Finding a theme for your WordPress-powered website is no longer a challenge. The real challenge is in finding the best theme for you, and one which comes with as many genuinely usable features as possible. One key feature for themes nowadays is the use of a page builder. WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) is… Continue reading 20 Best Page Builder (Visual Composer) WordPress Themes to Make Sites Quickly
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How to Make a Book Layout Template in InDesign
What You’ll Be Creating Want to make your own book writing template? In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at creating your own InDesign book templates, from creating and applying Master Pages to saving our work as an InDesign Template. We’ll start with a basic example and then apply these basics to a more interesting… Continue reading How to Make a Book Layout Template in InDesign
24 Best WordPress Form Plugins for 2020
Add a feature-rich and easy-to-use form plugin to your WordPress website to help you collect information that is vital to the functionality and growth of your business. One of the many high-quality WordPress form plugins available on CodeCanyon The form WordPress plugins available on CodeCanyon will allow you to seamlessly integrate a customized form that your business… Continue reading 24 Best WordPress Form Plugins for 2020
5 Quick Ways to Start Your First Sketch
If you are trying to get into the world of graphic design and want to flex your artistic muscles, then you have come to the right place. Many aspiring artists are like deer caught in the headlights and are overwhelmed by the skill of others. The thing is that all of those artists also started… Continue reading 5 Quick Ways to Start Your First Sketch
All About Typography In UI Design – The Complete Guide
In this digital world, we are constantly digesting written words to be it on our phones, books or websites. Often, we are reflecting the power of the written word and so we barely consider the role of the designer for emulating the tone of the word or sentence. We have observed that only a small… Continue reading All About Typography In UI Design – The Complete Guide
How to Create a Print-Ready Pocket Folder
A pocket folder professionally organizes your documents. When customized with a design to match your brand, it can be the cherry on top of your marketing collateral. However, it can be a long road to that perfect presentation folder if your design isn’t print-ready. What type of file do you have? Is it the correct… Continue reading How to Create a Print-Ready Pocket Folder
How to Build an Accordion Component With the CSS Checkbox Hack
What You’ll Be Creating In this short tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a CSS-only flexible accordion component by taking advantage of the “CSS checkbox hack technique”. Most importantly, our component will be fully responsive and its layout will switch between horizontal and vertical depending on the viewport size. Along the way, we’ll discuss how… Continue reading How to Build an Accordion Component With the CSS Checkbox Hack
20 Freshest Web Designs, November 2019
In this month’s collection we’re seeing some minor trends, like the return of sliders, over-sized text, and liquid effects. But the biggest thing of note is a brand new trend: brutalist typography and layouts, made more appealing by soft, feminine color palettes. Enjoy! Wolff Olins Globally renowned agency Wolff Olins’ new site is engagingly simple,… Continue reading 20 Freshest Web Designs, November 2019
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
Build a Tabbed Product Archive for Your WooCommerce Store
In this tutorial you will learn how to make your WooCommerce store a little more stylish by organizing the product archive with tabs. We’ll create tabs with a multi-column layout, a multi-row carousel, and a grid layout. What We’re Going to Build Over the coming steps we will create a WordPress plugin, inside which we … Continue reading Build a Tabbed Product Archive for Your WooCommerce Store
Start With These Courses and Tutorials
For those looking to build hybrid mobile apps, Ionic is one of the first frameworks that you’ll run into. There’s good reason that it has gained significant usage among developers looking to create apps for several mobile devices from a single code base. Ionic has a number of features that go beyond other offerings though,… Continue reading Start With These Courses and Tutorials
Advanced Typography Design in Figma
Figma is a hugely popular web design application, and it’s perfect for creating great typography. Learn some amazing new tricks in our latest course, Advanced Typography Design in Figma. What You’ll Learn This course is the second in a two-part series on designing web typography using the Figma UI design tool. In the first course… Continue reading Advanced Typography Design in Figma
How to Use HTML5 “picture”, “srcset”, and “sizes” for Responsive Images
