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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

Who Do Web Designers Really Work For?

It would be way too easy to answer this question with: “Whoever pays your bills.” And, honestly, I don’t think you can be a very successful web designer if you’re only driven by what the person paying you tells you to do. Then again, that doesn’t mean you should swing to the exact opposite end… Continue reading Who Do Web Designers Really Work For?

7 Key Strategies for Retail-Based Clothing Businesses to Increase Their Revenue

The apparel industry is big and continues growing every day. On a global level, the apparel and clothing market reached a value of more than $758 billion in 2018, having grown at an annual rate of 7.5% since 2014, and is expected to reach nearly $1,2 billion by 2022. But while the clothing industry can… Continue reading 7 Key Strategies for Retail-Based Clothing Businesses to Increase Their Revenue

How to Design the Perfect Developer Portfolio

As a freelance web developer, how many clients do you get from your website? If you’re like most, you’re probably lucky to get one client every 2-3 months. Unfortunately, that’s very common. These days it’s not enough just to be a web developer if you want to make really good money. You have to be… Continue reading How to Design the Perfect Developer Portfolio

36 Awesome Stream Overlays Using an OBS Stream Overlay Maker

Looking for your next OBS stream overlay for your webcam or Twitch channel? Check out these free Twitch overlays and premium options to set your stream out from the pack. Create your own OBS overlay with a Twitch overlay maker.  If you’re new to streaming and want to make your stream look cool and put… Continue reading 36 Awesome Stream Overlays Using an OBS Stream Overlay Maker

25+ Best WordPress Resume Themes: For Your Personal Website (Free & Premium)

Whether you’re fresh out of college or looking to find a better job, you will need a resume to showcase all your skills and help you stand out from the competition.  Nowadays, however, a standard resume or a CV is not enough. A better way to impress HR managers and describe your expertise, education, and experience is to… Continue reading 25+ Best WordPress Resume Themes: For Your Personal Website (Free & Premium)

How to Make Effective Video Landing Pages

As a web developer, if you chance upon a comparison of the landing page and video landing page, what would be your first reaction? Both have all the characteristics of an excellent landing page. So, what sets them apart? Why does the subconscious choose the video landing page? It’s simple. It’s the video on the… Continue reading How to Make Effective Video Landing Pages

Interview: Redesigning the Empire State Building’s Website

In 2019, to keep pace with an interior redesign of its visitor experience, the Empire State Building decided to redesign its website. Blue Fountain Media were engaged to deliver the project. With the new site launching, we spoke to Head of Design, Tatyana Khamdamova about designing for the world’s most famous building. Webdesigner Depot: The… Continue reading Interview: Redesigning the Empire State Building’s Website

3 Essential Design Trends, August 2020

Do the lazy days have you longing for a new design technique to try? You are in luck. This month’s collection of essential design trends is packed with functional ideas to spruce up design projects. And all of them are fairly easy to accomplish and will give your project a modern – or intentionally old-school… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, August 2020

All About the Futura Font and Its History

The Futura font is one of the most famous geometric fonts, and it’s still popular to this day. In this article, we tell you all about the Futura font history and its impact on the design world. What Is Futura? Designed in 1927, Futura is still considered a modern font that conveys progress. We’ve seen… Continue reading All About the Futura Font and Its History

The dangers of emotive writing in a post-rational era

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Hot damn! We writers never had it so good — and we all know the reason why: the written word has never been as pervasive, powerful or emotionally loaded as it is today. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a copywriter, UX writer, journo, speech writer, influencer, blogger, swivel-eyed Facebook ranter or whatever. You’re… Continue reading The dangers of emotive writing in a post-rational era

How to Enhance Your Website Layouts With SVG Shapes

In this new tutorial, we’ll get rid of the usual boring rectangular boxes and learn to build a landing page full of complex SVG shapes. We’ll even enhance it with Bootstrap styles as well as a full-screen background video.  The best way to understand what we’re going to build is by checking out the demo, so it’s… Continue reading How to Enhance Your Website Layouts With SVG Shapes

