How to Create a Vector Infographic Template in Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In the following steps, you will learn how to create an infographic template in Adobe Illustrator. For starters, you will learn how to set up a simple grid. Using basic tools and taking full advantage of the grid and snap to grid features, you will learn how to create the infographic… Continue reading How to Create a Vector Infographic Template in Illustrator

Create a JavaScript Contact Form With the Smart Forms Framework

In our earlier posts, we listed some free plugins and tools that you can use to create your own forms. One major downside to using free tools to create forms is that the end product might not look as professional and polished as you expect. Similarly, using free libraries to code your own forms might… Continue reading Create a JavaScript Contact Form With the Smart Forms Framework

How to Make an Infographic Template

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will have the opportunity to learn how to draw a set of elements for a medical infographic template in Illustrator! If you’d like to skip this tutorial and just use this infographic design template (with even more elements!) in your work, you can go ahead and simply… Continue reading How to Make an Infographic Template

How to Make Your WordPress Theme or Plugin Multilingual-Ready

Multilingual compatibility is a core requirement for any premium WordPress theme nowadays. There are many plugins that offer multilingual tools, but arguably the most popular are WPML and Polylang. Let’s look into them! Meet the Players WPML is a premium-only plugin that makes it easy to build and run multilingual sites. It’s powerful enough for… Continue reading How to Make Your WordPress Theme or Plugin Multilingual-Ready

Create a Home Page With the Elements Plugin for WordPress

Without the right tools, creating professional-looking static pages for a WordPress site is hard, even for an experienced web developer. It involves tasks such as designing responsive layouts, finding appropriate creative assets, and acquiring the right licenses to use them. If you’ve ever tried doing all these tasks on your own, I’m sure you understand… Continue reading Create a Home Page With the Elements Plugin for WordPress

How to Create a WordPress Child Theme

If you’re using a theme you downloaded from the free WordPress theme repository, or maybe one you’ve bought from ThemeForest, you may want to make some tweaks to it. Maybe you want to register a new font or add a new template file. Maybe you want to add some code from one of the tutorials or… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Child Theme

How to Create a Dusty Texture From Scratch

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll create a dusty overlay texture from scanned paper, and I will show you how to apply this texture to your image. I created Dusty Textures Pack the same way for my GraphicRiver portfolio. Tutorial Assets A sheet of craft paper or any other paper with a similar structure. A scanner… Continue reading How to Create a Dusty Texture From Scratch

Create a Booking System With a WordPress Booking Plugin

What You’ll Be Creating If you run any sort of business that involves appointments or meetings with clients or between staff members, then your life will be made much simpler if you enable bookings on your website. This doesn’t just apply to meetings—hotels, spas and other leisure businesses can also benefit from using online bookings.… Continue reading Create a Booking System With a WordPress Booking Plugin

How to Create an Online Store with WordPress and BigCommerce

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a WordPress shopping cart, using the BigCommerce WordPress plugin. We’ll go over the following things (in both video and written format, choose whichever you prefer!): What is BigCommerce (and the concept of “headless”)? How to download the plugin and create an account Setting up… Continue reading How to Create an Online Store with WordPress and BigCommerce

How to Make a Newsletter Email Subscription Popup with the ConvertPlus WordPress Plugin

A newsletter is a report sent by an organization or business containing any recent news. In an e=commerce business, it might contain news or sales on products which might interest the subscriber. Newsletters allow you to encourage website visitors to return to your site and can be a powerful tool for boosting sales and viewership.… Continue reading How to Make a Newsletter Email Subscription Popup with the ConvertPlus WordPress Plugin

Tips for Using Location-Based Photos on Your Website

Photography can be one of a web designer’s most powerful assets. We can use it to transport users to another place and time. It can convey a feeling and amplify a message. Today, we’re going to focus on images that were taken on location. This can cover anything from a stunning skyline shot… Continue reading Tips for Using Location-Based Photos on Your Website

How to Make a Purchase Icon in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating Love icon design? If so, follow this tutorial and learn how to make a minimal purchase icon in three different versions. We will use only basic shapes, and with the help of the Align options and the Pathfinder options, we will build these icons step by step. By the end of… Continue reading How to Make a Purchase Icon in Adobe Illustrator

