Cheat Sheets – DesArt Lab

Facebook Image Sizes Guide

November 11, 2015 Cheat Sheets

There are very few social networks that can compete with Facebook in terms of popularity and advertising possibilities. Therefore, it’s only natural that overwhelming majority of businesses that have or even don’t have digital presence want to exploit a magnificent opportunity of advertising via Facebook. Although it’s not cheap, if you play your cards right, your investment will pay off in spades. All that’s required from you (apart from payment for the advertisements) is skillful representation of strong points of your business, which must also be the most relevant features of your business for the audience you’re targeting. In order to organize an advertisement like that you will most certainly need a vivid and engaging photo or image that will entice people to visit your website (by the way make sure it’s responsive or mobile-friendly – it’s a must if you want to build a successful marketing campaign). This Facebook Image Sizes Guide will help you choose correctly the right images for advertisements.

CMS Comparison Chart: WordPress, Drupal and Joomla

November 9, 2015 Cheat Sheets

CMS (Content Management Systems) are applications that allow organizing, updating, changing, deleting and adding content. They are the most frequently used applications for running blogs, business card and e-commerce websites. One of the greatest advantages of CMS is that they allow managing the workflow in the most collaborative and productive environment, which is why they are also frequently used by marketing and corporate websites. At the moment, the most widespread and most frequently used CMS are WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. They have appeared approximately at the same time – Drupal in 2001, WordPress and Joomla in 2003, but vary in complexity and technical background, necessary for their management. While WordPress requires very little technical background and can be considered intuitive, Drupal, which provides more possibilities for plugins addition, is also much more demanding in terms of technical preparedness of the staff. This comparison chart will help you determine, which CMS is the most suitable for your website and corresponds to your resources.

WordPress Mega Cheat Sheet

November 4, 2015 Cheat Sheets, Design

WordPress is the most popular and most widely used Content Management System. It’s free, open-source and very easy to manage. WordPress is based on PHP and MySQL. One of its greatest advantages is its relative scalability, which is achieved with the help of corresponding plugins. At the moment there exist over 40 000 plugins that help to expand the possibilities of your blog or website. These plugins can be easily used for simple and complex tasks alike. For example, you can optimize your website for SEO with plugin analyzing the SEO-friendliness of your pages. You can even receive corresponding recommendations on what to update in order to get the best results for SEO. All in all, it’s clear that websites or blogs created on WordPress possess multitude of options, can be expanded if needed, can boast a modern and stunning look and are easily deployed on server. Nowadays, knowledge of WordPress is crucial for designing cutting-edge and affordable website, which is why this WordPress Cheat Sheet will help you easily learn its basics!

Image Formats Mega Cheat Sheet

October 30, 2015 Cheat Sheets

It’s not a secret that visual content is highly important, especially in terms of marketing. People like bright and unusual images, be it the Hero themes or simply engaging and interesting photos. We all love eye-candies and they’re the main driving force of sales and conversion. Image can communicate something that a thousand word won’t be able to describe. Nevertheless, not all websites and browsers support all types of images. For example, IE6 doesn’t support PNG images. TIFF images are used mainly in printing of highly qualitative digital photography. Therefore, in order to create optimal content for your purposes you need to have a good understanding of all image formats. This Image Formats Mega Cheat Sheet will help you get a better grasp on how and where to use images, be it on your website or use them for any other purpose.

jQuery Mega Cheat Sheet

October 28, 2015 Cheat Sheets

At the moment, jQuery can be considered the most popular free cross-platform JavaScript library. It’s an open-source software, developed to facilitate client-side scripting. This library is a perfect software for creation of dynamic and fluid web apps and pages. It provides opportunities to develop plug-ins, create animations and widgets. One of the greatest advantages of jQuery is that it’s extensible, which means that it allows nearly unlimited opportunities for adding events, elements and methods. Another important advantage is the fact that this toolkit eliminates cross-browser inconsistencies, greatly facilitating the work of the UI across various browsers. Developers prefer to use jQuery because it allows full separation of JavaScript code and HTML markup. Debates on whether designers should or should not know the basics of programming are still on, meanwhile why don’t you do yourself a favor and learn the main principles of jQuery?! We promise that you won’t regret it! This jQuery Mega Cheat Sheet will definitely help you with that.

CSS3 Mega Cheat Sheet

October 22, 2015 Cheat Sheets, CSS3

CSS3 is a style sheet language and a magnificent tool, used for creating presentations of the documents, written in a markup language. If website design isn’t semantically accurate CSS3 helps to overcome this problem and get a good ranking. This language also helps designers to create pages, which are compatible with the majority of browsers, even with those you may deem obsolete. It also allows creating engaging elements in web design without additional efforts. For example, you can add text shadow to the page elements, using simple codes. Overall, it’s a multifunctional, yet very simple and comprehensive language. If you are a proactive designer you should definitely learn it and use in in your work, alongside with HTML5. Below you’ll find a cheat sheet with useful CSS3 features.

HTML5 Mega Cheat Sheet

October 18, 2015 Cheat Sheets, HTML5 Design

HTML5 is a markup language, used for creation of web content with the help of the code. People, preferring proactive approach consider it the replacement of Adobe Flash. And it’s fair to say that the responsiveness, speed and scriptable rendering of 2D shapes make HTML5 a great instrument in the hand of the skillful designer. If you want to keep up with the times, you need to learn the basics of HTML5. This Mega Cheat Sheet will provide better insights in HTML5 coding and facilitate your work!