Top 10 Most Illustrated Web Designs

There are millions of websites live on the internet, and you must be one proud web site owner. But due to the very similar look web sites having these days, the original look of any website is lost somewhere and there are very few things you can actually do to make them unique or let’s say make them stand out of the league. Adding illustrated web designs is definitely one on the list of those few things which can actually help you in giving your site that out of the league look.

Today, I’d like to share with you ten unique, fantastic websites that incorporate illustrated images into the design to make them most illustrated web designs. Some do this with simple PNG and JPEG files, while others use Flash in order to make the page interactive. I hope you enjoy the list.

Most Illustrated Web Designs

#1 Hugs For Monsters

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Hugs For Monsters is the homepage of designer and illustrator Joe Lifrier. The top of each page has a unique colorful drawing that showcases his unique style of illustrations.

#2 The Great Bearded Reef

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The Great Bearded Reef is a sharp design that was created for the self-proclaimed “bearded one” Josh Willis in order to apply for the position of “Island Caretaker” in Australia.

#3 Pieoneers

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At the bottom of the Pieoneers design is an illustrated ice cream character smiling on the moon while sitting aboard a spaceship with a fruit-filled pie on top. I have no idea what the connection is between space and ice cream, but the design highly creative and definitely unique.

#4 Meomi

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Arguably the cutest website on the web, Meomi has an interactive design that will make anyone smile. Whenever you scroll over the outside of the design (that is powered by Flash), something happens. For example, the little animal on the right side of the page will play his banjo, and the nearby piano will play piano music.

#5 Alex Buga

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This is one of the most original personal websites I have ever seen. Every area of the website can be viewed by interacting with the objects on the home page. Alternatively, you can navigate the site by clicking on the AB logo at the top left corner of the design to make a traditional navigation menu appear. From the clock on the wall that tells the actual time to the music player that lets you play around with beats and sounds, Alex Buga’s website is a fun website to visit and a great example of what he can do.

#6 Platin

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Platin features a colorful, interactive Flash-based illustration that was used to promote a new apartment block. The transitions from one section to another are beautiful.

#7 K4 Laboratory

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The K4 Lab website has been featured on many design lists over the last few years (and rightly so). It remains as a great example of how Flash can complement a website design rather than hinder it.

#8 The Many Faces Of

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A hilarious website that looks at the many faces of Lenonardo Dicaprio, the Goonies, John Cusack, and Alan Rickman. Each section contains a large illustration in the header, as well as illustrated images throughout the content area.

#9 Somos La Pera Limonera

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A fantastic illustration of three designers sitting under a pear tree.

#10 Deborah Cavenaugh

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Deborah Cavenaugh’s homepage looks more like a painting than a web design. The colorful aspects blend into the content area, most notably with the painted search button in the top right corner.


Share your thoughts on these illustrated web designs and whether you liked any of them. Also, check which one suits to your website the best.And don’t forget to see Top Web Templates To Start Your 2017 and Few Ways To Make Your Site Easily Accessible

All WordPress Products At One Place – Weblizar

Recently we have launched many new themes and plugins to give that attractive look and provide that much needed power to your website simultaneously.

This blog post is dedicated to summate all Weblizar Products at one place creating an index for all you people so that it wont be tough for you to scrabble through all the products.


PLUGINS

#1 Pinterest Feed Pro

Display Pinterest Feed Like Profile Stats Boards and Pins on WordPress Website. Pinterest Feed Shortcode and Pinterest Feed Widget Available In The Plugin.

#2 Appointment Scheduler Pro

Automate your appointments scheduling and maintain them all at one place through Appointment Scheduler. Go carefree as far as your clients appointments is concerned. Appointment Scheduler Pro will take care of the rest.

#3 SEO Image Optimizer Pro

SEO Image Optimizer is a SEO friendly plugin. This plugin dynamically replaces title and alt tag of images. All changes will done without effecting the database. Plugin also resized and compressed the images to boost your site speed. So activate the plugin, give a pattern and you are ready to go.

#4 Newsletter Subscription Form Pro

Plugin are track Subscribers with Auto and Manually Notification mail system. It increase your traffic on your website. Subscription Form are provide the different type of forms.

#5 Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode Pro

Create website coming soon page, launch page, under construction page, under maintenance page, landing page using beautiful responsive premium templates with multiple features like background color, slide show, YouTube, Vimeo video background count down timer, newsletter subscription form, about us, services, team, contact us, business location on Google map, social media profiles and many more.

#6 Recent Related Post And Page Pro

Show recent and related posts and pages using shortcode & widget on your WordPress blog.

#7 About Author Pro

Display Your All Blog Users Profile in Various Style.

#8 Gallery Pro

With Gallery Pro you can Add unlimited images on your blog site. Design various types of image, video, link gallery using this plugin. Gallery Pro provide you light box image preview and two gallery layout with various fonts.

#9 Flickr Album Gallery Pro

An awesome gallery plugin to plublish Flickr Albums on your WordPress blog site.

#10 Photo Video Link Gallery Pro

Display your WordPress content link Photo, Video, Link, Image etc in Gallery format With CSS3 Hover Animation & Display With Lightbox.

#11 Ultimate Responsive Image Slider Pro

A Perfect Responsive Image Slider plugin for WordPress. Contain 5 types of slider layout. Tested on all browser like Chrome, Mozilla, Safari, IE etc.

#12 Instagram Gallery Pro

A very fast & easy way to display your Instagram images as gallery on WordPress blog.

#13 Responsive Portfolio Pro

A Perfect Responsive Portfolio Plugin for display content like images, vimeo/youtube video, Albums etc.

#14 Lightbox Slider Pro

A Complete Lightbox Gallery Plugin With 8 Types Of Lightboxes.

#15 Responsive Photo Gallery Pro

A Highly Animated Image Gallery Plugin For WordPress


THEMES

#1 Corporal Premium

Corporal Premium is a responsive and fully customizable template for Business and Multi-purpose theme. You can use it for your business, portfolio, blogging etc. Custom menus to choose the menu in Primary Location that is in Header area of the site which is ideal for creating a corporate/business website.

#2 Explora Premium

Explora Premium is a multi-purpose responsive theme coded & designed with a lot of care and love. You can use it for your business, portfolio, blogging or any type of site. Explora is Responsive and flexible based on BOOTSTRAP CSS framework that adapts your website to mobile devices and the desktop or any other viewing environment.

Explora focusses on the business template, awesome Caroufredsel slider, Powerful but simple Theme Options for full CMS control option to match your logo & website, wide layout, light & dark color skin, translation ready and much more. Explora is Woo-commerce Ready theme.

