Thankfully, you no longer have to rely on a resume to try to communicate how talented you are to others. Your skills as a freelancer should be shared with others through visual media. It makes a lot more sense than writing up a one page summary that says, “I graduated from so-and-so university in 2010… Continue reading What’s the Best Way to Share Your Work Online?
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How to Find the Best WordPress Gallery Plugins for Images or Video
How you present your visual content is key to the success of your website or online store. When visual content is done beautifully it encourages visitors to stay longer on your website. It also improves your SEO ranking and make your website easier to find in search results. However, creating a beautiful gallery for your… Continue reading How to Find the Best WordPress Gallery Plugins for Images or Video
What’s New for Designers, August 2019
Some of the new tools in this month’s roundup are designed for productivity and getting ahead, from a tool that converts text to speech to a font that’s made for the winter holidays. That’s the whole point of new tools – to make our design lives that much easier. Here’s what’s new for designers this… Continue reading What’s New for Designers, August 2019
Brand Science 101
Every day in my work helping grow digital agencies and Fortune 500 brands, I hear countless companies struggle with how to discuss, interact with, and grow their client’s brand, leaving dollars on the table and creating problems along the way. The agency owner offers their perspective, shares why branding is important, but usually lacks the… Continue reading Brand Science 101
8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System
Recently, I was part of a 3-person team of consultants who in 12 weeks built the foundations of a new design system. That design system is now used in multiple products and is contributed to by other developers and designers. In this post you’ll find some of the techniques we used to make the project… Continue reading 8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System
Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin
What You’ll Be Creating Plugins are what makes WordPress special. Without them, WordPress wouldn’t be much more than a humble blogging platform. But by adding plugins to your site, you can turn it into so much more. Depending on what you need, you can use a plugin to make your site more efficient and to… Continue reading Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin
How to Create a Trivia Quiz with Viral Quiz for WordPress
Generating traffic to your website and successfully marketing to this website traffic should be the number one concern for a website owner. Without this traffic and without a mechanism to get these website visitors to take action, you will have an incredibly difficult time building your business. One unexpected but effective way to draw in… Continue reading How to Create a Trivia Quiz with Viral Quiz for WordPress
Use the WooCommerce API to Customize Your Online Store
WooCommerce is the world’s most popular eCommerce platform. That’s partly because it’s built on the world’s most popular content management system (WordPress), and also partly because it’s free. But it’s also because WooCommerce, like WordPress itself, is incredibly flexible. If you install WooCommerce on your site, not only can you use it to quickly set… Continue reading Use the WooCommerce API to Customize Your Online Store
3 Essential Design Trends, July 2019
This month we’re taking a close look at above-the-scroll presentation. It’s the first thing you see, and the first impression a user has when they type in your URL. So, it’s a logical place to spot trends in website design. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. Text That’s Almost Hard to Read With… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, July 2019
Creating WordPress Forms That Get Filled In
What You’ll Be Creating Most of us have got at least one form somewhere on our WordPress site. It might be a simple contact form. Or a newsletter signup. A purchase form maybe. Or perhaps something more bespoke. Whatever information your form is designed to gather, I’m prepared to bet that you want as many… Continue reading Creating WordPress Forms That Get Filled In
How to Work Securely by Choosing the Best VPN For Your Needs
If you’re concerned with working securely or anonymously online, the chances are you’ll have used a VPN (Virtual Private Network) at some stage. But when choosing a VPN service do you know what factors you should be taking into account? This tutorial will help you understand why you should use a VPN and how to… Continue reading How to Work Securely by Choosing the Best VPN For Your Needs
UI/UX 101: Break Into Secret Room of Lazy User Psychology
Admit two facts. First, you’re lazy. Second, you’re a user of something. You’re using something every day, from a coffee maker on the kitchen counter to website and mobile app interfaces. Remember how sometimes you’re really stuck while using an interface of something. Randomly clicking on every button, nav element, and link to achieve action… Continue reading UI/UX 101: Break Into Secret Room of Lazy User Psychology
Features, Syntax, and the Problem It Will Solve
