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Best 10 WordPress 5.0 Compatible Themes: Heads-up, the Future is Here
No need to wait! The future s here! Keeping abreast with the times is easy with these 10 WordPress 5.0 compatible themes below. No matter whether you like it or not, Gutenberg is being released. This means that a step towards the future of WordPress is done. The...
How SEO Audits Help Increase Your Traffic
Completing regular SEO audits is critical to the success of your website. Why? Well SEO audits take a deep dive into your website and highlight any problems you may be facing and not know about. Once you have discovered which aspects of your SEO is holding your...
Pros and Cons of Backing up your WordPress Website
Do You Need to Backup Your Website? Here are the Pros & Cons! What are the Pros & Cons of Taking Website Backups? WordPress Website Backups – Advantages & Limitations Your website is the face of your business and you should have your game face on at all...
7 WordPress Plugins for Maximizing SEO Efforts
7 WordPress Plugins for Maximizing SEO Efforts SEO has become one of the most potent weapons in a digital marketer’s armory, and its benefits are well-known. It’s all about climbing those search engine ranking pages (SERP), after all, and SEO is something that need...
7 Expert Cyber Security Tips for Small Businesses
Cyber attacks like hacking and phishing emails are common. However, it is unfortunate that businesses lack a cybersecurity system in place. Among the consequences of a cyber attack is a loss of revenue due to business disruption and damage to the business image....
7+ Best Practices for Security of Your WordPress Site
It’s easy to start a website with WordPress. However, it’s not easy to keep it secure from cyberattacks. Since WordPress powers as many as 30% of all websites, it has become a target of choice for cybercriminals around the world. Every year thousands of hackers try to...
How loopholes in your content marketing strategy can be a serious threat?
There seems to be a common misunderstanding about the differences between content marketing strategy and content strategy in itself. These seemingly similar terms can cause a ruckus if the concepts are not clear. Essentially, content marketing is a list of ‘Ws’: why...
Illustrator
Free vector travel postcards you’ll love to download
Free Vector Travel Postcards Everyone loves to travel. You get to see new sights and a change of scenery is good for everyone. In the spirit of travel, this wee's freebie is provided exclusively by Freepik. You can download free vector travel postcards. You'll love...
Free Watercolor Wedding Cards (AI + EPS Formats)
Free Watercolor Wedding Cards I don't know about you, but I am sick of the cold weather and dead-looking trees. I am ready for it to be full-on Spring, with flowers in bloom and warm weather, where you can go outside without a coat on. Spring and Summer are my...
Fun Free Easter Graphics You Can Download Right Now
Free Easter Graphics It's hard to believe, but Easter is just around the corner. It actually feels like it is really early this year. To celebrate, we have an exclusive set of free Easter graphics, provided exclusively by Freepik, that you can download right now....
Free Download: Birthday Card Designs (AI + EPS + JPG)
Birthday Card Designs I never have to look too far for a reason to celebrate. It's always important to celebrate milestones with your friends and family, and birthdays are no exception. if you really want to make someone feel special, you can go the extra mile by...
Free Download: A Cute Set of Spring Cards (Vector Formats)
Download: Spring Cards I think just about everyone is ready for Winter to be over and for Spring to be here. We are ready for nature to come alive and for everything to start growing and blooming again. To celebrate, this week's freebie is a set of Spring Cards,...
Photoshop
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Ultimate Photography Bundles Compilation [December Edition]
At first, we see, then we read. This is the key rule of any advertising. Whether you create a billboard, a website or a banner, you properly choose the imagery that will make the design cohesive. It’s really hard to find high-grade stock photos and all those Photoshop...
Want to Convert PSD to HTML5? Keep These Things in Mind
After the launch of Adobe Photoshop, the website market has seen increase in the number of highly attractive websites. Designers started using Photoshop to build visually spectacular websites. However, there was a catch, which was how to publish the images on to a...
Free Mothers Days Flyer Psd (Fully Editable + Color Options)
Free Mothers Days Flyer Psd It's tough to find a free flyer template online. You can search for free flyer psd templates, but half of them aren't easily editable, or certain parts are flattened, so you don't have full customization options. If you're looking for a...
