Category: Web Development
20 Responsive Image Galleries and Slideshows (2020)
If your website is image-heavy i.e. a portfolio or photography website etc., then there are two things that you’ll be needing the most – photo gallery plugins to help you better manage the images on your website, and image slideshows to showcase your images to the world.…
Read More Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (April 2018)
This month we saw a few announcements from notable names in tech. For example, Apple open-sourced a new database system, Google released a new tool to measure your website speed on mobile, and Github with a free course to get you started with Git, Github, and coding in general.…
Read More 20+ Best Free WordPress Themes for Writers
Want to publish a story (or any other written work) but don’t know how to deliver it to your readers effectively? WordPress is probably the best possible tool to help you with that and stay low budget at the same time.…
Read More How to Design Websites with Great Navigation
(Guest writer: Ben Pines)
When you talk about labels and structure many forget that they are a huge part of your navigation. Navigation can be everything when it comes to the success of your website.…
Read More How To Write an Employee Handbook for a Small Business
Andrew Youderian • April 12, 2018
The dreaded employee handbook. It’s one thing to figure out how to write an employee handbook for a small business, but it’s another to try and guess how to make sure your employees will actually read it.…
Read More 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab-Based Navigation Scripts
One of the most vital tasks of a user experience designer is to make sure that the website’s navigation is simple and user-friendly. And what other way to make this possible than through navigation tabs.…
Read More 7 Top UX/UI Tools in 2018 You Can Use
It takes more than a structured layout and beautiful imagery to engage a website’s visitors. Although the quality of design is all important, enough attention is not always paid to a site’s UI and UX.…
Read More How to Have Different Sidebar Content On Different Pages of Your WordPress Site
Updated: April 2018
Not all WordPress themes provide a way to have totally different sidebar content on different pages of your site. Some may provide a little flexibility with, for example a sidebar for the blog and a different sidebar for static pages, but sometimes you need more comprehensive control.…
Read More 7 Simple WordPress Performance Test Best Practices
These days it seems most WordPress users are aware of the need for speed on their websites: conversions, SEO, user experience etc. I won’t recycle all the usual stats here 😉
Maybe you’ve read some articles and seen that you need to speed test your site.…
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Read More Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (March 2018)
PHP, despite the misconception and the look down, is up to this date remains one the most popular choice of developers for building web applications. And since PHP 7 has been introduced, the PHP language has brought a breakthrough on the speed factor.…
Read More No Bullsh*t Job Ads: Our Favorite Creative Job Description Examples
“We’re two introvert misfits who who hated working for other people enough to start our own business, all in service of the pipe dream that one day we could be left the hell alone all day, every day to make jokes about existentialism and cats.”…
Read More Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (February 2018)
Having been covering this series for years, I have witnessed tools come and go. A couple of new tools are released almost every week. However, in the last few weeks I think it’s getting slowed down a bit, it took me a little longer than usual to dig down to Github and other sources to find new tools that are free, open-source, and worth mentioning on this series.…
Read More 20+ Top Free UI Kits for 2018 (Bootstrap and WordPress-Friendly)
There are many ways to customize a website and tweak it to look like you originally imagined. In today’s business market, there’s no place for settling for the second best.…
Read More 8 Website and Page Building Tools for 2018
Finding the “best” of anything is not always an easy task, and when you do, it’s only natural to expect to pay a hefty price. This is also true with respect to website and page-building tools.…
Read More Hosting Recommendations for your WordPress Site
There is an overwhelming choice of web hosts these days and it can be hard to determine which would be a good fit. A Google search will reveal many blog posts on the subject which are really are just a roundup of that blog’s sub-par affiliates that haven’t been vetted for quality.…
Read More Designing For Trust: How to Add Elements of Trust to Your Layouts
Trust is hard to build yet necessary for any great website. If you can’t generate trust with your readers then why would they come back to your site?…
Read More Style Your Own Checkbox Animation Effects with Checkbox.css
In a recent post, I covered a fun animation library for custom radio buttons, powered by CSS.
That free library was released by 720kb and quickly saw a follow-up alternative called Checkbox.css.…
Read More Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (January 2018)
The new year 2018 is here. If we look at the progress in web development five years ago, it’s totally different from what we have today.…
Read More Which Speed Testing Tool Should You Use For Your WordPress Site?
Measuring the loading time of your WordPress site is obviously a critical step in optimizing for speed. You have to be able to find where the bottlenecks are and where you can achieve the easiest and biggest performance “wins”.…
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