CSS subgrid is slowly making its way into browsers. The CSS Working Group is actively working on it and the related W3C specification has already reached Level 2. This new feature will enable us to enhance grid items with subgrids that inherit the grid tracks of their parent grid and seamlessly align with it. As CSS subgrid is… Continue reading Features, Syntax, and the Problem It Will Solve
Easy Form Validation With jQuery
In our previous tutorial, we discussed how to implement basic form validation using some input attributes in HTML5 and a little Regex. HTML5 Form Input Validation Using Only HTML5 and Regex Monty Shokeen In this tutorial, we will learn how to use a jQuery plugin to add form validation to your website. Using a jQuery… Continue reading Easy Form Validation With jQuery
Get Started With WPBakery (Formerly Visual Composer)
Writing HTML, CSS, and PHP code to build or customize a WordPress site can be incredibly time consuming, even for an experienced web developer. That’s probably why much of the WordPress community has moved on to using page-builder plugins instead. WPBakery Page Builder (formerly called Visual Composer) is the most flexible and feature-rich WordPress page-builder plugin… Continue reading Get Started With WPBakery (Formerly Visual Composer)
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Modern Life
In the last few decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved from a science-fiction dream to an important part of our daily lives. There are multiple ways through which AI is changing our daily lives. For instance, we use AI enabled systems to interact with our phones via voice assistants such as Google, Siri and Alexa.… Continue reading How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Modern Life
Best Exit Popups for WordPress Compared
Exit popups are used to encourage your web page visitors to subscribe to an email list, follow you on social media, or complete the purchase in their shopping cart. I’ll show you some outstanding popup plugins for WordPress in this post. Does Your Site Need a WordPress Popup Plugin? Here are some of the top… Continue reading Best Exit Popups for WordPress Compared
23 Best Law Firm Logos With Cool Legal Designs (For Lawyers & Attorneys)
To build trust with potential clients, you need a professional law firm logo. The best law firm logos: make it easy to recognize your brand allow you to connect with your audience represent what your brand does The KH Law Firm Logo Maker is just one of the many logo makers available from Placeit. Your… Continue reading 23 Best Law Firm Logos With Cool Legal Designs (For Lawyers & Attorneys)
How to Add the Stellar Video Player to Your WordPress Site
There’s no denying that, given a choice, most Internet users today would prefer to watch a short video rather than read a few paragraphs of text. Therefore, one of the best ways to quickly increase your WordPress site’s traffic and click-through rates is to add video content to it. To display such content, you will,… Continue reading How to Add the Stellar Video Player to Your WordPress Site
How to Make a Sticky Menu in WordPress
What You’ll Be Creating Navigation menus are changing. Instead of just throwing one into a site without considering what form it’ll take, designers are taking the time to consider the design of navigation menus, the space they take up on the page, and how users interact with them. One growing trend is for sticky menus.… Continue reading How to Make a Sticky Menu in WordPress
35 Best Minimal CV Resume Templates
Job oriented simple, clean and Minimal Resume Templates, ready to use print designs can assist you achieve your dreams. These best resume templates are hand-picked and make you stand out of tons of other resumes. Perfect and ideal for designers and artists. Each template uses a strong baseline/document grid which will allow you to edit or add to the layout very… Continue reading 35 Best Minimal CV Resume Templates
Giclee Printing: A Guide for Beginners
For those who work in graphic design, giclee printing will be a familiar concept. Favoured by artists, art lovers and professional printers worldwide, giclee printing is considered the gold standard for the creation of quality reproductions. But what is it about giclee printing that separates it from more conventional printing methods? More importantly, under what… Continue reading Giclee Printing: A Guide for Beginners
Show WordPress Related Posts With Taxonomy and a Custom Post Type
What You’ll Be Creating Sometimes you want your blog posts to appear on more pages in your WordPress site than just your blog. You’ve already got the option of using category and taxonomy archives, as well as tags. This can help you divide up your content and add a variety of sections to your blog… Continue reading Show WordPress Related Posts With Taxonomy and a Custom Post Type
The Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript
In this post, I’ll compare linear search and binary search algorithms. You’ll learn pseudocode for linear and binary algorithms, see examples to demonstrate both the methods, learn about time complexity, and get a step-by-step guide on how to implement the algorithms. Introduction As a programmer, you want to find the best solution to a problem… Continue reading The Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript