There are few things about the legal field that are easy or simple. Potential lawyers need almost a decade’s worth of education just to become qualified, but then they still need to pass one of the more grueling, challenging exams in the professional world to begin practicing. Then there will be more years of learning… Continue reading A Beginner’s Course on Blogging for Lawyers
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Avoiding Common Problems with CSS Grid
October 25, 2017 by Alex Fox For many dark days, properly aligning objects on a webpage with CSS alone was close to impossible. With mostly-functional semi-hacks like float, positioning and in-like block, we could make it work, but it was far from perfect. When vexed by a particularly troublesome layout quirk, some event lamented the… Continue reading Avoiding Common Problems with CSS Grid
How to Optimize the Design and Location of the Search Bar
The search bar is one of the most useful features on your website. It can help visitors find exactly what they’re looking for with just a few key presses. On a typical ecommerce website, search users convert at a rate 3.5x higher than those that don’t interact with search, so it makes sense to use… Continue reading How to Optimize the Design and Location of the Search Bar
Vera Block: A huge set of UI components and app screens
Vera Block is a massive freebie made of 100+ UI components and 140+ mobile screens for Sketch and Photoshop. It is super-useful to speed up a mobile design workflow due to its flexibility and ease of use. Vera Block design takes into account the latest trends in interface design featuring a clean UI, great font pairings and… Continue reading Vera Block: A huge set of UI components and app screens
9 Design and Formatting Tricks to Make Your Content Easier to Read
In a perfect world, content would be judged solely on the information it provides. The strength of a piece would depend exclusively on its subject matter, and how that subject is articulated through words and images. But in the online world, great information isn’t enough—you also need to present that information efficiently, and in an… Continue reading 9 Design and Formatting Tricks to Make Your Content Easier to Read
Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Components
Building single-page applications is an art, with many impressive frameworks to choose from. One of the most intuitive and widely used frameworks for building both web and mobile applications is Angular. Today, Angular 10 is out, and there are many impressive features. However, you need to master components before you dig deep. First Things First:… Continue reading Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Components
5 Tools You Need to Give Your Web Design Business a Boost
September 28, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger Part of the reason many young entrepreneurs are starting their own web design companies in today’s business climate is that there are so many cost-effective and easy-to-use support tools available. If you’re in the midst of launching or growing your own business, it can be helpful to know which… Continue reading 5 Tools You Need to Give Your Web Design Business a Boost
Essential Ingredients For Every Competitive Analysis
The Whys Why are competitors doing things a certain way? Why do people trust or use a competitor’s product? Why is a particular product among the top 3 or top 5 solutions in the market? One of the most effective practice is to use the 5 Whys technique. You can read more about it here.… Continue reading Essential Ingredients For Every Competitive Analysis
Are You Underestimating The Power Of Color In Design?
The colors you use in your website’s design have the potential to captivate and influence a sale. They also have the potential to distract and disrupt your visitors’ attention and make them bounce. Don’t underestimate the power of color when it comes to influencing your visitors. A beautiful color scheme isn’t necessarily an effective one.… Continue reading Are You Underestimating The Power Of Color In Design?
Which Metric Should You Use to Measure Customer Satisfaction?
The “Net Promoter Score” and the “Customer Effort Score” are two ways of measuring customer satisfaction. Let’s look at the similarities and differences. In UX design, metrics are used to measure how something is performing, and the “Net Promoter Score” (NPS) is recognised as being the gold standard of measuring satisfaction. Satisfaction may be a fairly… Continue reading Which Metric Should You Use to Measure Customer Satisfaction?
