Keywords are essentially the bridge between a website and a search engine. They are what helps a search engine identify what your site is about, and how relevant it is when a certain term or phrase is searched for by the user. A search engine keeps a database of websites which they have filed away… Continue reading Keyword Research 101: Everything You Need To Know
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Top-10 Websites With Interesting Design to Take Inspiration From
If you find it difficult to find inspiration or want to learn something new, improve your already acquired skills, share your achievements or sell your own masterpieces, we suggest you to get acquainted with the 10 most interesting sites for typical creative personalities. Finding inspiration is not easy. But the good news is that the… Continue reading Top-10 Websites With Interesting Design to Take Inspiration From
Demystifying CSS Pseudo-Classes (:nth-child vs. :nth-of-type)
Styles are applied to a web page using CSS selectors; selectors which make it possible for you to target a specific element or sets of elements. Usually, when you are starting with CSS, you’ll make use of element selectors before pivoting to use classes and IDs. As powerful as these selectors are, they can be… Continue reading Demystifying CSS Pseudo-Classes (:nth-child vs. :nth-of-type)
7 CSS Units You Might Not Know About
Learn CSS: The Complete Guide We’ve built a complete guide to help you learn CSS, whether you’re just getting started with the basics or you want to explore more advanced CSS. New CSS Techniques It’s easy to get stuck working with the CSS techniques we know well, but doing so puts us at a disadvantage… Continue reading 7 CSS Units You Might Not Know About
How to Make Instagram Stories in Seconds Without Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Need to create beautiful looking Instagram stories, but don’t have the required tools to start doing so? Well, what if I told you that there’s an easy way you can change that, using Placeit’s online Instagram Story Templates. Believe it or not, you can actually use templates for Instagram stories, such… Continue reading How to Make Instagram Stories in Seconds Without Photoshop
Build a Tabbed Product Archive for Your WooCommerce Store
In this tutorial you will learn how to make your WooCommerce store a little more stylish by organizing the product archive with tabs. We’ll create tabs with a multi-column layout, a multi-row carousel, and a grid layout. What We’re Going to Build Over the coming steps we will create a WordPress plugin, inside which we … Continue reading Build a Tabbed Product Archive for Your WooCommerce Store
Designing With Data: How to Improve UX Using Customer Data
Do you always follow your gut when making decisions for your website? Designing your website often starts with what you feel will make a website look good. However, you’ll most likely be changing your plans when the results of your efforts come in. But this is okay because tracking and measuring your site’s performance from… Continue reading Designing With Data: How to Improve UX Using Customer Data
How to Make a Photoshop Vignette Effect Action
What You’ll Be Creating In this beginner’s tutorial, we’ll take a look at some Photoshop action basics and create a customizable vignette action—ready to use and adapt in any way you like! So grab your favorite photograph, and let’s get creating! What You’ll Need You’ll need the following assets in order to complete this project:… Continue reading How to Make a Photoshop Vignette Effect Action
How Prevalent is Dark UX?
Iconic comedy duo Mitchell and Webb once asked a very important question: “Are we the baddies?” Given that, at the time, they were dressed in Nazi uniforms with skulls on their hats, and looked like rejected villains from a Wolfenstein game, the answer was something of a foregone conclusion. But what about us? No, no… Continue reading How Prevalent is Dark UX?
5 Human Things UX Designers Can Learn From Conversational Design
It seems like magic: you talk to the phone, and it talks back. And if you’re lucky, it says something useful. You type into the chat box, and if the bot is good, you find out what you need to know. [Cue: shocked-looking stock photo models.] The current marketing term for it is “conversational design”,… Continue reading 5 Human Things UX Designers Can Learn From Conversational Design
How to Make a Galaxy YouTube Banner (With a YouTube Banner Creator)
What You’ll Be Creating So you’ve decided to start your own YouTube channel, but don’t actually have the required tools or skills to design the actual banner? Well, if that’s the case, don’t worry since I’m going to show you how you can easily make a galaxy YouTube banner using Placeit’s YouTube Banner Maker. From… Continue reading How to Make a Galaxy YouTube Banner (With a YouTube Banner Creator)
20 Best New Portfolios, July 2019
And now it’s July. I’d just like to tell my American and Canadian friends to hydrate properly, and the hangover should be gone by October, just in time for the sugar crash. While you recover, we’ve got more portfolios. Lots of good, grid-based stuff this month. And lots of dark layouts. It’s like all the… Continue reading 20 Best New Portfolios, July 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
Kerning, Leading, Tracking, and Everything You Need to Know About Text Spacing
The space between letters is just as important for legibility as the text itself. If your website is hard to read, don’t just consider the typeface: consider the white space as well. With kerning, leading, tracking, and other spacing tools, you can make your text more readable without a major design overhaul using these text… Continue reading Kerning, Leading, Tracking, and Everything You Need to Know About Text Spacing
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
Using the New WordPress Default Theme
Twenty Nineteen is the latest WordPress default theme currently available and was included with the WordPress 5.0 release. It’s already proving pretty popular with over 800,000 active installations to date. It’s also also available to WordPress.com users too which bumps up the user base even more. It’s described as a minimal and non-generic theme with simple but sophisticated… Continue reading Using the New WordPress Default Theme
How To Fix ‘503 Service Unavailable’ WordPress Error
One of the few very frustrating errors you’ll ever encounter when using WordPress is the ‘503 Service Unavailable’ error. This error can be quite confusing to most WordPress users as it could completely render your website offline without giving you any clear reason to what caused the error. There can be a few different causes… Continue reading How To Fix ‘503 Service Unavailable’ WordPress Error
How to Make a Beating Heart Animation for St. Valentine’s Day With SVG
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Let’s get into the spirit of St. Valentine’s day, getting all pink and smooshy in the process, and code ourselves a simple beating heart animation with SVG. Here’s what we’re going to create: This is a great exercise for familiarizing yourself with SVG syntax and authentic animation.… Continue reading How to Make a Beating Heart Animation for St. Valentine’s Day With SVG
Create Style Variations for WordPress Gutenberg Blocks: Part 2
In the previous post we learned all about block style variations and how they’re used in the brand new WordPress 5.0 editor to switch between predefined styles easily. We’ll take things a little further in this post by providing more examples to give you a solid base for implementing block style variations in your own… Continue reading Create Style Variations for WordPress Gutenberg Blocks: Part 2
Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?
Web design is an industry that is loaded with opportunities for upsells and extra revenue. Odds are that your clients will benefit from services that go beyond basic design and development. However, just because you can offer extras doesn’t necessarily mean that you should. One such area is web hosting. While there is the potential… Continue reading Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?
Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma
UX and UI Kits help designers in all kinds of ways, and at different stages in the design process. In this roundup I’ll show you some of the best-selling UX and UI kits available from Envato, to get you started wireframing, prototyping, and designing your next website or app. What Are UX and UI Kits?… Continue reading Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma
An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools
Your Photoshop selection tools are perhaps the most powerful part of the application. By making effective selections, you unlock the power of the rest of the application. This includes localized image adjustments, compositing, and accurate mockups and object placement. Sloppy selections always show in the final product, so it pays to learn to make a… Continue reading An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools
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
How to Use Sessions and Session Variables in PHP
Session handing is a key concept in PHP that enables user information to be persisted across all the pages of a website or app. In this post, you’ll learn the basics of session handing in PHP. We’ll start with an explanation of how sessions work and how they are related to cookies. Then we’ll look… Continue reading How to Use Sessions and Session Variables in PHP