Web Design Solutions Digest for December 17, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Dec 17, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Privacy mistakes, WordPress preliminary injunction, AJAX live search, site reputation, window reflections, starter packs, pasta food truck and Chlorophyll cake. The second half of December is always a time when I take a breath, look back at the year and put together plans on what I want to accomplish in the new year. It is always a good time for me to do this as work slows down for the holidays and I want to enjoy the holidays myself. This year is slightly different than most as I’m also prepping a new computer to be my daily workhorse. Within a day or two it will be ready to go and will working hard under my desk. There were a lot of important stories in this week’s news so check out all the headlines below.

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for December 13, 2024 on Graphics Unleashed!

• WordPress Twenty Twenty-Five Review: Are 6.7 Features Worth It?
• 6,000,000 WordPress Sites Protected Against Payment Refund and Subscription Cancellation Vulnerability in WPForms WordPress Plugin
• Support Over Price? What Matters Most When Choosing a Hosting Company
• Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review
• Top 7 Privacy Mistakes That Web Designers Make
• Barn2Plugins, Patchstack, and WP Deals Diversify Beyond WordPress
• CMS Market Share Trends: Top Content Management Systems (Nov. 2024)
• 25% Off Annual Plans at WordPress.com
• Essential WordPress Plugins Every Site Should Have

• How to Track Attendance at Events (In-person, Virtual, and Hybrid)
• “Communicating flavour is a delicate art”: how to succeed in food and drink branding
• How should brands connect to consumer communities?
• The Ultimate Guide to KPIs for Event ROI
• How Fiverr’s new AI tool could help you land a freelancing job

• Update: Google Resolves Indexing Issues
• Holiday SEO Pitfalls To Avoid: Common Mistakes And How To Fix Them
• Google’s Updated Crawler Guidance Recommends ETags
• Google Site Reputation Abuse: FAQ Addresses Concerns
• Google Announces Search Updates Powered By Gemini 2.0
• 22 SEO Experts Offer Their Predictions For 2025

• OpenAI’s Sora AI video generator is here – how to try it
• I Tried AI to Design a Holiday Card, but It Kept Faking My Family
• Adobe’s New Reflection Removal Tool Aims to Save Your Travel Photos
• How to make magical illustrations using Procreate
• Adobe’s new Photoshop tool can clean away window reflections
• Midjourney Patchwork wants to be more than just an AI image generator
• 10 must-know digital art trends for 2025
• Create accurate stylised character designs using Photoshop

• Bluesky Teases Paid Subscription Model—Here’s What May Be Included
• Instagram Creators Can Now Share Test Reels
• How WhatsApp ate the world
• Instagram rolls out ‘trial reels’ that aren’t shown to a creator’s followers
• 7 Bluesky settings tweaks that make the popular X alternative even better
• Threads rolls out its own version of Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’
• Threads’ take on Bluesky Starter Packs is live

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

• The Exiled Prince Behind Los Angeles’s Only Fresh-Pasta Food Truck
• The Glorious World of Sweet Holiday Salads
• The Quest to Recreate a Lost and ‘Terrifying’ Medieval Mead
• Ecozy Smart Nugget Ice Maker Review
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• Pizza Hut Taiwan Knows It’s Making Italians Angry
• I Tested 9 Stovetop Mac and Cheese Brands. Here’s What I Found
• Chemistry in Pictures: Chlorophyll cake

If you see some important news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.

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Web Design Solutions Digest for December 10, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Dec 10, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

New Stats and Media Copyright Scanner, custom responsive breakpoints, a11y, photo metadata, Pantone color of year, TikTok ban and dinner of death. My wallet is definitely hurting from the Black Friday sales and the weird thing is that I didn’t buy any WordPress-related tools this year. My main expense was for hardware, though I did also take advantage of deals on some software. Because of all the sales, there has been less news and I expect that it will be quieter until the calendar rolls over to 2025. Before you head off to a holiday party, check out all of this week’s news below.

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for December 6, 2024 on Graphics Unleashed!

• WordCamp Europe 2025 is Looking for Speakers and Sponsors
• Scan of 140K Sites Reveals Best WordPress Plugins
• ClikIT Acquires UglyRobot’s Infinite Uploads and Big File Uploads Plugins
• WordCamp Asia 2025 Unveils Official Wapuu Mascot Tahopuu
• Introducing our optimized GoDaddy Managed WordPress platform: Built for WordPress developers who demand more
• Introducing Stats for WordPress®
• Introducing Media Copyright Scanner

• In defense of Jaguar (I think I’m the only one)
• Create an Effective Event Marketing Plan in 8 Steps
• Accessibility Champ: Wix, WordPress, Squarespace, Duda, Or…?

