At BeeWits, we understand the value of how a good template can make all the difference to the success of a website or not. As premium users, we’re in a great position to give an honest Astra theme review. As an agency, and a provider of software for web designers and agencies, we can truly understand how such a product can make a real difference in the productivity and end-result of a website project.
When you are a web designer, you might feel that there is no real need for web design project management software.
Truth is, however, web design clients and work need to be managed. They suffer from the same risks as all other types of work. When website design is your livelihood, you can’t afford to run the risk of mismanagement of your web design projects.
However, the reality is this – most project management software is not built for designers. In reality, what happens is that, either the software you are using is too open, or else it is too complicated.
When it’s too complicated, you end up spending more time struggling with the software. When it’s open, there is no added-value for your as a web designer.
So what should a designer do?
We’ve had a look around to find the best web design project management software for designers.
Last month we released our website quote generator – it’s been quite a success. Hundreds of people have used it to generate thousands of quotes.
Using the quote generator, however, assumed that you knew how much you charge per hour. This might not always be as straightforward as it seems.
If you’re in a hurry, here’s a link to our hourly rate generator. It is probably worth reading on, though.
Fonts and typefaces.
Making the choice of the right font at the right time is a bit of an art. One font which could work very well in a specific setting could be a hateful choice for a different scenario. However, there’s always a good option for every setting, and there’s always going to be good fonts and horrible typefaces which should be wiped off the face of the internet (and the face of the planet for that matter).
We’ve gone around and researched. We asked the designers, the creatives, the artistic directors and the typeface geeks at the office, and made a list of options which we believe you could find very good use for.
Have you ever visited a website and got tired and frustrated because the pages load so slowly? It’s frustrating to interact with a site which isn’t snappy! That’s why you MUST speed up WordPress if you don’t want your visitors to bounce – right to your competitor’s business (raking down your organic rankings with them!)
Because, not only is a slow website a frustrating experience, but an increased bounce rate will also drop your organic rankings like a stone. In fact, it’s been proven time and time again, website speed is a ranking factor – fast sites actually rank higher on Google and other search engines.
A fast website truly improves your visitor’s experience.
Funnily enough, a user will not notice that a website is fast, but they will definitely notice and probably go away (never to return) if your site is slow. Unfortunately, it’s not typically very easy to make your WordPress fast, usually, the steps are quite technical – particularly for those who are not into web development and design.
Fortunately, we’re here to help make sure that you speed up WordPress such that your web site loads up really really quickly. Here are 9 simple steps you can perform to make your WordPress fast. In fact, we’ve used these very steps to make most of our sites load in less than 1 second – this is one of the proven positive user experience benchmarks.
Here it is, our list of 101 awesome tools for web designers and developers! If you want to quickly access any one of the topics below, we’ve prepared a content index, just to make sure each topic is easily reachable.
Don’t you just hate presales? Writing a web design proposal can often be tedious, monotonous and feel like a waste of valuable product time.
It’s that thing which you have to do right, otherwise, you’ll be in serious problems within a few weeks. Yet it feels like such a nag. The trouble is this, you might go through a heck of a lot of work, only to lose the proposal. Wouldn’t you rather be working on a project tray end tag style.rather than doing “presales”.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could write a winning web design proposal every time?
That’s we’ve got lined up in this article. We have a few tips and tricks which will guide you step by step to drawing up the most suitable website design proposal for any kind of client.
Let’s dig right in.
Do you get the jitters when you’re about to launch a website? Do you have that nagging fear that you’ve missed out on something crucial? Forgot that one crucial step which is going to be a source of embarrassment once you’ve put your website online? Fear not – we’re here to help. We’re going to make sure you’ve covered it all with our ultimate website review checklist.
Not only when launching a site should you be performing a website review though. If I had to take a wild guess on one of the main reasons for the existence of your site – I’ll guess – is to get you more sales. Whether it’s through direct selling of products through an online store or direct downloads, or as a way of pushing your services, your platform must be serving its purpose.
Let’s start with our website review checklist.
If there is one thing which most freelancers don’t give enough attention to – it’s that pesky web design contract! We do understand your pain – the admin work is boring, takes away from “productive” and billable time and sometimes it seems just like overhead.
Why do you need to cover your ass with a web design contract?
Because, you’ll be kicking yourself, however, when things start to go awry.
It’s only a matter of time when you start hitting those bumps in your project. Clients wanting more than initially agreed, clients not doing their part in the development and design of the new site, problems with payments, and suddenly you’re spending MORE time fixing the problems which a few good contracts would have spared you the hassle of. So to save you from this hassle, we’ve compiled this awesome bundle of all the web design contract templates and sample web design agreements.
If you’ve ever been involved in the process of creating a new website, wittingly or not, you’ve followed a web design process. Whether this was formalized or not, whether you were aware of it (or not), you still went through a number of design process steps, until you finally reached the desired outcome – a fully designed, developed and launched website as per the original requirements.
BeeWits is also about optimizing all of the steps of the web design process.
Today, we’re going to discuss these in details and show you how to optimize each and every part of the design process, such that the end-result is what you (and most importantly the client) wanted.
