Meet SmashingConf New York 🇺🇸 (Oct 10–13)
SmashingConf NYC is back! A friendly, inclusive conference for designers and front-end engineers who can’t wait to learn… Read more
15 horrible mistakes even professional online writers make
Don't let errors get in the way of your online writing success. Here are some common mistakes to steer clear of. The pos… Read more
TikTok video descriptions now have a 2,200 character limit
TikTok tells users that adding longer descriptions makes them more likely to show in people's For You pages. The post Ti… Read more
Lessons Learned As A Designer-Founder
In this article, Dave Feldman shares his lessons learned and the experiments has done as a multidisciplinary designer-fo… Read more
The biggest mystery of Google’s algorithm: Everything ever said about clicks, CTR and bounce rate
There's good reason to suspect that Google uses CTR as a ranking factor. Here's how Google addressed the topic over the… Read more
Content API for Shopping and Google Ads API updated for country targeting
Google says you can opt-out if you're concerned that your database can't handle datafeeds without a target country. The… Read more
New Google issue may affect ad serving
Yet another potential outage for Google, this time affecting certain ads from delivering. The post New Google issue may… Read more
Things I Wish I Had Known About Angular When I Started
If you’re considering learning Angular, this article sums up what William Juan wished he knew when he started, including… Read more
How to define SERP intent and ‘source type’ for better analysis
Understanding the source types that Google displays in the SERPs helps SEOs know how viable it is to effectively rank fo… Read more
4 dos and don’ts of a digital marketing apprenticeship
Structuring a digital marketing apprenticeship? Here's how to ensure you and your apprentice get the most out of working… Read more
Webinar: If the customer is always right, your tech should be too
Discover the emerging solutions and channels that cultivate stronger customer experiences. The post Webinar: If the cust… Read more
More Google Ad incidents and issues
Hot Google Ad outages in your area The post More Google Ad incidents and issues appeared first on Search Engine Land. Read more
Designing Better Inline Validation UX
Inline validation in web forms is useful when it works, but frustrating when it fails. Too often it leads to an endless… Read more
Smashing Podcast Episode 53 With Rémi Parmentier: Can HTML Email Use Modern CSS?
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about HTML email. Do we still have to design like we would for IE… Read more
What’s New In Gatsby 2022?
Gatsby has evolved quite dramatically in the last two years. In this article, Paul Scanlon explains what Gatsby can do t… Read more
Building A Retro Draggable Web Component With Lit
In today’s article, Andrico Karoulla explains how to create a cool draggable effect by listening to the drag events and… Read more
Digital Products : What Are They? + How To Make Money Selling Information & Digital Goods
The post Digital Products : What Are They? + How To Make Money Selling Information & Digital Goods appeared first on Web… Read more
E-Commerce : What Is It? + How To Source and Sell Products Online
The post E-Commerce : What Is It? + How To Source and Sell Products Online appeared first on WebMonkey. Read more
Display Advertising : What Is It? + Which Services To Use & How To Get Started Making Money
The post Display Advertising : What Is It? + Which Services To Use & How To Get Started Making Money appeared first on W… Read more
Affiliate Marketing : What Is It, Where Do You Start, and How Do You Make Money Doing It?
The post Affiliate Marketing : What Is It, Where Do You Start, and How Do You Make Money Doing It? appeared first on Web… Read more
How To Sell a Website : Where To Sell It, When To Sell It, and What You’ll Need to Get Top Dollar
The post How To Sell a Website : Where To Sell It, When To Sell It, and What You’ll Need to Get Top Dollar appeared firs… Read more
Social Media Marketing : How To Increase Your Followers, Create Compelling Content, and Build Trust
The post Social Media Marketing : How To Increase Your Followers, Create Compelling Content, and Build Trust appeared fi… Read more
Outreach : How To Gain Recognition & Authority The Old-Fashioned Way
The post Outreach : How To Gain Recognition & Authority The Old-Fashioned Way appeared first on WebMonkey. Read more
Email Marketing : How to Build a List, Segment Your Audience, and Get Them To Open Every Time
The post Email Marketing : How to Build a List, Segment Your Audience, and Get Them To Open Every Time appeared first on… Read more
Becoming an Influencer : How to Get Started, Find an Audience, and Manage Partnerships
The post Becoming an Influencer : How to Get Started, Find an Audience, and Manage Partnerships appeared first on WebMon… Read more
Starting a Podcast : How to Find Ideas, Set up a Content Calendar, and Attract Advertisers
The post Starting a Podcast : How to Find Ideas, Set up a Content Calendar, and Attract Advertisers appeared first on We… Read more
Rethinking Star Ratings For Readers
How can companies change their rating and review systems to better benefit users? Matt Athanasiou shares some steps to i… Read more
Headless In Times Of Accessibility
Do you want to make your new website as accessible as possible? Amazing, that’s a great mindset! Let’s have a closer loo… Read more
Apple As An Advertising Company: Inevitable, or A $100 Billion Mistake?
