In an increasingly competitive market, every freelancer and agency needs a way to stand out from the crowd. One of the simplest options is to commit to only ever working with quality assets; not least high-quality stock images. Quality stock images help your design stand out by reducing the high cost of art direction. Stock images can be used for banners, background images, to add a human touch to otherwise impersonal user experiences; often,...

Laura Worthington is one of the new generation of type designers who are rewriting the rules of type foundries. Her beautiful lettering and professionally crafted fonts have made her one of the most popular type designers working today. One of her best-known, and most-loved type families is Samantha, a bright and cheery font family based on slick pen lettering. The consistent rhythm and the open shapes create a surprisingly readable font...

One of the must-have technologies for sites in 2019 will be geolocation. Not only does geolocation help with security, and legal compliance, but it also improves customer experience—one of the key metrics in turning a profit online. Geolocation has a number of core benefits for businesses but the real benefit is in personalized content. Transforming an anonymous visit into a lasting customer relationship is the aim of all good sites,...

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?...

There’s never a shortage of good deals to be found on a Cyber Monday, and this year is no different. Still, you usually have to do your share of searching to uncover some really great deals. This little gem easily qualifies as the #1 Cyber Monday deal for designers and developers. It’s offered by Elegant Themes, the creators of the world’s most highly regarded premium WordPress theme – Divi. Elegant Theme’s offer? 25% off on their Developer...

Halting climate change; distributing wealth around the globe; achieving social, racial, sexual, and gender equality; ending violence; there are so many challenges in today’s world. The web can be an incredible vehicle for change, and Adobe are lending a helping hand with an incredible, free UI kit for Adobe XD. The UI kit has been created by Florida-based designer, Meagan Fisher. Her goal was to help non-profits publish better websites;...

Few of the current crop of page builders are as simple as Mozello. You don’t need any previous experience, Mozello takes care of everything for you. Just run through the quick set-up and you’ll have a working website, online, in minutes. Mozello is a surprisingly easy-to-use platform that offers you the opportunity to create a personal or business site, with no design or code knowledge. But where it really excels is in lowering the entry-level...

There’s little doubt that WordPress is one of the biggest web technologies in the world, powering around a third of the web, and growing all the time. Until recently WordPress was only for the initiated, those developers who’d spent years learning how to dig into the source code and tinker, without breaking their whole site. In the last few years WordPress has been revolutionized by the introduction of page builders, applications that...

Placeit offers thousands of smart templates which you can customize by simply clicking a few options, while still keeping a professional layout. You won’t have to worry about resolution, dimensions or proportions. We promise your designs will always look sharp since there’s no way you can mess it up. The Brilliance of Web Designing 1. It’s as Easy as Breathing Anyone can design, even you. Yes, you! Don't trust us? Give it a try. 2. It’s...

The market is overcrowded with web tools and services, today it’s easy to launch your own product and everybody is playing the game. It’s good to have competition but some of these solutions are far from being excellent in terms of functionality, safety, and support, but the pricing is the same as premium solutions, so it’s hard to judge which to use. Testing them all, and picking the best takes time and money. That’s why we’ve handpicked...

Crello is an innovative design tool from Depositphotos that’s simple to pick up and use, and outputs high-quality results. In an increasingly saturated design tool market, it could be the best tool you’ve never tried. Now, after the popularity of Crello, Depositphotos are releasing Crello Animation Maker. A brand new set of features that enable anyone to convert design assets into engaging animation for the web, in just a few clicks....

YOOtheme Pro is a premium site builder from YOOtheme. The culmination of over a decade of design and development for WordPress and Joomla, it’s a professional-grade solution for creating and managing beautiful websites. Every client loves the power of a content management system, but not all clients have the same needs, challenges, or priorities. YOOtheme Pro is one of only a handful of solutions that embraces both WordPress, and Joomla,...

It’s been just three years since Adobe unveiled Adobe Stock, and in that time the service has grown from 40 million photos and vectors, to over 90 million assets ranging from professional photographs, to high-quality 3D files; that’s over 45,000 new assets uploaded every day. The bitmaps, vectors, videos, 3D models, and design templates offer both designers and businesses a simple way of employing art-direction as a sales tool, without...

The best format for images on the web in 2018 is SVG. Not only is SVG resolution-independent—meaning that SVG graphics stay crisp at any size, on any device—but SVG file sizes are smaller than other competing formats. One of the most popular features of SVG is the ability to access parts of the graphic with code, and use CSS to change properties like fill color. But did you know that you can also embed animation code in an SVG file? Animating...