Useful Photoshop Plugins for Designers
A Rundown of 12 Useful Photoshop Plugins When it comes to processing images, Photoshop is one of the best programs for creating beautiful end results. In addition to the tools and controls it comes equipped with, it’s also compatible with third-party plugins (which...
Create a Branded Duotone Effect in Photoshop
Branded Duotone Effect in Photoshop Carrying out your branding through your marketing materials is not always an easy task. Sometimes you have to unify elements to tie everything together. Not all images fit the same look and feel, which can break continuity and...
WordPress
Pros and Cons of Backing up your WordPress Website
Do You Need to Backup Your Website? Here are the Pros & Cons! What are the Pros & Cons of Taking Website Backups? WordPress Website Backups – Advantages & Limitations Your website is the face of your business and you should have your game face on at all...
7 WordPress Plugins for Maximizing SEO Efforts
7 WordPress Plugins for Maximizing SEO Efforts SEO has become one of the most potent weapons in a digital marketer’s armory, and its benefits are well-known. It’s all about climbing those search engine ranking pages (SERP), after all, and SEO is something that need...
Best WordPress Plugins for Push Notifications to Increase User Engagement
Have you noticed the web push notifications used on popular websites like Facebook? If you have seen it, then you must be thinking, what are these meant for? Well, Web Push Notifications are messages or information that are pushed to your web browser from the...
7+ Best Practices for Security of Your WordPress Site
It’s easy to start a website with WordPress. However, it’s not easy to keep it secure from cyberattacks. Since WordPress powers as many as 30% of all websites, it has become a target of choice for cybercriminals around the world. Every year thousands of hackers try to...
How to Reset WordPress Website Using WP Reset Plugin?
If you are a WordPress website owner and have recently started to work with the platform, you probably now love how seamless and easy this CMS (Content Management System) is. The platform is indeed a boon for non-technical users who are looking to benefit from the...
Fonts
James Hand Free Font (handwritten)
James Hand: A New Free Font From Me to You! Today marks the start of something I've wanted to do for a while, and that's get into making fonts and typefaces. James Hand is a hand-written font that is free for you to use on your personal and commercial projects. No...
44 Free Retro Fonts for Vintage Designs
Free Font Retro Fonts Extravaganza: 44 Great Vintage Fonts A little part of all of us love retro designs. We love the nostalgia of the past and how eras of different past decades really stood out from each other. You had art deco, the nineteen-fifties, the...
10 New Free Fonts for Summer 2016
Summer 2016 Free Fonts For Your Collection The Summer is here, and it's time to enjoy some fun new free fonts. It's been a while since I've shared some typographic goodness, and the fonts from today's collection won't disappoint. No, these aren't illegible...
Best Free Fonts 2016
The Best Free Fonts 2016 It's been a while since I've done a free fonts round up. Everyone seems to like those. As designers we all seem to like to keep our font libraries updated with the latest and greatest free fonts from around the web. With that being said, I put...
Sweet Free Fonts for January 2016
Sweet Free Fonts You Won't Want to Miss It's been a little while since I have put together a list of free fonts. I have taken a little hiatus from writing and such, due to some massive projects I've had in the past couple of months. They are just about wrapped up, so...
Freelancing
A Step-By-Step Guide on How to Do Outreach Correctly
If you ask any developer, inventor or a businessman about their number one business (startup) goal, you will hear something like “I want to see my sales skyrocket!” (or similar.) And it is not surprising at all. Just imagine… You have spent months or years on creating...
7 Amazing Freelance Designer Perks that Make it Worth it
Freelance Designer Perks Some people just like a different type of lifestyle. I know for me, the thought of someone making me drive across town every morning made me cringe. Being chained to a desk and being told what to do and how to do it made me shudder. More and...
7 Drawbacks of Being a Freelance Designer You Might Look Out For
There are plenty of people and blog articles out there that will encourage you to give freelancing a try. This advice isn’t necessarily bad; being a freelance designer can be a rewarding and enjoyable experience. However, there are certain drawbacks of freelancing...
9 Super Tips For Designers Beginners
Tips for you to avoid headaches in the future and stay strong in your professional career If you've just graduated or are in the process of learning, it's interesting that you work or graduate in an agency, creative studio, office etc. After all, learning in practice...
4 Tools to Make it Easier to Manage Your Freelance Design Work
Manage Your design work much easier with these lesser know, but highly effective tools.
