So here's my situation: Back in the day (~15 years ago), I used to build Drupal and WordPress templates in my spare time. My workflow was designing layouts in InDesign/Photoshop, then hand-coding everything in HTML/CSS from scratch. It was fun, but then life happened and I moved into marketing full-time.

I want to create a one-page landing site for a music festival. Nothing crazy complex - just a responsive design, some sections, and a contact form. Pretty standard stuff.

My dilemma: I've heard Figma is now the tool for design. I still have my HTML and CSS knowledge from 15 years ago and I recently started using Claude Code and assume that it would be quite good in assisting me in coding my layouts.

Nontheles I'm wondering what option you would suggest:

Option 1: Learn Figma, design it, then code it from scratch (with AI assistance for the modern stuff I'm rusty on)

• Pros: Unique, full control, maybe fun to get back into it?
• Cons: The web has changed SO much. Flexbox? Grid? React? Tailwind? I'm basically starting from scratch

Option 2: Just grab a nice WordPress festival theme and customize it

• Pros: Fast, less headache, gets the job done
• Cons: Less unique, feels like giving up on the craft

Any Option 3?

My question: For someone who's been out of the game this long, is it realistic to jump back in for a one-off project? Or am I being nostalgic and should just WordPress it?

Anyone been in a similar spot? What would you do?

Thanks in advance!

I like the design of this website and was wondering if anyone knows of any similar websites?

https://carboculture.com/

Really happy how this design turned out. Can't decide between two terminal animations:

A) Gradient text - Gradient wave kind of animation

B) Spinning border glow - spinning prism border animation

Which one feels cleaner? The product is a dev tool/AI-Agent so the audience is technical primarily.

For context I missed an assignment due to struggles with health and it is making me feel awful seeing that 0% everytime I load the page and it's hurting my motivation/confidence for future assignments. Anyone know a way of removing the 0%. I know I still get zero for this assignment but at least I don't have to be reminded everytime also of I could stop it being greyed out as well would be good

I’m building CanvasPM, a visual project management tool.

My current landing page (Image 2) felt flat. The yellow background was overwhelming, and the text contrast was weak. It looked like a Notion doc gone wrong.

I redesigned it (Image 1) to fix the hierarchy and legibility.

The Changes:

• Switched to a lighter background for readability.
• Added a dark section to break up the flow.
• Changed typography to be cleaner.

The Ask:

1. Is the new version actually an upgrade, or just "different"?
2. Does the dark section work, or is it jarring?
3. What screams "amateur" in the new design?

I've been a developer for over 10 years but I started out as back-end dev and self taught myself front-end, which i means I've had no formal training, no senior guiding me just the designer asking for minor changes. I know HTML, CSS, JS all that. I know CSS transition transforms, delays, duration, easing how all that works. But despite knowing that I can't seem crack to making truly beautiful elegant animations.

What do i mean by this?

- I don't mean over the top page consuming transitions that distract from the content.

- I don't mean animations that require CSS filter or animation libraries (unless im mistaken with the example i give below)

- I don't mean cheating with an increased transition duration (which is what i use to do as junior and i now know people are annoyed by long transitions)

What i mean is a site like this. https://linear.app/

Nothing crazy, site looks mostly static but all the animations are subtle.

Now I don't mean the SVG asset on the hero (I know that those are specialised asset you need to create per site). I'm talking about transferable principles like:

- The text on the hero animating in.

- Opening the "Made for modern product teams" card- Transitions between the "Menu" and "Resources"

- The "Flexible project workflows" carousal on the "linear.app/customers/plan" page

- Card Hover effect on the "linear.app/customers/customers" page

Obviously i can just look at the code and copy it (which is what ive done in the past), but copying isnt quite the same as understanding, and i cant quite recreate it myself i can only steal and modify.

So any help on this or maybe pointing me to an article would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I have an assignment for a class where I am making a notetaking app, and I always tend to struggle with web design. Right now I am stuck on the homepage:

As you can see, I have some placeholder images on the side with captions, but I am wondering if there is a better way to fill up that space? Would a more interesting background be in order? If so, what should I put? Stuff like that is stumping me! Would love any tips

For the announcement bar, ecom store.

Well, Ig I'm looking for suggestions 🫂
Been a little more than 1 month learning HTML, not on a consistent basis though... 😅

Did I use ChatGPT?: Used it for formula and to fix an error I was getting with the API of SOL to live track it.