#3 Scoreline Premium

Scoreline is a responsive and fully customizable template for Business and Multi-purpose theme.The Theme has You can use it for your business, portfolio, blogging or any type of site.Custom menus to choose the menu in Primary Location that is in Header area of the site. which is ideal for creating a corporate / business website.

Scoreline is Retina ready.We focused on usability across various devices, starting with smart-phones.scoreline is a Cross-Browser Compatible theme that works on All leading web browsers.In footer area theme offer the Social Media Links to add your Social Links here. translation ready and many more.

#4 Beautyspa Premium

Beauty Spa  Premium  is a simple and easy to use, powerful and professional looking, resourceful and responsive WordPress beauty and spa website theme. BeautySpa   is a flexible and versatile platform for webmasters from all walks of life, regardless of previous coding experience, to quickly and effectively put together the most amazing and sharp looking websites dedicated to the Beauty Spa , health center, salon, spa and related service industry ventures and  eCommerce  Ready.

Beauty Spa   comes packaged with readymade, fully functional demo websites with all the necessary inner content pages to start off your spa or beauty salon website in a matter of minutes.

Beauty Spa  focusing on the business template, awesome Caroufredsel slider, Powerful but simple Theme Options for full CMS control option to match your logo & website, wide layout, light & dark color skin, translation ready and much more. BeautySpa is Woo-commerce Ready theme.

Beauty Spa  is packed with useful features indispensable in crafting an outstanding online presence for your beauty and spa business. It includes custom page templates for  services and photo galleries of your business. Moreover, it has a ‘make an appointment’ button to help them easily schedule a treatment session at your spa business.

Beauty Spa Premium WordPress Theme is versatile  health care business WordPress theme suitable for spa, spa salon, sauna, massage , medical business, massage center, beauty center, eCommerce and beauty salon websites.

#5 Healthcare Premium

Healthcare is a perfect solution for any medical and healthcare-related businesses. Healthcare is a fully dynamic, well structured and beautiful WordPress theme which is specifically designed for hospitals, health clinics, dentists and everyone else involved in health services. You can use it for your business, portfolio, blogging or any other type of business vertical to make your website.

HealthCare is Responsive and flexible based on BOOTSTRAP CSS framework that adapts your website to mobile devices and the desktop or any other viewing environment.

#6 Enigma Premium Theme

Enigma Premium theme is a super professional one page WordPress theme for modern businesses. Ideal for creative agencies, startups, small businesses, and freelancers and best of all it’s so easy to use that you can have your website up in minutes. Perfect to promote your work or your creative business. It is cross-browser compatible, fully responsive, and retina ready.Enigma is one of our most customizable and flexible themes, you can create practically unlimited versions of your website, your imagination is the only limit. It includes an awesome slider, filterable portfolio, beautiful galleries, different background patterns, rich color changer, light/dark color skins, boxed/wide layout styles, additional page options and much more. Compatible with WPML & Woo Commerce Plugin.

#7 Creative Premium

Creative Premium is perfectly scalable, performance and responsive, multi-purpose WordPress theme and suitable for Business. Perfect to promote your work or your creative business. It is cross-browser compatible, fully responsive, and retina ready.Creative is one of our most customizable and flexible themes, you can create practically unlimited versions of your website, your imagination is the only limit. It includes an awesome slider, filterable portfolio, beautiful galleries, different background patterns, rich color changer, light/dark color skins, boxed/wide layout styles, additional page options and much more. Compatible with WPML & Woo Commerce Plugin.

#8 Incredible-Premium-Theme

Incredible Premium  is an incredibly superfine multipurpose responsive theme coded & designed with a lot of care and love. You can use it for your business, portfolio, blogging or any type of site.

Incredible is Responsive and flexible based on BOOTSTRAP CSS framework that adapts your website to mobile devices and the desktop or any other viewing environment.

We focused on usability across various devices, starting with smartphones.Incredible is a Cross-Browser Compatible theme that works on All leading web browsers.Incredible is Retina ready.

#9 Chronicle Premium Theme

Chronicle Premium is new WordPress Theme styled with modern design and follows latest trends in Websites. Coded with HTML5 standards and SEO recommendations.

Chronicle  is fully responsive and works on all Desktop & Mobile devices and all modern web browsers. Customization is fully integrated into WordPress native customizer and you can see changes in real time. Our Theme Builder, where you can click select and drag & drop sections of Theme, is included as well.

#10 Guardian Premium Theme

Guardian Premium Theme is a super professional one page WordPress theme for modern businesses. Ideal for creative agencies, startups, small businesses, and freelancers and best of all it’s so easy to use that you can have your website up in minutes.

Perfect to promote your work or your creative business. It is cross-browser compatible, fully responsive, and retina ready.Creative is one of our most customizable and flexible themes, you can create practically unlimited versions of your website, your imagination is the only limit.

It includes an awesome slider, filterable portfolio, beautiful galleries, different background patterns, rich color changer, light/dark color skins, boxed/wide layout styles, additional page options and much more. Compatible with WPML & Woo Commerce Plugin.

#11 Green-lantern Premium Theme

Introducing Green-Lantern, a premium WordPress theme. With its light and clean design it’s a smart choice for big companies, smaller businesses and freelancers. Green-Lantern  has everything you need to take your company to the next level, but most of all it’s extremely easy to set up and use: your new website we’ll be ready in no time.

Green-Lantern is creative, modern business  theme, with responsive layout and multipurpose design best for corporate sites. With Green-Lantern you can easily build your business sites quickly.

#12 Weblizar Premium Theme

Weblizar Premium theme is a super professional one page WordPress theme for modern businesses. It is cross-browser compatible, fully responsive, and retina ready.

This professional online store is designed by qualified developers in accordance with modern standards. It combines a compelling look with a great functionality and smooth navigation that ensure a first rate buying experience to the customers.


Please feel free to get in touch with any suggestions or queries at lizarweb[at]gmail[dot]com.

Pinterest Feed Pro

I’m sure by now you have heard of Pinterest being the king of traffic referrals to third-party sites. As the social network continues to grow, what better way to take advantage of their drive than to make your WordPress site as Pinterest-friendly as possible? And these integrations are made plenty easy with the right WordPress plugin.

Keeping in mind the need of pinterest feeds to be shared on your site, we have built an amazing plugin that will help you in showcasing your pinterest profile on your website with ease.

Pinterest-Feed-Pro-Wordpress-PluginWe’ve launched Pinterest Feed Pro, an out of the league WordPress plugin to give your site that much needed additional support and to backup your Pinterest feeds onto your website.