I hope to write something more thoughtful soon, but this piece from CNBC prompted me to at least jot down a placeholder:… Read more
Top 10 WooCommerce Themes (2022 edition)
Have you been looking for the best WooCommerce WordPress theme to open an online store but you’re not sure what to look… Read more
JavaScript APIs You Don’t Know About
In this article, Juan Diego covers the least known yet extremely useful APIs, such as the Page Visibility API, Web Shari… Read more
Making Sense Of WAI-ARIA: A Comprehensive Guide
In this article, Kate Kalcevich explains when to use ARIA and how to use it properly so that you can use ARIA in a way t… Read more
Meet “Smart Interface Design Patterns Checklists” (Deck With 166 Cards)
Meet “Smart Interface Design Patterns Checklists”, a deck of 166 checklist cards to help you design and build better int… Read more
Writing
Time was, I sat down nearly every day of the week to contemplate a blank page – and a few hours later, more or less, I’d… Read more
One Formula To Rule Them All: The ROI Of A Design System
Design systems are a crucial success factor for digital businesses, and virtually every major player works with one. Sti… Read more
UX Checklists For Interface Designers
UX checklists with best design practices, accessibility guidelines, design system checklist, tables UX checklist, UX res… Read more
The Realities And Myths Of Contrast And Color
In this article, Andrew Somers, a 35-year veteran of the Hollywood film and television industry, shares his experience a… Read more
Smashing Podcast Episode 52 With Yiying Lu: How Do You Become An NFT Artist?
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask how do you go from running a creative studio to designing NFTs. Vitaly t… Read more
Meet Understanding Privacy, A New Smashing Book By Heather Burns
Meet “Understanding Privacy”, our upcoming book on what data privacy is really about beyond scary headlines. Approx. 350… Read more
The Accessibility And Usability Journey Of Drupal’s Primary Navigation
In this article, Mike Herchel covers Drupal’s new default theme, Olivero, which is usable, accessible, robust, and beaut… Read more
Databases For Front-End Developers: The Concepts Under The Hood (Part 2)
In the second part of “Databases For Front-End Developers” series, Atila Fassina explores concepts to equip you to have… Read more
Useful JavaScript Data Grid Libraries
In this article, Zara Cooper provides a rundown of some popular data grid libraries that would be a great addition to an… Read more
Finding The Balance (September 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition)
Let’s welcome September with some fresh desktop wallpapers. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, the… Read more
How To Improve And Measure Your Progress Learning Web Design
Ever felt overwhelmed by the number of things you need to learn? Today, we look at how [Uxcel](https://uxcel.com/) eases… Read more
What Makes A Great Toggle Button? (Case Study, Part 2)
The problem of how to design an effective toggle button that shows the selected option clearly is a long-term open quest… Read more
Designing Better Error Messages UX
Error messages need to be easy to spot, but they also need to be helpful. Let’s explore when error messages should live… Read more
Better Video Streaming With imgix
If you need to deliver a large number of images and videos, a solution like [imgix](https://imgix.com/?utm_medium=banner… Read more
Smashing Podcast Episode 51 With Ben Callahan: What’s The Value Of A Design System?
