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This is a guest post by Nicole Rocklin.

Some of them took into consideration some regular mobile usability guidelines. Responsive website creators were better alternative to others. Some dig deeper into the development of mobile apps and mobile versions of their sites. Still, this is no longer enough in order to boost your site’s visibility in Google. Keep reading further to find the reason why responsive web design goes dead.

Is responsive web design enough?

Being responsive means that the layout if your site can adjust to all the major screen sizes, thus revealing the data in a comprehensive way. However, the world is changing all the time, as well as the demands of the web. With the growing popularity of smartphones and other handheld devices, web developers need to re-think the way they build sites.

The biggest problem of responsive designs stands behind their main strength, i.e. delivering the same pieces of content regardless of the device used to access a website. However, we should not forget about the usability of our web projects. With the purpose to provide the web audience with the flawless browsing experience, many businesses simply split the content into two major groups – data for desktop computers and smartphones. There is a general belief that both of these two big groups have different browsing intentions. For example, banks and other financial institutions can limit the number of operations that a user can perform on-the-go, leaving only the most essential ones. This may be the possibility to check the current balance, transfer cash or see the currency exchange rates.

Delivering equal pieces of content to the desktop and mobile users, the weight of responsive websites remains the same. Unfortunately, there no lightweight versions of responsive designs presented as of yet. If a person reaches your website from a smartphone (which is generally considered to be slower than a desktop device), then it will take more time to load all data of your website. Taking into account that the modern-day users won’t wait for longer than 3 seconds for your site’s data to load, you face the risk of losing traffic. Additionally, Google doesn’t give good ranking to the slow loading sites.

AMP

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. The main idea that stands behind the AMP technology is providing faster loading speeds for web pages on mobile devices. Taking into account that desktop websites contain content that is irrelevant to the devices with smaller screens, AMP web pages cut off all unnecessary elements, thus keeping the users’ attention focused on the essentials.

PWA

PWA stands for Progressive Web Apps. In order words, these are web-based applications that deliver the browsing experience that is similar to using mobile apps. Looking similar to the mobile software, PWA have a number of similarities with regular websites.

One of the key features and greatest advantages of PWA is that no download or installation are needed (you simply enter the habitual URL address of the site that you want to reach). PWAs are fully responsive. These can be shared with other users by means of shareable links that can refer to any page needed.

On the other hand, PWAs have certain similarities with mobile apps. For example, they feature almost identical UI/UX. These do not require the constant network connection. If needed, users can create quick shortcuts on their devices, as well as receive push notifications.

Which one is best?

With all that being said, that’s expected to be a better alternative to responsive web designs? While both of these two technologies have certain particularities, the two go hand-in-hand when it comes to providing the users with the seamless browsing experience. Whether you opt for an AMP site or give your preference to PWA, you may feel certain that the content will load quicker than on responsive sites. As a result, this will improve your site’s ranking in search engines.

AMP sites provide the users with a quick access to the content, which means it mainly guarantees the quicker page loading whatever device a person uses. PWA is more about keeping the users better engaged with your content. Judging by the usability of a website, PWA seems to be a better alternative to responsive web pages. However, AMP shouldn’t be neglected either. 92% of the web users will give up on a site if they find it difficult to navigate. 3-seconds page loading wait will result in the users leaving for faster-loading competitor web pages.

Online security is highly essential for both web users and websites. PWA takes the support of the secure HTTPS connection between a user and your site. It builds more trust and notifies if the connection is lost or the page is closed. That’s one more feature that differs AMP from PWA. A number of the modern-day technologies are supported by https only. According to researchers, people spend 74% more time on PWAs, which can result in the 82% conversion rates growth.

Final Words

Running responsive websites isn’t enough any longer. The time of the big changes has come! So, get ready to shift for the latest speed and usability-optimized technologies that will bring higher rankings to your site.

This is a guest post by Tim Ross.

It saves a lot of your time by speeding up your post photography work to get the perfect look that every photography desires to have. Lightroom presets are the perfect solution to refine your photographs without using any software, as it works by touching upon the finest details of your pictures to make them flawless in every way.

So if you are yet to try out lightroom presets to edit your photographs, its time you should start using them. Here is a list of some of the most amazing lightroom presets that will take your photographs to a different level. Do try them out and feel the difference in your pictures.

Cinematic Collection Vol.2 Lightroom Presets

True to its name, the cinematic collection volume 2 of Lightroom presets equips your images with a drama like feel. These presets suit every kind of portrait and landscape images and add an extra tinge of an authentic feel to your images. Offering various combinations of color tones and lighting, the cinematic collection offers 30 different choices for providing your images a cinematic appeal.

Cinematic Presets Vol2

Real Estate Lightroom Presets

Want to convert a normal looking house into a classy and modern real estate gem? The Real Estate Lightroom Presets are an ideal pick for you. This unique set of 45 Lightroom presets provides the touch of finish and class into any image.

It is specifically useful for realtors and people who wish to post their properties on platforms like AirBnB. Whether you want to lower down the warmth of an image or add the touch of luxuriousness to your images, the Real Estate Lightroom Preset is the perfect choice for giving a stylish, matte look to your interior decor images.

Real Estate Presets

Cool Blue Collection Lightroom Presets

Quite true to its name, this set of Lightroom presets equips your images with a calming blue tone that enhances the beauty of your images; specifically landscapes. The Cool Blue Collection Lightroom presets offers 45 different presets choices for you to add a calming layer of different shades of blue to your images.

Cool Blue Presets

Pretty Lightroom Presets collection

Ever wondered how those celebrity wedding photographs look so beautiful and colorful? Now you can also add the touch of liveliness to your images with the Pretty Lightroom presets collection. This set of 20 Lightroom Presets makes use of a wide range of pastel and matte textures to equip your images with a beautiful makeover. Whether it is wedding portraits or outdoor photos including flowers and nature, the Pretty Lightroom Presets collection justifies its name in every sense.

Pretty Presets

Matte Lightroom Presets collection

Matte designs are definitely the in these days. The Matte Lightroom Presets collection makes use of washed out tones to provide a print like feel to your images. This collection comes with 33 different Lightroom presets that you can use to provide a one-click matte look to your images.

Matte Presets

Food Lightroom Presets

When it comes to photography, food is definitely an integral part of it. This delicious collection of Lightroom presets brings out the best of your dishes and enhances the colors while taking your culinary creations to the next level. Whether you are a professional food blogger or foodie who loves to share the passion for food with their friends and family, use the food Lightroom presets to bring your food photography to life.

Food Presets

Wedding Lightroom Presets

Cheerful, colorful and vivid; wedding photography includes so many emotions. This beautiful collection of 35 Lightroom presets equips you with various matte and pastel tones to add the flair of perfection to your wedding photography. From the Classic styles to the modern and vivid presets, the wedding Lightroom present collection offers it all.

Wedding Presets

Landscape Lightroom presets

Quite evident from its name, the Landscape Lightroom presets collection comes with 32 unique Lightroom presets to help you make the most of your nature photography and landscape images. Whether it is the mighty mountains or the peaceful ocean, the landscape Lightroom presets collection helps you in adding the wow factor to your landscape images.

Landscape Presets

Portrait Lightroom presets

Owing to its close-up look, portrait photography involved a lot of post-processing work to bring out the best of your images. The Portrait Lightroom Presets collection assists you in doing all the post-processing work with just a single click of the mouse. Whether you want a classy vintage look or a vivid modern look, the Portrait Lightroom Presets collection includes 30 Lightroom presets to beautify your images with a single click.

Portrait Presets

Newborns Lightroom presets collection

This collection of Lightroom presets includes 42 different presets to help you in adding some attractive tones and styles to your baby photography in any light setting. You can add the flair of perfection to your images with just a single click of the mouse.

Newborn Presets

Vintage Lightroom presets collection

Whether it is an old architectural masterpiece or an automobile wonder, vintage photography never goes out of style. The vintage Lightroom presets collection comes with 45 different styles for you to add a cinematic, retro style look to your images. Convert any normal looking image into a rugged vintage photography masterpiece with just a single click.

Vintage Presets

Orange and Teal presets collection

With a beautiful combination of orange and teal, this collection of Lightroom presets comes with 36 different styles to help you in popping up the vividness in your images. This presets collection works well with the portrait as well as outdoor photography and enhances the liveliness of your images.

Orange and Teal Presets

Dreamy Lightroom presets collection

This collection of Lightroom presets truly justifies its name and provides a soft, dreamlike look to your images. It comes with a unique collection of 33 Lightroom presets and is specifically ideal for portraits. You can further enhance the beauty of your images by editing the presets as per your requirements.

