The WordPress Customizer is a great way to tweak the look of a WordPress site. It’s especially great for end users of your themes. They can see their changes in real time, and they don’t need to know any coding to customize their site for their own branding. Even better, your theme can add custom… Continue reading New Course on the WordPress Customizer for Theme Designers
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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 Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop
The act of card sorting is a hands-on and quick way of creating a category tree (information architecture) based on users’ understanding of the topics of a product. The simple idea of the workshop is to ask users to organise cards that already contain written content into groups. In this tutorial you will learn how… Continue reading How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop
How to Create an Instagram Post Template in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Today we will be taking a quick look at how to create an Instagram post template in Adobe Photoshop! Whether it’s for a hot sale your site is having, you’re announcing a huge giveaway or maybe you just want to wish your followers a happy holiday, having a blank Instagram post template… Continue reading How to Create an Instagram Post Template in Photoshop
Best Free WordPress Quiz Plugins
Quizzes on websites can serve a lot of purposes. I am sure you have come across quizzes that simply ask random questions about celebrities or friends for fun. There are also quizzes for things like checking compatibility or aptitude of people. Some websites add quizzes in their posts at the end of courses to help… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Quiz Plugins
Build an Advanced Responsive Menu Inspired by Netflix
The other day I visited the Netflix Jobs website from my phone and had a look at its off-canvas menu. I really liked the staggering animations that fired every time you hit it. So I thought it might be a good exercise to take this menu as inspiration and show you how to build a similar responsive… Continue reading Build an Advanced Responsive Menu Inspired by Netflix
How to Make a Sports YouTube Banner With a YouTube Banner Maker
What You’ll Be Creating If you want to be a successful YouTuber, you need a professional banner for your channel. Placeit is an online tool that allows you to design your own creation with a special banner generator. It offers hundreds of YouTube banner templates that you can modify for your needs. In this tutorial, I’ll… Continue reading How to Make a Sports YouTube Banner With a YouTube Banner Maker
Create an Online Community for Your WordPress Site With UserPro
When you think of social websites, chances are that social networks such as Facebook immediately spring to mind, but the ability to create a profile and connect with other users can be a valuable addition to many different websites. Imagine you’ve created a website for your business; you could use social features to build an… Continue reading Create an Online Community for Your WordPress Site With UserPro
Free WordPress Video Player Plugins
Videos have become a huge part of many major websites. This is due to the fact that the user experience provided by a video is much more immersive than text, images or just audio. Also, video can be a better medium for some kinds of content, for example software or development tutorials. If you have been… Continue reading Free WordPress Video Player Plugins
How to Add Live Chat Complete in WordPress
Online shopping has revolutionized nearly every industry. Having a chat feature on your business website not only provides an avenue for customers to contact you, but it also helps build confidence and trust. A real-time chat feature on a website lets customers get instant answers to their questions or concerns, without having to make a… Continue reading How to Add Live Chat Complete in WordPress
How to Create a Church Newsletter Template in InDesign
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a four-page newsletter template. We’ll put this template together in no time, and you’ll be able to reuse it for your future projects. Newsletter templates are great to communicate with your community and update them of… Continue reading How to Create a Church Newsletter Template in InDesign
Rethinking the Exploration Phase of Design
Starting off a project is often described as being the exploration phase of a design process–during this phase, you quickly diverge with lots of ideas, generating many potential leads on concepts and hypotheses to test with customers. However, the notion that conceiving creative ideas is more akin to sudden unexpected flashes of brilliance obscures the… Continue reading Rethinking the Exploration Phase of Design
How to Create Custom Login and Registration Forms in WordPress
The login page is the first thing users will see when they need to access your site, so it needs to be beautiful and user-friendly. A boring login page can give users a bad impression of your site! Customizing the login to match your brand will lead to a better experience for users. In this… Continue reading How to Create Custom Login and Registration Forms in WordPress
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
How to Build a Responsive Navigation Bar with Flexbox
Time for a practical exercise in flexbox! In this tutorial we will use flexbox to create a mobile-first, responsive, toggleable navigation bar with different layouts for mobile, tablet, and desktop screens. Flexbox is Perfect for Responsive Navigation Flexbox is a versatile layout module with which we can create one-dimensional layouts that require flexibility, such as… Continue reading How to Build a Responsive Navigation Bar with Flexbox
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
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
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
20+ Best Personal WordPress Blog Themes for 2019
Whether you want to establish your personal brand or share your passion for travel or cooking, a personal blog is the easiest way to get your writing out into the wild. A personal blog can be a great way build your authority and showcase your knowledge on a particular topic. It can also help you… Continue reading 20+ Best Personal WordPress Blog Themes for 2019
How to Build a Responsive Navigation Bar With Flexbox
Flexbox is Perfect for Responsive Navigation Flexbox is a versatile layout module with which we can create one-dimensional layouts that require flexibility, such as responsive menus. Using flexbox’s ordering, alignment, and sizing properties, we can build navigation bars that adapt their layouts to the viewport size while keeping the HTML outline logical and accessible. In this tutorial,… Continue reading How to Build a Responsive Navigation Bar With Flexbox
How to Build a Responsive Navigation Bar With Flexbox
Flexbox is Perfect for Responsive Navigation Flexbox is a versatile layout module. It allows us to create flexible one-dimensional layouts, such as a flexbox responsive menu. With its ordering, alignment, and sizing properties, we can build responsive navbar designs that adapt their layouts to the viewport size. All of this while keeping the navigation… Continue reading How to Build a Responsive Navigation Bar With Flexbox
Top 10 WordPress Plugins for Blogs in 2019
Blogging is one of the easiest ways for people to share information. Starting a blog is easy, but growing it can be hard. Your blog needs to stand out if you wish to dominate any niche. Plugins are the tools that add functionality to a WordPress site. In this post, we are going to look… Continue reading Top 10 WordPress Plugins for Blogs in 2019
Best WordPress eCommerce, Product, and Marketing Plugins of 2019
If you’re in the market for a top-notch WordPress eCommerce, product, or marketing plugin, you definitely need to check out this list of the best WooCommerce plugins for 2019. eCommerce Plugins WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates makes it easy to start earning money as an Amazon affiliate. With this plugin, you can start adding Amazon… Continue reading Best WordPress eCommerce, Product, and Marketing Plugins of 2019
50 Amazing 3D Text Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator (Beginner to Advanced)
Master text effects with these 50 amazing tutorials. Check out this list for inspiration. 50 3D Text Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator Type communicates so much more than just words. And when creatives join forces with type, they create magical text effects using programs like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Want to get in on the… Continue reading 50 Amazing 3D Text Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator (Beginner to Advanced)