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask how you can prove the value of a Design System and how you can pitch it… Read more
What Makes A Great Toggle Button? (Case Study, Part 1)
In this first part of a two-part article, Eduard Kuric analyzes the characteristics of effective toggle buttons that mak… Read more
Implementing A Reset Password Feature With Next.js Dynamic Routes
Most users tend to forget their passwords, so create experiences that will always be valuable for people when they use y… Read more
Google Helpful Content Update
Granular Panda Reading the tea leaves on the pre-announced Google helpful content update rolling out next week & over th… Read more
An Introduction To Context Propagation In JavaScript
React popularized context-propagation within applications with the context API. Evyatar Alush brings a brief intro to co… Read more
Designing A Better Back Button UX
With the “Back” button, users often get confused and frustrated. How to design a better back button UX and where to put… Read more
Everything Developers Must Know About Figma
Christine highlights some of Figma’s features and possibilities to help you build a design that aligns with code as much… Read more
Meet Skeleton: Svelte + Tailwind For Reactive UIs
The power of framework-specific UI libraries, such as Skeleton, can lead to more productivity using the combined ability… Read more
Databases For Front-End Developers: The Rise Of Serverless Databases (Part 1)
In this article, the first part of “Databases for Front-end Developers” series, Atila Fassina helps you understand the c… Read more
Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores
Identify, compare, analyze and fix your Core Web Vitals scores to boost web performance of your sites. These tools will… Read more
Smashing Podcast Episode 50 With Marko Dugonjic: Can You Change A UX Dinosaur?
In this episode, we ask how you can affect change to UX design in large organizations stuck in their ways. Vitaly talks… Read more
How Our Organization Improved Web Accessibility (Case Study)
In this article, Catherine Houle and Ilknur Eren share how their organization “Understood” removes barriers for people w… Read more
Rethinking Authentication UX
How to improve authentication UX, with magic links, 2FA, better password recovery and relaxed rules for secure, accessib… Read more
Migration From jQuery to Next.js: A Guide
We’re going to walk through how to migrate your site from jQuery to [React](/category/React) with [Next.js](/category/ne… Read more
Fluid Sizing Instead Of Multiple Media Queries?
If you like math and CSS, you’ll love this one. We don’t need to use media queries to change the values of some CSS prop… Read more
Memories Of August (2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition)
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by artists a… Read more
Automating Ourselves Out of Existence
Time has grown more scarce after having a child, so I rarely blog anymore. Though I thought it probably made sense to ma… Read more
Top 8 Multipurpose WordPress Themes To Check Out in 2022
The right multipurpose WordPress theme can make building a website a fast, easy, and pleasurable task. There are plenty… Read more
Has Innovation Died in Marketing?
Caveat: This will likely be one of my longish, link-heavy Thinking Out Loud pieces, so I invite you all to pour yourse… Read more
Looking for the best Tools and Resources for Designers and Agencies? They’re in this article
An effective, well-organized workflow is an important web design asset. It can be a critical asset for a professional we… Read more
Engineering Search Outcomes
Kent Walker promotes public policies which advantage the Google monopoly. His role doing that means he has to write some… Read more
Top 9 WordPress Plugins That Will Stick in 2022
The right WordPress theme used in conjunction with the WordPress Platform allows a web designer to create almost any web… Read more
On Building A Better Web: The Marlinspike Threads
If you want to follow the debate about crypto’s impact on society, which I believe is one of the most important topics i… Read more
A Draft Syllabus For The Rabbit Hole
(image) The most common complaint I hear from friends and colleagues who are interested in the crypto/web3 world is how… Read more
Best 10 WordPress Themes you Should Consider in 2022
The online world has gone from being a novelty in the latter part of the 20th century to a major influencer in our lives… Read more
Let’s Argue About Web3!
