The most important thing you can establish as a modern business owner is your online presence. As our society progresses and becomes more advanced, our reliance on digital technology follows suit. Most people in the UK have a social media account; many of them check it daily. Are you utilising these platforms to optimise your … Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Strategy →

Traffic –  Quality (visitors who are genuinely interested in your services / products)

If you are doing Facebook ads and Google ads the job of the ad is to ✅ “Get the click”.  

Creating a beautiful, functional website isn’t always enough to attract visitors and acquire traffic. Without a proper and strategic marketing plan in place, for perfectly designed website.

Creating a beautiful, functional website isn’t always enough to attract visitors and acquire traffic. Without a proper and strategic marketing plan in place, for perfectly designed website.

Search engine optimization has become a necessity for websites that need to increase online exposure and attract more visitors that eventually convert to leads and sales. It is a powerful tool that, when done right, can perform wonders to your website and business.

How to check your competitor inbound links, so that you can overtake your competitor on the search engines rankings.

Voice search is no longer an unachievable dream. Its popularity can be largely attributed to the convenience and ease of usage it comes with. Today, a user can just easily speak into their device and have it perform tasks, instead of typing.

This article shall consider some of the most persistently pressing questions of website owners in regards to Mobile First Indexing and its usefulness to businesses, especially small businesses.

This article brings you with 3 useful tips on how to get more followers on Instagram. Do enjoy the read as you learn about new strategies to give your Instagram account a boost

Local SEO is a constructive way to increase your phone calls and leads for your business products and services.

Local SEO is a constructive way to increase your phone calls and leads for your business products and services.

Local SEO is a constructive way to increase your phone calls and leads for your business products and services.

Gain new leads, lower your costs, and close more sales by harnessing the power of marketing automation. If you would like to learn more on how Infusionsoft can help with marketing automation, please get in touch.   Not sure where to begin when it comes to Automation or email campaigns? Or want to talk about … Continue reading We are now an official certified partner →

Christmas may be less than a week away, but in marketing terms, that’s a [campaign] lifetime! If you’ve not already got your Christmas marketing activities running, it’s easy to think you’ve missed the boat, but here are three sure-fire ways to put together a last-minute Christmas campaign that can lift awareness and drives sales over … Continue reading 3 Last-Minute Christmas Campaign Ideas That Work →

Oneclick Media Services is proud to announce the launch of Budak London, the brand new website for the newly launched bespoke furniture brand. The website incorporates the full furniture range together with a large gallery of product images. At the core of Budak London is a passion to create bespoke furniture that can transform a room, … Continue reading Budak London Launches New Designed Website →

Recent stories in the news haven’t been so kind to Facebook, or more specifically, it’s advertising platform. With over 10 years of data on over 2 billion monthly users, Facebook Ads offer unrivaled customer targeting second to none. Reality is that for the most part, Facebook Ads are a safe and streamlined way for businesses … Continue reading Facebook Ads: An Introduction →

Oneclick MS recently completed an exciting new project for Travel Jab, a ground-breaking new online directory of qualified travel vaccination practitioners.

Five incredibly useful ways you can use Google Analytics to learn more about your customers and the effectiveness of your marketing.

The key to great content is getting it seen – and with nearly 2 billion users, Facebook is one of the most valuable platforms for getting your content out there. However, we’ve recently seen too many articles and videos being blindly posted without Facebook shareability in mind, so have put together this easy checklist! Know … Continue reading How To Make Your Content More Shareable On Facebook →

With the rise of social media, online review sites and price comparison sites, it’s easy to think the role of an official website for a hotel has been somewhat diminished. After all, customers can readily access up to date information about a hotel from a Facebook page, they can see whether the hotel is any … Continue reading Why Websites Matters More Than Ever For Independent Hotels →

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP for short) were the biggest and most adopted design trend in 2016, with hundreds of news and media outlets adopting the platform, and WordPress and other CMS platforms joining the project. However, AMP is still a mystery to many web users – and webmasters! In this article, we demystify the Accelerated … Continue reading Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Explained →

Website design and development is ever-changing. As people’s tastes and attitudes change, so do their expectations, wants and needs from a website. In our latest feature, we take a closer look at some of the trends we expect to see dominating web design for the rest of the year, and the influences behind them: Minimal … Continue reading 4 Web Design Trends To Look Out For In 2017 →

Small business mobile apps are set to surge in adoption in 2017. If you haven’t already considered building your own mobile app, chances are your competitors have, with nearly 50% off all SMBs expected to have a mobile application in 2017. Market forces have driven this shift. Customers expect the stores they shop at and … Continue reading 3 Reasons To Go Bespoke With Your Mobile App →

Click here to see the full article Having a website for your small business is essential. However, keep in mind that “Bad sites – ones full of mistakes – are almost as damaging as having no site whatsoever.” There are number of errors you can fall into when crafting your website. You could have a … Continue reading What You Need to Know Before Building Your Small Business Website →

Click here to see the full article UX, or user experience, is moving to the forefront of considerations for modern web designers. A great user experience can make or break your company’s app or website. In fact, it can mean the difference between a visitor and a customer. In today’s digital world, businesses must ensure … Continue reading Improve Your UX with These Easy Tips →

Branding a product or service that’s less than sexy has its challenges. Things like banking and health insurance rarely make the heart sing.

Branding a product or service that’s less than sexy has its challenges. Things like banking and health insurance rarely make the heart sing.

We would like to congratulate Impeccable Wears for winning the award of “Best Groomswear Retailer”.

Still a hot technique in web design, parallax scrolling can backfire if overused. Here’s how to do it right.

How, then, do you keep your wits about you when performing soul-sucking tasks? Is it a matter of living in some sort of fantasy world or simply acknowledging the reality? Let’s look at some ways to stay on top of your game, even when you’re less-than-thrilled.

If you are looking for a job or a web design gig, you know that your web design portfolio is the best tool you’ve got to prove how good you are.

Prototyping in the Browser: Tips and Tools for Designers

3 simple ways to speed up your website

The 5 biggest mistakes that junior designers make

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite fonts – today it’s MOMOBO.

DESIGNING THE PERFECT NOTIFICATION UX

Is no design the new design?

From bespoke agency sites to online shops, you’ll find tons of web design inspiration in these great examples of CSS.

Be a better designer by designing less

Here’s what’s trending in design this month

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite fonts – today it’s Flex Display.

These principles cover not only design aspects such as landing page design but also general workflow issues that will get the job nicely done. Follow them and you’ll soon be on your way to creating professional website layouts.

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite fonts – today it’s Elianto.

The Beginner’s Guide to Small Business Website Hosting

We have gathered a few tips and tricks that could really make a difference as you move forward with your next few images.

Give your typography projects an air of sophistication with these beautiful professional fonts.

Ground-breaking file compression, jQuery 3.0, and a tool that makes a website from your Dropbox folder – just some of June’s highlights.

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite fonts – today it’s Dekar.

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite fonts – today it’s Moon.

From grid theory to the Golden Ratio, there are a set of fundamental principles that are passed down from generation to generation of designers. Every good designer should know them, and any decent design course or instructional book will cover them.

From grid theory to the Golden Ratio, there are a set of fundamental principles that are passed down from generation to generation of designers. Every good designer should know them, and any decent design course or instructional book will cover them.

To help the millions of broke college students out, we’ve compiled a list of some of the top tech-related student discounts from a variety of vendors. Most apply to those enrolled in post-secondary education although a handful of deals also extend to K-12 students.

Designer and illustrator Darius Dan shares with us a set of free, high quality, downloadable icons selected from Swifticons. This editable selection includes sets of colored, filled, flat and outlined styles available for personal and commercial use.

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite fonts – today it’s Phenomena.

