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We all love a keyboard shortcut. They speed up your workflow, make repetitive tasks more bearable and they’re a great way to impress your friends! At Coast, Adobe XD and Sketch are now our web design tools of choice, but Photoshop still gets plenty of use. Photoshop has an array of useful default shortcuts, but […]
Last week Automattic, the company responsible for the hosted version of WordPress (WordPress.com), announced a new partnership with Google and other major media publishers. The partnership in question is intended to help deliver a fresh way to produce small to medium online news publications. This potentially revolutionary project has been named Newspack. First Thoughts – […]
As the web has matured, images have become an intrinsic part of the experience. Whether it’s a beautiful photo from a client’s case study or a throwaway GIF shared on social media, we use and encounter more and more images all the time. In many areas internet speeds continue to increase, and with this added […]
I am always looking to improve my Sketch workflow and regularly use plugins to increase my efficiency when designing complex layouts and screens. In this blog post I’ll share my 5 favourite Sketch plugins that make my life just that little bit easier. Paddy Paddy could possibly be my favourite plugin out of the five […]
As part of my two-year computer science course, we’re put in contact with someone that has suitable experience to aid us in a variety of things (such as career choices). I’m the lucky mentee of Daniel James, a developer at Coast Digital. In addition to the mentor scheme, we had to complete a month-long internship […]
I’ve said the word Gutenberg so many times recently, and it’s for good reason. For those of you that don’t know what Gutenberg is, it’s the new text editor coming to WordPress which is scheduled to land in version 5.0 – the next major iteration of the CMS that will introduce a new way of […]
Last week saw Apple kick off the week-long WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) 2018 in California. Love them or hate them, Apple announced some interesting changes to the ecosystem that I’m sure had some people (myself included) scratching their heads. If you would have asked me a couple of years ago when the Apple Watch […]
WordPress has come a long way since its inception in 2003 and people always seem to find new and interesting ways to use it. By design, the extensive customisations made possible by plugins have changed the way developers create websites and extend functionality for clients. However, it seems that more recently (although I may be […]
We are proud to support a number of clients from the charity sector at Coast Digital (and we often hold our own fundraising events and coffee mornings, it’s ok to eat mounds of cake when it’s for charity, right?), so we like to keep abreast of developments in digital, that are relevant to charities and […]
Over a year ago, Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of the WordPress project) told the community of WordPress developers to ‘learn JavaScript deeply’. Since then, a new feature project was created with the aim of improving the way people create content on WordPress. For many years, TinyMCE (Tiny Moxiecode Content Editor) has been the face of content […]
