Exciting New Tools for Designers, December 2020

Jumpstart your next design project or speed up a workflow with some of these new tools and resources. With so many new tools being developed all the time, you are almost certain to find something that can help you with projects. Here’s what new for designers this month. Everypixel Patterns Everypixel Patterns solves a common… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, December 2020

Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2020

This month’s collection of new tools, resources, and freebies for designers is a smorgasbord of sorts. You’ll find everything from useful APIs to icons to tutorials to fonts. Let’s get right into it, here’s what new for designers this month: Tooltip Sequence Now that your app or website is ready, you might need to help… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2020

Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2020

It’s fun to see new website design tools that reflect current times and the state of the world. That’s very true this month with new databases devoted to diversity and women in technology, as well and resources to make your design life easier. Here’s what’s new for designers and developers this month: Ztext.js Ztext.js is… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2020

10 Best eCommerce Blogs for Successfully Starting an Online Store

One of the industries that is going to grow to trillions in upcoming years is – e-commerce. This means it is the best time to start an online store. With Corona pandemic, there are more and more businesses moving from a brick and mortar, to an online solution like Shopify. However, for having an eCommerce… Continue reading 10 Best eCommerce Blogs for Successfully Starting an Online Store

50 Best Sans-Serif Fonts For Graphic Designers

73 Shares Due to living in a digital age, we seldom see handwritten or casual script on websites. However, that is gradually changing. The sans-serif fonts are very useful font style and typeface that is now being used in numerous design projects. This typeface is greatly used in casual script, despite not being used in… Continue reading 50 Best Sans-Serif Fonts For Graphic Designers

Finding Your Way With Domain Mapping

It’s no secret that having a custom domain name is an essential piece of any company’s branding strategy. While there are a myriad of hosting plans available that offer domains like your company.webhost.com, making the shift from one of those to simply yourcompany.com is an important step. However, your domain branding strategy need not end… Continue reading Finding Your Way With Domain Mapping

Exciting New Tools for Designers, August 2020

The common theme in this month’s collection of new tools and resources is “things that help you show off your work.” Many of these tools are made to help you better web products or apps or showcase designs with others. Here’s what new for designers this month. Naturaltts Naturaltts is an online text to speech… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, August 2020

20 Unmissable Websites, June 2020

Every month we publish a roundup of the 20 most unmissable websites newly launched, or updated in the previous four weeks. In June’s edition you’ll find everything from corporate sites for global power-houses, to personal sites for innovative designers. This month we’re seeing a lot of flamboyance, a lot of passion, and the color of… Continue reading 20 Unmissable Websites, June 2020

Creating a Custom User Role in WordPress

When building a website with a CMS, flexibility is always welcome. Thankfully, WordPress has more than its share, with themes and plugins that allow us to create a highly-custom experience. But its flexibility goes beyond just those extra things we can install. It’s actually baked right into the core of the software. The ability to… Continue reading Creating a Custom User Role in WordPress

14 WordPress Themes You Should Start Using in 2020

Even web designers who prefer to design websites from scratch eventually look for frameworks, past work, or shortcuts. That way they speed up their workflow. And there are also those times when it’s hard to find the right template. You need help to create a special page and you feel compelled to build it from… Continue reading 14 WordPress Themes You Should Start Using in 2020

Exciting New Tools for Designers, January 2020

We typically start the month with a roundup of new tools and resources for designers, but with the start of a new year (and new decade), we thought a roundup of things to help you get more organized would be appropriate. Some of these tools have been around for a while with features you might… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, January 2020

20 Jewelry WordPress Themes for WooCommerce Websites

Perhaps you create jewelry and would like to turn your hobby into a business, or maybe you’re ready to start selling a wide range of products from other brands. Whatever your long-term plan, one of your first ports of call should be to launch your website—after all, what better way to get more eyes on… Continue reading 20 Jewelry WordPress Themes for WooCommerce Websites

20 Creative WordPress Photo Gallery Themes for Simple Portfolio Sites 2020

Sometimes in life, you just want to keep things simple—and the same can be said for your web design. Perhaps you’re a photographer, designer, or illustrator looking to build your online portfolio and you want your work to do the talking. Luckily for you, there are plenty of simple WordPress gallery themes that do just… Continue reading 20 Creative WordPress Photo Gallery Themes for Simple Portfolio Sites 2020