How Is Pinterest Feed Pro Going To Boost Your Marketing Goals?

Increase Your Brand Authority

Expand Your Reach

Showcase Your Products

 

Download the FREE version – Pinterest Feed

Purchase the PRO version – Pinterest Feed Pro

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Most Common Web Design Mistakes – Coffin For A Website

Every day many websites are going live with as many design concepts, we encounter some of the best designs we have ever seen and on the other the hand, sometimes we come across so silly designed websites that prove to be a coffin for that website. Any new visitor coming to that particular website will found himself lost and will abandon the website with that kind of design. So, now the big question is how should we design our website or what are the most common web design mistakes web designers make?

Building a website can be daunting but the real challenge lies in making it usable. The problem is most web designers forget that the website wasn’t created for themselves but to solve the users’ needs. They give creativity priority over practicality and usability.

Let’s see some,

Most Common Web Design Mistakes

Out of many mistakes that we may or may not have seen, we are going to talk out the most blunderous mistake web designers do.

#1 Search The Search Box

The web is like an archive of information. Whether it’s a corporate website or merely a blog, a search box is essential. The visitor might be looking for something that is hidden within the website, with the search box, chances are, visitors will get what they want.

Suggestions: Google Custom Search is a neat, simple and effective way to get started. It enables visitors to search your site in an efficient manner. Just copy the HTML code from the control panel and paste it into your website and that’s it, you’ve got a search function right on your website.

#2 Poor Readability And Unclarity

This is a crucial element of web design. Of course, a good interface design will grab the users’ attention but users have to read the text to be able to grasp the information they desire. Some websites use the most bizarre font styles and sizes that make reading a pain.

Suggestions: Fortunately, there are simple ways that you can do to improve the users’ reading experience on your website.

  1. Compare color schemes of most major sites and notice how the colors improve readability.
  2. Use a Sans serif typeface as it allows for easy reading on the web

#3 Cluttered Content Layout

A website’s content is what drives traffic to it. How the content is structured is what will make it a success or a failure. Users do not read unless absolutely necessary but scan through information and pick out points of interest on a web page. Some designers just put a block of text on the web page and totally neglect headings, sub-headings, bullets, keywords, paragraphs, etc.

Use an appropriate page title for each web page so users know exactly where they are. Some designers even forget to name the web page.

Overall, the worst in this category will be putting inaccurate, inaccessible, insignificant or out-of-date content on your website. The content must coincide with the overall theme of the website and be useful. If a page is under construction, why bother putting it up? If a designer really must, then it is only temporary and 3 weeks will no longer be deemed temporary.

Suggestions: Organize content on your website using HTML and CSS should be used when creating the design of your pages.

  1. Create enough whitespace between your text and images by using margins.
  2. Update and be consistent. The purpose of updating is not just to add new content but to spot and correct past mistakes.

#4 Navigation Issues

Navigation within a website should be seamless. Users should be able to find their way around easily. While there is no standard for navigation within a website, especially now as more new web development technologies emerge, it is imperative to understand that navigation must be intuitive and consistent.

If the text is used as navigation, it should be concise. Visual metaphors should not be re-invented. If hyperlinks are used, then they should stand out from the body of the text. Dead links should have no place on any web page whatsoever. This increases user confusion and wastes time. And one that is even just as worse is having a link on the homepage that links to the homepage.

Suggestions:

  1. Make navigation smooth by using textual descriptions for all links. Provide alt text for images. Use alternative text description techniques for Flash or Javascript links.
  2. Organize and structure your navigation in tandem with the theme of the website. Personal websites can afford to be more creative yet accessible but a business website requires more efficiency and clarity.

Remember, if users can’t find what they want in less than 3 clicks, most will leave immediately.

#5 Uneven Interface Planning

Excessive creativity can be just that. Excessive! Some designers take it to another level when creating websites by creating different designs for every web page within a website. This is by no means confusing to the user. And utterly annoying. No matter how outstanding and attractive a website is, if the overall look and feel is not consistent, users cannot relate to it and feel less in control. Thus, leaving as soon as they arrived.

Suggestions:

  1. Use a standard consistent template for every page with links to the main sections of the site.
  2. The keyword is simple. Create aesthetically simple designs and users will never get confused on your website.

#6 Nonresponsiveness

I’m sure we’ve visited websites where you have to scroll horizontally. This is an absolute no-no in modern web design. A good designer will develop websites that fit on most screen sizes. The currently optimized layout for websites currently is 1024 x 768 pixels.

Suggestions: It’s hard and almost impossible to cater the design to fit every resolution especially when visitors are now surfing from mobile phones and netbooks, but we can get a rough idea what are the generally used screen resolutions with these following ways:

  • Check your stats – Analytic services like Google Analytics provides you information about what monitor resolution they are using. These are useful information you should know before initiating your next revamp.
  • W3 Schools Browser Stats – W3 Schools gives clear lists of the most popular browser used by netizens and sort them according to popularity. There are other interesting and important statistics too.

#7 Complex Registration Forms

Registration forms are tricky. How much information do you require from the user? Gone are the days where a user had to enter a zillion details to register to your website. Some websites make most registration fields mandatory and validate the fields to the extent where the user is frustrated after a few tries. Remember, users, visit a website to acquire information. Not the other way round.

Someecard‘s simple form makes registration painless.

Suggestions: Compare registration forms across communities on the web and understand what basic information is required of the user during the registration process.

More: 9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design – This post on Smashing Magazine takes an in-depth look at registration forms amongst other usability mistakes.

#8 Deceitful Images On The Website

Too many images on a web page is a huge turn-off. Images can be used to capture users’ attention but it can also be a distraction or just plain aggravating. Images should be used to illustrate and guide the user where appropriate.

Animations are awesome and a powerful medium. Especially when used appropriately. When it’s a cycle or just too much on a web page, it gets on the users’ nerves. Users don’t have the patience, time or resources so designers must offer alternatives or better yet, the skip button if it’s a full page animation.

More: Flash: 99% Bad – Use Flash appropriately. It’s been almost 10 years since Jakob Nielsen published this article but it’s still relevant in terms of Flash usability especially the Breaks Web Fundamentals piece.

#9 Jumbled Pages, More Blank Space

Too many designers forget about whitespace and its importance. They are so engulfed in their own design creativity that they forget that it’s not about them. Thus, they try to cram as much as they can onto a single page. End result? A busy, cluttered and unreadable page.

kylestanding make good use of whitespace in their design.

Here are few articles to give you a good idea of the importance of whitespace in web design:

#10 Background Music, Huge Setback

Users don’t want cool, they seek efficiency. And yes, 99 percent don’t care about the music on your website. Some designers make it worse by putting different background music on every web page.