• Structured Data In 2024: Key Patterns Reveal The Future Of AI Discovery [Data Study]
• Try This Quick and Easy Trick to Get Better Google Results Instantly
• Google On Robots.txt: When To Use Noindex vs. Disallow
• Ask An SEO: How Does The Metadata On Photos Help Increase Rankings?
• Google Uses About 40 Signals To Determine Canonical URLs
• Google Warns Of Duplicate Content “Black Holes” Caused By Error Pages
• Google Search May ‘Change Profoundly’ in 2025
• 23 WordPress Alternatives Best For SEO
• Google: Focus On Field Data For Core Web Vitals

• The Venerable Canon 5D Mark IV Shows That DSLRs Are Far From Dead
• This Website Reveals What Google’s AI Can Learn From Your Photos
• Adobe claims surrealism isn’t just for AI in its 2025 creative trends
• The resource that taught a generation of animators is being updated for streaming
• Amazon’s New Multimodal AI Can Produce Towns Made of Pasta
• 10 graphic design trends to watch in 2025 (plus 4 to avoid)
• Pantone names its color of the year for 2025
• Pantone’s Colour of the Year is giving me the ick
• Christmas has come early as Maxon releases updates in Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Red Giant and Redshift
• Aiarty Image Matting: Remove Any Background with AI Precisely for Seamless Blending
• Famous logos are even more iconic when drawn with a single line
• A designer has ‘fixed’ the controversial new Jaguar logo

• Bluesky Emerges As Traffic Source: Publishers Report 3x Engagement
• If you convert to a domain name on Bluesky, you MUST do this right away
• FBI: Your Social Media Pics, Videos Fuel AI Scams, So Consider Going Private
• Gravatar Offers Free Domains To Use As Bluesky Handles
• Threads Now Lets You Follow Some Mastodon, Fediverse Users
• US Appeals Court Upholds TikTok Ban Law
• Own Your Digital Identity Everywhere With New Free Domains And Bluesky Integration

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

• Talking Turkey With Eric Kim
• Recreating an Ancient Roman Dinner of Death
• Make the Ancient Road Snack of Central Asian Nomads
• The ‘Mushroom Color Atlas’ Captures the Palette and Potential of Fungi

If you see some important news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.

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Web Design Solutions Digest for December 3, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Dec 3, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

WooCommerce product pages, court case, freelancers, thought leader, SEO maintenance, Midjourney, migration to Bluesky and Thanksgiving side dishes. This is probably the first Black Friday/Cyber Monday in quite a few years when I haven’t invested in some WordPress tools. Yes, I still purchased several items that will help me build sites going forward and my credit cards are feeling the pain. A new computer is also on the way and should get to me in another week or so. By the time 2025 arrives, I’ll have all the new tools ready to get to work! Even though it was a holiday weekend in the US, there was still some big happenings in court and much more in this week’s news. Check it all out below!

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for November 29, 2024 on Graphics Unleashed!

• How To Design Websites In 2024 (Tips & Tricks)
• WordPress Security Guide for Busy Freelancers (2024)
• How to Customize WooCommerce Product Pages (Boost Sales in 2025)
• 200,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Unauthenticated Critical Vulnerabilities in Anti-Spam by CleanTalk WordPress Plugin
• How to Thrive as a WordPress Freelancer
• WordCamp Asia 2025 Announces Two Scholarships for Attendees
• WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin Vulnerability Hits 200k+ Sites
• WordCamp Asia Seeks Host City Applications for 2026

• New Research Shows That From Boomers to Zoomers, Authenticity Matters
• Google Business Profile Update Targets Delivery Of Age-Restricted Products
• How to Become a Thought Leader in Just 6 Incredibly Difficult Steps

• SEO Maintenance: A Checklist For Essential Year-Round Tasks
• New Google Analytics Feature Helps Fix Hidden Product Listings
• The Modern Guide To Robots.txt: How To Use It Avoiding The Pitfalls
• Who’s Winning Off The Back Of The Affiliate Publication Drops?
• WooCommerce SEO: The Definitive Guide For Your Online Store

