So I made the painful choice of building a Magento 2 store (still under construction) and let me tell you that the Magento 2 platform is outstanding it has everything you need to run an e-commerce business and integrates with tons of different APIs, comes jam packed with multiple product options, has a cart recovery system, an abundance of reports, and much more. BUT let me also tell you that building a Magento 2 website is not for the feint hearted, and I found that out the hard way. I figured hey, I’ve built plenty of websites before, how difficult could it be. Little did I know how complex Magento 2 was going to be.

This leads me to my post topic which is why I’ve compiled a bunch of Magento 2 tutorials that helped me through this complex process.

Tutorial 1: How to install PHP, Apache, MySQL and Magento 2 on MacBook Pro

This was the main tutorial for me and how I got started. I have an iMac so was a perfect tutorial and it teaches you how to get your development environment setup too. While you don’t have to use this same dev setup you could skip ahead and see how he installs Magento 2.

Tutorial 2: Magento 2 Tutorials for Beginners, Free Online Training Course.

This is a site dedicated to magento 2 tutorials, if you need tutorials on Magento2 just to get your feet wet. This is the course for you, plus its free.

Tutorial 3: Magento 2 Tutorial / User Guide

Honestly, there is quite a limited amount of information out there on Magento 2 so I often found myself using Mageplaze as a go to resource. It was not by choice, but most of my searches brought me to this site and it helped with all the basics to getting setup, to much more in depth tutorials.

Tutorial 4: How to install Magento 2 with Sample Data

I selected this tutorial as it’s quite a crucial tutorial to helping you get started. Here you’ll learn how to install magento 2 with the sample data so you can see what a functioning site looks like. This tutorial is by Mageplaza.

Tutorial 5: Magento 2.3 Developer Documentation

Not the most exciting tutorial, but I used this developer documentation more than anything above. Especially for getting it installed as I had a bunch of problems. Magento 2.3 is quite complex so I highly recommend reading the installation guide here. and of course if you need more answers go over and ask a question on stackoverflow.

As much as I’d want to put together more tutorials, I didn’t use more than these 5 as there is such a limited amount of resources out there for Magento 2. I used Stackoverflow for a lot of my questions, but hopefully you won’t have too. Please don’t forget to sign up to our newsletter below to receive these kind of posts in your inbox.

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In today’s day and age, the most valuable resource in web design and business is time. There’s nothing more important than the time you spend working on different projects. The best way to earn more revenue is to eliminate those painful time consuming tasks. It’s as easy as it sounds, the less time you spend on the minor yet time consuming tasks. The more time you’ll spend on things like creating new client relationships, building new marketing campaigns or producing new advertising content.

So what’s my point? Well, my point is I’m here to help you people. I’m here to save you time on little tasks that you shouldn’t be putting so much effort into. I’m like the guy who helps you not to procrastinate, instead I save you from over working yourself on silly tasks. Thank me by leaving a comment below.

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These 25 Free UI kits are designed to make your life easier, easier in the sense that you won’t have to spend endless hours designing them yourself, you’ll have it all in the click of a button, and every other meticulous element you need to put together for whatever reason. Better yet, you won’t even have to search the internet you have it all here on 1 page..

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1. H1 Free Mobile UI Kit Template

H1 Free Mobile UI Kit Template is a brand new free mobile UI kit from Hristo Hristov. This UI Kit is coming with over 470 UI elements, 10 categories and over 130 templates to get inspired with. Moreover, it is available in Sketch and PSD format which is very handy if you are familiar with both Apps.

2. Mint Free Modern Sketch UI Kit

The Mint free UI kit is a simple, yet creative user interface kit that you could use for a variety of projects. Mint comes with white-space to maintain focus and for important actions/selections.

3. Bootstrap Free Website UI Kit

Need a bootstrap focused user interface kit for iOS apps, or any web elements? Say no more, this creative bootstrap theme is a clean and modern design with a green color scheme. You can use this freebie to start creating your own landing page or for your own design work.

4. Visage User Interface Kit

This user interface kit has it all, ecommerce UI, admin dashboard, custom buttons, blog section and much more with it’s slick modern design.

5. Epic Shop UI Kit

Epic Shop UI is a multifunctional Kit based around an e-commerce format that can be used by entrepreneurs to quickly prototype their site. With landing pages, widgets, icons, eCommerce elements and much more..

6. Carsive Dashboard UI Kit

Very creative, dark dashboard user interface kit. You could use this for any back end project you may be working on, or simply take elements from it for your own projects.

7. Shoop Ecommerce Free UI Kit

Shoop Ecommerce Free UI Kit is a mobile shopping app UI Kit coming from Martin Amitrano. Available in one neat PSD format, you can customize every part of it the way you want.