Dreamy Presets

Analog film collection Lightroom presets

The Analog film collection is a set of 60 different Lightroom presets ideal for those who want to go back to the golden era of analog photography. The presets are ideal for the portrait as well as landscape photography and provide a rich vintage look to your images.

Analog Presets

Magazine Lightroom presets collection volume 2

The part 2 of magazine Lightroom presents collection comes with 36 different styles to help you make out the best of your fashion and portrait photography. Whether you want to add a glossy look to your images or you want a stylish and glamorous finish to your portrait photography, the magazine collection of Lightroom presets equipps your images with a clean and polished look.

Magazine Presets Vol2

Instant film collection Lightroom presets

Quite evident from its name, the instant film collection Lightroom presets are perfect for those who love the old instant film camera photography. The collection comes with 40 different styles that will help you in adding some vintage instant photography effects like film grain, retro etc.

Instant Film Presets

Skin tone collection Lightroom presets

One of the most important aspects of portrait photography is the skin tone of the subject. The skin tone collection of Lightroom presets comes with 20 different styles to help you add a suitable skin tone effect to your portrait photography. Whether you want to alter any skin tone or pop up the existing skin tone in an image, this collection will give you everything you need to make the best out of your portrait photography.

Skin Tone Presets

Aged film collection Lightroom presets

This connection of 42 lightrooms presets helps you in adding an aged and expired film look to your images. The collection comes with some really interesting styles to help you add a grainy, rugged look to your images and make your modern photography look like an analog film. Definitely a great pick!

Aged Film Presets

Sports collection Lightroom presets

Ever wondered how those professional sports photography shots look so fascinating? With the sports collection, Lightroom presets, you can add the flair of professionalism to your sports photography and make it look like magazine style professional shots. Whether it is a sporting event or a usual action photography, this unique collection of 20 different Lightroom presets brings out the best version of your shots.

Sports Presets

Monochrome collection Lightroom presets

This collection is specifically ideal for those who want to add a touch of Style and class to their photography. The collection comes with 20 different Lightroom presets that will help you in popping out a single hue in your images and transform any modern image into a timeless look.

Monochrome Presets

Monochrome Lightroom presets collection volume 2

Even black and white photography can have different shades within it. The volume 2 of Monochrome Lightroom presets collection comes with a unique set of 44 different styled to equip you with some modern monochromic styles. Pick this one to add the flair of classiness to your portraits and even landscapes.

Monochrome Presets Vol2

Sunlight collection Lightroom presets

Shooting in natural sunlight is always a good idea. The sunlight collection Lightroom presets will help you in enhancing your natural sunlight photography shots with its unique range of 30 different styles. Whether you want landscape or portrait shots, whether it is sunrise or sunset, this collection is apt for getting the perfect sunlight photography shot.

Sunlight Presets

Animal collection Lightroom presets

This collection of 20 different Lightroom presets is specifically suitable for those who are passionate about wildlife photography. Whether you want to pop out the colors or you want to experiment with the sharpness of your images, the Animal Collection Lightroom presets will make your next trip to the Zoo or even a safari totally worth it.

Animal Presets

Family collection Lightroom presets

Family photography is specifically based around getting different kind of portraits in different lighting conditions. The family collection comes with over 30 different presets that will help you in adding a professional studio feel to your family photographs.

Family Presets

Blogger collection Lightroom presets

Images play a really important part in the life of any blogger. The blogger collection of Lightroom presets comes with 30 different styles to help you create attractive images for your blog posts, featured images as well as backgrounds. This set is specifically ideal for Product Photography and includes some stylish presets to help you make your blog visually more appealing.

Blogger Presets

HDR collection volume 2 Lightroom presets

The HDR collection of Lightroom presets volume 2 comes with 35 different unique styles that will help you in giving your images with different tones and styles of HDR photography. This collection is specifically ideal for creating dynamic images for the event and promotional shoots and will help you stand out amongst the rest.

HDR Presets Vol2

Spring collection Lightroom presets

This collection includes some carefully designed styles that will help you in beautifying your portrait as well as landscape photography during the spring season. Spring is that time when nature is at its most beautiful version and with the 33 different Lightroom presets that come with this collection, you can make the most out of the beautiful landscapes, flowers, and natural scenery.

Spring Presets

Pretty & Pastel Lightroom Collection

Here's another stunning preset to enhance your photograph qualities and make them appear even more appealing to people. You can use these presets to style your child photographs, portraits or any other images for that matter.

Pretty Presets

Light leaks collection volume 2 Lightroom presets

This unique collection of Lightroom presets comes with 30 different styles to help you add abstract color and light leak effects to your photography. With the use of some modern and stylish effects, the Light leaks collection volume 2 of Lightroom presets is ideal for beautifying images with a good source of light.

Light Leaks Presets Vol2

Newborn Vol 3.

The name of these presets tell you all about it. If you are into clicking baby pictures, this bunch of presets is something that you will love using. It works by enhancing your picture quality and styling them in both natural and studio lighting.

Newborn Presets Vol3

Vivid color collection Lightroom presets

True to its name, the Vivid collection of Lightroom presets will help you in popping up the vibrant and colorful aspects of your images. The collection comes with 22 different presets to help you stylize your images, be it portraits, landscapes or cityscapes.

Vivid Color Presets

Magazine Presets Collection

This amazing collection of Lightroom presets is designed specifically to meet the needs of portrait photographers so that they can achieve the perfect unique style for their pictures. In this collection you get 20 Lightroom presets, out of which 18 are colored and 2 in the black and white format.

Magazine Presets

Moody tones collection Lightroom presets

This collection of 20 different Lightroom presets equips your images with a moody, mysterious tone resulting in a glamorous look. This collection of presets works well with portrait as well as landscape photography and imparts your images with a dark and atmospheric feel. The moody tones collection is ideal for events, wedding photoshoots or any other portrait photography that requires a classy, dark tone.

Moody Tones Presets

Vintage Vol 2. Presets Collection

Give your photographs that beautiful vintage look by using these set of classic presets. All the presets included in this collection is fully adjustable and works on raw and jpeg pictures. This collection comes with 20 different presets for color and monochrome.

Vintage Film Presets Vol2

Matte Presets collection Vol. 2

If you love having a faded matte finish on your photographs, this is the preset you should definitely be considering. Compatible with Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and CC these presets can be used on both MAC and PCs.

Matte Presets Vol2

Travel collection Lightroom presets

The Travel collection of Lightroom presets comes with everything that you need for enhancing the look of your travel photography. Whether it is vivid colors or peaceful tones, these 20 Lightroom presets come with some vibrant and attractive styles to bring out the best in your vacation shots and are perfect for outdoor and landscape photography.

Travel Presets

Food Presets vol.2

Get some of the most captivating filters for your food photographs by using these set of presets. All the presets in this collection are fully adjustable and works beautifully in raw and JPEG photographs. You can use them with Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and CC.

Food Presets Vol2

Golden hour presets collection

No matter which type of photography you are planning to do, doing it during the golden hour adds to its effectiveness. The golden hour is the time when the Sun is either rising or setting and it is the perfect time for taking a perfect outdoor an landscape shot. The Golden hour photography collection comes with 20 different Lightroom presets and is ideal for enhancing the color and warmth tones in your golden hour shots.

Golden Hour Presets

Street Collection Lightroom Presets

This collection of Lightroom presets specifically designed to enhance street photography shots including cityscapes and urban environment portraits. With its unique collection of 20 different styles, this set of Lightroom presets provides a realistic look to your images and gives you full freedom to add attractive effects like monochrome, grainy, matte etc. to your images.

Street Presets

Autumn Collection Lightroom presets

This set of 20 different Lightroom presets helps you in imparting a unique look of your outdoor and landscape photography taken during autumn. The beautifully designed presets add some peaceful warming tones to your images and help you in bringing out the best of your autumn photography.

Autumn Presets

Wedding Collection Vol.2

If you are a wedding photographer, then this collection of presets is definitely something that you will love. With this collection, you can create a unique look for each of your wedding clicks making them appear elegant and of superlative in nature. These collections of presets look stunning on pictures of every kind clicked with different camera brands.

Wedding Presets Vol2

Fashion collection Lightroom presets

This is a collection of 20 different Lightroom presets to help you enhance the look of your fashion photography and modelling photoshoots. Along with streamlining your post-processing work, the unique styles that come with this collection will provide a glamorous, stylish look to your portrait model photography.

Fashion Presets

Vintage objects collection Lightroom presets s

Vintage items have a rich look about them and vintage photography should reflect that too. This collection of 20 Lightroom presets adds a crafty, retro look to your images and is specifically ideal for enhancing product photoshoots. You can use the rich styles within this collection to attractively present products on e-Commerce websites and social networks.

