Whenever a hiring boom like this happens, you have to consider how it could work against you. Sure, there are more job openings. However, that means that more UX designers (and designer wannabes) are going to come out of the woodwork, trying to snag up the highly coveted gigs. So, let’s assume that you’re all… Continue reading 5 Unexpected UX Design Skills to Help You Level Up
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How to Use the WordPress Responsive YouTube Playlist Video Player Plugin
In this post, I’m going to review the WordPress Responsive YouTube Playlist Video Player plugin, which allows you to integrate a video player which is capable of playing YouTube playlists seamlessly. For websites that deal with a lot of video streaming content, it’s important that they should organize their content in a way which is… Continue reading How to Use the WordPress Responsive YouTube Playlist Video Player Plugin
Show Course Schedules and Timetables With a WordPress Calendar Plugin
Websites often need to let users know about any upcoming events like movie shows, exhibitions and classes. Listing the schedule for upcoming events helps everyone save time and plan their activities. With a good event listing calendar, your users will be able to see upcoming events along with their timing, location, availability and pricing at… Continue reading Show Course Schedules and Timetables With a WordPress Calendar Plugin
How to Use the Free WordPress FooGallery Plugin to Create Image Galleries
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Some websites require you to add many images in a single post or webpage. For example, you might want to upload a lot of images from an art exhibition or an event on a website. Similarly, any business that focuses on products and services might add a lot of relevant images on a single page.… Continue reading How to Use the Free WordPress FooGallery Plugin to Create Image Galleries
20 Freshest Web Designs, October 2019
You’ll find a few other trends, and sites that ignore trends altogether, in our roundup of the freshest web design this month, but it’s hard to ignore the vibrancy that’s taking over. Enjoy! Chevalvert Chevalvert is a French design agency whose site visually bombards you from the moment it loads. The maximalist approach is visually… Continue reading 20 Freshest Web Designs, October 2019
26 Best InDesign Calendar Templates (New for 2020)
What You’ll Be Creating What do you have in store for 2020? Create a productive year with these InDesign calendar templates. 26 Best InDesign Calendar Templates (New for 2020) Add a little creativity and efficiency to your life with a stunning InDesign calendar template. Not only are they great for decor overall, but they also… Continue reading 26 Best InDesign Calendar Templates (New for 2020)
Build a Tabbed Product Archive for Your WooCommerce Store
In this tutorial you will learn how to make your WooCommerce store a little more stylish by organizing the product archive with tabs. We’ll create tabs with a multi-column layout, a multi-row carousel, and a grid layout. What We’re Going to Build Over the coming steps we will create a WordPress plugin, inside which we … Continue reading Build a Tabbed Product Archive for Your WooCommerce Store
Designing With Data: How to Improve UX Using Customer Data
Do you always follow your gut when making decisions for your website? Designing your website often starts with what you feel will make a website look good. However, you’ll most likely be changing your plans when the results of your efforts come in. But this is okay because tracking and measuring your site’s performance from… Continue reading Designing With Data: How to Improve UX Using Customer Data
WordPress Survey Plugin: Forminator to the Rescue
Form builder plugins are very handy. Quizzes, polls, surveys, and even event registrations and quote requests are forms. With a form builder plugin, you save time and effort, and the finished product is a well-crafted and professional looking page on your site. A quiz is the type of post that gets shared, thus increasing the… Continue reading WordPress Survey Plugin: Forminator to the Rescue
Best WordPress Magazine Themes for Blog and News Websites
When it comes to magazine and news websites, WordPress is top of the bill. Well-known news sites like The New York Times, TechCrunch, CNN, Reuters, Mozilla’s Blog, and many others use WordPress as their platform of choice, highlighting just how scalable WordPress blogs can be. Online News Consumption is Rising Precise digital circulation for online magazine and news is… Continue reading Best WordPress Magazine Themes for Blog and News Websites
How to Deliver Dramatic UX with Weatherstack’s API
weatherstack provides real-time, historical, and even forecast data up to 14 days in advance. Licensed from some of the world’s biggest weather stations and weather data providers, the information provided by weatherstack’s simple to use API gives you an accurate picture of the conditions on the ground, wherever your users access your site from. Trusted… Continue reading How to Deliver Dramatic UX with Weatherstack’s API
42 Best Trendy Gradient Resources to Download
The gradient trend is rocking the world! Let’s find out why and check out this awesome list of resources below. 42 Trendy Gradient Resources If a bold punch of color is exactly what you need, consider trying a colorful gradient. From gorgeous beach tones to the stylish violet trends of 2018, these wonderful gradients are… Continue reading 42 Best Trendy Gradient Resources to Download
