Best of the web for Design and Web Development January 2024

• February 1st, 2024
• News

January 2024 marked the start of a new year and brought us a wealth of design tutorials. This month’s highlights include creating wavy text effects and using halftone effects in Illustrator. The latter part of this post is filled with diverse topics, ranging from SEO to the complex CSS border image property. We hope you find this month’s roundup enjoyable and informative.

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Design Tutorials

How to Make a Wavy Line Text Effect in Photoshop

Although this particular effect is much easier to make in Illustrator, we can also recreate it in Photoshop following a few simple steps and with the advantage that we can later add additional effects to make it more appealing.

How to Create Halftone Effects in Adobe Illustrator

Halftones are dots of varying sizes and spacing, put together to simulate a tone or gradient. Though it is a method connected to print, the aesthetics of it have made it popular to use even for digital content.

How to Create a Comic Book Text Effect in Illustrator

There are several ways to add texturing to your logo artwork in Photoshop, you could apply textures using brushes, add a texture image to a layer mask, apply a texture with a clipping mask, or even using a pattern overlay. All methods have their benefits, but my favourite technique is what I call the ‘knockout’ method. Using this technique to apply textures to your logos means you can easily layer up multiple textures non-destructively without it being permanently applied, so you can still edit and change the artwork if necessary.

The BEST Way to Apply Textures in Photoshop

There are several ways to add texturing to your logo artwork in Photoshop, you could apply textures using brushes, add a texture image to a layer mask, apply a texture with a clipping mask, or even using a pattern overlay. All methods have their benefits, but my favourite technique is what I call the ‘knockout’ method. Using this technique to apply textures to your logos means you can easily layer up multiple textures non-destructively without it being permanently applied, so you can still edit and change the artwork if necessary.

Web and design articles

Common Analytics Assumptions — Whiteboard Friday

Discover common analytics assumptions with Dana in this Whiteboard Friday. A must-watch for marketers seeking clarity in the ever-evolving landscape of analytics.

How to Easily Edit Files Over SSH with Nano

You occasionally may need to edit existing files or create new files on a remote server using a text-based terminal interface via secure shell (SSH). In this article, I’ll go over how to access a remote server via SSH and create or edit files with the Nano text editor, a standard text editor available on most Linux servers. It’s a process that’s simple for beginners: connect to the server, open Nano, edit the file, save the file, and exit.

The Complex But Awesome CSS border-image Property

The CSS border-image property is one of those properties you undoubtedly know exists but may not have ever reached for. Or maybe you have reached for it but found all of its slicing logic difficult and cumbersome.

Learn How to Code a Simple JavaScript Calendar and Datepicker

Building a JavaScript calendar is the best way to understand date functionalities in JavaScript. This tutorial will create a real-time calendar similar to the one in your digital devices. By the end, you’ll have something like this:

Team meeting strategies: How to plan, conduct, and follow-up

Product managers tend to spend the vast majority of their time in meetings. After all, most of the time, you have to collaborate with other people to get things done.

Is Blogging Still Relevant in 2024?

One question continues to intrigue content creators and Internet enthusiasts in 2024: is blogging still relevant? So much has changed since 1994 when Justin Hall, founding father of personal blogger, according to New York Times Magazine, created the world’s first blog called Links.net.