Low-cost web solutions often have uninspiring or even, to put it mildly, primitive design. By looking at this kind of an interface, users would rather have a nap than commit themselves to work. Nevertheless, several decision-makers prefer to rely on the solution’s functionalities, which is surely wise. But at the same time, they miss the… Continue reading How to Create Simple and Inexpensive Business Web apps with Great Design
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Best WordPress Quiz Plugins of 2019
A great way to improve website visitor engagement and get potential business is with quizzes. A quiz does not necessarily need to have academic questions. You can use them to help visitors figure out which product they should buy or books they should read, for example. Quizzes can also be created just for fun or… Continue reading Best WordPress Quiz Plugins of 2019
How to Create a Mailchimp Subscribe Form Widget for WordPress
In this tutorial I’ll explain how to create a “Mailchimp subscribe form widget” using WordPress, the Mailchimp API, and AJAX. It will be aimed at competent beginner developers, and requires some understanding of PHP and WordPress development. There’s a lot to do, so let’s get stuck in! A Quick Note on APIs “The web has… Continue reading How to Create a Mailchimp Subscribe Form Widget for WordPress
Android Fans Rejoice, Vivaldi Has Arrived
It’s time for me to go all fanboy on you guys, because Vivaldi is on Android, ya’ll! Vivaldi the browser, that is. You know, the one made by former Opera devs, and which is aimed at power users who want loads of customization and choice, plus a little privacy. It’s the browser I’ve been using… Continue reading Android Fans Rejoice, Vivaldi Has Arrived
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
3 Essential Design Trends, September 2019
This month’s collection of design trends focuses on a bit of a slow burn – design techniques that appeal to millennials (maybe) and Generation Z. Gen-Zers are those born between 1997 and 2012, meaning part of this generation is in grade school. This generation is impacting design trends already because they are the most digital… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, September 2019
5 Human Things UX Designers Can Learn From Conversational Design
It seems like magic: you talk to the phone, and it talks back. And if you’re lucky, it says something useful. You type into the chat box, and if the bot is good, you find out what you need to know. [Cue: shocked-looking stock photo models.] The current marketing term for it is “conversational design”,… Continue reading 5 Human Things UX Designers Can Learn From Conversational Design
Faster Web Apps With the Svelte Framework (New Course)
Svelte is a new approach to building user interfaces. Learn to build user interfaces more efficiently in our new course, Faster Web Apps With the Svelte Framework. What You’ll Learn Traditional frameworks like React and Vue do the bulk of their work in the browser, but Svelte shifts that work to build-time and drastically improves… Continue reading Faster Web Apps With the Svelte Framework (New Course)
How to Create a React Native Calendar Component
React Native is a cross-platform mobile app development framework with a gentle learning curve and lots of built-in components. Because it has a very active developer community, there are also hundreds of open source third-party component libraries available for it, allowing you to create both Android and iOS apps focusing only on the apps’ core… Continue reading How to Create a React Native Calendar Component
Brand Science 101
Every day in my work helping grow digital agencies and Fortune 500 brands, I hear countless companies struggle with how to discuss, interact with, and grow their client’s brand, leaving dollars on the table and creating problems along the way. The agency owner offers their perspective, shares why branding is important, but usually lacks the… Continue reading Brand Science 101
Eliminate Old Technology to Declutter Your Space
Developing and accomplishing a total decluttering plan for your home or workspace can be overwhelming. So many books and videos instruct you to tackle an entire room or more all at once, and who has that kind time? This all-at-once approach also leads you to get rid of things you need, causing you to spend… Continue reading Eliminate Old Technology to Declutter Your Space
Best Interactive JavaScript Plugins to Liven Up Your WordPress Site
Interactive media like audio, video, flipbooks, galleries, maps, countdown clocks, timelines, popups and forms increases the time visitors spend engaging with content on your WordPress website. They create great user experiences. JavaScript media scripts and plugins for WordPress make it easy to bring this life and engagement to your website. If you’re looking for fresh… Continue reading Best Interactive JavaScript Plugins to Liven Up Your WordPress Site
Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin
What You’ll Be Creating Plugins are what makes WordPress special. Without them, WordPress wouldn’t be much more than a humble blogging platform. But by adding plugins to your site, you can turn it into so much more. Depending on what you need, you can use a plugin to make your site more efficient and to… Continue reading Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin
How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop
The act of card sorting is a hands-on and quick way of creating a category tree (information architecture) based on users’ understanding of the topics of a product. The simple idea of the workshop is to ask users to organise cards that already contain written content into groups. In this tutorial you will learn how… Continue reading How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop
Use the WooCommerce API to Customize Your Online Store
WooCommerce is the world’s most popular eCommerce platform. That’s partly because it’s built on the world’s most popular content management system (WordPress), and also partly because it’s free. But it’s also because WooCommerce, like WordPress itself, is incredibly flexible. If you install WooCommerce on your site, not only can you use it to quickly set… Continue reading Use the WooCommerce API to Customize Your Online Store
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
CyberGhost VPN Review: What are the risks of not using a VPN?
Whether you like it or not, you are being tracked online. With Net Neutrality rights being rolled back and more power residing with big corporations, compiling your private data is easier than ever for these companies. Anything you do online can be logged and stored. Every website, social media post, funny video, or news article… Continue reading CyberGhost VPN Review: What are the risks of not using a VPN?
How to Create the Ultimate Social Media Listening Dashboard for Online Marketing
You can’t go wrong with social media marketing. Whether you’re a digital agency offering logo designs, SEO services, or even an ecommerce website, it pays to have your social media presence up and running and getting attention like a digital peacock. The only problem is, it can be challenging to pull this off with all… Continue reading How to Create the Ultimate Social Media Listening Dashboard for Online Marketing
Five ways Sitejet makes building a website more efficient than ever before
With new website development solutions coming up more often than ever, web design has been made pretty straightforward. Optimizing the web design process for speed and quality are the biggest concerns of every professional web designer. The easiest answer to most of the optimization challenges faced by web designers is to provide them with numerous… Continue reading Five ways Sitejet makes building a website more efficient than ever before
Running an Online Business? Cybersecurity Should Be on Top of Your List
Maintaining a solid online presence is an essential aspect of running a business nowadays. Most consumers are already online, so the internet is the perfect place to reach out and expand your target demographic. Besides advertising on social media and through email newsletters, most companies also have their own dedicated business website. But in an… Continue reading Running an Online Business? Cybersecurity Should Be on Top of Your List
Common Challenges of UX Design for The Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) is a new wave for transforming the way people complete their everyday tasks. It involves inter connectivity between smart devices, allowing them to share information with each other. It is an emerging trend for improving the quality of life as well as the productivity of companies. IoT continues to grow and… Continue reading Common Challenges of UX Design for The Internet of Things
3 Best DevOps Tools for Your Next Web Development Project
DevOps is a process for web development that brings developers and operations teams together. This structure tries to eliminate common problems with development through joint scoping before a project kicks off and closer collaboration during development. This combined team effort allows companies to streamline the development process and bring products, website, apps or services to… Continue reading 3 Best DevOps Tools for Your Next Web Development Project
Build an App With GraphQL, Laravel, and Vue
If you want to learn about a useful new web API that offers a more dynamic and robust API for fetching and submitting data, try our new course, Build an App With GraphQL, Laravel, and Vue. What You’ll Learn Join Jeremy McPeak in this course as he teaches you how to create GraphQL APIs with… Continue reading Build an App With GraphQL, Laravel, and Vue
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