The company has also updated its Gear Fit2 with GPS and heart-rate monitoring. Samsung has launched a new fitness-aimed tracker, with a giant screen, and a set of small wireless earbuds. Both the Gear Fit2 and the Gear IconX, which the company says will be available in June and July, have been designed as devices … Continue reading Samsung launches tiny wireless Gear IconX exercise headphones →

Click here for Full Article and Credit The Ridley Scott film Blade Runner, begins in Los Angeles 2019, a future where our protagonist Deckard is a policeman who hunts down replicants. In 2015 engineers are attempting to make devices that make you feel like you’re in another dimension, similarly, we as creators of content, make an … Continue reading Do Websites Dream of Virtual Reality? →

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite FREE fonts – today it’s The Constellation of Heracles (by Maelle.K & Thomas Boucherie)

In a web-world filled by heavy images and fancy animations, speed, loading times and javascript loading order are nowadays very important for both your users and Mr. Google. If you submit your WordPress installation to Google for a speed test, it’s very likely that you’ll be prompted with a request to defer Javascript execution, and if you are … Continue reading WordPress: Load the Javascript in the footer →

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite FREE fonts – today it’s The Constellation of Heracles (by Maelle.K & Thomas Boucherie)

Fantastic showcase of 20 animated icons Very easy to use, just download the images place the image into the web page, and you are ready to go.  They have a fantastic browser support because they work like images, you can use them in websites, presentations emails and more. Click here to download them via Animaticons. … Continue reading Download Free 20 Animated Icons, by Animaticons →

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite FREE fonts – today it’s The Constellation of Heracles (by Maelle.K & Thomas Boucherie)

From our initial consultation with The Olde Bell management team, we had realised that the product, the history, the operations, customer service, were on par with 5 star hotels.

Four Seasons web designers and marketers have put a lot of effort into the home page design.

Google has a new logo.

The new brand image for the company is a simplified, rounded typeface that keeps the same colour palette as the most recent logo but reduces its complexity.

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite FREE fonts – today it’s The Constellation of Heracles (by Maelle.K & Thomas Boucherie)

Once a week we showcase one of our favourite fonts – today it’s BELLADONA by Tano Veron.

Does Photoshop crash a lot for you?

Each day of the week we showcase one of our favourite fonts – today it’s Built Titling by Typodermic Fonts.

Be more creative in a nice working environment

It’s a lament you not infrequently hear that the web’s capabilities move forward at a glacial pace, while those of native platforms surge ahead in leaps and bounds.

It’s a lament you not infrequently hear that the web’s capabilities move forward at a glacial pace, while those of native platforms surge ahead in leaps and bounds.

We’re huge fans of typography and are always on the hunt for new and exciting typefaces, whether free fonts or the very best fonts worth shelling out for. So, if you’re in need of a font for your current project or are building up a collection, we may be able to help out. Every day, … Continue reading Font of the day: Aquatico →

Get access to over 5,000 informative courses from Train Simple, available for over 80% off. When we need to get work done, we turn to the programs in Adobe’s creative suite. If you get the feeling you could be getting so much more out of your Adobe products, then you’ll love learning with Adobe Authorized … Continue reading Learn Adobe Creative Suite with a lifetime of training videos →

Having an attractive restaurant, cafe or bar website nowadays is vital to increase your customers and business growth. A non professional site could make you lose potential clients which lead to a loss of opportunities and money. Here at Oneclick media services we have created a solution which we are showcasing. Here is our example of a restaurant … Continue reading Showcase: Sapore restaurant responsive design →

How to make the shift from cash to digital currencies. Most of us pay online with credit cards, stored credit and more. Ecommerce is a gazillion-euro (pound, rouble, yen … ) industry. Many people don’t use cash, and increasingly merchants don’t accept it. The world is online. So what problems can W3C’s Web Payment group … Continue reading 5 top tips for adding online payments to your site →

This free guide explores how to use space, aesthetic ratios, and the minimalist style correctly in web UI design. The Zen of White Space in Web UI design: Space, Ratios, Minimalism by UXPin explores the art of turning nothing into something. With the growing popularity of flat design and minimalist styles, white space – or … Continue reading Free e-book on white space, ratios and minimalism →

Type Case is a new app that allows you to test out stray fonts before installing them. Finding the perfect font for your project is a crucial part of any design process, with the right one being practical as well as setting off the overall look. However, tracking down typography can be a task in … Continue reading New app makes it easy to preview fonts →

Each day of the week we showcase one of our favourite fonts – today it’s Transandina by Fernando Díaz. We’re huge fans of typography and are always on the hunt for new and exciting typefaces, whether free fonts or the very best fonts worth shelling out for. So, if you’re in need of a font … Continue reading Font of the day: Trasandina →

Designing for ecommerce is no longer just about buying online, says Gavin Ray. Gavin Ray “The high street is dead,” the critics proclaim. Mary Portas walks down the empty street like Will Smith in I Am legend; a post-apocalyptic nightmare with boarded up shops and tumbleweed drifting slowly along in the wind. There’s no one … Continue reading How ecommerce can help drive physical shop sales →

Yesterday, Christophe Tauziet, a product designer at Facebook, shared a shot of the new Facebook logo. Reportedly designed by Facebook’s in-house team in collaboration with Eric Olson — the designer of Klavika, on which the original Facebook logo was based — the general reaction has so far been negative. Some commenters have suggested that the logo … Continue reading FACEBOOK REVEALS NEW LOGO →

The changed interface known as Modern UI, the decision to discard the “Start” menu and numerous other gaffes and blunders in Windows 8 has earned itself the record of being the Windows version with the slowest adoption rate in its history. So it’s all eyes on Windows 10 to take back some of the glory … Continue reading 10 New Features Coming to Windows 10 →

Create amazing images and designs with this selection of the most creative, useful, and time-saving Photoshop plugins available. In this article we’ve lined up some of the best Photoshop plugins available for Adobe Creative Cloud‘s photo editing giant. Photoshop is an amazing tool – capable of producing sublime images, high-quality video and even create very … Continue reading 14 very useful Photoshop plugins →

ReactJS-powered platform generates beautiful email campaigns that adapt to devices, screen sizes and email clients. Getting email newsletters to display correctly across the ever-expanding plethora of device-client combinations has been a major headache for some time now, but fortunately tools to solve this problem are starting to pop up. Passport, a new email-building platform from … Continue reading New tool helps creating responsive emails easily →

All you need to know about Artboards and more… The recent release of Photoshop CC 2015 included a slew of new features aimed at doubling-down Adobe’s hand in the screen design space. Essentially an ode to the screen designer, there’s quite a few updates that are going to make life a whole lot easier for … Continue reading What Photoshop's CC 2015 update means for screen designers →

Whether you’re a beginner or expert when it comes to building and working with websites, WordPress is a great option as a framework and content management system. Pair it with a great theme and you can get a site up and running in to time with a level of customization that works for your project. … Continue reading Power-Up WordPress With the Bridge Multi-Purpose Theme →

The Elegance of Minimalism, a free ebook in UXPin‘sfree design library, deconstructs the techniques behind some of the most effective minimalist design on the web. Teaching with 28 hand-picked examples, the book is written in a practical format that focuses on real-world application.   Minimalism in web design is more than just a stripped down aesthetic … Continue reading Free ebook on minimalism in web design →

We are very happy to announce the official launch of our latest project: Design2Deliver‘s Website. Please check the details on our Portfolio!

We know how annoying is when you place a nice full width map on your Wordpress website. It looks nice for sure, but a very common problem comes up when it’s time to scroll down with your mousewheel or fingers.

A new logo for our lovely customers at Smartebike has been added to our portfolio.   Click here to view Smartebike’s logo on our portfolio      

As reported by Envato, the main market for Wordpress plugins and themes, there is an XSS vulnerability affecting multiple WordPress plugins and themes. The vulnerability is caused by a common code pattern used in WordPress plugins and themes available from ThemeForest and CodeCanyon, the wordpress.org website and other sources.

