To Make Your Multi-Vendor Platform

Selling your products online has never been easier thanks to WordPress and numerous eCommerce themes. But what if you don’t have products to sell and want to make some additional income?  That’s where creating an online marketplace similar to Etsy or Ebay comes in. The beauty of a marketplace is that your role is to… Continue reading To Make Your Multi-Vendor Platform

Mastering UX Writing With UI Powered Tips

UX writers create the copy that users interact with when using software, apps, and other products. This includes button text, error messages, policy and terms documents, help text, prompts, and instructions. Good UX writing improves user experience by making your product easier and more enjoyable to use. The best UX writers understand the ways in… Continue reading Mastering UX Writing With UI Powered Tips

Reasons for Web Designers to Stick with WordPress

Sometimes, even the best of friends can have a disagreement. That’s the sort of vibe that WordPress and its community have been dealing with for quite some time. There’s still a lot of love, but it goes along with some undertones of frustration. No, it’s not everyone who feels this way. It may not even… Continue reading Reasons for Web Designers to Stick with WordPress

17 MailChimp Templates for Every Purpose and Occasion

In this article we list 17 different MailChimp templates to help you make the most of your email marketing efforts, no matter the occasion or purpose. These templates have been selected for their amazing designs, and fully functional and customizable structure.  Your aim with these is to create highly converting and effective email campaigns. So,… Continue reading 17 MailChimp Templates for Every Purpose and Occasion

How to Tell If You’re Destined to Be a Graphic Designer

Some people are incredibly talented and are destined for design. They have a killer eye for aesthetics and branding. Should you learn how to become a graphic designer? Here are some signs you were meant for a career in design. You Love Combining Typefaces You see typefaces in a different way. With so many typefaces… Continue reading How to Tell If You’re Destined to Be a Graphic Designer

How to Make a Personal Resume Website: From a WordPress Theme

What You’ll Be Creating In the modern work world, a simple resume is often not enough. Sure, it’s imperative to send it along with any job application, but if you truly want to stand out you need to go a step further.  And nothing makes you stand out more than a personal website that showcases your education… Continue reading How to Make a Personal Resume Website: From a WordPress Theme

Great Design is Built on Great Research

If there is any secret to a good design, then it is to conduct good research beforehand. Great design does not happen by chance, it is always based on the understanding of the user and empathy. Research is a fundamental part in understanding context and narrowing down to the “right” problem users face, which is… Continue reading Great Design is Built on Great Research

7 Best Web Design Strategies to Implement to Build Audience’s Trust

How likely will you recommend a specific website to someone? Generally, we evaluate a website based on its contents, responsiveness, and designs. When a webpage captures your interest, you will usually navigate the site and look everything about it. As they say, first impressions always last. It means when you saw something interesting for the… Continue reading 7 Best Web Design Strategies to Implement to Build Audience’s Trust

Top WordPress Form Builder Plugins Compared

Without a doubt, Quform and FormCraft are two of the most popular and highly rated WordPress form builders on the market, but which of these two giants is right for you?  Today, we take a peek under the hoods to see what makes these form builders so special. We’ll identify the best features of each… Continue reading Top WordPress Form Builder Plugins Compared

Tips to Improve Your cPanel Security

cPanel is a popular control panel for web hosting. It is part of almost every web hosting service. After all, it is easy to use from an end-user perspective. It is also secure, but not as secure that you might want it to be. In this article, we will be sharing tips on how to… Continue reading Tips to Improve Your cPanel Security

Becoming the Next Tinder in 2018

Your first dating app will take a lot of work and development skills on your end. Fortunately, you can create a team of designers, coders, and marketers to help you along the way. And with this guide, we’ll give you some insight on how to create the next Tinder. Why Create a Dating App? Dating… Continue reading Becoming the Next Tinder in 2018

How to Build Better Enterprise UX

While both enterprise and consumer-facing design involve finding out who the users are and what they are trying to accomplish, there are also some key differences to keep in mind.  1. Different Audience, Different Needs  When it comes to consumer audiences, the buyer is a little more straight forward. But for many enterprise products, the buyer… Continue reading How to Build Better Enterprise UX

10 WordPress Tips and Tricks to Steal from the Pros

WordPress is one of the most popular website platforms in the world, powering around 30 percent of the Web. It also has about 60 percent market share, beating out platforms like Joomla and Drupal by a long shot. People who use WordPress generally love it, which may be one reason it’s so popular. The other… Continue reading 10 WordPress Tips and Tricks to Steal from the Pros

Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?

