Web Design Solutions Digest for September 20, 2022

by Foster D. Coburn III | Sep 20, 2022 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Reddit advertising, content pillars, sitemap examples, WordCamp US, QR codes, color fonts, TikTok Now and giant kale. Those are a few of the many stories covered in this week’s news. Read through the list of headlines below and click on a headline to get the full story.

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for September 16, 2022 on Graphics Unleashed!

• The Ultimate Guide to Hoteling Your Office Space
• Shopify Fails to Prevent Known Breached Passwords
• Getting Started With Reddit Advertising: What You Need To Know
• Boundaries, Zoom Calls, and Potty-talk: Keeping a sane work/life balance in tech
• How to Build Successful Content Pillars
• What Is Growth Hacking? Is It Still Worth It?
• How to Market Your Small Business (7 Easy Steps)
• 13 Affordable Digital Marketing Tactics That Work

• Google Answers If Adding Content Daily Increases Rankings
• Google Announces September 2022 Core Algorithm Update
• SEO For Ecommerce Product Pages: 20 Do’s & Don’ts
• Will Google Penalize Sites That Look The Same?
• 5 Sitemap Examples That Showcase Best Practices In Action
• Google Adds New HTTPS Report to Search Console
• The Top 5 Soft Skills SEOs Should Develop
• Google Answers If Stop Words Should Be Used in URL
• Google Local Pack: What Is It?
• 7 Enterprise SEO Tools For Keyword Research, Compared
• Are Press Releases Still Good For SEO?

• 5 Best WordPress Table of Contents Plugins
• How to Integrate Contact Form 7 with Zoho CRM
• WordCamp US 2022 – Live Recap
• An Open Letter to Matt Mullenweg
• Matt Mullenweg Renews Push for Canonical Plugins
• PSA: Zero-Day Vulnerability in WPGateway Actively Exploited in the Wild
• How To Add Google Analytics To WordPress
• Gutenberg Contributors Call on Theme Authors to Test Using Block-Based Template Parts in Classic Themes
• WordCamp US 2022 Felt Like Coming Home
• WordPress 6.1 Product Walkthrough Video Now Available
• BuddyPress Plugin Usage Declining, Remaining Contributors Discuss Path Forward
• Gutenberg 14.1 Improves Navigation Block, Adds Experimental Zoomed-Out View
• What’s New in Beaver Builder 2.6?

• How to Access Different Libraries in Divi
• Download a FREE Header & Footer for Divi’s Home Remodeling Layout Pack
• How to Edit a Template in Divi’s Theme Builder Library
• Get a FREE Toy Store Layout Pack for Divi

• QR codes
• First Batch of Color Fonts Arrives on Google Fonts
• Adobe to Acquire Web Design Platform Figma for $20B
• Hands-on with DALL-E 2, the AI Image Generator Taking the Web by Storm
• Adobe’s Figma acquisition is a $20 billion bet to control the entire creative market
• Here’s Why Craigslist Still Looks the Same After 25+ Years
• Introducing Canva Websites

• Twitter’s $7 million whistleblower payout violates purchase deal, Musk’s lawyers argue
• How To Use Twitter To Increase Your Google Search Visibility
• 4 Big Takeaways from Twitter Whistleblower Peiter Zatko
• TikTok just launched a BeReal clone called TikTok Now
• Snapchat for Web is Now Available to All Users Worldwide
• Google Business Profile Video Verification Best Practices
• YouTube Shorts Will Now Be Monetized as it Fights TikTok

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

• The Hidden, Magnificent History of Chop Suey
• 3 Easy Ways to Make a Box Cake Taste Homemade
• How a Big Slab of Butter Becomes a Masterpiece
• The Soup That Stopped a War
• In the 1800s, This British Isle Was Covered in Groves of 12-Foot-Tall Kale

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 September 13, 2022

by Foster D. Coburn III | Sep 13, 2022 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Core Web Vitals, keywords, Hubspot, WordPress 6.1, logo sizing, social media networks, Sara Lee lawsuit and sliced bread. Those are a small selection of this week’s headlines. Check out all of the news below and click on a headline to get the full story.

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for September 9, 2022 on Graphics Unleashed!