Finchley based Monica Daswani is holistic health practitioner for over 14 years, required a modern website, that would display correctly on mobile, tablet and desktop, and to provide confidence to the potential customers. The website has a content management system allowing Monica to update the website. Make sure you check out their brand new responsive … Continue reading New website launched for North London Acupuncture. →

Charles Marfleet describes how to make your business thrive in the era of multi-screen browsing. In order to succeed in the digital age, businesses must cater to an increasingly mobile audience: building a ‘one size fits all’ website is no longer an option. Having a site that forces people to scroll and zoom through pages … Continue reading How to optimise a website for multi-device browsing →

Dawson has been manufacturing products for the satellite communications market for over eighteen years. They required an modern engaging design, ready for mobile, tablet and desktop with a content management system. Make sure you check out their brand new responsive website. http://www.dawson-dynamic.com

Changes to Google search algorithm are coming and starting from April 21, Google will start ranking those websites higher in search results that are “mobile-friendly”. Google announced this news in its official blog, “Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in … Continue reading Google will Begin Ranking Mobile-Friendly Sites higher in Search Results →

Here is a font we came across that is modern and striking. Click on the image below to download the font : Source Thanks to Fabien Despinoy

article by: tutsplus.com   So, you’re thinking of running an Adwords campaign to pull in new customers? Adwords can propel your business onto the front page of Google’s search results. That’s huge for your visibility, and is something that would otherwise be difficult to obtain without spending months or years on SEO and content marketing. Why doesn’t everyone … Continue reading How to Choose Keywords for Your Adwords Campaign →

Christmas is only a month away, and it’s time to add a few festive icons to your projects, or just freshen up your good ‘ol Christmas cards which you may be planning to give out to your family, friends, colleagues, and perhaps even strangers. Today, we are happy to show you the Christmas Icon Set, a … Continue reading Freebie: Christmas Icon Set →

Scott Jenson explains how smart devices can wirelessly broadcast URLs to nearby devices, bringing the web into the real world.

Good landing pages are designed to focus attention towards visitors engaging in one action. A landing page could be designed to convert traffic into sales, gather new enquiries, gain social media followers or email sign-ups. It sounds easy enough, but all too often companies don’t spend enough time and money on creating outstanding landing pages … Continue reading Why your Website needs a Landing Page →

Eric Brown from eukhost, provides factors that you need to be aware of while developing an effective website. It is very easy to get a website or develop one for yourself. One can easily create a technically effective website and call it a day. However, when it comes to making a website which is effective … Continue reading The Basics of having an Awesome Website →

Egle Karalyte of “My Visual Brief” provides a handy checklist to make your website visitors stay longer. However visitors arrive on your website, and whatever page they land on, they’re usually going to make their way to the homepage to find out what it’s all about. So the homepage page needs to introduce your product or … Continue reading 6 questions every homepage should answer →

Stuck in a design rut? Rob O’Connor of Stylorouge offers his tips to help unblock your imagination. Stuck for design inspiration? Can’t get started on a project or still looking for a suitable angle? Struggling to overcome creative block? Don’t feel bad: it happens to the best of us. You just need a way to … Continue reading 10 best ways to brainstorm creative ideas →

What do you do when clients won’t stop asking for revisions? Egle Karalyte, founder of My Visual Brief, has some advice.   As a designer, you’ve probably had the experience of working with a client who repeatedly asks for revisions with no end in sight. It’s frustrating, right? You want to keep the client happy … Continue reading 11 ways to stop clients asking for endless revisions →

From WordPress.org: WordPress 4.0 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing. This is software still in development, so we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site. To get the beta, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

With a little help from the latest Bluetooth beacon technology, you can now pay for stuff using your beer bottle.   [av_video src=’http://vimeo.com/101633126′ format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′]

Mohave is a free font available here. The typeface was created by type designer Gumpita Rahayu. “Mohave is all caps display typefaces, built with smooth height and dynamic glyph,” he comments.  

What you write on Facebook or Twitter could land you in court.   There’s no escaping the power or reach of social media, as newspapers, magazines and books are steadily being replaced by digital content on iPads, Kindles and smartphones. As both consumers and professionals, we are never far away from a device connecting us … Continue reading The legal pitfalls of using social media →

The web is evolving quickly and design is not far behind. There have been lot of changes and new technologies have been introduced that completely alter our image of a website. Here we take a quick look at some of the growing trends in website design:

It’s easy to tumble into pitfalls when you’re starting out in web design. Learn what they are and how to avoid them. Experimenting and making mistakes is an important part of learning. Each year in my work as a university lecturer, I see new students making the same sorts of mistakes in their web design … Continue reading 7 web design mistakes every beginner makes →

A personal project, Hallo Sans is a free font created by graphic designer Fredrik Staurland. Based in Oslo, Staurland specialises in illustration, packaging design and typography, with Hallo Sans being a brilliant example of the latter. Download here  

Every trade journal and business site is abuzz with articles and blogs about Responsive Web Design (RWD). Consider the articles published during 2013, in a single day: Global e-retailer Modnique launched the Responsive Web Design (RWD) version of their website, optimizing for screen sizes as small as the iPhone, and as large as 36-inch monitors, to allow … Continue reading Responsive Web Design is Appropriate and Necessary for Every Business →

How do you make sure you get paid for your design work as a freelancer? Joel Hughes reveals all. Clients and pricing are two subjects very close to my heart – in fact, I talked about them at the Port80 webconference in Newport in May 2012. And let’s be clear here, I feel qualified to speak on … Continue reading Getting clients to pay: 10 tips for freelancers →

Have you had a client from hell? Then you might recognise some of these quotes. As a graphic designer – whether you work for a design agency or you’re on your own as a freelancer – you’re bound to come into contact with some pretty frustrating clients. Whilst there’s no easy way to escape clients from … Continue reading 19 things not to say to a graphic designer →

When building websites for children, there are a number of challenges to consider, says Olivia Dickinson. Every site needs to be designed with an audience in mind, and designing for children is no exception.The first thing you need to consider is age and gender. For example, one of the bigger challenges in designing a website … Continue reading Designing websites for children – expert advice →

It’s no longer necessary to underline the importance of preparing your site for mobile. The mobile revolution is the single biggest change in the Web’s short history. The only question is whether smart phone and tablet users will make up more than half of your audience this year, or next. Bearing this in mind, optimizing … Continue reading How to optimize your website’s landing page for mobile →

AXIS by Jean M. Wojciechowski Developed by New York-based graphic designer Jean M Wojciechowski, AXIS is a sans serif free font, inspired by the geometry of the urban environment. The free download includes a full set of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters.

The guys at MacFormat review the new ‘cheap’ iMac and give some tips on how to get something even better for the same price. [av_video src=’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKVIJ80U_NI’ format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′]

If you rely on your website being online, here’s a free and easy way to get alerted within five minutes if it goes down. It can be annoying if the server hosting your site goes down; if it’s an ecommerce website or the home of your design portfolio, it could result in lost income. So the sooner you … Continue reading Yo! Is your website down? →

Michael Bierut talks of Massimo Vignelli and how the internet has changed the way we do design.   [av_video src=’http://vimeo.com/99025203′ format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′]   There’s a lot that legendary designer Massimo Vignelli can teach designers today. As one of the greatest designers of the 20th century, producing many of the most iconic designs of the past … Continue reading How the internet has changed the way you design →

Absolutely everything in life carries a risk. Whether you walk or drive, get married or stay single, go to college or go to work, you’re taking a risk. You can’t even avoid risk by doing nothing! After all, couch potatoes run the risk of obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Given the reality that no … Continue reading Is Your Project Worth the Risk? →

Adobe has released a new version of its web design tool. What does Dreamweaver CC 2014 bring? Last week Adobe released a brand new milestone version of their suite of creative tools, including Dreamweaver CC 2014. Dreamweaver CC 2014 is already available to existing Creative Cloud subscribers by simply using the Creative Cloud website, or … Continue reading Dreamweaver CC 2014: hands-on review →

Companies these days spend millions on branding and packaging. Not because they like pretty things but because it directly leads to higher sales. We buy with our eyes and what’s inside the box takes the back seat. Websites are no different. Only when your blog looks good will the readers stay to see what you … Continue reading How an Eye-catching Website Design Can Help Generate More Followers for Your Blog →

Aina Mono from The Northern Block The team at type foundry The Northern Block are behind our font of the day Aina Mono. But what was its inspiration? The team comment on their website: “A typewriter. Nothing says ‘draft’ quite as well as a manuscript. With its pages worn, and its edges upturned, a monospaced typeface is … Continue reading Free Font: Aina Mono →

