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Divi Wireframe View Review
Elegant Themes recently updated Divi with an interesting feature for their front-end builder (called Visual Builder). One of the reasons I like building with Divi is the Divi Builder makes it easy to create a layout fast. You can place sections, rows, and modules,...
Creating Interesting Footers for Your WordPress Website
Footer are often ignored when it comes to website design. Often, they're just left as the default footer of the theme. Sometimes they get some sprucing up as an afterthought. Most visitors never scroll down that far, so any hard work you put into it will probably go...
WordPress Header Design
The header is often the first thing your visitors see when they land on your website. This means your header is your website's first impression for your readers. You know what they say about first impressions. This is your first chance to wow your reader, capture...
Where to Get Design Ideas for Your WordPress Layouts
The days of WordPress being just a blogging platform are long over. WordPress can now be used to create practically any type of website you can imagine. With all of the themes and design tools available, and the ability to expand WordPress even further by adding your...
Web Design Trends 2017 – Stronger Focus on Mobile First
The day of websites not formatting correctly on mobile devices is over. The majority of reader’s access websites on mobile devices. If today’s layouts don't work perfectly on mobile the website will lose traffic and readership. For this reason many designers are...
Web Design Trends 2017 – Virtual Reality Integration
If you think about it, the web is actually a 2D alternate reality. The next obvious step is to shape it into a 3D virtual reality. VR headsets for smartphones are becoming popular, and both desktops and mobile devices have ways of displaying VR. It makes sense when...
WordPress Design Trends 2017 – Improved Micro-interactions
Micro-interactions are small animations and effects to indicate when an event is happening. They’re great for showing that something is clickable and for indicating that the user’s actions were recognized. I personally hate it when I hover over something and it...
WordPress Design Trends 2017 – Gradients
Where we used to see solid-colored backgrounds, now we're seeing a lot of backgrounds with gradients. A gradient is a smooth transition from one color to another. Most background gradients transition between two colors, but it's possible to transition between multiple...
Web Design Trends 2017 – Better Use of Parallax
Parallax is one of those design elements that can be difficult to get right, but it works great if you do. Often parallax is overdone or used as a gimmick. There’s sometimes so much of it that it doesn’t stand out anymore (I’m guilty of this myself). Too much parallax...
Web Design Trends 2017 – SVG Logos and Icons
JPEG’s and PNG’s used to be the most popular file-types for logos and icons. One problem though is they don’t always scale properly. They become pixelated when you zoom in. Another problem is file size. They can become large and if you compress them you’ll lose some...