<picture> is an HTML5 element designed to give us more versatile and performant responsive image functionality. Instead of loading a single image and trying to resize it to suit all possible viewport sizes and layouts, the picture tag loads multiple images of different sizes and resolutions, choosing the best fit for different scenarios. How Does <picture>… Continue reading How to Use HTML5 “picture”, “srcset”, and “sizes” for Responsive Images
20 Freshest Web Designs, September 2019
This month, there’s tons of color, and some elegant transitions. Video is huge this month, with a number of sites opting for video front and center. You’ll also find some delightful animated illustration. Enjoy! Bon Iver Visualizer This impressive site, built with Spotify data, visualizes all of the people currently streaming Bon Iver music, including… Continue reading 20 Freshest Web Designs, September 2019
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
3 Essential Design Trends, September 2019
This month’s collection of design trends focuses on a bit of a slow burn – design techniques that appeal to millennials (maybe) and Generation Z. Gen-Zers are those born between 1997 and 2012, meaning part of this generation is in grade school. This generation is impacting design trends already because they are the most digital… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, September 2019
Ouch: free illustrations for websites and interfaces
How to build a product that people will love? Just give them what they need. This is the basic principle behind Ouch, a library of interface illustrations created by Icons8 team. It’s not a secret that most websites and interfaces need to have a face. When a user is engaging with a project, they want… Continue reading Ouch: free illustrations for websites and interfaces
Best Interactive JavaScript Plugins to Liven Up Your WordPress Site
Interactive media like audio, video, flipbooks, galleries, maps, countdown clocks, timelines, popups and forms increases the time visitors spend engaging with content on your WordPress website. They create great user experiences. JavaScript media scripts and plugins for WordPress make it easy to bring this life and engagement to your website. If you’re looking for fresh… Continue reading Best Interactive JavaScript Plugins to Liven Up Your WordPress Site
5 Things That Significantly Improve User Experience
There are some truly stunning websites out there. But just because something looks pretty, doesn’t mean it will be functional and drive your target customers to action. “Most client web design requests will begin with a request for stellar web design, not a fully-functional one,” says an article from the digital marketing agency Active Web… Continue reading 5 Things That Significantly Improve User Experience
How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop
The act of card sorting is a hands-on and quick way of creating a category tree (information architecture) based on users’ understanding of the topics of a product. The simple idea of the workshop is to ask users to organise cards that already contain written content into groups. In this tutorial you will learn how… Continue reading How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop
Is Dribbble Worth Your Time?
The online community has been around since 2010 and is one of the top platforms where designers can share work, or shots, and get feedback. The invite-only community is a showcase of portfolio projects and personal artwork for digital graphics and user interface design, illustrations, animations, and pretty much any other design work you can… Continue reading Is Dribbble Worth Your Time?
How To Free Up And Unblock Your Creative Energy
Out of all the incredibly creative people, very few actually work in creative jobs. One of the best writers I know works for an accounting firm. A singer friend of mine works in HR at an insurance corporation. I can see just how fortunate I am to work in design and actually get to pursue… Continue reading How To Free Up And Unblock Your Creative Energy
Why Handwritten Typography Will Make Your Website Stand Out
Handwritten fonts display a touch of uniqueness to a website by grabbing the visitor’s attention right from the start. Your homepage is your bread and butter in leaving a good first impression the second your site loads. Brand identity is characterized by a killer logo, your brand colours and proper typography. The process of choosing… Continue reading Why Handwritten Typography Will Make Your Website Stand Out
Easier Apps With Ionic Templates, Frameworks, and Tools
One of the biggest problems in development is the idea of “limitless” possibilities. How do you choose what app to build when you can create anything? Which choice to get from point A to point B is the right one, when there are so many combinations on how to get there? This holds true when… Continue reading Easier Apps With Ionic Templates, Frameworks, and Tools