Articles for December 2018

If you’re familiar with Visual Composer, you may have witnessed a few big changes going on. First, we changed the name of our Visual Composer Page Builder to WP Bakery. Then we launched a new product that’s called Visual Composer Website Builder. And you’re probably wondering… “What is going on? Which one is which?” Is the Visual Composer Website Builder the same as the old Visual Composer? Is it a 2.0? Is WP Bakery a new product?...

Happy holidays! This collection of new tools and resources is our gift to you this season. And there are plenty of holiday-themed elements sprinkled in. Enjoy! If we’ve missed something that you think should have been on the list, let us know in the comments. And if you know of a new app or resource that should be featured next month, tweet it to @carriecousins to be considered! Humaaans Humaaans is a design kit packed with illustrations of people...

Emojious is an innovative icon set that collects more than 3000 icons, each with a smile, making it the first, quirky and eye-catching five-star product. Download for free 100 icons below and check here the pro version.  Files formats: AI, PNG, SVG, PSD and Sketch. Free for personal and commercial use! ...

Borsok, from Dastan Miraj, is a bold & smooth display font with multilingual support. It is perfect for branding, apparel design, product packaging, stylish text, quotes, greeting cards, posters and much more. It includes uppercase & lowercase characters, numerals, punctuation & symbols. Free for personal and commercial use! ...

Primus, from Artegra, has been designed to express the feelings of future, science and innovativeness while being simple and clean. It’s a geometric typeface with rounded edges, carefully designed and kerned to achieve a high visual quality that would make it a perfect typeface for any kind of use. While providing a clean and enjoyable reading when it’s used for text purposes, Primus is primarily effective as a display typeface that...

Created by Azer Nesib, Halfomania is a futuristic sans serif font. It is perfect for eye-catching logos, headlines, posters, titles and so much more! Free for personal and commercial use! ...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. Note...

Instagram truly is the social media platform of this decade. It has exploded in popularity and seen massive growth. Instagram has become a social media platform for the masses, and for all types of purposes. From billion dollar companies like Snickers, to influencers, to freelancers. Instagram has one thing that everyone, no matter what they wish to achieve wants, and that is people’s attention. In order to do anything, whether it is to...

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” (Maya Angelou) Today when we think about what product we want to use, we have a lot of options to choose from. But there’s one thing that plays a crucial role in this decisions making process: emotions. Humans are emotion-driven species. We evaluate products not only based on utility but also on the feelings they evoke....

Time to add some real color to your holiday plans! With this amazing set from iconscout, you’ll get 32 Christmas icons to play around with. Delivered as .svg, .png, eps and .ai , you’ll have everything you need to make this holiday a truly holly jolly one. Check here the license (the regular license).     ...

Designed by Teks Mobile, these screens illustrate the error messages displayed to users - depending on the precise nature of each problem. The examples of error illustrations have been taken from Teks Mobile's latest iOS application. Free for personal use! ...

If you're looking for that perfect signature and quote font, take a look at Alessandria Signature. Designed by Studio AKTYPE, this classy font is loaded with style and it's the perfect font choice for watermarks, signatures, photography, logos, business cards. Free for personal use! For the commercial use please check here.     ...

Some logos are just more mature than others. And with this free pack created by Denys Holovatiuk, you'll be able to show your clients that you truly mean business! Fully customizable - change up text, color and details with original EPS files. Free for personal and commercial use! ...

SEO is a complex matter and one that web designers and developers might feel is best left to copywriters and search professionals to handle. That makes sense since many common SEO hacks revolve around the manipulation of content and the tagging of it for search. Here’s the thing though: there are certain choices you make as a web designer that ultimately affect the search-friendliness of your website. Which means you should be involved in...