WordPress features a built-in menu management system that makes it easy to add menus to your website. However, as you add more and more pages, posts and other miscellaneous content, it may become impossible to include every destination in your standard menu bar. In these scenarios, you can provide easy access to every section of… Continue reading How to Add a Drop-Down Menu in WordPress
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Add a Live Ajax Search Bar to Your WordPress Website
Regardless of whether you’re typing a search query into Google, YouTube, Amazon or any other major website, live search has become an essential element of modern web design. Live search is when you see a list of suggested search terms that updates as you’re typing, and it can be a valuable addition to any website.… Continue reading Add a Live Ajax Search Bar to Your WordPress Website
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
3 Essential Design Trends, December 2019
This month’s collection of design trends is a gift to behold. Each of the trends are highly usable options that are versatile, giving you plenty of room to play and make them your own. That’s the best kind of trend, right? Here’s what’s trending in design this month. Whimsical Illustrations It seems like whimsical illustrations… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, December 2019
Using Bootstrap to Create Material Design Web Apps
Google’s Material Design is ubiquitous in modern mobile apps. Perhaps it’s because most people today have come to love its bold colors, subtle shadows, and minimalist layouts. Wouldn’t it be great if you could easily apply the same design language to your websites and offer visitors a user experience they’re are well accustomed to? Well, with… Continue reading Using Bootstrap to Create Material Design Web Apps
What Kind of MVP Do I Need?
Are you looking to make your product successful right from its early days? Consider developing an MVP then. The design and launch of an MVP often do not require serious investments. However, even at this stage, you may face a few challenges. What type of an MVP do you need? How much time and money… Continue reading What Kind of MVP Do I Need?
Transform Your Design with Unified UX
Unless you’ve been hiding under a tinfoil hat for the last few years, you probably know that UX and UI are not the same thing because “UX is more ergonomic”, or some such nonsense. But what about the unified part? Normally speaking, I’ve got very little patience for hipster acronyms and nit-picking, but actually it… Continue reading Transform Your Design with Unified UX
How to Make a Digital Scrapbook Template
What You’ll Be Creating Want to know how to become a digital scrapbook designer? In this tutorial, we’ll walk through creating a digital scrapbook template, perfect for adapting into your own layouts and designs! Add your own photos, or mix it up and do something completely different! The only limit is your imagination. What You’ll… Continue reading How to Make a Digital Scrapbook Template
Five Effective Website Tools for Successful Event Planning
These days, planning an event- whether a wedding, corporate event, club gathering, or birthday party- requires an online presence. At the very minimum, an email with event details carbon-copied to all attendees, or- if everyone is on Facebook (and who isn’t, these days?)- a Facebook Event page that allows guests to “RSVP” with a single… Continue reading Five Effective Website Tools for Successful Event Planning
Show an Event Calendar With a Free WordPress Calendar Plugin
Many businesses need to share event calendars with customers. For example, a restaurant can use an event calendar to advertise special musical events, or holiday menus. Similarly, schools can use event calendars on their websites to let students and teachers know about any upcoming activities in school related to sports, exams or other events. Event… Continue reading Show an Event Calendar With a Free WordPress Calendar Plugin
How to Make Instagram Stories in Seconds Without Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Need to create beautiful looking Instagram stories, but don’t have the required tools to start doing so? Well, what if I told you that there’s an easy way you can change that, using Placeit’s online Instagram Story Templates. Believe it or not, you can actually use templates for Instagram stories, such… Continue reading How to Make Instagram Stories in Seconds Without Photoshop
How to Add Sound to Your Site, Without Infuriating Users
Once in a while, every professional comes across a challenge so great, so ridiculous, that they just can’t help themselves. They just have to go for it. It’s like the story of David and Goliath… if David was just bored and Goliath wasn’t threatening his entire nation. As for me, I’m about to argue for… Continue reading How to Add Sound to Your Site, Without Infuriating Users
How to Use the Free WordPress FooGallery Plugin to Create Image Galleries