The value of icons lies in their ability to support content in web design and communicate with users in more intuitive and effective ways. Most users are known to first scan a page for visually interesting content, and only after something grabs their attention will they actually begin reading. In short, icons are a simple, … Continue reading Ballicons 2 – Free Icons (PNG, PSD, SVG) →

A fast website will keep your visitors coming back for more. Here are eight things you can do now to optimize WordPress. We’ve got you covered when it comes to WordPress themes, and you know you can count on us for a great WordPress tutorial or two, but what if you want to make your WordPress site perform … Continue reading 8 ways you can optimize WordPress sites →

Will Adobe’s first attempt at hardware prove as successful as its software? It’s known across the globe for its software. But Adobe has now made its first foray into hardware with the introduction of two new products under the banner ‘Creative Hardware’. The new digital pen and ruler have been christened Adobe Ink and Adobe … Continue reading Adobe launches new digital pen and ruler →

Worried users won’t see your clever CSS3 tricks? Get them to update with this nifty plugin for your site.   We love a bit of fancy CSS3 animation round here, but the fun stops when you’re trying to look at some swanky HTML5 examples using old browsers. If you’re in the business of creating sites with cutting-edge features, it’s … Continue reading The easy way to deal with old browsers →

Staying motivated can be tough, especially on longer projects. Recently a professional acquaintance told me about a 3-year-long client project. This is an extreme case, but long projects are not uncommon in the tech industry. In fact, I’m working on a personal side project right now that I expect will take about 1.5 years. How do you keep going … Continue reading How to Stay Motivated →

In order for your e-commerce site to be profitable for the long run, it will need to get exposure in front of the right audience. One of the most effective ways to do this, of course, is to get your site ranking at the top of the search results for your relevant keywords and phrases. … Continue reading Practical SEO Tips for E-Commerce Websites →

Just about every successful business has a website these days. It is a valuable hub of information for your clients and your customers, and it is essential that you keep it updated and relevant. One of the best ways that you can do this is through making sure that you keep a business blog. The … Continue reading Business Blog – How to do it Right? →

Which brands have come out on top in the biggest advertising battle of the year? Sorry USA. But while the Super Bowl may be important, when it comes to the sheer number of eyeballs, it’s the FIFA World Cup that really matters to the global advertising industry. Every four years as the tournament rolls round, … Continue reading The best TV ads of FIFA World Cup 2014 →

Every day is a fresh start, so reading brilliant motivational quotes before starting the day can bring a huge difference in our life. When your designs go wrong, your ideas don’t get noticed, the people you trusted let you down, products go flop. In these tough times, there is nothing you can do except keep … Continue reading 100 Inspirational Quotes to Start Your Day Right →

Emily Coltman of FreeAgent offers pro tips to make sure you get paid promptly. Click the image to see it in more detail When you’ve invested a lot of time and money in planning and building something beautiful for a client, you want to make sure you’re paid your dues for the work you’ve done! … Continue reading Invoicing for designers: 5 pro tips →

If you want to publish your own blog then WordPress is one of the best platforms out there. In this video ther WordPress teacher Zac Gordon, explains you how to install WordPress in five minutes.   [av_video src=’http://youtu.be/7gAJSgphaQg’ format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′]   via: teamtreehouse.com photo: pixelprospector.com

WordPress has held its fort strong over the last few years as the most preferred web design and development platform. If we feel the pulse of the market it is slated to grow further in the future. Each year many design strategies emerge, while some become great success over time, others tend to fade away … Continue reading 10 Important WordPress Design Strategies to Follow in 2014 →

Get your hands on the software that helped create some of Pixar’s biggest hits for free!   Animators and 3D artists everywhere will be revelling in the news that animation giant Pixar is soon to release a free version of its rendering software, Renderman. Yes, you heard us right. As Pixar gears up to release … Continue reading Pixar to release its rendering software for free →

Developing web designs that adjust to the width or – if needed – the height of a browser window is easy with percentage-based values. You will probably be doing this on a daily basis, optimizing your website for tablets and smartphones. No matter the element, text blocks, images, everything adjusts to the size given. But … Continue reading CSS3: Viewport Units – New Units for Responsive Designs →

CUPERTINO, California—May 28, 2014—Apple® today announced it has agreed to acquire the critically acclaimed subscription streaming music service Beats Music, and Beats Electronics, which makes the popular Beats headphones, speakers and audio software. As part of the acquisition, Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre will join Apple. Apple is acquiring the two companies for … Continue reading Apple to Acquire Beats Music & Beats Electronics →

Long gone are the days of busy, over cluttered designs. Now it’s all about minimalism, which puts more emphasis on typography. That’s why it’s important to be using the right fonts. Below you’ll find 7 free fonts that that should work well in your minimalistic designs.

WordPress is one of the most ubiquitous content management systems in the world. Even better, it’s open source! However, as an open source piece of software, it can be vulnerable to malicious individuals digging through code and finding vulnerabilities in the code, which they attempt to exploit. As such, WordPress sites have been prone to … Continue reading How to protect WordPress Sites →

This poster makes great use of typography – and a Tyler Durdan quote – to make you think about your life. First rule of Fight Club quotes: don’t talk about Fight Club quotes Every year the Graphic Design Festival Breda in the Netherlands features a poster competiton with a difference. As well as testing your … Continue reading Provocative festival poster takes the fight to social media →

It pays to stay on top of new developments in the creative industries. Here are 10 ways to earn more money…   Want to make more money? Then take a look at your marketability: what are the industry’s most in-demand skills – and do you have them? Would taking on more responsibility make you more … Continue reading 10 ways to earn more money as a designer →

Want to send yourself a reminder email? This handy app lets you do it in fewer clicks. Shaun Inman’s browser app could be a real time-saver Do you find yourself spending more time in your email account than actually designing? Then renowned web designer Shaun Inman‘s “quick little Sunday afternoon project” Remind could give you … Continue reading Send reminder emails faster with this new free tool →

  When people talk about WordPress security, file permissions and ownership are usually the last thing on their minds. Installing security plugins is a good practice and a must for every WordPress website. However, if your file-system permissions aren’t set up correctly, most of your security measures could be easily bypassed by intruders. Permissions and … Continue reading Proper WordPress Filesystem Permissions And Ownerships →

Oxfam believes so – and is teaming up with iMakr to ask for your help. Oxfam hopes 3D printing can help improve sanitation during humanitarian crises With the rise of interest in 3D printing it is becoming easier to bring physical designs to life without having to commit to mass production. Although it’s known mainly … Continue reading Can 3D printing save lives in disaster zones? →

London Design Festival’s Max Fraser reflects on the magnetic appeal of the multicultural metropolis he calls home. Immediately after the London Design Festival in 2012, the New York Times published a review of the event that stated: “London is the design capital of the world”. A sense of delight resonated through Festival HQ. After all, … Continue reading Is London still the world’s design capital? →

GitHub has made Atom, its open source text editor, available for all. Find out why that’s got web designers excited. Launched in 2008, GitHub has become the code storage and development site of choice worldwide, and so any new tool it releases is going to cause a big stir. That’s certainly been the case with … Continue reading Atom: your new favourite text editor →

Most “productivity tips” sound good in theory but don’t work in practice. These ones really do, though, says Jessica Draws. These tips actually work! So we’ve all read articles about how to have a productive day. But how people actually implement those tips on a day-to-day basis? It all sounds great. Get up at 5am … Continue reading 8 productivity tips to boost your design productivity →

Looking to go viral? There’s no failsafe route, but here are six great tips that’ll help boost your chances. It’s hard to resist the charms of a compelling viral video. We’ve already gathered together 10 of the best viral videos for you to enjoy, but what if you want to make your own? Follow these … Continue reading 6 tips for creating a killer viral video →

Kocoon is an experimental free font created with the opensource framework Nodebox. The principle concept is the “random” value, which allows to export every time a slightly different set of type. This is just one of the many possible typefaces that few lines of code allows you to create. We hope you’ll enjoy this freebie! … Continue reading FREE Font: Kocoon (made with Nodebox Framework) →

