By building a child theme you’ll preserve all your custom styles and functions through every theme update, ensuring your site retains its unique charm. Create a child theme on your WordPress website by setting up a new directory and then adding a style.css file to hold your custom designs. Then, with a bit of coding… Continue reading How To Create a WordPress Child Theme
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Adobe Illustrator for Beginners
Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator in this free course for absolute beginners. By the end, you’ll know how to draw in Adobe Illustrator, how to make a pattern in Illustrator, and so much more. Watch the Full Illustrator for Beginners Course What You’ll Learn How to draw in Illustrator Working with color and… Continue reading Adobe Illustrator for Beginners
5 Ways Social Media Can Impact Your Web Design
There is no denying that the introduction of social media to the world has changed the way website developers and designers build sites. In fact, social media marketing helps you strengthen your brand’s online presence. Thus, it is important that you take social media into consideration whenever you are building (or updating) a website for… Continue reading 5 Ways Social Media Can Impact Your Web Design
Essential design trends, December 2016
Do you ever find yourself noticing that a certain design element just keeps popping up? Even those tiny details that look somewhat insignificant can be indicators of design trends. That is particularly true with the elements in this month’s roundup. Each of these trends—white edges framing a web design, cinemagraphs and tiny loading animations—are seemingly… Continue reading Essential design trends, December 2016
Essential design trends, November 2016
It’s time to break out of your (design) shell and try something bold. Larger-than-life bold techniques are the big theme this month as we look at three trends that incorporate items that make users look at the design. Here’s what’s trending in design this month: 1. The color purple Purple color palettes are traditionally somewhat… Continue reading Essential design trends, November 2016
Designing for Tech Clients – How Pre-built Websites Will Help
Posted · Category: Best Collections If you are reading this article, you most likely have worked with a tech company or startup. You’ve noticed that this niche has its own rules. And you probably had to answer some hard questions. What’s the audience’s main treat? What’s the suited design style for tech clients? Do web… Continue reading Designing for Tech Clients – How Pre-built Websites Will Help
9 Fresh Free WordPress Themes
ADVERTISEMENT Here, we have come again with yet another exciting and fresh compilation of 9 new and fresh WordPress themes that are all new and eye-catching. The list contains WordPress themes for real estate websites, portfolio websites, WooCommerce, businesses, creative agencies, fashion blogs and more. In addition to huge variety, all the themes are responsive… Continue reading 9 Fresh Free WordPress Themes
Top Free Photoshop Watercolor Brushes for Designers
Design styles can be created with free resources like icons, vectors, custom illustrations, and notably brushes. Free brush packs are available all over the web dating back to Photoshop 7. There are now thousands of brush packs online made specifically for digital designers. This collection of free Photoshop watercolor brushes can be perfect for anyone… Continue reading Top Free Photoshop Watercolor Brushes for Designers
Essential elements for creating a successful UX design
In a modern world, most of the companies and business organizations realize the importance of the UX design support on a website. These companies are investing huge amount in developing attractive UX designs that enable their website to deliver a good user experience in a custom website development. In a digital world, user experience has… Continue reading Essential elements for creating a successful UX design
20 Essential Plugins for Sketch App
There are many things to love about Sketch, but one of its most loved features is that it makes it super-easy to create plugins, made possible by JSTalk, that will extend its functionality even further. And the great thing is that the ever-growing Sketch community is chock-full of plugins that you can freely download and… Continue reading 20 Essential Plugins for Sketch App
Essential Tools, Resources, and Services for Designers
With so many WordPress themes, page builders, and other design aids and services on the market, it can be difficult for a web designer to know where to turn when in need of a new tool, an additional resource, or a different design approach. Some of the products and services listed here are ideal for… Continue reading Essential Tools, Resources, and Services for Designers
15 Essential Graphics Tools for Online Designers
Great design is a process of hard work and inspiration. There are no shortcuts, but technology offers you plenty of tools to save time and increase productivity. Of course the hard part is actually finding the software that fulfills your needs. Over the course of the last year I’ve created an online toolbox, composed of… Continue reading 15 Essential Graphics Tools for Online Designers
23 New Tutorials to Learn Essential of Illustration
In illustrator tutorials you’ll learn how to create vector graphic design resources and illustration basics, new features, tips and techniques. In this collection we’re gathered latest Illustrator CS6 and Illustrator CC tutorials which can help to create Vector Graphics in Adobe Illustrator. I hope! these illustrator tutorials can enhance you’r illustration skills and improve the quality of your works.… Continue reading 23 New Tutorials to Learn Essential of Illustration
The Essential Elements of a Portfolio Website
Professionals in the photography industry are feeling the heat when it comes to demonstrating the value their work can impart. Whether it’s winning an assignment with a top-rate photography magazine, being hired by a client or seeking a photographer’s job role at the daily newspaper – the indispensable role of a photography portfolio cannot be… Continue reading The Essential Elements of a Portfolio Website
7 Essential Techniques to Speed Up Your Websites
Just recently, I was assigned to a job to optimize the performance and loading speed of a microsite. As a developer for many years, I know a few tricks up my sleeve. The easier thing to do is to reduce the number of HTTP requests. This can be done through front-end development for example… Continue reading 7 Essential Techniques to Speed Up Your Websites
9 Essential Typography Tools
Style and readability We all know that getting typography right is one of the most important part of any stylish website. Suitable fonts make a webpage not just more beautiful, but more readable and accessible for your visitors. Formerly, quality typography used to be a separate profession, today it is possible even for a beginner… Continue reading 9 Essential Typography Tools
5 Essential WordPress Plugins for Bloggers and Freelancers
Millions of bloggers, freelancers and webmasters trust WordPress for managing the content on their websites and blogs. WordPress not only offers a huge variety of options in its simple interface, but also makes it extremely easy for even the most amateur internet users to run their own websites by using its free and premium plugins.… Continue reading 5 Essential WordPress Plugins for Bloggers and Freelancers
10 Best Designing Tips to Make Your Website More Effective
Would you like to get your website the most effective one in the highly competitive web world? It is true that there is no foolproof method to develop a perfect framework to suit to every website. Based on the purpose of the site, the design and development has to be done with proper planning and… Continue reading 10 Best Designing Tips to Make Your Website More Effective
E-commerce Website Navigation: 14 Essential Tips
Navigation on site plays a significant function as it assists and shows path to Web surfer to continue surfing for desired products or services on a website rather than leaving the site. It is very frustrating, if users fail to locate what they are searching for, then they are likely to bounce off the website.… Continue reading E-commerce Website Navigation: 14 Essential Tips
Essential design events, vector art and much more!
Essential design events for 2013 Covering graphic design, typography, web design, 3D and more, here’s a list of essential design events around the world over the next 12 months. The pro’s guide to CSS layouts CSS’s next big challenge is to make flexible, dynamic page layouts that work across our ever-broadening range of devices. With… Continue reading Essential design events, vector art and much more!