This Week In Web Design – August 20, 2021

Learn the basic principles of design and how to apply them to your graphic design projects.

Graphic design is all around us. It’s on the coffee you drink, the car you drive, and the stationery you use.

Cumulative Layout Shift is a vital core web metric system. Following are some of the most important things to consider when improving CLS in WordPress.

We share techniques for keeping the often opinionated CSS of an installed WordPress plugin from disrupting the UX of your site.

In this post we list seven common project-related tasks that clients often question. For each task, we discuss whether a freelancer should bill the client.

HTML is not a programming language. I’ve heard that sentence so many times and it’s tiring. Normally, it is followed by something like, It doesn’t have logic, or, It is not Turing compl…

If you are creating any kind of online assets like an app, catalogue, forum, blog or website; you will need a content management system (CMS). That is where you’ll manage all the images, designs, text and video associated with your project. We’ll explore the top 7 headless CMS platforms in 2021 during this 10-minute read, but first, a refresher: What is a CMS? A content management system provides the interface for creating and publishing your content. This could be the design, images, text, videos and more for your website, app, catalogue or other online property. There are two main types:

Vandelay Design may receive compensation from companies, products, and services covered on our site. For more details, please refer to our Disclosure page. Photo Source: Canva They say, “a man is only as good as his tools,” and that is certainly true when it comes to designing an eCommerce site. While it is possible to...

Choosing to work for free, pro bono, gratis, without charge is something that most of us find ourselves doing at one time or another. Whether we’re filling a hole in our portfolio, there’s a friend or relative we feel beholden to, or because there’s an opportunity to aid a cause we value. Recently, I agreed […]

Vandelay Design may receive compensation from companies, products, and services covered on our site. For more details, please refer to our Disclosure page. Your choice of fonts will have a massive impact on the overall impact of your web and graphic design. Here at Vandelay Design, we’ve been fans of the minimalist design style for...

Have you already tried using WordPress headlessly with Gatsby? If you haven’t, you might check this article around the new Gatsby source plugin for WordPress; gatsby-source-wordpress is the officia…

Follow these tips and tricks, and you'll be on your way to producing the newsletter your brand (and your customers) need.

It’s time for web designers to take back control over massive (and unrealistic) expectations. The following is my plan to help you do it.

Alex Standiford, a WordPress developer at AffiliateWP, has released a boilerplate for what he is calling a “nearly headless” WordPress theme. It uses Underpin ,Nicholas, and AlpineJS to…

Cards are a design element that have been popular for a while. The look and function of them have continued to evolve in a number of ways, from tiny cards that are more of an oversized button to full-screen or split-screen cards that denote click or tap functionality. The reason this trend...

Must-have Chrome extensions that will make your life easier as a web developer.

If there is a taboo word in UX design, it’s probably “assumption”. While working on assumptions is considered risky and misleading, avoiding them completely is also a mistake. In this article, David Dikman shows why assumptions aren’t that scary if discussed and clarified properly.

You're not alone in your deadline struggles. Most freelancers have trouble with deadlines at some point in their freelancing career.

You’ve come across them everywhere: Landing pages that take you to a website but aren’t the homepage. It’s a great strategy that helps get visitors directly to the information they want to see from a marketing source – social media, advertising, etc. – and is generally designed f...

You’re convinced you need PayPal in your life (amiright?), let’s get into how to receive money on PayPal now to get paid quickly.

(Guest writer: Peter Brittain) "I'd love to do creative work! But how do you think of all these crazy things?" It seems that creativity is

Get familiar with the most overused custom letterform designs in wordmarks.

Landing pages are crucial for conversions. User-friendly landing pages rank higher in the search engines and generate the maximum leads. Interestingly, user behavior changes every year, and new website design trends should be kept in mind to continue acquiring sales from your existing landing pages. If your high-performing landing pages in 2019 have suddenly started […]

The story of Jamstack CMSs goes all the way back to the 90s. In this article, we take a trip down memory lane to see how we got to the modern Jamstack CMSs we have today, and where they’re heading in the next decade.

(Guest writer: Laura Moisei) Hundreds of witty articles have been written around the topic of landing pages. We all know the basic facts – that

Nuxt is a JavaScript framework that extends the existing functionality of Vue.js with features like server-side rendering, static page generation, file-based routing, and automatic code splitting a…