The History of Gaming - #infographic

Gaming has definitely changed over the years. Its evolution evolved slowly at first from arcades to the first Nintendo. Over the past decade especially, we have gone from gaming on consoles to smartphones, and even the new consoles that are released are fancier than ever, boasting extremely...

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DrawingArt

One Page site for a Slovenia-based design studio called DrawingArt. Their One Pager features case-study style portfolio work. Love that animated intro, nice work!

DrawingArt is digital creative design and development studio situated in picturesque Slovenia, Europe. Our small team of talented and passionate designers and developers provide clients with the most innovative and unique design approaches using the latest modern technologies.

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The Periodic Table Of Elements

Interactive One Page Website providing ‘The Periodic Table Of Elements’ for easy reference with a great way to filter the elements. This website doesn’t have a whole lot to the design, but it is a great resource by Nathan Shepherd.

periodictableofchemicalelements.com is all about quick and up-to-date information about any chemical element of the periodic table, at your fingertips with a click of the mouse.

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MARCA

Very minimal one pager with tons of whitespace. The site is mostly in Japansese, and the design is great. Only thing we recommend is getting the map at the bottom to work ;)

Japanese craftbeer web site.

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SHRN°

Spacious and minimal One Page app site promoting SHRN° – a beautiful weather app with a more minimal UI. Check it out!

Super-clean to keep the focus on what makes this weather app a little different from the million others.

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One of These Site and Page Building Tools is Meant for You

This article was created in partnership with BAWMedia. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible.

Searching for precisely the right website builder to suit your needs can be a daunting chore. There are good ones and not-so-good ones on the market. The problem is that there are so many good website builders. Also, more than a few of them can legitimately claim to be top-of-the-line. Therefore, it can be awfully difficult to make a choice.

Is one of your requirements that the product must be free? Then, your search should narrow considerably. However, it still won’t necessarily be easy to find what you’re looking for.

The good news is — we’ve just made it an easy task. We’re delighted to be able to present the best of the best free website builders heading into 2018. You’ll find builders for creatives, for small businesses, and for personal use. All these builders will enable you to create awesome portfolios and galleries.

Take a break, grab a cup of coffee, and enjoy!

1. Mobirise Website Builder

     Since the Mobirise Website Builder is free for both commercial and personal use, it would only make sense to download it to check it out. Mobirise isn’t just another copycat builder either. It takes somewhat of a different approach to creating a website (one that you’ll like) and you’re free to use any host you choose once your site is ready to launch.

Mobirise’s cool combination of a drag and drop builder and its cool selection of trendy pre-made building blocks really speeds up the building process and your workflow as well. A comprehensive set of design elements, together with Mobirise’s Bootstrap 4 templates also come with the package. The net result is your ability to easily add functionality to your sites that might otherwise require lots of time, effort, and coding. Coding is not necessary with the Mobirise Builder. It’s simply a matter of dropping blocks onto a page and adding, rearranging, and editing content as necessary. Once done, you’re ready to publish.

Download the Mobirise Website Builder for Mac OS or Windows and check it out!

2. Visual Composer Website Builder

     The Visual Composer Builder is the creation of WPBakery’s VC team. 5+ years of design and development experience have gone into this completely new type of WordPress builder. It is not to be confused with the WPBakery Builder.

The two builders are independent and completely different from one another, and we believe this would be a good time to give the Visual Composer Builder a try. Both free and Premium versions are available.

This website builder features a live drag and drop frontend editor, a backend editor, a host of advanced design options, WordPress shortcodes and widgets support, and much more. VC-created sites will be responsive, they can be tied into Social Media, and you can accomplish all of this without any need to write code.

We suggest checking out the free version and putting it through its paces and looking into the Premium version’s features later.

3. Portfoliobox

     Because it makes it so easy to build websites and professional-looking galleries and portfolios that are unique in all respects, Portfoliobox is an excellent choice for creatives, be they photographers, artists or designers of all types.

