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Douglas Crockford famously declared browsers to be “the most hostile software engineering environment imaginable,” and that wasn’t hyperbole. Ensuring that our websites work across a myriad of different devices, screen sizes and browsers our users depend on to access the web is a tall order, but it’s necessary.
If our websites don’t enable users to accomplish the key tasks they come to do, we’ve failed them. We should do everything in our power to ensure our websites function under even the harshest of scenarios, but at the same, we can’t expect our users to have the exact same experience in every browser, on every device.
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For 2016 Black Friday, we’ve selected only the top solutions on the market, regarding web tools and services. This showcase contains 16 companies, the best of the best: WordPress themes, Cross-browser testing services, Lead capture forms and many more.
You can safely try these solutions and enjoy winning new projects. Go for every single one, you will be more than happy!
BeTheme is the most appreciated WordPress theme on the market, with almost 50,000 sales. This premium theme is multi-purpose, fully responsive, retina ready and it has a powerful page design builder that can be easily used by persons with no-coding skills and experience. This is only a small part of all the awesome features that are packed with this amazing premium template.
BeTheme includes 230 pre-built websites, that can be installed with just one click. Having a brilliant, good looking website is easier than ever. Install the website you like and need and replace the content with yours. Using the drag-and-drop Muffin page builder, which is included in the theme, you can add lots of things. If you still need to make things, there are 200 shortcodes at your disposal and a full guide to using them. In just a few words, BeTheme is a single theme, but a complete solution.
Always keep in mind that their support is literally outstanding, these guys want to help every person and they do it in a professional way.
Get BeTheme for just $ 59 for the standard license!
Browserling is the perfect tool for cross-browser testing. What everybody likes about it is that you can get a real browser in less than 5 seconds. That’s a browser running on a real, remote computer. The way it works is Browserling built technology that sends browsers to your browser. Instead of installing all the browsers yourself, you can just use their service to get access to any browser on any platform.
With Browserling testing websites in all Internet Explorer versions, Androids, Windows systems and Mac OS becomes a piece of cake. Everyone can do it quickly. You won’t need to install virtual machines or buy more computers to perform cross-browser tests. Browserling is packed with a lot of features and I mean it. The features include screenshots, bug hunter (screenshot annotation and reporting tool), local testing through secure SSH tunnels, browser extensions, browser bookmarklets and browser bookmarks, responsive testing, resolution changing, recording and sharing screen, and mobile browsers. Browserling is a high quality browser testing service.
They have a free plan to try their service for 3 minute sessions (you’ve to wait in a queue with other free users to use it again.) And they have cheap developer plans and team plans. Only today for Black Friday they have prepared a 33% discount with the coupon BFLING2016. Don’t wait, get their offer now!
Most companies, freelancers, and just guys focus on increasing the traffic to their website but they don’t have to stop here. After they are visiting your website, they walk away without buying or subscribing. Fortunately, OptinMonster is here to help. It’s the leading generation software that helps you easily build forms and show them at the right moment, in the right place, to the right people. Using these forms you will convert abandoning visitors into customers and subscribers.
There are more than 300,000 websites using OptinMonster, including big names like Yahoo! Small Business, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. Everybody should use it, especially as there is no need for any coding skills or experience and the stakes are really high.
OptinMonster is packed with many awesome features that you should check on their website. If paid annually, you are getting a 25% discount and the monthly fee is just $ 9 for their first plan. Get started!
Taking fast a quality website screenshot is really easy. Using Snapito, that is free of charge for the moment, you can quickly take the picture in 3 steps : enter the website address, hit Snap and download the photo. If needed, before download, you can use their built-in editor to modify the picture. This editor works excellently and has lots of features. Keep in mind that to use Snapito, you don’t need to install a browser extension or sign up for the service. In the early part of 2017, they will launch LIVE API services which at this point aren’t available.
If you need automated web page screenshots, go to the well-known service named ShrinkTheWeb, the guys who made Snapito. Give it a try!
