Reasons for Web Designers to Stick with WordPress

Sometimes, even the best of friends can have a disagreement. That’s the sort of vibe that WordPress and its community have been dealing with for quite some time. There’s still a lot of love, but it goes along with some undertones of frustration. No, it’s not everyone who feels this way. It may not even… Continue reading Reasons for Web Designers to Stick with WordPress

13 Best PHP Tools For Every Programmer Or Software Developer

PHP is a popular known server-side scripting language, embedded in HTML (hypertext markup language). PHP is an acronym for “Hypertext Preprocessor.” The first version of PHP was released in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. It started as an open source project which gained popularity as people began seeing its importance. PHP is used to manage databases,… Continue reading 13 Best PHP Tools For Every Programmer Or Software Developer

Over 30 Web Tools And Services Reviewed

Everyone talks about the different web tools and services on the market, as there are over 10,000 different solutions on the market in all niches. There are tens of website builders, thousands of website themes, plugins, logo design platforms and so on. But what to choose with so many options? In this showcase, you will… Continue reading Over 30 Web Tools And Services Reviewed

Building Image-Rich Websites Without the Lag

Optimize Image File Size You might be familiar with this trick from the old days, batch when using progressively-loading JPEGs was the height of image optimization techniques. While these methods can still be of some use today, there are many more ways to shave off some loading time today. Use a program like ImageOptim or… Continue reading Building Image-Rich Websites Without the Lag

10 Questions You Need to Be Asking Your Clients

Client meetings don’t just go one way. While your clients might come prepared with a list of questions for you, you’ll want to have some questions of your own. Here are the top ten questions you need to be asking your clients if you aren’t already. Why do you want a website? This question can… Continue reading 10 Questions You Need to Be Asking Your Clients

The Impact WordPress Has Had on the Web

WordPress recently celebrated its 15th birthday. Not only is it quite an achievement for anything web-related to last that long, it’s also impressive to see that the content management system is still at its peak relevancy. That got me thinking about the impact WordPress has had on the web and specifically on web designers. Frankly,… Continue reading The Impact WordPress Has Had on the Web

5 Professional Website Builders to Use Instead of WordPress

When it comes to professional website building, using WordPress is undoubtedly a reasonable solution. The platform comes with a powerful feature set, abundance of design customization tools, themes, plugins and extensions. It can boast a trusted user community, the members of which are always ready to provide any kind of web design assistance to newbies.… Continue reading 5 Professional Website Builders to Use Instead of WordPress

12 Diversified Yet Free To Use WYSIWYG Text Editors

Are you looking for some free to use Javascript or jQuery WYSIWYG HTML editors? Well, if your answer is yes, then you are lucky enough to land on the right page. In this round up, we are presenting 12 Diversified Yet Free To Use WYSIWYG Text Editors. Such editors come very handy when your visitors… Continue reading 12 Diversified Yet Free To Use WYSIWYG Text Editors

9 Handful Tutorials For Learning WordPress As Per Your Need

WordPress is fastest growing CMS around and by the time the thirst of it’s learning is increasing as well. To arrange the possibilities of learning WordPress for everyone, we have hand-picked some easy to understand and useful tutorials consist of tips, tricks and how-to guides. With the help of these tutorials, any WordPress learner can… Continue reading 9 Handful Tutorials For Learning WordPress As Per Your Need

Why You Should Have a Good WordPress Backup Solution

What is WordPress? WordPress is one of the most popular content management system and CMS; which is based on PHP and MySQL. It is a free tool which help us to build websites and create powerful blogs. Earlier it was just a blogging tool but over time its developers increased its functionality and now it… Continue reading Why You Should Have a Good WordPress Backup Solution

Top 7 Brightest WordPress Web Design Trends We Met in 2017

The year 2017 is slowly running to the end, so we can start drawing the first conclusions in regards to the trends that were in the biggest demand among the web audience. It’s become our good tradition to start every New Year with the series of predictions for the next 365 days and finish the… Continue reading Top 7 Brightest WordPress Web Design Trends We Met in 2017

