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Web development is a fast ever-changing industry. To stay in the loop, you have to constantly stay informed with the latest and greatest, and one of the best way to do this is by subscribing to a podcast. Podcast or Podcasting is a fascinating medium to get information and news especially for times like when you’re commuting to the office or having a run at the gym.
Some channels may come in audio only while others with videos. Since it is common to have a smartphone or tablet with us, enjoying a podcast is real easy these days. You just need to obtain the RSS URL and add it to the app and the app will grab the latest episode for you. Some podcasts are also available on iTunes. Alternatively, you can use:
Recommended Reading: Beginner’s Guide To Setting Up Your Own Podcasts
Now that you have your means, let’s check out the content, shall we? Here are the podcast channels to subscribe to to stay in the game as a web designer.
This podcast is hosted by Ethan Marcotte – the developer who coined the term Responsive Web Design – and Karen McGrane. At the time of this writing there are 14 episodes released. On each episode Ethan and Karen interview designers and developers who implement responsive web design on notable company websites such as Marriot, Virgin, and Starbucks. You can dig into the guest’s experiences and the challenges of implementing responsive design for corporate sites.
One of the most popular web design podcasts, hosted by Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks and Dave of Paravel, ShopTalk invites an expert in various fields to talk to for each episode. They currently have more than 100 episodes already, and counting, and podcast releases are on a weekly basis.
The Web Ahead is a podcast hosted by Jen Simmons. The podcast is largely an interview of invited experts – like Paul Irish, Eric Meyer, and Ethan Marcotte – to share their thoughts on a variety of subjects including HTML5, Web Standards, and Responsive Web Design. Listeners get a new release every week, and each episode is on average an hour long.
Paul Boag a well-respected name in the web design industry. He is an author who has released a number of bestselling books and is a founder of the UK-based design agency, Headscape. Boagworld has been on air since 2011 with more than 100 episode, making it one of the longest-running podcast channels in the industry. You can subscribe to Boagworld through RSS or through iTunes.
Giovanni DiFeterici and Gene Crawford are the guy behind Drafts, the show that talks about many things online including web design trends, concepts, web standards, and technicalities about crafting websites. The 15-minute episodes keep things short and sweet. One of my favorite episodes of this show is Native vs. Web, which touches on the pros and cons of using native platform code (Objective-C for iOS or Java for Android) vs using HTML/CSS when creating a mobile application.
Featuring Matt McInerney, Andy Mangold, and Dan Auer, this podcast discusses broadly about design fundamentals and principles. They have great material for web designers and episodes come out on a weekly basis. You can subscribe through iTunes, RSS, or follow their SoundCloud channel to enjoy the show.
User Interface Engineering (UIE) is a consulting firm specializing in web user interface and usability. Alongside trainings and events, UIE also holds a free podcast weekly in which Sean Carmichael, the host, and his expert guests converse about user interface, user experience and anything in between.
The Big Web Show is hosted by the Jeffrey Zeldman, a founder of A List Apart, and the one dubbed as the King of Web Standard by BusinessWeek. The topics talked in the show covers web design, typography on the web, web publishing, and many things. It is one podcast that you should subscribe if you are really into web development.
Hosted by Bobby Solomon and MediaTemple creative director, Jon Setzen, TheBuildUp features light conversation between the two about various topics on designs, typography, art, news and tech. Episodes are released once every two weeks, and so far there are 9 episodes you can check out. This podcast is currently only available through RSS but there are plans to make it available on iTunes.
The East Wing is hosted by Tim Smith. It features anything about the Web and Internet. Aside the recorded podcasts, you can also enjoy the show through live streaming; make sure to check the schedule for when new episodes will be aired. The podcast is available through iTunes, RSS feed and Pocket Casts.
Crowdfunding is a great way to get funding without the hassle and red tape delays. All you need to do is create your product, and play with your creativity while you’re at it. Today, there are many great many ideas that came to be with the help of crowdfunding. Pebble had its start there, raising million from more than 68,000 backers, way before smartwatches got the same treatment from the giants.
Most people would take their projects straight to these popular crowdfunding sites, but if you want to run your personal crowdfunding campaign on your own website though, you can, with WordPress.
WordPress is extensible through themes and plugins, and crowdfunding is one of the many features you can give your site. Here we have put together 7 WordPress themes that are you can build a crowdfunding website with.
Recommended Reading: A How-To Guide On Running A Successful Crowdfunding Project
When talking about crowdfunding we cannot overlook this particular theme. CrowdPress is a theme built by IgnitionDeck, which has recently acquired WordPress’ first crowdfunding plugin called Fundify. This theme integrates very well and works out of the box with Fundify. Building and running your website takes just minutes.
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This theme provides almost everything you need for a crowdfunding site. You can start create campaigns by filling up info about the campaign description, amount goal, campaign period, and make reward levels based on the amount of donations. What’s interesting is that with this theme, users can make they own campaign and submit it to your site.
Franklin is an elegant WordPress theme which seamlessly integrates with plugins like Easy Digital Download (EDD) and a crowdfunding plugin by Astoundify. Note: Astoundify crowdfunding plugin was just removed from the WordPress.org plugin repository, but the theme author will develop a new plugin which will replace it. In the meantime, you can still download the crowdfunding plugin from this repository in Github.