Author and software designer Nathan Barry explains why an email list is the single most effective tool in any launch. Nathan Barry is the author of three self-published ebooks. His latest book, the second edition of The App Design Handbook, went on sale in November and revenue for that first 24 hours on sale was … Continue reading Why an email list is still important →

We list five practical ways to speed up Photoshop and get your work done more quickly. The latest version of Adobe’s design software, Photoshop CC is highly versatile and very powerful. Since becoming part of the Creative Cloud, Photoshop has become the power player in the photo editing software game. However, the more large files … Continue reading 5 ways to work faster in Photoshop CC →

We Hear This Story A Lot Your first eCommerce platform may have served you well as you were helping your company get up and running online. Without a large budget, you had to make strategic decisions about where to invest your funds, and, at the time, you decided to hire an in-house developer to create … Continue reading 7 Signs It’s Time to Break-Up with your eCommerce Platform →

  There’s more to freelancing than deciding what tools to use. Craig Grannell interviews web industry folk who’ve gone it alone to unearth their top tips. In an economy that lends itself to being fleet of foot, it’s unsurprising to find increasing numbers of people turning to freelancing in the web industry. However, what might … Continue reading 20 pro tips for web design freelancing →

Using email to send large files to your clients can cause problems at both ends. Here are 10 great tools to make things go smoothly. The age of the web may have connected continents and allowed the world to function around the clock, but to send large files by email can still be a painful … Continue reading Send large files to clients with these 10 free tools →

Self-promotion is hardly a black art – follow these seven common-sense rules and you won’t have to spend a fortune. It might not come naturally to you, but if you want to get anywhere in design then you’ll have to do a bit of self-promotion along the way, whether you’rescreen printing your amazing flyer design … Continue reading 7 ways to promote yourself for free →

Don’t rush into a redesign, says Sush Kelly, and offers a checklist to help you get it right. To create the perfect website redesign, you’ll often want to start afresh. However, you risk losing useful elements and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It’s better to perform a thorough site review to ensure you … Continue reading 13 questions to ask before redesigning a website →

A diverse programme on day two of Cheltenham Design Festival featured themes of authenticity, substance and innovation in the face of adversity. Having explored the theme of design as an agent for positive change on day one, the second day of Cheltenham Design Festival expanded the field of discussion to include everything from spacecraft engineering … Continue reading Cheltenham Design Festival: Why great design can overcome anything →

Crafted with great attention to detail, today’s icon set is extremely easy to use and will most probably be the next ultimate resource for any of your design projects. This set of round icons was thoroughly designed by the creative team at Roundicons and has been released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. This … Continue reading Freebie: Flat Icon Set (60 Icons, PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD, AI) →

“Design” is often confused with “decoration”, but it’s actually about responding to problems, argues Steve Fisher of Yellow Pencil. When I was a kid, I built a set of stairs that helped my friends and I get up a hill to our treehouse. That was the first time I can remember solving a problem. It … Continue reading Why design is about solutions, not visuals →

Richard Askew has some wise words for graduates and those in the early stages of their chosen design career. Like many people I have felt lost and frustrated as I navigated through our industry, doing stuff that fitted with what I perceived to be the next step. Now, I realise my frustration had been borne … Continue reading 8 tips for young designers and developers →

  If you’ve searched recently for tips on optimizing WordPress’ performance, then you have definitely come across various techniques that people recommend. These include all sorts of caching mechanisms, such as reverse proxies, object caching and cache plugins, CSS minification, using sprites for images, and so on. All of them areviable and effective ways to … Continue reading WordPress Performance Improvements That Can Go Wrong →

Illustrator Janine Rewell collaborated with fashion brand Minna Parikka to see her geometric designs realised as body paint for a new fashion campaign.     There’s some beautiful geometric designs out there but we’ve never seen the style depicted on the human body before. Here, illustrator Janine Rewell has collaborated with fashion designerMinna Parikka for a very special shoot indeed. … Continue reading Geometric designs body art will make you look twice [Video] →

Website users instinctively have greater trust for content on the right-hand side, says UX designer Chris Da Sie. In Western culture, we’ve always been told to design left to right to help guide users. We read left to right so we should position the most important content and elements in our designs to where a … Continue reading Why people focus on the right-hand side of a design →

The release of PrestaShop 1.6 is just around the corner! We want to make sure that you’re prepared to upgrade and start taking advantage of all the brilliant new features of this amazing new version. Our developers have addressed your questions concerning 1.6. and now we’re sharing The Official Checklist so that you can ensure … Continue reading Are you ready for PrestaShop 1.6? The Official Checklist →

Don’t be scared to set up on your own, says Adam Cairns, as he deconstructs some popular myths about freelancing. It’s become almost laughable; the amount of times someone has approached me and said: “Man, I wish I had the nerve to go freelance like you”. Personally, I’ve never understood exactly what’s stopping them. Do … Continue reading 5 myths that may be stopping you going freelance →

[Via Creative Bloq] Yes, you can put together a slick printed product. But do you know how to make a brochure that really dazzles? Check these tips… We’ve given you a selection of great brochure templates for designers to create a solid design portfolio, but this is not professional enough for the majority of cases – and certainly … Continue reading Brochure design: 10 top creative tips →

Via Prestashop.com Are you planning to hire a professional for building an online store? If you’re not a developer and have limited technical knowledge, it can be difficult to hire the right person for your project. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. We’re here to help! To help you make the best decision, we’ve gathered the … Continue reading Building an Online Store: 10 Questions to Ask Before Hiring an E-commerce Developer →

Juan Lobato, CEO of BaseKit, suggests 10 fundamental requirements for a successful business website. Juan Lobato of Basekit Creating a business website can be a daunting, often drawn-out task. The 10 steps I’ll outline here cover the key points you should be thinking about when creating working with your clients in order to really meet … Continue reading 10 things to consider when designing a business website →

  Make sure what you designed on screen is accurately reproduced on paper, with our pro’s guide to poster printing. Taking digital designs to the real world can be fraught with gotchas and gremlins along the way. We’re oh-so-used to the world being digital that we’ve mostly forgotten how to prep our work for poster … Continue reading The designer’s guide to poster printing →

To most Web developers, it sounds controversial until you hear the punchline: Last summer, the developers in charge of Google’s Chrome browser floated a proposal that went virtually unnoticed by the technology press, which was to remove support for an established W3C standard that every other browser vendor still supports. The standard in question? Extensible … Continue reading Applying Transformations To Responsive Web Design →

Donovan Hutchinson shows you how to use transforms to create a 3D object and animate it with nothing but CSS. CSS3’s 3D transforms are fast becoming a legitimate option for adding depth and interactivity to web projects. In this tutorial we’ll walk through how you could approach the process of setting up a 3D stage, … Continue reading How to create impressive 3D graphics in CSS3 →

Writing a lot of CSS can be overwhelming that is why it is beneficial to learn SASS and LESS. They can make any web developer and designer’s life much easier. For a beginner, you might find it fine but as time goes by and your CSS skills are improving. You begin to wonder if there is … Continue reading Learning SASS: A Beginner’s Guide to SASS →

Want to know how to design a poster? Three top poster designers offer advice to help you perfect the art. If you want to know how to design a poster, then you can do no better than turn to the experts. With that in mind, we’ve quizzed three top illustrators and designers on their poster … Continue reading How to design a poster: 10 pro tips →

Not happy with your design job? Follow these simple steps and you could be moving up the ladder faster than you think. So you’d like to move up in the world and discover how to get a promotion? Well, who doesn’t? Wanting something and actually getting it are two completely different things – but there … Continue reading How to get a promotion: 15 career-boosting tips →

There are a ton of free Chrome extensions to help make your life easier – we select the best. PAGE 1 OF 2: PAGE 1 Firefox has long been renowned for its customisability and plethora of extensions, but Google Chrome has gained a lot of popularity in the past few years among web design pros … Continue reading The 20 best Google Chrome extensions for web designers →

Responsive images have been, and are, one of the hardest problems in responsive Web design right now. Until browser vendors have a native solution, we have to think on the fly and come up with our own solutions. “Retina” images are especially a challenge because if you have sized your layout with ems or percentages … Continue reading One Solution To Responsive Images →

