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The best 15 Tools & Resources for Designers? They’re in this article

Posted · Category: Design, Tools

There can be various reasons for failing to deliver a product on time. Take for example a situation in which progress grinds to a halt because of a requirement or specification cannot be met because the designer doesn’t have the means to satisfy it.

While your toolbox may be well stocked, there may be design tools or design resources you frequently go to that are simply no longer up to the task, even if they are long-time favorites.     

The 15 tools and resources for designers and agencies described in this article are tops in their respective categories. They will help you or your team be more productive, and in some cases, they could be life-savers.

1. Be Theme

This multipurpose WordPress theme is hard to beat in terms of its powerful array of core features, design options, flexibility, and ease of use. Given that the sales of this long-time favorite web designer’s tool has exceeded the 200,000 mark, you have every reason to believe that you’ll get a huge return on your investment.

  • Be’s 40+ core features give you the tools and flexibility you need to meet the most stringent of deadlines
  • Be’s Muffin Builder- Admin Panel-Shortcode Generator trio lets you drag and drop your way through a project without ever having to write a line of code.
  • If there was a single secret to Be’s success it would likely be the selection of 600+ customizable (and responsive) pre-built websites that cover the major industry sectors, business niches, and website types and styles.
  • Be’s Layout Generator facilitates starting a page from scratch, plus you have ready access to a wealth of layout options to see your project through.

Click on the banner to find out what BeTheme can do for you.

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9 Best WordPress Plugins for 2021

Posted · Category: Tools

There are few if any good reasons not to choose the best of the bunch when you’re looking for useful WordPress plugins to take your web design or business to the next level.

The problem is, how do you go about finding them?

For several categories of best WordPress plugins, the answer is simple, and that is to just keep reading.

The WordPress plugin market is never static. It just keeps getting bigger, and in most instances better. New cool WordPress plugins that show great promise are continuously being added. The more established plugins continue to improve.

You’ll find some of both types here, and whichever you may chose you won’t have to worry about bugs or bad coding.

That said, have at it!

1. Amelia WordPress Booking Plugin

For fitness centers, beauty salons, training, and similar business types that rely on efficient and effective appointment booking systems – Amelia is an ideal solution – an affordable, feature-rich booking manager.  

  • Amelia is easy to set up and does not require any training to use
  • Amelia can manage an unlimited number of appointments and events for an unlimited number of clients and employees.
  • Amelia can serve multiple locations
  • Clients and employees are presented with smooth and shiny UIs to work from
  • Clients can access Amelia 24/7 to make, change, or cancel appointments
  • Employees can connect to their Google and Outlook Calendars to avoid overlapping appointments or interference with personal commitments or events.

The list can go on, but the message is this:

  • Customers don’t have to be put on hold to make an appointment.
  • Business owners have an instant and accurate overview of current and future appointments.
  • You can sell packages of appointments in Amelia by group appointments of the same service or various services in a bundle for a single price. This way, you can increase your profit and sales.
  • Amelia provides all parties concerned with the error-free appointment and event booking.

Click on the banner to learn more about this best-in-class WordPress plugin.

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Looking for the best 12 WordPress Themes in 2021? They’re in this article

Posted · Category: Design, Tools

The WordPress platform is a joy to work with. It offers one of the simplest ways to create colorful, well laid-out, and engaging website pages. Clicking a mouse and dragging and dropping are required skills, coding is not.

Themes make your work easier. There are literally thousands of great WordPress themes to choose among; too many in fact to make finding the best one for a given project an easy task.

A general or multipurpose awesome WordPress themes might be all you need as long as they are customizable, as virtually all of them are. Conversely, a specialized theme for a business niche, or one dedicated to creating a portfolio, a blogging site, or a magazine site might make your website-building task an easy one.

This collection of top WordPress themes for 2021 should present you with all the design options you need. Also should give you the luxury of sifting through 12 web design products instead of hundreds.

1. Be Theme

With its multiplicity (40+) of core web design features, BeTheme is the biggest WordPress theme of them all, one of the most popular theme on the market, and an ideal theme for advanced web designers, beginners, and first-time users alike.

What makes this WordPress theme a great choice?

For starters:

  • There’s the powerful and intuitive Muffin Builder that makes creating or editing pages quick and easy.
  • The Admin (Options) Panel together with the Muffin Builder, negates any need for coding.
  • The shortcode library gives you even more options, plus a Shortcode Generator you can use to create your own.
  • Not to forget: color palettes, font styles, header, footer, and grid systems, special effects, etc., etc.

Do you want to get projects up and running quickly rather than starting from scratch?

 Teaser: this is where BeTheme really shines!

Be’s library of 600+ trendy, professionally crafted, and customizable pre-built websites  cover 30+ industry sectors, multiple small business niches, and all the major website types, and can get any project off to a crazy-fast start.

