How to Properly Load Test a WordPress Website

WordPress is without a doubt the most popular content management system in the history of the web. The power and versatility of the combination of technologies like SQL, PHP and web browsers have made it possible to produce a system that can be adapted for nearly any purpose including photo galleries, online comic books, and… Continue reading How to Properly Load Test a WordPress Website

Getting Started With Redux: Learn by Example

Redux helps you manage state by setting the state up at a global level. In the previous tutorial, we had a good look at the Redux architecture and the integral components of Redux such as actions, action creators, the store, and reducers.  In this second post of the series, we are going to bolster our… Continue reading Getting Started With Redux: Learn by Example

Getting Started With Redux: Why Redux?

When you’re learning React, you will almost always hear people say how great Redux is and that you should give it a try. The React ecosystem is growing at a swift pace, and there are so many libraries that you can hook up with React, such as flow, redux, middlewares, mobx, etc.  Learning React is easy,… Continue reading Getting Started With Redux: Why Redux?

How To Add A Navigation Menu To WordPress: Beginner’s Guide

Are you struggling with how to add a navigation menu to WordPress? WordPress actually includes a fairly user friendly interface to help you add menus to WordPress without needing to know any code. But unless you’re already familiar with WordPress, it can still be difficult to dive in and create your first menu. In this… Continue reading How To Add A Navigation Menu To WordPress: Beginner’s Guide

Weather Commuter: A UX Case Study

The UX behind the need to checking the weather Persona The persona I interviewed were young adults ranging from the age of 20–30 yrs old. I mainly focused on busy college students. All my users have checked the weather either daily for the purpose of commute, or weekly for the purpose of vacationing or weekend planning.… Continue reading Weather Commuter: A UX Case Study

The Secret to Creating Products That Scale

Bigger is better. Right? At least according to conventional startup wisdom, it is. It seems like many entrepreneurs are under constant pressure to scale from advisors and investors. Generally speaking, aggressive scaling involves ramping up sales and marketing, raising sufficient capital, and hiring and managing new people. But for some software companies, there is an… Continue reading The Secret to Creating Products That Scale

Mockplus Repeater vs. Adobe XD Repeat Grid, which one do you like better?

What do you think is the most tedious aspect of a designer’s workflow? I believe that’s to create repeating layouts and then make small adjustments over and over again. However, in the process of building a prototype, we often find a lot of similar parts need to be made. Although copy-and-paste is a good solution,… Continue reading Mockplus Repeater vs. Adobe XD Repeat Grid, which one do you like better?

There’s no such thing as “minor design changes”

Sharing a quick story I found on Intercom’s blog about how there’s no such thing as a small change in a product. At some point Intercom’s team decided to limit the number of characters of their reviews to 140. “We want to limit the length of a review in the product to 140 characters, because… Continue reading There’s no such thing as “minor design changes”

Website Design Ideas for Gaming Enthusiasts

Video gaming is one of the hottest and fastest growing industries right now. If you are into gaming, there is no reason why you should not have a website or at least a YouTube channel to show off your gaming skills. Many people take to the internet to show how they are playing a certain… Continue reading Website Design Ideas for Gaming Enthusiasts

Creating GraphQL Subscriptions in Express ― Scotch

Introduction This section focuses on creating realtime applications using GraphQL, and the best way to achieve that is through subscriptions. The code in this section is a continuation of Part 1 of this series, and I would advise going through it before moving forward. This is a critical and essential part to future implementation of… Continue reading Creating GraphQL Subscriptions in Express ― Scotch

The Top 3 Server Problems to Watch For

September 25, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger Once your website is designed and live, most webmasters sit back and relax a little. It might seem like everything’s permanently in place, but in reality, your website will require ongoing, active monitoring if you want it to succeed. Not only will you need to provide ongoing content for… Continue reading The Top 3 Server Problems to Watch For

Attention! TemplateMonster officially launched Marketplace

It’s not a big secret that TemplateMonster offers its customers a plenty of excellent products that can be used for various purposes. The collection of ready-made templates on the website is not only impressive but incredibly qualitative. In addition to this, the number of templates is growing every single day and everyone can find something… Continue reading Attention! TemplateMonster officially launched Marketplace