Happy Valentine’s Day! In celebration of the day of love, here are some awesome Valentine designs to inspire you… Valentine’s Day – the celebration of love. Ahhhhh! Every year, this holiday inspires creatives all over the world to create beautiful and personal artwork to show their loved ones just what they mean to them. Here … Continue reading 15 brilliantly creative Valentine’s Day designs →

Click here for Full Article and Credit A redesign is a matter of course for websites. Software platform Hubspot’s survey of hundreds of consumers, marketers and agencies found that 68 per cent completed a website redesign within the last 12 months. There are currently over 739 million existing websites (which increased 22 million compared to … Continue reading Create the perfect website redesign →

Staring at a blank piece of paper? Follow these great tips to find logo design inspiration.  You’ve just taken a new brief from a new client and now you’re sitting at your desk waiting for inspiration to strike. But do you really expect the perfect logo design to pop up, fully formed, in your mind? … Continue reading Where to find logo design inspiration →

  Shannon Smith presents four ways to improve your WordPress site using the latest development techniques. WordPress is the most commonly used online publishing platform on the planet. Millions of people view billions of WordPress pages every month. It used to be that many of those pages were on smaller blogs, but WordPress is becoming … Continue reading 4 brilliant WordPress techniques you need to know →

Victor Balasa says: If  you want to check out how to create an SEO-friendly image portfolio for your site, here are 7 SEO tips for images you can manipulate to help make them more SEO-friendly.   1. Image Sitemaps A not-so-frequently used tactic is creating an Image Sitemap to list all the images on your site, in a nice, … Continue reading Basic SEO Tips For Images You Should Know →

Send out the right message to your subscribers with these brilliant free newsletter templates. Getting the design of your newsletter right is an extremely important affair. It’s the first thing your subscribers see and the one design that will represent you in e-mail inboxes throughout the world. Start experimenting with this range of free newsletter … Continue reading 10 free newsletter templates for your design work →

Technology is drastically changing the business world as e-commerce offers endless opportunities for entrepreneurs with quick, easy and inexpensive ways to create an online business. However, a well thought out business plan is still crucial to have a lasting and profitable company. This article, How to create an online store: 10 Steps to write your … Continue reading How to Create an Online Store: 10 Steps to Write your Business Plan →

Logo designer Jacob Cass offers expert advice and vital tips to help you create the perfect logo. Before you embark on logo design, you must understand what a logo is and what it is supposed to do. A logo identifies a company or product via the use of a mark, flag, symbol or signature. A … Continue reading Get started with logo design: 10-step guide →

The definitive guide to higher rankings for WordPress sites WordPress is one of the best, if not the best content management systems when it comes to SEO. That being said, spending time on your WordPress SEO might seem like a waste of time, it most definitely is not. Optimizing your site to the best practices outlined … Continue reading How to get Higher Rankings for WordPress Sites →

Social media is not just for abusing celebrities and finding your ex-partners. It can get you work too. Creative Bloq reveals how. Social media isn’t just for annoying famous people or wasting time when you’re supposed to be working. Used in the right way, it’s a great resource for boosting your career, enabling you to … Continue reading How to use social media to get design work: 25 pro tips →

Version 3.8 of WordPress, named “Parker” in honor of Charlie Parker, bebop innovator, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. Let’s see together the Wordpress 3.8 new features. Introducing a modern new design   WordPress has gotten a facelift. 3.8 brings a fresh new look to the entire admin dashboard. Gone are overbearing gradients … Continue reading WordPress 3.8 new features →

Google, Yahoo and other big brands introduced back-to-basics logos this year. But has this been a healthy trend? When Weight Watchers abandoned its triple-swoosh logo mark and introduced an even simpler greyscale, gradient-based logotype in December 2012, it joined a growing crowd of global brands rolling out a new, ultra-simple logo design, based around type … Continue reading Design trends of 2013: the stripped-down logo →

Information about customers has never been available on the scale it is today. Businesses are learning new ways to leverage data to improve themselves on a daily basis. They’re realizing that data collection and data analysis have a measurable return on investment, and decision-makers are asking to see them. As a developer, business owner or … Continue reading How To Simplify Mobile App Data With Google Analytics And Tag Manager →

Remember when the number of fans your Facebook page had was the most important aspect of social media? I’ve noticed that tons of online businesses focus too much on the number of Facebook fans their competitor has rather than how active their community is. Online retailers need to have an effective strategy and know how … Continue reading How to Increase Engagement for a Company Facebook Page →

Remember when the number of fans your Facebook page had was the most important aspect of social media? I’ve noticed that tons of online businesses focus too much on the number of Facebook fans their competitor has rather than how active their community is. Online retailers need to have an effective strategy and know how … Continue reading 20 gift ideas for web designers →

Have you ever created a custom post type and then found that only the titles and dates of your posts are displayed in the admin lists? While WordPress will add taxonomies for you, that’s the most it can do. Adding relevant at-a-glance information is easy; in this article, we’ll look how to modify admin post … Continue reading How To Modify Admin Post Lists In WordPress →

Looking to work faster, smarter and more efficiently? Creative Cloud is packed with fantastic new functionality that will save you time whether you’re working across print or digital. Creative Cloud offers you more flexibility and efficiency in your design workflow than ever before. The combination of truly integrated apps and services along with the ability … Continue reading Adobe CC: 40 things you should keep in mind →

Search engines consider site speed to be an important factor search rankings. This is why at WPBeginner we try our best to improve site load speed to an optimal level. Doing that, we have noticed that caching our website helped us improve site speed as well as balancing huge spikes in traffic. We use W3 … Continue reading How to speed up WordPress sites →

We all know the nature of trends in the industry, and unfortunately, that tends to equate to something of a short shelf life for any one particular technique. But what if “flat design” wasn’t just a trend, but in fact, a return to a cleaner, simpler aesthetic in the wake of minimalism’s popularity and an … Continue reading Is flat design a passing trend or something more? →

One of the most important things about creating a brand is making sure everything is cohesive. Once a brand pinpoints their values and how they’d like to be perceived, they have to make sure all their touchpoints refer back to these values. What’s of extreme importance is the look of a brand. In order to … Continue reading 20 Inspiring Branding Guides →

Have you ever submitted design files to a development team for production and a few weeks later gotten something back that looks nothing like your original work? Many designers and design teams make the mistake of thinking that their work is done once they’ve completed the visual design stage. Read The Full Article Here

Product findability is key to any e-commerce business — after all, if customers can’t find a product, they can’t buy it. Therefore, at Baymard Institute, we invested eight months conducting a large-scale usability research study on the product-finding experience. We set out to explore how users navigate, find and select products on e-commerce websites, using … Continue reading Ecommerce – Guidelines For Better Navigation & Categories →

Sell anything from your WordPress website easily. The WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart is a very easy to use and lightweight WordPress plugin that allows you to sell products or services online in one click from your WordPress blog. Specification App Category WordPress Plugin Software Name WordPress Simple Shopping Cart Version 4.2.5 Date Modified 2016-06-21 … Continue reading WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin →

Multisite is a powerful new feature that arrived with the release of WordPress 3.0. It allows website managers to host multiple independent websites with a single installation of WordPress. Although each “website” in a network is independent, there are many ways to share settings, code and content throughout the entire network. Since the beginning of … Continue reading WordPress Multisite: Practical Functions And Methods →

Over 70% of shoppers recently admitted to sometimes abandoning carts while browsing online (OnePoll). This problem can be fatal for eCommerce businesses which have to offer their customers the best user experience possible, or risk losing sales to the competition. To solve these issues for online retailers, Magento Silver Industry partner cloud.IQ developed a cloud-based … Continue reading cloud.IQ Offers Conversion Tools to Turn Abandoned Carts Into Sales for Online Retailers →

The holiday season is around the corner and the opportunity to ring up good cheer is knocking at your door. That’s why we teamed with our friends from PayPal to bring you anE-commerce Holiday White Paper on how to get your e-commerce site ready for the BIGGEST shopping season of the year. Download your FREE … Continue reading E-commerce Holiday White Paper: Ring up more sales this holiday shopping season! →