Vintage Objects Presets

Winter snow collection Lightroom presets

The winter snow collection comes with 20 different Lightroom presets to realistically add the feeling of winter to your photoshoots taken during winter, snowfall or Christmas. This collection is ideal for winter portraits as well as landscapes and comes with some really interesting effects like snow overlay to help you make the most of your winter photography.

Snow Presets

Interior design collection Lightroom presets

Whether you want to beautify an old room or you want to lighten up a dark room, the interior design collection Lightroom presets come with 20 different styles to beautifully present interior designs of restaurants, homes, and real estate projects amongst others.

This collection of Lightroom presets is specifically ideal for interior designers, architects and commercial photographers. Whether you want to alter the warmth or you want to add a flair of finish to your shots, the interior design Lightroom collection of presets is an ideal choice.

Interior Design Presets

Urban landscape collection Lightroom presets

The urban landscape collection comes with 20 different Lightroom presets to help you in beautifully capturing the urban landscape including skyline, streets and high rise buildings. The collection comes with some attractive styles and tones that impart a creative and gigantic look to your cityscapes and urban landscapes.

Urban Landscape Presets

Summer collection Lightroom presets

This collection includes 20 different styles to help you enhance your Portrait and landscape shots taken during summers. The Summer collection Lightroom presets impart the required tone of warmth and colors to beautifully enhance your pictures taken in natural light.

Summer Presets

VSCO film emulation collection Lightroom presets

This collection of 20 Lightroom presets is inspired from the era of VSCO cameras. With some attractive effects like grain and black and white color combinations, This collection of Lightroom presets imparts a cinematic and old film atmospheric look to your images.

VSCO Presets

Pastel collection volume 2 Lightroom presets

This collection of Lightroom presets is quite similar to the newborn Lightroom collection in terms of the soft and pastel look that it imparts to the images. With 20 different Lightroom presets offering a wide range of tonal combinations, this set of Lightroom present is ideal for wedding photography, flower photography and any other shot that requires a soft and eye-soothing look.

Pastel Presets Vol2

City Nights presets collection

Motion photography or any other night shot, make it perfect with this unique set of 20 Lightroom presets. The City Nights collection of Lightroom presets comes with some beautiful tones and effects to help you capture the night time at its best. Whether it is capturing cityscapes or presenting the lights of city nights, this collection is ideal for making everything look perfect.

City Nights Presets

Portrait Presets Collection Vol. 3

Try out these collection of presets to make your pictures stand out. They are ideal for all hobby photographers, professionals etc. Compatible with Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and CC, these preset come in a bundle of 20 collections that work on Raw and JPEG collections.

Portrait Presets Vol3

Landscape Presets Collection Vol. 2

This collection of presets is a super easy to use stock that does not need any professional knowledge for you to start with. Anyone can use them to add an enhanced look to the photographs, and instantly change their appearance into something more stunning and magnificent.

Landscape Presets Vol2

Portrait Presets Collection Vol.1

Add different color, tone, and style to your photographs with this fantastic collection. All the presets in this collection are compatible with Mac as well as PC. All of them are fully adjustable and works on Raw and JPEG imges.

Portrait Presets

Vintage Film Presets

Give your pictures a captivating vintage look with the Vintage film Presets. Experiment with the 21 different presets available with this collection and find the best look for your images.

Vintage Film Presets

Food Presets Collection

With the growing food and beverage business, food photography has also gained prominence. If you are into food photography, this unique bundle of presets is something that will do wonders for your work. You get to use 25 different presets all in a single collection and make your photographs stand out instantly without much editing skills.

Food Presets

Light Leaks Collection Lightroom Presets

With the Light Leaks collection of presets, you can add the perfect touch of leaked lights to your photographs. This collection comes bundled with 20 beautiful presets that offers a unique look to your photographs.

Light Leak Presets

Matte Presets Collection

Check out this fantastic collection of presets for your photographs. if you are looking for a quick matte look for your pictures without using much editing knowledge, this collection is something you will surely love.

Matte Presets

Landscape Collection Lightroom Presets

Bring out the best of your landscape photographs by using these presets collection. Each preset in the collection has been carefully constructed by a professional photographer and Lightroom expert so they will look good with many different types of photo and camera brand.

Landscape Presets

Wedding Presets collection

Boost your post-shoot production process by using the Wedding presets collection. These presets will help you do perfect justice to your wedding shoots by adding all the needed touch of glam and instantly transforming them into something more striking and more elegant.

Wedding Presets

Cinematic Presets collection

These are yet another fantastic bunch of collection that will quickly add an intense dramatic look to your photographs. This bunch has a collection of 20 beautiful presets that has been uniquely designed to meet your requirements. Try them out and see how you like them.

Cinematic Presets

Duotone collection Lightroom presets

Duotone is one of the most fascinating aspects of post-processing work. With this collection of Lightroom presets, this time consuming yet exciting task becomes feasible with just a single click. The collection comes 20 different Lightroom preset and a lot of color choices to choose from. Choose this collection to impart a fascinating, duotone look to your cityscapes, landscapes or even portraits.

Dutone Presets

Pastel Presets collection

If soft and beautiful pastel effect in your photographs is your taste, then do not miss out on this brilliant collection of presets. You can use these presets with Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and CC. These presets comes bundled with a PDF for the installation instruction that can guide you through the installation steps.

Pastel Presets

HDR Presets Collection

Take multiple shots of the same scene and at different exposure and combine them to create a more striking image by using the HRD presets. You get 20 different presets in this bundle all with a unique design to enhance your photography style.

HDR Presets

Lomo collection Lightroom presets

This set of 20 light is specifically designed to help you add the charismatic Lomo style of photography into your shots. Lomo photography shots usually include oversaturated colors, distortions and other fascinating effects and are often shot by Lomography cameras. The lomography collection of Lightroom presets provide you with some highly appealing styles which are carefully designed to help you present your images in a fascinating, lively manner.

Ultimate Bundle Collection

This bundle is an amazing premium package that comes at a very cheap rate. You will get to use more than 60 presets at a very low range which would cost you much higher if purchased separately. Each of these collections has been packed with 20 more presets, so imagine how many presets you will get to use with this bundle.

Ultimate Bundle

New Born Lightroom Presets Collection

This is another fantastic collection of presets for photographing newborn babies. These presets will let you alter your photographs skin tones, soften the quality and do a lot more. Its an amazing option for working with your babies and children photographs.

Newborn Presets

Free Lightroom Preset Collection

All the above presets are the premium collection. But Photonify also gives away free goodies every week. You can use these presets for enhancing the quality of your images or use it on your websites for your readers to download. In return, you just need to link back to the website. Isn't that so much simpler. Here are some of the free Lightroom Presets that you would love using.

Cinematic Presets

These presets suit every kind of portrait and landscape images and add an extra tinge of an authentic feel to your images. Offering various combinations of color tones and lighting, the cinematic collection is a great choice for providing your images a cinematic appeal.

Free Cinematic Preset

Orange & Teal Lightroom Presets

This preset is perfect for landscape photos of beaches, sea, mountains, rivers and so on. With this preset you can instantly change the look of your photographs and make them visually appealing in no time.

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Dreamy Lightroom Presets

This is a great one to enhance your portraits, landscape or other images by adding a soft and dreamy touch. Easy and simple to use in Lightroom and editable to match your images perfectly, try lowering the clarity slider to soften the image further.

Free Dreamy Preset

Analog Lightroom Presets

Here is another amazing preset that is fully adjustable and is compatible with Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and CC. This preset will help you get the most visually striking photographs by adding the perfect touch to every bit of it.

Free Analog Film Preset

Modelling Lightroom Presets

If you are into the field of glamour you must be under a constant pressure of creating beautiful pictures that make your models appear elegant, stylish and confident. You can use this preset to edit your model images, magazine and advertising style photographs and make them look classy and elegant.

Free Modelling Preset

Cool Blue Lightroom Presets

This preset is brilliant at adding a cool effect to your temperature by adding a calming blue tone, It works on all raw and JPEG pictures and is compatible with Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and CC. Owing to its fully editable property, you can work on every bit of your picture unless you attain the best results.

Free Cool Blue Preset

Polaroid Instant Film Presets

Recreate the old analog instant film camera feel on the photographs by using this stunning preset. It is a great one to bring an instant change to your pictures without having to work much with your editing skills. The best part is it takes no time at all to bring the difference.

Free Polaroid Preset

Skin Tone Presets

If you are looking for a preset that will pay attention to the slightest detail on your photographs, Skin Tone is the one you should opt for. It will bring out your best work by working on the photographs and adding a nice effect your portraits.

Free Skin Tone Preset

Sports Lightroom Presets

Add a sharp look to your sports photographs by using this amazing preset. It is a perfect solution for capturing sport and action moments. Even if you do not have time for your post-photography editing, with this preset you can get the perfect look that your subject deserves.

