Check Out These Free Stock Photos

FreePhotos.cc has an abundance of free, high-quality Creative Commons photos for you to select from for your websites or blog posts. This free stock photo resource saves you the time and trouble of having to visit various sites and comb through their inventories to find something you can use. Feel free to mention the photographer… Continue reading Check Out These Free Stock Photos

The 32 Best Free Icons for Commercial Use to Download Today

There’s a million free icons out there, but not all of them are useful for real jobs. Here are the best free icons that you might actually use in your next commercial project. Just like the name implies, this large icon set includes 380 icons that will be essential for any web development project. The stroke outline… Continue reading The 32 Best Free Icons for Commercial Use to Download Today

5 Best Designed Websites in 2017

The web industry appears to be an extremely evolving space. It introduces some latest techniques and technologies letting developers implement the best website designs as well as meet their users’ expectations. New design trends appear very quickly. They create an award-winning symbiosis with some classics like retro style, patterns, and techniques that launch a web… Continue reading 5 Best Designed Websites in 2017

Best Directory and Listing WordPress Themes

April 20, 2017 by Veronika Step up your game on the directory and listing web design scene with these stunning WordPress theme tailored to meet the specific needs of the users, both employers, employees, sellers, and regular browsers. This collection contains few of the best WordPress themes for directories, listings, and classified ads. Price: $24… Continue reading Best Directory and Listing WordPress Themes

Best Places to Find Free Watercolor Flower Designs

April 13, 2017 by Veronika This week’s spring-themed piece covers one of the most talked about topics in the design sector – watercolor flowers. It’s hard to deny it, watercolor flower elements are everywhere these days. They give the designs a feel of artisan beauty and are the perfect way to spruce up a design… Continue reading Best Places to Find Free Watercolor Flower Designs

Top 8 Magento Resources to Sharpen your Skills

Magento is currently among the top E-Commerce platforms out there and is being used actively by the largest retailers on the internet due to the many benefits it provides. Not only does it serve as a highly versatile, E-Commerce system, it is relatively simple to understand with an abundance of resources available for that purpose.… Continue reading Top 8 Magento Resources to Sharpen your Skills

Magento Website Designs To Inspire You

March 28, 2017 by Veronika Magento is known as one of the most popular content management systems for eCommerce websites. Being used by millions of websites on the Web, Magento also has some of the best examples of eCommerce UX and UI design done right. You can get inspired to build your next online shop… Continue reading Magento Website Designs To Inspire You

How to Order and Align Items in Grid Layout

In this tutorial, you will learn how to control the order in which items are placed using the Grid Layout module. After that, we will discuss how to control the alignment of different items in the grid. In the past, we covered a few important Grid-related topics. We began by learning about different ways of… Continue reading How to Order and Align Items in Grid Layout

The Best Design to Code Services for You in 2017

Posted · Category: Best Collections Given a choice, web designers prefer to focus on the aesthetics of web design. What they produce doesn’t always have to look all that gorgeous however. What’s more important is that it’s user-friendly, cross-browser compatible, fast loading, and semantic. Incorporating these nuts-and-bolts features into a website can be tedious, and… Continue reading The Best Design to Code Services for You in 2017

8 Must Have Tools and Webapps to Custom Animate Your Website

Web animation is an essential part of a web design in today’s visual-centric websites. The absence of visual detail in your website can mean the difference of being sold, or left on the rack alone. Visual aesthetics enhances the website design and improves user engagement on your site. Animation solutions vary from platform to platform,… Continue reading 8 Must Have Tools and Webapps to Custom Animate Your Website

Purchasing an APM for Your Business: Are Your Stuck?

For any application technology to succeed, it has to provide the end-users with the quality experience. What APM (Application Performance Monitoring/Management) does is to ensure that the application program that you develop performs optimally as expected. It could be that you have disappointed your customers for so long with frequent crashes of your apps and… Continue reading Purchasing an APM for Your Business: Are Your Stuck?

How fast is your site and is there a way to control the response time for the clients?

It is known that response time of a web server has a great role in indexing of the hosted sites in search engines. The slower is a web site, the lower is its rate among the competitors. Nobody is going to like such consequences: site is displayed on the bottom of the search, less clients… Continue reading How fast is your site and is there a way to control the response time for the clients?

