WordPress Site Not Ranking in Google? Here are 13 Possible Reasons Why

October 22, 2018design tips
Do you ever find yourself thinking something like, “Why is my WordPress site not ranking in Google? I have done everything right! I even installed an SEO plugin! Why is this happening!? I hate my life.” I get it, it can be frustrating. Putting in all that effort to optimize your site, reading awesome articles …
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Durable Functions: Fan Out Fan In Patterns

October 22, 2018design tips

This post is a collaboration between myself and my awesome coworker, Maxime Rouiller.

Durable Functions? Wat. If you’re new to Durable, I suggest you start here with this post that covers all the essentials so that you can properly dive in. In this post, we’re going to dive into one particular use case so that you can see a Durable Function pattern at work!

Today, let’s talk about the Fan Out, Fan In pattern. We’ll do so by retrieving …

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15+ Best Photoshop Smoke Brushes

October 22, 2018design tips
Have you ever wondered how designers create those beautiful smoke effects in posters and photo manipulations? Well, all you need is a quality Photoshop smoke brush and you can create those same effects all by yourself. A smoke brush can be quite useful on many different occasions, whether it’s for adding a bit of artificial […]
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70+ Modern Corporate Brochure Templates

October 22, 2018design tips
Brochures are an incredibly important part of identity and branding for any type of business. Whether you’re keeping customers informed, marketing a new product, or selling your services. A beautiful, modern brochure template can be a great starting point. Today, we tracked down some of the most beautiful, creative brochure designs to help you quickly get […]
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Polldaddy Rebrands to Crowdsignal

October 22, 2018design tips
Polldaddy was founded in 2006 by David Lenehan in Sligo, Ireland and was acquired by Automattic in 2008. Polldaddy is a platform agnostic service providing users with the ability to create polls and surveys. Crowdsignal Logo Today, 12 years later, Automattic is retiring the Polldaddy name and replacing it with Crowdsignal. (more…)
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Understanding the difference between grid-template and grid-auto

October 21, 2018design tips

Ire Aderinokun:

Within a grid container, there are grid cells. Any cell positioned and sized using the grid-template-* properties forms part of the explicit grid. Any grid cell that is not positioned/sized using this property forms part of the implicit grid instead.

Understanding explicit grids and implicit grids is powerful. This is my quicky take:

  • Explicit: you define a grid and place items exactly where you want them to go.
  • Implicit: you define a grid and let items fall

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Hard Costs of Third-Party Scripts

October 21, 2018design tips

Dave Rupert:

Every client I have averages ~30 third-party scripts but discussions about reducing them with stakeholders end in “What if we load them all async?” This is a good rebuttal because there are right and wrong ways to load third-party scripts, but there is still a cost, a cost that’s passed on to the user. And that’s what I want to investigate.

Yes, performance is a major concern. But it’s not just the loading time and final weight …

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Shared vs. Managed WordPress Hosting: Which One Is Right for You?

October 21, 2018design tips
Your choice of web hosting is an important consideration. Getting it right is like adding jet fuel to your average car engine. However, a poor selection can hamper your site’s effectiveness, much like adding the wrong type of gas to your car. In other words, matching the right host to your needs is crucial. While …
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Building Skeleton Components with React

October 21, 2018design tips

One of the advantages of building a Single Page Application (SPA) is the way navigating between pages is extremely fast. Unfortunately, the data of our components is sometimes only available after we have navigated to a specific part of our application. We can level up the user’s perceived performance by breaking the component into two pieces: the container (which displays a skeleton view when it’s empty) and the content. If we delay the rendering of the content component until we …

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