Popcorn in hand, I’ve been watching the recent religious war between tech leaders, and I find it all quite…wonderful. I… Read more
8 Best WordPress Mailing List Plugins For Getting More Subscribers – 2022
With over 1 Billion users on Gmail alone, marketers now claim email to be one of the best marketing strategies that brin… Read more
Why I’m Still Worried About TikTok
(image credit) News came last week that TikTok eclipsed both Google and Facebook as the most visited domain and most dow… Read more
6 Best WordPress Landing Page Plugins Compared (2022)
Are you struggling to grow your email list and generate more leads? Are you having trouble signing up people for your we… Read more
Predictions 2022 – Crypto, Climate, Big Tech, Streaming, Offices, Tik Tok…and (ugh) Trump
Welcome to year nineteen of these annual predictions, which means….holy cow, twenty years of writing at this site. Searc… Read more
Facebook’s Pretty Bad, No, Terrible Awful Game Changing Year
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains his “Metaverse” virtual world concept, which he says is about “connecting with peo… Read more
Predictions 2021: How’d I Do? Pretty Damn Well.
As has been my practice for nearly two decades, I penned a post full of prognostications at the end of last year. As 20… Read more
Top 5 Web Design Trends That Will Stick in 2022
Web design trends don’t just appear out of the blue. They arise in response to people’s thinking in terms of their needs… Read more
The Best 2021 Black Friday Deals? They’re in This Article
Every year at this time you’ll find us hard at work to place an enticing selection of great Black Friday deals and disco… Read more
22 Best Flyer Fonts For 2022
Designing professional and eye-catching flyers is no easy task, and it’s really important to choose the right flyer font… Read more
25 Best Condensed Fonts for 2022
Searching for the perfect font for your upcoming project? Would you like something versatile and elegant? Condensed font… Read more
21 Best Resume Templates to Impress Employers (2022)
Thinking about applying for a new job? Looking for a way to get your resume noticed by potential employers? What you nee… Read more
23 Best Mockup Templates for 2021 (Free & Premium)
Are you a graphic designer looking to showcase your designs in a real-world setting? Do you want to create a presentatio… Read more
Cannibalization
In today's episode of Whiteboard Friday, Moz SEO expert Tom Capper walks you through cannibalization: what it is, how to… Read more
Tackling 8,000 Title Tag Rewrites: A Case Study
Let's take an in-depth look at Moz.com title tags that were re-written by Google, including three case studies where we… Read more
How Our Website Conversion Strategy Increased Business Inquiries by 37%
See how, through several little tweaks to their conversion strategy, the team at Chromatix attracted a higher tier of cu… Read more
How to Add Products to Your Google My Business Listing, Illustrated
Miriam helps you get started in Google My Business Products with this illustrated tutorial, walking you through how to a… Read more
The Three Bosses of SEO
In SEO, there are three main “bosses” with different needs: your business, your searchers, and your search engines. How… Read more
Winning the Page Speed Race: How to Turn Your Clunker of a Website Into a Race Car
Winning the page speed race requires the same things as winning a car race: making sure that your vehicle is as lightwei… Read more
Responsive Search Ads: 5 Best Practices for Google Ads PPC Search Campaigns
These tips will help you optimize your responsive search ads in your Google Ads search campaigns, and increase clicks an… Read more
How to Calculate Your SEO ROI Using Google Analytics
Measuring ROI for your SEO efforts involves two factors: KPIs and the cost of your current SEO campaigns. With GA, you c… Read more
How to Use STAT to Find SEO Opportunities at Scale
Today, Cyrus explains how powerful STAT can be when you’re trying to discover SEO opportunities on a massive scale. Read more
The Guide to Targeted-Impact Link Building
Links drive rankings — that’s one thing that SEOs and marketers can agree on. But which rankings, and for which pages on… Read more
Creative or Developer? One or More of these 15 Awesome Pre-built Websites Could be Just Right for You
As a creative, you need a digital space to showcase your work to potential employers or clients, and for that matter to… Read more
Weatherstack Review: Is This the Best Weather API?
