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Slow Website? How to Improve Site Speed

December 28, 2021November 28, 2018 by Kayla Naab

The speed of your website means more than just convenience for visitors. Site speed can make or break the success of your website. Without acceptable page load times, visitors will become impatient and leave your site, or worse yet, not hang around to give you a first glance.

Slow site speed is seen as a major red flag. So much so that search engines, like Google, will drop your site down in rank to provide their users with a quicker solution to the information they are seeking. Beyond simply inconveniencing visitors, slow site speed may significantly affect many related factors like UX, bounce rates, SEO and overall site traffic.

The 10 Most Popular Google Fonts of 2018

November 26, 2018 by Kayla Naab

Google Fonts is an open source collection of nearly 900 font families that are used by graphic designers, web designers and content specialists for both digital and print design projects. Google Fonts have been downloaded over 19 Billion times by users. All the fonts are available for download from the Google Fonts GitHub repository or you can download the font library into your server. While companies like Adobe and others have followed suit and built their own font directories, Google Fonts remains the top choice for personal and professional use due to its breadth of quality open source font options.

10 Commandments for WordPress Blogging Beginners

November 20, 2018 by Kayla Naab

If you’re wondering how to start a blog, look no further than the most popular publishing platform on the market, WordPress. With more market share than all other content management systems combined, there is no question which CMS is best for bloggers both new and seasoned. The reason why 27% of the internet is powered by WordPress, is because it has the simplicity to support blogging for beginners and the capacity to run massive corporate sites.

How to Choose the Best Website Template for Your Website

November 14, 2018 by Kayla Naab

A web template can be described as a boxed or pre-designed webpage which can be used by any company, organization or individual to connect or plug in whatever images or copy they want to, to create their own unique site. Web templates help both developers and web designers to automatically provide custom pages that meet the basic needs for companies, with much less hassle than coding a brand new website from scratch. Templates also allow non-developers and novice website administrators to create their website vision without professional assistance.

How to Create a Mood Board to Inspire Your Website Design

November 12, 2018 by Kayla Naab

Whether you’re working on a brand new website or a stylish redesign, inspiration and dreaming up the style you want to portray is always the first step. This may sound like a difficult task if you’ve been in an inspo-rut. On the other hand, you could be brimming with inspiration but struggling to organize all of your fun ideas into a cohesive plan.

As you read through this guide, you will realize that it is easy to hone-in-website design inspiration and manage it into digestible concepts and drum up new ideas to make your site its best. This mood boarding process works well whether your website is for your personal brand, your own company, or for a client! Mood boarding is the best way to synthesize everyone’s input, too.

5 Essential Elements of Modern Package Design for Beauty Products

November 9, 2018 by Kayla Naab

Beauty brands have been growing exponentially in the last couple of years. Last year, the industry was estimated to be worth $265 billion worldwide. The industry is defying gravity by growing at a skyrocketing rate. Use of the online sales and changes in lifestyles have steered growth in a speedy way. Timing as also played a major role as we’re living in a generation where everyone wants to look good. Diversification of brands has led to the rise of new brands that are steering the growth of the overall beauty brands. Social media has pushed the brands even higher by encouraging self-expression and an opening myriad of possibilities to young generation consumers who are tech-savvy. With the advent of influencer marketing, more and more people are buying makeup products to try their hand professionally or to follow along with the latest tutorial from a so-called “beauty guru” on Instagram or YouTube.

How Blockchain Will Impact Web Design in 2019

November 6, 2018 by Kayla Naab

The blockchain technology that you keep hearing about has already had major impacts in different aspects of the digital sphere, despite being so new. Blockchain can transform the way we use the internet and in some ways, changes have already taken form. The technology has especially affected the web design aspect of internet use. In the coming year, it is expected that blockchain will have more effects on web development. Web developers will need to adapt to this fast-growing technology. As things are right now it is anticipated that some changes need to be done in web design to accommodate this new technology. This makes it important to know how blockchain will impact web design.

8 Things Your Website Better Not Have In 2019

November 2, 2018 by Kayla Naab

Having a well-designed website plays a big role in increasing traffic, building authority, and earning customer loyalty. The design of your website can attract or frustrate the people who visit the website which determines how much of your product or service you sell, how much viewership you earn (or lose), and which sponsors or advertisers want to partner with your website. Regardless of the goal of your website, its design will support that goal or it will hold it back. There are many trends of website design which were once acceptable, ignorable, or even desirable. Just like the trends in home design, clothing, or music and film, website trends fade over time. Just as your manner of dress or the way you decorate your home has evolved year after year, your website should too. Because of this, we rounded up some of the worst outdated, harmful, or unnecessary trends of the past few years that you should eliminate from your repertoire before the new year.

Best FREE WordPress Plugins for your E-commerce Website

October 31, 2018 by Kayla Naab

When the first companies began to sell their products through the internet years ago, there was an initial competitive conflict that arose: who could market themselves in the best way possible, and who could create the best website to attract customers to their online “store”?

Since then, digital advancements have improved exponentially year over year, and more people that want to do business online opt for creating their own site rather than seeking the services of a developer, largely due to the many hosting and web building pages available. For any person hoping to DIY their website, there is no CMS more popular than WordPress, as the globe has heard of that brand in every corner of the world wide web.

15 Podcasts Every Website Designer Should Be Listening To

November 1, 2018October 29, 2018 by Kayla Naab

In a world where multimedia rules supreme in capturing our attention, podcasts have become a favorite form of content creation and enjoyment. Audio-only content is great to listen to in the car, while exercising, or while doing other things around the house. When you don’t need to care about watching the visual part of the content, you’re free to get other tasks completed while learning new things or being entertained.

Some podcasts are purely created for enjoyment and humor while others have a business or scholarly edge to help you learn and grow. Today, we’ll be focusing on a handful of podcasts that will help you be a better web designer and hone your craft in your industry.