How to Develop a WordPress Theme from the Ground Up

Having your website is one thing. But developing a WordPress theme is another. Why? It’s because your site’s theme is the one which brings personality to your site. Not to mention, a WordPress theme optimized for performance like the ones seen here at Colorlib is what differentiates you from your competitors. It is what defines you… Continue reading How to Develop a WordPress Theme from the Ground Up

7 E-Commerce Design Boo Boos

Appearances matter. It takes one twentieth of a second for your site visitors to judge you. What can people take in in 0.05 sec? Looks are the only thing a prospect can absorb so quickly. You will lose a prospect instantly if your e-commerce page has any of these seven design flaws. Your chances of… Continue reading 7 E-Commerce Design Boo Boos

Hey Designer, why so fragile?

The Why Praise overdose If you visit the comment section of behance.com and you manage to see through all the self-promotion, you’ll find that the comments are unusually polite and positive. Every project seems to have really positive feedback, the only thing that really distinguishes projects is the amount of praise they get. The reason… Continue reading Hey Designer, why so fragile?

Tips for Training Your Clients to Use WordPress

As WordPress continues to power more and more websites, it stands to reason that many site owners will want to learn how to use it. One of the strengths of any CMS is the ability to login remotely and add/edit content or perform other maintenance tasks. WordPress especially excels in this area and includes some… Continue reading Tips for Training Your Clients to Use WordPress

7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers

There are many tools out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why we are sharing 7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers. So, without any further ado let’s take a look at these and feel free to share this post with others.… Continue reading 7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers

Don’t have a Mobile Friendly Site yet? You will need one!

In the mobile world that we live in, by next year, it is expected that as much as 80% of all internet traffic will be mobile. So anything from a dating site to an online pet store will need to be mobile friendly and so, it is now more important than ever before. While desktop… Continue reading Don’t have a Mobile Friendly Site yet? You will need one!

36 Extremely Creative Photo Manipulation Examples | Photography

Amazing photo manipulation examples you never seen before. We know there are thousand of creative photos & photo manipulation artwork published on behance, dribbble, deviantart and other social networks every day. However when it comes to finding the right photo; you can easily spend hours searching for it. So here we have gathered some of the best examples of photo… Continue reading 36 Extremely Creative Photo Manipulation Examples | Photography

7 New & Free WordPress Plugins

WordPress plugins are quite a useful commodity as they allow designers and developers to bring in some additional functionality into their website or blog. WordPress plugins are specially popular in designing community because of their widespread variety and easy availability. In this post, we are also presenting a fresh collection of 7 new and free… Continue reading 7 New & Free WordPress Plugins

Split A/B Testing Graphical Elements of Your Landing Pages: Best Practices to Test and Quantify Conversion Value of Landing Page Elements

It is a known fact that one of the best ways of generating high conversion rates is by having high-converting landing pages. Landing pages are standalone web pages with a single purpose – to act as a point of entry for a particular website. Study has shown that designers have just 50 milliseconds to make… Continue reading Split A/B Testing Graphical Elements of Your Landing Pages: Best Practices to Test and Quantify Conversion Value of Landing Page Elements

How to Design a Landing Page That Converts

Every e-commerce website is designed to have one primary goal: to convert visitors. Conversion can range from a completed sale to registering a membership, or filling out a subscription form. Whatever it is, an effectively designed website must be able to convince users to achieve that primary goal. In light of various research and experiments,… Continue reading How to Design a Landing Page That Converts

How To Design Websites, Hotjar Makes It Super Easy To Understand What Visitors Really Want

First, let’s understand Hotjar in simple words, This is an easy way to improve your site user interaction and conversion rates by using Heatmaps, Visitor Recordings, Funnel and Form Analysis, Polls and Surveys, all from one easy to manage single interface. As you normally find people avoiding to share their opinion and experience with your… Continue reading How To Design Websites, Hotjar Makes It Super Easy To Understand What Visitors Really Want

How I apply the Value Proposition Canvas to convince my clients to invest more time in customer…