How to Create an Online Fashion Portfolio in 5 Steps

If you’re someone who is interested in pursuing a career in clothing design, your skills aren’t the only factor in your success. To be taken seriously, you need a way to show that you know what you’re doing. That’s what your portfolio is for. You may have experience making your own clothes, but aspire to… Continue reading How to Create an Online Fashion Portfolio in 5 Steps

New Course: Figma to HTML

What You’ll Be Creating If you haven’t yet got to grips with the Figma interface design application, now’s your chance. In our new course, Figma to HTML: Code Up a Single-Page Design, you’ll master Figma by going through the process of converting a Figma website design to HTML.   What You’ll Learn In this course, Kezz… Continue reading New Course: Figma to HTML

How to Create an Exit Popup With the Layered Popup Plugin for WordPress

Exit popups are messages that are shown to visitors when they are about to leave a website. They are mostly used to encourage visitors to complete their purchase or make a visitor subscribe to an email list, or simply make them stick around longer by suggesting products or content they might be interested in. They… Continue reading How to Create an Exit Popup With the Layered Popup Plugin for WordPress

30 Best Fonts for Making Monograms & Logo Designs in 2019

Create the best logos with monogram designs. Check out this list of premium logo fonts. 30 Best Fonts for Monograms & Logos Having trouble designing a logo? A popular concept style that is easy and memorable is the classic monogram logo. Simply put, a monogram is a symbol, usually made up of letters. Monograms have… Continue reading 30 Best Fonts for Making Monograms & Logo Designs in 2019

Create a Custom Shipping Method for WooCommerce

What You’ll Be Creating WooCommerce is great. For a free e-commerce solution, it has an incredibly useful set of features. But sometimes you need something extra. One occasion when I often find WooCommerce doesn’t give me everything I need is when it comes to setting up custom shipping methods. Out of the box, WooCommerce lets… Continue reading Create a Custom Shipping Method for WooCommerce

Create a Contact Form in WordPress Using a Free Plugin

Today, we’re going to discuss the Formidable Forms plugin for WordPress, which allows you to create different kinds of forms easily. Specifically, we’ll look at how you could use this plugin to build a contact form for your site. We’ll start by exploring the basic settings provided by this plugin, and later on, we’ll go… Continue reading Create a Contact Form in WordPress Using a Free Plugin

Create an Angular Registration Form in Our New Course

Almost every web app will require some sort of a registration and login form. Not only that, but registration forms are a great learning project for Angular app development. In our new course, Hands-on Angular: Create a Registration Form, you’ll build your Angular skills while building a simple registration form. What You’ll Learn In this… Continue reading Create an Angular Registration Form in Our New Course

How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to create a realistic 3D gold text effect using layer styles in Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: Download the file Gold_Text_Effect-Assets.zip and extract both files inside. Install the Pattern file “Patterns.pat“. Install the Contour file “CustomContours.shc”.… Continue reading How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

30 Best Mockup Templates: Download for Realistic Commercial Presentation

Best mockup psd templates collection with ultra realistic presentation design that can be used for commercial or personal and save your time and make your brand look awesome with amazing effects. These mock-ups are easy to use with smart objects, simply double-click the Smart Layer, copy & paste your artwork, save your project and it’s… Continue reading 30 Best Mockup Templates: Download for Realistic Commercial Presentation

Create a Themeable Site Design in Figma

If you want to create a flexible website design that you can easily convert into multiple themes, then try our new course, Create a Themeable Site Design in Figma. What You’ll Learn Figma is a superb vector-based tool for interface design. As part of its suite of functionality it includes a “styles” system, whereby various… Continue reading Create a Themeable Site Design in Figma

How to Customize Bootstrap’s Sass Files With Grunt

Today, we’ll learn how to customize Bootstrap 4’s Sass files with Grunt.  Instead of Grunt, we could just as easily use another task runner like Gulp, webpack, or npm scripts. Regardless of the build tool the process of customizing Bootstrap’s source Sass files will be the same. Note: This tutorial assumes you have some familiarity with Bootstrap 4, Sass, and build tools.… Continue reading How to Customize Bootstrap’s Sass Files With Grunt

How to Test a Website Before Launching to the Public

Have you been toiling away on your website for the past several months? Before you launch that bad boy, click here to learn how to test a website first. Launching a new website can be exciting. It’s important that you don’t let your excitement overpower your rational thinking. No matter how excited you are in… Continue reading How to Test a Website Before Launching to the Public