Suggestions: Don’t use background music, but if you must, create a frame for the code and user controls. That way, the music loops continuously, instead of changing each time a new page is loaded within the website. And the user can stop or pause whenever.

WRAPPING UP

K.I.S.S is the bottom line, oh I meant Keep It Simple, Stupid. And that is actually what people are liking most in a website, if it is simple, it’s easily usable.

Hope you have gained much of insight on common web design mistakes.

With mistakes, also comes inspirations, so don’t forget to read Top 10 Web Design Trends and Few Ways To Make Your Site Easily Accessible.

 

Top 10 Ways To Find Topics For Your Blog Those Are In Trend

Being a content writer/blogger, this is the biggest challenge one faces after some time as the content you are posting should be fresh, should be of your niche and should be in trend. Now, to put all three factors at one place and then generating a fresh new blog out of it could be messy, time consuming and confusing at times.
So, now the big question arises, How to find topics for your blog?

Thanks to technological advancements, now we have certain online tools to determine the weight of the topic and how much attraction is it going to generate.

Content about trending topics is beneficial because you know that what you’re writing about is already popular. There’s likely to be good search volume and it’s something that is top of mind for your target audience. Combination of evergreen content and trending content is likely to be liked by people.

When referring to trending content, this isn’t just referring to what is popular today, but also topics and issues that may have been trending over a longer period.

So how to find topics for your blog?

1. Google Alerts

It’s sometimes difficult to keep up to date with the niche you blog about. Imagine topics such as WordPress, web design and digital marketing; they are tough to keep up with and have many new articles and news pieces per day. Keeping up to date with everything being written would probably take up most of your day. This is where Google Alerts can help to find topics for your blog.

You can set up alerts for articles containing keywords that you specify. You’ll then receive emails from Google containing links to new articles they find that are relevant for the keywords you are monitoring. You can set alerts up with several options. I am content with just getting the best results once per day, but you can set up alerts to email you everything as it happens. If the topic you blog about is very popular, you may find getting alerts for everything a little too much.

2. Quora

Question and answer sites like Quora can somtimes proves to be a great source to gather idea for your blog post. You can sign up and follow specific topics. You can then set up email updates about the most relevant questions and answers for your interests.

Often the questions being asked are great topics for blog posts as you can see what information people want to know more about right now. Obviously, you shouldn’t just copy the answer provided. You should answer the question in your own way and make sure that you add value to the answer.

3. Reddit

If you want to find out the most popular news for the topics you blog about, Reddit should be one of your go-to resources. Everything here is shared by its members and up-voted if it is popular. It is a great way to filter through the less interesting news, plus the comments can be very insightful. Reddit users can comment on each post and often have quite lengthy discussions. This can help you home in on specifically what your potential readers find most interesting about the news piece.

Reddit isn’t just for news, people also use the site to post questions. Similar to Q&A specific sites, these questions and answers can be a great source of blog post ideas since you will know what your target readers want to find out more about.

4. Google Trends

Google Trends is a great tool for viewing search interest for keywords and topics over time. If you haven’t used it before and don’t know what it is, Trends provides search demand data direct from Google. You can view this data by keyword, location, topic and country. You can then decide if interest in the topic you want to write about is increasing, decreasing or has remained stable over time.

Not only can you check the trends of keywords you are already aware of, but Trends will provide both the top and rising related topics and queries. You can use these topics and queries as inspiration for blog post ideas that are gaining popularity.

5. Comments On Blogs

The comments sections of posts are a great source for blog post ideas. Often, questions are asked in the comment section when a post didn’t go into enough detail or perhaps, didn’t touch upon a related topic. These readers want to know more and it is this information you can create a post around.

The comments you research can either be on your own posts, with you expanding upon something you have already written, or you could get your ideas from the comments sections of other people’s posts. Obviously, if you are looking for trending topics, then you will want to be monitoring the most recent posts. To keep up to date with all the latest articles, consider signing up for your favourite sites’ email newsletters, so you don’t have to manually check for new posts.

6. Various Forums

People often go to forums for advice and many of the questions asked on them are likely to make interesting blog posts. When selecting topics to write about, try and find those that have had quite a lot of engagement as well as being recent. If there are multiple threads about the same issue, it’s likely to be a hot topic and something worth posting about.

7. Hashtags

Some of the tools used here aren’t always going to be able to alert you to the hot topics; the things that everyone is talking about right now. For example, the traditional keyword research tools like Adwords Keyword Planner won’t provide you with the data you need to identify something is trending right now, but rather they will alert you to trends over long time periods. If you’re keen to write pieces about today’s hot topics, then monitoring hashtags will be a useful strategy.

If you want to keep it simple, you could go to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or any hashtag using social network of your choice, and just do a search for a relevant hashtag to the topic you want to write about. Browse what people are sharing and see if there is anything that stands out as a topic you want to write about.

You can view the trending hashtags on Twitter, but unfortunately, you can only customise this by location, rather than by topic. If you want to make this process a little more efficient, you’ll need to use some tools.

Ritetag can be used for free (there is a premium version) to monitor trending hashtags. You can enter topics and they’ll send you an email to alert if any related hashtags are beginning to trend. You can also use their tool to find out information about specific hashtags, such how many tweets there are per hour, what times of day people tweet the most and which countries are tweeting.

Similar to Ritetag, you can also use Hashtagify to monitor hashtags and set up alerts. It’s simply a process of searching for the hashtags that you want clicking on the ‘Activate Email Alerts’ button.

8. Keyword Research Tools

When looking for trending blog post ideas, keyword research tools can be a great source of inspiration. You can find out what your potential readers are searching for and tailor your content around that.

The Adwords Keyword Planner is still my go-to keyword research tool. It’s free, but you will need to sign up for an Adwords account if you want to use it. Google made some changes to the tool recently; if you aren’t spending enough with Adwords, you won’t get a specific value for search volume. Instead, you will get a search volume range. Whilst this is more ambiguous than a specific value, even the range data is useful for getting an idea of approximate search demand and for comparing terms.

The Keyword Planner also provides trends data. You’ll be able to see how search demand has changed for either a keyword or group of keywords over the past 12 months. You can use this to help you identify if a keyword or topic is gaining popularity.

In addition to the Adwords Keyword Planner, there are many other keyword research tools you can use. Here are just a few:

9. Analytics

Analytics won’t provide as many keywords as it did years ago, due to Google withholding keyword data from organic search traffic. However, you may still find some interesting keywords in your analytics tool from other organic search sources, such as Bing. You can use Google Analytics for free if you aren’t already using another analytics tool.