• This new AI image generator lets you create reusable characters
• The Boya Mini Is the World’s Tiniest Wireless Mic
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• The best subtitle fonts for accessibility
• Want to direct a movie? Try this new AI video generator for free
• Zoom ditches video in surprising AI rebrand
• The KFC x Burger King collab is a genius marketing move
• Audi’s new branding is proving almost as controversial as Jaguar’s
• How to Use Midjourney to Create High-Quality AI-Generated Images
• The biggest logo design trends for 2025 (and yes Jaguar gets a mention)

• Threads’ latest test will finally let you make the ‘following’ feed the default
• Musk All But Admits X Throttles Posts With Links
• YouTube Expands Creator Tools, Introduces Content Disclosure System
• Why I don’t regret leaving X for Bluesky
• Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization
• Bluesky has a verification problem
• Starter Packs are the latest Bluesky feature that Threads is going to shamelessly adopt
• YouTube Previews AI Tools To Overcome Creative Blocks
• How to Cross-Post to Bluesky, Threads and Other Social Services
• Bluesky Says It Will Comply With EU Rules After Being Called Out
• YouTube SEO: How To Rank Higher On YouTube
• You Can Now Rank Your Feed by ‘Hotness’ on Bluesky
• Real or Imposter? How to Verify That a Bluesky Account Is Legit

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

• Why All of Upstate New York Grew Up Eating the Same Barbecue Chicken
• This Obscure Heirloom Pumpkin Makes a Fantastic Pie
• The Father of Modern French Cuisine Wrote a Very Misguided Thanksgiving Cookbook
• The 5 Most Popular Thanksgiving Side Dishes in 2024
• The Wild and Weird History of Eggnog

If you see some important news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.

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Web Design Solutions Digest for November 26, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Nov 26, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Small business Web design, image sizes, Ecommerce metrics, fake AI profiles, new typefaces, Bluesky takeoff and lots of Thanksgiving food. For those of you in the United States, this will likely be a short week with the Thanksgiving holiday. Everyone celebrates the Black Friday sales. Some are in effect now, like our sale on seamless textures, and many other sales will come out this week. Check all of the news in the headlines below.

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for November 22, 2024 on Graphics Unleashed!

• Web Design And SEO: Principles & Common Mistakes (2024 Guide)
• How To Approach Small Business Web Design (2024 Guide)
• How To Make An Ecommerce Website In 2024 (Easy Guide)
• What Size Image To Use On WordPress (Key Factors & Tips)
• How To Maintain Your Website In 2024
• WordPress Elementor Addons Vulnerability Affects 400k Sites
• Nearly 1000 Plugins Closed During WordPress Security Cleanup
• WordPress 6.7.1 Scheduled for November 21, 2024, to Fix Bugs in WordPress 6.7
• PeepSo Leaves WordPress Plugin Repository
• Core Team Announces WordPress Release Schedule for 2025 and Issues Call for WP 6.8 Volunteers
• Automattic Welcomes Harper and Elijah Potter
• GoDaddy Managed WordPress: Setting new standards in performance & uptime

• Innovative Automation Strategies for Events
• How to Reimagine Universities for the AI Era
• The Top 24 Ecommerce Metrics Every Online Store Should Track
• The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
• ‘It completely misunderstands what a brand is’: A branding expert weighs in on Jaguar’s controversial new look
• 25 Of The Best Examples Of Homepages

• Google Retires Search Console’s Page Experience Report
• Google Strengthens Policy Against Site Reputation Abuse
• Fake AI Profiles Are Being Utilised by Link Builders on Platforms like Qwoted – And It’s Working
• Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for “Best CBD Gummies“
• Google Search CTR Data Reveals Shifting Industry Trends