Click on the banner. You’ll be glad you did!

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Web Designers: Check Out these 8 Black Friday 2020 Deals

Posted · Category: Design, Tools

Many shoppers, including web designers and web design teams, look forward to Black Friday as the year’s top shopping event.

In the past, Black Friday meant getting up early and getting in line in the dark on a wet and windy November morning. Then charging through the doors when the store opened, and trying to claim your bargains before the shelves emptied out.

This year, shopping from home makes added sense thanks to Covid-19. Shopping in a crowded store while trying to maintain proper social distancing isn’t something to look forward to. It’s much better to stay safe and cozy while checking out these super bargains from the comfort of your home.

1. Slider Revolution

Slider Revolution a well-established and renowned tool that designers can use to create unique and award-winning website sliders. Any tool of this type that can claim more than 7 million users obviously has a great deal going for it.

Not every designer may be aware of the Slider Revolution transformation that has taken place. It consists of additions and improvements that enable its users to create award-winning websites.

They include:

  • An excellent selection of sliders, carousels, and other web design elements
  • Innovative layouts for building single-page websites
  • Hero sections designed to make your home pages stand out from the crowd
  • Modular design elements and sections that can be mixed, matched, rearranged, and reused
  • Addons that enable website builders to test the limits of design possibilities

To celebrate Black Friday or Cyber Monday, purchase a Slider Revolution plan now at a 33% discount. Click on the banner, use the code BLACKFRIDAY at checkout, and Slider Revolution is yours.

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15 Effective Tools and Services You Should Pay Attention To

Posted · Category: Design, Tools

One of life’s pleasures is discovering when some small action taken yields a highly positive, or even a game-changing outcome. A web designer could spend many hours creating a modern website with old tools. A single new tool or a single new service could cut the time required to do so dramatically and produce an even better result.

There’s no shortage of tools or services that could make a difference. The problem is that there are many hundreds of them. There are far too many to devote the amount time it could take find one that might make your day or prove to be a game changer.

One or more of these 15 top tools and services could easily make your day; which is why we suggest you give each one a good close look.

That said, may your shopping experience be a happy and profitable one.

1. UXPin

            UXPin provides designers with a set of advanced prototyping features perfect when designing for all screen sizes. UXPin has also been built for great collaboration, making it possible for everyone on the team to jump into one design and work together in context and in real-time.

These features include:

  • Easily accessible built-in libraries for Material Design, iOS, and Bootstrap
  • Hundreds of useful icons, interactive elements, and animated states
  • Vector drawing tools that enable designers to effectively draw and combine vector shapes to create icons or illustrations
  • The ability to save code components; thereby eliminating the necessity to redraw patterns over and over
  • HTML import, in which a web page or page section can be imported to UXPin to support the prototyping effort

Team members have ready access to these and other features in addition to being able to exchange design-related information and feedback with team members and project stakeholders in real time.

Click on the banner to learn more about this powerful labor-saving tool.

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Need Help Choosing the Right Plugin for Your Website? Check These Options

Posted · Category: Design, Tools

WordPress is an ideal platform for building your own portfolio, blog, or eCommerce site. It’s packed with all the basic tools you need to build a professional-looking site. Plus, it has tools that can take your web-building skills to an even higher level.

Get even more impressive results or add features to a website that you might have thought could only be provided by extensive coding or by a developer you can select among a large selection of WordPress plugins.

The only problem is this. When we speak of a large selection, we’re not talking about a couple of hundred plugins. We’re talking of more than 55,000.

Fortunately, you don’t need to look far to find the best and most practical ones. Here are 8 of the very best for 2020, one or more of which could resolve a nagging problem or put your websites on steroids.

1. Brizy Website Builder for WordPress

            A typical plugin usually performs a specific task you need to have done, and if it’s a premium plugin it usually does it well. If it’s free, it’s better yet.

The Brizy WordPress plugin does more than “a specific task”. You can use this flexible drag and drop builder to create a complete website – at no cost to you.

  • Brizy is not intimidating to learn and it’s intuitive and easy to work with.
  • You don’t need any coding skills. With Brizy coding is not necessary.
  • You get 500+ design blocks, 40 popups and 150 layouts right out of the box to help you get things off to a quick start.
  • You can structure and build a page in minutes.
  • There’s plenty of helpful documentation and video tutorials to help you if and when you should need it.

Download Brizy and get started today. Before you do, you might want to scan the website to get a complete picture of what this premium plugin can do for you.

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“Needle in a haystack” search problem? Check 15 of the very best WordPress themes for 2020

Posted · Category: Design, Tools

Having too many WordPress themes to choose among is of course better than having too few. But there are times when searching for what you really need is like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack.

If you’ve been looking for a top-of-the-line multipurpose theme you will probably find it right here. We’ve listed several very useful more specialized themes as well. Although admittedly we can cover every possible niche a short listing as this.

