In this roundup we’ll take a look at some important things to consider when building an online photography portfolio with WordPress. We’ll go over eight tips and ideas, simultaneously looking at some top selling themes from Envato Market to help demonstrate each point. Say cheese! 1. Introduce Yourself Emotional design is hugely important on the… Continue reading 8 Photography Portfolio Themes for WordPress
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Weekly Inspiration: Discoverability and Feedback
Recently Vox, together with 99% Invisible, produced a brilliant short film about a door on the tenth floor of the Vox Media office. Besides many other doors, it featured Don Norman: design icon and celebrated author of The Design of Everyday Things. The purpose of the film was to highlight the usability of products and systems, whittling down… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Discoverability and Feedback
14 Ideas to Make Your Websites Stand Out
Picture this: You’re going to a big event, every person who can change your life would be there, and a lot is riding on how you present yourself. After all it’s about first impressions. So you pick out a sleek outfit, complement it with great formal shoes, dab on some perfume, wear a classy watch and feel… Continue reading 14 Ideas to Make Your Websites Stand Out
10 Key Things Web Design Clients Should Know & Understand
Web design is always changing, and the future is about as clear as an oil slick. New trends emerge every day, it seems, and Google algorithms are always forcing everyone to adapt. SEO, web design, and the number of devices people use seems to expand web design horizons every day. All of this can be… Continue reading 10 Key Things Web Design Clients Should Know & Understand
10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame
The design field is pretty crowded. If this is your “calling,” then you have to accept that you are in competition with a lot of creatives that may know more than you. You have to accept that you will have to take all of that creativity you have and translate it into products that others… Continue reading 10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame
Polaroid Stack to Grid Intro Animation
A tutorial on how to create an intro animation where a decorative Polaroid stack becomes a grid similar to the effect seen on the takeit website. View demo Download source Today we’d like to show you how to create a very simple intro effect similar to the one seen on the takeit website where a… Continue reading Polaroid Stack to Grid Intro Animation
Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP
When you have a lot of clients with WordPress-powered websites, or a lot of WordPress projects that you work on, it might get messy to deal with all those updates and maintenance. Logging in to each website with different usernames and passwords, then moderating comments, updating plugins and themes, maybe occasionally (or periodically) making database… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP
TheFox | Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
TheFox is the New ultimate multi-purpose WordPress theme. It is clean, got the newest design, super flexible, responsive, working with the awesome Visual Composer and created with a powerfull admin options panel ! This theme is what we call multi-purpose, using the multiple style of TheFox you will be able to create any kind of… Continue reading TheFox | Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
How To Design User Interface Animations
Image source: Zach Krasner[2] Motion is not so simple – it might sound easy to add some ‘movement’ to your sketches, but how successfully could you replicate feelings and reactions? The truth is that designing interface animations could take a while before you upgrade from the basic animated patterns to highly technical interactions which could… Continue reading How To Design User Interface Animations
15 Responsive Design Tools for Savvy Designers
Having a responsive website is a necessity for almost any business in 2016. As a designer, you’re always faced with the pressure to deliver quality results as quickly as possible. Today we are reviewing some of the responsive design tools that will provide for a stellar user experience on multiple devices. These are the kind… Continue reading 15 Responsive Design Tools for Savvy Designers
Illustrating the Web: deconstructing the trend
Illustrations are taking over the Web. Designers are creating websites with everything from full-screen illustrations to hand-drawn divots that are used throughout projects. It’s a trend that’s likely to keep growing because illustrations make a design feel custom (even if it’s not). Here’s how to make the most of them in your design. Website illustration… Continue reading Illustrating the Web: deconstructing the trend
Bigboom – Responsive Ecommerce WordPress Theme
Bigboom is a professional and powerful WooCommerce WordPress shopping theme for WordPress built with Bootstrap and powered by Visual Composer. The theme is suitable for any kind of shop raging from clothes to electronics, it’s main focus on mega stores and any big or small shopping sites. [sociallocker]https://mega.nz/#!ZU0XTYxB[signinlocker]Download[/signinlocker][/sociallocker]
