Welcome to our sites of the month for April. With some websites, the details make all the difference, while in others, it is the overall tone or aesthetic that lifts the standard. In this collection, we have instances of both.
Welcome to our April tools collection. There are no practical jokes here, just practical gadgets, services, and apps to make life that little bit easier and keep you working smarter.
User Experience (UX) is one of the most important fields of design, so it should come as no surprise that there are a multitude of tools available to help UX designers succeed.
Consumer expectations for a responsive, immersive, and visually appealing website experience have never been higher. In fact, 72% report that a badly designed website affects their opinion of a business. If your website is badly...
Is searching for the best web design tools to suit your needs akin to having a recurring bad dream? Does each “promising ad” look like any other, and you find yourself reading them over and over again? We published this list to give you...
Planning a new website can be exciting and — if you’re anything like me — a little daunting. Whether you’re an experienced freelancer, a team of hardened developers, or a small business owner, a well-structured plan is critical for success.
Welcome to March’s edition of our roundup of the best new fonts for designers. This month’s compilation includes interesting new uses for variable font technology, some warm, approachable typefaces, and a couple of excellent scripts.
It’s a New Year, but one thing hasn’t changed. The number of web design resources and tools just keeps on increasing. That’s a good thing. But it does make it that much more difficult to find a theme, plugin, or resource you really have...
The WordPress directory has 50k+ free plugins that were developed so you can extend a WordPress website with functions and features far beyond your imagination. Additional thousands of WordPress plugins are available from various...
There is certainly no shortage of excellent WordPress themes you can select from to help you create an engaging and high performing website. Finding the best one for the job would most certainly be a challenge as there are literally...
In the digital age, websites are more than just a collection of pages and links; they are a canvas for storytelling. A well-crafted website can tell a story that engages, informs, and inspires its visitors. This is especially true for...
If you are looking for the best multipurpose WordPress theme you might feel the need to clearly understand what “best” means. On the other hand, you shouldn’t worry about that too much since you don’t have to drill down to selecting a...
Are you looking for the best WooCommerce theme to help you build your online store, but are afraid of making a wrong choice? For starters, you want to select a WordPress WooCommerce theme since not all WordPress themes offer complete...
Web design tools and resources, both free and premium, are designed to help you take full advantage of your creativity. Thereby enhance your ability to create stunning websites. There is a huge variety of products and services to choose...
If you’re using the WordPress platform for your website building projects, you’re definitely on the right track. Still, building a better website than the competition’s is usually easier said than done. As doing so may require design or...
Say you have Googled several nearby pet stores. You found one, reviewed the products, and closed the browser. Soon enough, websites you visit feature ads for pet items like food and accessories. The same pet-focused goods follow you on...
Do you know what is one of the most irretrievable things in the eCommerce business? It is called “the First Impression”. So you better buckle up and make the most of it! The internet seems to be flooded with eCommerce websites, each...
The days when you put a sign on your front lawn with the hope of selling your house are long gone. Sure, you might still put out a sign and circulate fliers, but most of your traffic will come from online viewings at websites like Zillow...
Are you looking for a way to increase your online presence? If so, you probably understand just how important it is to have a strong website. Most people use the internet when they are looking for something they need, so you need to have...
Linux VPS is a virtual private server that uses Linux as its operating system. On top of that, there is also a high degree of variability as to the choice of your Linux VPS OS, since the open-source nature of Linux allowed the developers...
PHP is the most popular and fastest server-side scripting language for developing websites and web applications. For various reasons, many developers prefer PHP development tools to other server-side languages like Python and Ruby. PHP...
When it comes to customizing your WordPress theme, the sky is the limit. There are endless possibilities when it comes to tweaking and adjusting your website’s appearance to make it truly unique. Not only will this give your site a...
WordPress is a perfect example of how the web has evolved from static to interactive, a shift driven by our desire to share thoughts and a great opportunity to promote our goods. A truly good WordPress theme goes beyond simply looking...
WordPress is an amazingly stable platform thanks to the dedication and talent of the hundreds of professionals contributing to it, and the strict code standards they follow. Even so, the huge variety of themes, plugins and server...
The Internet has changed significantly since its early days with every year introducing us to brand new trends. Needless to say, not all these new changes are equally good. Here are four of the top current trends in the field of web...
