It’s always good to have a set of guidelines to follow when designing a website — especially if you have little to no user data to go on. Over the years, we’ve been introduced to tons of these guidelines and design trends; some of which have fallen out of favor while others have persisted over… Continue reading Is The F-Pattern Still Relevant in Web Design?
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Understanding Inner Shadows in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Photoshop layer styles are a popular way to add effects, such as drop shadows and strokes, to layers in a non-destructive way. In this tutorial, I’m going to explain all the different settings that you’ll need to know about when adding an inner shadow in Photoshop. So, if you want to… Continue reading Understanding Inner Shadows in Photoshop
10 Popular Design Trends It’s Time to Let Die
If you’ve ever moved from one home to another, you know how difficult it can be to get rid of things you’ve owned for years. While digging through your closet, you find an old pair of pants you used to wear all the time despite the growing holes in the knees. But you tell yourself,… Continue reading 10 Popular Design Trends It’s Time to Let Die
How to Sell Tickets With a WordPress Event Calendar and Tickets Plugin
In this post, I’ll show you how to use the WordPress Events Calendar Registration and Tickets plugin to create different types of events for your website. Most importantly, I’ll show you how to keep track of all attendees and sell tickets for your events. No matter what kind of event you’re organizing, you want people to… Continue reading How to Sell Tickets With a WordPress Event Calendar and Tickets Plugin
Easy to Follow SEO Best Practices for Web Designers
Most graphic and website designers have a general knowledge about what search engine optimization (SEO) is and why it’s important. However, many still think that SEO is not relevant to the design process or can be implemented after the website is designed. Unfortunately, both of these beliefs are false. How Web Design Impacts SEO Website… Continue reading Easy to Follow SEO Best Practices for Web Designers
7 CSS Units You Might Not Know About
Learn CSS: The Complete Guide We’ve built a complete guide to help you learn CSS, whether you’re just getting started with the basics or you want to explore more advanced CSS. New CSS Techniques It’s easy to get stuck working with the CSS techniques we know well, but doing so puts us at a disadvantage… Continue reading 7 CSS Units You Might Not Know About
Use a Tattoo Font to Add a Realistic Tattoo to a Photo in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating A tattoo font is the easiest way to create a stylish tattoo in no time. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a realistic tattoo in Photoshop using a tattoo font. We’re going to add some text effects to the font, warp it, and apply photo effects of texture… Continue reading Use a Tattoo Font to Add a Realistic Tattoo to a Photo in Photoshop
Create Amazing Prototypes in No Time with the Envato Elements Sketch Plugin
The rise of prototyping tools in recent years is undeniable. Designers are harnessing these powerful, yet easy-to-use programs to build functional models of both websites and mobile apps. As such, they have become a vital part of the design process. Among the most widely-used and well-known prototyping apps is Sketch. This Mac-based program… Continue reading Create Amazing Prototypes in No Time with the Envato Elements Sketch Plugin
7 Things Every Web Designer Should Know About SEO Campaigns
July 4, 2019 by Spyrestudios Search engine optimization (SEO) has grown to be popular enough that most business people can recognize it as one of the best digital marketing strategies available. The idea is pretty simple; with a series of onsite structural changes and offsite brand mentions, you’ll gradually improve the ranking signals Google and… Continue reading 7 Things Every Web Designer Should Know About SEO Campaigns
4 Benefits of Hiring a Remote Development Team for your Enterprise
The presence of technology in the composition of today’s world has immensely changed the game and taken it to a whole new level. In just one decade, the internet has genuinely connected the world and has since gone on to provide incredible work cultures made possible mainly because it is now easier to communicate with… Continue reading 4 Benefits of Hiring a Remote Development Team for your Enterprise
How to Work Securely by Choosing the Best VPN For Your Needs
If you’re concerned with working securely or anonymously online, the chances are you’ll have used a VPN (Virtual Private Network) at some stage. But when choosing a VPN service do you know what factors you should be taking into account? This tutorial will help you understand why you should use a VPN and how to… Continue reading How to Work Securely by Choosing the Best VPN For Your Needs
Running an Online Business? Cybersecurity Should Be on Top of Your List
Maintaining a solid online presence is an essential aspect of running a business nowadays. Most consumers are already online, so the internet is the perfect place to reach out and expand your target demographic. Besides advertising on social media and through email newsletters, most companies also have their own dedicated business website. But in an… Continue reading Running an Online Business? Cybersecurity Should Be on Top of Your List
Easier Apps With Ionic Templates, Frameworks, and Tools
One of the biggest problems in development is the idea of “limitless” possibilities. How do you choose what app to build when you can create anything? Which choice to get from point A to point B is the right one, when there are so many combinations on how to get there? This holds true when… Continue reading Easier Apps With Ionic Templates, Frameworks, and Tools
Top 20 (Most Popular) Premium WordPress Themes of 2019
One of the reasons WordPress is so popular is the sheer amount of themes available for almost any niche imaginable. Whether need a small business website or a personal blog, you’re bound to find a theme that suits your needs. Even though there are plenty of great WP themes designed with specific industries in mind,… Continue reading Top 20 (Most Popular) Premium WordPress Themes of 2019
Features, Syntax, and the Problem It Will Solve
CSS subgrid is slowly making its way into browsers. The CSS Working Group is actively working on it and the related W3C specification has already reached Level 2. This new feature will enable us to enhance grid items with subgrids that inherit the grid tracks of their parent grid and seamlessly align with it. As CSS subgrid is… Continue reading Features, Syntax, and the Problem It Will Solve
Get Started With WPBakery (Formerly Visual Composer)
Writing HTML, CSS, and PHP code to build or customize a WordPress site can be incredibly time consuming, even for an experienced web developer. That’s probably why much of the WordPress community has moved on to using page-builder plugins instead. WPBakery Page Builder (formerly called Visual Composer) is the most flexible and feature-rich WordPress page-builder plugin… Continue reading Get Started With WPBakery (Formerly Visual Composer)
Best Practices for Displaying Form Errors
One of the most important but often neglected aspects of form design is the display of error messages. Helpful and well-designed error messages can improve the user experience, while confusing ones can lead to frustration. Learn how to get it right in our new short course, Best Practices for Displaying Form Errors. What You’ll Learn Submitting… Continue reading Best Practices for Displaying Form Errors
The Importance of Readability on the Web
Readability on the web has to overcome many hurdles. Even if you follow all the right conventions, the presence of digital ads, popups and click bait can all distract from the main content of your site. But how do they impact readability? How can you use design to improve it? Below are some ways of… Continue reading The Importance of Readability on the Web
Which Should You Use and When?
Flexbox and CSS Grid are two CSS layout modules that have become mainstream in recent years. Both allow us to create complex layouts that were previously only possible by applying CSS hacks and/or JavaScript. Flexbox and CSS Grid share multiple similarities and many layouts can be solved with both. When to use which is another… Continue reading Which Should You Use and When?
Create an Animated SVG Logo for International Women’s Day 2019
To mark International Women’s Day 2019 we’ll be creating an animated SVG version of the event’s logo you can use along with this year’s hashtag #BalanceforBetter. In the process we’ll be learning about using Figma and its boolean operations, as well as inline SVG animation via the animateTransform element. This is what we’ll be creating:… Continue reading Create an Animated SVG Logo for International Women’s Day 2019
How To Fix ‘Failed To Load Resource’ Error In WordPress
The “Failed To Load Resource” error is one of the most frustrating issues many WordPress users have been encountering lately. This error is quite hard to fix since it can be caused by several different issues like plugin compatibility issues and HTTPS URL issues and more. In this post, we take a look at some… Continue reading How To Fix ‘Failed To Load Resource’ Error In WordPress
How To Fix ‘503 Service Unavailable’ WordPress Error
One of the few very frustrating errors you’ll ever encounter when using WordPress is the ‘503 Service Unavailable’ error. This error can be quite confusing to most WordPress users as it could completely render your website offline without giving you any clear reason to what caused the error. There can be a few different causes… Continue reading How To Fix ‘503 Service Unavailable’ WordPress Error
How to Make a Sticky Menu in WordPress
What You’ll Be Creating Navigation menus are changing. Instead of just throwing one into a site without considering what form it’ll take, designers are taking the time to consider the design of navigation menus, the space they take up on the page, and how users interact with them. One growing trend is for sticky menus.… Continue reading How to Make a Sticky Menu in WordPress
7 Best Web Design Strategies to Implement to Build Audience’s Trust
How likely will you recommend a specific website to someone? Generally, we evaluate a website based on its contents, responsiveness, and designs. When a webpage captures your interest, you will usually navigate the site and look everything about it. As they say, first impressions always last. It means when you saw something interesting for the… Continue reading 7 Best Web Design Strategies to Implement to Build Audience’s Trust