Matt Ball is a student currently attending UCLA with a major in Computer Science and Engineering. He spent some of my spare time designed a set of good looking toolbar icons for us. These toolbar icons are very suitable for developing web applications and services.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.mattballdesign.com/portfolio
License: License Free
Famfamfam offers us a set of wonderful and most pupular icons on the internet named “Silk†which contains over 700 16-by-16 pixel icons in strokably-soft PNG format. And all for a low low price of $0.00. You can’t say fairer than that.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
David Vignoni from Icon-King spent more than 1 year to create Nuvola version 1, the more professional, consistent and complete Nuvola theme ever released, it is one of the KDE themes. These icons look very cute and web 2.0 because of the glossy effect on each icon.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://icon-king.com/?p=15
License: LGPL License
Pinvoke has designed 4 sets of amazing mini icons ( 10×10 and 16×16 pixel ). The icons can be used royalty-free by the licensee for any personal or commercial projects.
Requirements: Any Browsers
Demo: http://www.pinvoke.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
Tango Icon Library provides developers a set of professional high quality icons. They are in PNG ( Transparent background which can easily integrate into any web site) and SVG format ( Scalable which means you can increase the size of the icons without losing quality.
Requirements: Any Browsers
Demo: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license
If you are building a website from scratch you have to rely heavily on your own creativity to achieve any measure of success. In truth, building a great website lies in the underpinning the tools you use are able to create. Drag and drop alone may not be sufficient because it is the creativity of the developers or development team that design specialized website-building tools that are most apt to lead the way to your success.
This is especially true as we enter 2025 in that the bar is raised as far as what constitutes an award-winning, competitive website. What constitutes an award-winning, competitive website is no longer a simple matter of aesthetics. It’s primarily about a website’s responsiveness, efficiency, and adaptability.
From Trafft White Label to XStore and everything in between, the tools and resources described below offer the unparalleled customization, collaboration, and efficiency that you need to build an award-winning competitive website.
Short description: Trafft offers convenient online appointment scheduling 24/7 for all service-based industries.
Even those feature-rich WordPress themes that offer virtually unlimited flexibility can’t necessarily handle every possible demand a designer or developer may throw at them, leaving the website builder with the choice of relying on coding to resolve the issue or seek another solution. That other solution often takes the form of a WordPress plugin.
Plugins bring a variety of helpful features to the table. They can provide added flexibility and functionality or serve to improve the performance of both a theme and a website. Some qualify as game changers, either in terms of how they impact method and workflow associated with building a website, or to the characteristics of the finished product itself.
Amelia, Slider Revolution, and the other top WordPress plugins addressed in this article have redefined what’s possible in website design and performance.
Read the rest of this entry »It’s 2024 and the number of web design resources and tools on the market seems overwhelming. That’s good news since you need the right tools and resources to come up with competitive designs.
The bad news is, rather than sifting through thousands of products to get the ones that best meet your needs you might decide to retire.
That’s an exaggeration, but you probably would prefer the following approach.
We’ve tested a ton of free and premium web design tools & resources and narrowed it all down to 15 essential ones in the following categories:
The 15 best:
Key information included to assist you in deciding what would serve you best addresses top and best features, product rating on non-biased platforms such as Trustpilot, Capterra, or WordPress.org, and client testimonials.
Read the rest of this entry »Do you need a little inspiration to help you get started on a long-awaited online store design project. One of the best places to find it is a WordPress theme.
The problem is, there are so many themes to choose from. You’re going to have to sift through a number of them to find a specialty theme or a multipurpose theme that features the flexibility that allows you to build anything you want.
Even then, the inspiration you hoped to find may still not be there, so you’ll have to continue and probably narrow your search. For creating an online store or presence the obvious solution is WooCommerce whether it is integrated into a multipurpose theme or the theme itself is dedicated to WooCommerce-oriented applications.
You will find some great sources of inspiration here. Particularly if you check out the 11 top WooCommerce WordPress themes on the market that are described in this post.
1. Be – the Biggest WordPress & WooCommerce Theme
BeTheme is the fastest, lightest, and biggest WordPress and WooCommerce theme of them all.
Be’s 40+ powerful core features include the new BeBuilder, 650+ professionally crafted pre-built websites, the BeBuilder Woo, the Loop Builder, and a host of other web design tools, aids, options, and elements.
The 650+ pre-built websites are excellent sources of inspiration and you can rely on BeBuilder Woo to create the exact custom store you want. You could even start from scratch, but that’s generally not the easiest way to achieve a desired result.
BeBuilder Woo lets you –
Be’s Loop Builder can take your designs a step further by designing specialized sliders, blogs, portfolios, and Woo shop listings.
Click on the banner to find out more about BeTheme’s impressive core features.
Read the rest of this entry »The beginning of a new year is typically a time when we plan to find ways to make life a little better. The same applies to web designers who look for new and better ways to make their designs more engaging and productive.
In this post we will look into 5 web design trends that focus on issues like UX, accessibility, and responsiveness and use 10 pre-built websites from BeTheme to demonstrate how best to execute those trends .
BeTheme is one of the world’s most popular and highly rated WordPress Themes as demonstrated with 268,000+ sales and its 4.83/5 star-rating.
If you intend to improve something, it’s always good to have an understanding of those things that can influence or impact it, whether they be positive or negative.
In our case, its web design skill and experience, along with web design itself we want to improve on. Web design trends, in this case 5 of them, make up the influencing factor. What follows is how these trends can be implemented.
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