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10+ Best Desktop Publishing Software (2023)

Just Creative

Discover the best desktop publishing software in 2023. Desktop publishing software is used to create visual communications, such as brochures, business cards, greeting cards, posters, web pages for professional or personal printing online or on-screen. Affinity Publisher Affinity Publisher. Learn More 2.

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Exploring Web Development History with Richard MacManus

SpeckyBoy

The technologies web designers use today all had to start somewhere. A writer and technology journalist, his latest project, Web Development History , is all about chronicling the history of the internet from a developer’s perspective. How and when did you get started in web design? So, I haven’t yet decided.

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WordPress Turns 20: Its Secrets of Success

SpeckyBoy

Let’s pretend we’re back in the year 2003. Adopting an open-source ethos and GPL licensing may have been risky in 2003. The mission to “ democratize publishing ” has held strong. Web designers can use it to make a living. You and I are sitting in a coffee shop. It sounds pretty good, right?

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Virtually unpopular: lessons From Second Life

UX Collective

If you haven’t heard of it, Second Life was (and still is) a multiplayer virtual world that launched in 2003. Fast forward to me, a web designer (this was the closest I ever got to entomology) in the early 2000s. I entered the platform without much understanding of it, except for what I had heard in the media.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine Graphics

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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5 Common WordPress Myths Debunked

Speckyboy Design Magazine

And because anyone can publish whatever they like, it can be difficult to tell fiction from the truth. It’s true that Matt Mullenweg co-founded WordPress way back in 2003. So much depends on how web designers choose to market and sell services. It’s also really effective at spreading various falsehoods. Shocking, right?

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Webwaste

A List Apart

Between 2003 and 2019, the average webpage weight grew from about 100 KB to about 4 MB. However, from the code to the content, everything about Web design has become super-bloated and super-polluting. Publishing is an addiction. Well, the Web let the book out. In 2019, there were estimated to be 1.7 The results? “In

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