Sometimes in life, you just want to keep things simple—and the same can be said for your web design. Perhaps you’re a photographer, designer, or illustrator looking to build your online portfolio and you want your work to do the talking. Luckily for you, there are plenty of simple WordPress gallery themes that do just… Continue reading 20 Creative WordPress Photo Gallery Themes for Simple Portfolio Sites 2020
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How to Design Long-Form Content With Readability in Mind
The line between written content and visual content has become blurred in recent years. Copywriting and design are merging and the best brands are treating their blog posts and sales pages as powerful tools for branding. But the longer you make your content, the more challenging it is to do it well. Why Long-Form Content… Continue reading How to Design Long-Form Content With Readability in Mind
Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, November 2019
This month, the slow decline of minimalism continues, and color is everywhere. There’s some awesome type, and video-based maximalism seems to be gaining a foothold. Enjoy! Another Colour I adore Another Colour’s site. It takes incredible complexity to produce an effect this simple. The landing page is a looping rainbow gradient, and the gradient strip… Continue reading Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, November 2019
6 Best WordPress Lightbox Plugins
What Is a WordPress Lightbox Plugin? If you have a website with multiple images that you want to highlight, you could definitely benefit from using a lightbox. Generally, a lightbox allows people to click on an image or other content to view its enlarged version overlaid on the rest of the page. While the lightbox… Continue reading 6 Best WordPress Lightbox Plugins
Demystifying CSS Pseudo-Classes (:nth-child vs. :nth-of-type)
Styles are applied to a web page using CSS selectors; selectors which make it possible for you to target a specific element or sets of elements. Usually, when you are starting with CSS, you’ll make use of element selectors before pivoting to use classes and IDs. As powerful as these selectors are, they can be… Continue reading Demystifying CSS Pseudo-Classes (:nth-child vs. :nth-of-type)
6 Essentials in Creating Successful Facebook Ads
It’s been a while since the traditional advertising industry yielded to the more multi-functional advertising medium – social media marketing. As the unequivocal leader of this new marketing realm, Facebook keeps enticing internet entrepreneurs to promote their businesses through this universal hub of virtual interaction. To date, Facebook marketing has been the most effective advertising… Continue reading 6 Essentials in Creating Successful Facebook Ads
23+ Best HTML Resume Templates to Make Personal Profile CV Websites (2019)
A personal website is one of the greatest assets you can have in 2019. A personal resume website puts you in complete control over your name and your personal brand. It also increases your visibility and makes it easier for employers, or even clients, to find you online. Example of professional resume (CV) website design… Continue reading 23+ Best HTML Resume Templates to Make Personal Profile CV Websites (2019)
5 Street Photography Tips To Capture New York City With Some Untapped Locations
The New York City or ‘The City That Never Sleeps’ is a complex yet beautiful destination that every person should visit at least once in their lifetime. This place has so much to offer from foods to clothing to mesmerizing locations and countless other things. The city is perfect for all the photo enthusiasts who… Continue reading 5 Street Photography Tips To Capture New York City With Some Untapped Locations
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
How to Add a Booking Calendar to WordPress With a Plugin
What You’ll Be Creating If you run a business that takes bookings or appointments, adding a booking calendar plugin to your WordPress website will win you more business. Here’s how to do it with the Bookly Pro plugin. This will help you get more business and reduce the time spent taking bookings manually. In the… Continue reading How to Add a Booking Calendar to WordPress With a Plugin
Show Course Schedules and Timetables With a WordPress Calendar Plugin
Websites often need to let users know about any upcoming events like movie shows, exhibitions and classes. Listing the schedule for upcoming events helps everyone save time and plan their activities. With a good event listing calendar, your users will be able to see upcoming events along with their timing, location, availability and pricing at… Continue reading Show Course Schedules and Timetables With a WordPress Calendar Plugin
Elegant Black and Gold Business Card Templates
