How to Build a WooCommerce Store With Elementor

Elementor and WooCommerce make it easy to create an online store. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use WooComerce, WordPress, and Elementor to build an online store complete with products, categories, and an Amazon-style dropdown menu. Why WooCommerce? WordPress is one of the world’s most popular blogging platforms, but countless businesses also use… Continue reading How to Build a WooCommerce Store With Elementor

11 Actionable Tips to Build a Winning Brand Identity

12 Shares Branding means much more than a cool-looking logo and a Facebook ad. It’s about turning your business into a recognizable company that people are devoted to and think positively about. Building your brand doesn’t happen overnight, but with ongoing effort and a proper plan, you’ll be well on your way to branding success.… Continue reading 11 Actionable Tips to Build a Winning Brand Identity

Build vs. Buy: Automated Accessibility Tools

If something can be automated, developers will try to build it to save them time. In the field of accessibility, some automated tools out there can catch up to 50% of accessibility defects (like axe-core). On top of that, there are a lot of free accessibility rules libraries out there already for developers to choose… Continue reading Build vs. Buy: Automated Accessibility Tools

How to Enhance Your Website Layouts With SVG Shapes

In this new tutorial, we’ll get rid of the usual boring rectangular boxes and learn to build a landing page full of complex SVG shapes. We’ll even enhance it with Bootstrap styles as well as a full-screen background video.  The best way to understand what we’re going to build is by checking out the demo, so it’s… Continue reading How to Enhance Your Website Layouts With SVG Shapes

Popular Design News of the Week: June 1, 2020 – June 7, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: June 1, 2020 – June 7, 2020

How to Build a Grayscale to Color Effect on Scroll (CSS & JavaScript)

In this new tutorial, we’ll start with some grayscale images and learn how to smoothly reveal their colored variants on scroll. To achieve the desired effect, we’re going to take advantage of different modern front-end features like CSS Grid, the clip-path property, and the Intersection Observer API. Our Grayscale to Color Effect Without further intro, let’s check… Continue reading How to Build a Grayscale to Color Effect on Scroll (CSS & JavaScript)

Popular Design News of the Week: May 11, 2020 – May 17, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: May 11, 2020 – May 17, 2020

How to Build a Simple Toggle Switch Component With the CSS Checkbox Hack

In this short tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a CSS-only switch component by taking advantage of the “CSS checkbox hack technique”. Along the way, we’ll also look at other switch implementations on Codepen. Sound like a good challenge? Our Switch Component Here’s what we’ll be building during this tutorial–a simple todo checklist: For design… Continue reading How to Build a Simple Toggle Switch Component With the CSS Checkbox Hack

Build a Chrome Extension to Streamline Your Workflow — SitePoint

When I began as a JavaScript editor at SitePoint, our submission process was something of a mess — articles coming from every direction in a variety of formats. So we decided to standardize things and settled on submission via GitHub in Markdown. This was a step forward, but we still needed to convert the Markdown… Continue reading Build a Chrome Extension to Streamline Your Workflow — SitePoint

Popular Design News of the Week: February 17, 2020 – February 23, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: February 17, 2020 – February 23, 2020

How to Build an Animated Bootstrap Landing Page With Material Kit

In a previous tutorial, we discussed how to build a responsive landing page with Bootstrap 4. Today, we’ll learn how to create an animated landing page with Material Kit, a free Bootstrap 4 UI Kit based on Google’s Material Design.  To implement it, we’ll use a combination of Bootstrap 4’s helper classes, Material Kit’s additional… Continue reading How to Build an Animated Bootstrap Landing Page With Material Kit

How to Build an Accordion Component With the CSS Checkbox Hack

What You’ll Be Creating In this short tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a CSS-only flexible accordion component by taking advantage of the “CSS checkbox hack technique”. Most importantly, our component will be fully responsive and its layout will switch between horizontal and vertical depending on the viewport size.  Along the way, we’ll discuss how… Continue reading How to Build an Accordion Component With the CSS Checkbox Hack

How to Build a MouseOver Navigation Slide Effect

Have you ever used the Slider Revolution WordPress plugin in a project? If the answer is “yes”, you might have noticed the mini toolbar that appears in the right corner of the plugin’s configuration page. Initially, only the icons are visible, keeping the whole thing nice and compact. Then each time you hover over an icon, its… Continue reading How to Build a MouseOver Navigation Slide Effect

Build a Tabbed Product Archive for Your WooCommerce Store

In this tutorial you will learn how to make your WooCommerce store a little more stylish by organizing the product archive with tabs. We’ll create tabs with a multi-column layout, a multi-row carousel, and a grid layout. What We’re Going to Build Over the coming steps we will create a WordPress plugin, inside which we … Continue reading Build a Tabbed Product Archive for Your WooCommerce Store

How to Create a Mailchimp Subscribe Form Widget for WordPress

In this tutorial I’ll explain how to create a “Mailchimp subscribe form widget” using WordPress, the Mailchimp API, and AJAX. It will be aimed at competent beginner developers, and requires some understanding of PHP and WordPress development. There’s a lot to do, so let’s get stuck in! A Quick Note on APIs “The web has… Continue reading How to Create a Mailchimp Subscribe Form Widget for WordPress

How to Build an Engaging (And Functional) Event Website

Hosting an event, a birthday or even planning for your own wedding or retirement party? No matter what it is, having a website to help promote the event and share information with your audience is great. If you are hoping to attract as many participants as possible, you need to make a website and also… Continue reading How to Build an Engaging (And Functional) Event Website

Popular Design News of the Week: July 29, 2019 – August 4, 2019

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: July 29, 2019 – August 4, 2019

Popular Design News of the Week: July 22, 2019 – July 28, 2019

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: July 22, 2019 – July 28, 2019

Build an Advanced Responsive Menu Inspired by Netflix

The other day I visited the Netflix Jobs website from my phone and had a look at its off-canvas menu. I really liked the staggering animations that fired every time you hit it. So I thought it might be a good exercise to take this menu as inspiration and show you how to build a similar responsive… Continue reading Build an Advanced Responsive Menu Inspired by Netflix

How to Build an SEO Tool from Scratch

A quick Google search of the term “SEO tools” will give you a list of countless apps and software all claiming to help you get higher rankings. For SEO specialists and digital marketers, this can be both good and bad news. Good, because it’s a sign that the industry is constantly evolving. Bad, because finding… Continue reading How to Build an SEO Tool from Scratch

Rethinking the Exploration Phase of Design

Starting off a project is often described as being the exploration phase of a design process–during this phase, you quickly diverge with lots of ideas, generating many potential leads on concepts and hypotheses to test with customers. However, the notion that conceiving creative ideas is more akin to sudden unexpected flashes of brilliance obscures the… Continue reading Rethinking the Exploration Phase of Design