4 Considerations for Choosing a Web Host

Managing and maintaining a successful small business website is a full-time job. There are countless elements to manage, hundreds of things to consider and thousands of new things to learn to improve the efficiency of the site. Whether you need to learn about vector artwork, find out how to reduce bounce rates or decide how… Continue reading 4 Considerations for Choosing a Web Host

A Little Help – Developing A Tutorial-Driven Website

September 1, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger It’s harder and harder to carve out a profitable niche among the millions of sites populating the web today, but one option that has stood the test of time is the tutorial website. Based on a constantly evolving knowledge base, innovative presentation styles, and overall profitability, tutorial websites may… Continue reading A Little Help – Developing A Tutorial-Driven Website

How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design

The better designed the website and the better the usability, the more likely people will come back to use it  – and the more views, the more conversions and the better the website performs. Gaming websites need to be at the very height of attractive web design, especially in such a saturated sector. The look… Continue reading How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design

Zyma.com – Free 1 Year Web Hosting

Who is Zyma? Zyma.com is a fast growing web hosting company in the UK, with the mission of making a better hosting service that cares about its customers. We were immediately impressed by their website and their highly affordable plans. Why Use Zyma as hosting provider: They have a great long track record of being… Continue reading Zyma.com – Free 1 Year Web Hosting

Get Free Social Media Icons and Logo Sets From IconBunny

August 24, 2017 by Noemi Twigg One can’t have enough icons and logos to work with, can one? While there are tons of free sets available, many of the best ones don’t come for free. Their creators have to make a living after all. Today, however, we are giving away some high-quality icons and logo… Continue reading Get Free Social Media Icons and Logo Sets From IconBunny

Psychology Hacks to Improve Your Website’s Effectiveness

August 23, 2017 by Alex Fox Psychological research has yielded a ton of fascinating precepts that can help us create better websites. By utilizing these psychology hacks, we can improve our websites’ effectiveness, increasing revenue and driving more traffic. Beneficial Defaults In the United States, we have a problem with organ donations: very few people… Continue reading Psychology Hacks to Improve Your Website’s Effectiveness

No Joke…Download Anything You Want on GraphicStock

Best and amazing offer for Graphic Designers, Developers and Photographer’s. GraphicStock is giving you 7 days to download anything you want from over 350,000 photos, graphics, backgrounds, design elements, and more! Start Downloading Now! So what are waiting, check out some of our favorite graphics from the categories below: Here are just a few benefits… Continue reading No Joke…Download Anything You Want on GraphicStock

Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events

Hello, old friend. We all reach a point in our careers when we start speaking in public. Designers, in particular, are pretty good at organizing conferences, panels, meetups, livestreams and other forms of publicly sharing knowledge with fellow designers. Speaking at design events is not only important for the design community as a whole, but also… Continue reading Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events

Stopping Endless Client Revisions with Be Theme and 260+ pre-built websites

Posted · Category: Best Collections If a seemingly unending stream of client revisions is starting to get to you, it is time to do something about it. In fact, this something can also be appealing to your clients. You shouldn’t be stuck with the same project week after week while neglecting other projects. There is… Continue reading Stopping Endless Client Revisions with Be Theme and 260+ pre-built websites

How to Improve Your Video Content Strategy

Video converts better than any other forms of media, that’s according to 70% of digital marketers. When it comes to driving awareness, customer engagement and lead conversions, more businesses are opting for video marketing. While many business owners are opting for video marketing, creating compelling content for their audience and ensuring that it helps achieve… Continue reading How to Improve Your Video Content Strategy

Three Facebook Ad Tips That’ll Help You Increase Conversions

If you’ve spent any time on a marketing or design blog lately (other than this one), you’ve probably noticed a lot of buzz around Facebook advertising. Something like, “10 Ways Facebook Can Get Your Products to Fly Off the Shelf,” and other grand promises. Unfortunately, a lot of these posts lack any real value. Most… Continue reading Three Facebook Ad Tips That’ll Help You Increase Conversions

