Doing business online and ignoring SEO is parallel to opening a shop in far-flung areas where nobody bothers to visit. Your on-page and off-page SEO efforts bring your website to the limelight by elevating its ranking in search engines. There is no doubt that Magento is a leading eCommerce platform, but it still lacks the… Continue reading 5 Best Magento Extensions That Can Boost On-page SEO
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20 Best New Portfolios, August 2019
It’s August, which means the rain is finally slowing down, and I have a chance to get my roof fixed. While I wait here under a literal tarp-fort that I hung up in my office, I thought I might as well compile some of the best recent portfolios for you all to look at. We… Continue reading 20 Best New Portfolios, August 2019
10 Best Design Systems for 2019
A design system helps everyone in your business to maintain brand consistency. It’s a collection of guidelines that explains how your branding assets should be used in everyday communication and marketing efforts. A design system usually consists of general brand guidelines, color usage, brand tone and voice, typography, patterns, and any other visual element that… Continue reading 10 Best Design Systems for 2019
Best Affiliate WooCommerce Plugins Compared
WooCommerce and WordPress are powerful combination for online commerce. Together they run 37% of eCommerce business online. Leveraging these two is the perfect combination for selling physical products, digital goods, and services online. But having the most awesome WooCommerce storefront and the best products are just a tiny part of what you need for online… Continue reading Best Affiliate WooCommerce Plugins Compared
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
Web Design Tips to Help Increase Customer Conversion
Having a well-designed website is no longer an option for anyone with ambitions of having a successful business—it’s a requirement. This article discusses how a great web design helps businesses, and provides tips that can help increase customer conversion. How great web design helps businesses In this increasingly digital world, your website often serves as… Continue reading Web Design Tips to Help Increase Customer Conversion
Dazzling Slow Motion Effects For Tomorrow’s Sites
Slow motion effects can be attention-grabbing tone setters in your website. Careful use of animation helps users better understand a changing user interface. When to Animate Your User Interface When we see an interface visually animate from one state to the next, it helps the user understand “where” they are in the metaphorical spacial plane… Continue reading Dazzling Slow Motion Effects For Tomorrow’s Sites
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
50 Shades of Urban Decay – Color Inspiration Showcase
As designers, it’s part of our job to find beauty in the most unassuming of places. Our surroundings can always inspire us if we look a little deeper. This is what Climadoor’s latest project looks at. They’ve made a series of striking colour palettes, complete with HEX codes, inspired by scenes of urban decay. Each… Continue reading 50 Shades of Urban Decay – Color Inspiration Showcase
How to Make a Personal Resume Website: From a WordPress Theme
What You’ll Be Creating In the modern work world, a simple resume is often not enough. Sure, it’s imperative to send it along with any job application, but if you truly want to stand out you need to go a step further. And nothing makes you stand out more than a personal website that showcases your education… Continue reading How to Make a Personal Resume Website: From a WordPress Theme
How Ransomware Attacks Target WordPress Sites
WordPress remains THE most popular platform for blogging and content management, with a a full 30% of websites on the internet using it. As a result of this popularity, hacking attempts and other instances of cybercrime, especially ransomware attacks, are on the rise. Starting in 2017, analysts began to see an increase of the EV… Continue reading How Ransomware Attacks Target WordPress Sites
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
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
5 Power Plugins Your WooCommerce Store Can’t Miss
If you are a WordPress fan, WooCommerce needs no special introduction. Statistics reveal that around 28% of today’s online shops are built using WooCommerce! Brief Intro: For those who are new to WooCommerce, a brief intro. WooCommerce, is a free (Open Source) Ecommerce plugin from WordPress Family(Automattic). It was originally owned by WooThemes and WordPress.com… Continue reading 5 Power Plugins Your WooCommerce Store Can’t Miss
Design Persuasive Websites With These Basic Principles
November 5, 2018 by Alex Fox Web design has become the focal point of the online industry. Why? Entrepreneurs are now concentrating all their resources on improving their online image, reputation, and brand. That brand is defined most strongly through an official website. Official websites are by far the most common tool used to attract… Continue reading Design Persuasive Websites With These Basic Principles
Trigonometry, Random Numbers and More With Built-in PHP Math Functions
Basic maths is used a lot during programming. We need to frequently compare, add, multiply, subtract and divide different values when writing code. Sometimes, the maths required in a program can be more involved. You might need to work with logarithmic, trigonometric or exponential functions. In this tutorial, I’ll discuss how to use each of… Continue reading Trigonometry, Random Numbers and More With Built-in PHP Math Functions
5 Most Clever WordPress Tweaks to Improve Your Site (Without Plugins)
WordPress is one of the best CMS out there for a number of reasons. Aside from being flexible and highly customizable, you can supercharge it using powerful plugins. Regardless of your goals for your website, you can be sure there’s a plugin for that. However, it’s always better to forego plugins and hard-code them into… Continue reading 5 Most Clever WordPress Tweaks to Improve Your Site (Without Plugins)
How to Make Your Photos Better: 5 Free Image Editors For Non-professionals
Visual content is surely taking the lead in modern digital marketing. Nobody in their right mind would now publish an article without a single image in it. That would be a sheer suicide with a current competition of over 2 million blog posts published each day. With this cut-throat competition, you need to make sure… Continue reading How to Make Your Photos Better: 5 Free Image Editors For Non-professionals
7 Key Factors In Interviewing Users for UX Surveys
When it comes down to it, you need to find out if your design works for the end user. That’s what usability testing is all about. As a designer, you live in a small bubble, intimately familiar with the design, fluent enough to navigate complex menus with ease. But will the user attain the same… Continue reading 7 Key Factors In Interviewing Users for UX Surveys
Testing Components in React Using Jest: The Basics
What You’ll Be Creating Testing code is a confusing practice for many developers. That’s understandable because writing tests requires more effort, time, and the ability to foresee possible use cases. Startups and developers working on smaller projects usually favor ignoring tests altogether because of the lack of resources and manpower. However, there are a couple… Continue reading Testing Components in React Using Jest: The Basics
5 Practical Productivity Hacks to Improve Web Design Efficiency
When it comes to web design, creativity and productivity are central to your work. If you lack in either of these areas, it will be a struggle to come up with quality results. The challenge, especially with the productivity half, is that everyone is unique. What works for one designer might not work for you,… Continue reading 5 Practical Productivity Hacks to Improve Web Design Efficiency
Take Control of Your Projects with these Design Collaboration Tools
Posted · Category: Best Collections You might be building a website for your own needs and doing all the work yourself. In this case, you may think there’s no need for a collaboration tool to smooth out your workflow. Still, having one or more extra pairs of eyes looking over your work can be beneficial.… Continue reading Take Control of Your Projects with these Design Collaboration Tools
The workshop fallacy — and more UX links this week
Workshops won’t solve the whole problem › You are in a meeting, and at some point the discussion goes into an endless loop. People don’t seem to agree on what the ideal solution should be. Different points of view are being thrown into the discussion, and the conversation is starting to heat up. At some point,… Continue reading The workshop fallacy — and more UX links this week
How to hack people loyalty with care?
First thing first: If you have a few friends in your life, care is not designed to fit your skillset. Having a lot of friends proves how much effort and time you have spent to build a loving community around you. Care requires the same effort and it should be mandatory for every startup. “Caring… Continue reading How to hack people loyalty with care?