International Artist Feature: Slovenia

Welcome back to our International Artist Series. Today, we’re catching up with seven incredible artists from Slovenia, a central European country with vast mountainous scenes and landscapes. I asked each artist how their country and culture influenced their work, and they delivered great responses. Jernej Myint Our first artist, Jernej Myint, is a… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Slovenia

Tips to Improve Your cPanel Security

cPanel is a popular control panel for web hosting. It is part of almost every web hosting service. After all, it is easy to use from an end-user perspective. It is also secure, but not as secure that you might want it to be. In this article, we will be sharing tips on how to… Continue reading Tips to Improve Your cPanel Security

The Benefits of User Experience in Web Design

Every small-scale business or large-scale enterprise requires a website as it helps in achieving business goals, provide essential information to the prospective client and assists in improving the online presence of the company. These websites differ according to the business specification but what’s important is that it should offer an excellent user experience or UX.… Continue reading The Benefits of User Experience in Web Design

New Short Course: WordPress SEO Without Plugins

We all want our sites to be SEO-friendly, don’t we? A boost in search engine ranking can result in huge increases in traffic and sales. In our new short course, WordPress SEO Without Plugins, you’ll learn some techniques and best practices you can use for better SEO on your WordPress site without having to install… Continue reading New Short Course: WordPress SEO Without Plugins

Best Resources For Online Learning in All Sorts of Domains

Considering that people find themselves in an era of accessible information, where everything is at one-click distance, it is highly important to separate quality facts from false ones. In order to do that, you must stay up to date with the best resources you should use for getting your facts straight. Regardless of the area… Continue reading Best Resources For Online Learning in All Sorts of Domains

Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)

In this tutorial we’re going to take a bunch of ordinary thumbnail links and turn them into a responsive CSS grid gallery with a blurred hover effect. We’ll also use a great CSS trick to make sure touch screen users don’t miss out! Here’s what we’ll be creating: A Little Background Recently, Rachel McCollin wrote a… Continue reading Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)

How to Create a Vintage Photo Effect in a Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Style

What You’ll Be Creating This week is dedicated to Russian culture, so I would like to introduce you to the artworks of the famous Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. He made a large number of color photographs of the early 20th century using his three-image method of photography.  He was able to capture in his photos not… Continue reading How to Create a Vintage Photo Effect in a Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Style

Codester – A Developer’s Helping Hand

Let’s say you are a developer with hands full of new jobs and opportunities, a lot to do and so little time to finish your project and meet your client’s needs. You know what to do, you just need some trustworthy help. Or, you could be on a quest to find your place in a… Continue reading Codester – A Developer’s Helping Hand

8 Best SEO Plugins For WordPress

You can build a beautiful WordPress site, but if you don’t optimize your site for search engine rankings, there is a good chance that very few people will see it. Google and other search engines use complex algorithms to boost some websites to first-page rankings and relegate others to obscurity. Search Engine Optimization is the… Continue reading 8 Best SEO Plugins For WordPress

How to Easily Animate SVGs With SVGator

SVG animation is a great alternative to using animated GIFs on the web, but it’s not always easy. In this tutorial I’m going to explain how you can easily animate SVGs using an online tool called “SVGator”.  SVGator allows you to import SVG files, then animate individual elements within those SVGs. Animate SVGs With SVGator… Continue reading How to Easily Animate SVGs With SVGator

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

Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks

The best banner ads capture our attention and are irresistible to click. What goes into these effective ads? Discover ten tips to creating the best banner ads. Are you struggling to come up with creative and engaging banner ads for your business? Having people interact and be interested in your ads is difficult if you… Continue reading Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks

Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks

The best banner ads capture our attention and are irresistible to click. What goes into these effective ads? Discover ten tips to creating the best banner ads. Are you struggling to come up with creative and engaging banner ads for your business? Having people interact and be interested in your ads is difficult if you… Continue reading Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks

Hands-on With ARIA: Accessibility for eCommerce

Looking to make your site more accessible? Or maybe you want to make it easier to traverse your site overall using browsers and other interfaces? Using ARIA, you can do both. Let’s take a look at what ARIA is and how it can benefit an eCommerce site. We’ll also go through some examples step by… Continue reading Hands-on With ARIA: Accessibility for eCommerce

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)

25+ Best Joomla Personal Blog Templates for 2018

When it comes to content management systems, Joomla is a versatile and popular CMS that can be used for all types of websites. From business to portfolio sites, Joomla can help you get your business online and show potential customers what you’ve got to offer. But, Joomla can also be used for personal blogs whether… Continue reading 25+ Best Joomla Personal Blog Templates for 2018

How to Boost Email Conversions With Personalization and Dynamic Content

Did you know, that instead of sending the same email to everyone on your mailing list, you can improve your results and conversions by sending highly-targeted messages to laser-focused audiences? I’m not just talking about just personalizing the message subject line or the greeting–those things help, but what I’m talking about is using dynamic content… Continue reading How to Boost Email Conversions With Personalization and Dynamic Content

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

45 Fresh New Photoshop Tutorials – Learn Exciting Photo Manipulation Tricks

Free Adobe Photoshop tutorials, learn Photo Manipulation tricks and effects that can turn your photo or artwork into a masterpiece of art. These new Photoshop video tutorials teach you how to use photo editing tools, brushes and create amazing photo manipulation, photo effects, text effects and make a things to design easier and better. Photoshop is a very versatile software tool, watch… Continue reading 45 Fresh New Photoshop Tutorials – Learn Exciting Photo Manipulation Tricks

The Zone of Infinite Creative Possibilities

Ideation is the third component in our Design Thinking process, as seen in the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design’s proposal which we’ve discussed in our previous articles: Image source: Interaction Design Foundation How Did We Arrive at the Ideate Stage?  During the Empathize stage: you approach the user and gather data needed to define the challenge… Continue reading The Zone of Infinite Creative Possibilities

How to Go From Concept to Live App in 8 Steps

In the 1st quarter of 2018, there were more than 7 million available apps in the leading app stores. Some awesome others not worth the download. To ensure that your live app lands in the awesome category, and excites user, then there are some steps you have to follow. In this article I’ll will take… Continue reading How to Go From Concept to Live App in 8 Steps

Why Is A Free Online English Grammar Checker Preferred over Others?

An English Grammar checker tool is available for the general public for 24 hours a day and seven days a week free of charges. A grammar check tool offers you different options for using this tool. You may choose to either type the text in the blank box directly or to copy/paste your document. You… Continue reading Why Is A Free Online English Grammar Checker Preferred over Others?

Soft Skills Needed to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Practical Guide

What You’ll Be Creating Looking on the internet, it’s fairly simple to find articles and information on creating a book—from how to do layout to character design, writing your own story, and so on. In my travels I found that unless you sat down with an experienced illustrator over a cup of coffee, you would… Continue reading Soft Skills Needed to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Practical Guide

4 Strategies to Ensuring the Success of Your Mobile App

Today, the entire world has undoubtedly gone mobile as more people access data and information via digital devices, tablets and smartphones. Apps are commonplace for shopping, connecting with people, navigation and managing data. In fact, mobile apps are today more interactive, attractive and easy to integrate with various smartphone features. The current apps trend is… Continue reading 4 Strategies to Ensuring the Success of Your Mobile App