Mason Is a Front-End Builder Worth Exploring

Building a front-end for your site from scratch might be the hardest part of building a great web app. The idea and logic can be perfect, but if the user interface is a wreck, you’ll never be a success. That’s where tools like Mason’s front-end-as-a-service become so valuable. With Mason, you can visually build a… Continue reading Mason Is a Front-End Builder Worth Exploring

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

Best jQuery Flipbook Plugins Compared

Are you looking for a creative and interactive way to showcase text, photos, and documents on your website? Adding a flipbook to your site can elevate your project and enhance the experience of your website visitors.  For this article, I’ve chosen three great tools that will allow you to create realistic, animated flipbooks with ease.… Continue reading Best jQuery Flipbook Plugins Compared

How to Test a Website Before Launching to the Public

Have you been toiling away on your website for the past several months? Before you launch that bad boy, click here to learn how to test a website first. Launching a new website can be exciting. It’s important that you don’t let your excitement overpower your rational thinking. No matter how excited you are in… Continue reading How to Test a Website Before Launching to the Public

How VeePN Makes the Internet Safer to Use

With everything going digital it is becoming increasingly important for us to protect ourselves. You become vulnerable to cyber attacks once you go online, hence some sort of protection is required in order to stay safe. That is what a VPN or Virtual Private Network is for. It creates a secure connection between your device… Continue reading How VeePN Makes the Internet Safer to Use

How to Use Adobe Illustrator Files in Figma

In this quick tip I’m going to show you how to get an Adobe Illustrator file into Figma, without needing Adobe Illustrator. How to Open an Adobe Illustrator File in Figma Let’s say you have some icons, such as the example we’re using here, Flat Books Icons on Envato Elements: Flat Books Icons You’ll notice… Continue reading How to Use Adobe Illustrator Files in Figma

Building Image-Rich Websites Without the Lag

Optimize Image File Size You might be familiar with this trick from the old days, batch when using progressively-loading JPEGs was the height of image optimization techniques. While these methods can still be of some use today, there are many more ways to shave off some loading time today. Use a program like ImageOptim or… Continue reading Building Image-Rich Websites Without the Lag

A Solopreneur Checklist for Promoting a New Website

If you’re reading this, chances are you launched a brand new website a couple of weeks or even months ago. During the initial setup phase, everything felt easy. You could register and host your domain on the same platform, build a professional-looking website without code — everything seemed like they’re going your way. You may… Continue reading A Solopreneur Checklist for Promoting a New Website

The 6 Best Aweber Alternatives for Ecommerce

With the success that email marketing provides for online merchants, it’s no surprise that choosing the right tool is at the top of everyone’s minds. Choosing the right email marketing tool can make or break your email strategy. Aweber has been a leader in email marketing for some time, however, with many other email marketing… Continue reading The 6 Best Aweber Alternatives for Ecommerce

21 New Creative Brochure and Catalog Templates for Inspiration

Professional modern business brochure templates with clean an elegant design. Best brochure templates are designed with a strong theme, multi-functionality and fully editable. These brochures are perfect for corporate annual report, fashion booklet, photography portfolio, product catalog, interior design and company profile. There brochure templates has all the features you’d expect in a brochures, from placeholders, to text styles, one click infographics, and easy… Continue reading 21 New Creative Brochure and Catalog Templates for Inspiration

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

WordPress in the Year to Come

What a year! At the end of 2017, I remember thinking that the previous year had been one of the biggest when it came to change in WordPress. But I didn’t know what was in store for 2018! 2018 has seen some of the most fundamental and farthest-reaching changes in WordPress since its inception, embodied… Continue reading WordPress in the Year to Come

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

20 Best Social Plugins for WordPress

With around 3 billion people in the world using social media, you can’t afford not to use social plugins on your WordPress site.  Adding social widgets, such as the Facebook like button, Twitter buttons and social share buttons, can help to drive some of those billions to your site and social accounts, and can even… Continue reading 20 Best Social Plugins for WordPress

New Short Course: WordPress SEO Without Plugins

We all want our sites to be SEO-friendly, don’t we? A boost in search engine ranking can result in huge increases in traffic and sales. In our new short course, WordPress SEO Without Plugins, you’ll learn some techniques and best practices you can use for better SEO on your WordPress site without having to install… Continue reading New Short Course: WordPress SEO Without Plugins

Landing Page Design Fundamentals That Boost Conversion Rates

Creating the perfect landing page can be a complex process that requires the expertise of web designers, professional copywriters and SEO experts, but the effort is worth it. An effective call-to-action page not only draws more visitors to your site, but also boosts conversion rates and sales. The ultimate goal of a landing page is… Continue reading Landing Page Design Fundamentals That Boost Conversion Rates

5 Power Plugins Your WooCommerce Store Can’t Miss

If you are a WordPress fan, WooCommerce needs no special introduction. Statistics reveal that around 28% of today’s online shops are built using WooCommerce! Brief Intro: For those who are new to WooCommerce, a brief intro. WooCommerce, is a free (Open Source) Ecommerce plugin from WordPress Family(Automattic). It was originally owned by WooThemes and WordPress.com… Continue reading 5 Power Plugins Your WooCommerce Store Can’t Miss

65 Free Vintage Logo Templates and Badges

Free vintage, retro logo templates and vintage vector logo kit to make vintage branding projects, labels, apparel design, typography pieces with these handy vector element and logo design kit. That’s 65 vintage logo templates  and badges that you can use for poster, sticker, packaging product design, t-shirt design, corporate identity and more. They’re all fully editable and available for commercial… Continue reading 65 Free Vintage Logo Templates and Badges

Rebranding? Focus on What Really Matters

December 5, 2018 by Spyre Studios What does your logo say about your company — and does anyone really notice? Rebranding can be a hefty task. If you’re looking to rebrand because you think you need a refresh, you’re likely planning to have a team working hard on a number of graphic options that truly… Continue reading Rebranding? Focus on What Really Matters

Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)

In this tutorial we’re going to take a bunch of ordinary thumbnail links and turn them into a responsive CSS grid gallery with a blurred hover effect. We’ll also use a great CSS trick to make sure touch screen users don’t miss out! Here’s what we’ll be creating: A Little Background Recently, Rachel McCollin wrote a… Continue reading Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)

Try This New Short Course on JavaScript Form Validation

JavaScript form validation is now a lot easier than it used to be, thanks to HTML5 and the Constraint Validation API. Learn how it works in our new short course, Practice JavaScript and Learn: Form Validation.  What You’ll Learn In this short course, Jeremy McPeak will show you how to take advantage of the Constraint… Continue reading Try This New Short Course on JavaScript Form Validation

Implement Autoplaying GIFs Without Using GIFs

The GIF format is just as popular as its ever been. It may even be more popular than ever before. People love sharing short, auto-playing clips on social media. and the GIF accidentally became the chosen format for that purpose. Unfortunately, the GIFs popularity doesn’t mean that the GIF is a good format. While functional,… Continue reading Implement Autoplaying GIFs Without Using GIFs