8 Best Tools For Making Animated Videos

March 2, 2017 by Veronika This collection of free and premium video creation tools can help you create your very own 2D and 3D character animations and bring your ideas to life. Targeted at both professional animators and amateurs in the marketing and freelance industry, this list of tools is suitable for anyone who’s interested in… Continue reading 8 Best Tools For Making Animated Videos

Best Places to Find Transparent PNG Images

February 23, 2017 by Veronika As browser-based graphic design tools gain popularity among amateurs and professional designers there is an increased demand for ready-to-use transparent PNG images. Sure, raster design software, like Photoshop and its free alternatives (GIMP and Pixlr) can help you easily trace and cut out the unnecessary segments of a photo and… Continue reading Best Places to Find Transparent PNG Images

11 Online Tools For Magazine and Presentation Design

There are all sorts of web design tools out there that offer users the opportunity to build their own content, from social media post designs, to web-based portfolios, microsites and many others. Yet, if you’re looking for an online design platform tailored especially for designing digital magazines and presentations, you should take a look at… Continue reading 11 Online Tools For Magazine and Presentation Design

Introducing InVision for iOS 2.0, the all-new InVision mobile app 

Doing work on the go is a natural part of the modern workday. Feedback sessions can’t always wait, and with more teams working in distributed settings, it’s increasingly important to reliably access your projects, no matter where you are. That’s why we’ve been working on a fresh mobile experience to support your workflow. We’re excited… Continue reading Introducing InVision for iOS 2.0, the all-new InVision mobile app 

A Step by Step Guide to the Auto-Placement Algorithm in CSS Grid

In this tutorial, I’ll be going over all the steps the auto-placement algorithm of the CSS Grid Layout module follows when positioning elements. These steps are controlled by the grid-auto-flow property. In Introducing the CSS Grid Layout and Seven Ways You Can Place Elements Using CSS Grid Layout, I gave an overview of the CSS… Continue reading A Step by Step Guide to the Auto-Placement Algorithm in CSS Grid

15 Best WooCommerce WordPress Themes for 2017

Enjoy a collection of some of the best WooCommerce themes for 2017 and get inspired to build a UX-friendly website with a beautiful layout that truly engages your customers. Allow me to present you the 2017 collection of the best WooCommerce themes. Porto Created by: SW-THEMES Price: $60 Download link: here Live preview: here Porto is… Continue reading 15 Best WooCommerce WordPress Themes for 2017

The Best SEO Friendly Themes For Your Drupal Website

One of the most important things to do when looking to start a new website (or modify an existing one) is to land on the right theme for you. While having good content is incredibly important, that content won’t have the same impact if you’re using a theme that isn’t suited for what you’re trying… Continue reading The Best SEO Friendly Themes For Your Drupal Website

Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers

If you’re a long-time freelance web designer, you may be experiencing a rather common problem. As freelance web designers gain experience, they naturally become more proficient. This generally leads to attracting more clients, and results in taking on more work. Freelancers have obvious benefits. Like not having to work to someone else’ schedule, not having a… Continue reading Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers

How to use breadcrumbs (the right way)

Bread crumbs…they bring up associations with the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves bread crumbs to help him find his way home again. Although the association with bread crumbs is perhaps still stronger in the realm of Grimm stories, that’s gradually changing as breadcrumbs in navigation help web designers create a better… Continue reading How to use breadcrumbs (the right way)

5 Best Collaboration Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow

Posted · Category: Best Collections A team leader’s role is to take a group of people who have diverse yet complementary skills, and variable degrees of experience, and mold them into a cohesive team.  And make them work together toward a common objective. These same skills that can do so much when given proper direction can just… Continue reading 5 Best Collaboration Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow

Website navigation and user experience

Advertisement Website navigation usability is the most crucial element in design. It makes the difference between a website where users find what they are looking for and one which causes so much frustration that users want to abandon it. The whole point of designing a website is to allow access the content, so the success… Continue reading Website navigation and user experience

7 Top eCommerce Themes For Building Great Shops

Advertisement Designing an online store should be relatively straightforward. Still, some web designers have a tendency to overdesign their sites, or invest in themes encourage overdesign or inventiveness. You can avoid these pitfalls by following a few simple rules: Give Your Store a Familiar Look. “Don’t make me think.” This brief cautionary message is the… Continue reading 7 Top eCommerce Themes For Building Great Shops