Free sports Preset

Animal Presets

This fantastic preset is specifically designed to style your wildlife, nature and animal photographs. With this preset you can instantly enhance the picture quality of your snaps by increasing its vibrancy and sharpening your images altogether. You can also focus on finer details of your subjects like fur, eyes and other characteristics.

Free Animal Preset

Sunlight Lightroom Presets

This preset will instantly give your photographs a warm and appealing look. because the sunlight lightroom presets has been designed specifically for the photographs that feature natural sunlight. The preset is fully editable so you can work accordingly until your land on to your best shot.

Free Sunlight Preset

Family Portrait

Who doesn't want to have good family pictures? A good picture will always remind you of the good times you once spent with your loved ones. Make your happy family photograph look even more stunning by using this fantastic preset that has been designed specifically to for enhancing portraits. Make a brilliant display of your good times by hanging the best pictures on your wall that are made even better with this preset.

Free Family Preset

HRD Presets

The HDR effect is perfect if you are working on photographs that can be used for advertising. By using this preset you can ad a more dramatic look to your pictures making them stand out. It will also help you bring out the tiniest detail be it in the shadow or daylight.

https://photonify.com/downloads/free-hdr-lightroom-preset/

Moody Presets

This preset is perfect in adding a nice sassy effect to your pictures by altering the grains, adjusting the color combination and working on little things that can enhance the mood. You will love using this preset as it can be your fastest solution to alter things to make your photograph the perfect one.

Free Moody Preset

Pretty Presets

A lovely soft pastel touch to your photographs can alter the way it looks making the visually striking and adding an instant appeal. Pretty Presets can do exactly that to make your photographs look gorgeous. This preste is ideal for photos with colors and for portraits shot in natural light such as of children, weddings, newborns, flowers etc.

Free Pretty Preset

Firework

Your nighttime photographs may not always be clear and distinct. A post photography editing session can obviously bring out the best in these pictures. But that would need some good time. Make your work faster by usingthe Firework preset that will instantly brighten your photographs and make them vibrant.

Free Fireworks Preset

Christmas Tree

Ever tried creating Christmas cards with your own images? Well, if you have n't still tried that out, its time you should. If you are not sure about using your pictures because of their quality, you can stop worrying anymore. The Christmas Tree preset will help you bring out the best of your photographs and make your images pop with its amazing effects.

Free Christmas Tree Preset

Vivid

Make your photographs appear more vivid and vibrant with the Vivid lightroom preset. This preset is a great solution to make your photographs appear bright and clear without having to invest much of your time and skills.

Free Vivid Color Preset

Magazine Preset

Whether you want to use this preset for your general photographs, portraits or the ones you want to use for advertising, this preset will add that extra bit of glamour to your photographs that will make it appear different instantly. You will love using this preset and would definitely want to continue using it if you use it once.

Free Magazine Preset

Christmas

This is another brilliant preset that can be used to design your Christmas cards. Ideally designed for family portraits, candid photographs etc, this presets also gives an instant glow to other kind of pictures. Like the other presets in this list, this one too is compatible with Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and CC. You can easily use it on your PCs and also on your MAC.

Free Christmas Preset

Winter Snow

Not every season in the year has snowfall. But when this preset is with you, it's easier to instantly create a wintery and snowfall feel in your pictures with a single click of the mouse. This preset will slightly alter the tone of your images and make them look colder just like the photographs clicked during the winter season.

Free Snow Preset

Interior Design

This preset is a great one for anyone dealing in real estate, interior decoration and other similar kinds of business. People who wish to list their homes for guest in sites like AirBnB can also take advantage of this preset to make their homes look cozier and warmer for your guests.

Free Interior Design Preset

Travel Photography Preset

The travel photography preset is designed specifically for travel, holidays, landscape and vacation photos. Using this preset you can make your pictures appear more gritty and dramatic by adding a unique effect. This preset looks perfect on portrait and landscape photographs.

Free Travel Preset

Golden Hour

This preset will let you style your images like it was taken in the perfect hours of sunrise and sunset. Golden Hour works by adding a soft lovely tone to your pictures.

Free Golden Hour Preset

Street Photography

Take your everyday street photography skills to a different level by using the Street Photography Preset. Its a fantastic preset to enhance your urban street pictures but you can also use it portraits or cityscape scenes. The preset works beautifully with Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and CC. The preset is fully editable so you can make the best use of it until you achieve the desired results.

Free Street Preset

Autumn Lightroom Preset

This preset will help you achieve a lovely autumn feel in your pictures by giving them a fresh warm tone with a tinge of golden reds and brown. Use this preset on your raw and JPEG pictures and see how the look changes.

Free Autumn Preset

Fashion

If fashion photography is something that you do everyday, then this beautiful preset is something that you will surely like. Designed to enhance the pictures whether shoot indoors or outdoors, this preset has the capacity to add an extra touch of glamour and style to your pictures.

Free Fashion Preset

Classic Car

The love for vintage cars can never die. If you want to make your car look like an old classic car, then try using this beautiful preset. It will add a slight vintage touch to your pictures by altering its tones to make it appear warmer. Although this preset is called the Classic Car, you can surely use it to style your other photographs too.

Free Car Preset

New Born

Another stunning preset for your newborn babies, infant and child photography. With this preset you can easily change the tone of your pictures and make them appear soft, just like the babies in the pictures. This kind of effect looks great on children and baby pictures.

Free Newborn Preset

VSCO

DSLRs and Digital Cameras have brought about a huge change in the photography business. The pictures are now more crispier, clearer, sharper and brighter. But no matter how good they are, there are days when we want to go back to our old analog camera days to get the old days feel. You can now get the exact same feeling by using the VSCO preset on your pictures.

Free VSCO Preset

Portrait Pro

Make your photographs stand out by muting the colors, adding some grain and other effects to give your images a professional look. It is a great option for anyone who wants to enhance their photographs quickly with a click of the mouse.

Free Pro Portrait Preset

Summer Lightroom

Get the radiant summer glow and warmth of the beautiful summer season with this amazing lightroom preset. It is a great way to make your pictures look warm and make it feel like a nice summer click.

Free Summer Preset

Monochrome Preset

The Black and White effect on photographs can never go out of date. It always adds a touch of the old times to your snaps making them look even more gorgeous. Whether you try it on landscapes, portraits or any other pictures, you will never get bored of this preset, that will instantly make your photos turn black and white. This preset effect is an evergreen one that people across age groups and generations have fallen in love with again and again.

Free Monochrome Preset

Vintage Film Preset

This preset will make your photographs appear like they have aged authentically by washing out the color of the photographs and adding some grain to them. This preset can be used on pictures taken by any kind of camera and is compatible with Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and CC.

Free Vintage Film Preset

Landscape

This preset is amazing at making your photographs pop by deepening its color and focusing on the finere detailsof your images. The Landscaper preset looks striking on all kinds of photographs, clicked by any camera brand. So try out this beautiful preset and see the change in your pictures.

Free Landscape Preset

Pastel

If you are not sure how the Pastel collection from Photonify would look like, here's a sample preset that you can try out. It will instantly work on your pictures and make them look stunning in no time.

Free Pastel Preset

Food

If you are a food blogger, or someone who loves clicking pictures of the mouthwatering delicacies, then this preset is definitely the one you should be trying. It is a fully adjustable preset that works brilliantly on all kind of pictures taken by any kind of cameras.

Free Food Preset

Wedding

Make your wedding picture look striking with this preset. It will quickly refine your pictures and make them appear classy by just a single click of the mouse. No extra effort is needed for all of it. Just sit back and watch the difference. This preset is compatible with Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and CC

Free Wedding Preset

Lomo

This preset will oversaturate your images and add light leaks so it gets the perfect Lomo style. By using this preset your images become sharper, crisper and vividly distinct.

Free Lomo Preset

Portrait

This preset is taken from the Portrait Photography Collection Vol.1 with 20 more amazing presets. You can try out this sample preset before you purchase the entire collection. It is great at converting your portraits to visually striking ones.

