WordPress in 2025 isn’t thriving — it’s rotting. Bloated, outdated, and hijacked by commercial greed, the world’s most popular CMS has become a cautionary tale of innovation gone stale. If you’re still building on WordPress, you’re...
If you often just obsessively nudge pixels until your sanity starts to fray... This painfully relatable (and slightly unhinged) journey through the 7 stages of pushing pixels is for you! If you've ever cried over a 0.5px misalignment,...
The web isn’t dying because of AI—it’s drowning in a sea of templates. Platforms like Squarespace, Wix, and Shopify have made building a site easier than ever—but at the cost of creativity, originality, and soul. If every website looks...
Designers, your gorgeous layout might be silently sabotaging your site—**if it shifts mid-scroll, it’s not elegant, it’s broken.** CLS isn’t just a dev metric—it’s the UX red flag your users feel *before* they bounce.
Hero images are the web’s prettiest dead weight—slow, vague, and visually overused. It’s time to stop decorating your homepage and start saying something that actually matters.
Tired of watching the loading spinner do its little dance of despair? This brutally honest breakup letter to everyone’s least favorite UI element calls out the lies, the stalling, and the silent screams behind every infinite loop. If...
Reddit is considering using Sam Altman’s **eyeball-scanning Orb** to verify users—yes, your actual iris, for internet points. If this goes through, proving you're human online might soon require biometric proof. Welcome to the internet’s...
Sustainable web design isn’t just a feel-good trend—it’s a necessity as bloated, inefficient sites contribute to massive energy waste. Cutting the fluff, optimizing performance, and rethinking design choices can create a web that’s not...
The next evolution of web design isn’t about looks — it’s about knowing you better than you know yourself. Get ready for a future where websites don’t just personalize your experience — they profile your soul in real-time. Creepy?...
The "I Only Use Figma" designer is convinced Figma can solve all of life’s problems, from wireframes to world peace. They’ll flex their Figma files like a secret society, leaving you wondering if they could design a better universe—if...
Duolingo's notifications are a masterclass in psychological manipulation, using FOMO and guilt to keep users engaged and reinforce habits. While effective for habit formation, they raise questions about whether they're perpetuating a...
Multimodal interfaces offer exciting opportunities for creating seamless user experiences, but they require careful attention to context, consistency, and smooth transitions between input methods.
Websites are about to start designing themselves—literally. Powered by AI and real-time behavior data, they’ll adapt layouts, copy, and UX on the fly. What does that mean for web designers? Obsolescence… unless we evolve fast.
Your landing page doesn’t need more fluff—it needs receipts. **SocialProofExamples.com** is the ultimate swipe file of real, high-impact trust signals used by companies like Notion, Webflow, and Zapier. If your testimonials still sound...
AI agents aren’t coming—they’re already quietly transforming how designers, developers, and UX pros work every day. From building layouts to debugging code and synthesizing user feedback, they’re the digital sidekicks doing the busywork...
While it may seem to be admirable, it could turn out to be extremely difficult to rely solely on your own creativity when building a website from scratch. In truth, the ability to build a great website usually depends on the tools you...
A feature-rich WordPress theme that offers “unlimited flexibility” may still not be able to handle certain demands you place upon it. You may have to accept the fact your need or needs will go unfulfilled, try to resolve the problem...
What you can incorporate in a website design can have a definite impact on its performance and by extension on your business. What you are actually able to incorporate into that same website design depends heavily on the WordPress theme...
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...
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...