A beautiful gold business card templates, clean professional metallic design cards perfect for any brand identity or individual business. Modern and fully customizable black gold business card templates come in a well organized Photoshop PSD file. You can easily change the color of the element itself in just one click. All elements, including the logo,… Continue reading Elegant Black and Gold Business Card Templates
Flyer Templates: 25 Corporate Business Flyer Templates
Creative corporate Business Flyer Templates perfect for startup business promotions. Professional flyer designs are very easy to use and change text, color, size, look and can be resized without any loss of quality available in PSD, AI and InDesign format. The PSD files are very well organized in folders and layers. You can modify everything very easy and quick. Changing the… Continue reading Flyer Templates: 25 Corporate Business Flyer Templates
Rearranging your apartment without physically moving things around — a UX case study
Deepti Mansukhani Follow Oct 10 · 5 min read My husband and I bought a new bookshelf for our bedroom and were excited to set it up. After building it however, we faced a little dilemma. We began to feel it might look better in the living room instead given its color and size. Unable… Continue reading Rearranging your apartment without physically moving things around — a UX case study
Automatically Create a Multilingual WordPress Site With a Translator Plugin
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A multilingual WordPress site is one that offers content in more than one language. For example, a site can provide content in English, French, German, and Spanish. Since most countries have more than one official language, it makes sense to have content in multiple languages. Having a multilingual site is one of the best ways… Continue reading Automatically Create a Multilingual WordPress Site With a Translator Plugin
Is Emerging AI Too Smart to Design for Me and You?
Currently, the answer is a resounding, “What? No… why would you even ask?” But this article isn’t about current AIs. True artificial intelligence is a long, long way off; and frankly, if we run face-first into the singularity, I doubt that our digital progeny will be interested in building interfaces for us. Learning algorithms are… Continue reading Is Emerging AI Too Smart to Design for Me and You?
Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2019
It’s already time to start thinking about all the seasonal design elements that you will use for the rest of the year. That might be icons or illustrations or fonts. We have a few new elements this month that might fit the bill, as well as learning tools and inspiration. Here’s what new for designers… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2019
WordPress Survey Plugin: Forminator to the Rescue
Form builder plugins are very handy. Quizzes, polls, surveys, and even event registrations and quote requests are forms. With a form builder plugin, you save time and effort, and the finished product is a well-crafted and professional looking page on your site. A quiz is the type of post that gets shared, thus increasing the… Continue reading WordPress Survey Plugin: Forminator to the Rescue
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
9 Mistakes That Drive Away Instagram Followers
Instagram is a social media platform for sharing photos and videos, which has become popular worldwide from the beginning in 2010, the year the Instagram app was launched. TheAppSolutions social media experts note the rapid advancement in technology in the last years. Instagram allows users to target and influence interested users as well as customers… Continue reading 9 Mistakes That Drive Away Instagram Followers
How to Add an Appointment Booking Calendar With a WordPress Plugin
The internet has revolutionized many services that before were tedious or time-consuming. Booking an appointment is a great example. Booking online not only saves time for the user but also the service provider. An appointment booking plugin makes it easy to manage their visitors, appointments and schedules in a well-organized manner. Business such as salons,… Continue reading How to Add an Appointment Booking Calendar With a WordPress Plugin
How to Make, Use, and Manipulate a Calligraphic Brush in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating The Calligraphic brush in Adobe Illustrator mimics the look and feel of a calligraphy pen nib. Let’s take its options for a spin to get everything you can from this brush type. 1. How to Make a Calligraphic Brush Step 1 To start, create a New Document, select the Paintbrush Tool (B)… Continue reading How to Make, Use, and Manipulate a Calligraphic Brush in Adobe Illustrator
Tips to Enhance Your Blog With Design Thinking Approach
Design thinking is an innovative method of coming up with solutions to problems. Design thinking places the users at the heart to the problem-solving exercise with their experiences and opinions used to develop solutions to the problems they are facing. Once a solution to a problem has been found, it is tested on the users… Continue reading Tips to Enhance Your Blog With Design Thinking Approach