All the signs are that web design is entering a phase of exuberance, with clashing colors, rapidly changing graphics, and dense layouts replacing the minimalism that’s dominated digital design for the last decade. Portfolios are beginning to adopt this maximalist approach, but never fear, for those who aren’t quote ready for full-on retina burn on… Continue reading Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, October 2019
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20 Freshest Web Designs, October 2019
You’ll find a few other trends, and sites that ignore trends altogether, in our roundup of the freshest web design this month, but it’s hard to ignore the vibrancy that’s taking over. Enjoy! Chevalvert Chevalvert is a French design agency whose site visually bombards you from the moment it loads. The maximalist approach is visually… Continue reading 20 Freshest Web Designs, October 2019
Four Examples of Beautiful Dental Sites
Private practice dental offices are starting to realize that people look at site design when they pick out the individual who will have the privilege of performing services for them. While this might not be the first thing that potential patients look for, it does play a fairly big role in the decision-making process according… Continue reading Four Examples of Beautiful Dental Sites
Best WordPress Magazine Themes for Blog and News Websites
When it comes to magazine and news websites, WordPress is top of the bill. Well-known news sites like The New York Times, TechCrunch, CNN, Reuters, Mozilla’s Blog, and many others use WordPress as their platform of choice, highlighting just how scalable WordPress blogs can be. Online News Consumption is Rising Precise digital circulation for online magazine and news is… Continue reading Best WordPress Magazine Themes for Blog and News Websites
Tips On Designing Creative Websites That Will Wow Your Clients
The global market keeps getting bigger and bigger, which should be good news for web designers – but there’s a catch. The clients you can expect to serve are more sophisticated and want creative websites, not just the regular HTML and CSS. You can’t deliver just anything and expect them to be happy. You’ll also… Continue reading Tips On Designing Creative Websites That Will Wow Your Clients
25 Business Flyer Templates (Creative Layout Designs & Industry-Specific Templates)
Do you need an impactful and effective way to promote your small or medium-sized business in 2019? It’s tough to find advertising that balances high-value information and promotion. Traditional forms of advertising, like business flyers, are still effective. Tried, tested, and true promotional methods can still get the word out about your business. Pro-Biz – Business Corporate… Continue reading 25 Business Flyer Templates (Creative Layout Designs & Industry-Specific Templates)
How to Add the Sticky HTML5 WordPress Music Player to Your Site
There are a lot of reasons why you might want to add a music or audio player to your WordPress website. You can use it to allow users to play the audio version of the article they are reading or you can use it to simply add some nice background music to the website. If… Continue reading How to Add the Sticky HTML5 WordPress Music Player to Your Site
Best WordPress Quiz Plugins of 2019
A great way to improve website visitor engagement and get potential business is with quizzes. A quiz does not necessarily need to have academic questions. You can use them to help visitors figure out which product they should buy or books they should read, for example. Quizzes can also be created just for fun or… Continue reading Best WordPress Quiz Plugins of 2019
6 Figma Plugins to Give You Design Superpowers (and How to Use Them)
Figma plugins are a recent addition to what’s becoming the go-to collaborative tool for UI designers everywhere. Plugins are built by the community (you can even build one yourself if you wish) and provide an easy way to extend your capabilities with Figma. Through this helpful update, designers can automate repetitive tasks, add accessibility features,… Continue reading 6 Figma Plugins to Give You Design Superpowers (and How to Use Them)
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
Organize Your WordPress Media Library With Folders
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Today’s WordPress websites need to be media-rich to draw in and retain traffic. If you have a WordPress website, chances are you will have uploaded a video or images to be displayed on your pages and posts. Whether you want to show off customer testimonials, your latest blog posts, your best images, or just celebrate… Continue reading Organize Your WordPress Media Library With Folders
17+ Best Fashion WordPress Themes (2019) for Blog & Magazine Sites
When it comes to fashion websites, choosing the right design is imperative. Whether you’re highlighting your best models or showcasing your latest creations; one thing is certain: your site needs to have a high visual focus. Large images and plenty of white space will do wonders for your site. But, how do you go about… Continue reading 17+ Best Fashion WordPress Themes (2019) for Blog & Magazine Sites