Improving Couple of Experiences in Strava (Unsolicited)

Recording an activity Current design analysis The app comprises of four tabs: Feed (default selection), Explore, Record, Profile and More. Although the Feed is the default selection, most of the times, as soon as I open the app, all I want is to start recording the activity, i.e, running or cycling. However, in the current setup, I… Continue reading Improving Couple of Experiences in Strava (Unsolicited)

How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design

The better designed the website and the better the usability, the more likely people will come back to use it  – and the more views, the more conversions and the better the website performs. Gaming websites need to be at the very height of attractive web design, especially in such a saturated sector. The look… Continue reading How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design

4 Metrics You Should Look At To Measure Website Success

Now that you have a well-designed website that is easy on your reader’s eye and simple to navigate, you still need to determine whether it is truly successful. To do this, you have to dive into data and analytics. Of course, measuring your site’s success is not all about pretty colors, textures and fonts. Google… Continue reading 4 Metrics You Should Look At To Measure Website Success

6 Pillars of Excellent Web Design

With the periodic changes to Google’s search algorithm, the methods of ranking that might have worked in the past are often abrogated – but that just means you have to find the ones that still provide returns and build on them. Additionally, in the ever-changing expanse of cyberspace, you must take the time to familiarize… Continue reading 6 Pillars of Excellent Web Design

12 Creative Workspace Designs To Boost Productivity

With this collection, we are showcasing a fresh assortment of 12 neat workspace designs for you so that you can boost your productivity and motivate yourself to work harder. By simply making few changes to your workstation, you can convert your boring cubicle or office desk into a resourceful, well-designed, practical and motivating workspace. Do… Continue reading 12 Creative Workspace Designs To Boost Productivity

7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers

There are many tools out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why we are sharing 7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers. So, without any further ado let’s take a look at these and feel free to share this post with others.… Continue reading 7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers

Three Facebook Ad Tips That’ll Help You Increase Conversions

If you’ve spent any time on a marketing or design blog lately (other than this one), you’ve probably noticed a lot of buzz around Facebook advertising. Something like, “10 Ways Facebook Can Get Your Products to Fly Off the Shelf,” and other grand promises. Unfortunately, a lot of these posts lack any real value. Most… Continue reading Three Facebook Ad Tips That’ll Help You Increase Conversions

Atomic design: how to design systems of components

Today, the idea of Atomic Design is to begin with common raw material (atoms) with which we can build the rest of the project: Today: we start from atoms and we build the rest from there We have thus not only an “air de famille” between all the screens, but also a system which offers infinite… Continue reading Atomic design: how to design systems of components

Split A/B Testing Graphical Elements of Your Landing Pages: Best Practices to Test and Quantify Conversion Value of Landing Page Elements

It is a known fact that one of the best ways of generating high conversion rates is by having high-converting landing pages. Landing pages are standalone web pages with a single purpose – to act as a point of entry for a particular website. Study has shown that designers have just 50 milliseconds to make… Continue reading Split A/B Testing Graphical Elements of Your Landing Pages: Best Practices to Test and Quantify Conversion Value of Landing Page Elements

9 Free WordPress Artistic Themes

  ADVERTISEMENT If you are searching some best artistic themes for your websites then take some time and have a look at this collection. In this post, we are going to share with you 9 high quality, wonderful and useful WordPress artistic themes that help you in creating your masterpiece. All these WordPress artistic themes are… Continue reading 9 Free WordPress Artistic Themes

Effective Methods of Creating Topnotch Web-Design

Web design is actually one of those jobs that are not too streamlined. The designer is only taught the basics and the codes, and is allowed to use creativity, personal skills and visualisation to bring the best out of every job they do. One of the best marketing tools of the present era is well… Continue reading Effective Methods of Creating Topnotch Web-Design

8 Excellent Wire-framing Tools For Mobile App Development

In this article, we are presenting 8 wire-framing tools which help you to shape your mobile app developments. With these superb wireframing tools developers can easily understand an app navigation flow. When you use these useful and helpful wireframing tools, you will find that these wireframing tools make your mobile app development easy and simply.… Continue reading 8 Excellent Wire-framing Tools For Mobile App Development