best-infographic-templates 50+ Best Infographic Templates (Word, PowerPoint & Illustrator) 2021 design tips

50+ Best Infographic Templates (Word, PowerPoint & Illustrator) 2021

An infographic can give you a way to represent information in a graphic format, designed to make it more understandable, relatable, and engaging. But they can be tricky to make! We’ve gathered together a collection of stunning infographic templates, to get you started quickly (whether you’re using Word, PowerPoint, or Illustrator!) Infographics usually require icons,…

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frosted-glass-web-design Design Trend: Frosted Glass Effect in Web Design design tips

Design Trend: Frosted Glass Effect in Web Design

With just the right combination of blur and transparency, you’ve got one of the hottest trends in website and app design – the frosted glass effect. It is a design technique that uses a gaussian blur, shadows, and transparency to create an element that mimics looking through real-life frosted glass. Let’s dive into seven different…

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flow-chart-templates 20+ Best Flow Chart Templates for Word & PowerPoint 2021 design tips

20+ Best Flow Chart Templates for Word & PowerPoint 2021

When it comes to streamlining a process, nothing beats a good old-fashioned flow chart. They are especially useful in presentations for showcasing your projects, ideas, and products as well. In this post, we bring you some of the best flow chart templates for PowerPoint and Word for presenting your workflows in visual form. Whether you’re…

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block-attributes-featured-770x500 Adding Custom HTML Attributes With the Block Attributes Plugin design tips

Adding Custom HTML Attributes With the Block Attributes Plugin

Earlier this week, websevendev released its fourth WordPress plugin to the official directory named Block Attributes. The extension allows end-users to add any HTML attribute to nearly any block. One of the problems with the WordPress editor is that it can be a bit fussy about customizing HTML. Blocks are built on a set of…

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pexels-photo-1227513-770x500 Expanded Button Formatting, New Spacing Controls, and Drag-and-Drop for List View Now in Block Editor WordPress

Expanded Button Formatting, New Spacing Controls, and Drag-and-Drop for List View Now in Block Editor

Expanded Button Formatting, New Spacing Controls, and Drag-and-Drop for List View Now in Block Editor This month, our team released features in the block editor that give your site a little breathing room: spacing controls for buttons and paragraphs. And the List View tool keeps getting better with drag-and-drop. Powerful Expanded Button Formatting Buttons never looked…

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best-font-for-powerpoint-1 Choosing the Best Font for PowerPoint: 10 Tips & Examples design tips

Choosing the Best Font for PowerPoint: 10 Tips & Examples

There’s a fine art to creating a great PowerPont presentation that wows. With so many tricks and features in this little bit of software, it’s more likely to see a bad presentation than a good one (and you don’t want to be that person!) While there are a lot of factors that contribute to the…

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Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-11.29.11-PM-770x500 ACF 5.10 Introduces Block API v2 Support, Block Preloading, and Security Improvements design tips

ACF 5.10 Introduces Block API v2 Support, Block Preloading, and Security Improvements

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has released version 5.10, the first major release since the plugin was acquired by Delicious Brains. It introduces several new features that were previously experimental, closing out tickets that were started by previous owner Elliot Condon. The release enables HTML escaping by default, which helps prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. It…

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good-design-vs-functional-website How to Balance “Good Design” vs. a Functional Website design tips

How to Balance “Good Design” vs. a Functional Website

It’s the chicken and egg debate of website design: What comes first “good design” or functional design? Both answers are right… and wrong. Unlike much of what we share on Design Shack, this is more of a personal essay on the benefits of each type of thinking and why I’ll design with function over “good…

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