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19 Simple Tips to Increase Productivity at the Office - #infographic

We all have that time of the day where the only thing we can think about is taking a nap. We could be one cup of coffee away from a caffeine-induced heart attack, and yet we still struggle to be productive. Science says our circadian rhythms — our internal clocks — are responsible for this...

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Clocks Of Leeds

Flat One Pager project website showcasing ‘Clock of Leeds’. nice animations and beautiful clocks in this one.

Clocks of Leeds is a new creative project showcasing some of the most iconic landmarks in the city of Leeds, UK. Created by BML Creative, the website displays several beautiful local clocks in an illustrated style, with a little background information on each timepiece. The clocks are displayed using SVG so even on large screens the illustrations remain crisp and clear, and are loaded quickly.

Inspired by the buildings and monuments we pass each day, the project was a great excuse to shout about our city while trying out some new things with both the design and development. Each clock displays the current time, with plans to add more in the coming weeks and months. In the UK the clocks are rolled back by an hour in October, which seemed a great time to celebrate these local icons.

The project is followed up with a run of prints with proceeds going to St. Gemmas Hospice, a charity based in Yorkshire.

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Web Design Weekly #311

Headlines

A Primer to Web Accessibility for Designers

A great article by Nicholas Kramer that reminds us that accessibility is a team effort between designers, developers, copywriters, and content creators. (uxplanet.org)

Celebrating the anniversary of the Web (w3.org)

Articles

Swapping Images with the Sizes Attribute

Scott Jehl explains how to simplify complex image selection with the new ‘sizes’ attribute. (filamentgroup.com)

Lessons learned from the history of design systems

A look at some milestones in the history of design systems to see what each can teach us about the best ways to build and implement these frameworks into our digital design processes. (invisionapp.com)

Really Bad Design Exercises

To mix things up Matthew Ström proposes a new ‘interesting’ idea for the hiring process. Instead of asking a candidate to design the best version of something, ask them to design the worst version of something. (matthewstrom.com)

Immersive Design: The Next 10 Years of Interfaces

A look into what happens when we design beyond a screen. (uxdesign.cc)

Tools / Resources

TypeScript — JavaScript with superpowers

People have been talking up TypeScript for quite some time, all for good reason. If you are still unsure about it, this post is a great introduction. (freecodecamp.org)

monday.com: The #1 Trello alternative for your team

Manage your design projects & tasks, plan product roadmap visually, and communicate all in one place while you stay-on-top of your team’s entire workflow. Start using monday.com today! (monday.com)

UX Storyboard Creation: A Complete Guide For Beginners

Luca Morovián walks you through all the whys and hows of UX storyboard creation plus shares template to help you get started. (uxstudioteam.com)

CSS Grid Template Builder

A simple tool to build complex CSS Grid templates. (codepen.io)

FontDrop

Simply drag and drop your OpenType or TrueType font files to see what’s inside them. (fontdrop.info)

Sloth – Chrome extension to help with throttle testing (github.com)

React Tools for WordPress (humanmade.com)

MobX 4 released (medium.com)

Inspiration

How We Adopted CSS Grid at Scale (julian.is)

Creative Audio Visualizers (tympanus.net)

Jobs

JavaScript Engineer at Help Scout

JavaScript powers the magic behind Help Scout’s apps and services, bringing them to life with delightful interactions and dynamic real-time updates. (helpscout.com)

Sr. full-stack engineer at Sticker Mule

We’re searching for more to join us as we look to build one of the Internet’s best technical teams. Some of our current projects include migrating to a service architecture, inter-service communication with GCloud PubSub and GRPC, API Gateway based GraphQL, event sourcing persistence and CQRS, and manufacturing and artwork processing automation. (stickermule.com)

Need to find passionate developers or designers? Why not advertise in the next newsletter

Last but not least…

Lesser known CSS quirks & advanced tips (medium.com)

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Yes Yes No

Single Page website that generates an “optimistic” answer to your questions. Good attention to detail with those custom cursor hovers.

YesYesNo – A web based New Years resolution – For a more optimistic 2018. Responsive Fonts – based on VH and VW instead of REM or PX. Custom cursors – every hover element have its own special cursor. Spin the wheel, hit that YesYesNo-button* and the answering machine will give you an optimistic output with a 33% chance of No and a sanguine 66% chance of Yes!

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Learn All about Blockchain with This $19 Training Bundle

Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be a cryptocurrency guru to understand Bitcoin and its potential for profit. Powered by blockchain technology, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like it are booming as a solution for exchanging value on a decentralized platform. And, with Bitcoin's value surpassing the $10,000 mark, time may be running out to get in while it's still profitable. With a lifetime subscription to OneMonth's Bitcoin & Blockchain Bundle, you can catch up and learn how to buy, send, and invest in Bitcoin for 85% off.

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Check Out the #1 WordPress Page Builder

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Finding just the right WordPress website builder takes time – lots of it — and you also need to know what to look for, which can require a research skillset that would make Sherlock Holmes proud.

What you all too often run into, however, are these tradeoffs:

• A website builder may have the features you need, but the quality of its overall design leaves something to be desired.
• Or you find yourself having to clean up messy code, even though "no coding skills needed" was advertised.
• Or you spend hours working out the details of a special feature your client insists on.