Themify has one of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday special offers. They are giving a 50% discount off all WordPress themes, plugins, and Club Memberships, except the Lifetime Master club, by using the special coupon BLACKFRIDAY. Another offer consists of a discount of $ 150 for the Lifetime Master club, using code BLACKFRIDAYLIFE. The cost will be just $ 249 and it will give you lifetime access to all their products, support, and updates.
Even more, Themify have launched a giveaway of 10 Master Club memberships that are giving access to all their products, including themes, plugins, add-ons and PSD files. All these special deals are available from today until Cyber Monday, in 3 days. Take these deals!
uCoz is a powerful, fully-fledged website builder that allows you to create your unique online presence, for free. The system has something for everyone. Beginners are offered ready-to-use templates and preconfigured blocks, while the pros can get under the hood and customize a website via code. With so many responsive templates, modules, apps, and robust features, going online has never been easier!
Create your unique online identity in minutes with the uKit website builder. Choose from 100s of beautiful templates, customize your website’s look and feel, add content and social media pages, connect a custom domain, tweak SEO, and when ready hit the Publish button to go live. No coding skills required. Try it today for free, it’s easy!
Simbla website builder has a great experience with their fully responsive website builder, that is using Bootstrap3 cutting edge technology. They have a high number of templates to get started easily and also a free plan with hosting included. Build your website with Simbla!
If you are not using time tracking software, you should start! actiTIME is flexible and easily customizable for any company’s requirements and works for any business of any size with any budget. Evaluate performance, calculate cost of work, issue invoices for your clients and deliver your projects on time. Start growing your business right now!
Imagine a hard working team that delivers beautiful WordPress free and premium themes. This is Colorlib. They are always willing to help, that’s why they even wrote a detailed tutorial for beginners about how to create a WordPress website. You should read it!
At Simunity icon maker, you will find a free icon builder, free HTML responsive templates, and free images. These guys rock the world with their offers. You can even use the icons in your commercial projects and templates that you sell if you have such a service. Try them!
You don’t need to be a seasoned webmaster to add social network buttons and counters to your website. With the uSocial project, it will take you 2 minutes, while an easy-to-use builder will let you customize the buttons’ appearance to fit them into any design. The buttons can be individually fine-tuned for mobile devices and are automatically adjusted to suit any screen size. Create an account and view statistics to learn how the buttons are used on your website.
Are you looking for a really useful WordPress plugin for building charts, tables, and graphs? If yes, wpDataTables is the best available solution on the market. This premium plugin has a really high number of features, well described in their documentation and videos. These guys made an excellent job with this product. Give it a try!
TheSquid.Ink can and will offer you outstanding, handcrafted line icons that will improve your website and projects. Now comes the best part, there is a free package of 50 icons or for just $ 45, you can get 2000 icons that can be used in an unlimited number of projects.
When talking about Xfive, the first words that come into our heads are the years of experience and the professional team they have. They can deliver front and back-end development but also WordPress development and many more useful things. They work with all types of companies, small or big. Some of their clients are eBay and Microsoft, so they can really do literally anything. Contact XFive and start your project!
Invoices are more important than you may think. Having a professional invoice is like having a nice business card. InvoiceNinja can do that for you and offer at the same time many useful features for any company, small or big. Try their services!
It was a pleasure for us to do the research to find out which are the real best 16 web tools and services. Everybody wants to see and use awesome features, functionalities and the help of support teams. That is what this showcase is about.
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While I was away on vacation, the web development community stayed consistent, and since I’ve been back, the same well-known, long-running discussions about JavaScript, frameworks, and progressive enhancement are full on again.
But on the other hand, we also see great new solutions for CSS, simple but efficient JavaScript libraries, and brave people sharing their personal stories from which we all can learn a lot.
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Are home page carousels actually helpful to users? Or are they simply popular because they are an easy tool for solving internal discussions in large organizations about who gets to put their banner on the home page?
The short answer is that home page carousels can work, but in practice the vast majority of implementations perform poorly with end users.
