Sometimes, even the best of friends can have a disagreement. That’s the sort of vibe that WordPress and its community have been dealing with for quite some time. There’s still a lot of love, but it goes along with some undertones of frustration. No, it’s not everyone who feels this way. It may not even… Continue reading Reasons for Web Designers to Stick with WordPress
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Get Started With WPBakery (Formerly Visual Composer)
Writing HTML, CSS, and PHP code to build or customize a WordPress site can be incredibly time consuming, even for an experienced web developer. That’s probably why much of the WordPress community has moved on to using page-builder plugins instead. WPBakery Page Builder (formerly called Visual Composer) is the most flexible and feature-rich WordPress page-builder plugin… Continue reading Get Started With WPBakery (Formerly Visual Composer)
17 MailChimp Templates for Every Purpose and Occasion
In this article we list 17 different MailChimp templates to help you make the most of your email marketing efforts, no matter the occasion or purpose. These templates have been selected for their amazing designs, and fully functional and customizable structure. Your aim with these is to create highly converting and effective email campaigns. So,… Continue reading 17 MailChimp Templates for Every Purpose and Occasion
Use a Drag-and-Drop Form Builder for WordPress
Forms have always been an integral part of the Internet. As a WordPress website owner, you have no choice but to use them if you want your users to communicate with you. Creating a modern form that follows best practices and conforms to the look and feel of your site, however, can be a daunting… Continue reading Use a Drag-and-Drop Form Builder for WordPress
23 Best Law Firm Logos With Cool Legal Designs (For Lawyers & Attorneys)
To build trust with potential clients, you need a professional law firm logo. The best law firm logos: make it easy to recognize your brand allow you to connect with your audience represent what your brand does The KH Law Firm Logo Maker is just one of the many logo makers available from Placeit. Your… Continue reading 23 Best Law Firm Logos With Cool Legal Designs (For Lawyers & Attorneys)
How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to create a realistic 3D gold text effect using layer styles in Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: Download the file Gold_Text_Effect-Assets.zip and extract both files inside. Install the Pattern file “Patterns.pat“. Install the Contour file “CustomContours.shc”.… Continue reading How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles
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
Turn Your Static SVG Drawings Into Interactive Widgets and Infographics With Vue.js
What You’ll Be Creating SVG is powerful and flexible graphic format, which fits perfectly into the web medium. Unlike raster image formats, such as JPG, PNG, or GIF, SVG is vector-based and consists of “real” objects, which you can select and manipulate in whatever manner you want. So even with some basic scripting a static… Continue reading Turn Your Static SVG Drawings Into Interactive Widgets and Infographics With Vue.js
Adding a Music Player to Your WordPress Site
Thinking about adding a substantial amount of audio to your site? Or maybe just a clip for a single song? When working with WordPress, there are dozens of different ways to add a music of audio player to your site. Choosing the one that works best for you can be tough. In this piece, we’ll… Continue reading Adding a Music Player to Your WordPress Site
24 Best New Photoshop Actions & Photo Effects for 2019
Enter 2019 with the best Photoshop actions around. Check out these awesome new resources below. 24 Best New Photoshop Actions & Photo Effects 2019 is finally here, so how will you transform this year? Try a new Photoshop action and create wild photo effects to share on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Explore your creative spirit… Continue reading 24 Best New Photoshop Actions & Photo Effects for 2019
20+ Online Ad Banner (Maker) Template Designs to Customise Now
If you’re just getting into online advertising or hoping to boost your online traffic with better advertisements, ad banners are the way to go. Ad banners are currently one of the most ubiquitous forms of marketing used on the internet. Companies use them for everything from raising their brand profile to increasing engagement, announcing discounts,… Continue reading 20+ Online Ad Banner (Maker) Template Designs to Customise Now
What Makes WPBakery (Visual Composer) the Best WordPress Page Builder Today?
Are you looking for a WordPress page builder that takes the hassle out of creating your website? WPBakery (formerly known as Visual Composer) is hands-down the best WordPress page builder available today. With WordPress rolling out the new Gutenberg Editor, you might be wondering if WordPress page builders are still an essential page of your… Continue reading What Makes WPBakery (Visual Composer) the Best WordPress Page Builder Today?
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
How to Compress Video For Online Streaming
Depending on where you’re uploading your video content, you’ll need to find the correct file settings to get the right result. Choosing a container format Source A video container format is a digital wrapper for your content. They determine the extension of your video file. Popular container formats include MP4 (.mp4), AVI (.avi), QuickTime (.mov)… Continue reading How to Compress Video For Online Streaming
How to Design a Travel Website that Accepts Booking and Reservation
Lots of people are relying on travel websites for their travel needs. From plane tickets to hotel bookings and everything else in between, travelers now have the option to customize their travel experiences. Any travel booking website can get you from point A to point B, but the best ones will get you to your… Continue reading How to Design a Travel Website that Accepts Booking and Reservation
5 Ways to Make Your Website Stand Out
Websites, as you can imagine, exist for nearly every facet of society. From community pages for boy scout troops and churches, to sales geared store fronts online, to blogs and share sites that allow users to connect and interact. Having a website seems to be a necessity in today’s age. Yet, so many people spend… Continue reading 5 Ways to Make Your Website Stand Out
How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Photoshop adjustment layers to create a fantasy photo manipulation featuring a rock goddess. First, we’ll build the base scene using several arch, rock and landscape images. After that, we’ll add the ground, the model’s face, and a rock texture. Later, we’ll add… Continue reading How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
Draw with CSS: Using CSS To Draw Elements
With clever use of CSS properties, it is in fact possible to draw very complex shapes. All the shapes below were drawn with CSS alone. It might be that CSS isn’t the best way to render shapes in the browser window, but it’s very fast and included for “free” on all modern browsers. Learn how… Continue reading Draw with CSS: Using CSS To Draw Elements
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
Tips on How to Pick the Right Icons for Your Website
When designing a website, we often spend a good bit of time considering which visual assets to use. Photos and illustrations, for example, can have a large impact on a design. However, those aren’t the only assets we should focus on. One asset that can get easily overlooked is icons. There are a lot of… Continue reading Tips on How to Pick the Right Icons for Your Website
A Guide to Getting Ready for iOS 12 Notifications for Designers
Now that iOS 12 is out and some users have upgraded to the operating system, you’ll want to start revising your application to take advantage of the new features of iOS 12 notifications. What’s new in iOS 12 Notifications? iOS 12 brings a number of changes to how notifications work. While no single change completely… Continue reading A Guide to Getting Ready for iOS 12 Notifications for Designers
10 Questions You Need to Be Asking Your Clients
Client meetings don’t just go one way. While your clients might come prepared with a list of questions for you, you’ll want to have some questions of your own. Here are the top ten questions you need to be asking your clients if you aren’t already. Why do you want a website? This question can… Continue reading 10 Questions You Need to Be Asking Your Clients