Mar 19, 2017

Web-Crunch Weekly - Issue #71

By Andy Leverenz • Issue #71 • View online

Hi again! Hope you’ve enjoyed your week. I’ve been busy producing content and working on some projects for my agency Couple of Creatives. If you are a business owner or know someone in need of marketing that just works get at me. Also be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for marketing tips and tricks you can utilize on your own. Thanks in advance!

Aside from what I’ve been up to, I hope you’ve been enjoying the new video content. It’s been a big switch for me to produce more video than written word on the blog but I’m truly enjoying it. The time it takes is a little mind-boggling but it’s worthwhile I think! I hope you agree.

Check the latest updates below. I’d love to hear feedback either on the blog, YouTube, and even directly.

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Latest Web-Crunch Articles

How to Design and Code a Product Landing Page - Part 15

In Part 15 I carry on adding the eCommerce functionality inside the product landing page. I make use of a stripe WordPress plugin which allows you to output a fully integrated and configurable Stripe form on your website.

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How to Design and Code a Product Landing Page - Part 16

In Part 16 of the “How to Design and Code a Product Landing Page” screencast series I finalize our styles for the footer area of the single page website.

This video features me styling the footer section of the page to match our design as best as possible. In it, I talk about adding globalized custom fields and icons for the social media links as well as give you a crash course on SVG.

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How to Code HTML to WordPress - Part 2

Part 2 of the “How to Code HTML to WordPress” screencast series is dedicated to optimizing the theme for development as well as the beginning of making the main nav dynamic.

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How to Code HTML to WordPress - Part 3

Part three of my screencast series “How to Code HTML to WordPress” I opt to get our Gulp task runner plugin as a result of some CSS snags that come up.

WordPress unfortunately generates some mark up when using it’s built in methods and functions. While these are configurable, they sometimes work against your workflow. I found this out first hand in Part 2 and decide I better get the Gulp.js the original author of the HTML theme created rolling.

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Should You Go To Art School?

Deciding to go to art school has evolved me into the designer and developer I am today. I am both grateful and a little turned off.

One of the hardest decisions to make is deciding what you want to do as a career in your lifetime. You only live once so this decision is huge and it has to count.

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Latest News & Articles

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine is changing: a new design, a new layout, a new technical stack, a new printed magazine, a new Smashing Membership, and the same good ol’ obsession with quality content. Here’s a sneak preview of what’s coming up.

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Why chatbots fail

A brief story on why chatbots fail, and what you can do as a designer to
improve the user experience.

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The Beauty Of Imperfection In Interface Design – Smashing Magazine

The best interface design is the one that not only looks and feels good, but also responds elegantly to variable and unpredictable conditions

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Sketch 43 is coming to town with a new game. An open file format!

Sketch 43 will be out in a few weeks, and it will fundamentally change how the design tools game will be played out in the coming years. “enables more powerful integrations for third-party developers…

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Weekly Inspiration and Resources

Re: Brand | Happy Cog

We’re small. None of us work in isolation. Everything is dependent upon everything else — and everyone is dependent upon everyone else. So here we are.

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Waffle Grid System

An easy to use flexbox grid system. Made by @lucasgruwez

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Fonts from the Future 🚀⚡️ | Alphabettes

Fasten your seat belt and strap on your mind reading helmet, Alphabettes reports to you from the future with a collection of potentially visionary, occasionally dystopian, and totally unfounded predictions for the type industry, and greater humanity, in the 22nd century.

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Notable Tutorials

The Art Of Calligraphy: Getting Started And Lessons Learned

Typography is a primary element of composition. Being a designer, I pay a lot of attention to its quality. Operating Photoshop is easy for me; however, to level up my skills, I am always learning to work with letters, using my hands, without any computer programs.

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HTML APIs: What They Are And How To Design A Good One

As JavaScript developers, we often forget that not everyone has the same knowledge as us. It’s called the curse of knowledge: When we’re an expert on something, we cannot remember how confused we felt as newbies. We overestimate what people will find easy.

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