• When is a discount not really a discount?
• Core Web Vitals: Google’s Top 3 Metrics For Evaluating User Experience
• Photos or Illustrations: Which Is Better for Your Business Website and When (+Examples)
• How to Write a Blog Post (That People Actually Want to Read) in 9 Steps

• WWW vs non-WWW: Which is Better for SEO?
• Healthcare SEO Fundamentals To Grow Your Medical Practice
• Google Updates Documentation On Meta Descriptions
• 6 Google Business Profile Tips For Hotel SEO
• Do You Still Need Directory Submissions For Local SEO?
• How to Find a Website’s Keywords (Organic & Paid)
• 11 Ways to Improve E-commerce Category Pages for SEO
• Google Keyword Planner: How To Use The Free Tool For SEO

• WordPress vs HubSpot CMS
• 5 Best Office Hoteling Reservation and Booking Systems
• WP-Optimize completely rejects false allegations of ‘gaming’ page speed results
• WordPress Blogs; Competition, Integrity, Money, and Reputation
• WP Super Cache Joins the Jetpack Family
• What Does Professionalism Mean in WordPress?
• WordPress 6.1: Expected Features and Changes
• Plugin of the Month: SureCart – the Best Option to Sell Your Digital Products Today
• Gutenberg Contributors Make Progress on Distraction Free Mode
• The ‘self-employment penalty’ emerging in WordPress
• World War WordPress: Communicating in a community that doesn’t like to communicate.
• PSA: Nearly 5 Million Attacks Blocked Targeting 0-Day in BackupBuddy Plugin
• iThemes Patches Vulnerability in BackupBuddy, Wordfence Tracks 5 Million Exploit Attempts
• WordPress Announces 10 Style Variation Selections for Twenty Twenty-Three Theme
• WordPress.com Defies Marked Increase in Russian Takedown Demands

• How to Optimize Your Responsive Logo Sizing in Divi’s Fullwidth Menu Module
• Download a FREE Blog Post Template for Divi’s Home Baker Layout Pack
• How to Upload Divi Theme Builder Templates to Your Divi Cloud
• Get a Free Interior Designer Layout Pack for Divi
• Create Divi CTA Sections Expanding On Scroll Using The Intersection Observer API

• No more stock imagery. How to use AI to create illustrations for your content
• People are using DALL-E 2’s latest AI art tool to ‘uncrop’ masterpieces
• Apollo Moon Photos Painstakingly Remastered in Stunning High Definition

• 5 Types Of Social Media Networks And The Benefits Of Each One
• Twitter’s lawyers say Elon Musk wanted out of the deal because of ‘World War 3,’ not bots
• Twitter Ramps Up Fact-Checking Project Ahead of US Midterms
• Instagram Will Test a ‘Repost’ Feature

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

• Why a Vancouver Cemetery Is Planting Squash, Kale, and Corn
• Reviving America’s Forgotten Boozy, Fruity Election Cake
• Sara Lee $1 Million Pound Cake Lawsuit: Find out if You Qualify for a Slice of the Settlement
• Remembering When America Banned Sliced Bread
• How to Save Your Refrigerated Food When the Power Goes Out

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 September 6, 2022

by Foster D. Coburn III | Sep 6, 2022 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Omnichannel marketing, mobile SEO, breadcrumb plugins, WordPress 6.0.2, dotted leader lines, Wendy’s logo, TikTok search and corn kid. We’ve got a loaded week of news and these are only a small sampling of the highlights. Check out all of the info listed below and click on a headline to read the full story.

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for September 2, 2022 on Graphics Unleashed!

• What is Omnichannel Marketing? A Complete Guide to Getting Started
• Author Malcolm Gladwell Slams Remote Workers: ‘You’re Just Sitting In Your Pajamas’
• 7 decisions that improved my freelance business
• How Much Does it Cost to Build a Website in 2022?
• 14 Cheap & Effective Small-Business Marketing Strategies
• How Can We Encourage Older Consumers To Leave Reviews?
• What Is Programmatic Advertising? How Does It Work?

• The Ultimate Guide to Mobile SEO
• 13 Advanced SEO Techniques You Need to Start Using Right Now
• SEO Links: A Beginner’s Guide
• Google’s 6 SEO Tips For Ecommerce Websites
• The bizarre discourse around Black Hat Core Web Vitals
• 16 Best Readability Checkers To Improve SEO Content
• Compare Vocabulary Differences Between Ranking Web Pages On SERP With Python
• Google PageSpeed Insights Reports: A Technical Guide
• How to Implement an International SEO Strategy (Step-by-Step Guide)
• How to Target Keywords With Blog Posts
• Is This The End of Hero Content For Link Building?
• Reciprocal Links: Do They Help Or Hurt Your SEO?

