UI Design (User Interface Design) is a term that’s thrown around a lot, but what does it actually mean? Simply put, it is the design of the user’s visual experience. This entails the design of an app or Wordpress site’s screens, buttons, icons, images, text, and any other elements a user will see and engage with.
You’ve built an amazing WordPress website, created a social media marketing strategy, and are now eager to build a mailing list to connect with your customers via regular email newsletter campaigns. You love WordPress for managing your website’s content as well as countless other bells and whistles, so you assume it’s also the best tool to manage mailing lists, newsletter templates, and marketing campaigns. However, in this instance, your best approach is to stick with the folks who specialize in those functions, specifically a professional email marketing service such as Mailchimp, Constant Contact, or AWeber.
There are many reasons why you may want to (or need to) move on from your old WordPress theme to a new one. Perhaps the former look and feel is too out of date for your taste. Or more likely your theme is out of date, and has become incompatible with necessary plugins. Or the … Read more
The purpose of a Content Management System, such as WordPress, is to give users the ability to build a custom website without needing to program it from scratch. WordPress itself provides a foundation of basic functionality for a simple site (user management, basic pages, a blog, comments, etc.), and a theme provides the look of … Read more
As the world becomes more screen focused, the amount of energy put into crafting a smart and thoughtful user experience becomes more important. The overall User Experience (UX) is the design of the information organization and architecture, and the User Interface (UI) is the visual elements and design. There are many UX design principles that … Read more
Salesforce is the leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform for businesses and non-profits and WordPress is the leading content management system (CMS) in the world, so it only makes sense to leverage the power of both of these outstanding platforms together by using your website to collect and manage incoming customer sales leads. There are a number of different methods to achieve this.
The WordPress Editor Controversy “I fear that we’re on the cusp of a disaster that will forever fragment the WordPress community and start the slow decline of WordPress as the content management system of choice.” –Scott Bowler Remember Gutenberg? It’s the new editor for WordPress, slated to be integrated into version 5.0 (currently 4.9.8). Gutenberg … Read more
At some point you will want to capture information from your audience if you have a WordPress site. This can be as simple as a contact form or as complex as a recurring donation form. Organizing them can be difficult as these various functions have often required a variety of plugins or custom coding to … Read more
Related Resource: Website Redesign Recent studies show that people are more likely to scan your WordPress site rather than going through each block of content one at a time. Thankfully, there are ways in which good design can use the eye’s natural scanning patterns to guide them to the most important elements. A 200 site … Read more
There are a lot of scenarios where you might find yourself wanting to synchronize WordPress user data with an outside source. You might have a database of employees and any time a change is made to their contact information or position in your organization, you’d like those changes to be applied to your company’s website. Or perhaps … Read more