A few years ago, I used to struggle to convince my clients to give me more — or just some — time to do a good customer research, and I must confess I lost a few battles. But eventually, I learnt how to manage it. I stopped fighting this. At first, I would listen to them carefully — after all, they… Continue reading How I apply the Value Proposition Canvas to convince my clients to invest more time in customer…

New High Quality Photoshop Actions for Photographers & Designers

These Photoshop Action transform your photos into Oily effect, newspaper print, abstract, watercolor effect, comic and dots effects within a seconds. Mostly Photoshop actions available with video tutorials that shows how to setup action files and how to use. Every time you run the action you will get a highly detailed result, a lot of possibilities… Continue reading New High Quality Photoshop Actions for Photographers & Designers

40 Best Free Brush Fonts for Designers

Here is the top 40 free brush fonts for graphic design artwork and design projects. All are free and available for commercial use. In this best fonts article you will enjoy the handpicked collection of hand-drawn, handwritten brush fonts. High-quality fonts can significantly improve your design by simply included them in the project you are working on. You can use… Continue reading 40 Best Free Brush Fonts for Designers

The Evolution Process From A Junior Level Designer To Becoming A Design Lead

This post feels somewhat like a coming of age story. If you’re a junior designer, it might be eye opening. On the contrary, as a design lead it might be the dark satirical humor after a long day that puts a smile on your face. As designers, we all face daily battles big or small,… Continue reading The Evolution Process From A Junior Level Designer To Becoming A Design Lead

It’s not you, it’s your form

#4 Give certainty When designing a form, we should present users with all the information they need so they can navigate the form easily. Don’t keep them guessing or be ambiguous. The achievement of the goal should be clear and leave the user with the feeling that the task is (really) done. When examining the previous… Continue reading It’s not you, it’s your form

5 Excellent Tools Your UX and UI Design Tasks

Posted · Category: Best Collections UI Design – UX Design: Tightly Coupled, But Not the Same User interface (UI), and user experience (UX), are both critical elements in website design. The two terms are often confused, and are even used interchangeably by some; but they are not one and the same. Sure, it’s important to… Continue reading 5 Excellent Tools Your UX and UI Design Tasks

5 Web Design Trends for 2017 and 2018

March 29, 2017 by abovepop Now that we’re comfortably in 2017, we can look back at the last few months to see how our “trends of 2017” predictions have turned out, and offer a few more to consider for 2018 and the rest of the year. Clean Layouts That Let Content Shine There was a… Continue reading 5 Web Design Trends for 2017 and 2018

Key Web Development and Design Skills You Should Learn In 2017

In addition to building your client contact list this year, you should be thinking of upgrading your knowledge base in critical areas, especially as competition in the digital economy gets stiffer and opens up wider opportunities for highly skilled web developers and designers. What exactly should you focus on when expanding your web development skills-set… Continue reading Key Web Development and Design Skills You Should Learn In 2017

7 Tips for eCommerce Web Design

Of all the ways to make money on the internet, eCommerce is one of the most popular. Selling products online is much more cost-effective than in a brick-and-mortar store. Even sellers who do have physical locations recognise the importance of using online revenue channels. When you decide to sell products online, the design of the… Continue reading 7 Tips for eCommerce Web Design

Prospero | Proposals For Creatives

Prospero | Proposals For Creatives Log InPricing Professional proposals in minutes We know that writing a winning proposal is a headache. It’s also not why you chose to become a freelancer.  Prospero will make creating proposals fast and painless, so that you can go back to working on what matters most. Built forCreative Freelancers Designers… Continue reading Prospero | Proposals For Creatives

Illustrator Tutorials: 20 New Tutorials to Learn How to Design & Illustration

Learn how to use illustrator from top professionals and tutorial writers for creating amazing vector graphics and illustrations. These new 2017 tutorials will teach you latest tips and techniques and shows to draw and digital portraits from scratch, vector logos, and create cartoon characters and more vector graphics. You’ll be able to use these illustration and drawing techniques for your future… Continue reading Illustrator Tutorials: 20 New Tutorials to Learn How to Design & Illustration