• WordPress vs Showit
• 5 Best Breadcrumb Plugins for WordPress
• How to Fix ERR_SSL_OBSOLETE_VERSION Warning in Chrome
• WP-Optimize Plugin Accused of Cheating PageSpeed and Other Performance Testing Tools
• Can we please stop saying ‘Gutenberg’?
• WordPress Core 6.0.2 Security & Maintenance Release – What You Need to Know
• WP-Optimize Denies Allegations of Cheating Performance Tools
• Start Writing WordPress Tutorials in these Gutenberg Times
• My WooCommerce vs. Shopify Speedrun
• Gutenberg 13.9 Adds New Shortcut to Wrap Selected Text in Quotes

• How to Animate Background Masks and Patterns on Scroll with Divi
• Download a FREE Header & Footer for Divi’s Online Yoga Layout Pack
• Using a Fullwidth Layout vs Grid in Divi’s Filterable Portfolio Module
• Download a FREE Header & Footer for Divi’s Home Baker Layout Pack
• How to Reveal an Options Dropdown After Checking a Box in Your Divi Contact Form
• Using the Fullwidth Header Module vs Building Your Own Hero Section with Divi
• Get a Free Real Estate Agent Layout Pack for Divi
• How To Replace The “No Results Found” Message In The Divi Theme Builder With A Divi Layout
• How To Add Automatic Dotted Leader Lines Between Text In Divi
• How To Close The Divi Mobile Menu By Clicking Outside The Dropdown
• How To Set Conditional Admin Email Address Routing In The Divi Contact Form
• How To Restore Missing Divi Theme Builder Templates
• How To Automatically Open A Toggle Module When Linking To It

• The Wendy’s logo divides customers by going grey
• This hypnotic circle optical illusion shows that timing is everything
• 19th century art form revived to make tactile science graphics for the blind
• DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
• Turns out Elon Musk’s SpaceX logo has a hidden message
• How to add fonts in Photoshop
• Is Skoda channelling Tesla with its electric new logo?

• Twitter Accused of Neglecting Security Problems: What You Need to Know
• YouTube Adds New Podcasts Section
• Twitter is launching it’s ‘Close Friends’ feature Circle globally
• Mark Zuckerberg Says Instagram is a ‘Super Positive Space’
• How To Use TikTok Search To Find Content, Community, And Creators
• 25 Top Movies About Social Media To Watch
• Twitter users glorify self-harm in rapidly growing social contagion, report says
• Twitter’s Latest Feature Could Make Tweeting Less Intimidating
• Elon Musk Cites Twitter Whistleblower Claim as Reason to Back Out of Deal
• Truth Social App to Remain in Android Limbo Over Content Moderation Concerns, Report Says
• Instagram Tests Letting You Mark Posts in Explore as ‘Not Interested’
• Elon Musk has a backup plan to kill his Twitter takeover
• Elon Musk is trying to stall his Twitter trial by a month
• Twitter planned to build an OnlyFans clone, but CSAM issues reportedly derailed the plan
• The Best Times To Post On Instagram
• YouTube is testing a new way for select creators to promote their content
• Microsoft found a severe one-click exploit in TikTok’s Android app
• Meta Will Add More Paid Features to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
• The History Of Social Media
• How To Incorporate More Context In Your Social Media Content

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

• ‘Synthetic milk’ made without cows may be coming to supermarket shelves near you
• What we bought: Cuisinart’s ice cream maker wasn’t my first choice
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• 11 Discontinued Ice Creams
• Eat Like an Apollo 11 Astronaut With This Celestial Dessert
• When Life Gave Pennsylvania Spotted Lanternflies, Its Bees Made Spotted Lanternfly Honey
• Eat Like a Medieval Saint With Her Recipe for ‘Cookies of Joy’
• Armenia’s Ancient Ovens Are Hot Again
• The Worst Slow Cooker Mistakes You Could Make This Football Season
• How ‘Corn Kid’ Got Kevin Bacon and Everyone Else Singing About a Vegetable
• Meet the Bakers Giving Mooncakes a Modern Twist

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 August 30, 2022

by Foster D. Coburn III | Aug 30, 2022 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Affiliate marketing, Dall-E 2, brand awareness, paywalls, WebP, smooth submenus, moon shot, DNG, sea vegetables and Dijon. We’ve got a really full week of news and other helpful content! That includes the topics already listed and many more. Check out all of the headlines below and click to get all the details.

