Over the last few years, everyone’s been talking about Dark Mode. It’s said to boost productivity and focus while reducing eye strain. It’s also supposed to be better for your battery life. But is that the whole story? Research into the matter suggests that Dark Mode might not be so healthy for us after all.… Continue reading Dark Mode Looks Good, But Is It Actually Hurting You?
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Add a Calendar to Your Company Intranet With a WordPress Plugin
What You’ll Be Creating WordPress is a great system for building a company intranet. You may already be using WordPress for your public website, but it also handles intranets really well. From sharing news, to social interaction and collaboration, WordPress lets you add functionality to your company intranet that helps you communicate more effectively as… Continue reading Add a Calendar to Your Company Intranet With a WordPress Plugin
5 Unexpected UX Design Skills to Help You Level Up
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
How to Add Sound to Your Site, Without Infuriating Users
Once in a while, every professional comes across a challenge so great, so ridiculous, that they just can’t help themselves. They just have to go for it. It’s like the story of David and Goliath… if David was just bored and Goliath wasn’t threatening his entire nation. As for me, I’m about to argue for… Continue reading How to Add Sound to Your Site, Without Infuriating Users
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 Build a MouseOver Navigation Slide Effect
Have you ever used the Slider Revolution WordPress plugin in a project? If the answer is “yes”, you might have noticed the mini toolbar that appears in the right corner of the plugin’s configuration page. Initially, only the icons are visible, keeping the whole thing nice and compact. Then each time you hover over an icon, its… Continue reading How to Build a MouseOver Navigation Slide Effect
15+ Best Event WordPress Themes: For Conferences and More
Conferences and networking events are one of the best ways to promote your business and establish relationships with potential clients as well as business partners. An essential part of any successful event or conference strategy is setting up a website to promote it and to create a resource that explains all the benefits of signing… Continue reading 15+ Best Event WordPress Themes: For Conferences and More
Create Branded WooCommerce Emails With an Email Customizer Plugin
If you have ever placed an order online, then you have probably received a transactional email. Transactional emails are emails that are sent to you and your customers after a transaction has occurred on your website. These transactional emails are not to be confused with promotional emails that are sent to a list of recipients… Continue reading Create Branded WooCommerce Emails With an Email Customizer Plugin
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
Top 10 WordPress Wedding Themes (+ Tips to Build Your Wedding Website)
The question’s been popped and now the planning begins. Creating a wedding website to let guests know all the details surrounding the big day is becoming increasingly popular, with at least 14% of engaged couples choosing to go down this route. Whether you’re in the market to create a website for yourself and your significant… Continue reading Top 10 WordPress Wedding Themes (+ Tips to Build Your Wedding Website)
How to Create a Form With the Quform WordPress Plugin
Forms are essential for any website as they provide an efficient way for your customers to communicate with you. Whether you are looking to receive feedback, complete an order, or receive an application from your website visitors, forms allow you to effectively collect all of this information. Many of the WordPress forms on the market… Continue reading How to Create a Form With the Quform WordPress Plugin
Four Examples of Beautiful Dental Sites
Private practice dental offices are starting to realize that people look at site design when they pick out the individual who will have the privilege of performing services for them. While this might not be the first thing that potential patients look for, it does play a fairly big role in the decision-making process according… Continue reading Four Examples of Beautiful Dental Sites
Most Important People to Consider Hiring For Your Small Business
You’ve heard people say “you can’t do it all” and it proves to be true in a lot of situations. There are of course those who exceed all expectations and “do it all” but burn themselves out in the process but even for those supposedly “doing it all,” you can best believe that they had… Continue reading Most Important People to Consider Hiring For Your Small Business
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
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
25 Best High Quality Photoshop Actions for Photographers and Designers
The Best Photoshop actions can instantly transform your photos into HDR photography. The hand-picked twenty five high quality Photoshop actions that will transform your Photography into Oily effect, newspaper print, abstract, watercolor effect, comic and dots effects within a seconds. Mostly Photoshop actions available with video tutorials that shows how to setup action files and how… Continue reading 25 Best High Quality Photoshop Actions for Photographers and Designers
15 Best APIs for Web Designers and Developers
With an API, you create a connection between your website and an application for the purposes of drawing on its data or features. This allows you to not only enhance the on-site experience, but to streamline a lot of the processes that would otherwise require much tedious hand-holding behind the scenes. Many of you are… Continue reading 15 Best APIs for Web Designers and Developers
7 Essential Steps for Brand Identity Integration into Web Design
With the rising trends of user experience (UX) and customer experience (CX) in web design, it is no longer enough to simply provide your visitors with a product and call it a day. Whether you are about to launch your business’ website for the first time or are in the process of a website redesign,… Continue reading 7 Essential Steps for Brand Identity Integration into Web Design
In Defence of Hacking
Someone defaced your website, posted a rude or lewd image, and called you the adult equivalent of a doodyhead? Ah well, time to grab the backups, and maybe switch hosts. You can’t really be faulted for thinking that. In popular culture, hackers are either nefarious, villainous, and often very good-looking nerds, or else they’re helpful… Continue reading In Defence of Hacking
7 Features That Make Sitejet a Viable Alternative to WordPress
WordPress has long been the king of web design, but a new CMS built by four German designers looks set to offer an entirely new challenge for its crown. Sitejet doesn’t just provide novices and experts the chance to make beautiful websites in a shorter timeframe than its rival. It also comes equipped with a… Continue reading 7 Features That Make Sitejet a Viable Alternative to WordPress
Top 4 Tips to Choosing Your Landing Page Templates
A landing page is a great way to drive traffic, improve your SEO and build your brand. Everyone agrees that having a landing page is critical for businesses to generate leads for future conversion, but many people think it is difficult to create one. Landing page templates allow you to quickly and easily create effective… Continue reading Top 4 Tips to Choosing Your Landing Page Templates
Fifteen Ways To Create A Flawless Photo
Photography is rare among the fine arts, since it has remained relevant even throughout our advancement into the digital age, due to our love of beautiful photos. But how should you approach creating a ‘perfect’ photo? Here are fifteen possible ways to release your inner master photographer. Rule Of Thirds First of all, keep in… Continue reading Fifteen Ways To Create A Flawless Photo
Organize Your WordPress Media Library With Folders
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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
Create a Drag-and-Drop Contact Form With the FormCraft 3 WordPress Plugin
Whether you are running an online store, marketplace, or blog on your WordPress website, you will need a few essential elements displayed. One of these is a contact form. Without a contact form on your website, your website visitors will have no way of contacting you with their questions and comments. The absence of this… Continue reading Create a Drag-and-Drop Contact Form With the FormCraft 3 WordPress Plugin