The average amount of time a user spends on your site isn’t just a solid indication that you’ve piqued their interest and engaged them — it’s also one of the core metrics by which Google evaluates your site’s ranking in the search engine. Needless to say, making sure this metric is high while other factors,… Continue reading Handy Tricks to Make Visitors Stay Longer on Your Website
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Create a WordPress Image Gallery: Code the Plugin
What You’ll Be Creating People like pictures. They like looking at them, they like clicking on them. So it makes sense to use them in the navigation for your site. You may already use featured images in your archive pages, letting users get a greater insight into what a post is about and making your… Continue reading Create a WordPress Image Gallery: Code the Plugin
How to Create a WordPress Landing Page Template
What You’ll Be Creating One of the purposes of a website is to generate leads. This can happen in a number of ways: you might have a form for people to contact you for a specific quote, you might encourage people to create an account when buying goods on your site, or you might have… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Landing Page Template
How to Successfully Present Logo Designs to Clients: A Step-by-Step Guide
‘There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and wow. Wow is the one to aim for’ – Milton Glaser Designing creative, effective and appealing logos is an art, but presenting it to clients is another. The response of your client on the logo highly depends on how you present and… Continue reading How to Successfully Present Logo Designs to Clients: A Step-by-Step Guide
Step Up Your Photography Game With 5 Simple Rules
It is easier than ever for anyone to pick up their smartphone, take a few pictures, post them on social media and buoyed by positive feedback call themselves a photographer. However, there are several fundamental rules that you should follow which we will outline below. If you are keen on becoming serious with a good… Continue reading Step Up Your Photography Game With 5 Simple Rules
Keyboard Accessibility Tips Using HTML and CSS
Making your website accessible for keyboard-only users is an important part of the bigger accessibility picture. Here are some keyboard accessibility tips you can quickly implement using basic HTML and CSS. A11y From the Beginning These tips are part of Web Accessibility: the Complete Learning Guide, where we’ve collected a range of tutorials, articles, courses, and… Continue reading Keyboard Accessibility Tips Using HTML and CSS
An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools
Your Photoshop selection tools are perhaps the most powerful part of the application. By making effective selections, you unlock the power of the rest of the application. This includes localized image adjustments, compositing, and accurate mockups and object placement. Sloppy selections always show in the final product, so it pays to learn to make a… Continue reading An Introduction to Photoshop Selection Tools
How to Create an Isometric Map Mockup Action in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating From this tutorial, you’ll learn some new techniques and tricks. We’ll be using the Isometric Map Mockup product as an example and seeing in detail how it was created. At the end, you’ll have a fully workable action and confidence in building “transformation actions”. Got no time and need this action as soon as possible?… Continue reading How to Create an Isometric Map Mockup Action in Adobe Photoshop
Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks
The best banner ads capture our attention and are irresistible to click. What goes into these effective ads? Discover ten tips to creating the best banner ads. Are you struggling to come up with creative and engaging banner ads for your business? Having people interact and be interested in your ads is difficult if you… Continue reading Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks
Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks
The best banner ads capture our attention and are irresistible to click. What goes into these effective ads? Discover ten tips to creating the best banner ads. Are you struggling to come up with creative and engaging banner ads for your business? Having people interact and be interested in your ads is difficult if you… Continue reading Top 5 Tips to Design the Best Banner Ads for More Clicks
How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at drawing multiple hairstyles that tend to be popular choices for natural, afro textured hair: afros, locs, braids, and twists. While these styles could potentially be worn by people with other hair types, we will primarily focus on Type 4 hair. We’ll take a stylistic approach… Continue reading How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)
How to Make Your Photos Better: 5 Free Image Editors For Non-professionals
Visual content is surely taking the lead in modern digital marketing. Nobody in their right mind would now publish an article without a single image in it. That would be a sheer suicide with a current competition of over 2 million blog posts published each day. With this cut-throat competition, you need to make sure… Continue reading How to Make Your Photos Better: 5 Free Image Editors For Non-professionals
How to Formulate an Email Design and Development Strategy
