Design

The footer is one website area that many people neglect in lieu of optimizing the content of their header or navigation, but this is a huge mistake. One of the most common web design blunders is underestimating the power of the site footer. It’s true that your header, nav menu, and main design are more important. Yet, the footer plays a very important role in keeping people on your site longer, as well as improving UX and making it easier to contact you or navigate your site. Ready to overhaul your footer and give it the attention it deserves? Here […]

Headless WordPress has taken the digital world by storm. This flexible system has proven to be an excellent way to manage content – especially for eCommerce websites. However, knowing how to use it effectively can be a little challenging. Fortunately, there are plenty of examples that can help. By understanding how certain brands leverage the headless WordPress system, you can start learning how to apply it to your own site. In this article, we’ll introduce you to the basics of headless WordPress eCommerce sites. We’ll then cover four different examples to help you understand how each brand benefits from this […]

WordPress has been releasing a new default theme each year since 2010. You can find review posts of several of them here on Torque: Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Twenty, Twenty Twenty-One, and now Twenty Twenty-Two. With each theme, the developers have showcased what’s possible with WordPress as well as set new standards for the WordPress design community.  This year is no different. The new default theme will drop together with the upcoming WordPress 5.9 release. Like the other themes, Twenty Twenty-Two follows a minimalist design approach. However, that doesn’t mean it skimps out on the features. On the contrary, the theme is […]

Venture is a WordPress theme for enterprises that want to showcase their portfolio of work.

When working with developers designers often go an extra mile to make sure the fonts are set exactly as specified, the colors match the mockups and the spacing of the elements is pixel perfect. How do I know that? I am a designer myself. Unfortunately, quite often, when the developers complete their work, the results don’t always match what the designers envisioned. So how do you bridge the gap between the designs and the development? Start with the right tools The first step in creating the pages to match the designs starts with the right tools. There are a few […]

Ecommerce is tough business. From increasing expectations online shops have to fulfill to cart abandonment, it’s not always easy to convert visitors into paying customers. A central element here: checkout page design. Think about it: you probably invested a lot in sourcing products, web design, and building traffic. Yet, in the end, the checkout page is the last part of your website that customers will interact with. After making a huge effort to get them there, it can literally make or break whether someone goes through with their purchase or not. If they don’t, all the work you did before […]

If you’re building your website from scratch, you may feel a bit overwhelmed when trying to design its visual layout. While you could create your site using code, this method can be rather difficult and challenging for non-developers. With the WordPress Block Pattern Directory, you can access user-made layouts and quickly build your site’s pages and posts. Furthermore, this feature comes with sub-categories that make it easier to find columns, galleries, text boxes, and other elements for your site. In this guide, we’ll look at what the WordPress Block Pattern Directory is and why it could be useful for site […]

Audience engagement can be one of the biggest challenges for website owners and marketers alike. Getting visitors to your site is one thing, but having them interact with and share your content is often much more difficult. Quizzes offer a fantastic solution to this problem, as they provide a fun way to engage your audience. They can also be used as an information-gathering tool to help inform business decisions. Best of all, you can easily implement them using WordPress plugins. In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of adding quizzes to your website. Then we’ll explain three ways to use […]

If you’re promoting a website, you probably know that driving traffic is only half the battle. Obtaining conversions once users arrive is equally as important. However, directing visitors to a general home page might not produce the results you’re looking for. Fortunately, there’s a simple tool that can revolutionize your process: a dedicated landing page. By creating interfaces that are directly focused on your goals, you can efficiently generate valuable leads. In this article, we’ll introduce you to the power of landing pages. Then we’ll cover three convincing reasons to build dedicated landing pages for your website. Let’s dive in! […]

We recently went in depth on how to customize the WordPress navigation. This time, in order to provide a more complete picture, we thought it only good and proper that we now deal with the other end of a website and learn how to customize the footer of a WordPress site. The footer is an often neglected part of a website. After all, lots of visitors will never actually scroll down that far. However, this kind of attitude could leave you behind. First of all, the footer usually appears on every page of a website (unless you are using a […]