• Jaguar knows its bold new logo won’t please everyone
• The best new typefaces of 2024, according to the experts
• GoPro Hero (2024) Review
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• X Sues to Block California Law Cracking Down on Election Deepfakes
• Bluesky Explained: Why This Social Media Network Is Growing by 1 Million Users a Day
• Bluesky hits 20 million users and counting – watch it keep growing here
• Elon Musk Wanted to Buy Substack After Twitter Purchase: Report
• Bluesky Crosses 20 Million Users, App Usage Soars 500% After Election
• Tired of Your Instagram Feed? ‘Recommendations Reset’ Will Make the Algo Start Fresh
• Facebook Messenger Gains Siri Integration, Audio and Video Voice Messages and More
• What is Bluesky? The App That Has Seen Influx of X and Threads Users
• Getting Started on Bluesky? 5 Unique Features to Check Out Right Away
• YouTube Takes On TikTok With New ‘Jewels’ Tipping System
• Threads Takes a Page From Bluesky, Rolls Out Topic-Based Custom Feeds
• Threads will prioritize accounts you follow instead of randos
• WhatsApp adds voice message transcripts
• What Happens to X With No More Libs to Troll?
• Elon Musk’s X Offsets Lost Users With 27% Spike in Post-Election Downloads
• Bluesky Is the Small Comfort I’d Been Looking For. Let’s Hope It Lasts
• Threads Tests AI-Powered Trending Topic Summaries, New Search Tools
• WordPress Flocks to Bluesky
• What Are Bluesky Starter Packs? How to Find And Create Them
• Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter
• This Website is Hosted on Bluesky
• How decentralized is Bluesky really?
• The Right Has a Bluesky Problem

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

• Scientists identify tomato genes to tweak for sweeter fruit
• The Surprising Resilience of the Hog Island Fig
• I Asked a Four Seasons’ Chef About the Best Vegetables to Air Fry
• Ordering Off a 5,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Menu
• Why America’s Thanksgiving Turkey Is So Boring
• What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving?
• Celebrating the United States of Stuffing
• Cracking the Green Bean Casserole Code
• Where did the domestic turkey come from?
• A Brief History of the TV Dinner

If you see some important news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.

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Web Design Solutions Digest for November 19, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Nov 19, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Responsive Website, WordPress 6.7, WP Engine Tracker, posting frequency, favicons, Comic Sans, Final Cut Pro, Bluesky and Jell-O salad. I’m holding off on updating to WordPress 6.7 until at least the first bug fix is released and I’ve heard of a number of issues with those who have installed it. I typically do hold off installed each major release, but I’m hearing of far more problems with this one. Below you’ll find all of this week’s news, so check out all the headlines.

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for November 15, 2024 on Graphics Unleashed!

• How to Customize Your WooCommerce Cart Page for More Sales!
• How to Make a Responsive Website in 2024 (No Coding)
• Divi Dash vs Competitors: Which One’s Best For WordPress Management?
• Getting ready for PHP 8.4: some code changes landing in 6.7
• Slow WordPress Site? Our Free Site Speed Tool Can Help
• 28,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Arbitrary File Read and Deletion Vulnerability in WPLMS WordPress Theme
• ACF: Annual Survey 2024 Results
• We’ve renamed our WordPress hosting plans and boosted resource limits
• Step-by-Step: Blocking IP Addresses in WordPress
• Addressing Misguided Security Reports: Why MainWP is Updating Its Connection Process
• WordPress Database Scanning For Malware Released in Wordfence CLI 5.0.1
• WordPress 6.7 Released – This Is Why It’s A Winner
• 8 WordPress Plugins for Managing Event Registrations
• 4,000,000 WordPress Sites Using Really Simple Security Free and Pro Versions Affected by Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
• WordPress 6.7 “Rollins” Released With New Default Theme, WordPress.org Experiences Outage
• WordPress Security Plugin Vulnerability Endangers 4 Million+ Sites

• Boost Your Black Friday Sales: Top Marketing Strategies for Success
• How to simulate color-blindness and other visual impairments, in your web browser
• It’s time to disrupt the “timeless content marketing strategy”
• How Often Should You Blog? Tips For Ideal Posting Frequency
• Why Great Marketing is Risky as Hell
• You don’t need to build a personal brand.

• Latest Google AIO Updates May Impact SEO
• SEO Trends For 2025
• Digital Marketers See Schema Structured Data Shifting Beyond SEO
• Google November Core Update: 6 Insights From Millions of Queries
• Google SERPs Without Favicons Is A Glitch
• Google’s Updated Machine Learning Courses Build SEO Understanding
• 12 Low-Hanging Fruit SEO Tactics You Can Implement Today
• Bad & Toxic Backlinks You Should Avoid
• 6 Web Hosts Ranked By Core Web Vitals: One Outperforms All
• Google Analytics 4 (GA4) Users Report Data Collection Issues
• SEO Reports: Which Metrics Matter & How To Use Them Well