For a few of you, it may be back to searching for the needle. We sincerely hope that will not be the case.

Happy hunting!

  1. BeTheme – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

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This, the biggest WordPress theme of them all, pretty much covers all the bases with respect to what a designer needs to create the perfect website – no matter the type or niche. If you’re in need of a multipurpose theme because you have to satisfy a large and diverse clientele, a theme like this one that is packed with useful features is certainly worth a close look.

It could take a full page to summarize BeTheme’s 40+ core features, so we’ll settle for the highlights.

  • The popular Muffin Builder, working in combination with a powerful Admin Panel and a large selection of shortcodes eliminates any necessity for coding.
  • A host of design elements plus unlimited colors, custom backgrounds, advanced typography and special effects provides unmatched design flexibility
  • A Layout Generator, Header Builder, multiple column, grid, and other layout options serve to position your content precisely as you want it
  • The most popular feature of all, and in many respects the one that provides the greatest design flexibility, is the library of 500+ professionally-crafted, responsive, and customizable pre-built websites.

“It is a very versatile, intuitive and easy to handle template. When doubts appear, the support team responds quickly and solves the problem. I am satisfied with my purchase and I collaborate when I can in the forum with other users like me when they have simple problems.” anden14

Click on the banner to visit BeTheme and be sure to take time to browse the pre-built website library. Read the rest of this entry »

Which WordPress Website Builder Is for You? Try the #1 WordPress Theme Builder

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Finding just the right WordPress website builder to fit you needs can take time. First, you must determine what it is you want. Then you must take the time to research what’s available. Your research may require the skills of a Sherlock Holmes since you often need to read between the lines or request a trial offer to determine what a website builder is genuinely capable of.

Even then, you may have to settle for a compromise. The product may be of superior quality but is lacking in one or more important features; or it may be loaded down with features (including many you may never use), but you’ll have to sit through six hours of tutorials before you can even get it operational.

You can avoid all the searching, researching, free trials, and trying to live without certain features by going with #1 – Elementor.

 

1. Why Choose Elementor?

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Elementor makes website building painless and effortless, but it does so without placing any design constraints on its users. It does what you tell it to without ever begging for a line of code to help get the job done.

This #1 WordPress website builder gives you all the design flexibility you’ll ever need. Whether you come across a client who has no idea what to ask for, or a very demanding, fabulously- creative client, neither one will be a problem for you.

You have full control over customizing your layouts, full access to the necessary design elements and features, you do your design work on the frontend, and you can see the results of your efforts instantly and in real time.

Elementor 2.0 is even better! 2.0 will be released incrementally over the remainder of 2018 with some great surprises in store. Elementor’s 600,000+ customer base is expected to increase dramatically.  Read the rest of this entry »

Web Designers, Stop Wasting Time on Billing and Accounting When You Don’t Have Too

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Keeping a small business running is hard work. You have projects to negotiate, emails to answer, and deadlines to meet. You have to find the time to explore new trends and methods. Sometimes, you have to take whatever time it takes to learn how to use new tools of your trade effectively.

When you add accounting to the mix, you may begin to feel as if your sanity is hanging in the balance.

Sending invoices and chasing down and collecting payments might not be easy. Also, tracking income and expenses and preparing tax returns all take time. This is where FreshBooks comes in.

1. What is FreshBooks and What Does It Do?

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FreshBooks is a software accounting solution that makes billing a quick, painless process. You will have the time you save by being able to avoid having to handle billing manually. It can better be devoted to the work you enjoy doing.

 

FreshBooks is a creation of Mike McDerment. Mike is a web designer. He realized the billing process was time-consuming. Once he realized how much, be decided to do something about it. Mike also wanted to avoid mistakes, large or small, that could get him into trouble.

He set about building a simple software application that can solve this problem. His app that relieves freelancers and small business owners of these tedious tasks. The rest, as they say, is history. Today, over 10 million people are using FreshBooks. They are managing their invoicing, payments, and time tracking tasks. Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t Let Content Delay Website Launches

Posted · Category: Tools

Whether content is delivered late, structured differently to the design or lost in email threads – content always gets the blame for website project delays. As a designer or developer involved in a website project, you’re probably familiar with having to adjust or even re-do your work when content finally arrives. Why does this happen time and time again?

Even if you’re lucky to have a brilliant project manager on your side, who has properly briefed the clients or content contributors on what to provide, if the people providing your content are doing it in Word docs, spreadsheets or even worse, in presentation files (yikes!) – then the chances of them sending content that will easily migrate to your site design or CMS is unlikely. These tools simply weren’t built to gather content for web projects.

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If this sounds familiar to you, it’s time to meet GatherContent. GatherContent is a platform built for teams to easily organise and produce lots of content for website projects. In GatherContent you will: Read the rest of this entry »

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