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With this themes, you can create as many campaigns as you want. Visitors can see your campaign, the description, how much money you want to raise, current funds raised and total backers. Aside from EDD, this theme also supports WPML plugin which allows you to easily translate the theme for other International languages.
FundingPress is a theme for building crowdfunding sites similar to Kickstarter or Indiegogo. Users will be able to create their own campaign from the frontend. It is easy to use and users can easily monitor the progress of their campaign. This theme also handles the funding process.
When a pledge is made, the admin will be able to see who made the pledges. We can also set whether the campaign will accept all the funds made regardless of whether the campaign reaches the funding goal or not.
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GIG is a WordPress theme aimed for musicians and bands. This theme can be integrated with the IgnitionDeck Premium plugin to turn it into a crowdfunding website. Users can support your project on some level of payment with different reward as you specify. As in the original features of ignitiondeck, users can pay via paypal, as well as others payment gateway.
Aside of that, GIG comes with a number of facilities that makes it customizeable – you can easily change the color scheme to limitless colors, pages can each have their own unique sidebar, and it is also responsive which makes it looks good in both desktop and mobile devices.
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Mission is a church theme that offers all the things features like podcasting, calendars, online commerce, and fund-gathering. Like GIG, this theme uses the IgnitionDeck Plugin to enable crowdfunding functionality.
Need to start a fundraiser? Create a project title and description, determine the amount you want to raise, add a touch of video or images to showcase the purpose of the fundraising, then publish to start raising funds.
Running a crowdfunding campaign does not necessarily have to be for commercial purposes only. We can adopt crowdfunding to help raise awareness of human causes. This is what this theme, Be Human, is created for. It is designed for charities and non-profit organizations.
The theme supports the IgnitionDeck plugin, so on top of creating new campaigns, you get features to choose to take the money immediately, or after your goal is reached, and also to accept payment through Paypal as well as other payment gateways.
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If you are an artist, a musician, or a film maker you probably will love this theme, Fundit. This is specifically designed for professionals who need to raise funds for arts or music projects. It’s a simple single-page theme with the corwdfunding facilities built-in.
Users can easily choose how much money is going into your campaigns or projects, and what they get, before proceeding with their payments. You can use the funds raised overall, even if funding does not reach 100 percent.
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Complete UIs and elements, textures and brushes for Photoshop, HTML templates, background designs, icons, fonts and tools make our lives as designers and developers easier, saving us the time we would otherwise be spending on creating them.
Fortunately, around the world, there are many creators willing to share their work for free allowing the rest of us to use them. Here is the third collection of freebies and goodies available for web designers. If you would like to check out our earlier collections, follow the links:
Should you find that these freebies have helped you in one way or another, do consider donating to these creators or supporting them in other forms of appreciation for all their hard work.
Colorful Business Card in PSD Format by al rayhan
Tinyone: PSD One Page Template by Tommy Ngo
LinkedIn Redesign GUI Kit PSD by Pontus Wellgraf
Random UI Elements in PSD by Tyler Gross
Bootstrap Style Homepage PSD Template
Flatter: A Free PSD GUI, HTML & Bootstrap Template by Tranquilobock
Free Sable Kit 2 in PSD, EPS and AI
ANTARKTIDA Free Sports PSD Template Vitaliy Kudelevskiy
Big John – Slim Joe Free Font by Ion Lucin
Moka Stylish Outline Typeface by Liz Withers
Aqua Grotesque Typeface by Laura Pol
Azedo Bold and Light Typeface by Pedro Azedo
Jaapokki Free Modern Font by Mikko Nuuttila
FRINCO: Free Fancy Font by Ryan Pyae
Cosmo Path Free Outline Typeface by filiz sahin
Ribbon OpenType Display Face by Dan Gneiding
PIROU Free Stylish Font by Quentin Grébeude
30 Vector Icons for IOS (Pay with a Tweet)
12 Vector Abstract Flower Line Icons
Gamecenter Icons Pack in PSD by Alexey Anatolievich
SVG Icons: Ready to Use SVG Icons
Pure CSS Flat Social Icons Code Snippet by Steven Roberts
Stackicons: Multipurpose Icon Fonts by Parker Bennett
100 Touch Gestures Icons in PSD, AI, EPS, PNG and SVG by Jeff Portaro
Web Design Icon Set in PSD, PNG and AI by Dimitrios Pantazis
9 Free Business Card and Tablet Mockups by Tomasz Mazurczak
Nexus 6 PSD MockUp by Litvin Vladislav
Free IPhone 6 Photorealistic Mockups
Pencil Project: An Open-Source GUI Prototyping Tool
Dribbble App Material Design for Sketch by Soumya Ranjan Bishi
UI Kit Inspired by Android L by Vitaly Chernega
25 Free Watercolour Circle Textures in JPG & PNG by Chris Spooner
8 High Resolution Texture Mix Pack by Gabor Monori
1000 Combinations of Flat Vector Robots
7 High-resolution Polygon Backgrounds
Photoshop Text Effects Version 1
Brush Set for Photoshop by Matt Heath
Editor’s note: This post is written by Juan Sarmiento for Hongkiat.com. Juan is a designer and developer, founder of iconShock.com, DesignShock.com,