Losing customer trust is easy

Photo by www.stylecraze.com Today I tried to book a class in my fitness club where I pay a monthly fee for unlimited access to anything they have on the offer. To my surprise, I got the following message: “You are not allowed to book another class until 10.06 because you have already canceled two classes… Continue reading Losing customer trust is easy

5 Best Designed Websites in 2017

The web industry appears to be an extremely evolving space. It introduces some latest techniques and technologies letting developers implement the best website designs as well as meet their users’ expectations. New design trends appear very quickly. They create an award-winning symbiosis with some classics like retro style, patterns, and techniques that launch a web… Continue reading 5 Best Designed Websites in 2017

Wix.com – A Free & Easy Website Builder

Posted · Category: Tools There are so many ways through which a business can start off their campaign in a newly designed competitive environment. As such, there is the need to bring in capable hands that can help facilitate better service delivery. These services could be projected better by organizations that have studied the marketability… Continue reading Wix.com – A Free & Easy Website Builder

the Pros and Cons — SitePoint

This article is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The range of hosting options has become bewilderingly complex during the past few years. The basics are simple: a computing device has software installed which can respond to a network event such as… Continue reading the Pros and Cons — SitePoint

the Pros and Cons — SitePoint

This article is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The range of hosting options has become bewilderingly complex during the past few years. The basics are simple: a computing device has software installed which can respond to a network event such as… Continue reading the Pros and Cons — SitePoint

Build a successful creative portfolio with Allyou

Every creative needs a good portfolio. Whether you’re focussed on typography or photography, layout or user experience, your portfolio is what defines you professionally. As with most things, the quality of your portfolio is determined by the appropriateness of the tools you use. All too often we see great work, presented poorly, because the designer… Continue reading Build a successful creative portfolio with Allyou

Download Anything You Want for 7 Days on GraphicStock

GraphicStock is giving you 7 days of downloads from our massive library! Download anything you want from over 350,000 photos, graphics, design elements, and more.  START DOWNLOADING NOW Just create a username and password to access everything on GraphicStock for 7 days! You can download 20 images a day.  START DOWNLOADING NOW Don’t wait, this… Continue reading Download Anything You Want for 7 Days on GraphicStock

The Three Photo Effects in Luminar You’ll Fall in Love With

Posted · Category: Stock Photos Every image, in every webpage you work on, should be flawless in terms of its quality, and its ability to fit with the concept or idea behind the page. An image should also fit in contextually with the accompanying text. These considerations, and how cleverly you apply them, can make… Continue reading The Three Photo Effects in Luminar You’ll Fall in Love With

Overcoming Material Design.

Okay, I’m going to start this off with one statement; Material Design is great. It has helped unify user interfaces across platforms, and it provides designers with awesome resources (the icons especially ????????). And while some of you may use aterial Design as your UI-North-Star (why are you doing that to yourself), I am not… Continue reading Overcoming Material Design.

9 Best WordPress Plugins for Use in 2017

Posted · Category: Best Collections WordPress has many pluses, but it’s not necessarily the most glamorous platform to work with. Still customize it with themes and plugins to fit a designer’s needs has made it the most popular CMS. Plugins are great to have access to when you need to embed certain functions into your… Continue reading 9 Best WordPress Plugins for Use in 2017

Prospero | Proposals For Creatives

Prospero | Proposals For Creatives Log InPricing Professional proposals in minutes We know that writing a winning proposal is a headache. It’s also not why you chose to become a freelancer.  Prospero will make creating proposals fast and painless, so that you can go back to working on what matters most. Built forCreative Freelancers Designers… Continue reading Prospero | Proposals For Creatives

How to Create a Website to Compliment Your Logo

When it comes to creating your website and logo design, nothing but the best will do. You need to consider your branding always when creating any STD or web property. You also should consider your logo design and how your website works with your logo to help your branding. Remember that branding is a concerted… Continue reading How to Create a Website to Compliment Your Logo

UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career

Advancing technology and the digital revolution are rapidly changing the career landscape for designers. Where web design once reigned as the career of choice for digitally-minded visual designers, that job has recently been dethroned by a new supreme leader of the design realm: UX designer. As more people do business digitally – not just on computers,… Continue reading UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career