CSS offers several different ways to declare colors, each with its own syntax, benefits, and drawbacks. It can get a bit confusing especially since they are still adding new ways. If you are not always sure how you should go Continue reading 8 Ways to Declare Colors in CSS: Detailed Guide + Examples
A Fresh New Design For Subscriber Emails We recently rolled out some fresh, flavorful updates to the design of the emails that go out to your subscribers when you publish new posts to your site. With this new design update Continue reading Your Website Looks Great. So Should Your Emails.
Designers, coders, and developers are constantly coming up with revolutionary web designs. This can make it difficult to keep up with the newest techniques. However, an awareness of the latest trends is critical if you want to stay relevant and Continue reading 6 Web Design Trends to Look Out for in 2022
Have you ever wondered what the best wireframing tools are for drafting out your ideas for your website before building it? Or are you thinking, “what in heaven’s name is wireframing?” Either way, please keep reading, as I will tell Continue reading 9 Best Wireframing Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps In 2022
Nowadays, websites are all about visual impact, and WordPress icons are a wonderful way to achieve that. In the early days of web design, Windings and Webdings were the closest things we had to icon fonts. Those were fonts that Continue reading How To Use WordPress Icon Fonts Properly: Get the Best Performance (2022)
The footer is one website area that many people neglect in lieu of optimizing the content of their header or navigation, but this is a huge mistake. One of the most common web design blunders is underestimating the power of Continue reading 12 Content Elements to Add to Your Website Footer (+Examples)
Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks. Status & visibility panel improvements @javiarce shared some explorations to improve the ‘Status & visibility’ panel in the inspector sidebar on this issue. You Continue reading Design Share: Mar 14–25
Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks. Backgrounds & Overlays @javiarce and @joen discuss the background and overlay properties of the Cover block, and how they might be Continue reading Design Share: Feb 28–Mar 11
In case you missed it, we’ve been rolling out a new set of powerful site design tools called Full Site Editing (or “FSE”) and it’s now available for all WordPress.com users! Don’t worry if you’re just hearing about Full Site Continue reading Customize Your Entire Site With New Block Themes
Hey all Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks. Site Editor navigation @joen is tinkering with @jameskoster on wild ideas for GitHub issue #36667: a dedicated space for navigation. ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
WordPress.org’s News section is sporting a new design with a bold color scheme and updated typography. The design was created by Automattic-sponsored contributor, Beatriz Fialho, who unveiled earlier versions of the update in June 2021. Fialho selected Inter, an open source font, for Continue reading WordPress News Gets a New Design
In June 2021, @beafialho in collaboration with @pablohoney floated the idea of giving WordPress News a new look. Today, those ideas become a reality—we’re excited to share that redesign of WordPress News is live! The new design leans on the Continue reading A New WordPress News
Hey all I’m sharing a handful of “snapshot” style updates from the Design team from the past couple of weeks. I’d like to try sharing these updates for a couple of months and see if it’s useful! Here are a Continue reading Design Share
Last week we opened up limited access to a revolutionary array of new site editing tools that will transform how you create, edit, and update the look and feel of your WordPress.com website by leveraging easy-to-use drag and drop functionality. Continue reading Try Our New Tools for Creating Beautiful Sites
Recently I have been doing more animation work here at Delicious Brains Inc and finally decided to experiment with Airbnb’s rave-reviewed, Lottie framework. Lottie is a React Native, Android and iOS JavaScript library that makes it super easy to integrate Continue reading Getting Started with Lottie: An Overview of Airbnb’s Awesome Animation Framework