Monitor your analytics to identify the keywords being used to find your site. You may start to notice similar queries popping up time and time again, particularly if those topics are beginning to trend. If you don’t have content that is directly relevant to these search terms, then now might be the time to create that.

10. Google Search Console

The keywords people are using to find your website can be a useful source of ideas for content. Google Search Console’s Search Analytics allows you to view the keywords that your website has appeared in search results for and how many clicks those keywords have resulted in. Of course, the more clicks and impressions there are, the higher the demand is for that keyword.

You can click on individual queries and view clicks and impressions for those over time. Of course, how well you rank for them will affect these metrics, but you may still be able to spot trending terms. Regardless, if keywords have a high number of impressions, then you know that it is something people want more information on. You may find quite specific queries that can be great to base a blog post around, or they would work well as part of a larger post.

Wrapping Up

Each of these tools and techniques are capable enough to help you when you are stuck with a topic. Although using them together will allow you to dig up the precise information about any topic and how relevant it is to your niche and how trendy it is among the people.

You can research about certain topics that revolves around your business category or your customer niche through various tools listed in this blog post and then can come to a conclusion about what to write about in more detailed manner. So, this blog post answers your question of how to find topics for your blog?

Apart from this do check out our latest plugin Appointment Scheduler Pro which is designed specifically for the people who struggle with their customer appointments on pen and paper and Pinterest Feed Pro keeping those people in mind who has something of value to display from their pinterest lobby on to their website.

Give Your Site A Fonts Facelift

As we entered new year, we tried every possible thing to change our online presence in a better way so that it would look good for a newly visiting prospect. No doubt, our websites appearance affects our prospects purchasing decisions. Where we have tried and tested so many things, why not give a fonts facelift to out website so that it will drop that much needed impact onto your site visitor.

Let’s talk about some possible revamps we can do to our site, my suggestion is to start with typography.

Step 1. How Your WordPress Website’s Current Typography Looks Like?

Before even starting any changes to your site, assess what you have currently and most importantly how things are going on in your niche industry. I’ll suggest to analyze some top notch competitors of your niche. Look at the way their site is performing depending on how they have arranged their fonts and typography.

In order to evaluate a website’s typography, ask yourself the following questions:

1. From where the current font(s) came?

Are you aware of how your site’s current font selections came about? If your site uses the default fonts from your WordPress theme or they were chosen on a whim, that’s usually a good sign that they need to be changed. While they probably look good enough, they were not hand-selected to fit with your brand’s unique style. Consistency in design is key – from the images you use all the way down to the typography.

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2. Is your fonts family complete?

Alright, so now after a lot of research and commitment we’ve finally found the best suited fonts those are meshing well with our site and giving a fresh new attractive look to our website. But is it complete? or just a shorter version of what’s going to be launched later. In short, the question that should come into your mind is whether the fonts you’ve selected is complete or not?

If you’re unsure of whether or not you have a complete typeface that includes all letters, numbers, and symbols, go back to the source of the font. There should be a preview field where you can enter custom text. Insert the following lines of text to ensure that all essential characters are present:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
àèéïöùüçûæÆœŒ
.,;:?!/[]{}()*-– —…“”‘’_
0123456789
≤≥÷+=≈≠±-·√°@€£$%&*|«»\<>/~”‘§¶©®™/

3. Are there any readability issues?

Mac users, I’d suggest you to download Font Book. Once you’ve digged up the font of your interest, install it in Font Book to test for readability issues. You can use this to:

  • Check for a complete set (like with test #2 above).
  • Preview the font digitally to get a sense for how it’ll appear on your website.
  • Print the full character set at different sizes and styles to determine which ones are the most reader-friendly.

This also happens to be a great tool for storing your fonts and keeping them organized for the next time you want to give your typography a makeover.

4. How is it look on mobile?

There are some online free tools like Responsinator which makes it much easier to check for responsive compatibility easy. These same responsive checkers can also be used to review your site’s typography for mobile-friendliness.

The standard recommendation for cross-platform font sizing is 16 points or more. That may not be the case if you choose a highly stylized or tightly-kerned font, so be sure to verify that on one of these tools before committing.

You can also use this guide to popular font sizing to give you an idea of where to start with fonts facelift.

5. Is Your Font Color Reader-Friendly?

Revamping your site with the correct set of fonts and making the size ideal for reader isn’t the only thing to be done.

Nope, it’s also about finding the right color. If you haven’t experimented with this Material Design Palette yet, take a moment to do so now. You’ll see that regardless of which branding colors you select, the primary and secondary font color are always black or a shade of grey.

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6. How about accessibility?

Web developers know all about how to make websites accessible. However, if you’re really looking to give your typography a universal-friendliness in this next iteration, pay closer attention to factors that may affect those who are visually impaired or color blind.

Start by running your website through Color Oracle. This tool will simulate how your website appears to those who are color blind.

You never know who may come to your website, so it’s important to consider these factors now while you’re taking the time to give your typography a facelift.

Step 2: Learn Typography Best Practice

Font choice is a personal decision, much like everything else in web design. So while I cannot tell you which fonts to use, I still think it’s important to lay out the best practices to follow while doing your research, testing, and implementation of new ones.

Here are the basic rules to follow:

  • Match your brand: Select a font that follows the design rules you’ve already established for your brand.
  • Keep it simple: Use no more than two or three typefaces across your website. That being said, it’s okay to use a font face that’s a little out of the ordinary, just make sure it’s easy to read.
  • Maintain consistency: Use consistent font styling throughout the site. In other words, all headings should use the same font, size, color, and style. The same goes for all body text, navigational text, hyperlinked text, and any other types of text you use on the site.
  • Create contrast: While consistency across font type matters, there should be a contract between headings and basic body text. You can do this by pairing a sans serif font with a serif or a cursive font with a handwritten one. Just be sure the contrast is striking, though not to the point of being off-putting.
  • Check the color: As noted earlier, black or shades of dark gray work best for readability. There’s also the background color to take into consideration as well, so it’s important to pair colors accordingly (i.e. light text on a dark background and dark text on a light background).
  • USE ALL CAPS SPARINGLY: All caps text can be very difficult to read. Either that or it may give off the wrong vibe. So, if you feel you have to use it, do so sparingly.
  • Establish hierarchy: Just because the general rule is to use a font size of at least 16 points, that doesn’t mean all your site’s typefaces need to stick to that minimum limit. Headers, subheaders, and body text should be sized to establish a clear hierarchy in terms of what’s most important.
  • Don’t forget about spacing: Once you’ve implemented the new typography on your site, you’ll want to optimize its spacing. If there are issues with lines spaced too closely with one another, fix the leading. If there are issues with readability within a line of text, you’ll need to adjust the kerning and maybe even the tracking. Ideally, each line of text should stretch no more than 15 words.
  • A/B test before making a commitment: While you might be ecstatic about your new font choice, other people might not feel the same way. Do yourself a favor and make sure to A/B test your new font choice before fully committing to it. Your website (and business) will thank you for it later.