Whether you have recently launched an online store, want to in the future or have been running one for a while, you need to understand the sector and what’s required to make an ecommerce venture work. While ecommerce has definitely been...
If your business isn’t out there on the internet, you’re probably missing on a major part of your target audience. As much as 84% of individuals in the E.U. use the internet regularly. Making a website for your business, however, is a...
I’m excited to announce that Themify has released another awesome theme – Themify Shoppe. Designed by Liam McKay and coded by Themify team, Shoppe works hand-in-hand with WooCommerce, making it the ultimate multi-purposed...
Email is your post powerful marketing channel when used well. Your visitor’s inbox is a perfect opportunity for you to capture attention, communicate important updates and invite readers back to your site for increased visibility....
There are hundreds of ways to create responsive navigation, limited only by your creativity and the boundaries of what CSS can accomplish. Good responsive navigation is a little harder – a responsive menu must become a mobile menu,...
Front-end development is quickly becoming more and more focused on efficiency – faster loading and rendering through selector choice and minimizing code. Pre-processors like Less and SCSS go a long way in doing some of the work for...
CSS Transitions and transforms work beautifully for creating visual interactions based on single state changes. To have more control over what happens and when, you can use the CSS animation property to create easy CSS animation using...
Recently, I walked you through how to create a simple landing page that used a couple different CSS animation techniques. “Animation” is a loose term, in web design usually referring to anything that involves movement. CSS...
CSS flexbox is an incredibly useful tool for layout without using floats or positioning. Currently almost all current browser version support flexbox, making it a go-to standard for web design. It can solve a number of problems...
When Spotify launched their colorful new brand identity, featuring hip duo-toned imagery, it went hand-in-hand with a new Colorizer tool that allows artists to apply a variety of filters to images. This solved a problem in which Spotify...
Last week I demonstrated how to build a split-screen website layout using CSS flexbox and viewport units that offers an alternative way to present a brand’s featured content. Clicking on one side or the other navigates further into...
All websites are somewhat interactive…we click on links or scroll a page, but truly interactive websites take us on a user-driven adventure or draws us in through motion and sound while giving us the power of choice. Interaction...
There is no better time than the end of the year for some fresh inspiration! One of the most popular trends this year, features splitscreen layouts, lots of white space, clean typography and subtle effects. With this playful trend in...
The year ahead should be a really exciting one for design, with the introduction of wider support for SVG and a host of new things we can do with CSS as CSS4 gains broader acceptance. In taking a look back at what made a big splash this...
Getting content to center perfectly within an element and then ensuring it responds properly at different screen sizes is one of the biggest challenges that still face front-end designers. It is not that it is difficult, but because...
The temptation to dive right into new and exciting CSS tricks is strong – you might even do it without knowing it through learning by example or implementing that hot new framework everyone is talking about. It is more important to...
Fonts took on a revival in handmade styles this year, from calligraphic, script and handwritten to brush painted and block-printed. Combined with the great visual appeal of hero images and typographic layouts in web design, handwriting...
One of the challenges of coding premium WordPress themes is the unpredictable nature of how they will be used. Compared to coding a custom website, especially one using static HTML documents where you have complete control over the...
Freelancing can be a tough gig, but there is no better time than a new year to begin building (or rebuilding) a fantastic new business where you can do what you love. Being successful has a lot to do with your drive and passion, but...
CSS image filters are a quick way to tweak images in the browser without resorting to Photoshop. This simple reference gives you 9 CSS filter shorthands that provide an excellent way to maintain style consistency across visual content on...
Thinking of a career in tech but don’t know what profession to choose? Here’s a short list of some of the highest paying tech jobs on the market today. Software Engineering Software engineers build programs from scratch for a variety of...
Themes are the so-called fittings for websites. You can completely change the look and feel of your website by changing its template, and make the necessary adjustments to best fit your needs. Themes in the WordPress directory are many...
When designing digital signage, it is easy to get carried away by the excitement of having to create and experiment with elements like contrast, color, text, arrangements and images. You should, however, not forget that the point of the...
With some of the world’s top websites developed in WordPress, it really could be seen as the future when it comes to website development. WordPress has thousands of pre-designed themes and plugins available. WordPress even makes...