8. Fliminc Admin Dashboard UI

Here’s another Admin UI, with calendars, graphs icons and much more.

9. Klein – Free Adobe XD Wireframe Kit

Klein is a free Adobe XD wireframing kit for you to quickly prototype your mobile or web UI design process.

This is a dashboard UI kit for both photoshop and sketch, when going to download this kit just enter a value of zero “0” for a free download. You will need to provide your email address for this, but a little secret. I have a secret email address for downloads

A massive iOS UI kit brought to you by Apply Pixels which includes a bunch of useful screens and common interface elements, controls, shapes, containers and icons. This free UI kit is available for Photoshop (in PSD format) and Sketch (as symbols).

Here we have an old, but gold UI pack. This UI kit may be familiar as I’ve also used it before, but it still features trendy elements today, and can be used for a bunch of projects.

Tons of handcrafted UI components created to increase your web creating speed, for both Sketch and Adobe Photoshop.

Summer Sale UI Kit is a clean, Flat and chocolaty color Bootstrap Template Plain and minimal UI kit that includes lots of user interface elements for web applications and widgets like calendar, Menus, Video player, charts, maps etc. It comes with free Flat Responsive web design template. Summer Sale UI Kit template is built in a Fancy style however it can be customized as per the user requirements.

Would be ideal for any clothing line business or customer.

If you’re a fan of flat style design then this may be the UI kit you’re looking for. It’s a flat style design, with multiple components Designed by Designmodo who never fail to please me when it comes to design. The PSD versions includes the following: PSD files, Layered (Shapes), Retina Ready, Color swatches, Glyphs – svg format, Free font used – Lato

WrapKit Lite is Free Bootstrap 4 Web UI Kit. It allows you to create anything like complete websites, landing pages, coming soon, homepages etc. It comes with some stunning ready to use UI Blocks & Elements to make your life even easier to use it directly for your projects.

Do is an incredible free to-do ui kit including 130 screens, 10 unique themes and more than 250 elements for Adobe Photoshop and Sketch app. A freebie released on InVision.

This is a HERO themed UI kit with a bunch of free elements you could use on a variety of projects.

Some common UI mobile elements blueprint.

If you work for a social media agency, or want to showcase a social media account. This free UI kit would be perfect for you. It’s a useful free PSD UI kit for the Instagram app. Material design created and released by Zach Buechler.

Carbon Wireframe Kit is a good starting point to design a professional ecommerce app in Google Material style. The package contains 15 useful screens and elements breakdown to compose infinite custom app screens. Available for download in both PSD and Sketch formats.

Monica is a premium UI kit including many useful elements and components to build modern ecommerce websites. It comes with a free sample pack you can download and play with. Free PSD designed and released by Evatheme.

Grace is a modern UI kit to simplify your work. Create a beautiful, strong design for your project.

E-commerce UI Kit Free PSD Design. You can easily use the design. Designed and released by Sergey Melnik

Hello Uipixels followers!!! Stark UI Kit in front. in, slider, blog post, menu, page number, header tools, accordion menu, social icons, search bar is located. This freebie was created by Baianat

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In my article 10 Product landing page examples to get guidance from I couldn’t stress enough the importance of product landing pages, and how they are the key to a successful ecommerce website. It’s one of the areas of your website that doesn’t get enough attention, and you should be focusing on it if your an eCommerce entrepreneur.

I also mentioned in the article how it was possible for you to develop websites and landing pages that have the quality level as if it were done by a team of developers.

Well today my friends, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite 15 premium product landing pages that you could use on your next eCommerce project or recommend to your customers. These are all premium landing pages from themeforest that you can use to wow your customers or enhance your own eCommerce websites.

Remember how I used premium themes to grow my freelance business, well these are the types of landing pages that could do exactly that just because of the level of quality they provide.

These product landing pages are designed for conversions, this is where you persuade your web traffic, and aim to turn them into paying and ever-lasting customers.

1. Applandy Premium App Landing Page – $5

Yes you got that right, this landing page is only a whooping $5.00, I actually think it may be a limited time sale. This is definitely the low end of the price scale, but the high end in quality. The landing page itself looks phenomenal, with multiple variations. It’s a HTML5, bootstrap ready scrolling landing page with some unique animation. It could be used for much more than just an app. You can view the demos below.

2. Austin – Technology Landing Page – $14

This super simple yet so powerful landing page is perfect for any tech focused eCommerce store. With 4 unique landing pages, mailchimp integration, bootstrap 4 ready and a tailored design to help you gain new customers. Only 14 smackers.

