You can build a beautiful WordPress site, but if you don’t optimize your site for search engine rankings, there is a good chance that very few people will see it. Google and other search engines use complex algorithms to boost some websites to first-page rankings and relegate others to obscurity. Search Engine Optimization is the… Continue reading 8 Best SEO Plugins For WordPress
Month: November 2018
Celebrating 150,000 Pinterest followers
We are happy to celebrate yet another milestone that we achieved on last week and its 150,000 followers on Pinterest!! Perhaps! It was the day of my life, when it all began to progress, and I for the very first time came to know about Pinterest and its increasing popularity day by day. Before that it was all, Google, Facebook, Twitter,… Continue reading Celebrating 150,000 Pinterest followers
How to Design a Travel Website that Accepts Booking and Reservation
Lots of people are relying on travel websites for their travel needs. From plane tickets to hotel bookings and everything else in between, travelers now have the option to customize their travel experiences. Any travel booking website can get you from point A to point B, but the best ones will get you to your… Continue reading How to Design a Travel Website that Accepts Booking and Reservation
Professional Business Card Templates – 25 Print Ready Design
Beautifully designed business cards template. With these business cards you can present yourself in a stylish and professional way! Each card template is fully customizable with Adobe Indesign and Adobe Photoshop. The super clean business card designs have been crafted for the true professionals. Fully editable templates available in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign & MS Word versions. You can use the sample… Continue reading Professional Business Card Templates – 25 Print Ready Design
Why Graphic designing is a rapidly growing industry!
Graphic design is the art that allows you to plan your projects with creative ideas and communicate through graphical representation. What is Graphic Design? The past decade has seen a massive surge in graphic designing and content marketing strategies. Graphic designing stands way tall than other means of promoting businesses. This is merely because of… Continue reading Why Graphic designing is a rapidly growing industry!
How to Draw Anime Hair
What You’ll Be Creating Hair is a very complex subject to draw, because it’s like a substance that can take many shapes and forms. Because of this, manga artists have developed a special method of simplifying hair. In manga or anime, you draw hair as a mass or a cloth. This way it can be… Continue reading How to Draw Anime Hair
18 Free office icons (SVG + Sketch formats)
As a designer, there are some cases where I need some high-quality office icons to be used in a website or app. Well, here is a free set of 18 free vector icons designed and released by Gunaldi. Freebie is provided as SVG and Sketch file formats. Download icons
Essential Elements for Blog Design
Why do people run blogs? A long time ago blogs were just the spots online where people shared their personal thoughts and opinions, communicated with others (before social media took that niche). Today even large brands can’t imagine their websites without blogs. One of the studies revealed that 36% of the Fortune 500 companies are… Continue reading Essential Elements for Blog Design
Empathy for everyone, not only for your users
But wait, now, in order for your validated design to transform into a reality, is InVision really going to help remove the bridge between Designers vocabulary and Engineering? Nope. If you don’t want tot confuse upside down your developers colleagues, you should start by not only having a basic html/css/javascript knowledge, but also key concepts… Continue reading Empathy for everyone, not only for your users
5 Ways to Make Your Website Stand Out
Websites, as you can imagine, exist for nearly every facet of society. From community pages for boy scout troops and churches, to sales geared store fronts online, to blogs and share sites that allow users to connect and interact. Having a website seems to be a necessity in today’s age. Yet, so many people spend… Continue reading 5 Ways to Make Your Website Stand Out
How to Add Multiple Selection to Android RecyclerView
The RecyclerView widget is an integral part of most Android applications today. Ever since it was added to the Android support library in late 2014, it has eclipsed the ListView widget as the most preferred widget for displaying large, complex lists. However, there’s one important feature missing in it: support for selecting and tracking list items. RecyclerView… Continue reading How to Add Multiple Selection to Android RecyclerView
11 Christmas Gift Guide for Web Designers and Developers for 2018
November 19, 2018 by Alex Fox Whether you like it or not, Christmas is fast approaching! Get out your credit cards and start shopping for Christmas 2018. If you have web designers and developers on your shopping list, check out this gift guide for web designers and developers for some top-shelf options. In the modern… Continue reading 11 Christmas Gift Guide for Web Designers and Developers for 2018