A Guide to Using SMS Marketing to Generate More Leads
Mobile eCommerce, or mCommerce, is a term used to cover online browsing for products and their purchase, with customers using their smartphones, tablets or personal computers to place the order. In recent years, portable devices have been quick to replace desktop computers, making the need to address mobile marketing more crucial than ever. The rapid… Continue reading A Guide to Using SMS Marketing to Generate More Leads
How to Use the Slider Revolution Plugin for WordPress
In this post, we’re going to review the Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress plugin, which allows you to create rich and dynamic content on your WordPress websites. And not just sliders: it allows you to build carousels, content modules, and full-fledged websites by using the rich built-in editor! Nowadays, sliders and carousels are important building blocks… Continue reading How to Use the Slider Revolution Plugin for WordPress
Insert a Calendar Into WordPress With the Pro Event Calendar Plugin
Displaying a calendar on your website is a must for many business owners. Calendars are the best way to share all the upcoming events that your business has with your audience. However, the various calendar plugins available on the market often have too few features, expensive add-ons, or are too complicated to set up. In… Continue reading Insert a Calendar Into WordPress With the Pro Event Calendar Plugin
How to Make, Use, and Manipulate a Calligraphic Brush in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating The Calligraphic brush in Adobe Illustrator mimics the look and feel of a calligraphy pen nib. Let’s take its options for a spin to get everything you can from this brush type. 1. How to Make a Calligraphic Brush Step 1 To start, create a New Document, select the Paintbrush Tool (B)… Continue reading How to Make, Use, and Manipulate a Calligraphic Brush in Adobe Illustrator
Some Simple SEO Strategies that many people Tend to Miss Out
SEO started in an awkward way to outsmart the first-generation search algorithms, but all such shortcuts and quick fixes have now become obsolete. So, this post is not about smart SEO tips, but the very fundamental things which you need to practice (which many tend to forget easily) to optimize your website. There is no… Continue reading Some Simple SEO Strategies that many people Tend to Miss Out
How to Create a Mailchimp Subscribe Form Widget for WordPress
In this tutorial I’ll explain how to create a “Mailchimp subscribe form widget” using WordPress, the Mailchimp API, and AJAX. It will be aimed at competent beginner developers, and requires some understanding of PHP and WordPress development. There’s a lot to do, so let’s get stuck in! A Quick Note on APIs “The web has… Continue reading How to Create a Mailchimp Subscribe Form Widget for WordPress
25 Professional Vector Illustrator Brushes
The high quality hand-picked vector illustrator brushes for illustrator. This collection included Vintage Brushes, Watercolor Brushes, Pencil Brushes, Charcoal Brushes and Marker Brushes for Adobe Illustrator. The brushes are great to use for simple black and white sketch or graphics or they can also be used to give a handcrafted feel illustrations. In this collection… Continue reading 25 Professional Vector Illustrator Brushes
How to Get Your Newsletter Read
Being in the business of building websites, it’s easy to forget that no matter how great they look, how well they perform, or how optimized they are for search, a website alone will not attract visitors back to it. You have to give them a good reason to return. Blogging and other content generation is… Continue reading How to Get Your Newsletter Read
3 Essential Design Trends, September 2019
This month’s collection of design trends focuses on a bit of a slow burn – design techniques that appeal to millennials (maybe) and Generation Z. Gen-Zers are those born between 1997 and 2012, meaning part of this generation is in grade school. This generation is impacting design trends already because they are the most digital… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, September 2019
Earn Your CCNA Cyber Ops With Cisco 210-250 SECFND Before It’s Too Late!
In case you haven’t heard of the changes within the Cisco certification program, now is the perfect time to read about the recent updates. For the past years, many IT certification providers are shuffling their certification tracks to continue being relevant in the changing industry with new technologies. Some certifications paths are slightly tweaked while… Continue reading Earn Your CCNA Cyber Ops With Cisco 210-250 SECFND Before It’s Too Late!
Organize Your WordPress Media Library With Folders
Today’s WordPress websites need to be media-rich to draw in and retain traffic. If you have a WordPress website, chances are you will have uploaded a video or images to be displayed on your pages and posts. Whether you want to show off customer testimonials, your latest blog posts, your best images, or just celebrate… Continue reading Organize Your WordPress Media Library With Folders
How to Make an InDesign Catalog Template
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an InDesign catalog template for showcasing products. This simple and stylish design could also be adapted as a lookbook for fashion retailers or a brochure template. Consisting of a front cover and three inside spreads, this versatile catalog template can be easily extended… Continue reading How to Make an InDesign Catalog Template