3. Startr – Multipurpose Startup Landing Page – $14

Now this template is a bit more on the simple side, but the thing I loved most about this template was the fact that it came with lead generation version of the landing page, and that was enough for me to be sold on the page. Lead generation is so important for ecommerce it’s possibly one of the most effective ways to get sales from your clients. After all they are already interested in your business because they’ve signed up your newsletter.

4. Eventador – Premium Event, Conference & Meeting Landing Pages Pack – $17

Eventador is a little more expensive, but for the extra $5 you get like an extra 12 demos so you get a pack of demos. This is an event focused landing page, and while I could understand why you may think this is not ecommerce focused. I beg to differ, as you could easily make so many minor changes to this that wouldn’t take long, and turn it into anything you want. But if you are looking to host an event or some sort of seminar then say no more. This is the web page for you.

5. ULTIMATEAPP – A Lightweight & Modern App Landing Template – $21

Ultimate App is a lightweight, modern HTML5 fully responsive landing page template, I realize that it’s an APP focused landing page, but you could easily use this clean modern design for multiple ecommerce projects, and especially for lead generation campaigns.

6. RGen Landing Page with Page Builder – $18

I bought this myself for one of my ecommerce businesses. I used it to create some landing pages for a premium product line I sell. The landing page builder is a bonus especially for only $18, but if you are an experienced designer and have used HTML before, I’d suggest just choosing a template and modifying the source code. The landing page builder wasn’t as user friendly as I wanted it to be, but for a beginners, it would work great, but being a designer I wanted more customization options so I just chose an example and modified the code which was way easier. The templates themselves though are very well designed and saved me tons of time. You get atleast 30+ landing pages with this.

7. Startuply — Responsive Multi-Purpose Landing Page – $15

It’s funny as I go through these I notice the ones I’ve bought before. This is another I’ve purchased I used for a hosting business that didn’t do too well, but the website was awesome. As you can see. I actually think this theme was $24 when I bought it. They’ve added a ton to it, including over 25 pages, ecommerce pages, email integration and more. They also use a HTML builder that I didn’t get when I got it.

8. Revity – Responsive Multipurpose Bootstrap Template – $11

I was a little reluctant to choose this one, because I didn’t think it met the caliber of the other pages I’ve showcased, but after using it for a while it really grew on me, and its extremely detailed with a bunch of new elements. It’s a very user friendly parallax landing page that could be used for any tech related projects. It’s actually one of the top rated landing page collections on themeforest, it’s fully responsive, and only costs $11 so I had to include it. The developer has a bunch of other themes that are really good too.

I really liked the look of Launchkit, it’s a professional, modern looking landing page that could be used for a bunch of purposes. It’s a HTML5 template compatible with Bootstrap, and has a landing page builder that features over 50 customizable blocks.

So depending when you’re reading this, the App landing page template sells for $15, but right now for a limited time its only 10 dollars. This template has huge similarities to the Startuply landing page I showcased above, but none the less this landing page has multiple demos, and could be used as a seriously conversion focused product landing page. Apps Land is Mobile App landing template which is fully responsive based on Bootstrap. It’s perfect for showcasing your mobile apps, modern webapp and mobile applications, but it could easily be modified for product showcasing, by simply switching out the app sections for products. If you’re a developer you know how easy this could be.

I should have called this article “15 best app landing pages”, this is the last time I mention it. You can use it for anything else!! But honestly the app landing page examples look the best, you just need to be creative with how you use them. This Pixa template has a bunch of unique demos it was built with HTML5 & CSS3 it also utilizes a drag and drop HTML builder for the newbies.

Did I just find a product focused landing page that doesn’t use an application demo??? Yes I did! This product landing page for only $15 is perfect for any conversion focused product campaign you plan. It does everything you need it too when trying to showcase a product to a customer. Lots of call to actions, lifestyle and product photos would be a must. It’s fully responsive and built with HTML5 and CSS3. It also has multiple demos.

Another sale price at the moment, but it will increase after the first 50 sales. This is a newly developed premium landing page theme on themeforest. It features 50+ HTML pages and 140+ elements – A huge list of simple and advanced elements that allow you to customize text, videos, progress bars, data tables, accordions, tabs, use sliders in content, and much more.. It is another pure conversion focused landing page that has multiple purposes.

Moodi is a beautiful ecommerce & landing page pack. Build with Bootstrap framework 4, CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, SASS. The template includes SASS files for easy customization. It has 22 ready templates and around 8 ecommerce centric pages. It also has over 250+ elements to customize your landing pages.

The Pride Product landing page template is a simple, yet elegant looking product page that only costs $7.00, the amount of time you’d take to design and develop something like this is well worth the $7. Whats that the cost of a coffee and a sandwich??

