Best of the web for Design and Web Development March 2023

• March 30th, 2023
• News

As we come to the end of March, we’re excited to round up some of the best design tutorials that were created this month. Whether you’re interested in Photoshop or Illustrator, there’s something for everyone. For starters, you can learn how to create a glass photo effect, or try your hand at a chrome text effect. But that’s not all! We’ve also got a bunch of web and design articles for you to check out, including “6 CSS snippets every front-end developer should know in 2023” and “Laravel vs WordPress: A Head-to-Head Comparison”. We really enjoyed putting this post together, and we think you’ll enjoy reading it too. So sit back, relax, and soak up all the design knowledge that March has to offer!

Design tutorials

How to Create a Fall Text Effect in Illustrator

In this Illustrator text effects tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a leaf brush in Illustrator and how to create a fall text effect. For starters, you’ll learn how to create four different leaf designs from the group up. Then, you’ll learn how to turn them into leaf brushes.

How to Make an 80’s Live Text Effect in Photoshop

It will show you how you can make a 80’s text effect you can edit even after the effect is finished. And, this method will give you the ability to change the reflective chrome colors using only the default Photoshop tools and effects.

How to Design an Elvis Movie Poster

In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to design an Elvis movie poster using Adobe Photoshop. We’ll cover everything from how to add a glitter effect in Photoshop to how to add a bling effect in Photoshop that will make your poster shine. So, let’s get started and learn how to design an Elvis movie poster!

How to Fake a Window Reflection in Photoshop

There are many different methods to achieve the same results in Photoshop and faking a window reflection over a normal photo is no exception. You can use different filters, layer blending modes, and even just change the opacity of a layer to achieve a reflection effect. Today, I will show a technique that allows you to easily change both the main image and the reflection even after the effect is made and with the freedom to adjust how much of the reflection you see and how sharp you want that reflection to be.

Web development and Design articles

Are you making these five mistakes when writing alt text?

There are many benefits to writing alt text for images, especially from accessibility and legal standpoints.

Create and download text files using JavaScript

There are a couple of projects of mine where I needed to create and download text/JSON files using JavaScript. For instance, in LinkSnatch, I needed a way to export the bookmarks as a JSON file or in my Notepad app, I needed a way to export the notes as a text file.

5 Mistakes I Made When Starting My First React Project

You know what it’s like to pick up a new language or framework. Sometimes there’s great documentation to help you find your way through it. But even the best documentation doesn’t cover absolutely everything. And when you work with something that’s new, you’re bound to find a problem that doesn’t have a written solution.

“Design first, then build”: let’s bury this myth forevermore

Since, seemingly, the beginning of the time, pretty much every startup founder has adhered to an enduring cliche of product development: waiting to build their new mobile or web app after all the mockups are ready. Bottom line: this is wrong. 

6 CSS snippets every front-end developer should know in 2023

Toolbelt worthy, powerful, and stable CSS you can use today.

The ROI of Digital Accessibility

In a recent AudioEye survey of 500 business leaders and web professionals, 70% said that “cost” was their main concern when it came to digital accessibility. Many of the respondents also thought they would have to rebuild their website from the ground up in order to deliver an accessible browsing experience.

What Leonardo Da Vinci Can Teach Us About Web Design

erhaps more than any other person in history, Leonardo da Vinci showed the kind of magic that can happen in the overlap between art and science, where much of web development lives. His methods and outlooks are just as applicable to the web today as they were in Renaissance Italy.

Laravel vs WordPress: A Head-to-Head Comparison

When developing a web application, choosing the right technology for the project has always been key. If you make the wrong decision, developing the project will be far more complex than it should be.