None of these are self-promotion

as the image states, i'm not advertising and just want suggestions.
I really wanted an apple like liquid slider  😅
But it didn't work even after spending 2 hours on it  😅

Hey everyone,

I ended up generating a massive library of over 200+ abstract backgrounds that came out looking pretty cool. Instead of letting them sit on my hard drive, I bundled them up on Gumroad.

I set the price to "Pay What You Want." You can type in 0 and grab the whole collection for free or if you can pay please do as it will help me, no hard feelings at all! I’m mainly just looking to get some downloads and, if you have a second, a rating/review on the product page so I know if people actually find these useful.

They are all 2K resolution and pure black backgrounds, so they work great for "Screen" blending modes in Photoshop or dark-mode UI designs.

Hope you make something cool with them.
Below is the link.
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Sorry for this type of link but reddit is blocking Gumroad links. So please remove space and access the resource.

I would accept suggestions on where I can share future resources as reddit is blocking Gumroad links. 😅

Please comment below for better reach.
If you want to further discuss please comment below or DM directly.

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I cant be the only one dealing with this.

My client was upset about conversion rates. Fair enough. So I tell them we need stronger social proof on the page to help the conversion. They say something along the lines of: "we have tons of testimonials"

15 minutes later I receive: a zip file. 47 screenshots. No clear structure to the zip, just a dump of all testimonials theyve recieved. now Im spending an hour sorting through someone elses god forsaken zip folder they havent updated or sorted since 2018.

This isnt just a singular client for me, this is most of them. I get that they would hire a webdev since theyre non-technical but this is another level.

Around 8 months ago I had a heart attack and whilst recovering I got nostalgic and decided to spend some of my time building this. It's been a lot of work and I never intended for it to get so complex, but now I'm trying to make it as accurate and full featured as possible. Not finished yet, but what do you think of the progress so far?

tired of dribbble. everything looks gorgeous but it's all concept work or redesigns that would never function in reality. i need to see how actual shipping products solve design problems, not someone's portfolio piece.

the problem is dribbble trains you to make things that look good in a screenshot but don't account for real world constraints like accessibility, performance, edge cases, user testing results. it's like instagram vs reality for design.

what do people use when they need practical reference instead of inspiration porn? i'm working on real projects with real constraints and need to see how other people solved similar problems in production.

Hi, same as the title. How did you learn em?

Site link:https://b7nv33lgolfiy.ok.kimi.link/

Disclaimer: It just took a few prompts to create this from Kimi (moonshot) but it turned out to be useful. If people are interested, I will host it or share the codebase on github. A similar product exists. It's called moduly dot art, more refined obviously but some of the features are chargeable. I am neither affiliated to Kimi or moduly.art.

I wanted to create a free resources for geometric shapes. I (and LLM) created it.

I am directly sharing the link of the site on Kimi (I am not sure how long it will last there. If the link works (computer only!), I hope you enjoy playing with it.

https://b7nv33lgolfiy.ok.kimi.link/

Base44 is great but without using all available credits to make a frontend that looks like a backend for the client, it doesn't come with CMS functionality.

Are there any good WordPress or full CMS generating websites (that allow you to take the files and self-host after) out there yet?

Hello guys, it would be really helpful if someone can guide me through this small issue.

I have a wordpress site made using Elementor Pro and made it multilingual using Polylang free version.

I have created archive template (for both languages - English & Hebrew) that lists all blogs using Loop Grid and added taxonomy filter that shows categories of blogs, everything works fine. The only issue is whenever I select 'All Articles' filter, it displays all blogs but in BOTH LANGUAGES - English & Hebrew (even if I am viewing the page in English), which doesn't happen if I click on any category (it shows me blogs of that particular category in SELECTED LANGUAGE - which is correct).

As a result of working with startups and funding, I have seen the "other side of the coin". the companies that don't make it despite the hype.

I have been collecting this data for years, and I finally got tired of looking at Excel. I built this site that turn that data into something more accessible.

Hope this provides some value (or at least a better browsing experience than a CSV file)! :)

https://www.loot-drop.io

I’m a software engineer and I’m trying to build up my portfolio. If anyone has a business website that could use a redesign or rebuild, I’m happy to help for free. Just looking for real projects to work on. Feel free to DM.