10 Best Corporate Website Design Examples
A corporate website is a virtual entrance to your business. Through it, your potential clients get to know your company. Thus, it should be appropriately developed to create the desired attitude and engage your customers to action. In this article, we will suggest a checklist for a good site and see some stunning corporate website… Continue reading 10 Best Corporate Website Design Examples
TypeScript for Beginners, Part 2: Basic Data Types
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} After reading the introductory TypeScript tutorial, you should now be able to write your own TypeScript code in an IDE that supports it and then compile it to JavaScript. In this tutorial, you will learn about different kinds of data types available in TypeScript. JavaScript has seven… Continue reading TypeScript for Beginners, Part 2: Basic Data Types
How To Design For Digital Products
It is really difficult to talk about static elements on the web: the design process is changing rapidly; and inefficiency is no longer allowed. The reason is competition; and designers’ will to plan their project in advance and to apply purposeful methods. The crucial discovery was the connection between design quality and experience outcome; and… Continue reading How To Design For Digital Products
Your Guide to Developing Microcopy Like a Pro
People often underestimate the power of their website, but great user design drives conversions. When we think of a user experience, a few things jump to mind: headlines, layout, font, color. Symmetry and visual cueing play a large role in how a user takes in content and even how they make decisions. This is the… Continue reading Your Guide to Developing Microcopy Like a Pro
Design makes AI smarter
Designers today most likely have been designing for products that use some level of AI for automation. We have been designing in the first stage of AI, artificial narrow intelligence. To get to the second stage of AI, artificial general intelligence, we need user data. Lots of it. How do we get this information? To… Continue reading Design makes AI smarter
How to Optimize a Web Design for Video Content
July 31, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger As videos become more widely used across the internet, more and more websites are starting to incorporate video content as well. Often however this is done fairly haphazardly, without taking into account that video by its very nature is different from other forms of content. Frankly speaking, slapping a… Continue reading How to Optimize a Web Design for Video Content
Need help choosing a WP Theme for a Startup or Small Business? Check these options
Posted · Category: Best Collections Do you or your client have a well-established or a startup? If your answer is positive, then I bet you strive to acquire new customers and retain the existing ones. In today’s business environment, a carefully constructed, optimally-planned website is essential. If you hope to make the search for clients… Continue reading Need help choosing a WP Theme for a Startup or Small Business? Check these options
Don’t have a Mobile Friendly Site yet? You will need one!
In the mobile world that we live in, by next year, it is expected that as much as 80% of all internet traffic will be mobile. So anything from a dating site to an online pet store will need to be mobile friendly and so, it is now more important than ever before. While desktop… Continue reading Don’t have a Mobile Friendly Site yet? You will need one!
Grab Our Free Printable Markdown Cheat Sheet — SitePoint
HTML has revolutionized the way we communicate. It formats the colossal amounts of information we read online, and is often used beyond the web to format books and other reading materials. Yet, until the advent of Markdown, it was a clumsy exercise to mark up plain text with HTML tags. It’s virtually unthinkable to go… Continue reading Grab Our Free Printable Markdown Cheat Sheet — SitePoint
Are You Using The Right CMS Platform?
CMS is short for Content Management System – and it’s easy to understand why many novices find the term confusing. Broken down, it sounds like a specialized tool, something you might use to store and organize materials before putting them online or saving reference materials. In reality, though, CMS platforms are everywhere. WordPress is a… Continue reading Are You Using The Right CMS Platform?
Create Interactive and Responsive Tables and Charts with WpDataTables
Posted · Category: Best Collections The need to manage huge amounts of website data can become a formidable task. One you generally don’t look forward to. It’s just not numbers either. Statistics, labels, categories, and other important data types often come into play. An obvious solution is to invest in a data management tool or… Continue reading Create Interactive and Responsive Tables and Charts with WpDataTables
Stop Being an Ego Designer
Wow! The new client project has landed and you will be the lead designer! Great, everybody has to do your biddings. Gnaar! Thats wrong, dude! Photo by: Nik MacMillan I believe that every project and teamwork will push you more into the character of an altruist. Designing a digital product with your ego creates a… Continue reading Stop Being an Ego Designer
Is your WordPress Website Fast Enough for Mobile Users?
Do you ever bother if your WordPress website is fast enough? Maybe you’re or maybe you’re not. In either case, since you haven’t figured it out yet. I am going to provide you some useful inputs to find out if your website is fast enough for mobile users or not. If it’s not fast enough… Continue reading Is your WordPress Website Fast Enough for Mobile Users?
They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”
We’re living in the era of the “UX enthusiastics”: some people just feel they have a natural talent about anything related to “user” AND “experience” and this enables them to randomly act and feel as UX designer. Someone should tell them that this is one of those cases when a natural talent in not enough… Continue reading They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”