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If you worked before with WordPress websites , then you are already familiar with everything you can do on this amazing platform. Even if you are just now starting to learn it, you will soon find out that it was built for the people. This means that you don’t have to be a coder in order to build a WP website. Anyone can do it. Here are some of the reasons you should choose WordPress to build a website:     WordPress is free     There are plugins for anything you can think that you would need on a website     There are thousands of premium themes to choose of     Even if you need a custom theme, it will not cost too much     There are at least two dedicated e-commerce plugins that are efficient and reliable     For every problem you encounter, you will find more than one answers on the web due to WordPress’      popularity     Everything is customizable with...

The footer is often overlooked when it comes to designing a site, but it’s a great way to find contact details or other important pieces of information. People have been trained to look there since the days of letter writing. Even today if you look at any correspondence, utility bill or company letterhead you’ll find important information. On websites it’s an can be an important navigation tool, it can give you quick access to commonly needed pages that are not core to a site. In this quick tutorial we’ll be adding the ability to show standard WordPress widgets (like menus, categories or search) in your template. Adding a sidebar To start we need to register a custom sidebar that we’ll show in the footer.php. We do this in the functions.php of your theme. We need to hook in to the ‘widgets_init’ action using add_action and create our function Now we can add our sidebar using the register_sidebar function. All we need to do is specify the sidebars name, an id and description. We also...

Mazes are fun, but try making your way out of a fairly complex one and they won’t seem fun anymore. Just downright frustrating. A web design should therefore be everything that a maze is not. It should show visitors where they need to go and what to do to get there. There is a good reason for this. If users can’t find what they are looking for in your website or web application, they will leave. Plain and simple. In this article, we will talk about the navigational DONT’s which designers should keep in mind for an effective user journey. Making Navigation Difficult: What’s easier than allowing users to shop by categories on an ecommerce website? Give them a search bar which they can use to find specific items and jump to those pages directly. There are two benefits to making navigation easy like this:   It makes people use your app or website more It makes the way clear for desirable actions which increases conversions Making navigational trails consistent:    Peopl...