I hope these few fonts facelift tips and tricks will help you out in revamping your site to increase more visitors.
Leave your precious comments below if you are facing any challenges or if you want to add value to this blog post by sharing your experiences.

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Top Web Templates To Start Your 2017

The single thought of you using a ready-made template for your website makes a lot of web designers envy the design so much. Top web templates are wrecking the industry with their readymadeness and awfulness.

The ultimate thing is, while there are lot of website templates out there with cons and pros, there are plenty of templates that falls in the category of good examples developed with lot of care and inspiration.

Lets see such kind of good examples that are ruling the web design templates out in the market. Who knows maybe you’ll find what you are searching for so long.

Top Web Templates To Start Your 2017 With

1. MAPLE (WordPress)

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There are six reasons you’ll love Maple, say its developers: its bold and unique design, it’s responsive and retina-ready, it features light and dark styles, parallax header backgrounds and multi sidebar support, and it’s super-easy to use. With 15 layout combinations plus plenty of features and widgets, at $49 it gives you your money’s worth.

2. BETHEME (HTML5)

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Why settle for one theme when you can have over 210? Described as the most complete, comprehensive and flexible HTML template for business or personal websites, BeTheme is simply crammed with stuff. Fully responsive and retina-ready, with all the parallax and smooth scrolling features you’d expect, it’s an absolute monster and the biggest headache it’ll cause you is trying to choose from the enormous selection of pre-built sites. For $19 you can’t go wrong.

3. JUPITER (WordPress)

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Jupiter confidently describes itself as the world’s fastest and lightest WordPress theme ever, and its latest version been completely reviewed and rewritten to deliver lightning-fast pages that won’t thrash your CPU or drain your batter.

It uses GPU rendering to deliver smooth parallax scrolling, it features adaptive image resolution to ensure that pictures look great regardless of devices, and it comes with over 85 templates in case you don’t have time to build your own pages with its drag and drop interface. It’s not cheap at $59, but the results are worth it.

4. ENIGMA (WordPress)

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Enigma Premium theme is a super professional one page WordPress theme for modern businesses. Ideal for creative agencies, startups, small businesses, and freelancers and best of all it’s so easy to use that you can have your website up in minutes. Perfect to promote your work or your creative business. It is cross-browser compatible, fully responsive, and retina ready.

It is one of our most customizable and flexible themes, you can create practically unlimited versions of your website, your imagination is the only limit. It includes an awesome slider, filterable portfolio, beautiful galleries, different background patterns, rich color changer, light/dark color skins, boxed/wide layout styles, additional page options and much more. Compatible with WPML & Woo Commerce Plugin. With $39 to invest, this amazing theme will be yours.

5. SUMMER (Ghost)

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PXThemes specialises in Ghost template and themes, and Summer is one of its most popular offerings. For $19 you get a simple and clean template with plenty of options to help your content stand out, including author pages and full screen covers, parallax blog background covers, and Foundation 5 and Disqus integration.

6. CREATIVE (WordPress)

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Creative Premium is perfectly scalable, performance and responsive, multi-purpose WordPress theme and suitable for Business. Perfect to promote your work or your creative business. It is cross-browser compatible, fully responsive, and retina ready. $39 is what this theme will cost you but be assured as plenty of theme options makes it product for your money.

7. YUGA (Muse)

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If you’re using Muse and you want plenty of options as well as value for money, look no further than Yuga. Billed as a 6-in-1 creative multipurpose true parallax template, it comes with six themes with plenty of transitions and animation that are easy to implement. It has loads of online documentation, including step-by-step editing tutorials, and it’s yours for just $25.

8. AVADA (WordPress)

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Avada ($60) claims to be the best-selling WordPress theme of all, and it certainly has a lot going for it. It might be a third-party template, but the underlying framework is flexible enough to enable the crafting of all kinds of design styles, and there are tons of user-friendly tools and options for subsequently fine-tuning the resulting site.

9. RED CAP (HTML5)

redcap-html5-templateThis one’s a single-page HTML5 template, based on Bootstrap, boasting plenty of customisation options and a MailChimp subscription form. It’s primarily aimed at people wanting to create ‘coming soon’ landing pages for upcoming projects or products, and for $7 saves you the hassle of smashing together countdown scripts and the like yourself.

10. HUGE (Tumblr)

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This $19 effort by Precrafted is aimed at people wanting a blog that is heavy in imagery and videos. Many elements can be fully customized, and keyboard navigation makes it easy to quickly jump between posts when using traditional keyboard input. The design also includes a fixed (but not distracting) menu and options for controlling how photos appear.

I hope you have liked top web templates for 2017.

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Few Ways To Make Your Site Easily Accessible

Structuring a page and it’s assets makes it properly machine-friendly, whatever that machine is. Add the kind of common sense techniques that allow users (including users with disabilities) and machines to get straight to meaningful content, and for sure you are moving towards make your site easily accessible and search engine friendly.

We all are familiar with the power of WordPress which allows a newbie or non technical person to design and develop their own web property. This platform is simple to set up, and provides a solid framework for the themes and plugins that will determine how your content and functionality will go on for any visitor.

If you want your site to be accessible to individuals with disabilities, you’ll find that basic WordPress has much that is needed to facilitate the development of an accessible website, and it is not hard to take that further through the addition of plugins and good technique.

Before we get started, there are two important factors to be aware of. First, implementing these four techniques alone will not make any website totally accessible for everybody to the extent of complying with all the necessary  requirements but it will address the most common barriers to web access and deliver much greater accessibility.

Second, it’s important to understand that accessibility can only be achieved through the co-operation of design, development and best content authoring practices. A designer may design an accessible theme, a developer might add accessible functionality, but if a content author inserts a meaningful image without an alt tag, the full meaning of the web page will be inaccessible.

With that in mind, here are four tips for you to make your site easily accessible.

Alt Text For Your Images

It is well known that the single greatest barrier to web accessibility is using alt text properly to describe images on a web page. If this single point was addressed by everyone who builds websites, it would eradicate the largest number of accessibility complaints. And that’s the reason why we felt the urge to develop an amazing plugin SEO Image Optimizer, which fills the gap of missing alt tags on the images.

