Best of the web for Design and Web Development October 2024

• October 30th, 2024
• News

Our monthly roundup: This month’s collection features excellent Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials, ranging from creating a “modern gradient logo” to a “3D chrome text effect.” The latter half of the post is packed with insightful web articles covering diverse topics, including SEO and penetration testing for WordPress websites.

Design Tutorials

Design a Modern Gradient Logo Using Adobe Illustrator’s Shape Builder Tool

Follow along with this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a colourful gradient logo design. I’ll show you how Illustrator’s shape builder tool makes it easy to construct the basic vector logo design, then we’ll apply a vibrant colour scheme using gradients.

How to work with color and textures in Photoshop

Want to know more about how to manage color and blend textures in Photoshop? Check out this short lesson on working with color and textures.

Easily Make a Twisted Sunburst in Illustrator

Sunburst effects are highly versatile visual elements commonly used in graphic design to create eye-catching backgrounds, add dynamism to illustrations, or give a retro touch to any composition. 

How to create a neotribal 3D chrome text effect

Learn what cybersigilism is and how to design a striking neotribal 3D chrome text effect using a combination of Photoshop, Blender, and Illustrator in this complete tutorial.

Web and design articles

How to Create a Dating Site (In 6 Steps)

In 2022, Tinder was the most downloaded dating app with over 64 million downloads. But the popularity of these sites makes it difficult for people to find their perfect match. Therefore, you might be wondering how to create a dating site that delivers faster results.

So, Your CMS Blew Up

Deciding on a content management system is a bit of a dance. You often have to deal with dozens, maybe hundreds, of pieces of existing content. You want it to be easy to manage, able to talk to other technology tools. 

setBigTimeout

In short: JavaScript’s setTimeout breaks after ~25 days. I made setBigTimeout, a silly module to get around this problem.

Announcing Deno 2

The web is humanity’s largest software platform — building for it means potentially reaching over 5 billion people.

A developer’s overview of Twenty Twenty-Five, the next default WordPress theme

Based on the idea that simple things should be intuitive while complex things should be possible, Twenty Twenty-Five is a flexible and easily extendable default WordPress theme built to help people tell stories, thanks to its many patterns and styles.

Come to the light-dark() Side

It is indeed a lot of work. But I’m here to tell you it’s now a lot simpler with modern CSS!

Penetration testing for WordPress websites

WordPress penetration testing is something of an art. While movies and TV series might make it seem easy, in reality, there’s a learning curve and a lot of trial-and-error involved. Do not let this discourage you, however. Cybersecurity is an interesting field and as WordPress site owners, a critical one.

Elevating Your SEO Career and Team in the AI Era — Whiteboard Friday

Discover how to thrive in an AI era with Travis Tallent’s SOAR framework. Learn to Streamline processes, Orchestrate teams, Automate tasks, and Reposition your focus for career success. Perfect for SEO pros looking to level up their skills and lead high-performing teams.