Free Portrait Preset

Pure CSS

Only 3.8KB minified and gzipped, but packed with features! Pure CSS has been my lightweight framework of choice for years now, including when working with an outsourcing software development team.
Info & download: https://purecss.io/

Bulma

With 21kB minified and gzipped, Bulma isn’t the most lightweight of this list, but this new framework is so interesting that it totally deserves a mention. Bulma is built with mobile-first approach, which makes every element optimized for vertical reading, and its grid is fully built with Flexbox. Achieving flexible layout with same-size columns is as simple as adding .column class to your HTML element.
Info & download: https://bulma.io/

Mini.css

A lightweight (7kb gzipped) framework for crafting a fast site easily.
Info & download: https://chalarangelo.github.io/mini.css/

UIkit

UIkit is a lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces.
Info & download: https://getuikit.com/

Skeleton

With only 400 lines of code, Skeleton is light as a feather. Yet, it features a grid, typography, forms, media queries… all you need for building a quality site in no time.
Info & download: http://getskeleton.com/

Base

Base is a very simple but robust css framework. Built with lightweight and minimal code, Base is designed to provide developers and designers an easy way to built cross-browser, mobile-first websites and apps.
Info & download: http://getbase.org/

Spectre

A lightweight (~10KB gzipped) starting point for your projects, Spectre provides elegantly designed and developed elements, as well as a flexbox-based, responsive and mobile-friendly layout.
Info & download: https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/

Milligram

Milligram provides a minimal setup of styles for a fast and clean starting point. With only 2kb gzipped, this tiny but powerful framework is in the top three of the lightweight framework available.
Info & download: https://milligram.github.io/

Dead Simple Grid

Not really a framework but just a simple grid layout that can be used in every project. 250 bytes of CSS code.
Info & download: https://github.com/mourner/dead-simple-grid

Picnic CSS

With a size of only 3kb when gzipped, Picnic is for sure lightweight, but also has everything you need for creating a great looking, functional website.
Info & download: https://picnicss.com/

Any other lightweight frameworks you like? Leave a comment below.

Collecting data is not a new practice. However, data science is specifically about the collection and analysis of the data available on the internet. Since it does not look like the internet is going anywhere anytime soon, you might want to give yourself a moment to think about why a field like data science is important.

Basic Information

The term “data science” did not get used for the first time until roughly 2001. In just under two decades, the term has seen widespread usage across the entire planet. Not only does an entire field of study now exist around data science, but new and enticing job opportunities are popping up everywhere for data scientists. Since so many people access the internet each day and share all kinds of data, experts predict the need for capable data scientists is going to skyrocket in coming years.

Though the demand is on the rise, the supply does not look as promising. Since it is a new field, there are not many qualified individuals who can work as data scientists at the present moment. According to a number of studies, this could easily lead to a huge disparity in how many jobs are available and how many people can actually fill the positions. If you think data scientist jobs in New York might be worth your consideration, then now is the time for you to take a look at your options and see what’s out there.

Certification Opportunities

Due to the fact that a great deal of positions will soon be available in a field where very few people work, many companies are trying to take a proactive step towards changing the future. Instead of going back to college and enrolling in a new field of study, companies are offering programs where participants can take a few classes and receive certification to work as a data scientists. This can be very exciting for anyone who is looking to cash in on a new field but does not feel like returning to an academic institution for a new degree.

As more and more people start accessing the internet on a regular basis, there is no telling how much data will be out there. At the moment, it already seems as if there is near-infinite data available on the internet. Whether you are curious about starting a new career or you think the idea of collecting data is fascinating in and of itself, there is a lot that can be learned about data science. Take time to research some more and see what you can discover about this emerging field and all it has to offer the planet.

This is a guest post by John Mason.

A WooCommerce list view plugin is a WordPress plugin that takes the products from your e-commerce store and displays them in a table or list-based layout.

At its simplest, you can use the plugin to create a very simple list view with a single column listing the product names only. At its most advanced, you can build complex product tables with multiple columns and search filters.

The key difference between the default WooCommerce store layouts and a product list view is that each product is listed on its own row in the table, instead of side-by-side. This brings several benefits, which is why a list view can increase your sales.

List more products per page

A WooCommerce product list view is a more structured way of listing products, and lets you display more products within a smaller space. This saves your customers time, as they can find products more quickly without scrolling through multiple pages. As a result, they stay on your site for longer and are more likely to buy from you.

Include more product data in the list

Some websites use a WooCommerce product list view plugin to create a very simple list, with just the product names. This is perfect for some types of products. For products where customers need more information to convince them to buy, you can increase sales by adding extra columns of product data to the list view. This can be anything from product images and pricing, to product attributes, custom fields and taxonomies.

Customers can find products more easily

A flexible list view plugin lets you create a basic list without search features, or add extras such as keyword search and product filters. These are ideal if you have lots of products and need a quick way for customers to search based on data such as category, tag or attribute.

Allow quick ordering directly from the product list view

To increase your sales even further, the best WooCommerce product list view plugins can transform the list into a fully functional WooCommerce order form. By including an add to cart column in the list view, customers can select quantities, variations and add to the cart without having to click elsewhere. This further speeds up the buying process and boosts conversions.

As you can see, there are lots of reasons why a list view plugin can increase your sales. Next, I’ll tell you how to create a WooCommerce product list view using the bestselling WooCommerce Product Table plugin.

What is WooCommerce Product Table?

WooCommerce Product Table is the flagship product from UK WordPress plugin company Barn2 Media. It creates a table-based WooCommerce product list view of any or all of your store’s products.

Product tables are perfect for creating lists of your products because they’re so flexible. You have full control over the information that is included in the list view, and can show or hide the extra controls such as search box and filters. You can list products in a read-only format, or you can include links to the single product page or show add to cart buttons directly in the product table. There are options to list all your products in a single table, or create multiple tables listing products based on their category or other data.

It’s simple to use, but a very sophisticated list view plugin.

How to use the WooCommerce list view shortcode

The Product Table table comes with a flexible WooCommerce product list view shortcode. There are over 50 options to configure your product list views and list products in different ways.

Here’s how to use it. (I’m assuming that you’ve already installed WooCommerce and added some products.)

• Get WooCommerce Product Table and install it on your WordPress website.
• Copy your license key from the order confirmation page or email.
• Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Product table and add your license key.
• Look through the list of default settings. Change any settings to start configuring your WooCommerce product list view. (Tip: You can override each of these settings in the list view shortcode, but any options that you choose here will be used by default, which helps to keep the shortcode simpler.)
• Go to the page where you want to use the WooCommerce list view plugin, and click the ‘Insert product table’ toolbar button. This will add the shortcode [product_table] to the page.

Finally, view the page and you’ll see your WooCommerce product list view in action.

To finish off, go back to the plugin settings page or use the shortcode options to customize your list view. You can also add more shortcodes to create further product lists, each showing different products from your WooCommerce store.

Keep tweaking until you’ve completely happy!

Next steps

To create your own WooCommerce product list view, you can get the Product Table plugin from Barn2 Media.

The authors have provided a detailed tutorial on how to create a WooCommerce product list view, as well as tips on using the plugin to improve your WooCommerce conversion rates even further. Use these to experiment with all the list view shortcode options, and display your products in a way that will maximize your sales and make your store a huge success.

This is a guest post by Alex Denning.

Why you should try Crello

Crello is an online app that lets you design images online. You basically just need to select a template and do a little editing in order to have a quality image for illustrating your blog or website. Crello’s templates have been designed to meet standard dimensions and quality, and the app lets you import your own images and fonts.

Crello also has some premium features, but none of them is compulsory. So you can only pay for them when you are satisfied with your design, there are no hidden charges for any other services provided by the Crello tools. All designs are rendered in HD and many different output formats are available.

Let’s try out Crello

Let’s now give Crello a try and create a simple design. In this short tutorial, we will be using one of Crello’s templates in order to design a poster to advertise an upcoming party. This should just take about 10 minutes and we’ll be having a professional looking design.

The first step we need to take is to create an account on Crello’s website. Visit https://crello.com with your browser and click on the Sign Up button located at the upper right corner of the page. A box will appear, presenting three different options to sign up; Facebook, Google or the classic default option, where you use your email and a password.

If you choose the default option, fill the form with the required information, and a confirmation email will be sent to you. Follow the instructions in the email to set up your account. Once you have successfully created your account, you will be redirected to your Crello account page.

Now that we have a Crello account, we can freely make use of its resources. On your account homepage, you will find several available templates: click on the poster template and you will be redirected onto the editing page.

Basics of designing graphics are the image dimension and the color theme. I personally love darker color themes because they make designs look so classy. If we are not going to change the dimensions and are going to find a party poster template with a darker look, locate and click the search tab on the left corner of the page, input night party in the search box, then hit the enter button to run the search.

I scrolled down through the results, and right there I found a dark poster template that fits my needs. Now, simply drag the template inside the workspace (the white rectangular space) in order to edit it.

Once your template is inside the workspace, it’s ready for full editing: you can zoom to get a better view, and you can undo and redo each action you performed on the design. You also have buttons that allow you to save and continue later, as well as the ones to share and download the design. In this screenshot, I zoomed to 40%.

Now I’m going to start modifying the text, leaving the font and colors as they were.

