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New Course: Introduction to Studio 2.0

How would you like to design, build, and publish responsive websites without writing a single line of code? Learn how to do it in our new short course, Introduction to Studio 2.0. What You’ll Learn Studio offers a very well-thought-out visual editor that helps you design websites quickly and easily, and in this course, Adi Purdila… Continue reading New Course: Introduction to Studio 2.0

How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to create a realistic 3D gold text effect using layer styles in Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: Download the file Gold_Text_Effect-Assets.zip and extract both files inside. Install the Pattern file “Patterns.pat“. Install the Contour file “CustomContours.shc”.… Continue reading How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

14 Firefox Developer Tools You Might Not Know About

In this roundup we’re going to be checking out some of the awesome tools Firefox has in its collection of Developer Tools.  Even if Google Chrome is your primary development browser, Firefox has some tools that Chrome doesn’t. In fairness the reverse is also true–Chrome has some tools that Firefox doesn’t, but the tools in… Continue reading 14 Firefox Developer Tools You Might Not Know About

6 Best Weather WordPress Widgets & Plugins

Running a venue is tough, and involves plenty of planning and hard work—especially venues that depend on the weather. For golf courses, wedding destinations, and even restaurants with patios, bad weather can really take a toll on attendance. Even though we’re powerless against mother nature, we can plan around it. Since keeping up with weather… Continue reading 6 Best Weather WordPress Widgets & Plugins

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Choose the Best WordPress Event Calendar Plugins

If you run a business where you regularly need to schedule and display events like seminars, webinars, parties, concerts etc, you’re going to need a reliable events calendar to consolidate and display all the relevant information for your business events into one useful place and  keep clients informed about dates, times, locations and other such… Continue reading Choose the Best WordPress Event Calendar Plugins

20 Best Shipping & Pricing WooCommerce Plugins

If you use a WooCommerce plugin to manage the online store on your WordPress site, you’re probably looking for plugins that offer a good variety of shipping options or that make selling your products and running sales as easy as possible.  Today, we look at the best shipping and pricing plugins and also take a look at a few… Continue reading 20 Best Shipping & Pricing WooCommerce Plugins

How to Make a Time Magazine Cover Template

What You’ll Be Creating Iconic, timeless, and visually appealing. In this tutorial, we show you how to make your own Time magazine cover template.  Time magazine is well known and easily recognisable for its signature cover and its red border. First published in March 1923, this weekly magazine has the world’s largest circulation for a… Continue reading How to Make a Time Magazine Cover Template

Using the New WordPress Default Theme

Twenty Nineteen is the latest WordPress default theme currently available and was included with the WordPress 5.0 release. It’s already proving pretty popular with over 800,000 active installations to date. It’s also also available to WordPress.com users too which bumps up the user base even more. It’s described as a minimal and non-generic theme with simple but sophisticated… Continue reading Using the New WordPress Default Theme

Which of Figma’s Pricing Tiers is Right for You?

Figma is a free-to-use design application, but it also offers added features for paying subscribers. Let’s take a look at the differences between Figma’s three pricing tiers. Note: this is part of our regularly updated learning guide The Designer’s Guide to Figma. Figma’s Three Pricing Tiers These are the tiers on offer: Free Professional ($12… Continue reading Which of Figma’s Pricing Tiers is Right for You?

How to Add a Free WordPress Post Slider to Your Site

In this article, we’re going to explore how to make posts slider in WordPress by using a slider plugin. We’re going to use one of the best WordPress slider plugins—Responsive Posts Carousel. More often than not, when you’re creating your website, you would like to have a carousel on your website which displays posts filtered… Continue reading How to Add a Free WordPress Post Slider to Your Site

International Artist Feature: Guatemala

Welcome back to our International Artist Series. Today, we’re catching up with five incredible artists from Guatemala, a Central American country that is home to Mayan cities and a long history of artistic production. I asked each artist how their country and culture influenced their work, and they delivered great responses. Wilker Velásquez… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Guatemala

Create a Themeable Site Design in Figma

If you want to create a flexible website design that you can easily convert into multiple themes, then try our new course, Create a Themeable Site Design in Figma. What You’ll Learn Figma is a superb vector-based tool for interface design. As part of its suite of functionality it includes a “styles” system, whereby various… Continue reading Create a Themeable Site Design in Figma

Best WPBakery (Visual Composer) Add-Ons and Templates on Envato Elements

WPBakery (formerly Visual Composer) is one of the most well-known and feature-packed visual page builders available for WordPress. While the team at WPBakery is always improving on their product, the number of variations of web projects out there make it impossible to rely on a single plugin for all of your needs. Luckily, though, WPBakery… Continue reading Best WPBakery (Visual Composer) Add-Ons and Templates on Envato Elements

How to Create an eBook in Adobe InDesign

What You’ll Be Creating Ever wanted to easily convert your InDesign layouts to eBooks? With the right know-how, it’s super-simple to do. In this tutorial we’ll look at three different ways you can quickly turn your designs into interactive PDFs or EPUBs, ready for sharing or selling online.  There are a few different eBook formats… Continue reading How to Create an eBook in Adobe InDesign

How to Add the Stellar Video Player to Your WordPress Site

There’s no denying that, given a choice, most Internet users today would prefer to watch a short video rather than read a few paragraphs of text. Therefore, one of the best ways to quickly increase your WordPress site’s traffic and click-through rates is to add video content to it. To display such content, you will,… Continue reading How to Add the Stellar Video Player to Your WordPress Site

20 Best PHP Email Forms

Email forms have many shapes and sizes. Sure, there’s the classic “contact form” you’ll find on just about every website, but sometimes you need something more robust—or maybe you should be using something more advanced in the first place? Different kinds of websites need different form features. Many of them simply need a basic contact… Continue reading 20 Best PHP Email Forms

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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

How to Make a Valentine’s Dinner Restaurant Menu Flyer Template

What You’ll Be Creating Do you have a fascinating dinner event in mind and wish to kick off the celebration with a catchy restaurant menu design? Great! There are many software packages available to enable you to design flyer templates, but today we will be using Adobe Illustrator in a step-by-step guide to custom designing a… Continue reading How to Make a Valentine’s Dinner Restaurant Menu Flyer Template

How to Make a Beating Heart Animation for St. Valentine’s Day With SVG

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Let’s get into the spirit of St. Valentine’s day, getting all pink and smooshy in the process, and code ourselves a simple beating heart animation with SVG. Here’s what we’re going to create: This is a great exercise for familiarizing yourself with SVG syntax and authentic animation.… Continue reading How to Make a Beating Heart Animation for St. Valentine’s Day With SVG

Turn Your Static SVG Drawings Into Interactive Widgets and Infographics With Vue.js

What You’ll Be Creating SVG is powerful and flexible graphic format, which fits perfectly into the web medium. Unlike raster image formats, such as JPG, PNG, or GIF, SVG is vector-based and consists of “real” objects, which you can select and manipulate in whatever manner you want. So even with some basic scripting a static… Continue reading Turn Your Static SVG Drawings Into Interactive Widgets and Infographics With Vue.js

How to Make a Sticky Menu in WordPress

What You’ll Be Creating Navigation menus are changing. Instead of just throwing one into a site without considering what form it’ll take, designers are taking the time to consider the design of navigation menus, the space they take up on the page, and how users interact with them. One growing trend is for sticky menus.… Continue reading How to Make a Sticky Menu in WordPress