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for August 26, 2022 on Graphics Unleashed!

• Pizza Isn’t a Perk: A Response to the Anti-remote Argument
• How To Use Amazon Hidden Keywords To Increase Product Discoverability
• How to Start Affiliate Marketing With No Money in 2022 (5 Steps)
• Find Influencers: 6 Easy Steps to Choose the Right Ones
• 13 Local Marketing Strategies That Work In 2022
• The largest Chinese e-commerce company you have never heard of is about to enter the U.S. with a model to challenge Amazon’s dominance
• Five things you need to change on your website right now

• SEO vs SEM: Differences and Best Practices
• What Is Conversion Rate & How Do You Calculate It?
• Why Do Our Search Rankings Drop On Weekends?
• Why Brand Awareness Is The Fifth Pillar Of SEO
• A Complete Guide To Site Taxonomy for SEO
• How Long Does SEO Take to Show Results?
• Google’s Helpful Content Update Rolls Out: 7 Things To Know
• How To Create Perfect Images For SEO With Dall-E 2
• SEOs – You Can’t Afford To Ignore UX

• WordPress vs Tilda Website Builder
• How to Push a WordPress Development Site Live
• How to Integrate Salesforce Web-to-Lead with WordPress
• 6 Best Paywall Plugins for WordPress
• What Hackers Do with WordPress in 2022 – Post Hack Analysis
• WooCommerce.com Brings Back Sandbox Sites for Testing Extensions
• WordPress sites hacked with fake Cloudflare DDoS alerts pushing malware
• Why Freelancers Shouldn’t Become Consumed with #WPDrama
• No, Matt Mullenweg didn’t say that Wix is faster than WordPress
• Theme Redone: A New Block-Based Starter Theme for Building WordPress Websites and Gutenberg Blocks with an MVC Framework
• WordPress Community Engagement: The best WordPress accounts to follow on Twitter
• WebP by Default on Hold for 6.1 After New Objections From WordPress Lead Developers
• How to Reduce DNS Lookups to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
• Catch Themes Releases Pentatonic: A New Block Theme for Bands and Musicians

• How to Build a Hero Section with Divi’s Fullwidth Header Module
• How to Style the Pagination in Divi’s Filterable Portfolio Module
• Download a FREE Blog Post Template for Divi’s Electrical Services Layout Pack
• How to Style the Category Filter in Divi’s Filterable Portfolio Module
• How to Make Your Divi Fullwidth Header Module Fullscreen
• Get a FREE Leather Goods Layout Pack for Divi
• Create The Smooth Submenus Effect For Divi Desktop Menu

• The Russian Starbucks replacement’s logo gives us serious déjà vu
• Master the golden rules of UI design
• These gory logo redesigns are spine-chillingly good
• Massive 174MP Moon Photo Took Two Photographers Two Years to Make
• Usain Bolt’s official logo could rival Nike’s Jumpman
• Rolling Stone bucks the flat logo trend
• Risograph Style Backgrounds: An Organic Design Trend
• WebP images: What they are and how they are helpful in building for the web
• DNG File: What a .dng Image Is and How to Open It
• Just what is Kanye West planning with his bizarre new logo and brand name?
• Mercedes gets owned in this clever campaign
• New Emoji Candidates Up for Approval Soon: Jellyfish, Goose, Turquoise Heart and More
• Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever
• This head-spinning optical illusion has just broken my brain
• The best (and worst) web design trends of 2022

• Funny Business: TikTok Is Putting a New Spin on Standup Comedy
• Instagram is Testing a Copycat BeReal Feature on its App
• Facebook’s $37.5 Million Location Tracking Settlement: Who Is Eligible for a Check?
• Whistleblower accuses Twitter of being ‘grossly negligent’ towards security
• TikTok’s In-App Browser Contains Code That Follows Your Every Move
• Twitter To Let Users Filter Unwanted Replies
• Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all
• Instagram Allows Users To Share Photos Through a QR code
• 9 Surefire Tips On How To Write Facebook Ad Copy That Converts
• Instagram’s Most Restrictive Filter Now the Default for New Young Users
• Why YouTube decided to make its own video chip

