Create Beautiful WordPress Pages with Optimized Images Using Elementor and ImageEngine

WordPress powers nearly 40% of all websites, thanks to its commitment to making publication possible for everyone, for…

How To Power Through Designer Apathy

Sometimes you just don’t give a damn anymore. Possibly the only thing worse than designer’s block is designer’s apathy:…

3 Essential Design Trends, May 2021

Spring and fresh designs are in the air. This month, it’s obvious that designers are feeling creative with new and…

Quiz: Who Designed That Font?

We’re rounding up the week with a fun quiz for anyone who loves fonts. You’ve seen these typefaces used in hundreds of…

Poll: Is Basecamp Right To Shutdown Politics At Work?

This week, in a move like something from a particularly eventful episode of The Office, popular project management app…

10 Elements of Landing Pages That Convert

Landing pages are central to successful marketing campaigns; they allow you to target particular customers with…

20 Best New Websites, April 2021

This month’s collection contains a combination of big and bold, and clean and minimal. Although basic minimalism is…

Quiz: Which CSS Snippet Is The Fastest?

CSS is an awesome tool for styling websites. It’s small, fast, and easy to learn. But like all code, there’s a right…

3 Effective Ways To Improve Your Site’s Carbon Footprint

To mark Earth Day 2021, we’re looking at the ways you can reduce your site’s carbon footprint, while boosting…

What Is The Independent Web And Does It Matter In 2021?

Ten years ago, people began talking about the “Independent Web.” Although we don’t commonly use the term anymore, that…

25 Exciting New Tools For Designers, April 2021

Rather than spring cleaning, do some spring “shopping” for tools that will make your design life easier. Packed with…

Wix vs WordPress: 3rd Round Knockout

Over the last fortnight one site builder has gone toe-to-toe with another, as Wix launched a marketing campaign aimed…

Poll: Is Environmentally Conscious Web Design Really Worth It?

We’re no longer arguing about whether climate change exists because climate change is now extensively documented.…

9 Tips for Better Live Logo Design

Have you ever wondered why we’re so amazed by motion? A moving image is more likely to grab your attention than a…

Get Ready For Next Month’s Google Shakeup

With the update scheduled to roll out in May 2021, now is the time to make sure your websites are prepared for it. It’s…

Stark Launches Public Library For Accessibility

Inclusive design is all about designing sites with everyone in mind instead of designing for your own preferences. It’s…

Poll: Should You Fire Good Clients?

We all get excited about new projects; we're daydreaming about possibilities from the first contact with a potential…

7 Skills You Need To Thrive As A Web Designer In 2021

Web design is an ever-evolving field. Those of us that have been in the industry a long time (i.e., six months plus)…

3 Essential Design Trends, April 2021

The best thing about writing about website design trends each month is looking at all the great sites that are being…

Key and Surface Tracking Comes to Chrome

This week Google announced further details of its plan to remove cookies from ad tracking. The strategy, which the ad…

15 Useful Tools & Resources Worth Checking Out

As a web designer, you face plenty of challenges, both good and bad. One of the bad ones is to suddenly find out that…

The Most Comprehensive Grammarly Review Ever

Who is Grammarly for? Can a grammar checking tool like Grammarly replace a human editor and proofreader? Is the…

Quiz: How Much Do You Know About SEO?

For many, SEO is more of an art than a science, a mysterious process in which a tiny tweak to a site’s code can propel…

ITF Launches Free Font Service Fontshare

ITF (the Indian Type Foundry) has launched a brand new font service to bring beautiful typography to every business for…