog, there is a plethora of information. They invite some of the country's leading experts to offer up advice, insights and how-to guides all related to internet marketing and SEO.

16. Interact

Ok, let me take this list a bit left field for a moment… Most of the blogs so far have been fairly well-established companies, mostly in the digital marketing space.

Interact are a little different, but they are doing some great things when it comes to content. They offer an intranet software to help businesses improve internal communication.

Their blog talks primarily about helpful information to do with internal communications and employee engagement.

17. SEMrush

SEMrush is all about finding profitable keywords. They help bloggers and website owners optimize their content and create a better overall experience for their customers.

This goal spills over into their blog. Here you will find everything from SEO fixes to content marketing strategies and back linking.

18. BuzzSumo

BuzzSumo is by far one of the most important tools for content promotion and influencer marketing. It helps writers identify what type of content is working, what content is popular, and helps them tailor their work to take out the competition.

BuzzSumo's blog is equally impressive. They go in-depth on the science of content marketing, creating shareable content, and dive into what makes content go "viral."

19. Buffer

Buffer makes sharing on social media stress-free. You can share everything and save time by managing social media in one place.

The Social Media Blog on Buffer is all about teaching you to be a social media guru. Their posts are fun, engaging, and in-depth.

20. HootSuite

HootSuite operates similar to Buffer and allows you to manage your social media accounts on one platform. You can publish, schedule, and follow from a single screen.

Their social media marketing tips on their blog are brilliant.

You get insight on hashtags (and how to use them correctly), information on Facebook's algorithms, and social media news roundups daily. Their advice focuses on businesses and bloggers looking to go viral on all social media platforms – including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

21. Zendesk

Zendesk is a cloud-based customer service platform that streamlines interaction between sites and their clients. They offer contact forms, help services, and strive to improve every business's customer service satisfaction rating.

Their expertise in customer service spills over into their blog. Here you will find how to encourage happy customer service representatives, to hiring tips, to customer service audits. Their posts are short, concise, but extremely helpful nonetheless.

Learn from the best by subscribing to these SaaS business blogs

SaaS creators and experts are industry leaders. They not only build products that improve your business, but they also craft exceptional blog content that helps you achieve your growth goals.

Even better, you don't have to purchase their product to learn from them.

If you are looking for ways to improve social media, workflow or just become a better business owner, start subscribing to some of the best SaaS business blogs we've featured here today.

With each newsletter, you are bound to learn something new, find out what is trending, and see where you can improve.

As a business owner, you should constantly be working toward improvement, growth and success.

These industry experts will get you there – you just have to take the time to hear what they have to say.

Source: 21 Examples Of The Best SaaS Business Blogs You Need To Read