One of the biggest mistakes a business owner can make today is ignoring social media marketing or treating it as an afterthought. This is even more so in an increasingly competitive space like the web design niche where small businesses have to strive to leave the shadows of more established brands with years of history… Continue reading How to Use Instagram To Grow Your Web Design Business
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8 Best CMS for 2020
Content Management Systems are arguably the internet’s most powerful web development tool. In a rapidly growing market where every business under the sun requires a website that is not only fully functioning, but optimised, easy to update regularly, and implement the latest features, the right CMS is important. As a web developer it can be… Continue reading 8 Best CMS for 2020
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
32 Best Free Vector Textures (Backgrounds, to Download Now)
When it comes to adding quick detail to an image or design, there aren’t many better ways to do it than by adding a vector texture. Texture can completely turn a design around, taking it from something flat and lifeless to almost popping off the screen! Luckily there are quite a few free texture background… Continue reading 32 Best Free Vector Textures (Backgrounds, to Download Now)
Social Media and Divorce: A Dangerous Combination
Today, most people cannot imagine their life without technology and social media is not an exception. Truth be told, there is nothing bad about commenting, sharing, and texting on the Net; however, when you are looking for a do it yourself divorce kit, it makes sense to watch your online behavior carefully. There are many… Continue reading Social Media and Divorce: A Dangerous Combination
How to Optimize an Animated Gif: 10 Ways
In this tutorial, we will have a close look at all the available options to convert a video to a GIF animation, and how to optimize its file size. What is a GIF File? Before we start, let’s take a closer look at what is a GIF file. GIF is the standard format for compressing images… Continue reading How to Optimize an Animated Gif: 10 Ways
10 Inspiring Side Projects From Designers
Side projects can help to demonstrate your passion and enthusiasm for design to future clients or employers and can create a great new addition to your design portfolio. Side projects are a way you can work on things you want to work on — rather than just ones which are bringing in the money. Whether… Continue reading 10 Inspiring Side Projects From Designers
16 Tools for Keeping Your Remote Design Team Together (and on Task)
One of the biggest perks of a career in Web Design is the potential for working remotely. As long as you have access to Wi-Fi, you can basically work from anywhere, whether it be from home, a co-working space, or even the beach — the world is your proverbial remote oyster. Whether you’re new to… Continue reading 16 Tools for Keeping Your Remote Design Team Together (and on Task)
You’Re (Probably) Doing Digital Accessibility Wrong
Thirty years after the historic passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the landmark legislation that transformed the US’s workplaces and common spaces for the better, so much of our lives have moved out of the physical world and into the digital one. The urgency of equality — and the need to ensure that web… Continue reading You’Re (Probably) Doing Digital Accessibility Wrong
Top 10 Tips for a Better WooCommerce Store
Do you want your WooCommerce store to stand out from the competition and attract traffic? The right WooCommerce plugins can make your online store better and more successful. In this post, I’ll share ten ways you can improve your store and show you the best WooCommerce plugins on CodeCanyon. With the right tactics, you can… Continue reading Top 10 Tips for a Better WooCommerce Store
6 Things to Consider for Your Shopify Store
As a freelance web designer, Shopify is one of the best platforms to create an online store for your clients. Gone are the days where you must build your websites from the ground up on a basic text editor. Shopify boasts some powerful tools to help you design your site, requiring minimal knowledge of HTML… Continue reading 6 Things to Consider for Your Shopify Store
Using ipdata for Geolocation
When most people think of geolocation, they remember the familiar pop-up notifications saying that the “website wants to know your location”. But did you know that you can get geolocation information about your visitors with the IP address alone, without requiring any extra permissions? To web developers, geolocation is a treasure trove of information and… Continue reading Using ipdata for Geolocation
18 Best BuddyPress WordPress Themes: To Make Social & Community Sites
Small business owners are busy. Their task list seems never-ending, so it stands to reason that they could use as many tools as possible to make their daily lives easier. One such tool comes in the form of a WordPress plugin that many web designers or business owners themselves would overlook as non-essential. But the… Continue reading 18 Best BuddyPress WordPress Themes: To Make Social & Community Sites
What Is a Slug in WordPress?