Exploring Photo Manipulation: Analysis and Interviews
What You’ll Be Creating Photo manipulation and photo effects—they could cover anything from touching up a face to adding an entire universe right into your favorite photo. The manipulation of imagery is often associated with Adobe Photoshop, but photo manipulation itself predates Photoshop by many, many years. Perhaps we, as artists, designers, and people, have… Continue reading Exploring Photo Manipulation: Analysis and Interviews
Balance Between Content and Web Design: How to Reach It
Just recently, I was given a very hard task – to find the perfect balance between web design and content. I have plenty of experience with both, but the combination of the two always gives me a lot of trouble. Still, for a website to be a success, it has to have the perfect balance… Continue reading Balance Between Content and Web Design: How to Reach It
The Ultimate WordPress Page Builder: WPBakery
Web development and design come at a high price. For many entrepreneurs just starting out or who are in the early stages of their business, they will have difficulties finding developers and designers who will build their website on this low budget. Thankfully, WordPress plugin developers have seen this need for fast and cost-efficient ways… Continue reading The Ultimate WordPress Page Builder: WPBakery
50+ InDesign Templates Every Designer Should Own
If you’re planning to put together a magazine, book, or brochure, Adobe InDesign is without a doubt going to be your tool of choice. This software is perfectly tuned for creating complex layouts for print and digital, but sometimes you need a bit of a helping hand. These 50+ InDesign templates, from catalogs to letterheads… Continue reading 50+ InDesign Templates Every Designer Should Own
20 Best HTML5 and JavaScript Game Engines and Templates
With Flash end-of-life announced for the end of 2020, HTML5 and JavaScript games have quickly taken over, becoming a major source of gaming on the web. With this major shift in the landscape though came a move from largely using one tool to create online games, to using dozens (maybe hundreds!) of different engines, libraries,… Continue reading 20 Best HTML5 and JavaScript Game Engines and Templates
Kerning, Leading, Tracking, and Everything You Need to Know About Text Spacing
The space between letters is just as important for legibility as the text itself. If your website is hard to read, don’t just consider the typeface: consider the white space as well. With kerning, leading, tracking, and other spacing tools, you can make your text more readable without a major design overhaul using these text… Continue reading Kerning, Leading, Tracking, and Everything You Need to Know About Text Spacing
Top WordPress Audio and Video Plugins of 2019
WordPress audio and video plugins are essential if you are looking to add video and audio players to your website. In this post, I’ll share some of my favorites for 2019—I’ve picked plugins that have features that are missing from many of the other plugins available. WordPress Audio Player Plugins 1. MP3 Sticky Player This MP3… Continue reading Top WordPress Audio and Video Plugins of 2019
Dazzling Slow Motion Effects For Tomorrow’s Sites
Slow motion effects can be attention-grabbing tone setters in your website. Careful use of animation helps users better understand a changing user interface. When to Animate Your User Interface When we see an interface visually animate from one state to the next, it helps the user understand “where” they are in the metaphorical spacial plane… Continue reading Dazzling Slow Motion Effects For Tomorrow’s Sites
Best WordPress Form Builder Plugins for 2019
If you own a WordPress site, forms are indispensable for creating a satisfying user experience and increasing your conversion rates. You need forms for clients to get in touch with you easily, answer simple survey questions, leave feedback and testimonials, and so on. But you don’t need to have coding experience to create forms. You… Continue reading Best WordPress Form Builder Plugins for 2019
Differences Between UI Designer and UX Designer: What Does Each One Do?
For many people who don’t know much about the tech world, understanding what UI designers and UX designers do is a bit challenging. From early times, designers were known to be in the clothing and furniture industry. But the industry has grown over time to many more areas including tech. The evolution of technology as… Continue reading Differences Between UI Designer and UX Designer: What Does Each One Do?
Design Web Tables Without Screwing It Up – A 2019 Guide
Web tables are antiquated technology. If you don’t know this, welcome to the club that everyone else joined in 2010. Tables as a layout tool are a hack, a corruption of HTML used to create layouts that the code hadn’t thought of yet. When tables were added in HTML in 1996, this was in the… Continue reading Design Web Tables Without Screwing It Up – A 2019 Guide
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