Looking for a way to share location-based weather reports and forecasts with your website visitors? You’re going to need… Read more
Jasper.ai Review
Background / Intro One of my longtime friends who was Internet marketing long before I was hit me up on Skype about a we… Read more
5+ Useful Multipurpose WordPress Themes To Check Out
Great flexibility, powerful website building tools, and excellent customer support. It exemplify the top-of-the line mul… Read more
SEMrush IPO (SEMR)
On Wednesday SEMrush priced their IPO at $14 a share & listed Thursday. There have been many marketing and online advert… Read more
The best 15 Tools & Resources for Designers? They’re in this article
There can be various reasons for failing to deliver a product on time. Take for example a situation in which progress gr… Read more
The Top Blogging Platforms of the Year (2021)
Deciding to start a blog, whether it be for personal or professional use, is a great idea. With the rise in internet act… Read more
The Wrong People Won
Chasing New Markets My initial attraction toward SEO and the web was largely that it was like a new and parallel world t… Read more
Influencer Review – A look at What Influencer has to offer?
Nowadays, if you have a product, service, or brand that you want to “get out there” one of the best ways to do that is t… Read more
15+ Best Angular Admin Dashboard Templates of 2020 – Users Choice
We have compiled a list of best Angular templates for you. These offer you to start your web application and help you bu… Read more
Apple Search
Google, Google, Google For well over a decade Google has dominated search to where most stories in the search sphere wer… Read more
Overcoming Webmaster Depression
This year is a rather easy year to be depressed. ;) COVID-19, fearmongering media, polarized hyper-charged social media,… Read more
Declining Visitor Values
Late Funnel SEO Profits Before the Panda update SEOs could easily focus almost all their energies on late funnel high-in… Read more
How to Read Google Algorithm Updates
Links = Rank Old Google (pre-Panda) was to some degree largely the following: links = rank. Once you had enough links to… Read more
Easy for You
To Teach, One Must Learn One of the benefits of writing is it forces you to structure your thoughts. If you are doing so… Read more
New Age Cloaking
Historically cloaking was considered bad because a consumer would click expecting a particular piece of content or user… Read more
Managing Algorithmic Volatility
Upon the recently announced Google update I've seen some people Tweet things like if you are afraid of algorithm updates… Read more
New Version of SEO Toolbar
Our programmer recently updated our SEO toolbar to work with the most recent version of Firefox. You can install it from… Read more
China Still Censoring Google, Now Globally
Google Gets Out of China In March of 2010 Google announced they would no longer censor their search results for China: e… Read more
Increasing Time on Site
Changing User Intents Google's search quality rater document highlights how the intent of searches can change over time… Read more
Revenue Quality & Leverage
The coronavirus issue is likely to linger for some time. GERMANY PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY PRESIDENT SAYS OUR ASSUMPTION IS T… Read more
Subscription Fatigue
Subscription Management I have active subscriptions with about a half-dozen different news & finance sites along with ab… Read more
Favicon SEO
Google recently copied their mobile result layout over to desktop search results. The three big pieces which changed as… Read more
Brands vs Ads
Brand, Brand, Brand About 7 years ago I wrote about how the search relevancy algorithms were placing heavy weighting on… Read more
Internet Wayback Machine Adds Historical TextDiff
The Wayback Machine has a cool new feature for looking at the historical changes of a web page. The color scale shows ho… Read more
Dofollow, Nofollow, Sponsored, UGC
A Change to Nofollow Last month Google announced they were going to change how they treated nofollow, moving it from a d… Read more
New Keyword Tool
Our keyword tool is updated periodically. We recently updated it once more. For comparison sake, the old keyword tool lo… Read more
AMP'd Up for Recaptcha
Beyond search Google controls the leading distributed ad network, the leading mobile OS, the leading web browser, the le… Read more
The Fractured Web
Anyone can argue about the intent of a particular action & the outcome that is derived by it. But when the outcome is kn… Read more
Keyword Not Provided, But it Just Clicks
When SEO Was Easy When I got started on the web over 15 years ago I created an overly broad & shallow website that had l… Read more
How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Brian McCullough, who runs Internet History Podcast, also wrote a book named How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to… Read more
Google Florida 2.0 Algorithm Update: Early Observations
It has been a while since Google has had a major algorithm update. They recently announced one which began on the 12th o… Read more
A Darker Shade of Gray
Google's original breakthrough in search was placing weight on links & using them to approximate the behavior of web use… Read more
Left is Right & Up is Down
Probably the single best video to watch to understand the power of Google & Facebook (or even most of the major problems… Read more