• Change the “EVERY FRIDAY” to “FRIDAY 27TH APRIL.
• Hold the shift key, click on “9 PM TILL LATE” and “FRIDAY 27TH APRIL” text, they will be selected as a single element, move them up a bit to leave some space between them and the “JAZZ NIGHT” text.
• Now I’m going to click on the text tab, then drag “ADD HEADING TEXT” to the space created in the previous step. On the floating option box, I’ll change the text color to match the rest of my design. Modify the default text to “CRELLO FAN” and place it directly on top of the “JAZZ NIGHT” text. Enlarge it to fit the same width as the text using the resizing controls.
• To use my own image I must upload it first. Click the photos tab and go to upload, browse your local disk to find the desired photo and upload it. Once done, drag the uploaded photo onto your design, resize it if needed, then place it beside the bands’ text, and tilt it a little to give it a fancy look.

At this point, we should be having a design that looks like the image below:

If yes, we just completed the design, and now it’s time to save it for future reference, and then download it for usage. Click on the save button, then click on the download button.
There are five different formats in which you can download your design; JPG, PNG, and PNG transparent are ideal for web and desktop usage while PDF and PDF prints are ideal for printing on materials.

It is also at this point you are required to pay for any premium elements you might have used in your design.
Here is the final product of the designed poster.

As you can see, it is very easy to create amazing designs with Crello.

This is a guest post by Moyena Laxman.

1. David Walsh

This popular coding blog focuses on modern libraries and shortcuts for programming in JavaScript. David Walsh and his guest bloggers provide daily posts and commentary to help you learn how to code quicker and more efficiently. You can learn everything from how to build a video player using React to using Node.js by subscribing to this leading programming blog.
→ https://davidwalsh.name/

2. A List Apart

Several bloggers contribute to this code-based blog to create a highly informative and entertaining stream of posts. Follow this blog to learn about issues affecting web accessibility, user interfaces, front-end development and CSS.
→ https://alistapart.com/

3. Ray Wenderlich

Ray Wenderlich’s coding blog is among the most trusted and highest quality on the market. It contains posts and videos for programming applications for Android and other environments. The blog also contains a podcast for those who wish to learn by listening while on the go or taking a break. This blog contains thousands of posts and over 1900 step-by-step tutorials.
→ https://www.raywenderlich.com/

4. Erik Bernhardsson

Erik Bernhardsson is an excellent blogger and coder with a blog that examines issues affecting all coders like Git repos, IDEs, naming conventions, and Windows support issues for various coding software. If you’re interested in coding from a corporate perspective, or want to pick up some quick tips for your next project then you should check out this minimalist, well-written coding blog. Bernhardsson also covers issues affecting programmers in the broader sense like conversion rates and SaaS (Software as a Service.)
→ https://erikbern.com/

5. Peteris Krumins

This unique coding blog is dedicated to covering topics JavaScript libraries, tools, XML, JSON, and even binary. The CatonMat blog is written by well-known programmer Peteris Krumins and is regularly updated. This blog has been up and running since July of 2007 and has gained many followers over the years. You can also read about Perl on this blog, as the author has published a book on the language.
→ http://www.catonmat.net/

6. Web Designer Depot

If you write code for web use then you should consider this blog a must-read. The Web Design Blog covers topics ranging from backend server-side coding to frontend functionality and design. There’s a lot of development articles and tutorials posted to this website to help developers and designers better understand the code that makes the web work. This blog covers topics like web hosting standards and element design and construction.
→ https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/

7. NSHipster

The NSHipster blog is written for those who code in Objective-C and want to find rare and useful facts and tips about the language. It covers Swift and Cocoa for a comprehensive study of all things Mac-related. If you program for Mac products or iOS then you should definitely add this blog to your RSS feed.
→ http://nshipster.com/

8. CodePen Blog

Many programmers are familiar with CodePen and its popular projects library where coders can share and download libraries and other code but some may not be aware of the brilliant blog section of this website. CodePen offers blog posts several times per week on subjects like how to design assets.
→ https://blog.codepen.io/

9. Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman runs a fascinating blog that covers issues like .NET programming and web applications. You can learn how to setup an IIS web hosting server and create .NET applications by following some of the tutorial posts on this coding blog. Scott Hanselman posts a few times a week on this venue and keeps readers informed about new trends in programming, conventions, and protocols.
→ https://www.hanselman.com/blog/

10. David Ford

David Ford is a programmer and blogger with an excellent coding blog at Medium. He covers topics like UX, templates, JavaScript web apps, and mobile applications. This blog will help you make the best of your web hosting and design environment with its useful tips on efficiency. This blog also contains opinions on the future of certain languages and how search engines are beginning to rank development features. Keep an eye on this blog if you write code for the web or need to stay informed about trending languages and libraries.
→ https://medium.com/@daveford

Each of these bloggers has made a name for themselves in the programming community by sharing relevant, high-quality information and tips for coders. They maintain their respective blogs well and keep current information posted on a regular basis. By following this blogs you’ll learn tips and programming shortcuts you may never have otherwise thought to try. Consider using an RSS feed reader through your phone or desktop browser to automatically download each new post from these top coding bloggers.

This is a guest post by Nicole Rocklin.

Before we dive into several methods of generating backlinks through email marketing let’s take a moment and understand why you are doing it. The main reason you need to create backlinks is because you want to drive traffic to your website.

Your website is often the crown jewel of your business because it represents your company’s digital presence. As a hub for your business, your website often contains information about your products, services, culture, and most importantly your branding.

While there are various methods of using traditional SEO methods to generate backlinks to your website, many content marketers have yet to explore ways to generate backlinks from email marketing. Increasing visibility is crucial for any business and since you have worked so hard on your website, why not show it off. Follow these 6 hacks to get more backlinks from email marketing.

Engaging content

In a 1996 essay, Bill Gates coined the term “Content is King.” The above infographic is just a short but informative snapshot of what goes on within 60 seconds on the web. As you can see, there is so much going on that it’s going to be difficult to stand out as a brand. Instead of mass producing content, focus on creating quality content.

Although content marketing is not a new concept, in recent years digital marketers have strategically used content marketing to advertise their products and services through the web. Content is just as important when it comes to email marketing, whether it’s videos, images, taglines and perhaps even emoji – use whatever is needed to reach out to your audience.

For example, every minute, 1440 WordPress blogs are published and 500 hours of content are upload to YouTube. Therefore, the competition is steep which means that you need to work harder just to attract your customer’s attention. Create engaging content through storytelling and if possible include videos or infographics in your emails. Four times as many consumers would prefer to watch a video rather than reading about it.

Have a clear backlink leading back to your website or article

While this advice might seem obvious, sometimes we get caught up in designing and formatting our emails that we forget the primary reason as to why we are doing it in the first place.

Since a company’s website is the most powerful marketing tool, always make sure to include a backlink within your emails so customers can visit your website or blog articles. Pay attention to broken links as some hyperlinks might not display correctly.

Prior to sending out emails to your customers, always test your emails to ensure all your links are working through desktop viewing as well as through mobile devices. If you are unsure what to include in your email marketing campaigns, have a look at some of these email templates.

Know your target audience

Depending on your industry, your business might have a different way to communicate. The statistics above show the percentage of users that communicate through emails on their mobile phones in accordance to their sector. Shown interestingly through the numbers, TV/Radio/Film has an opening rate of 71.89% while wholesale has the lowest opening rate at only 26.88%.

The way we communicate has drastically changed over the last decade. As a brand, you need to know your target audience and understand the best methods to reach your consumers. Many companies often have a niche market in which they will find the most loyal customers.

For example, a company such as Snapchat has a younger audience in comparison to a company like LinkedIn; therefore, the way these companies communicate will be remarkably different. According to a report by Experian, 56% of brands that use emoji in their email subject lines had a higher open rate. In addition, consumers who purchase products through email spend 138% more than those who don’t receive email offers. As a result, it’s critical to know your audience and create content that engages them.

Optimize for mobile devices

According to research, more individuals of all ages are reading emails more through their mobile phones than their desktops. About 3 in 5 consumers check their emails through their phones and 75% say they use their smartphone frequently just to check their email. Whether it’s design or content, make sure that your emails are properly formatted and can be displayed on all devices.

Some of your readers might be reading your emails from a tablet or a phone; therefore, make sure that your messages are displaying correctly without any formatting issues. According to the latest research, 61% of users open their emails through their mobile, 15% on desktop and 24% in a webmail client. Some customers have opted to receive text only on their mobile phones, so consider how your emails might display to these customers. Studies show that titles with 6-13 words attract the highest and most consistent amount of traffic.

Guide your customers

Make sure that you are able to solve your customer’s problems and provide them with solutions through your offerings. Include a call to action within your emails. Creating an engaging digital marketing campaign will ensure that your customer will have a seamless customer experience and continue to engage with your email marketing offers.

