As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re shifting our focus to food with this new StudioPress Theme: Daily Dish Pro, which is designed to make your content just as appetizing as the best meal at your favorite four-star restaurant.
Daily Dish Pro was designed with food bloggers and restaurants in mind, and its sleek layout orients visitors to focus on what’s most important—the food and the recipes you want them to see and enjoy.
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The Stevie Awards are a set of hundreds of business awards given annually by the American Business Awards organization. They were created in 2002 to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of companies and business people worldwide. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards are given to
In 2015, WP Engine opened our first global office in London as a physical representation of our desire to expand our team of WordPress specialists and better serve our customers globally. Since then, we’ve worked hard to create a workplace that is collaborative, productive, and fun. Today, we
The results clearly showed companies that welcome ideas from all employees have better growth prospects than those with a less-inclusive approach to innovation. In fact, businesses that successfully create an “Innovation By All” culture see revenue growth that is 5.5x greater than others, as
JS-Kit Score: Turn Your Site into a Localized Digg
Widget provider JS-Kit has released their latest widget this morning, Score. Score adds a thumbs up/thumbs down-style ratings widget to any page content, and then aggregates the data across the entire web site into an info box that can highlight a site’s top content. It can also integrate
FinTech is Transforming the Finance Industry
Legislators express that it will be unfortunate for FinTech to bypass an opportunity to make a positive impact on society. As things stand, current FinTech offerings serve solely to provide high-cost financing resources to underserved groups. Lawmakers have expressed concern that FinTech will
9 Blockchains Transforming the Way We Pay, Play, and Work
Thanks to greater transparency and easy trackability, consumers will feel confident that registered diamonds are natural and conflict-free. At the same time, participating diamond manufacturers (including Diacore, Diarough, KGK Group, Rosy Blue NV, and Venus Jewel) will enjoy greater efficiencies
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Airbnb makes it easy to satisfy the needs of these travelers by connecting them with owners who want to make an extra dollar by renting out their property. Before Airbnb, sites such as Home Away and property-management agencies used to connect owners with interested renters, but these were focused
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The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
To understand how ads compared with each other, we ran multiple comparison tests (using Tukey contrasts). We found that, for most advertisement types, the mobile and the desktop counterparts did not differ significantly, with the exception of related links and the prevideo advertisement (p<
Image-Focused Design: Is Bigger Better?
Most sites will do best with a balanced approach: images that support the brand, without obscuring other important content. For example, the StateFarm homepage presents a large image representing driving, a critical part of their business. But this image is balanced by strong navigation elements
Top 10 Intranet Trends of 2016
Because mega menus don’t work in a phone UI, designers often use a mega menu for desktop navigation, and an accordion or some other option for mobile navigation. Some teams opt for menu UIs that translate easily from desktop to mobile. One such pattern popular this year is the vertical navigation
Wireflows: A UX Deliverable for Workflows and Apps
Wireframes are a great way of showing layout, but they don't describe interaction well, and they are especially poor at documenting the layout of digital products that have a lot of dynamic content, such as mobile apps or webapps. Wireframes are most useful when documenting websites (or other
UI Copy: UX Guidelines for Command Names and Keyboard Shortcuts
Don’t set a keyboard shortcut just because you think the combination is unique; it needs to be easy to learn and memorize. Use a clear, consistent system and always associate symbols and functions with the name of the button on the keyboard. Many users don’t know what certain symbols or button
Text Scanning Patterns: Eyetracking Evidence
The commitment pattern demonstrates traditional reading, not scanning. In this pattern, users fixate on all or most content words in the text passage. This pattern usually occurs when users are very interested or very motivated to read the content (for example, because they are studying for a test
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10 High-Profit Redesign Priorities
Newsletters are fairly cheap. They require little technology and mustn't be published too frequently. If you don't have a newsletter, then publishing one is probably the single-highest ROI action you can take to improve your Internet presence. If you do have a newsletter, then improving it
How to Display Taxes, Fees, and Shipping Charges on Ecommerce Sites
Under the Shipping & Returns accordion menu on the same product page, there was a brief mention about the surcharge directing users to the aforementioned-surcharge detail near the price, which was not helpful. However, clicking the link to the Shipping and Delivery
A Model for Conducting UX Workshops and Exercises
During this setup, aim to describe the general characteristics of the activity, but never state what will be learned as a result of taking part in the activity. As a facilitator, you are responsible for establishing a neutral, positive foundation prior to the execution of the exercise. Like in
Cards: UI-Component Definition
A gaze plot of a user's eyetracking session on a card-based layout. The user was asked to find and read a story that looked interesting to her. The flexible-card layout does not clearly indicate a hierarchy of stories in order, so the user looks around back and forth in a semirandom pattern
UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
Designing and developing a product often involves a large team of people with different backgrounds and experiences who must be on the same page about the project goals, the user needs and behaviors, and even the component processes involved. This common understanding is often built with
3 Ways to Use a Controversial Type of Data That Will Help You Succeed
Earlier this year, the European Union took a significant step in addressing privacy concerns by passing a set of data-handling rules known collectively as the General Data Protection Regulation. The rules strongly regulate how companies collect and use personal data — including location data —
Remote Access Solutions: Overcoming the Challenges
Your remote access system must ensure that access to the data users need is fully secure. If, however, your system presents a direct connection to the internet, you’ve increased your risk. Direct exposure to the internet will dramatically increase your network’s attack surface. Among the 50% of
Hackers are Ready to Exploit Zero-Day Flaws; Companies are Slow to Act
One only has to look at the market share of operating systems to see how resistant users are to change. Windows 7, which was released back in 2009, still accounts for over 40 percent of the market. Users chose to stick with the older version even when Microsoft offered free upgrades to Windows 10
Elements to Help You Develop Emotional Intelligence
You took some time off work to get some extra chores done around your home. You need a break and decide that a 15-minute break is what you want to take. During your break you became lost in your thoughts and you’re in a quasi-hypnotic state. You glance over at the clock only to notice that it
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The 6 Biggest Risks Today’s Internet Entrepreneurs Must Battle
Naturally, most people are hardwired to be risk averse. It’s a survival mechanism that’s ingrained in our DNA to prevent us from walking into dangerous situations without some degree of safety or preparation. It’s why our ancient ancestors wouldn’t walk around the woods without a weapon and
How to Open a Company Bank Account for Your Startup & Avoid the Pitfalls
The corporate resolution indicates to the bank the individuals who are authorized by the corporation to open the corporate banking account and sign checks. The individuals listed in the corporate resolution have complete authority to act on the corporation’s behalf in regard to the
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Direct Access vs. Sequential Access: UX Definition
With the advent of responsive web design, uncommonly long pages proliferate not only on mobile, but also on the desktop. A long page that contains a variety of content forces the user to scroll down with the hope that they will find something relevant. Yes, users scroll, but only if tempted by the
Password Creation: 3 Ways To Make It Easier
Allow users to unmask the password. Seeing the password will support memory and will allow users to check their work. On desktop, hide the password by default, and next to it, place a checkbox labeled Show password. On mobile devices and tablets, show the password by default and let users toggle
Scrolling and Scrollbars
If you must make your own scrollbars, stay as close to user expectations as possible. Unless your scrollbars look like scrollbars, users might not notice them. Unless your scrollbars behave like scrollbars, users might not be able to bring the desired content into view. In either case, your
