As WordPress continues to power more and more websites, it stands to reason that many site owners will want to learn how to use it. One of the strengths of…
10 Plugins for Customizing the WordPress Admin
The WordPress administration area (aka the Dashboard) can be customized in a number of ways. Menu items can be added, hidden or rearranged. Access to settings can be set for…
Weekly News for Designers № 395
This week’s Designer News (N.395) includes a Sketch Material plugin, a WordPress Gutenberg Boilerplate, CSS Database, Medium Lightbox, How to Pair Fonts and Overcome Your Type Anxiety, Email Design Trends of 2017 (so far), 6 Subtle Changes in iOS 11, 5 Popular UX Patterns That Users Hate, The UX of Getting Started in UX and more.
Why UI Changes Annoy People and How to Handle It
Sometimes, revamping a website’s or a mobile app’s interface causes users to freak out. People may get disappointed with a new color scheme, the positioning of elements, or anything similar….
FullStory Lets You See Your Site from a User’s Perspective
Imagine being able to see your website as a user does. You might catch their frustration when something doesn’t work as expected. Or, you may give yourself a high-five when…
6 Subtle UI Changes in iOS 11
With the unveiling of iOS 11, Apple continues to iterate on the existing user interface and push the envelope in terms of what can be achieved within a mobile operating…
Simple WordPress Snippets to Enhance Your Secondary Navigation
One of the great things about WordPress is the ability to reuse snippets of code over and over again within your themes. With that, you can build in ways to…
Weekly News for Designers № 394
This week’s Designer News (N.394) includes a Moodboard Plugin for Sketch, WordPress Cheatsheets, Chrome 59’s Coverage Tab, a Static Site Generator for React, How to Create a Pattern Library, Options for Programmatically Documenting CSS, Stealing Your Way to Original Ideas, Google Font Pairings (Displayed Beautifully with Classic Art) and more.
Three Facebook Ad Tips That’ll Help You Increase Conversions
If you’ve spent any time on a marketing or design blog lately (other than this one), you’ve probably noticed a lot of buzz around Facebook advertising. Something like, “10 Ways…
Common On-Site Search Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Your website’s search function could be damaging your conversion rates. And if it’s not acting as a bane to your conversion rates, it could be doing something almost as bad:…