20 Templates For Creating High-Fidelity Wireframes
Wireframing can be something quick and dirty, or it can be a large task that takes time to perfect. So here are some wireframe templates to help you save ton of time. With these templates you can easily create effective mockups and prototype of your web and mobile apps in no time. This is the… Continue reading 20 Templates For Creating High-Fidelity Wireframes
Icons In Web Design
Image source: thestorefront.com[2] Well-executed and beautiful icons look like tiny and cute images, but they are much more than that. They are extremely advantageous to every website because they attach visual cues to the essential elements of a website (headings, sections, buttons, etc) and they make the site/app look professional and sophisticated. Generally speaking, icons… Continue reading Icons In Web Design
How To Design An App Walkthrough
Image source: Dan Machado[2] There are so many walkthroughs-misuse situations, that it is questionable whether designers really understand their purpose. There are many complex apps which don’t have walkthroughs, the same as simple ones which don’t need them, but they still incorporated them in their design. This makes the decision on whether to use walkthroughs… Continue reading How To Design An App Walkthrough
Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists
What You’ll Be Creating WooCommerce gives you a few options as to what you can display on your archive pages: products categories (on the main shop page) or subcategories (on category pages) both products and categories. When I’m setting up a store, I normally select the third option: products and categories/subcategories. This means visitors to… Continue reading Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists
Weekly Inspiration: Good Golly, Gradients
Gradients are making a sneaky comeback. For a while they belonged to the world of Miami Vice and Tequila Sunrise, then they added depth to 1980’s magazines, then there was Geocities–ok, let’s not dwell on the past. Nowadays gradients are being used on the web in bold fashion; mixing highly saturated colors for extremely rich… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Good Golly, Gradients
How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Learn how to create this fantasy photo manipulation of a pirate house scene set in warm scenic dreamscape with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create rocky mountain using photos of rock and stones, combine ruin of castle to create dramatic pirate house in the dreamscape with warm vivid lighting. Throughout the tutorial,… Continue reading How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Logo Templates: 35 Custom Logo Design Templates
Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually are different from others in a similar… Continue reading Logo Templates: 35 Custom Logo Design Templates
Qards: Build Beautiful Websites Faster
Building websites is not a full-time job anymore. At least, it could be this way. Thanks to the evolution of technology and the strong desire to obtain quality results as fast as possible, now almost anyone can create beautiful websites. Why Qards could be the tool you need No matter the profile of the clients… Continue reading Qards: Build Beautiful Websites Faster
Posts, Pages and Post Types
In this part of this series on WP_Query, you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to query for posts, pages and custom post types. You can query for specific posts and pages or you can run a query to return posts of one or more post types. A Recap on How Arguments Work in WP_Query Before… Continue reading Posts, Pages and Post Types
WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies
So far in this series, you’ve learned how WP_Query is structured and what its properties and methods are. Now we’re looking at the various arguments you can use with WP_Query and how you code them. WP_Query has a large number of possible arguments, which makes it extremely flexible. As you can use it to query… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies
Create “Dark Scientist” Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create an conceptual surreal photo-manipulation. We are going to learn the process of creating depth of field using a few advance tools. We are going to learn how to blend images so seamlessly that it would look like a single image using the Brush tool, the Eraser… Continue reading Create “Dark Scientist” Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Hummingbird: What It Means For SEO, and What It Does For Google’s Status
Content takes on new meaning with Google’s new algorithm, which is codenamed Hummingbird. In fact, Hummingbird takes into context not just content but how that content is written. As the latest salvo fired by the internet company to stay atop the web browser game, as was the case with previous iterations of algorithms Penguin and… Continue reading Hummingbird: What It Means For SEO, and What It Does For Google’s Status