We love responsive web design and rightfully so. As a matter of fact, it’s almost mind boggling when a website isn’t responsive these days. It’s been a trend on the up and up for a while now. It’s also been a trend that seems to change and create new technology every week to make it … Continue reading 25+ awesome responsive menu solutions →

Who hasn’t been frustrated when visiting a slow web site? Having a faster site is a priority for most merchants, especially for businesses with large catalogs. Here are some important statistics on why a faster site is a crucial component for helping a merchant increase sales: Page abandonment rates increase most steeply between one and … Continue reading Page Load Time – The Silent Sales Killer →

Charts are far better for displaying data visually than tables and have the added benefit that no one is ever going to press-gang them into use as a layout tool. They’re easier to look at and convey data quickly, but they’re not always easy to create. A great way to get started with charts is … Continue reading Easily create stunning animated charts with Chart.js →

Do you revel in experimenting with leading-edge web design but feel conflicted by the formal technical specifications set forth by the W3C? Have doubts about applying your avant-garde ideas while achieving cross browser support and meeting standards? Well the Adobe Web Platform Team is ready to convince you otherwise… If you’ve been following their recent … Continue reading Not your standard CSS: Pushing the boundaries with Adobe →

Taking cues from Pinterest, eBay has had a redesign that introduces ‘eBay Collections’. eBay is a site that has gradually evolved over the years, so much so that it may seem to some people like it has never changed. But today sees a major overhaul that has introduced a new era of eBay – and … Continue reading eBay website gets a major makeover →

It’s been a fantastic couple of years for HTML5 games, for both consumers and developers. In fact, HTML5 is turning into a great game development platform, rapidly catching up to the ubiquity of Flash-based browser gaming. HTML5 comes with some huge advantages that allow users to build apps, accelerated graphics in games, stream HD video … Continue reading 30 incredibly addictive HTML5 games →

Google Plus offers business opportunities available nowhere else. The social network run by Google — the gateway to your business — is a game-changer. It ties together several Google products and delivers many rewards for brands. Vic Gundotra, the head of Google+, has said, “It’s really the unification of all of Google’s services, with a common … Continue reading Google Plus SEO: The Business Benefits →

As you know, there is a lot more to building responsive websites than width. You need sensors that give you feedback to adjust sites based on other factors. The best way to improve our feedback from your user’s sensor, or browser, is by using a JavaScript library called Modernizr. In this article I’ll explain why, when … Continue reading Master responsive design with Modernizr →

Following months of anticipation the first public release of the Ghost blogging platform is finally live. Released three weeks ago to the 6000 smart Kickstarters who backed the project, Ghost 0.3.2 is now available to everyone. For anyone not following the saga, Ghost was first dreamt up a year ago by John O’Nolan, a WordPress … Continue reading Ghost blogging platform is finally live →

If Angel funded Mainframe2 has their way with the cloud, what they reveal this week atDemo Fall 2013, will make Adobe’s Creative Cloud feel more like a light mist, whilst simultaneously driving the final nail into the coffin of desktop computing. What Mainframe2 is attempting is to empower users of the multi-billion dollar software industry … Continue reading Is Mainframe2 the end for desktop computing? →

Ask the average person who’s ever heard about these new fangled “computer” things which kind of computer is best for design, and you’ll probably get an answer like this: “Well, my cousin does Photoshop, and he says that Macs are the best.” The Apple brand has become almost synonymous with design, and with good reason. … Continue reading Can you design on Windows? →

I don’t know about you, but I wake up every morning with at least 10 emails that I didn’t have when I went to sleep. While most people probably know that these emails aren’t being sent manually by some sleep-deprived, coffee-fuelled intern, many people don’t understand the ins and outs of the systems that automate … Continue reading Schedule Events Using WordPress Cron →

In the world of e-commerce, it all starts with a domain name. Your domain name becomes your internet identity and it’s just like selecting a location for a brick and mortar store. If you choose a poor location, or in this case, an ineffective domain name, it can determine the success or failure of your … Continue reading How to Pick the Right Domain Name for your Online Store →

Once you set up your e-commerce shop, don’t be worried if new customers don’t come pouring in right away. The truth is, you can’t wait for customers to come to you. Before you get your first few customers, try out these several techniques to get one step closer to those first sales! Here are 6 … Continue reading How to get your First Customers for your E-commerce Shop →

At its very heart typography is about two things: legibility, which is concerned with how distinguishable letters, words and phrases are; and readability which deals with how easy it is for the brain to convert those elements into a coherent message. Have you ever found yourself reading a single line of text twice, as if … Continue reading A simple typographic trick to increase text readability by up to 30% →

Designing websites can be a fun, engaging and rewarding career. What isn’t so fun is coding sites; we’re constantly hearing how a great design concept is hampered by the complexity of coding it. From CSS layout to HTML5 browser inconsistencies, there’s no escaping the fact that coding can be both hard and time consuming. If … Continue reading Create websites with Webydo →

Want to learn or hone your skills in the art of logo design? Then check out these top online logo resources, where you’ll find tons of advice and inspiration. The web is a wonderful thing, brimming with resources and tutorials for people wanting to learn about the art of logo design. But, sometimes, too much … Continue reading 12 brilliant resources for logo designers →

We’ve scoured the web to present you with a fine and varied selection of free fonts. Including scripts, serifs, and a range of ligatures, these fonts will give you greater flexibility in your designs, and add to your arsenal of design tools. Read More at Creativebloq  

Announced earlier this year, Web Designer is a visual tool for building HTML5 adverts; although one suspects Google’s ambitions for the application are much wider, given that it’s not named ‘Google Ad Builder’. Web Designer is, at first glance, a promising piece of software, but I question whether we really need yet another tool for … Continue reading Do we really need another HTML5 authoring app? →

As creatives we constantly strive to reinterpret the world in new and visually exciting ways. Yet we can also be conservative and often have a knee-jerk reaction to something new. So on the day a new logo design is launched for a familiar brand, the first reactions are usually negative. Once some time has passed … Continue reading The biggest logo designs of September 2013 →

Just this week, at the Paris Ecommerce Salon, our PrestaShop team unveiled the first images and details of our upcoming and much anticipated PrestaShop version 1.6 to a crowded and attentive audience of e-commerce enthusiasts. After several months of work and long days and nights, PrestaShop version 1.6 is expected to be released at the … Continue reading Presenting an Exclusive Sneak Peak at PrestaShop version 1.6 →

Interesting Article by Kendra Gaines Today, I realize where I went wrong and I try to make up for it with every one of my projects. All my ideals had to shift. And once they did, designing came much easier for me and clients became a lot more satisfied with my work. My referrals increased … Continue reading 5 questions you must ask at the start of every project →

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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create circular navigations using CSS transforms. I’m going to take you through the steps for creating these styles one by one, and explain the math (yikes!) and simple logic behind them so you get a clear understanding of the technique. Like I mentioned, there’s going … Continue reading Building a Circular Navigation Tutorial →

Upload an image that you like to Color Hunter; the tool will then create a colour palette from your image. It’s a really simple but useful website. Read More  

There’s no denying it, online retailers are a small fish in a very big pond – so how do small e-commerce sites stay afloat with all the competition out there? There’s plenty of room for boutique online stores to make themselves more appealing than enormous online giants like Amazon. Today, I’ll share 5 ways on … Continue reading How your E-commerce Site can Compete with E-commerce Giants →

It is easy to say that 2013 has so far been the year of flat design. Even Apple, the driver of the skeuomorphic design trend for many years, is trying some level of flat design when it releases iOS 7 later this year. So are you ready to try it out as well? Not sure … Continue reading The ultimate guide to flat design →

In the following steps you will learn how to create a set of pixel perfect hand cursors in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to prepare your new document and how to setup a simple grid. Next, using the Rectangle Tool, the Ellipse Tool and the Pen Tool along with the Rounded Corners … Continue reading Create a Set of Pixel Perfect Hand Cursors in Adobe Illustrator →