This landing page would be a great way to introduce your new product. Giving you the ability to highlight product features with a user friendly design. Highlight customer testimonials, product videos, features, company description and more.

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First impressions mean everything on the internet. From the layout of your product pages to the colour of your buttons. Essential product pages are what convert visitors into paying customers. Instead of spending all your time making changes to your home page to increase sales. Maybe its time for a new approach, by diving into the depths of beautiful product landing pages.

Product landing pages are vital to the success of your online ecommerce store, after all they are what highlight and showcase the all important details that influence whether or not a person is going to become your next customer.

In Today’s post we are going to showcase 15 Beautiful Product Landing pages you could use for your next product or project. We’re not suggesting that you copy these product pages, but use them for guidance and inspiration as the companies using these product pages have nailed it.

Note: Please click the images to visit the websites.

1. Master & Dynamic

Master & Dynamic do an excellent job of showcasing their product on a full screen scrolling page. They highlight every important detail you need, with high quality professional product photography.

A perfectly positioned product description, mutliple variations of the headsets and quick and easy access to returns and delivery information. Not to mention that they did this all on a clean white background.

It’s such a simple looking product page, but it has every tiny, intricate detail that needs to be noted.

2. Fifty Three – Pencil Stylus For Everyone

Fifty Three utilizes a highly detailed product landing page, and cuts straight to the point by providing a video. I can’t stress enough how important video is for when you are trying to showcase a product, but I do understand videos are not cheap.

Through out this page Fifty Three highlight all the key selling points of the stylus with variation of images and descriptions. They even use a parallax effect that shows you the inside of the product and how it is assembled.

3. Apple – The iPhone X

Maybe it was obvious that I wouldn’t leave apple out of this round up. This is the iPhone X page from the Canadian Apple website. Now the reason I highlighted this was I was actually quite surprised at how simplified Apple made this. They did a really good job of this product page and kept it so simple.

They used their classic parallax scroll design that changes tiny details as you scroll through the page, but they kept it rather simple from previous presentations. It highlights everything and is an excellent example of a product showcase. We all know how long this kind of page would take, but it gets the job done.

4. Harry’s Razers

If you’re a regular reader then you know how much I use the Harry’s website as an example. They always hit the nail on the head. Their product pages are frequently updated, they use lifestyle product photos and they do it all with style.

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but there is a commonality between all the websites and it is all that white space. More white space is becoming the latest trend.

Again with Harrys you have the lifestyle photos, the variations, the add ons, and underneath the add to cart to seal that deal is the “quality guarantee” with the product showcase underneath the product description. It’s becoming more and more common for businesses to show the returns & delivery sections right there on the product page so the user doesn’t have to search for it.

5. Fitbit SmartWatch

I’m sure you’ve heard of FitBit before, they are well known company among most fitness enthusiasts. The great thing about FitBit is they only have a few different products so they really don’t have to veer elsewhere. It’s all content rich pages focused around one particular type of product. Even though my own businesses sell everything, I do tend to encourage people to focus on one thing when creating a product landing page. You can still sell multiple categories, but when it comes to your product pages. Become super tunnel vision and knuckle down on one subject just like fitbit does.

When you visit this unique product page from FitBit you immediately have all the details in less than a minute, and can continue to read on if you want to learn more. This is what I strongly encourage for any type of product page. It needs to be simple, efficient and content rich.

6. DJI – Mavic Air Product Landing Page

Seriously, if you visit the DJI website it is a so super technology focused website. This is easily the best website I’ve come across in a long time. The best website in the sense of product landing pages and how it uses videos, animations and professional photography to captivate its users.

First off, as soon as you land on the page you want a drone. Well, I did. I seriously contemplated why I should buy a drone. Telling myself things like “Neh it’s not that expensive”, “I could use them for videos and stuff” etc etc.

DJI does everything right with this page, immediately when you land on the page you see the product. You see the design, you have a buy now call to action, you have easy access to a DJI drone video and you can go over all the specifications.

The coolest thing about this page is the 32MP Sphere Panorama camera right there on the product page. You can drag and manuever your view and see the actual Sphere Panorama camera footage the Drone captured! How cool is that. You’ll have to scroll down a little on the page to see it.

I could go on and explain more, but I’d rather you take a look for yourself.

7. Microsoft Xbox One X Page

So I started thinking what page could top the DJI mavic landing page. I honestly couldn’t think of any, but Microsoft do a great job with the Xbox One X page and it came close enough. Now I know that both Microsoft and DJI probably have multiple high salary designers and developers building their product landing pages for them, and their product landing pages make yours look like shit. Sorry to curse, but there was no pleasant way around that.

