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

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

Top 7 Membership and Custom User Login and Registration WordPress Plugins

Membership and user profiles are a very important aspect of a website. They allow you to take control of your content by it to premium members only. They also allow you to create more income from your website. Membership can also be a way to establish yourself as an authority in your particular niche.  Login… Continue reading Top 7 Membership and Custom User Login and Registration WordPress Plugins

10 Best Restaurant WordPress Plugins

With the evolution of online shopping, more and more shoppers are buying food and groceries online. But in order for your restaurant website to stand out, you need the right plugins. In this tutorial, we are going to review some of the premium best restaurant plugins on CodeCanyon, and some great free plugins you can… Continue reading 10 Best Restaurant WordPress Plugins

How to Embed and Protect PDF Files With a WordPress Plugin

PDF files are a very popular way of sharing formatted documents due to their flexibility and lightweight nature—they work on most devices and operating systems. In this post, I’ll show you how to use a WordPress PDF plugin to embed and protect PDF files in your WordPress posts and pages. Why Use PDFs? PDFs can… Continue reading How to Embed and Protect PDF Files With a WordPress Plugin

How Website Graphics Can Help You Reel Customers In

Customer service is invaluable. It is an integral factor that determines the success of a business as it enables your customer to keeps coming back to you. Customer satisfaction is only earned when you ensure that your customer is happy with your services and the overall customer experience. As technology progresses, businesses evolve with it.… Continue reading How Website Graphics Can Help You Reel Customers In

Top 10 Things You Need to Know Before Using WordPress

As one of the best content management systems (CMS) on the internet, WordPress attracts many users from different levels of expertise. Whether you are a newcomer or an already established internet user, WordPress could be the best CMS to fit your needs. But so far, how well do you really know about this platform? Listed… Continue reading Top 10 Things You Need to Know Before Using WordPress

20+ Best Flat Design, Modern WordPress Themes for 2019

Flat design burst onto the web design scene some years ago, arguably fuelled by the tech giants of the time. Major influencers included Microsoft’s Metro style, Apple’s release of iOS7, and Google’s Material design, all characterized by vibrant colors and a minimalistic approach to user interfaces. Since then plenty of WordPress themes have made use… Continue reading 20+ Best Flat Design, Modern WordPress Themes for 2019

How to Make a Business Brochure in InDesign

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a business brochure with a clean, corporate style in Adobe InDesign. Business brochure templates are quick and simple to put together in InDesign, and can be easily adapted with your own text and images.  This eight-page brochure design has a clean and modern… Continue reading How to Make a Business Brochure in InDesign

8 Best Project Management Systems and CRMS on CodeCanyon

Project management and CRM (customer relationship management) entails tracking all aspects of a business from planning, assigning tasks, follow up, task management, and invoicing—along with many more activities. The success of any website or business largely depends on the structures put in place to ensure the smooth running of operations. From planning and tasks assignment to… Continue reading 8 Best Project Management Systems and CRMS on CodeCanyon

Get Started With WPBakery (Formerly Visual Composer)

Writing HTML, CSS, and PHP code to build or customize a WordPress site can be incredibly time consuming, even for an experienced web developer. That’s probably why much of the WordPress community has moved on to using page-builder plugins instead. WPBakery Page Builder (formerly called Visual Composer) is the most flexible and feature-rich WordPress page-builder plugin… Continue reading Get Started With WPBakery (Formerly Visual Composer)

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

17 MailChimp Templates for Every Purpose and Occasion

In this article we list 17 different MailChimp templates to help you make the most of your email marketing efforts, no matter the occasion or purpose. These templates have been selected for their amazing designs, and fully functional and customizable structure.  Your aim with these is to create highly converting and effective email campaigns. So,… Continue reading 17 MailChimp Templates for Every Purpose and Occasion

How To Create An Expert Like Design Portfolio With These 20 Pro Tips

When you are a graphic designer, the portfolio that you have is basically the entire world for you. It is the total summary that you have to show for your wonderful skills of creativity and design. Whether you are an expert or just a student in the world of graphic design, there is no doubt… Continue reading How To Create An Expert Like Design Portfolio With These 20 Pro Tips

5 Critical Elements You Need to Know to Build a Genuinely Cool Website

After completing 2 or 3 multi-page websites building a one-pager will take no time at all. Or so you’ve been told. The problem is, whoever told you that never tried putting together a one-pager. Or, at least one that could be bragged about. You’ll discover that cramming all the important information isn’t all that easy… Continue reading 5 Critical Elements You Need to Know to Build a Genuinely Cool Website

The Best 8 Shopify Apps For Your E-Store

It’s 2019, and today businesses are expected to have a strong presence online. In fact, companies have begun to take advantage of the possibilities that the online world has to offer and many businesses that only exist online have been founded. One of the driving forces is the fact that online businesses are much more… Continue reading The Best 8 Shopify Apps For Your E-Store

How to Create an eBook in Adobe InDesign

What You’ll Be Creating Ever wanted to easily convert your InDesign layouts to eBooks? With the right know-how, it’s super-simple to do. In this tutorial we’ll look at three different ways you can quickly turn your designs into interactive PDFs or EPUBs, ready for sharing or selling online.  There are a few different eBook formats… Continue reading How to Create an eBook in Adobe InDesign

16+ Best WordPress Themes for Writers and Authors (2019)

There is no shortage of professional WordPress themes for making a website in 2019, for every niche imaginable.  Whilst you can use almost any theme for your writer’s website, there are some text-based WordPress themes out there that are better suited for anyone who wants to showcase their writing skills. Whether you’re a writer trying to break… Continue reading 16+ Best WordPress Themes for Writers and Authors (2019)

7 Best Tips To Master Portrait Photography

Portrait photography is quite unique compared to other fields of photography. It is one of the toughest fields of photography because a photographer has to capture emotions, get lighting right and bring out the features of his or her subject. In portrait photography, it is important that you as a photographer get your techniques to… Continue reading 7 Best Tips To Master Portrait Photography

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

Tips to Improve Your cPanel Security

cPanel is a popular control panel for web hosting. It is part of almost every web hosting service. After all, it is easy to use from an end-user perspective. It is also secure, but not as secure that you might want it to be. In this article, we will be sharing tips on how to… Continue reading Tips to Improve Your cPanel Security

WordPress in the Year to Come

What a year! At the end of 2017, I remember thinking that the previous year had been one of the biggest when it came to change in WordPress. But I didn’t know what was in store for 2018! 2018 has seen some of the most fundamental and farthest-reaching changes in WordPress since its inception, embodied… Continue reading WordPress in the Year to Come

How to Migrate Your HTTP Website to HTTPS Without Affecting SEO

A robust security system is an aspect that further amplifies the performance of your website, regardless of the platform, it is being hosted upon. This security system ensures that all kind of sensitive data such as the usernames and passwords, credit card information exchanged via your website remain secure. This is important because the visitors… Continue reading How to Migrate Your HTTP Website to HTTPS Without Affecting SEO

How Graphic Designers Can Work With Web Designers

November 28, 2018 by Spyrestudios Graphic design and web desig overlap a lot in the modern marketing world. For this reason, it can be challenging for graphic designers to showcase their value apart from larger web design agencies. On the other hand, graphic designers may not be able to identify why they should work with… Continue reading How Graphic Designers Can Work With Web Designers