5 Essentials For Your First Business Website

Websites are essential for entrepreneurs looking to promote their brand. It creates a space for customers to learn about your product or services and can even be used to lure potential investors to grow your seed money. However, you can’t just create any website and hope to attract customers and investors. Your website needs to… Continue reading 5 Essentials For Your First Business Website

5 Node.js Alternatives To WordPress

Originally released in 2003, WordPress is still the king of CMS. But with the rise of Node.js, there are many modern challengers that have large communities, support themes, plugins and are easy to install on your own server. Here are 5 you might want to checkout. KeystoneJS is a powerful CMS framework, build on Express… Continue reading 5 Node.js Alternatives To WordPress

Is WordPress Ready for the New EU Privacy Rules?

Data is invaluable in the digital age, and if you have online presence, particularly if you run a website, then you are automatically part of the data game. With the new EU rules on data protection set to come into force in less than a year from now, how will WordPress – everyone’s favorite platform… Continue reading Is WordPress Ready for the New EU Privacy Rules?

5 Steps to Create Your Own e-Commerce Site from Scratch

Being a designer nowadays goes hand in hand with staying up-to-date with technology; owning a high-spec PC or Mac is quintessential and knowing every Photoshop and Illustrator shortcut like the back of your hand is a given. Yet building your own website from scratch in order to showcase or even sell your work is a… Continue reading 5 Steps to Create Your Own e-Commerce Site from Scratch

Tips for Training Your Clients to Use WordPress

As WordPress continues to power more and more websites, it stands to reason that many site owners will want to learn how to use it. One of the strengths of any CMS is the ability to login remotely and add/edit content or perform other maintenance tasks. WordPress especially excels in this area and includes some… Continue reading Tips for Training Your Clients to Use WordPress

Don’t Let Content Delay Website Launches

Posted · Category: Tools Whether content is delivered late, structured differently to the design or lost in email threads – content always gets the blame for website project delays. As a designer or developer involved in a website project, you’re probably familiar with having to adjust or even re-do your work when content finally arrives.… Continue reading Don’t Let Content Delay Website Launches

Are You Using The Right CMS Platform?

CMS is short for Content Management System – and it’s easy to understand why many novices find the term confusing. Broken down, it sounds like a specialized tool, something you might use to store and organize materials before putting them online or saving reference materials. In reality, though, CMS platforms are everywhere. WordPress is a… Continue reading Are You Using The Right CMS Platform?

Improve Your Work With Efficient Web Tools & Services

There a bunch of efficient web tools & services available on the market, that will improve work and it will help you save time and money. In this showcase, you will find 18 hand-picked great solutions from different fields, so you can have everything covered, things like the most appreciated WordPress themes, a super-simple to… Continue reading Improve Your Work With Efficient Web Tools & Services

How to Become a Professional WordPress Developer [Infographic]

February 15, 2017 by Spyre Studios Currently, there are over 1 billion websites on the interwebs, and it is reported that every minute, over 500 new websites are created. What is more interesting is that out of this huge number of websites, over 27% are being run by WordPress, which makes it the most popular… Continue reading How to Become a Professional WordPress Developer [Infographic]

The ultimate guide to CMS, part 1

Gather ’round friends, and I’ll tell you a story that is pure fabrication on my part, and also probably how it happened: Once upon a time, around 1995 (as far as I can figure out from searching around the web), some poor guy who worked as the “webmaster” for some large company was putting nearly… Continue reading The ultimate guide to CMS, part 1

The Verge gets a redesign

Okay, let’s just get this out of the way: on this, the verge of a new year, the Verge got a redesign. Now the punnery is over and we can get on with our lives. It had to be done, or I could not call myself a writer. So let’s get to the good bit:… Continue reading The Verge gets a redesign

25 Powerful Tools and Resources For Web Designers

Posted · Category: Best Collections It’s important for web designers and agencies to keep abreast of the latest technological and design trends. It’s equally important that those who produce design tools and aids, maintain design element resources, and provide website development and implementation services That is true with the design and development aides that are… Continue reading 25 Powerful Tools and Resources For Web Designers