What You’ll Be Creating Slugs. Slimy little critters that have a nasty habit of getting into your vegetable garden… Or maybe not! In this post, we’re talking about a different kind of slug, and that’s the slug that forms part of the address (or URL) of the individual pages and posts in your WordPress website.… Continue reading What Is a Slug in WordPress?
7 Online Business Ideas That You Can Start With Just WordPress Plugins
As the time passes by, the online businesses are growing rapidly with the support of already available online business platforms, plugins etc. And to Achieve the same, WordPress is much louder than anything else around to fulfill the required online business existence without any boundaries and limitations. As having the high-end yet diversified software… Continue reading 7 Online Business Ideas That You Can Start With Just WordPress Plugins
PHP Magic Methods Cheatsheet
In this post, I’ll give you a cheetsheet quick reference to all the magic methods available in PHP. Whether you are a seasoned PHP developer or a novice in PHP development, if you’ve worked with OOP in PHP, then you’re using at least a couple of PHP magic methods already. However, if you have not… Continue reading PHP Magic Methods Cheatsheet
Some Grave Search Engine Optimization Mistakes Even SEO Experts Sometimes Commit
SEO techniques are constantly evolving because of the search engine’s developments and the ever-changing perspectives of users. It is surely quite challenging to stay abreast of the most successful search engine optimization methods with many businesses and even SEO experts doing SEO incorrectly. Instead of witnessing huge traffic and rising conversion rates, the results could… Continue reading Some Grave Search Engine Optimization Mistakes Even SEO Experts Sometimes Commit
7 Simple Steps to Get Started with Instagram Ads
Why Instagram? With an advertising reach of 849.3 million users and growing, the marketing potential of this social media platform is something that is simply hard to ignore. But if we’re going to play the numbers game, Facebook’s 2 billion users certainly dwarfs the number of Instagram users. So why not just place all your… Continue reading 7 Simple Steps to Get Started with Instagram Ads
5 Simple Responsive Blunders (And How To Avoid Them)
Nearly 49% of all the web traffic worldwide originates from mobile devices (excluding tablets). If you don’t design mobile-friendly websites, you’ll likely lose out on this massive chunk of your target audience. Additionally if you wish to improve your SEO, you can’t afford to ignore smartphones; Google gives priority to mobiles with mobile-first indexing. All… Continue reading 5 Simple Responsive Blunders (And How To Avoid Them)
Get the Domain Name for Designers for FREE
Picking a domain name for your website can be tricky since it’s everything to your website’s future. What’s even trickier, however, is picking the domain name extension for your website; it also determines how your domain is prioritized over others. A domain name for designers, for that matter, needs to be especially notable. The usual… Continue reading Get the Domain Name for Designers for FREE
15 Best Video Background Plugins for WordPress
Having trouble getting your website’s message across? Need an interactive and eye-catching way to draw in more traffic? CodeCanyon has many high-quality video background plugins available for you to add to your WordPress website and to help amplify your site’s message and engage visitors. One of the many high-quality background WordPress plugins on CodeCanyon Whether… Continue reading 15 Best Video Background Plugins for WordPress
How to Resize an Image in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Whether you are a beginner or an expert, resizing an image in Adobe Photoshop is one of the most commonly used skills. However, with so many tools available to you, it might be quite daunting to learn for someone who is just getting started. In this tutorial, you will learn how to… Continue reading How to Resize an Image in Photoshop
Custom Brushes in Photoshop and Procreate: Analysis and Interviews
Love drawing in Procreate or Photoshop? Curious about custom Photoshop brushes or custom brushes for Procreate? There can be a lot to learn and explore there, especially in regards to your options. Should you download custom brushes? Create your own? In this article, we’ll tackle a whole lot of brush content. Whether you’re looking for… Continue reading Custom Brushes in Photoshop and Procreate: Analysis and Interviews
How to use the new LogoMyWay Online Logo Maker
There was a time not too long ago when designing a logo for a new company was an expensive and time-consuming process that offered no guarantee of satisfaction. Today, though – thanks to the wide range of logo design tools and platforms available online – designing a great-looking, professional logo is now easier and more… Continue reading How to use the new LogoMyWay Online Logo Maker