Exciting New Tools for Designers, November 2019

You’re sure to find some tools and resources that will help you save time as we enter what is often one of the most hectic seasons of the year. Here’s what’s new for designers this month. Screen Size Map Screen Size Map is a tool to showcase popular screen sizes and will even auto-detect yours.… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, November 2019

10 Common Regrets When Selecting WordPress Themes (+ Great Theme Examples)

Picking a WordPress theme can be overwhelming. There are so many to choose from that it’s all too easy to spend hours scrolling through endless options without ever settling on a theme. Sound familiar? You’re certainly not alone.  I’ve made a huge mistake (via Twenty20) Rather than relentlessly scouring ThemeForest for a theme that fulfills… Continue reading 10 Common Regrets When Selecting WordPress Themes (+ Great Theme Examples)

20 Best New Portfolios, August 2019

It’s August, which means the rain is finally slowing down, and I have a chance to get my roof fixed. While I wait here under a literal tarp-fort that I hung up in my office, I thought I might as well compile some of the best recent portfolios for you all to look at. We… Continue reading 20 Best New Portfolios, August 2019

20 Best New Portfolios, July 2019

And now it’s July. I’d just like to tell my American and Canadian friends to hydrate properly, and the hangover should be gone by October, just in time for the sugar crash. While you recover, we’ve got more portfolios. Lots of good, grid-based stuff this month. And lots of dark layouts. It’s like all the… Continue reading 20 Best New Portfolios, July 2019

What is a Multipurpose WordPress Theme?

It can be overwhelming for webmasters who have decided to go ahead with WordPress but are wondering which WordPress theme will be the right fit for their website. There are countless free and paid options when it comes to WordPress themes and just about every modern theme looks pretty good. So how do you choose… Continue reading What is a Multipurpose WordPress Theme?

How to Improve Your Website’s Performance?

Not sure why your online business is not as competitive as you’d like it to be? Or maybe you’re experiencing conversion rate loss, especially during peak times? One of the reasons why you could be losing potential customers is poor website performance. Sadly, nowadays, potential clients won’t wait even a few seconds for you –… Continue reading How to Improve Your Website’s Performance?

7 Things You Must Remove From Your Website Before 2019

December 11, 2018 by Alex Fox If you’ve got these things in your website, you better remove them before 2019. Here’s our “favorite” outdated or regrettable content choices. Mouseover Navigation Menus The most obvious problems with mouseover navigation menus is that not every visitor has a mouse. How does a mobile user “mouseover” something? Obviously,… Continue reading 7 Things You Must Remove From Your Website Before 2019

How to Design a Powerfully Persuasive Above the Fold Area

There are few parts of a website that command more attention than the area above the fold. This is the screen section users look at after immediately landing on a website. The punchier and more persuasive the above the fold is, the better your conversion rates. Despite its importance, this crucial real estate often gets… Continue reading How to Design a Powerfully Persuasive Above the Fold Area

21 Awesome WordPress Podcast Themes to Make Audio Sites

If 2017 was the year of the podcast, then 2018 is the year of the podcast website–here’s a collection of WordPress themes to build your perfect podcast site. The Unstoppable Rise of the Podcast The NPR Podcast sketch from comedy show Portlandia has all the hallmarks of peak podcasting: soft-spoken hosts, quirky background music, a Blue… Continue reading 21 Awesome WordPress Podcast Themes to Make Audio Sites

5 Practical Productivity Hacks to Improve Web Design Efficiency

When it comes to web design, creativity and productivity are central to your work. If you lack in either of these areas, it will be a struggle to come up with quality results. The challenge, especially with the productivity half, is that everyone is unique. What works for one designer might not work for you,… Continue reading 5 Practical Productivity Hacks to Improve Web Design Efficiency

Taking Your Business Green

The hottest trend for companies right now is not to have a funny social media stream or to create viral Vine videos. It’s to be more environmentally conscious — not only in terms of how products are produced or services are offered, but also in how the business is operated. More consumers are voting with… Continue reading Taking Your Business Green