Advantages of Hiring a Design Agency to Develop Your Business’ Brand Identity

In life, as well as in business, first impressions are crucial. That’s why developing your business’ brand identity is vital to ensuring its success. While branding is something that you and your team can do by yourselves, you may find that it’s much more advantageous to hire a design [d]agency to work with you on… Continue reading Advantages of Hiring a Design Agency to Develop Your Business’ Brand Identity

5 Ways to Build Codeless Websites Using WordPress’ Gutenberg

Web designers could be forgiven if their eyes glazed over at the mere mention of building a custom website. Creating an advanced website used to require programming knowledge and hours of coding. But thanks to Gutenberg, even those who don’t know their HTML from their CSS will be able to create professional websites that stand… Continue reading 5 Ways to Build Codeless Websites Using WordPress’ Gutenberg

How to Convert Blog Visitors Into Customers: 3 Effective Strategies

According to these blogging statistics, over 70 billion blog posts are published on WordPress alone, without even taking into account the other popular platforms. That’s a lot of words and opinions being shared by individuals, as well as businesses that are trying to grow their audiences and make more sales. But while growing the audience… Continue reading How to Convert Blog Visitors Into Customers: 3 Effective Strategies

How to Start a Graphic Designer Career in 2020?

22 Shares Graphic design is one of the fastest-growing, high demand creative industries, ranking among the top in the leading freelance services. Do you think you have what it takes to become a graphic designer, but you don’t really know where to start? Don’t worry! Our experts from Web Monkey Online are here to help… Continue reading How to Start a Graphic Designer Career in 2020?

4 Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Marketing Strategy

It’s incredible how, even after all these years with digital marketing arousing all kinds of desires inside us, companies of all sizes are still making mistakes. It’s as if they are blindly putting out campaigns in a hit-or-miss strategy. In a certain sense, it feels like making mistakes in marketing is part of the trade.… Continue reading 4 Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Marketing Strategy

How to Build a Grayscale to Color Effect on Scroll (CSS & JavaScript)

In this new tutorial, we’ll start with some grayscale images and learn how to smoothly reveal their colored variants on scroll. To achieve the desired effect, we’re going to take advantage of different modern front-end features like CSS Grid, the clip-path property, and the Intersection Observer API. Our Grayscale to Color Effect Without further intro, let’s check… Continue reading How to Build a Grayscale to Color Effect on Scroll (CSS & JavaScript)

ZeroSSL Offers Free, Easy-To-Use SSL Certificates

Having a secure website is one of the best ways to establish consumer trust. When users see that padlock icon in their web browser’s address bar, they can breathe a bit easier when inputting personal and financial information. That’s why encrypting data transfer via an SSL certificate is so important. For users, it brings peace… Continue reading ZeroSSL Offers Free, Easy-To-Use SSL Certificates

How to Run a PHP File

Today, we’re going to discuss how you can run PHP files. If you’re new to PHP programming, this article will help you learn how to run PHP scripts. PHP is a server side scripting language which is mostly used to build web based applications. These may range from a very simple blog website to a full-fledged… Continue reading How to Run a PHP File

12 Home Office Setup Ideas for Web Designers and Developers

Coffee, music, YouTube channels, and procrastination— only a handful of things can make your day when it comes to increasing productivity but none of them are as complete as having a home office setup. It makes a world of difference where and how you work especially if you work from home. Hence, some home office… Continue reading 12 Home Office Setup Ideas for Web Designers and Developers

Email Personalization: Your Secret To Better Engagement

One of the struggles that marketers face is how to send the right message at exactly the right time to target people in a way that will appeal to them. To solve the problem, businesses need to get themselves acquainted with new technologies and the power of personalization. In the past few years, digital marketing… Continue reading Email Personalization: Your Secret To Better Engagement

How to Build a Simple Toggle Switch Component With the CSS Checkbox Hack

In this short tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a CSS-only switch component by taking advantage of the “CSS checkbox hack technique”. Along the way, we’ll also look at other switch implementations on Codepen. Sound like a good challenge? Our Switch Component Here’s what we’ll be building during this tutorial–a simple todo checklist: For design… Continue reading How to Build a Simple Toggle Switch Component With the CSS Checkbox Hack