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Best Free WordPress Plugins for Optimizing Website Performance

Did you know that search engines like Google give preference to fast-loading websites in their rankings? Visitors are also less likely to abandon your site if it loads quickly. Everyone expects a website to load as quickly as possible—if it doesn’t, they will likely abandon it and visit the competitor instead. This means that a… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Plugins for Optimizing Website Performance

How to Add a Free WordPress Music Player to Your Site

Any website which lets users discover, buy, share, or download music or other sound effects should always have an audio player. Every user would like to preview the audio or music to determine if they want to purchase or share it or not. Giving users the option to play this audio from the webpage itself,… Continue reading How to Add a Free WordPress Music Player to Your Site

How Can Professional Headshots Build Trust in Business?

In business, one of the key elements to predict its success is through building trust and rapport among customers. Trust is something that has to be gained for a long time, as it can establish good relationships and breakthroughs, yet can have the worst effects when destroyed. Essentially, customers are more likely to trust a… Continue reading How Can Professional Headshots Build Trust in Business?

How Website Graphics Can Help You Reel Customers In

Customer service is invaluable. It is an integral factor that determines the success of a business as it enables your customer to keeps coming back to you. Customer satisfaction is only earned when you ensure that your customer is happy with your services and the overall customer experience. As technology progresses, businesses evolve with it.… Continue reading How Website Graphics Can Help You Reel Customers In

How to Create a WordPress Child Theme

If you’re using a theme you downloaded from the free WordPress theme repository, or maybe one you’ve bought from ThemeForest, you may want to make some tweaks to it. Maybe you want to register a new font or add a new template file. Maybe you want to add some code from one of the tutorials or… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Child Theme

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

Features, Syntax, and the Problem It Will Solve

CSS subgrid is slowly making its way into browsers. The CSS Working Group is actively working on it and the related W3C specification has already reached Level 2. This new feature will enable us to enhance grid items with subgrids that inherit the grid tracks of their parent grid and seamlessly align with it. As CSS subgrid is… Continue reading Features, Syntax, and the Problem It Will Solve

Tips for Using Location-Based Photos on Your Website

Photography can be one of a web designer’s most powerful assets. We can use it to transport users to another place and time. It can convey a feeling and amplify a message. Today, we’re going to focus on images that were taken on location. This can cover anything from a stunning skyline shot… Continue reading Tips for Using Location-Based Photos on Your Website

Create an Animated SVG Logo for International Women’s Day 2019

To mark International Women’s Day 2019 we’ll be creating an animated SVG version of the event’s logo you can use along with this year’s hashtag #BalanceforBetter. In the process we’ll be learning about using Figma and its boolean operations, as well as inline SVG animation via the animateTransform element. This is what we’ll be creating:… Continue reading Create an Animated SVG Logo for International Women’s Day 2019

How to Create Beautiful Custom YouTube Thumbnails without Photoshop

Are you a budding YouTube content creator? A new designer without much experience with YouTube? If you’re looking to increase your views and grab a user’s attention, you might need to think about your video thumbnails. YouTube video thumbnails serve as sort of a book cover for videos. If a thumbnail appears to be high-quality,… Continue reading How to Create Beautiful Custom YouTube Thumbnails without Photoshop

Best WPBakery (Visual Composer) Add-Ons and Templates on Envato Elements

WPBakery (formerly Visual Composer) is one of the most well-known and feature-packed visual page builders available for WordPress. While the team at WPBakery is always improving on their product, the number of variations of web projects out there make it impossible to rely on a single plugin for all of your needs. Luckily, though, WPBakery… Continue reading Best WPBakery (Visual Composer) Add-Ons and Templates on Envato Elements

Mason Is a Front-End Builder Worth Exploring

Building a front-end for your site from scratch might be the hardest part of building a great web app. The idea and logic can be perfect, but if the user interface is a wreck, you’ll never be a success. That’s where tools like Mason’s front-end-as-a-service become so valuable. With Mason, you can visually build a… Continue reading Mason Is a Front-End Builder Worth Exploring

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

Top 8 Presentation Design Trends in 2019

Every year, new trends are introduced in video presentation designs. Some trends that are good have been adapted into the standard for video presentation while those that only add aesthetics are usually the ones that change every year. It is important to consider these design trends if you want to use your presentation as a… Continue reading Top 8 Presentation Design Trends in 2019

Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins

If you run a WordPress site, you need a reliable contact form so that visitors can reach you with their questions and comments. However, with so many WordPress form builders on the market, it can be difficult to find the very best contact form WordPress has to offer. To save you the time-wasting and head-scratching… Continue reading Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins

Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running

What You’ll Be Creating If you’re switching to WordPress from a static site, from a site builder provided by your hosting provider, or even from an old WordPress site, you’ll want to ensure that your old site still works while you’re setting up the shiny new WordPress installation. The good news is that you don’t… Continue reading Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running

How to Choose a Software Development Company For a Startup?

An idea. This is what every great project starts from. An idea is essential, but you won’t go far if you don’t know how to turn it into a real product. If a startup founder lacks the necessary expertise but doesn’t want to give up the idea, there are three possible ways out: – Learn… Continue reading How to Choose a Software Development Company For a Startup?

How to Draw a Cartoon Nose

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at different ways of drawing cartoon noses. We’ll start with the nose’s construction, and then use this in the context of experimenting with stylistic renditions of this part of the face. When in doubt, I recommend looking at references, even when drawing stylistically! They can be… Continue reading How to Draw a Cartoon Nose

Types of Software Your Online Business Should Use

Running a business online is becoming an increasingly popular way to become an entrepreneur. Not only does it require less startup costs than traditional businesses, but can often be done from a single computer (at least when starting out). Also, due to the advancement and innovation of technology, there are a variety of online tools… Continue reading Types of Software Your Online Business Should Use

How To Create An Amazing and Engaging Blog

Creating a blog is something that you shouldn’t take lightly. Why? Because if you want your blog to be successful you need to put time and energy into it to make it up to the level that you’re looking to get it to. If you’re new to blog platforms and blog creation, then this article… Continue reading How To Create An Amazing and Engaging Blog

How to Draw Anime Hair

What You’ll Be Creating Hair is a very complex subject to draw, because it’s like a substance that can take many shapes and forms. Because of this, manga artists have developed a special method of simplifying hair. In manga or anime, you draw hair as a mass or a cloth. This way it can be… Continue reading How to Draw Anime Hair

File Upload With Multer in Node.js and Express

When a web client uploads a file to a server, it is generally submitted through a form and encoded as multipart/form-data. Multer is middleware for Express and Node.js that makes it easy to handle this multipart/form-data when your users upload files. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use this library to handle different file upload situations… Continue reading File Upload With Multer in Node.js and Express

How to Design a Powerfully Persuasive Above the Fold Area

There are few parts of a website that command more attention than the area above the fold. This is the screen section users look at after immediately landing on a website. The punchier and more persuasive the above the fold is, the better your conversion rates. Despite its importance, this crucial real estate often gets… Continue reading How to Design a Powerfully Persuasive Above the Fold Area