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Eric Karkovack (895 Articles)

Eric Karkovack is a web designer and WordPress expert with over two decades of experience. You can visit his business site here. He recently started a writing service for WordPress products: WP Product Writeup. He also has an opinion on just about every subject. You can follow his rants on Bluesky @karks.com.
Amelia – a WP Booking Software that Lets You Manage Appointments While You Sleep Sponsored

Amelia – a WP Booking Software that Lets You Manage Appointments While You Sleep

WordPress

Taking appointments might appear to be a low-level task. It involves little more than picking up the phone or responding to an email. The problem with that point of view…

MapSVG Brings Incredibly Powerful and Flexible Maps to WordPress Sponsored

MapSVG Brings Incredibly Powerful and Flexible Maps to WordPress

WordPress

Maps play an integral part in creating a great user experience. Whether they are used to show multiple retail locations, detail a specific attraction or visualize statistics, they help users…

Why Designers Need Creativity & Practicality to Succeed

Why Designers Need Creativity & Practicality to Succeed

Design / Freelance

Balancing creativity with practicality in design, ensuring innovative yet functional outcomes.

Is Big Data Selling Out Web Designers?

Is Big Data Selling Out Web Designers?

Web Design

For years, web designers have relied on free tools from the likes of Google, Facebook and other large companies to enhance the things we build. We have happily used these…

The Grumpy Designer’s Summer Survival Guide

The Grumpy Designer’s Summer Survival Guide

Freelance

A summer survival guide for designers, offering tips to stay productive and balanced during the slower season.

5 Must-See WordCamp Presentations

5 Must-See WordCamp Presentations

WordPress

Attending a WordCamp is an opportunity that every interested designer, developer and user should take advantage of. No matter your level of experience with WordPress, you are almost certain to…

ipstack Helps You Know and Serve Users in Real-Time Sponsored

ipstack Helps You Know and Serve Users in Real-Time

Web Design

Want to know the secret behind building a successful website? It’s all about the end user. Provide them with something that’s both powerful and easy-to-use and the result is something…

POFO is the WordPress Theme for Building Beautiful, Hand-Crafted Websites Sponsored

POFO is the WordPress Theme for Building Beautiful, Hand-Crafted Websites

WordPress

Web professionals are always looking for that extra edge. We want tools that help us get things done faster – but without sacrificing quality. In other words, we want to…

Crypterio is the WordPress Theme to Power Your Cryptocurrency Website Sponsored

Crypterio is the WordPress Theme to Power Your Cryptocurrency Website

WordPress

Cryptocurrency has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years, which has led to a burgeoning industry that has popped up around it. With that growth, a need…

I Admit It: Gutenberg Excites Me

I Admit It: Gutenberg Excites Me

WordPress

Those of us who work with WordPress on a daily basis have been keeping close tabs on Gutenberg, the completely revamped editor scheduled to be released with version 5.0 of…

Build Feature-Rich & Secure Chat Applications with PubNub ChatEngine Sponsored

Build Feature-Rich & Secure Chat Applications with PubNub ChatEngine

Web Design

Chat and messaging applications have become an essential part of our everyday lives. And, while they’re great for connecting with friends, they’re also vital to businesses. The ability to collaborate…

5 Ways the WordPress Gutenberg Editor Can Boost Revenue

5 Ways the WordPress Gutenberg Editor Can Boost Revenue

WordPress

Part of being a successful web designer is taking advantage of new opportunities. Some we have to hunt for, while others sort of fall into our laps. With the new…

Build It Your Way with the Composer WordPress Theme Sponsored

Build It Your Way with the Composer WordPress Theme

WordPress

When building a WordPress website, you need a theme that has the power and flexibility to let you create something unique. Instead of being boxed in with a few skimpy…

The Art of Hating Your Previous Creative Work

The Art of Hating Your Previous Creative Work

Design / Freelance

A cool side benefit of being a designer is that, the longer you’re in the game, the larger your portfolio becomes. That portfolio will, in turn, help to establish you…

Supporting Old Browsers: How-To and for How Long

Supporting Old Browsers: How-To and for How Long

Web Design

Thank goodness for web browsers keepings themselves up-to-date. For so many years, we had to rely on users to make the effort to download new versions as they were released….

Collaborate, Stay on Task and Get Things Done With monday.com Sponsored

Collaborate, Stay on Task and Get Things Done With monday.com

Web Design

Communication and organization are two of the most important factors in turning out a successful project. Without them, we’re bound to lose track of what we’re doing – which can…

10 Up-and-Coming WooCommere Plugins

10 Up-and-Coming WooCommere Plugins

WordPress

With WooCommerce powering over 40% of all ecommerce sites, there has been an explosion of plugins built to take advantage of it. Of course, there has been an impressive library…

The Grumpy Designer: These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things

The Grumpy Designer: These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things

Web Design
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