Product returns often add up to be an unexpected and hefty expense for e-commerce businesses. Returns are expected when a customer is unable to try a product on or test it out in person but there are several ways to reduce returns for your e-commerce site. I’ve devised a list of 10 ways that e-merchants … Continue reading 10 Ways to Reduce Returns for your E-commerce Site →

Great tutorial aimed to Photoshop Beginners. Check it Out In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to add a dramatic rain effect to a photo in Photoshop. While rain effects are not new to Photoshop, we will go a step further and show how to make the image more photorealistic by adding reflections and small … Continue reading Add Dramatic Rain to a Photo in Photoshop →

Water lilies are beautiful flowers and ideal tutorial material. To get to our result, we’ll be doing a lot of clever actions, mostly rotating and duplicating, and we’ll have a lot of room for experimentation as well. For instance, we can try out different ways to build the layers of petals, and we can play … Continue reading How To Create A Water Lily In Illustrator →

In this tutorial by Chris Spooner we learn how to code a dropdown menu using just CSS. With the help of some advanced selectors a dropdown menu can be easily created with CSS. Throw in some fancy CSS3 properties and you can create a design that was once only achievable with background images and Javascript. … Continue reading How To Create a Pure CSS Dropdown Menu →

Have you ever wanted to know how to manually back up your Prestashop store? This can be really useful if you are going to upgrade your site, load a new csv file, or just to have in case anything happens to your server. Backing everything up manually is a great idea, most developers do it. Read … Continue reading How to Manually Back Up MySQL Database and PrestaShop Files →

Navigation is arguably the most important part of website. Without it, visitors would not be able to move from page to page and view the content. Thinking about the best approach to your website navigation is a very important part of the creative process. So, as designers and developers, it’s good to know that we … Continue reading 9 jQuery Plugins for Improving Website Navigation →

There are a ton of content writers out there in the virtual zone who are willing to swear that the formula for the perfect article or blog format does not exist,simply because they have never seen it. Well, guess what… they have never seen a million dollars either, but believe me, it is out there. … Continue reading Article Writing: 6 Rules To Getting The Perfect Format →

We’ve all had that mixed feeling of elation and frustration when we discover a new tip or technique in a design app. You’re both amazed at how easy this new technique is while in disbelief that you never knew about it before! I’ve put together a list of the top 10 Illustrator tips I’ve learnt … Continue reading 10 Amazing Illustrator Tips That Changed How I Design →

This module optimizes the organization of navigation in your store, and plays an essential role in your SEO strategy. It allows you to promote the pages of your choice, to maximize their popularity and win seats in the search results on Google. Instructions and Download Here

“Form ever follows function. This is the law.” So said the architect and “father of skyscrapers” Louis Sullivan. For architects not wishing to crush hundreds of innocent people under the weight of a colossal building, this rule of thumb is pretty good. In design, you should always lead with function, and allow form to emerge … Continue reading Semantic CSS With Intelligent Selectors →

WooCommerce is a plugin that allows you to customize your website by using diverse techniques and customizable selections. These responsive themes serve the purpose of enhancing the potency, elasticity and user-friendliness of your website… The following are the 10 best WooCommerce premium responsive themes of 2013 Read The List Here  

Here is the definitive guide to the best photo apps around, covering iOS (that’s iPhone and iPad) and Android apps. Some you won’t have heard of, others you’ll be more familiar with. None are going to replace a DSLR and a couple of hours with a photo editor likePhotoshop CC, but they’re all great at … Continue reading The 20 best iPhone photo apps →

Advanced Top Menu can build any type of horizontal navigation bar : – simple – dropdown – columns It can contain many contents : – categories (with automatic building feature) – CMS – Suppliers – Manufacturers – Custom links – Images – Rich Texts (Flash, Movies, Multimedia…) In addition, each menu can be configured with … Continue reading Prestashop: Advanced Top Menu Module →

Amazon has announced today they are now accepting web applications in their app store – a significant shift in the way they (and other app stores) have presented themselves in the past. The web apps will be discoverable, and sold along side other native Android apps in their app store. HTML5 developers aren’t left out … Continue reading Amazon Wants HTML5 Developer Apps →

Advanced Layered Navigation will help you use layered navigation on Home page and allow to use multiply attributes choice for more prices navigation. Advanced Layered Navigation will help your customers to filter selections instantly, without waiting for a full page refresh. Download and Instructions Here

First impressions are lasting impressions. Whether you realize it or not, your typography helps to create an experience for users before they’ve even read a word or clicked a button. Typography has the potential to go beyond merely telling a story — it shows the user who is behind the website and what you’re about. … Continue reading A Collection of Inspirational Typography in Web Design →

techniques and approaches. In 2003, a competent front-end Web developer would have known HTML and CSS, possibly with a bit of copy-and-pasted JavaScript, and they built websites that would be viewed on desktop computers. Not so in 2013! Now, a competent front-end Web developer is well-versed in HTML and CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, CSS preprocessors, … Continue reading Teaching Web Design To New Students In Higher Education →

Nice Notifications by WPAlchemy is a notification bar plugin for WordPress 3+. You can compose your own alerts, notification bars, social bars, and much more with awesome effects and an easy to edit timeline. Plugin Description and Live Preview Here

If you code websites, it’s a good bet that at least one of your clients has asked about or requested a mobile-friendly website. If you go the responsive design route (whereby your website is flexible enough to adjust visually from mobile to desktop widths), then you’ll need a strategy to make images flexible, too — … Continue reading Tips and Tricks for Responsive Images →

Keynote MITE is a Microsoft’s web tool which allows us to test our website on serveral devices, including iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and pretty much every mobile device around. With this plugin you can also find out whether your site is well optimized or not (for free!). Click here for more information.  

Being Responsive has become not only an important part but is now vital to make a good website. In this article by Sven Lenaerts we take a look at the new user experience via mobile platforms and how the future experience will be affected by mobile devices.    

In this post we want to remind you of one very useful Pinterest feature not everyone may be aware of: Pinterest Analytics. Pinterest has its very own Analytic Tool, you just need to verify your site in order to use this amazing plugin. For a full guide on Pinterest Analytics, there’s the Pinterest official Page … Continue reading Use Your Pinterest as Google Analytics →

In this article by Aaron Aders, we have a look at the consequences of Google’s Penguin 2.0 algorithm on SEO strategies. It is clear that in the future SEO will become even more vital than it is at the moment. The ebook SEO in a Post-Penguin 2.0 World enumerates some good practises to stay relevant after the launch of Penguin 2.0.   … Continue reading How Google’s Penguin 2.0 will affect SEO →

Interesting Article on Google Glass by Tommy Walker With the Leap Motion controller being released on July 22nd and the Google Glass Explorer program already live, it is obvious that our reliance on the mouse or even the monitor to interact with the Web will eventually become obsolete. Read the full Article at Smashing Magazine

One Click Media has now a brand new Pinterest account. http://pinterest.com/oneclickms/  

Shinwari Afghan & Persian Cuisine  Responsive website using PHP and WordPress. http://www.shinwaris.co.uk/

Developed integration with Google Maps, to work out point to point i.e postcode to postcode, miles. Once the miles between the two points have been obtained, we can work out the Van and driver cost. Technology used, PHP with Google Maps API integration. http://bigyellowexpress.co.uk/

TransAsia Commodities Ltd, came to have a high impact A4 leaflet designed. Using the client branding colours developed the art work. Created using Indesign CS6.

Blenheim Bishop is a residential estate agency formed in 1991 focused only on the sale of residential development land and investments. They came to us with requirements to build a new website that will be compatible with Desktop, Mobile and Tablets. They also required a CMS system to update the website inhouse. Launched the website … Continue reading Blenheim Bishop – Responsive Design →

The 5G Blacklist helps reduce the number of malicious URL requests that hit your website. It’s one of many ways to improve the security of your site and protect against evil exploits, bad requests, and other nefarious garbage. If your site runs on Apache and you’re familiar with .htaccess, the 5G is an effective way … Continue reading Protecting Your Website from Hackers →

Welcome to Our New Website…. Fully Responsive website.