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Tips to Enhance Your Blog With Design Thinking Approach

Design thinking is an innovative method of coming up with solutions to problems. Design thinking places the users at the heart to the problem-solving exercise with their experiences and opinions used to develop solutions to the problems they are facing. Once a solution to a problem has been found, it is tested on the users… Continue reading Tips to Enhance Your Blog With Design Thinking Approach

14 Best PHP Event Calendar and Booking Scripts

There are several reasons PHP calendar, booking and events scripts might be a great addition to your website. If you’re a service provider, then it makes sense to have an appointment booking system on your site that allows potential customers to see your availability and select an appointment time and date that is best for… Continue reading 14 Best PHP Event Calendar and Booking Scripts

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

Best WordPress eCommerce, Product, and Marketing Plugins of 2019

If you’re in the market for a top-notch WordPress eCommerce, product, or marketing plugin, you definitely need to check out this list of the best WooCommerce plugins for 2019.   eCommerce Plugins WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates makes it easy to start earning money as an Amazon affiliate. With this plugin, you can start adding Amazon… Continue reading Best WordPress eCommerce, Product, and Marketing Plugins of 2019

How To Build Your First Business Website: 5 Tips Nobody Told You About

As harsh as it may sound, it is pretty much safe to say that nowadays, if your business is not online, it basically does not exist. That is because most people go online, before choosing a product or a service. Essentially, no matter how small your business is, we strongly recommend you to build a… Continue reading How To Build Your First Business Website: 5 Tips Nobody Told You About

Avoid these 4 Website Redesign Mistakes that Sabotage SEO

As a freelance web designer/dev, one of the most common projects is a website redesign.  Clients want their existing site (or specific pages) transformed into something superior. But this often comes with a price where SEO is concerned. Massive changes to site structure, architecture, and page elements can negatively impact their search engine optimization. And… Continue reading Avoid these 4 Website Redesign Mistakes that Sabotage SEO

How to Create a Realistic Embroidery Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a realistic embroidery text effect in Photoshop using stitch brushes and layer styles. The end result will be a font that look like it’s embroidery!  This is part of my embroidery effect Photoshop action, which is part of Embroidery and Stitching Photoshop… Continue reading How to Create a Realistic Embroidery Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

How Can Professional Headshots Build Trust in Business?

In business, one of the key elements to predict its success is through building trust and rapport among customers. Trust is something that has to be gained for a long time, as it can establish good relationships and breakthroughs, yet can have the worst effects when destroyed. Essentially, customers are more likely to trust a… Continue reading How Can Professional Headshots Build Trust in Business?

How to Translate WordPress Using Weglot (Beginner’s Guide)

Building an international audience is going to take more than hoping people from around the world visit your site and subscribe or buy. In fact, many global consumers (55% to be exact) prefer to buy in their native language and stick to the motto, “Can’t Read, Won’t Buy.” That’s why translating your WordPress website into… Continue reading How to Translate WordPress Using Weglot (Beginner’s Guide)

10 Things To Remember When Designing An Infographic

Do you want to deliver important, yet overly complex information to your audience in an easy-to-understand way? Or are you finding hacks to engage your readers in the boring statistics? Whichever is your case, infographics might be exactly what you need! Infographics are popular choices when it comes to presenting information in a visually engaging… Continue reading 10 Things To Remember When Designing An Infographic

Decoding HTML Status and Error Codes For Fun and Profit

HTML error codes are just as familiar to web developers as the tech-phobic. The only real difference is that web developers are supposed to know what they mean! Of course, any developer knows the most common: 404 means the page isn’t there; 503 means the server is overloaded; 403 means “forbidden,” which is somehow different… Continue reading Decoding HTML Status and Error Codes For Fun and Profit

Use a Drag-and-Drop Form Builder for WordPress

Forms have always been an integral part of the Internet. As a WordPress website owner, you have no choice but to use them if you want your users to communicate with you. Creating a modern form that follows best practices and conforms to the look and feel of your site, however, can be a daunting… Continue reading Use a Drag-and-Drop Form Builder for WordPress

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 Add a Free WordPress Post Slider to Your Site

In this article, we’re going to explore how to make posts slider in WordPress by using a slider plugin. We’re going to use one of the best WordPress slider plugins—Responsive Posts Carousel. More often than not, when you’re creating your website, you would like to have a carousel on your website which displays posts filtered… Continue reading How to Add a Free WordPress Post Slider to Your Site

International Artist Feature: Guatemala

Welcome back to our International Artist Series. Today, we’re catching up with five incredible artists from Guatemala, a Central American country that is home to Mayan cities and a long history of artistic production. I asked each artist how their country and culture influenced their work, and they delivered great responses. Wilker Velásquez… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Guatemala

Top 10 Effective SEO Techniques to Drive Organic Traffic in 2019

Are you struggling with driving traffic to your website? I know the feeling. As website owners and marketers we invest a lot of time and energy trying to drive organic traffic through the roof. But when it comes down to it, we realize that we are still getting negligible traffic. In fact, sometimes we might… Continue reading Top 10 Effective SEO Techniques to Drive Organic Traffic in 2019

The Benefits of User Experience in Web Design

Every small-scale business or large-scale enterprise requires a website as it helps in achieving business goals, provide essential information to the prospective client and assists in improving the online presence of the company. These websites differ according to the business specification but what’s important is that it should offer an excellent user experience or UX.… Continue reading The Benefits of User Experience in Web Design

Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re switching to WordPress from a static site, from a site builder provided by your hosting provider, or even from an old WordPress site, you’ll want to ensure that your old site still works while you’re setting up the shiny new WordPress installation. The good news is that you don’t… Continue reading Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running

Illustrator Tutorials: 30 New Tuts to Learn Drawing and Illustration Tricks

Fresh free vector illustrator tutorials to thought you how to draw New Year and Christmas cards, backgrounds and more exciting graphic designs. Also you’ll learn how to create vector resources like vector logo, cartoon characters, typography poster and more useful illustration graphics. These tutorials are best for beginners and advance artists and designers. As we know Adobe illustrator… Continue reading Illustrator Tutorials: 30 New Tuts to Learn Drawing and Illustration Tricks

Target CSS for Specific Content With WordPress Template Tags

What You’ll Be Creating Learning WordPress development isn’t just about learning to code PHP. You’ll also need some HTML and CSS skills if the sites, themes and/or plugins you create are going to work well. In this tutorial, I’ll show you an incredibly useful feature of WordPress that mixes PHP with some simple CSS. It’s… Continue reading Target CSS for Specific Content With WordPress Template Tags

How to Draw a Ball

What You’ll Be Creating Drawing a ball may sound like something very simple, yet if you try it, you may discover that there are certain rules that must be followed. You need to know them if you want to draw a perfect ball!  In this tutorial, I will show you how to draw a soccer… Continue reading How to Draw a Ball

How to Draw Angel Wings

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I will show you how to draw wings on the back of a human, creating an angel. Angels, though seen as spiritual rather than material, are pictured as winged humans. But wings are not simply an appendix growing out of the shoulder blades—they’re specialized arms. So a typical… Continue reading How to Draw Angel Wings