Plugins
Pearl: The Premium WordPress Theme With the 200+ Faces
If a premium WordPress theme suits all of your customers, yet no design looks like the other, you might be using Pearl. Let’s take a more in-depth look at it.
Dieter Petereit
Technology
Web Hosting Trend 2017: Dedicated WordPress Providers on the Rise; But Why?
There are two defining trends of web hosting 2017. One is the transition from physical to virtual hosting, the so-called cloud. The other is the rise of dedicated WordPress providers.
Business Online
Branding: The Perfect Logo Will Be Remembered
If a logo is truly clever is not decided by its pleasant design. It’s much more important that potential customers remember the logo.
Design
Adobe Xd is THE Prototyping Tool of 2017
Prototyping, creating a first usable model of a website or app, needs to be one thing above all else: fast. The fastest tool for this purpose is Adobe Xd.
Design
Mashup Template: 7 Free HTML/CSS Templates for Modern Websites
The small collection Mashup Template provides free templates as HTML/CSS, Sketch, and NPM. The design is very contemporary and definitely worth a look.
Business Online
Open Source: nopCommerce is a Powerful Yet Easy-to-Use Online Shop System
The search for the right shop system is often a tedious one. Which system is suitable, and offers all the functions and options that I need? nopCommerce stands out here, due to its ...
(Free) Services
Freezetab: A Different Way of Managing Chrome Bookmarks
The brand new Chrome extension Freezetab turns managing your bookmarks with the Chrome browser into a treat.
CMS
RSJoomla!: The Professional Joomla Supplier Has Something for You (Comment to Win)
Joomla follows WordPress as the second most popular and most used CMS worldwide. The team of professional supplier RSJoomla! has something to give away to three lucky readers of our ...
(Free) Services
Stockio: Free Photos, Videos, Icons, Illustrations, and Fonts For Your Projects
For a couple of years now, the supply of free stock material has been growing consistently. Stockio sets itself apart from the competition, as it doesn’t only provide you with ...
Essentials
Feather Icons: 240 Modern Free Pictograms
Feather Icons is a set of 240 symbols that are suitable for almost any project, due to their very clean design. Another reason for that is that they’re being distributed for free, ...
(Free) Services
Pixabay Images 3.0: Every WordPress Site Needs This Free Plugin
If you host a WordPress blog yourself and like to search and find your post images on Pixabay, you should definitely install the new plugin “Pixabay Images” in version 3.0. ...
Design
Design: What’s Important For The Future of Voice Interfaces
A couple of days ago, I got me an Amazon Echo. The device does an impressive job at showing me how limited today’s voice interfaces are. That needs to change.
Design
Font Review Journal: Designers Review Fonts For Designers
The inception of a font is a tedious task that requires hundreds of hours spent on conceptual design and creation. On the web, we’ll find the font described in half a paragraph of ...
Design
What About Ethics in Design?
Ethics and design should be looked at in context. Despite many claims to do so, this actually happens rarely.
Business Online
Pros and Cons: Design With Templates
“Real” designers will throw their hands up in horror as soon as someone mentions the word “template” or “theme.” Let’s take a more objective ...
Business Online
Why Designers Love Dribbble and Behance so Much
Dribbble and Behance are the top self-adulation platforms of the craft. And this serves a very natural purpose.