The fundamental point to understand is that if you are going to put images on your site, it is essential that you label them correctly with alt text. In other words, every image you are putting online must have a meaning for the robot to list your image on the search engines.

The information in the alt tag allows users of screen readers (which read web pages aloud to users with visual disabilities), text only browsers and slow connections that won’t load images to understand the information conveyed by images.

If an image does not have meaning, for example it is used purely for decoration, there are two ways to deal with it. If you load it as a background image using CSS, screen readers will ignore it and the image does not require an alt tag (be careful, becuase this also applies to meaningful images: if you load it in background, the screen reader will ignore it). If an image is displayed using HTML but is purely decorative, then use the alt tag but leave it empty. That tells the screen reader that an image is present but has no meaning for the user and can be ignored which allows to make your site more accessible for a reader

When you put label on your images, use some descriptive text that will allow people who cannot see to understand what the meaning of the image is. This requires judgement: why the image has been here and what message does it convey, and what words will best convey that same meaning. Don’t get caught up in literal descriptions of every visual detail, convey the meaning.

A classic example is an image of a magnifying glass used as a button to start a search. The image has a meaning, so it should be described. Describing it as “a magnifying glass” does not help the user. What they need to know is that clicking on this button will start a search, so alt text of “click here to search” or even just “search” may be most appropriate.

Only images that serve a purpose must be labeled. Examples of these are as follows:

Images that are used as buttons

Images that are used as links

Images that are used for any other controls

Images that directly relate to the content

This technique applies to all websites, of course, not just WordPress sites. WordPress, however, makes it easier than most, firstly by allowing the content author to switch between Visual and HTML views, and secondly by providing a field for alt text whenever an image is inserted using Add Media functionality.

Plugins For Better Accessibility

WordPress accessibility can be enhanced by using a variety of plugins. These plugins are easy to set up, and they will enable users with a wide range of disabilities to access the site. Here are some plugins I’ve found which will make your site easily accessible.

Access Keys

The Access Keys plugin allows access keys to be assigned to links and controls on your website. For instance, the home link may be assigned the access key combination alt+h and the search button may be assigned the alt+s key combination. Access keys, such as the examples provided, enable visually impaired users as well as those with mobility issues, to easily access what they want.

Easy Retweet

Easy Retweet is a plugin that will allow you to add accessible buttons to your page that facilitate sharing your content on Twitter. This way, if individuals with disabilities wish to share your pages with their friends, they can do so without any difficulty.

AStickyPostOrderER

AstickyPostOrderER lets you choose the order in which your content is displayed. You can choose to display content from oldest to newest or in the reverse order.

Hackadelic SEO Table of Contents

The Hackadelic SEO Table of Contents plugin enables you to provide a table of contents for either your posts or your pages. This will make your content easy to find.

WP-Polls

WP-Polls permits individuals with disabilities to participate in any polls you may have on your site

New plugins are being developed all the time. Use the WordPress dashboard functionality to search for more. Try different plugins and ask your users with disabilities to give you feedback

When using any plugins, make sure the plugins use are compatible with your chosen theme, as well as with one another. If your plugins are not compatible with your theme, they will either not work or will cause more problems for disabled users who try to browse your site. If your plugins are not compatible with one another, your site can be rendered unusable or content may be displayed incorrectly.

Way To Go With Headings

When you design pages, it is vital to structure the content using headings in the correct order: <h1>, <h2>, <h3> and so on. When you structure the content using headings, people using screen readers can get a summary of what the pages are about and navigate them more easily. Screen reader users can access the sections of content that they want by pressing the letter “H” to go forward and “shift+H” to go backwards.

You can label your content using headings one through six to make your site easily accessible. Check how your theme uses headings (for example, your theme may or may not apply <h1> to the site title and that site title may or may not appear on every webpage. Either way, make sure the first heading used is <h1> and the following headings (page title, page sub-sections, paragraph headings) descend in order through to <h6>, where appropriate.

There is some flexibility about the ordering, but the most sensible option is to keep headings in numerical order and really don’t mix them up as it will create an hazardous situation both for user and a search engine (Do no mix them like this –> <h1>, <h4>, <h2>, etc).

Navigation Links Are Useful

Finally, you need to have navigation links in your site design. These navigation links will allow users with disabilities to skip past the navigation bar or other menus and search boxes and jump to certain places on the page by clicking these links. Or, the user can quickly jump to desired sections on the site. These links need to appear wherever it is necessary for users to skip to meaningful content. Examples of what these links may say are:

Skip to Main Content

Jump to Navigation Bar

Jump to Search

Some WordPress themes may already provide such links. If this is the case, you will need to check to these links to see if you have to add any of your own. Other themes, however, will not provide navigation links. Thus, you will need to add these links yourself.

Wrapping Up

I’ll repeat what I’ve said earlier that none of these steps guarantee you 100% accessible website but yes it will boost your site’s accessibility for every visitor visiting your site and  your site is more accessible then 90% of the WordPress websites out there.

Visitors with disabilities will be able to navigate through your site just like other visitors. Since these visitors also include search robots, you should be assured of one thing that making your site accessible will also benefit your business and help you rank on top on the search engines ultimately resulting in more profit out of your business.

I hope this blog post was useful for you and you are taking some key elements from here that you’ll

 

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As a service-based business owner, scheduling appointments can be a real nightmare.

Not only can it be a huge and unpredictable time suck, but mis-scheduled appointments can also have a seriously negative impact on both your bottom line and your reputation. If you want to not only remain in business but prosper, scheduling appointments efficiently and reliably should be a top priority.

Fortunately, the solution to efficient and reliable appointments scheduling is a simple one: use a WordPress plugin

That’s the reason why we felt the need of the time and engaged in developing a unique top notch plugin which has super abilities to manage things around for you and that’s the exact point where appointment scheduler pro comes in handy.

How Proper Scheduling Can Boost Your Business

Automating scheduling works can not only save you time but definitely save you from very common human errors, they can boost your bottom line of work too.

Handling bookings and appointments by hand in this day and age is (at best!) inefficient, considering how many timesaving tools that can automate the entire process are available. The (typically small) fee required by such services is more than made up by the reduction in scheduling errors and increase in efficiency improvements which are not the case with appointment scheduler pro.

Better still, according to leading SaaS booking solution provider ScheduleOnce, using an online booking service can lead to a 3x increase in conversion rates for your services.

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Top 10 Web Design Trends

Top 10 Web Design Trends

If you’ll ask me one habit that all successful people carry with themselves, it will be to be updated in their business area. Same goes with web world as if you are doing any business online (who is not?) then you have to maintain your virtual store, business website or your blog up to date according to the running trends those are attracting people. The web is evolving at a rapid pace and new technologies and development techniques are appearing every day and that gave me a chance to talk about top 10 web design trends.