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Some websites require you to add many images in a single post or webpage. For example, you might want to upload a lot of images from an art exhibition or an event on a website. Similarly, any business that focuses on products and services might add a lot of relevant images on a single page.… Continue reading How to Use the Free WordPress FooGallery Plugin to Create Image Galleries
Create Branded WooCommerce Emails With an Email Customizer Plugin
If you have ever placed an order online, then you have probably received a transactional email. Transactional emails are emails that are sent to you and your customers after a transaction has occurred on your website. These transactional emails are not to be confused with promotional emails that are sent to a list of recipients… Continue reading Create Branded WooCommerce Emails With an Email Customizer Plugin
How to Create a Form With the Quform WordPress Plugin
Forms are essential for any website as they provide an efficient way for your customers to communicate with you. Whether you are looking to receive feedback, complete an order, or receive an application from your website visitors, forms allow you to effectively collect all of this information. Many of the WordPress forms on the market… Continue reading How to Create a Form With the Quform WordPress Plugin
Most Important People to Consider Hiring For Your Small Business
You’ve heard people say “you can’t do it all” and it proves to be true in a lot of situations. There are of course those who exceed all expectations and “do it all” but burn themselves out in the process but even for those supposedly “doing it all,” you can best believe that they had… Continue reading Most Important People to Consider Hiring For Your Small Business
How to Add the Sticky HTML5 WordPress Music Player to Your Site
There are a lot of reasons why you might want to add a music or audio player to your WordPress website. You can use it to allow users to play the audio version of the article they are reading or you can use it to simply add some nice background music to the website. If… Continue reading How to Add the Sticky HTML5 WordPress Music Player to Your Site
How Powerful Micro-Interactions Boost Your UX
Because of the sense of value users perceive from micro-interactions, they not only boost engagement, but also inspire positive feelings towards your brand, and ultimately, influence users’ actions. This article will discuss the basics of micro-interactions and how you can utilize them to enhance your UX design. What Are Micro-Interactions? In digital design, micro-interactions are… Continue reading How Powerful Micro-Interactions Boost Your UX
23+ Best Responsive WordPress Themes (For Sites in 2020)
When it comes to creating a website for your business, an attractive design will only get you so far. With people increasingly using their tablets and smartphones to research and shop online, your website needs not only to be responsive, but flawlessly responsive. In 2020, the number of smartphone users worldwide is forecast to reach an incredible… Continue reading 23+ Best Responsive WordPress Themes (For Sites in 2020)
How to Use Popups Without Damaging User Experience
Website owners/designers/developers are always looking for the best strategies to convert new leads into loyal customers, and popups are one of the most effective ways to catch your audience’s attention. Unfortunately, popups can be intrusive and often turn users away. As per a study by HubSpot, popups are one of the three most disliked forms… Continue reading How to Use Popups Without Damaging User Experience
7 Features That Make Sitejet a Viable Alternative to WordPress
WordPress has long been the king of web design, but a new CMS built by four German designers looks set to offer an entirely new challenge for its crown. Sitejet doesn’t just provide novices and experts the chance to make beautiful websites in a shorter timeframe than its rival. It also comes equipped with a… Continue reading 7 Features That Make Sitejet a Viable Alternative to WordPress
Top 4 Tips to Choosing Your Landing Page Templates
A landing page is a great way to drive traffic, improve your SEO and build your brand. Everyone agrees that having a landing page is critical for businesses to generate leads for future conversion, but many people think it is difficult to create one. Landing page templates allow you to quickly and easily create effective… Continue reading Top 4 Tips to Choosing Your Landing Page Templates
Mega Menus, Sticky Menus and More
Of things that users expect when they are on a website, navigation menus are the most important. It’s hard to imagine a website without them. A website menu is made up of a collection of links. These links are road signs that make it possible to navigate and interact with a website. They guide users… Continue reading Mega Menus, Sticky Menus and More
Set up a Secure, Performant WooCommerce Site with Kinsta
WordPress is one of the most versatile, powerful systems available to build websites with. Despite starting out as a blogging platform it’s now equally capable for creating online stores as are platforms dedicated solely to e-commerce. However, its power and versatility come with a catch: if you are completely managing everything to do with your WordPress… Continue reading Set up a Secure, Performant WooCommerce Site with Kinsta