Want to Master the WordPress Loop? Try Our New Course
The Loop is at the core of WordPress’s post rendering engine. If you want to customize the way posts are displayed in your WordPress theme, you’ll need to come to terms with The Loop. In our new course, Guide to The Loop in WordPress, you’ll learn how The Loop works in WordPress. In 11 detailed videos, Rachel… Continue reading Want to Master the WordPress Loop? Try Our New Course
The overlap between designing and acting — and more UX links this week
Shared lessons for actors and user researchers › It’s a Monday evening and my first day of acting class at the Berkeley Repertory Theater. Jack, our instructor, starts our class off with a couple improv games and then goes over our schedule for the next 10 weeks. We don’t touch a play until Week 6.… Continue reading The overlap between designing and acting — and more UX links this week
Templates, Icons, UI Kits, and More
Figma came out as a strong new player in 2016 allowing design and software development teams to collaborate on any platform. This browser-based application eliminated problems such as updating software, syncing screens, and waiting for a team member to upload the latest design. Real-time collaboration is where Figma shines most. It launched with features like… Continue reading Templates, Icons, UI Kits, and More
5 Best WordPress Plugins for Improving Your Website Design
Improving the design of your website is the first thing to do after setting up your blog. Whether its a portfolio site or a WooCommerce store, you must always look for the loopholes in your design. One of the basic things to do is make your website design responsive and provide your visitors with a… Continue reading 5 Best WordPress Plugins for Improving Your Website Design
Modernising the hiring process — a UX case study
Competitor Analysis From the competitors we looked at 2 key insights were found: The most effective way employees were keeping up to date with their referrals was through continuous updates. The preferred methods were through notifications e.g. HR email updates, live job boards updates, and newsfeeds. A few of the competitors we looked at also… Continue reading Modernising the hiring process — a UX case study
10 WordPress Tips and Tricks to Steal from the Pros
WordPress is one of the most popular website platforms in the world, powering around 30 percent of the Web. It also has about 60 percent market share, beating out platforms like Joomla and Drupal by a long shot. People who use WordPress generally love it, which may be one reason it’s so popular. The other… Continue reading 10 WordPress Tips and Tricks to Steal from the Pros
Design Elements That Increase Conversion Rates
Once you’re past the stage of creating traffic and at least some sales or leads, the next thing you want to do is to make sure you are actually getting the most conversions you can out of your users. Even a small increase in conversion rate, from say 1% to 1.25% can mean a 25%… Continue reading Design Elements That Increase Conversion Rates
How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Photoshop adjustment layers to create a fantasy photo manipulation featuring a rock goddess. First, we’ll build the base scene using several arch, rock and landscape images. After that, we’ll add the ground, the model’s face, and a rock texture. Later, we’ll add… Continue reading How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?
Web design is an industry that is loaded with opportunities for upsells and extra revenue. Odds are that your clients will benefit from services that go beyond basic design and development. However, just because you can offer extras doesn’t necessarily mean that you should. One such area is web hosting. While there is the potential… Continue reading Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?
Laurel: Free HTML template for app presentation
Laurel is a free HTML template for presenting mobile apps. It comes with different pre-built sections, like a fully-illustrated hero, features list, and a bottom input-form to collect users emails and feedback. This template is ideal for mobile-based products, but it can be easily customizable for different needs and purposes, such as a web-oriented project. View… Continue reading Laurel: Free HTML template for app presentation
How to Easily Animate SVGs With SVGator
SVG animation is a great alternative to using animated GIFs on the web, but it’s not always easy. In this tutorial I’m going to explain how you can easily animate SVGs using an online tool called “SVGator”. SVGator allows you to import SVG files, then animate individual elements within those SVGs. Animate SVGs With SVGator… Continue reading How to Easily Animate SVGs With SVGator
Free Fonts: 25 New Fonts for Graphic Designers
New, modern & fresh calligraphy free fonts, script fonts, brush fonts and typefaces for Christmas and New Year 2019 posters, flyers, cards and all creative artwork. In this article you’ll find 25 hand-picked free fonts with extras. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and fit for any artwork. Take a look at beautiful commercial fonts for… Continue reading Free Fonts: 25 New Fonts for Graphic Designers