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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...

Designing the best user flow for your product is definitely not an easy task. It requires several iterations before getting it right. Creating and updating user flow diagrams has largely been considered a painful process for designers, with many of them skipping it entirely because of this. Presenting user flows to stakeholders and actually getting them to understand and follow the user’s journey might actually be the most challenging...

Elementor 2.0 is an innovative approach to site building in WordPress that lets you customize any part of your site, with absolutely zero coding knowledge. A plugin rather than a theme, this flexible approach means that you can use Elementor 2.0 to manage your site design, and unlike some WordPress site builders, you won’t be tied to a particular theme; Elementor 2.0 works with almost any WordPress theme from any vendor, as well as custom...

Wix Code is a powerful new tool from cloud-based site builder Wix, released in December 2017. Using Wix Code you can build scaleable applications and webpages. Pages can even pull data from the built-in database collections, to be fully dynamic. Plus you can add JavaScript to customise your front-end entirely. Wix Code gives designers the kind of granular control that until now has been out of reach without hiring a developer to script a bespoke...

The holy grail of web development is personalized content; meaning that instead of publishing a generic, one-size-fits-all website, you deliver a bespoke experience to each and every user. Personalized content, and the bespoke user experiences it enables, means that instead of peddling marketing, you’re building relationships; your users become long-term customers, and even advocates for your brand. On a web with a new-found obsession...

When you build a site, you need to start with the user experience (UX) and work backwards. Even before you write a single line of code, you’ll need to know who the users you’re writing that code for are, as well as what the client’s objective experience is for those users. Who Are Our Users? That is the first question developers at Incapsula asked themselves when redesigning controls on its dashboard. In its case, developers chose to differentiate...

Properly protecting the security of your website has to be number 1 on everybody’s digital checklist. Unfortunately, security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain, and that weakest link is usually your password. It’s a fact of digital life, that thanks to the vast number of logins we have to recall, most people use a variation on their “master” password: using “passwordLI” for LinkedIn, “passwordE” for email,...

What kind of website would you create if you had total creative freedom online? If you had the same kind of comfort level that you have in your sketchbook? If you weren’t hampered by inflexible design tools, and code you don’t understand? That’s the freedom that Wix gives you. The freedom to tell your story online exactly the way you envisioned it. Wix is the most advanced website builder available. With hundreds of design features, you...

‘Tis the season of peace and goodwill to all people, and to celebrate we’ve got an early Christmas gift for you: Storyblocks is giving everyone in the WebdesignerDepot community 140 downloads, absolutely free! The Storyblocks library has over 400,000 stock photos, vectors, icons, backgrounds, and more for you to choose from. Whether you fancy a shiny new icon set for the New Year, or perhaps you’re putting the finishing touches on...

Professionals often interpret things differently: a common problem when a marketer sets a brief for a designer without clear instructions, is the designer has to redo the project countless times until they are both satisfied with the final result. Sometimes the task can be trivial, so much so that it’s quicker and easier for marketers to do it themselves. But what if they have no knowledge of design? What if they know nothing about type, color,...