Our last discussion on tools to help simplify the WordPress backend Introduction At our January meeting, as we did during the December meeting, we continued our discussion on a couple of tools we can use to simplify the management and use of our WordPress website. We took a look at one plugin – Yoast Duplicate […]
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Canva Design Wiki on Colors
Earlier this month we talked about design trends for 2018 and we focused on accessibility, color combinations, and color contrast. Late last year, Adelbert Bola from the Community Outreach team at Canva, reached out to me about their awesome color resource tool. The tool, available at canva.com/colors, is a full design wiki on colors that […]
2018 Web Design Trends Discussed & Debated
The Web Design SIG kicked off 2018 by doing what every other web design ‘think-tank’ does – talk about web design trends for 2018. Our fearless leader combed through countless online journals looking for just the right collection of projections and ideas, but settled back on some old favorites as a jumping off point of […]
CSS Grid Tools for Web Design
In our final meeting of 2017 we reviewed a number of tools available to help in building just the right grid for web page layout. We kicked off with a video (actually just looking at the splash screen for the video – more on that later) that provides an excellent overview of the CSS Grid […]
Responsive Images: The What, Why and How
April’s meeting was all about responsive images – what they are, why they are important and how to make it happen. We used a 10-part discussion on Cloudfour.com as the basis for the discussion. Even though the post was written more than 2 years ago, the what and why are still very relevant. Our SIG […]