Best of the web for Design and Web Development August 2022

• September 1st, 2022
• News

In our normal monthly tradition we are rounding the month of August up capturing some great of the web and design blog posts published online this month. The post is split into two parts jam packed with design tutorials from how to create a Matrix photo effect to a Moroccan Pattern in illustrator. The second half includes some great web articles “everything you need to know about Figma” to “how to create a sortable table using JS”.

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Design tutorials

How to Make a Moroccan Pattern in Illustrator

In this Moroccan tile pattern tutorial, you’ll learn the step-by-step process of how to make a pattern in Illustrator. We will be making a blue Moroccan pattern swatch using Adobe Illustrator.  

Free papercut effect for Photoshop

Giving art a three-dimensional look is as easy as cut-and-paste.

How To Create Abstract Polyscape Art in Photoshop

It’s a combination of polygon shapes and landscape or cityscape photographs, and sometimes even pictures of outer-space! These photos are then cut and pasted into a digital collage, using Photoshop’s editing tools rather than scissors and glue.

How to Create an Artistic Painting Effect in Affinity Photo

we’ll be taking a look at how to create artistic painting effects in Affinity Photo. Affinity Photo may not have any dedicated artist effect filters, but it has more than enough amazing built-in tools that let you turn a photo into a painting or drawing.

Design Urban City with “The Matrix” Movie Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn to how to design Urban City with “The Matrix” movie effect. This is an intermediate level tutorial.

Web and Design articles

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores

Identify, compare, analyze and fix your Core Web Vitals scores to boost web performance of your sites. These tools will help you to do just that.

The Importance of Website Logs

Have you ever looked at your server or website logs and realized that they make absolutely no sense to you? Or thought that logs just seem to take up a lot of valuable server space? Perhaps they failed to provide clear insights into what happened in the first place?

How to Create a Sortable HTML Table with JavaScript

When displaying data on a website, it’s important to provide features that make it easier for users to navigate through the data. One of such features is the ability to sort data.

What is the definition of done? Guide for agile teams with examples

In today’s fast-paced world, where innovations abound and technologies evolve daily, product development teams must constantly adapt to keep up. That means the organization must also embrace agile principles from top to bottom to nurture momentum.

outline is your friend

If you open a plain HTML document with no CSS and you focus an interactive element like a button, link, or textarea, you’ll see that by default browsers use the outline property to highlight these elements.

Everything Developers Must Know About Figma

Christine highlights some of Figma’s features and possibilities to help you build a design that aligns with code as much as needed and improve your team work.