Portfoliobox is not theme-based, so you’re not constrained to using a standard theme. You can use any style you want for any page and do it from the comfort of your web browser. Web hosting comes with the package, and there’s never a need for coding.

Since this web building tool is responsive you can control the look of your website pages, portfolios, and galleries on mobile devices.

Hosting is included when you sign up for a free account. Portfoliobox’s Pro plan offers extended hosting capabilities and a free personalized domain. Another cool option to check – a student account offer from Portfoliobox. If your school supports this opportunity, do not miss it!

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The ICO That’s Disrupting the Way You Start and Run Companies

This article was created in partnership with Enkidu. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible.

There comes a technology once in several decades that redefines the very fundamentals of how we live our lives. More importantly, it allows new ideas and technology to emerge from it as a consequence. One such technology, the Internet, changed the way humanity as a whole functioned.

Let’s face it - the internet was one of the greatest inventions in all of human history. While giants like IBM ignored its existence for a while; companies like Yahoo, Google and Amazon thrived. It was a brand new playground, ripe for disruption.

Imagine How Amazing Would It Be for Us to Witness Once More the Birth of such Technology

Well, there’s no need for imagination - that technology is already here. Touted the “Internet 2.0”, the Blockchain and more specifically, Smart Contracts, are as powerful as the original internet - if used to their full potential. We truly live in miraculous times.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. In 2017, over $5.6 Billion USD was raised by Initial Cryptocurrency Offerings (ICOs) across the world. It seemed like most of these ICOs were using the Ethereum platform to raise money to run a non-blockchain business, rather than actually making native use of the Blockchain or Smart Contracts. For a while, it was hard to tell which startups were at the verge of true disruption, and which ones were in to make a quick buck.

Out of this fog comes one startup that’s disrupting a concept that has largely been left undisrupted over the last century. Enkidu wants to revolutionize how the entire world creates and runs companies.

When Varun Mayya, the CEO of Enkidu tells you what the platform does, the implications hit you right in the face. "We want to merge the payment gateway, the cap table (revenue sharing table) and the log of business decisions taken by a team". If you’ve ever started a company before, you know the pain. Enkidu claims to make starting and running a business a walk in the park.

He goes on to explain that Enkidu makes running a small business easy, without the necessity of registering or auditing a company entity at all. "Imagine a team of 3 people sitting in Ireland, India and the United States; who want to get together to build and sell a 3D game online".

With Enkidu, they can decide what percentage of the business each person owns. This split of revenues is stored in what is called a cap table. When an inbound payment comes in via that project’s payment gateway (provided by Enkidu), that payment is automatically split according to the cap table. The team can also decide to reserve some percentage of revenues in a treasury, which can be utilized via a virtual visa to pay vendors and buy tools the company might need.

What’s more, the company can make certain business decisions that influence how the payment gateway works. Each Enkidu project has a handy dashboard that allows team members to pass resolutions, which are business decisions. One example is adding another partner into the business. Simply heading over to the resolutions dashboard and clicking the “Add Collaborator” automatically opens a simple majority poll where team members can decide whether to add a new partner or not. If the resolution passes (i.e, at least 51% of the team decides to vote yes), then the cap table causes proportional dilution of each member’s share holding by a percentage required to accommodate the new member. For example, adding a new member who requests a 10% revenue share causes all other members’ shareholding to dilute by 10% if the resolution passes. Every new payment on the gateway now accommodates this change in the cap table. Vesting is handled via smart contracts too.

Because resolutions prevent disputes (everything is transparent) and the business runs like an automaton (a machine that follows some rules), there’s no requirement for lawyers or legal counsel. The entire purpose of the legal system was dispute deterrence, rather than dispute resolution, which is what it has become today. Issues crop up in structures like LLCs and Private Limited companies because some members are not transparent with their financials, or there is some misinterpretation of contracts. Such cases don’t exist on Enkidu, because all resolutions are transparent and pre-emptive!

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