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5 Chrome Extensions that Every Developers Should Have

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5 Chrome Extensions that Every Developers Should Have

As a developer, are you working efficiently? Today, there are many extensions in Google Chrome that you can use to optimize your work. These extensions will enable you to do your job faster and efficiently. So, whatever your specialties are, whether you are in mobile development or web development, you will need to know these extensions.

  1. Responsive Web Design Tester

Forget those old days where you are testing your responsive design manually since now you can have a great chrome extension of a responsive web design tester for getting a quick look how your website behaves in different browsers and devices. In fact, you can figure it out easily by only clicking the right mouse button, and then there will be many options of devices for you to choose.

  1. ColorPick Eyedropper

Eyedropper is one of design tools that many designers usually use for everyday work and now you can have eyedropper integrate in your Google toolbar. ColorPick Eyedropper is a simple color picker tool that allows you to select color values from any web page without the need to open Photoshop, you can do it by simply clicking the colorPick icon in your Google toolbar and select your targeted image. Easier and faster!

  1. CSSViewer

CSSViewer is another helpful tool, especially for web designer since it can be used to show important information related with style sheet. If you are used to figure it out by clicking to your right mouse button and choose ‘inspect’ to display the style sheet information, now you can install CSSViewer and get a neat display of style sheet information just by pointing out on every feature on the web.

  1. Wappalyzer

Works similarly with its competitor, Ghostery, the Wappalyzer Chrome extension allows you to identify software that is installed on any particular website. You can disclosure many things, such as technologies and. Content management system, eCommerce platforms, web servers, JavaScript frameworks and installed analytics tools.

  1. Usersnap

No more wasting time finding bug in your web! With this chrome extension you can know if there is any point and click issue reporting tracking bugs through its screenshots and all created screenshots are directly stored in your project dashboard.

3 Web Design Trends in 2016 that You Should Be Careful About

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Like every trend, web design trend always comes and goes. Therefore, if you are web designer keeping up to date is the best solution to stay successful in this industry, so you can understand what is good and what is bad for your design. Below are 3 web design trends that you shouldn’t use in 2016, you can read this material to avoid you from any harmful mistake.

  1. Complex Typography

You may find that having more multiple typefaces is a good idea, while the fact is that sometimes using more than two multiple typefaces in your website will create a confusing and cluttered looking site, which reduces legibility and readability. However, at some point you still can use more than two typefaces in order to get a good effect.

In addition, another important point that you should remember related with fronts is about its spacing. A good spacing will work well for clarity. Below are some more tips related with typography that you can use:

  • Experiment with fonts. Aim for clean and clear presentation that also reflects the brand’s visual style.
  • Use fonts and typefaces that complement each other or are contrast enough to provide interesting color. In addition, you need to allow for psychological level when selecting the font/typeface as believe it or not certain color and certain type of typography will bring different emotions and feelings, for instance, a serif brings an air of formality, a sans-serif feels reliable and a script can be haughty.
  1. Put Everything Under a Hamburger Menu

In order to simplifying the navigation, designers keep hiding all of icon under a hamburger menu whether it is in desktop or in mobile devices. It is understandable that many designers will prefer to hide it under the hamburger menu just to make your site cleaner and sleeker. However, this also increases the risk of discoverability.

  1. Parallax Scrolling

Recently, parallax scrolling is one of the most favorable sites that allow the foreground and background content to scroll at different speeds which cause an illusion of depth. However, it is still debatable if it produces a good UX.

  • Bad for SEO

Since having parallax scrolling in your page will result in one page optimization, so search engines will only have a little way of content that can be crawled by the search engines. This is especially true as text tends to be embedded in graphics.

  • Can Reduce Performance

Moreover, due to its heavy use of graphics and JavaScript, the page will require longer time to load the image and this will cause more trouble for mobile users.

  • Can Affect Users Negatively

Some people may find that parallax site is more fun than the non-parallax sites, but some other people experience a motion sickness and significant usability issues toward parallax sites.

3 Less Known Factors That Could Affect Your Website UX

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5 less known factors that could affect your website UX

There are many definitions of UX (user experience) given by various experts, but we can simply define it as overall experience felt by users to company’s product or services. In line with the growing of websites’ industries is laying much stress on creating best user experience for the users. In fact, UX is an important factor that is responsible for overall website success or in other words, it can be said that UX may be defined as how a person feels after using a product or service. Due to this, you can also considering UX on your website as it can bring good benefits to your website, through SEO service or website development.

Here are something needs to be taken care of related to UX which is mostly quite neglected:

  1. Do not Ask for Much Information

Customers hate to fill long forms before they buy a product or service. Therefore, you should put attention to the whole process and taken care of it, so that the audience can visit your site with ease as asking too much information too early will make you lose fifty percent of your customers.

  1. Importance of ONPage work

Your ONPAGE also plays big contribution to the success of your UX. Can you imagine how does your audience feel when they find that they are redirected to another page that is not related to what they search? Therefore, if you should create an ONPAGE, please do it sensibly, so you will get a good effect instead of bad one.

  1. Giving High Security to Users on Your Portal

Another important issue related to UX is about security, for example, if you serve your visitor with payment gateway, please be careful with their sensitive information. As they put their trust in you and no one wants to share their information with anyone else.