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

• How to Make Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls As Moist As Fresh-Baked Cinnabons
• This Historic Boozy, Fruity Preserve Is a Celebration of Summer
• Wind Turbine Blades Could Be Recycled Into Gummy Bears One Day
• Raise a Glass to Our Readers’ Favorite Drinking Toasts
• Tomato Shortage on the Rise, Plus 9 Other Hard-to-Find Grocery Items
• The Dinner Party That Served Up 50,000-Year-Old Bison Stew
• The Case for Sea Vegetables
• Why there’s no ‘Dijon’ in Dijon mustard
• The Art of Eating Well in Antarctica

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 August 23, 2022

by Foster D. Coburn III | Aug 23, 2022 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Core Web Vitals, IndexNow, Helpful Content, SEO plugins, DDoS attack, logo creator, Twitter Blue, microwave chocolate cake and root beer lady. Those are only a few highlights of the stories in this week’s news. Look through all the headlines below and click to get the full stories.

• Read this post on the Web Design Solutions Unleashed site!
• Read Tech News Digest for August 19, 2022 on Graphics Unleashed!

• Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores
• Neopets and the Birth of Web 2.0
• 14 Proven Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website
• I Tried to Understand NFT Art. It Wasn’t What I Expected
• Alt Text: What It Is & How To Write

• IndexNow attributed for 7% of all new URLs clicked on in Bing in the past month
• What is an XML sitemap and why should you have one?
• How Can We Improve Rankings For Older Content? Ask An SEO
• How To Do Technical SEO For Ecommerce Websites
• 14 Stellar SEO-Friendly Shopify Store Examples For Inspiration
• SEO And The CFO: Tips To Improve Your Relationship
• How To Get Quality Backlinks: 12 Ways That Really Work
• 6 Things I Love About Zapier’s SEO Strategy: A Case Study
• Google’s Latest Search Update Means You’ll See Less Clickbait
• Off-Page SEO: An In-Depth Guide
• Google ‘Helpful Content’ Algorithm Update Launching Soon
• 7 Best SEO Certifications: Are They Worth It?
• Technical SEO: The 20 Minute Workweek Checklist

• 14 Best SEO Plugins for WordPress
• 3 Best Text-to-Speech Plugins for WordPress
• How to Switch Your WordPress Site from HTTP to HTTPS
• What is WordPress DDoS Attack? 7 ways To Protect Your Website From DDoS Attacks
• How to Automatically Translate a WordPress Website
• WordPress Launches New Homepage and Download Page Designs
• Gutenberg Designers Explore Adding Configuration Options to Block Editor Onboarding Modal
• WordPress Leadership has a Public Relations Problem
• Upcoming Free Workshops: Learn How to Convert Figma Files to a Block Theme and Take Block Patterns to the Next Level
• Jamie Marsland Recreates WordPress.org Homepage in 20 Minutes Using the Block Editor
• Analyzing Attack Data and Trends Targeting Ukrainian Domains
• Join the WordPress World Photography Day Challenge

• How to Style the Cart & Search Icons in Your Divi Fullwidth Menu Module
• Download a FREE Category Page Template for Divi’s Therapy Layout Pack
• How To Combine Background Masks with Section Dividers in Divi
• Get a Free Hostel Layout Pack for Divi

• 16 Places To Create A Free Brand Logo
• Is this dizzying horse optical illusion the best of all time?
• How to print and cut with Cricut

• Five Changes That Would Vastly Improve Twitter (Musk or No Musk)
• The Definitive Guide to Finding and Reporting Fake Facebook Pages
• Instagram Explains How its Algorithm Suggests New Content
• Twitter Blue Will Give You Early Access To Editing Tweets
• TikTok Brings Basic AI-Generated Art to the Masses
• Oracle Starts Auditing TikTok’s Algorithms Amid Security Concerns
• Paid Social Media: A Guide To Social Advertising Success
• Botometer creator says Musk’s Twitter spam estimate “doesn’t mean anything”
• TikTok vows to close loophole letting users skirt ban on political ads

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

• Miller High Life Brews Up Beer-Flavored Ice Cream
• How to Make Chocolate Cake in a Microwave
• Eating Like an Explorer Once Called for Plenty of ‘Portable Soup’
• When Every Ketchup But One Went Extinct
• Clever Ways to Use Food Scraps (That’ll Save You Money, Too)
• The Cucumber Horses and Eggplant Cows That Welcome Back the Dead
• Deaf-Owned Restaurants Offer Cuisine and Community
• Minnesota’s ‘Root Beer Lady’ Lived Alone in a Million-Acre Wilderness

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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