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
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Organize Your WordPress Media Library With Folders
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Today’s WordPress websites need to be media-rich to draw in and retain traffic. If you have a WordPress website, chances are you will have uploaded a video or images to be displayed on your pages and posts. Whether you want to show off customer testimonials, your latest blog posts, your best images, or just celebrate… Continue reading Organize Your WordPress Media Library With Folders
How to Make an InDesign Catalog Template
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an InDesign catalog template for showcasing products. This simple and stylish design could also be adapted as a lookbook for fashion retailers or a brochure template. Consisting of a front cover and three inside spreads, this versatile catalog template can be easily extended… Continue reading How to Make an InDesign Catalog Template
How to Create a Web Booking Form With the Smart Forms Script
Booking forms can serve a lot of purposes on a website. You can use them to allow your visitors to book a hotel room or tickets to a popular event. They can also be used for other things like booking appointments with clients. They are a great way for people to simply give you all… Continue reading How to Create a Web Booking Form With the Smart Forms Script
Making A Real Impact With Real Estate Web Design
Real estate marketing has come a long way from a simple sign posted in the yard, and today’s real estate professionals need to make web design a priority if they want to be successful. If your agency hasn’t revamped its site recently, take a moment to evaluate these 4 elements and make some updates. They’ll… Continue reading Making A Real Impact With Real Estate Web Design
How Page Builder Plugins Make It Easy to Create a WordPress Website
Page builder plugins make it easier for both novices and experienced developers to build websites faster. With a page builder, you don’t need to know how to code—you can build your site with drag and drop. There are many free and premium WordPress page builders in the market. In this post, I’ll show you the… Continue reading How Page Builder Plugins Make It Easy to Create a WordPress Website
How to Create a WordPress Gallery Using the Justified Image Grid Plugin
Displaying photos and videos on your website are essential for your website’s success. Photos and videos on a website can increase engagement by over 65% and encourage visitors to spend a longer period of time on your site. By increasing engagement and keeping your target audience on your website, you will have a much better… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Gallery Using the Justified Image Grid Plugin
How to Find the Best WordPress Gallery Plugins for Images or Video
How you present your visual content is key to the success of your website or online store. When visual content is done beautifully it encourages visitors to stay longer on your website. It also improves your SEO ranking and make your website easier to find in search results. However, creating a beautiful gallery for your… Continue reading How to Find the Best WordPress Gallery Plugins for Images or Video
Ouch: free illustrations for websites and interfaces
How to build a product that people will love? Just give them what they need. This is the basic principle behind Ouch, a library of interface illustrations created by Icons8 team. It’s not a secret that most websites and interfaces need to have a face. When a user is engaging with a project, they want… Continue reading Ouch: free illustrations for websites and interfaces
17+ Best Full-Screen WordPress Themes for 2019 Websites
If you’re a designer, photographer, artist, or any other creative professional, you’ll have realized the importance of having a beautiful portfolio site. When you display your projects in an organized and attractive way, you are more likely to appeal to clients or get a job at the company of your dreams. Anyone who visits your… Continue reading 17+ Best Full-Screen WordPress Themes for 2019 Websites
20 Best Construction Company WordPress Themes for Building Websites
If you want to land more clients for your construction company, you need a website that can showcase the range of services you offer and convince potential clients that you have the skills and know-how to deliver on their expectations. One of the easiest ways to create a beautiful website is to use WordPress. More… Continue reading 20 Best Construction Company WordPress Themes for Building Websites
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
17+ Best Fashion WordPress Themes (2019) for Blog & Magazine Sites
When it comes to fashion websites, choosing the right design is imperative. Whether you’re highlighting your best models or showcasing your latest creations; one thing is certain: your site needs to have a high visual focus. Large images and plenty of white space will do wonders for your site. But, how do you go about… Continue reading 17+ Best Fashion WordPress Themes (2019) for Blog & Magazine Sites
25 Professional Trifold Brochure Templates for Inspiration
Modern and creative Trifold Brochure Templates with elegant design. All brochure templates are designed with a professional theme and multipurpose business. Trifold brochures are perfect for corporate business, sports, events, school portfolio, photographer, interior design and company products. There brochure templates has all the features you’d expect in a brochures, from placeholders, to text styles, one… Continue reading 25 Professional Trifold Brochure Templates for Inspiration
How to Embed PDF Files on Your WordPress Site With a Free Plugin
Today, we’ll explore the PDF Poster plugin for WordPress which allows you to embed PDF files on your WordPress site. I’ll demonstrate how you can use this plugin on your own site to embed PDF files. As a site owner, sometimes you’ll need to embed and display PDF documents on your website. It could be… Continue reading How to Embed PDF Files on Your WordPress Site With a Free Plugin
5 Tips for Controlling Focus
You’re going to have build your site in such a way that the eye is naturally drawn from one step to the next. My sister used to accomplish controlling my focus by sternly, but calmly, telling me to “Get back to your schoolwork” anywhere from fifteen to forty times in a single day. But your… Continue reading 5 Tips for Controlling Focus
Photoshop Tutorials: 35 New Tutorials to Learn Exciting Manipulation Tricks
Adobe Photoshop is the one of the best tools for photo editing, manipulation and graphic design. We are here to help you to learn Photoshop tools and improve your graphic design skills. These experts-taught Photoshop tutorials have everything you need to learn photo effect, image editing, retouching, watercolor portraits, lighting effects, digital painting and photo manipulation from beginner… Continue reading Photoshop Tutorials: 35 New Tutorials to Learn Exciting Manipulation Tricks
8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System
Recently, I was part of a 3-person team of consultants who in 12 weeks built the foundations of a new design system. That design system is now used in multiple products and is contributed to by other developers and designers. In this post you’ll find some of the techniques we used to make the project… Continue reading 8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System
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
How Color Impacts UX
Let’s start with a common example: You’ve just finished a website design for someone. It looks and functions exactly like the wireframe. Everyone on the design team has praised the project. The client hates it, but they can’t explain why. The culprit might be color. Different colors can evoke such strong emotions that people have… Continue reading How Color Impacts UX
Balance Between Content and Web Design: How to Reach It
Just recently, I was given a very hard task – to find the perfect balance between web design and content. I have plenty of experience with both, but the combination of the two always gives me a lot of trouble. Still, for a website to be a success, it has to have the perfect balance… Continue reading Balance Between Content and Web Design: How to Reach It
Is Google Toast?
For those too young to remember, the Browser Wars entailed a tech rush by, among others, Netscape and Microsoft, resulting in useless features being implemented because they were fast to bolt-on, and useful features being rushed because they were hard. After the Browser Wars, the internet entered an era of stability as the last vestiges… Continue reading Is Google Toast?
How to Make a Sports YouTube Banner With a YouTube Banner Maker
What You’ll Be Creating If you want to be a successful YouTuber, you need a professional banner for your channel. Placeit is an online tool that allows you to design your own creation with a special banner generator. It offers hundreds of YouTube banner templates that you can modify for your needs. In this tutorial, I’ll… Continue reading How to Make a Sports YouTube Banner With a YouTube Banner Maker
How to Add Live Chat Complete in WordPress
Online shopping has revolutionized nearly every industry. Having a chat feature on your business website not only provides an avenue for customers to contact you, but it also helps build confidence and trust. A real-time chat feature on a website lets customers get instant answers to their questions or concerns, without having to make a… Continue reading How to Add Live Chat Complete in WordPress