In this tutorial I’ll explain how to focus your efforts on the email clients and webmail clients being used by your target audience. Note: this tutorial is part of a whole week’s worth of email content on Tuts+ Web Design–check out the Mastering HTML Email learning guide for more! 1. Understand the Importance of a Strategy Your target… Continue reading How to Formulate an Email Design and Development Strategy
5 Photoshop Effects for Mind-Blowing Web Graphics
Utilizing the right images on your website can make a huge impact. Images can get your message across in a way that words alone cannot. It’s one of the most surefire methods to stand out from the crowd. To get the most out of your images, you’ll want to use a professional-grade tool like Adobe… Continue reading 5 Photoshop Effects for Mind-Blowing Web Graphics
Best Online Shopping Stores WordPress Themes
Best eCommerce / WooCommerce themes. Responsive WordPress Themes for online Shopping Stores websites with modern and advanced features. Clean and unique looking WordPress Themes which will impress all of your Customers and give you a better chance to grow your income from your Online business. All themes are coded with HTML5 and CSS3 with modern UI and UX design, suitable… Continue reading Best Online Shopping Stores WordPress Themes
Understand Arrays in PHP
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;} In this post, you’ll learn the basics of arrays in PHP. You’ll learn how to create an array and how to use associative and multidimensional arrays, and you’ll see lots of examples of arrays in action. What Is an Array? In PHP, an array is a data… Continue reading Understand Arrays in PHP
Testing Components in React Using Jest and Enzyme
This is the second part of the series on Testing Components in React. If you have prior experience with Jest, you can skip ahead and use the GitHub code as a starting point. In the previous article, we covered the basic principles and ideas behind test-driven development. We also set up the environment and the tools… Continue reading Testing Components in React Using Jest and Enzyme
Why Is A Free Online English Grammar Checker Preferred over Others?
An English Grammar checker tool is available for the general public for 24 hours a day and seven days a week free of charges. A grammar check tool offers you different options for using this tool. You may choose to either type the text in the blank box directly or to copy/paste your document. You… Continue reading Why Is A Free Online English Grammar Checker Preferred over Others?
How to Create Presentations that Don’t Suck
The presentation is a convenient way to provide a short yet concise information about any of your projects whether you are a student, office manager, businessman, startupper, or financial advisor. Sad to say but bad presentation happens oftener than the good one. As a result, your audience gets bored and want the presentation to be… Continue reading How to Create Presentations that Don’t Suck
Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block
Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor and everyone is talking about it. It has introduced an all-new way of writing content with WordPress. So not only the developers can benefit from its block-modeled layout but the end-users will also be able to create dynamic page layouts with it. However, building custom blocks with Gutenberg can… Continue reading Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block
5 Best Design Collaboration Tools For Teams That Want to Scale
Those of us working for agencies in a creative context are, all too often, plagued by deadline after deadline. That’s why having solutions in place for effortless collaboration is the most important prerequisite for delivering striking design and thoughtful functionality – for each and every client and always on time. Whether it’s between your internal… Continue reading 5 Best Design Collaboration Tools For Teams That Want to Scale
Dos and Don’ts of Designing the Perfect Website Form
When designing modern websites, it is important to bear in mind the criticality of creating a well-balanced, user-friendly form as visitors make their first impression about a business by looking at their online portal. In several cases, the design of the form can make or break the future of the website. User experience plays a… Continue reading Dos and Don’ts of Designing the Perfect Website Form
20 Must-Have Wireframe Templates and UI Kits for Your Design Library
Wireframing. User journeys. Content maps. User-centered design. Information architecture. Animated prototypes. Conversion paths. Iterative features. Sitemaps. Uhh, what? Let’s be honest, the world of UX (user experience) and UI (user interface) is full of jargon and overcomplicated terms. Take, for example, this real line I copy-pasted from a job description for a senior content specialist… Continue reading 20 Must-Have Wireframe Templates and UI Kits for Your Design Library
A Guide to CrocoBlock Service – How to Create a Website Without Any Experience
Creating a website seems to be a fascinating idea, at least, at first thought. However, when you start looking for the right way to put it together, you discover that the things are actually more complicated than you expected. That’s when page builders come into play. Lately, there are lots of them. One of the… Continue reading A Guide to CrocoBlock Service – How to Create a Website Without Any Experience