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What Is Adobe Express? Adobe Express is a cloud-based designing tool that allows users to create high-quality designs. Previously it was known as Adobe Spark and was relaunched by the company as Adobe Express back in December 2021. Adobe Express users can access a vast library of stock images, templates, illustrations, animations, and fonts. Not […]
Links are the lifeblood of the Web, and web pages that are well linked are more popular and more easily found in online searches. If you’re new to link building, find out about the kind of links you want and how to get them in this guide. The infographic is with the permission of BigRockCoupon.in. […]
Visme is an online infographic maker and design tool which allows you to create high quality graphics easily.
You don’t have to be a designer: Visme comes with dozens of pre-designed templates, graphic elements and images which make creating beautiful content a breeze.
While it’s best known as an online infographic maker and presentation tool, you can use Visme to make many types of interactive graphic content.
I was asked to give a short talk on blogging on Tuesday evening at the WordPress Glasgow meetup. Amongst the things I talked about was tools and plugins that I find useful for blogging. One tool I’ve been using since May this year is Missinglettr for blog promotion. What does Missinglettr do? The name doesn’t […]
Does your project management look like this? Or have you struggled to find important client emails in your Inbox? I’ve been there, and it’s not pretty. I’ve become a real fan of Trello lately, and plan to use it for managing my future website projects. (Even the potential ones!) In a nutshell, Trello is like […]
I worked recently on a site using a WordPress theme with specific image sizes. Each post or page could have a featured image above the content. The featured image size varies from theme to theme. For this theme the optimal size was 960 x 250 px, a letterbox shape. If another image was supplied, it […]
Who wouldn’t like free photo editing online? It used to be that the best photo editing software was expensive and difficult to learn and use. Adobe Photoshop was the industry standard, but its supremacy has recently been challenged by a range of tools which are free or low cost. Through Cheryl at 1wd.tv I was […]
I made my first screencast and published it a few days ago. It was a labour of love. I wouldn’t have started without the support and encouragement of Spence and Cheryl from 1wd.tv. I learned a lot about the whole process, from preparation to recording to editing, which I will share here. What did I […]
The problem with web page screenshots…. One of the things I often need to do as a web designer is to take screenshots of web pages. If I’ve need to capture a shot of a full web page, up until now it’s been a tedious process: Press the Prt Sc key Paste the screenshot into […]
Why use Dropbox Dropbox is a cloud storage platform which allows you to store files and folders online, and access them from any device with the proper credentials. You can use Dropbox for: Keeping backups of your files. Transferring files between different devices. No more fiddling with memory sticks or email. Sharing files with friends, family and […]
