Category: Website Design
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Web Developer Security Checklist
This checklist is simple, and by no means complete. I’ve been developing secure web applications for over 14 years and this list contains some of the more important issues that I’ve painfully learned over this period. I hope you will consider them seriously when creating a web application. […] Read more
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Freebies for the Web Designers
Freebies Orbita Orbita is a free admin panel UI kit that will make your projects easier. 45 Free UI Icons Here is a free set of 45 UI icons to use in your design projects. Odibee Sans Font If you need a stylish font for your creative work, look no further. This odibee sans font is…
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30+ Free High Quality WordPress Themes Worth Checking Out in 2017
When I first started working with WordPress many years ago, themes in the WordPress Theme Directory were “okay.” That is to say, they weren’t great but they did the job well until it was time to get serious and buy a premium theme. But times, they are a-changin’. Theme […] Read more
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A Comprehensive Guide to Learning PHP for WordPress Development
So you have a WordPress website and you’ve tweaked your theme, read a bit about template tags, and perhaps even modified your functions.php file in the built-in theme editor. And now you want to it your skills to the next level and delve into more code. Luckily, WordPress is a great place to start. There…
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Think you are a WordPress genius? Test here
Are you a Regular Joe, a Code Norris or something in between? Leveling up your skills means pushing WordPress beyond its basic default settings. And you know what? Once you get started exploring WordPress’ advanced features, it’s hard to stop! Here are some of our favorite blog posts to help you get started. The WordPress configuration…
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Taking a look at Web Design Trends 2016
Designing a website and designing a great website are two different things. Indeed, in the age of step-by-step wizards and and WYSIWYG web designing tools, creating a website and going online is no more a daunting challenge. What is a daunting challenge, however, is making a great website. Great doesn’t necessarily mean just good looking with…
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11 Best and Free quality plugins to backup your WordPress websites
Regularly backing up your website is one of the most important things you can do to guard against losing all your data. After all, no one plans to be hacked or for their server to crash. Fortunately, there are plenty of excellent, not to mention free, WordPress plugins available that will back up your posts,…
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Responsive design no longer optional in WordPress – What Next?
In a nutshell, CSS grids provide a quick way to scaffold a site. You know all those floats and absolute and fixed positioning properties we’ve been using? Yeah, those are becoming outdated as CSS evolves. CSS3 grids make creating and changing sites a snap. In today’s post, I’ll show you how they work, why you…
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Top 101 Cool Websites: What’s Interesting So Far In 2014
2014 has been an extremely productive year so far, providing us with tons of awesome services and exiting cool websites. On this blog post we are happy to share the very best of the sites that we have reviewed this year on our Weekly Faves project. Whether it’s a useful internet tool, a new video…
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5 Key Principles Of Good Website Usability
Over the past few years, we have gotten used to certain standards in web design. In order to make a lasting impression on your visitors, you need to build experiences that go beyond those of a plain, usable website. This does not mean usability has become any less important. It just takes on a different…
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9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design
Web design can be deceptively difficult, as it involves achieving a design that is both usable and pleasing, delivers information and builds brand, is technically sound and visually coherent. Add to this the fact that many Web designers (myself included) are self-taught, that Web design is still novel enough to be only a side subject…
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7 Key Principles That Make A Web Design Look Good
So what makes something pretty? It is not Flash. Not to say that Flash has no merit, but Flash alone doesn’t make a design good; some nasty Flash websites are out there. Also, one doesn’t have to be a great illustrator to make appealing designs. Instead, look at Web design as a symbiosis of different…
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10 design concepts that every web developer needs to know
Over the last few years I’ve been teaching a workshop on visual design basics aimed at developers. As with most things on the web, I’ve found a diverse level of design knowledge and interest from both the students who’ve taken my workshop, as well as from the developers I’ve worked with.
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Web Design Principles You Should Know
The design of your website is more important for conversions than you think. You can implement any conversion boosting tactic in the world, but if it looks like crap, it won’t do you much good.