In this blog post, we are going to talk about Top 10 Web Design Trends which are going to take over the web world. The below list which we are going to elaborate in a while isn’t all new as it has some trends those were gaining or maintaining their popularity in the previous year. To stay ahead in the race, make sure every tini tiny bit of your website is trendy.

1. Color

When we design our homes, the color scheme of the walls is definitely a topic to get confused with and needs a lot of discussion and variations. It is not possible for us to paint a new color on the wall and then see whether it is looking good or not but thank god when we are creating our very own website, we have the liberty to try and test and play with the color scheme of our website until we are satisfied with the final output.

According to businessfinder,

  • 93% of consumers place color and appearance above other factors when making a buying decision.
  • 85% of shoppers state color as the primary factor in their decision to buy a product.
  • Brand recognition, which links directly to consumer confidence, is increased by 80% when the right colors are used.

Color choice for a website is incredibly important. It can influence visitors’ emotions, thoughts, and conversion rates. So, what are going to be the color trends for 2017?

Pantone has unveiled their 2017 color of the year – Greenery. It’s been chosen as a symbol of new beginnings; a refreshing and revitalizing shade.

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If you have right set of the color combination on your website, it is more likely for your customers to purchase your product.

2. Retro Is Back With Modern Twist

You never know what can appeal more to your customers and since now everybody is using the internet, we have retro designing with a modern twist. Retro lovers always seek for a pinch of retroism in the new web trends and now that is a real trend where people are mixing it with the modern style web designing to balance it out for a vast number of modern and retro lovers.

This interactive resume of Robby Leonardi is a brilliant example of modern retro. He has combined a semi/modern pixel art style with the side scrolling of a Super Marioesque video game.

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 3. Cinemagraphs

Cinemagraphs, as the name suggests, is a mixture of a photograph and a video. It contains a still image with some repeatedly moving elements that can prove to be an eye catcher as far as marketing your product is considered. They certainly made their spot in top 10 web design trends.

Cinemagraphs can either be GIF files or video. Both can result in rather large file sizes if the cinemagraph is of a high quality. Cinemagraph GIFs can easily be over 3MB, so you might want to consider streaming video instead.

You can check Flixel or Cinemagraphs for some quite astonishing cinemagraphy.

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4. Material Design

Google’s Material Design has been on the scene since 2014. It is essentially built of on the principle of paper and ink, translating the qualities of these into a digital format. For example, the use of shadows and edges to indicate what you should touch, such as buttons.

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In the past couple of years, Material Design has grown in popularity, with numerous themes and templates being created for CMSs as well as front-end frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap. One negative feedback you will hear for Material Design is that many of the sites built using it seem very similar; perhaps too similar. This is due to adhering too rigidly to the style of Material Design, rather than just applying the principles.

I’m anticipating that we will see many smaller web projects adopting Material Design as-is. Not just the Material Design principles, but the actual style or theme. However, we will likely see a portion of the design community actively going against Material Design, or at least going against the stereotypical style, whilst still implementing the principles.

5. Be Bold And Creative With Your Typography

The previous year saw the creative use of typography and 2017 is going to see the advancement by pushing the boundaries of web designing. Expect type to not only take up more space on the screen but also expect to see more creative typefaces than the usual web fonts you are used to.

Bolden did a great job my mixing the colors and implementing bold and much creative font types.

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6. Flexible or Modular Design

Implementation of flexible or modular designing in your web layout isn’t a new thing but it has been gaining the popularity among the population. According to some stats, 2011 was the year when people started showing interest in modular designing for their business or product based website and I am anticipating that it will keep on growing this year as well and certainly hold all right to be in the list of top 10 web trends.

Warwick University has also incorporated the modular design approach into their website.

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7. SVGs

Are you tired of logos and other images resizing terribly? If so, you should try out SVG files instead of the usual PNG and JPG formats. The SVG format isn’t suited to all images; they’ll only work with vector graphics, so you can’t go and infinitely scale any photos. However, for images like logos, they work brilliantly.

SVGs have been around since 1999, but still, we see the PNG and JPG formats being used for images when SVG would be the more appropriate format. This all seems to be changing though. You’ll likely have seen SVGs being mentioned more and Google Trends data shows that interest in SVGs has been growing year on year since 2013. I am anticipating increased usage of this format in 2017 as well as an increase in articles written on the topic.

Why should you use SVGs? The main reason is that your SVG image should render perfectly no matter what the scale. Also, images in the SVG format tend to have very small file sizes; great for your page speed.

If you want to see an SVG in action, then look no further than the WPMUDEV logo in the top left corner of this page. If you zoom in using your browser, you will see that the logo doesn’t become pixelated, no matter how much you enlarge it. Instead, the WPMUDEV logo remains sharp and of a high quality.

8. Flexbox

Flexbox is a CSS3 layout mode that makes it much more efficient and predictable when working with page layouts that will be displayed using various screen sizes and devices.

Flexbox has been steadily gaining interest, and with it now being supported by all modern browsers, it’s likely more front-end developers will be using it.

9. 360 Videos And Virtual Reality

I am one hundred percent sure that 2017 is going to be the year of VR. Many WordPress theme and plugin makers have already said that it is the future for web designing and they are working on projects like these.

If you aren’t already aware, Google VR View is a JavaScript API that easily allows you to add 360 video experiences to your own website. You can read more about Google’s VR View here.

An interactive, 360 web VR experience was created for the new Blair Witch movie. This is best viewed on mobile using a VR headset for your mobile or if you love traveling, Airpano is suitable for you to test.

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10. Microinteractions

Microinteractions are single, specific moments when a user is interacting with your website. It doesn’t have to be a website per se, but in our case, it is. These moments could be actions such as liking a post, sending a message or filling in a form field. The purpose of microinteractions during these moments is to provide feedback and guidance for the user, improving UX.

Microinteractions have become increasingly popular, and the ways in which feedback and guidance is provided to users is getting ever more creative. Expect to see much more of this in 2017.

 

Ending Up

Well, that’s pretty much it. Hopefully, this blog post has introduced you to some new web trends and technologies that you weren’t aware of about.

Be creative while designing your websites but keep it in mind that you are making changes those look appealing to your users, you don’t have to add up unnecessary changes just for the sake it’s trending.

If you haven’t read about Ecommerce Trends For WordPress, Read out loud.

Or WordPress Trends for 2017 or Content Marketing Trends for 2017.