Your search will be much easier and quicker if you simply settle for #1.

How do you know Elementor is #1? It's more than 600,000 users will tell you so. Elementor's many special features were created with professional web designers and developers in mind.

Do yourself a big favor, and check out Elementor.

Why Elementor?

Elementor was created with the intent of making WordPress website building a painless and effortless task, without ever being constrained by a theme's design. Its authors also wanted to ensure that you'd never have to write code to get a design to look precisely as you want it. That translates into providing you with all the design flexibility you are ever going to need.

As a result, all your design work is done on the front-end. You have total customization control over your layouts and full access to whatever design features or elements you require.

Plus, you'll be creating and viewing the results in real time.

And it's just going to get better. The 2.0 version of this WordPress page builder will gradually be released over the course of this year, and you can expect the already large customer base to increase by leaps and bounds as new and improved features surface.

Some clients don't really know what they want, and you need to lend them a helping hand. Others are quite creative and may present you with some real challenges. With this #1 website builder at your fingertips, you can easily take on either type with ease.

What Makes Elementor #1?

Elementor has only been on the market a little more than 2 years. It can be tough to achieve #1 status in that short a time, but that is exactly what this WordPress website builder has accomplished.

Where does this WordPress page builder excel? Home pages, landing pages, online shops, portfolios – you name it. There are no limits. You can switch themes at will to produce whatever you want. You can save your designs for future use, and access them whenever you need to.

You might be saying to yourself "That's good, but what are some of the features that made Elementor #1 on the market?"

Total Layout Customization

Total layout customization beats out "some" customization and "high" customization every time.

Instead of customizing to the point where you hit a brick wall, Elementor gives you extended control over section features like height, width, column size and position, padding, margins, and gaps. The result is an attractive cleanly structured design.

An Impressive Template Library

This WordPress page builder's beautiful design templates cover a wide variety of industries, niches, and special needs. You can work with one or several of these pre-designed templates.

You can also start from scratch and design a page yourself. When you do so, you can save it and add it to your library for later use. Your templates can also be imported or exported to share with other designers or used on other websites.

40 Cool Elements Come with the Package

This Elements package includes advanced widgets such as Google Maps and Carousel. The large selection of customizable widgets is guaranteed to add both flexibility and fun to your design work.

It is these widgets that enable you to create layouts down to the minutest of details without having to resort to code. How else could you adjust the spacing inside a progress bar without writing the code yourself?

Elementor also allows you to automatically include your preferred widgets and plugins, another area that allows you to avoid code.

A 110% Responsive Design?

That's not quite true, but this WordPress site builder's design team did put in a 110% effort to ensure 100% responsiveness. Since anything less than 100% was unacceptable, your pages will render flawlessly on any device.

Device preview screens, percentage-based element widths, and device visibility control make sure this happens, and you can see it for yourself.

The Perfect Platform for Web Designers and Web Developers

The great thing about Elementor is that it's praised by both web designers and web developers. Very few WordPress web builders can make that statement, and most of them ignore developers altogether.

Web designers like the freedom of being able to create pixel-perfect layouts without using CSS or coding. This WordPress site builder's collection of 800+ Google fonts, 400+ icons, and exquisite color palettes are also designer's favorites.

What web developers like is the freedom Elementor offers when customizing or extending a theme without constraints is required. If you're a web developer you'll certainly appreciate Elementor's first-rate code, custom CSS, SEO optimization features, and the ability to incorporate third party widgets.

Elementor 2.0: The Best Keeps Getting Better

One piece of very good news: Elementor 2.0 is completely compatible with Gutenberg. Although the Gutenberg editor is currently still in beta, it will make design efforts much easier for WordPress users than the present visual editor WordPress users have long complained about.

Elementor 2.0's features will be released gradually throughout the remainder of 2018. This will give users plenty of time to get acquainted with these new features as they are released, while resolving the WordPress issue.

The upcoming release schedule looks something like this:

• Blocks: pre-designed layouts that will enable you to mix and match Section designs more quickly.
• Header & Footer: a much awaited feature that will help you design a page in Elementor that includes the header and footer area.
• The ability to create single posts and archive pages.
• The ability to create customized search and 404 pages.
• Vastly improved design control for WooCommerce shops, product pages and other eCommerce pages.
• Role Manager: restrict client access to only change content, while preserving your website layout and design.
• Wide-ranging developer support including many new options for plugin and theme developers who create Elementor extensions, and an extensive resource and tutorial center.
• A brand-new process igniting dynamic content creation that includes an extensive integration of Advanced Custom Fields & Toolsets. It will blow your mind.

Why You Should Try The Best WordPress Website Builder Now

Elementor is not just another WordPress builder. It's not even just another premium WordPress builder. Elementor stands alone, and you can tell it is so by the effort the team has expended on solving many of the perplexing issues users have had to face with most theme builders.

Although it's the first completely free, open source page builder, and has garnered the #1 standing among WordPress website builders, the best is yet to come.

Check it out now, and you'll soon be building pages faster and easier with the aid of new and improved features, super customizability, and your favorite widgets right at your fingertips. And, did we remember to mention that you'll never have to write a line of code?

It's free, so you've got nothing to lose and a whole lot to gain. Start saving your designs, reuse and share them, and have fun in the process. Check out the best WordPress page builder!

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