Consumers often expect a business to solve their problems; therefore, by knowing more about your customers’ pain points you can provide them with products and services that match their needs. In the end, customers can walk away with a purchase that meets their needs.

Improve customer experience

Customer experience is important not only when your customers are dealing with your website or mobile app but whenever they are dealing with your company as a whole. Since emails are essentially an extension of your company’s marketing offers, you should also focus on improving customer experience here. There are roughly about 269 billion emails sent in 2017; therefore, it’s important to focus on the quality of your emails rather than quantity.

By improving customer experience, you can improve customer service and maintain high customer ratings. Gartner predicts that more than 50% of organizations will redirect their investments to customer experience innovations in 2018. As a company, you can stand out by improving your customer’s user experience the moment they interact your emails.

According to research, the opening rate for email sent in North America is 34.1%. What’s more? Improving customer experience is the new battlefield for many companies as 89% of businesses are soon expected to compete mainly on customer experience and companies that take this concept seriously will stand out from the competition.

Conclusion

Email marketing can be a powerful option for your business to grow and gain visibility online. Like the old saying, less is more, so focus on quality rather than quantity when reaching out to your customers through emails.

By improving user experience through your email marketing strategy, you can continue to maintain a strong relationship with your current customers and reach out to a new targeted audience. According to research, 52% of customers are less likely to engage with a company due to bad mobile experience. Therefore, make sure that your emails are optimized for mobile viewing and have a good layout with crucial elements such as header, titles, and images.

By following these email marketing tips and paying attention to the latest marketing trends, you can be well on your way to increase traffic to your website as well as improving your email opening rates.

This is a guest post by Sarah Saker.

#1: Sketch

Price: $99 per year.

Sketch is a comprehensive graphic editor that’s steadily but confidently nudging Photoshop aside. This vector-based app makes your file sizes significantly smaller and ensures great display of imagery on all screens. What’s more, Sketch features a pre-built grid system which helps you map out interfaces with the speed of light. That’s why Sketch is a new-age, more intuitive and cleaner version of Photoshop that you can test-drive with a free trial.

#2: Coolors

Price: Free.

Creating a trendsetting color palette is a non-issue thanks to the free Coolors . It’s available for Windows and Mac, as a Chrome add-on and as an iOS app.

#3: WEPS

Price: $12.24 per month.

On the homepage of WEPS, you can read that this is “the lightest, smartest and most intuitive website builder” out there. We’re not sure whether it holds the palm of supremacy, but we’re sure that it makes to 10 best web design tools of this year.
WEPS is a comprehensive WYSIWYG website builder that merges utmost ease-of-use with a wide array of features. With it, you can either build a website from scratch or use a theme as a starting point. What’s more, WEPS even lets you design your website on mobile thanks to polished-to-perfection mobile editing interface.

#4: Canva

Price: Free or $12.95/month.

Canva is an online alternative to Photoshop and Sketch. It offers you a number of filters, settings and tools and makes creating all sorts of imagery (from album covers to infographics) as simple as ABC. The Free Canva Plan gives you access to 8K templates and graphic design samples. In addition to this, it lets you upload your own imagery.

#5: Visual Website Optimizer

Price: $49/month and above.

You’ve got to not only create a unique interface for your website, but also to test it to hit higher conversion rates. VWO is the tool that will help you with this task. It runs A/B testing for you and helps you avoid common flaws that hold back your website. You’ve got 30 days to try it with a free trial.

#6: MotoCMS Website Builder

Price: $125.00 (one-off cost).

MotoCMS is one of those best web design tools that have a substantial fan base both among newbies and experienced designers. If you create a website with it, the editor will bring you responsive web design, drag-n-drop features and adjustable settings. What’s more, MotoCMS Builder has a number of pre-built interactive tutorials and lands you reliable 24/7 technical support.

#7: CoffeeCup

Price: $99 (currently 47% off).

Basically, CoffeCup is a user-friendly, easy-to-use HTML editor. With it, creating HTML and CSS for your web projects is a breeze. What’s more, with CoffeeCup you get powerful tools for improving search rank, transferring files and visually enhancing your website.

#8: Visme

Price: Free.

The list of best web design tools won’t be complete without this well-liked free infographics design tool. With Visme, creating infographics is simple for all sorts of folks. So, having web design background isn’t a prerequisite to create shareworthy infographics anymore.

#9: Bitable

Price: Free or $8.29/month.

Explainer videos are hot this year as they do a great job promoting your products and services. The freemium Biteable has all you need to create an appealing modern video in the matter of hours.

#10: Moqups

Price: $19/month and above.

The last item on our list of best web design tools is Moqups, arguably the best tool 2018 for prototyping. With its help, you can develop project wireframes and mockups online in a highly flexible environment.
Read the “10 Useful Text Formatting Tools For Web Developers” article to get to know other similar tools.

Wrapping Up

Congrats! Now you know some of the most well-liked and progressive best web design tools 2018. We hope they help you speed up your workflow and reach new web design heights!

Please share your thoughts in the Comments. We’d love to hear what you think! Take care!

This is a guest post by Tim Ross.

This change began rollout on March 26, 2018, though Google has not remarked on what websites are being hit by these initial stages. Which is why many businesses may be taken by surprise if a dramatic drop in mobile traffic was to occur. Preemptive optimization now, then, could ensure that your site does not experience this. And if you optimize now and your competitors do not, you could see yourself well rewarded in SERPs for your efforts.

So, with that in mind, what exactly is mobile first and what do you need to be doing in order to make sure your site is ready for Google’s mobile-first incentive?

What is Mobile First?

The mobile-first index is simple in that it is a change from ranking sites based on their desktop version to ranking them based on mobile content instead. This means, also, that desktop users will see search results based on the quality of mobile sites. So, moving forward sites that wish to rank well and be discoverable need to have a well optimized mobile site.

Of course, if you do not have a mobile version of your site Google states that your desktop site will continue to be crawled as usual. But, there are many that are worried this will have a negative effect on results nevertheless.

In either case, it is clear that having a well-optimized mobile content is vital for the future of your site. Which is why optimizing now can save you a big headache later.

Site tests

Not sure if your site is optimized for mobile? Or how fast it loads? Then you need to use online tools – which are free – to gauge what state your site is currently in. Using site test tools also gives you the benefit of understanding where you were at the start, implementing changes and then using the tools again to check these changes worked. They can be used as a measure of your success.

Good tools for this include Google’s PageSpeed Insights and Pingdom.

Speed up your site

One of the biggest ways to improve your site’s mobile optimization and prepare your site for the mobile-first index is through improving site speed. The faster your site loads, the better user experience and the better Google will rank your site. Slow, clunky loading and the like will only cause people to bounce from your site and Google to penalize you.

There are three main ways that you can improve your site speed quickly and efficiently:

• AMP – The Accelerated Mobile Pages Project is aimed at improving the overall mobile landscape. It used pared-down HTML, enabling much faster loading. Content is also cached by Google itself which speeds up load time immensely. Plenty of plugins exist for this.
• PWA – Progressive Web Apps loads instantly, responds to user clicks and includes an immersive UX. You can explore this further on Google’s developer’s website.
• Compress Images – image size and loading times is a big offender for poor mobile performance on your site. So, compressing these images across your site is vital. There are plenty of WordPress plugins that do this for you, it’s just a case of finding one you like!

At the end of the day, site speed should be a priority to continually improve for good UX. But, as it also helps with dealing and ranking well in Google’s new mobile-first index it should also be a much bigger priority for you and your website.

Mobile First work process

Instead of being reactionary when it comes to mobile first, you need to focus your efforts on mobile in the first place in order to ensure you have the best website possible – for both Google and user benefit. This means changing the mindset you have when it comes to managing and updating your site, but it can be extremely beneficial in the long term.

Of course, you could also choose to forego a responsive site and simply use an app to give your users the best mobile experience possible. With the help of app developers, you can easily create an intuitive UX design which gives users quick loading, good content and the best mobile experience possible. This isn’t a possibility for every site, obviously, but it should seriously be considered if you are interested in bringing your UX to the next level.

Conclusions

Being fast is the name of the game moving forward in 2018. If you site loading speed is anything less than instantaneous, then you will be harshly judged by both Google and your users. So, invest in optimizing your site speed now to prepare for the full rollout of the mobile-first index. Changes won’t be noticeable now, in the first stages of rollout, but they could hit you hard later if you don’t act.

This is a guest post by Zack Halliwell.

<h2About SendPulse

Established in 2015 and based in New York City, SendPulse is a company that focuses on making online marketing easier and much more efficient.

In order to allow their clients to maximize their open rates, SendPulse uses artificial intelligence, hyper-personalization, and predictive analysis. They offer various tools designed for reaching the maximum of your audience: email marketing, SMTP, Web Push, and Viber.

