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: WordPress themes for building larger, more co ..read more

The more than 59,000 free plugins in the WordPress official directory deal with nearly every feature or function to be put to use in any type of website. Premium WordPress plugins from third-party marketplaces are also available. The largest, CodeCanyon, has over 5200 WordPress plugins. The question is, do you have the time to sift through 59,425 free plugins? Would you do so even if you did had the time? We tested scores of WordPress plugins, narrowed the options, and listed what we consider to be the 8 top WordPress plugins for a range of key functions and purposes. We looked at plugins for ..read more

The good news is there is no shortage of awesome WordPress themes that can help you create an engaging and well-functioning website. The not-so-good news is that the options open to you can be overwhelming because of the thousands of great WordPress themes available. Finding one you can rely on to help you quickly create a beautiful website that will attract new visitors to your site. And encourage them to stick around can be a challenge. Theme selection is therefore a crucial step in the process of creating a WordPress website. The one you pick will go a long way toward determining the look a ..read more

Some people may tell you that anything worth inventing has already been invented. That is not true, it probably never will be, and it certainly will not be the case for the website design world, which just keeps growing and improving. Website requirements keep becoming more and more demanding. Website design has to correspondingly follow suit. Today’s websites have to be fast, responsive, user-friendly, and engaging in every detail. Multipurpose WordPress themes are great at helping website builders get a website up and running quickly and efficiently. That said, what is involved in finding on ..read more

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 WooCo ..read more

There is a huge variety of free and premium web design tools and resources to choose from to help you create stunning websites. They range from complete website design platforms to design frameworks and wireframing tools to plugins featuring “must have” functionalities. And, a whole lot of things in between. These design tools and resources don’t do everything for you, but they can sometimes come close. Many of them offer website features or functionalities. It would be difficult if not nearly impossible if you had to design and build them on your own. Conversely, most of them leave the actual ..read more

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. 5 new web design trends for ..read more

One description of a WordPress plugin could be “a software addon that packs a punch”. That doesn’t necessarily apply to every WordPress plugin. Even though that is more often than not the purpose behind them. At their best, plugins can be capable of taking a business to the next level, and that could be your business as well. One or more of the 9 essential WordPress plugins featured in this article could do that for you. Or, at a minimum give your websites some extra pizzazz, make them more engaging, or make them more useful. Having said that, you have to have created a quality website to begi ..read more

In its role of an online presence for your business, your website needs to represent your brand with nothing short of perfection. It is a task that is not necessarily all that easy to bring about. The right WordPress theme can make achieving that task not only doable, but if used to its full potential, a certainty. The challenge lies in finding the best theme for your brand when you have a cast of thousands to choose from. One that will load quickly and present content for your visitors in a way that will keep them interested and engaged. Most WordPress themes do that, some better than others ..read more

An effective, well-organized workflow is an important web design asset. It can be a critical asset for a professional web designer. But less experienced designers and beginners also appreciate having design tools or resources at their disposal. It makes their work easier and more efficient. There are many productivity-enhancing tools out there. Way too many in fact when it comes to trying to find one or more that would best meet your needs. When we talk about web design tools and resources, we don’t often use the word “leverage”. If indeed we ever use it at all. But the word seems to apply her ..read more