• The new MSN logo feels like a journey back in time
• The Guggenheim’s new logo is a modern masterpiece
• The hidden meaning in HBO’s The Penguin logo may be a happy accident…
• Exclusive: Getty Images Enables More Custom AI Creations
• ‘Comic Sans belongs in a museum’: Designers defend the world’s most divisive font
• Digital artist Guillermo Flores Pacheco is “very proud” to be the first Mexican artist to design a Adobe Photoshop splash screen
• Android Now Has an ‘Anti-AI’ Camera App Called Zerocam
• Apple’s AI-infused Final Cut Pro 11 is now available
• Apple’s latest Final Cut Pro update could spell doom for competitors
• Apple Smells Blood in the Water
• Here’s why nobody uses these colours in logo design

• YouTube tests adding TikTok’s swipe-up gesture to full-length videos
• How to use Bluesky Social: Everything to know about the popular X alternative
• Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week
• TikTok launches integration with Lemon8, as US ban looms
• 7 things to know about Bluesky before you join – and why you should
• How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers
• Done With Elon? How to Get Started on Bluesky Social
• X Lost Record Number of Users After Election Day
• Brace Yourself for Ads on Threads in January
• Bluesky’s stormy day: How its explosive growth led to inevitable outages
• 7 things to know about Bluesky before you join – and why you should
• Spotify Takes Aim at YouTube in Battle for Podcasts
• X Just Gave Us Another Good Reason to Delete the App
• Signal Private Messenger Review
• Bluesky says 1 million people signed up for the platform in last 24 hours
• Maybe Bluesky has “won”

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

• Bake ‘Baby Bread’ as a Celebration of Life and Death
• I Was Prepared for Blending Cultures. I Was Not Prepared for Jell-O Salad

If you see some important news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.

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Web Design Solutions Digest for November 12, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Nov 12, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Web design trends, WebP, WPEngineTracker, Favicons, ChatGPT Search, nofollow links, typography trends, ACDSee, Pixelmator, Cosmos and leaving X. Those are just a few of the topics covered in this week’s news. Check out the full list of the headlines below to learn more.

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for November 8, 2024 on Graphics Unleashed!

• 9 Web Design Best Practices In 2024
• How Divi Dash Helps You Stay on Top of WordPress Updates
• 8 Web Design Trends That Are Relevant In 2024
• Responsive Design: What Is It & Why Is It Important?
• Press Forward is Funding WordPress Publishers
• Converting WordPress Uploads to WebP
• WordCamp Asia and WordCamp Europe Added to Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Program
• 28,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Arbitrary File Read and Deletion Vulnerability in WPLMS WordPress Theme
• WooCommerce Set to Launch New Logo in 2025
• Accessibility Checker November 2024 “Fixes” Release Showcase

• Favicons and your online brand: Make sure you stand out!
• The future of marketing happens here
• Create an Effective Event Marketing Plan in 8 Steps

• ChatGPT Search vs. Google vs. Bing: Search Results Review
• Making Social Media & SEO Work Together
• ChatGPT Search May Have A Shot At Google
• What Is A Google Broad Core Algorithm Update?
• ChatGPT Search Indexing: Essential Steps For Websites
• I Analyzed 300K Keywords. Here’s What I Learned About AI Overviews
• When To Use Nofollow On Links & When Not To

• Everything Apple Needs to Do to Win Over Adobe Lightroom Users
• These could be the biggest typography trends of 2025
• Viral ’80s logo redesigns are a nostalgic delight
• ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2025 is an All-in-One Photo Editor
• What is Recraft, the infinite-canvas AI image generator aimed at ‘pro designers’?
• Audi scraps its logo in bold new EV brand
• Impressive new tech can automatically map 3D spaces
• Apple and Pixelmator could be Adobe’s greatest threat yet
• The Flashback Camera Secures a $330K Investment on Australian ‘Shark Tank’
• The Likely Future of Apple Photos Is What Photomator Is Now
• I’m shocked that Coca-Cola remade its iconic Christmas ad with AI
• The new Chester Zoo logo has a powerful hidden meaning

• What is Cosmos, the Pinterest alternative for creatives?
• Meta details ‘adult classifier’ tool for catching teens who lie about their age on Instagram
• Meta to Use AI to Find Kids Lying About Their Ages on Instagram
• Canada orders TikTok to shut down its business operations in the country due to ‘national security risks’
• TikTok Makes It Easier to Post, Share Music From Apple Music, Spotify
• How to manage Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads all from one free app
• How to easily fly away from X to Bluesky without losing your flock – for now
• Australia Moves to Ban Social Media for Kids Under 16

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

If you see some important news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.

Photo by Balázs Kétyi on Unsplash