The service also provides a wide variety of useful tools: a super easy-to-use drag and drop editor for creating email campaigns in no time, ready-made templates and subscription forms, an extensive API, as well as Automation 360, a tool designed to interact with customers’ actions. For example, it can send a reminder about an item placed in the cart but not bought, or send any kind of personalized emails after a predefined action has been taken by the customer.

SendPulse is working with many important international companies, including airlines Aeroflot and LOT, Karcher, Radisson Hotels, and TemplateMonster.

The prizes

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What are WordPress nonces?

According to the codex, a nonce is a “number used once” to help protect URLs and forms from certain types of misuse, malicious or otherwise.

WordPress can create nonces for them to be submitted via form or another action, and on the other hand, it can verify the nonce passed in a form or an action is valid before accepting the associated data.

For more info about nonces, check out the WordPress codex.

The form

For this tutorial, we need to create two files: ajax.php, which will contain the code needed to process the request, and page-form.php, the main file, containing a simple form. Using a nonce adds an extra layer of security to WordPress themes and plugin you might create.

Those two files should be created in your WordPress theme directory. You can either use a FTP program or the cPanel provided by your web hosting to do so.

Let’s start by creating a simple HTML form in the page-form.php file.

<form id="myform">
  <div class="form-group">
    <label for="formGroupExampleInput">Example label</label>
    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="formGroupExampleInput" placeholder="Example input">
  </div>
  <div class="form-group">
    <label for="formGroupExampleInput2">Another label</label>
    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="formGroupExampleInput2" placeholder="Another input">
  </div>

  <?php wp_nonce_field( 'my_nonce' ); ?>

  <input type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />

</form>

Nothing special about this form, except a call to wp_nonce_field() on line 11. This function creates a nonce and adds it to the form using a hidden field. Another hidden field is created by the same function to store the referer.

If you look at the source of your page-form.php file, you’ll see that the wp_nonce_field() function has outputted something similar to the following:

<input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="ad8a767ba0" />
<input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="/myaccount/mypage/" />

For more information on the function, don’t hesitate to refer to the codex.

Sending the form using jQuery

Now, we’re going to use some jQuery to send our form.

jQuery( document ).ready(function() {
	jQuery( "#submit" ).click(function() {
		 jQuery.post( "https://yoursite.com/ajax.php", jQuery('#myform').serialize())
			.done(function( data ) {
			alert(data);
		}); 
		return false;
	});
});

The code is pretty self-explanatory: When the user attempts to send the form, jQuery sends an AJAX request to https://yoursite.com/ajax.php, with the serialized form as content.

Verifying the nonce using PHP

Once the data has been sent, we need to verify that the nonce is valid. Here’s the content of the ajax.php file to which jQuery has sent the data:

<?php
define( 'WP_USE_THEMES', false );
require_once( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wp-load.php' );

if (!check_ajax_referer( 'my_nonce' )){
	wp_die();
}

// If the nonce is correct, process the data

Lines 2 and 3 are including WordPress in the file. This step is necessary since we need the WordPress core to be included in order to use WP functions.

On line 5, WordPress is checking for a nonce named my_nonce using the check_ajax_referer() function, which returns true if the nonce is valid.

If the nonce is not valid, wp_die() is called and the execution of the script will be terminated. Otherwise, the script will proceed your data as needed.

As seen on Expo Marketing Group Graphic Designer Salary, graphic designing and advertising are extremely important in order to promote an online business.

To achieve the marketing goals of your company and increase clicks, and traffic to your website, WordPress can be a real time-saving tool with its handy and helpful plugins. Marketers need to learn about plugins and know which ones to use in order to make the most out of it.

Analytics with Jetpack

Jetpack is the ultimate toolkit for WordPress. It gives you everything you need to design, secure, and grow your site in one bundle.

All these core features are free. Advanced features like daily backups, spam protection, and SEO tools can be added with one of three simple and affordable plans.

Yoast WordPress SEO

Yoast SEO is a powerful WordPress plugin that adds search engine optimization to your website. It compels the user to choose relevant keywords to keep your posts SEO friendly. This tool ensures that all of your efforts go in the right way to bring traffic to your website. It’s a great solution for those who have a little knowledge and understanding of SEO.

Just Writing

Formatting, spelling, and grammar are the basics of a well-written post. This plugin will benefit everybody, and especially those who experience difficulties in putting their thoughts into words. It offers many features for distraction-free writing. You will be able to create better content for your site with this plugin that offers spelling check, different paragraphing styles, and formatting.

Just Writing also allows you to create your personalized content styling with a unique layout in an effective way, in order to create easy to read and well-formatted posts that will provide a higher marketing value. Just writing is a plugin for content marketers seeking perfection.

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin helps search engine spiders to index your site better than before, by creating an XML sitemap.

A proper XML sitemap is crucial to the SEO success of any website, as it notifies the search engines about new content or articles on your site. If you are looking for an efficient way to enhance your search engine rankings, activating this handy plugin would definitely be beneficial.

Google XML Sitemaps is extremely easy to use, even if you don’t have any particular knowledge about XML sitemaps or SEO in general. Creating a sitemap that works will only take a few minutes of your time.

Title Experiments

Good content will attract readers just with its title. Titles of your posts are extremely important, as they can attract or turn off potential new readers. Therefore, it’s really important that your posts titles can grab readers attention. Title experiments is a WordPress plugin that allows you to post titles as a test. You can use multiple titles for a single post, and check which ones are working the best.

This is a guest post by Aafiya Rana.

Once a business has chosen a domain name, set up their blog, and started creating content, they are going to face challenges and content issues. Here are a few content hacks you may not know about.

Protect your content from hackers

Unfortunately, since WordPress is a commonly used platform, hackers will often try to gain access to it so they can manipulate sites, steal personal information, and so on. Some security plugins, as such as WordFence are doing a great job in keeping hackers out, but there’s one other thing you can do to protect your content and keep the rest of your data safe as well.

To do this, password protect your admin directory. Go to your cPanel, and under security, you will find the password protect directories button. Click on it, select the directories you want to protect, and enter a unique password. This will require an authentication whenever you try to access that directory.

Show images in rows and columns

By default, when you add multiple images to your WordPress theme, they usually show up side by side or even on top of each other. This does not look good, and it also means users, especially those on mobile devices, will have to scroll a lot to see all of them.

You can do this without plugins by uploading photos you want to display in a grid, selecting create gallery under the Add media tab, and then choosing how you want the gallery to appear. Then simply hit insert gallery.
If you run a photography blog, this option may lack some key features, and you will be better off using a gallery plugin. There are several options available, including Envira Gallery.

Allow Users to Subscribe to Comments

Normally, for a user to see additional comments on your post once they have left one of their own, they would have to revisit or reload the same blog post page. However, you can offer the option to subscribe to comments so when someone leaves another comment, they will be notified by email.

This is easy to do either in your theme settings if this option is offered, or by using a plugin like Subscribe to Comments Reloaded that will add this feature to any theme on your website. This will enhance the user experience and bring you more organic traffic, as well as repeat page visits.

Display excerpt on home and archive pages

Many free and premium themes have this feature as a part of the package, but you have to enable it under the appearance settings of your website. This means that on the homepage, an excerpt is displayed instead of the whole article.

This lets users scroll through articles and choose which one they want to read a little more easily, making your content more viewable. While this is common on much larger websites, many smaller blogs do not know about or use it.

If your theme doesn’t have this feature, there are plug-ins that will enable it, and allow you to customize the excerpt along with the Read More tag at the end.

Show excerpts in RSS feed

By default, your RSS feed shows entire articles to subscribers. This does two things: First, it prevents the subscriber from visiting your website, lowering your actual traffic numbers. It also allows content scrapers to gather your entire article and copy it without actually visiting your site.

To fix this simply go to your settings for reading, and scroll down to For each article in feed, show: Select summary instead of full text and hit the save changes button. Your content and traffic are now better protected.

Add Multiple Authors to Posts

Do you have posts on your site that were created by more than one author and you want to credit them? While that option is not available in standard settings, there is a way to do so that is quick and easy.

The simplest way is to download and activate the Co-Authors Plus plug-in. An “author” box will be automatically added to posts in your WP dashboard. You can add more authors there.

Include category in post URLs

Not only is this good from a user experience perspective because it gives more data about the post in the URL, it is also good for SEO purposes. Adding the category to the post URL is a pretty simple process.

First, go to the settings and permalinks page. Then navigate down and select custom structure. Then add /%category%/%postname%/ in the field next to it. It’s that simple.

There are tons of hacks, plugins, and tips for customizing your WordPress content. Use those to make your content look amazing, and stand out from other sites around you.

This is a guest post by Sarah Saker.