Tips On Designing Creative Websites That Will Wow Your Clients

The global market keeps getting bigger and bigger, which should be good news for web designers – but there’s a catch. The clients you can expect to serve are more sophisticated and want creative websites, not just the regular HTML and CSS. You can’t deliver just anything and expect them to be happy. You’ll also… Continue reading Tips On Designing Creative Websites That Will Wow Your Clients

How to Clean Malware from a Hacked Website

Just the hint of a hacked site is enough to send jitters down the spine of every webmaster. In an event where something suspicious occurs on a website or where unexpected elements start to show up on the website, the doubt starts to pop up with a possibility inclined towards the absolutely negative event, i.e.… Continue reading How to Clean Malware from a Hacked Website

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