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What a week! Some people were debating over our npm workflows and security attacks (and sadly not just virtual social engineering ones but real ones in Brussels), we’ve also seen some great new articles that feature the better parts of our community and society. I’m happy to share them with you over this longer Easter-weekend. Cheers!
iOS9.3 and OS X 10.11.4 is finally being delivered to users, and with it, Safari 9.1 is out with <picture> element support, CSS Custom Properties, will-change property, unset value and unprefixed filter.
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Few professions exist these days in which a smartphone, tablet, or laptop computer isn’t required. Folks who only a few years ago shunned the thought of swiping screens and sending text messages are now engaged in a mobile network and web activity on a daily basis. Whether you’re a carpenter, designer, doctor, lawyer, marketer, programmer or plumber, there’s a smart device in your possession used frequently, no doubt about it.
With that said, many of us use these devices without putting much thought into whether or not we’re doing it the right way. While there is no true “right” choice covering every career path, each profession, and business venture has an individual set of needs and responsibilities, of which the right combination of mobile tech variables can help make easier to accomplish.
Here are the top tips for using smart devices for work:
Mobile devices, no matter how fancy and state-of-the-art, are only as good as the applications installed on them. Otherwise, it’s just a really expensive phone or email machine. Which apps are the right ones to install?
If the business depends on collaborative efforts there are a variety of team-focused apps which can be used. Additionally, there are apps suited for just about every enterprise, things like inventory trackers, tax assistants, and user-friendly mobile versions of spreadsheet software.
Data security is, of course, on the table whenever we’re talking about web-enabled devices used in a business setting. Comprehensive cloud-based security for smartphones and tablets is highly recommended.
Furthermore, physical protection of the devices themselves is important. Lacking the means to access data and communicate properly, even for a day, can set a small company back. Investing in tempered glass screen protector kits for smartphones and tablets can be a business saver in the event the device is dropped or otherwise put through the ringer.
It may seem like all the major service providers offer the same basic packages, but that’s from the individual plan perspective. Truth be told, when business plans are part of the deal the offers start to get a little better.
The problem is sorting which business phone plan is best for your company. It’s safe to say most tech-based enterprises are dependent on data more than minutes, but a law practice, for example, may require the opposite. Look over your past months’ usage records to get a sense of what’s needed. Check around with every carrier and don’t be afraid to play hardball. They want your business–let them earn it.
There’s no question: not all smart devices are created equal. The less expensive ones tend to have more problems in the long run, or don’t even make it in the long run. The pricier ones are, well, pricey, but are probably going to get more mileage.
However, not every company needs a fleet of powerful tablets and smartphones in the first place. For instance, a graphic design company may want employees to have the means to capture inspiration in the field and manipulate it on the go, but aren’t concerned with word processing software and other standard apps on the usual business tablet option.
It’s hard to imagine a functioning business pulling it off without mobile devices. Laptops, smartphones, and tablet computers are key to rapid fire results and around the clock control of brand and business. With that said not every business needs the same set of devices and software. It depends on company goals and obligations, as well as budget. Regardless, smart devices are swiftly becoming core parts of any modern enterprise.
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Smashing Magazine is known for lengthy, comprehensive articles. But what about something different for a change? What about shorter, concise pieces with useful tips that you could easily read over a short coffee break? As an experiment, this is one of the shorter “Quick Tips”-kind-of articles — shorter posts prepared and edited by our editorial team. What do you think? Let us know in the comments! —Ed.
The Internet is the foundation of our craft. But what do we actually know about its underlying technology? How do DNS, networks and HTTPS work? What happens in the browser when we type a URL in the address bar?
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The past few months have been challenging for me. I have taken on a host of new responsibilities at work and juggling that added workload has proven to be difficult.
Like many web professionals, my first instinct was to work longer hours – to come into the office early, stay late, and to give up some of my weekend time. While this certainly helped me get more work done, I quickly realized it was not something I could sustain without eventually burning out. I knew that if this was going to work, I had to find a way to be more productive within the hours I had available to me.
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