Web design is an industry that is loaded with opportunities for upsells and extra revenue. Odds are that your clients will benefit from services that go beyond basic design and development. However, just because you can offer extras doesn’t necessarily mean that you should. One such area is web hosting. While there is the potential… Continue reading Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?

Design Persuasive Websites With These Basic Principles

November 5, 2018 by Alex Fox Web design has become the focal point of the online industry. Why? Entrepreneurs are now concentrating all their resources on improving their online image, reputation, and brand. That brand is defined most strongly through an official website. Official websites are by far the most common tool used to attract… Continue reading Design Persuasive Websites With These Basic Principles

Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block

Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor and everyone is talking about it. It has introduced an all-new way of writing content with WordPress. So not only the developers can benefit from its block-modeled layout but the end-users will also be able to create dynamic page layouts with it.  However, building custom blocks with Gutenberg can… Continue reading Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block

35 WordPress Themes For Achieving Higher Search Engine Rankings

With continuous search algorithm updates over the last few years, achieving first page rankings on Google has become a lot more difficult than what it used to be in the previous decade. You cannot just rely on content anymore for desired results. Factors such as site loading time, design and landing pages play a crucial… Continue reading 35 WordPress Themes For Achieving Higher Search Engine Rankings

Building Effective Navigation Menus

Designing effective navigation menus should be a core competency of any decent web designer. A good navigation menu will be short, well-organized, sufficiently descriptive and effective at corralling user intent. There no secret recipe involved: it comes down to empathy for the user and understanding of their intentions. Address The User’s Need Before you build… Continue reading Building Effective Navigation Menus

Social Media Business Trends to Watch in 2018

There’s no question that social media was a dominant business marketing tool in 2017. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and, to a lesser extent, Pinterest, became the most cost-effective way to engage customers, build brands and lengthen reach. Facebook’s recent algorithm changes are a sign of things to come, however. As social media platforms make changes,… Continue reading Social Media Business Trends to Watch in 2018

Top Tips to Prevent Hacking Attempts On Your Website

There are many different reasons why website owners must do all they can to protect their portals from hackers. In fact, if you own an e-commerce portal, you must have already faced some sort of hacking attempt. On the other hand, hackers not just focus on e-commerce websites, they go after simple websites too. And… Continue reading Top Tips to Prevent Hacking Attempts On Your Website

The Best Ways To Securely Handle Your Passwords In JavaScript

February 14, 2018 by Spyrestudios Staying safe online is even more important than ever. We see news of companies being hacked, social media apologies galore for the same reason, and news stories almost every day about cyber crime. Which of course means we need to stay vigilant and safe. Which is a lot easier than… Continue reading The Best Ways To Securely Handle Your Passwords In JavaScript

How To Use Google’s Material Design On Your Own Site

January 29, 2018 by Alex Fox Google Material Design is a major part of the modern web’s design language. This is especially true for mobile websites and apps. It’s a clean, legible design with visually distinct elements to draw the eye and make user interaction simple. Material design apps, by and large, use flat, paper-based… Continue reading How To Use Google’s Material Design On Your Own Site

Tricks to Overcome Common Development Problems

Everyone runs into a web development crisis at some point while working on a project. Either it goes over budget, you find unexpected security flaws, or you just run into a roadblock that keeps you from creating the kind of site you want your clients and users to appreciate. Knowing some tricks to overcome common… Continue reading Tricks to Overcome Common Development Problems

3 Features Every CSS Navigation Menu Must Have

Building a custom CSS navigation menu for yourself or a client is exciting. You’ve got a blank canvas to start with, and you can create anything. However, CSS menus aren’t simple. Engineering them might be old hat, but over the years, CSS menus have gotten stuck in a groove, skipping some of the most important… Continue reading 3 Features Every CSS Navigation Menu Must Have