Category Archives: Design

How to create an App mockup with Figma – a tutorial

A new tutorial is available which introduces steps to create an App mockup using Figma. Figma is an online prototyping tool which can be used to design Apps and websites. This tutorial introduces the basics of prototyping an app with Figma. It quickly ‘touches’ all necessary steps without going into too much detail.  You can … Continue reading How to create an App mockup with Figma – a tutorial

Create a gallery with a custom lightbox

Since the addition of the blocks editor in WordPress, you can add a Lightbox to a gallery. However, the information in this article is still relevant if you would like to add you own Lightbox. Learn to create a gallery with a lightbox which allows you to click the image and view it in an … Continue reading Create a gallery with a custom lightbox

Restyle any website – the Twitter case

Update: there is an easier solution: use a browser extension. Twitter recently changed the interface of its website completely. I did not like it really and decided to do something about it. I installed the Chrome extension “User-CSS” which can ‘inject’ any CSS code for a site. I changed the columns widths to make more … Continue reading Restyle any website – the Twitter case

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Design guidelines for Web Development

This is a a collection of links and thoughts about web design which tries to give some guidelines. It is in no way meant to be complete. First, consider web page layout Which part of the web page is visible? (scroll?) What viewport size(s)? Try aiming at least: Small (under 600px), Medium (600px – 900px) … Continue reading Design guidelines for Web Development

Famous paintings of dutch landscapes

Just because it is beautiful. Based on a standard WordPress gallery inside a regular Blog-post, in which we inserted the Isotope gallery together with the Strip-lightbox. Checkout this page if you want to learn how to do this. The complete piece of code included in this post is: <!– load isotope: –> <script src=”https://unpkg.com/isotope-layout@3.0/dist/isotope.pkgd.min.js”></script> <!– … Continue reading Famous paintings of dutch landscapes

Turn a standard WordPress Gallery into an isotope Gallery

Update: 30/09/2019 Isotope is a nice jQuery plugin to build galleries with. With just a little coding you can turn a standard WordPress gallery into a nice responsive isotope-gallery. No WordPress-plugins needed. Start by adding a Gallery: when editing a Page (or Post), add a Gallery block, pick your images, press the button ‘Create a … Continue reading Turn a standard WordPress Gallery into an isotope Gallery