Tag: web design

Getting Started With WordPress Customization

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

What are you doing to make your WordPress site stand out? As of July 2013, WordPress accounted for 18.9 percent of sites on the internet, or more than 70 million sites. If you haven’t customized and enhanced your WordPress site, the time is now. Simple tweaks to add advanced coding will help create a unique experience for the user. The time and money you spend to increase traffic will be wasted if you don’t have an optimized theme that is unique and memorable. Here are some steps to improve your web design skills. WordPress Customization Learning to Code If you’re afraid of making changes to code, get over it. Your website won’t collapse (though you should save a version of your coding before you begin making changes). There are too …

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Getting Started With WordPress Customization

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How to Install Custom Plugin Collections on WordPress

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

May 4th in WordPress Plugins by WordPress Jedi

Many of us have been using WordPress for years. Even though I have seen and reviewed a ton of exciting plugins, I rely on 12 or so scripts on my sites to get things done. Having to install even 12 plugins for each new site that I start is not convenient. That’s why I like WP Install Profiles. This cool plugin lets you create and install custom plugin collections on all your sites. WP Install Profiles is a time-saver. You can add new plugins by including their slug from the plugin’s URL in the WordPress plugin directory. For instance, you should add wp-super-cache for WP Super Cache. You can create new profiles or import your …

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How to Install Custom Plugin Collections on WordPress

Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Although WordPress is already an SEO-friendly publishing platform, there is always room for improvement. One of the best free plugins available is the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. This plugin has had over eight million downloads and is designed to improve your website’s SEO by taking care of technical optimization and allowing you to write more SEO-friendly content. Here we will take a look at some of the key features and benefits. Key features The WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast allows you to control your website’s Meta and link elements. Using the plugin, you can choose which pages Google shows in its search results. The plugin also adds rel=”next” and rel=”prev” link elements to the head section of your archives automatically…

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Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review

Best WordPress Themes for Creative Agencies & Freelancers

May 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If you are creative freelancers or have a business of design agency, a web presence based on WordPress will be your best choice to give the potential clients an indication of your experience and expertise. Even if WordPress has been mostly used to create blogs, it can be well adapted to present your portfolios, demonstrate your work or projects, show off your skills and offer your services as a designer or creative professional in a stunning style. In this collection, we hand-picked the best WordPress themes for creative agencies and freelancers with superb visual design to get the visitors first impression. The themes will keep you up with the latest trends of design no matter you are freelancers, artists, web designers or photographers. It is worth …

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Best WordPress Themes for Creative Agencies & Freelancers

Ghost Buttons – The Brand New Design Trend

April 30, 2014 / Daniel / 0 Comments

Ghost is a mysterious and cryptic creature that triggers such associations as consternation, transparency, clarity as well as charisma and attractiveness. Though it seems that it has nothing to do with a website design, in fact, this frightening, yet adorable phantom manages to transfer its genetic traits into graphics, adding to integral elements its strong appeal and personal charm. The so-called ghost buttons are today’s talk of the office and are apparently a prevailing trend that is growing day by day. So, what actually does an almost translucent entity have to do with it all? Let’s figure it out. Ghost Buttons in Web Design Ghost button – that also can be called naked, empty or hollow – represents a basic …

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Ghost Buttons â€“ The Brand New Design Trend