Improving the typography of your website is easy and inexpensive. Here is a list of tools and resources for typography. There are inspirational galleries with real-world examples, tools to create or identify your ideal font, and design forums to get help from your peers. Web Typography 101 Web Typography 101 Web Typography 101 is a […]
Here is a list of free tools to test your website. There are tools to measure download speed, test accessibility, locate broken links, evaluate search engine and browser compatibility, and check mobile-friendliness. Free Tests for Your Site W3C Markup Validation Service. From World Wide Web Consortium, this validator checks the markup of web documents in
Here is a list of open-source content management systems. Many have large developer communities that provide platform updates and thousands of themes and extensions. All of the systems are free, though they also offer paid plans for hosting services. WordPress WordPress WordPress launched in 2003 as a blogging platform. Today, WordPress is a sophisticated content
For merchants who want to create, edit, and distribute videos, there are plenty of new innovative online tools for little or no expense. Here is a list of new and updated tools from online video platforms and social media applications. There are tools for editing, live streaming, collaboration, analytics, distribution, and video advertising. New and
Product images on ecommerce sites are often larger than what’s required, unnecessarily slowing page load times. This image from Graze.com, for example, was about 75 percent too large. Online retailers may have an image problem. In many cases, the images they need to sell a product are so large and so slow-to-load that they are
Add value to your website by utilizing free resources from the design community. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from spring 2019. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, color tools, fonts, and more. All of these are free. Free Design Tools Developer Survey Results 2019 is a comprehensive
WooCommerce is a free, open-source ecommerce plugin to turn a WordPress website into a complete online store. There are many free, customizable themes to help. Here is a list of themes for WooCommerce. There are multipurpose and themes and themes for niche businesses. All are free, though several offer premium features as well. Storefront Storefront
WordPress is a flexible content management system, but its default site search doesn’t support taxonomies, custom post types, or custom fields. Fortunately, there are a variety of plugins available to extend a site’s search capabilities on WordPress. Here is a list of plugins to improve the internal search on your WordPress site, to include custom
Designers and developers can learn new skills and find a community of peers through free online resources. There are plenty of self-guided tutorials and educational resources for beginners and advanced learners to find professional training at no cost. Here is a list of free online learning resources for designers and developers. There are tutorial sites,
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I recently assembled a list of Instagram feeds for user-experience web design. As a follow-up, here is a list of Instagram feeds to follow for all aspects of web design, including color, illustration, animation, photography, typography, and storytelling. The accounts are from independent designers and artists, design studios, and creative ad agencies. Design Milk — @designmilk
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