The following portfolios are not only good-looking and creative; they are owned by people who made the breakthrough in this huge worldwide design/illustration market and got their names tied to important clients and known brands along the way. That is, these are the design portfolios of successful artists.
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If you’re a web or app developer looking for ways to improve the performance of your pages, one improvement you’ll want to seriously consider is JavaScript minification. In this post, I’ll show you how to minify JavaScript and what tools you can use to minify JavaScript, depending on your current tech stack.
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Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to earn money online. You simply talk about products and services you love and make money when people buy them. In this guide on how to create a free landing page for affiliate marketing, we’ll show you how you can get started with this money-making endeavor without spending a dollar.
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Launching a website can be a daunting task for beginners, especially since there are different avenues to consider. For example, you might not know whether to hire a designer or have a go at it yourself. However, it’s even harder to make a decision without knowing the average cost of website design for small business. To help you out, we’ve put together a breakdown of web design costs for small businesses.
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There is no shortage of languages to develop software and websites. HTML vs JavaScript is a common comparison because both offer easy to understand syntax, and have accessibility for beginner coders. In this post, we'll look at HTML vs JavaScript in relation to their pros and cons, where and how you'll use each language during development, and much more.
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The terms UI and UX (design) are very often used interchangeably. Even up to a point where many people/designers/clients refer to them as “UI/UX design” – a kind of all-in-one combo.
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Using a video on website homepage designs has become the norm for most contemporary brands and it's likely to continue into the future. Companies are doing their best to hook first-time visitors to their websites by making a great initial impression. Video has proven to be a useful marketing tool for doing that. If you're eager to learn how best to incorporate the use of videos on your website's homepage, then check out these nine tips and best practices.
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Kartra and Kajabi have various tools for including elements like lead pages, funnels, and memberships in any business’s marketing flow. Yet, when compared side-by-side, they mainly overlap for those making online courses or educational businesses.
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You need a website. You’ve probably heard the same thing from other people and articles all over the internet. You know it’s true. But, the prospect of learning how to design a website can be intimidating. Here's how to get through the process and end up with an awesome website.
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If you want to build a landing page with WordPress then you have a handful of possibilities. We even listed some of them a while ago. But since then, we’ve seen a lot of development in the realm of builder plugins and code-free site constructing in general. So let’s explore some of that today.
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Ever since the latter half of 2015, the concept of Accelerated Mobile Pages for WordPress as well as other website technologies has been in discussion. Web developers, WordPress people, SEO experts, and everyone else associated with content creation or management has been talking about the AMP Project.
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If you run a small business, creating a meet the team page on your site can help you appear more approachable. Fortunately, you don’t need to be a web designer to create an effective and nice looking meet the team page. In this article we'll show you some real-life examples and then we'll teach you how to build a team page of your own.
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Looking for WordPress professionals to help you with your business website? We’re jumping in to recommend some of the best WordPress agencies for quality web development, design, performance optimizations, marketing, and more. Let them handle the technical side of your business while you’re busy growing it!
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If you’re looking for a gentle introduction to using the Fetch API, a modern replacement for XMLHttpRequest-based Ajax-driven pages, this is the place to start!
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Figuring out which are the best fonts for logos might not be the easiest of tasks. For instance, even the directory at DaFont.com alone lists a staggering 36,000+ total fonts. And that's surely not all that's available out there. You can probably find just as many fonts in other places, or even more.
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This responsive images tutorial will go through CSS techniques, HTML features, and some tools you’ll want to consider. All of this should give you a good overview of getting started with responsive images in your projects today.
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As you can probably already tell, this post is a little on the “advanced” side, but it does tackle a topic that’s very interesting and presents a new branch for us to follow on this whole mobile-first path for our websites and/or apps.
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With the right design, your business website or app can be a powerful asset. A UX audit checklist can help you identify and fix broken systems, find opportunities to optimize your design, and ensure that you’re providing your visitors with the best experience possible.
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What colors are you using in your branding and marketing messages? Because whether you realize it or not, color psychology in marketing is subconsciously influencing the buying decisions of people visiting your website.
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If you’re starting a project like a web app or a website that requires an admin dashboard, then this collection of Bootstrap admin templates will be a great starting point! Bootstrap is a free and open-source JavaScript framework that contains a whole lot of ready-made code to help you create things.
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It’s not often that a WordPress developer doesn’t modify the functions.php file within a theme they’re developing. Why? Because functions.php gives you the power to control functionality specific to the theme. With some simple code inclusions and/or modifications, you can override existing website functionality and execute multiple functions in an efficient manner, instead of using potentially bulky and insecure plugins to achieve the same thing.
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The platforms we’ll discuss in this post target different users, and come with various benefits and limitations. Some of them are basic blogging platforms; others are fully hosted solutions or developer tools. Therefore, it’s crucial to assess your needs and make an informed decision.
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Knowing the full range of CSS selector types available when writing modern CSS today is crucial to using CSS to the fullest. In the past 10 years or so, the official specification has added a number of different CSS selectors and many of those selectors have strong support across all modern browsers.
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In this guide, I’ll present some creative ideas on how you can use HTML tables / data tables in WordPress, make them look pristine ✨, and also make sure that they’re optimized for mobile and are SEO-friendly at the same time.
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According to BuiltWith, Shopify is currently one of the leading e-commerce platforms when it comes to the number of websites using it. No wonder so many people are interested in finding the best Shopify themes for their stores.
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In this roundup, we’re going to introduce you to the 10 best free Shopify themes of 2020. There are minimalist themes, multipurpose themes, and more.
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Progressive web development has picked up in recent years after Google's initial proposal back in 2015. Progressive web apps (PWAs) utilize the best of web and mobile technologies to provide great user experience.
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WordPress is not perfect as a web development platform, especially when working with clients. That's why we need to adapt a certain approach if we want to make them happy (read: so they will pay us).
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Need to add new sections, or maybe whole new elements to your website? This is actually possible without having to rebuild everything completely. Some of the best Bootstrap 4 templates will help you do that.
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