Having said that, I know from experience that there is a huge amount of premium themes that offer landing pages and designs to this caliber of quality. Seriously. You just have to dig deep enough and find them, in fact I may compile a round up of product page templates in the next article or so that can help you create high quality product landing pages.

As you may know Xbox are known for creating powerful landing pages for their consoles. They want to sell it to you, and what easier way to do that then with an amazing landing page. As they over did it with this console in delivering true immersive 4k gaming. They also over did it with this landing page… In a good way.

They highlight all the important details of this product and instruct you exactly where to buy it. They use a parallax effect and highlight all the details of the console, what its capable of, whats inside it, the games it can play and much more.

This product landing page is basically a reel of the Xbox One and how it was put together and what it is capable of. You don’t have to have an Xbox product to create a landing page of this quality. You could just use a layout similar and highlight your own products key qualities using a design similar to this. This is actually a simple design, but the content and the imagery is so well placed together it looks just right.

8. Studio Neat – Stylus Pen & More.

Another stylus product this time by Studio Neat. This stylus has great success on kickstarter, and I think one of the key tactics Studio Neat use is video.

If you sell any product, the best thing you could ever invest in is small product videos like studio neat have done. Not only do they have unique product landing pages for each of their products. But they also use short product videos that give you that all important rundown.

These are simple product pages that work very well for them, and could easily be used for any kind of product.

You’ve probably already heard of this brand. As they’ve used celebrities to promote their brand and become a huge success. They also got their product landing page just right. It’s a very simple product page, simple yet persuasive page. They use a wide screen format to show off the product and keep it very simple with lots of white space. They have a key feature area just under the add to cart section, and they really utilize their customer testimonials to the fullest and even include it there on the product page.

There’s nothing more persuasive than social recognition and this company uses that aspect of their business to its potential. Why wouldn’t they? With celebrities like Conor Mcgregor and Kylie Jenner as their customers.

I tried to find a landing page that would top all the others, but I simply couldn’t beat that DJI page. If you have a good example of your own. Please let us know in the comments section.

I decided to go with this Corsair Product landing page instead. Corsair do an excellent job with their product pages. They took the time to highlight key features of each individual product that helps set them apart from the competition.

Not sure if you realize or not, but it’s actually becoming a widely common practice that all the larger companies are using. The practice being the scrolling features section on every product landing page that all use professional product photos and help highlight the key elements of an item. Visit the page and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.

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Now I know how I’m always preaching about how Elegant Themes helps saves you so much time and cuts out the design cost etc etc. I even went over it in detail on How to grow your freelance business with premium themes.

Having said all that, I still recognize how crucial the design aspect is for a web business also, and even though Elegant Themes can save you so much time by eliminating that process. There are still times when you need to be designing websites for your customers. ET is right for the business side of things, but this article is for your creative instincts. These are 20 free psd templates that will save you so much time.

I’m not sure if people realize the exponential amount of free resources there are online for web design, so today I’ve compiled the list for you.

I’ve put together 25 completely free psd mockups that you could use on your next web design project. Thank me later, enjoy!

1. Creative corporate business flyer template Free Psd

Now I realize this is a flyer template, but it could easily be used for a website. In fact I strongly encourage you to do so because it would be awesome. If any of you do create a website out of this, send me the link and I’ll put it on this blog.

2. Piroll: A design template for agency/personal portfolio

Here we have a simple, minimalistic agency or personal portfolio template. This is a nice clean and slick design you could use to save time. The beauty with PSD templates is you can change them up as much as you want.

3. Surfers Co. – A Bootstrap-ready PSD template

This beautiful yet simple template is bootstrap ready, built with bootstrap dimensions in mind. You could use this for a whole range of projects. The package includes a layered PSD file based on 1170px Bootstrap grid system.

4. Avenue Fashion: Free PSD ecommerce template

There’s always a need for an ecommerce template. Most people looking for a website now are searching for a way to sell their products online. Wow them with this unique fashion ecommerce template.

5. A futuristic one page portfolio in PSD and HTML

This is a futuristic dark, one page portfolio PSD template. There’s a live demo of this PSD converted into action.

6. Personal blog design template

This is a highly detailed personal blog PSD template. With versions of different pages, including a 404 page.

7. Bakery PSD website template

Not sure how many of you bake, but this free psd mockup is phenomenal. This is a well designed, premium looking bakery template.

8. Tanner Collections: Free PSD ecommerce template

Here we have a free PSD template this time for ecommerce. Enhance your clients existing store with a new and improved ecommerce look and feel.

Title says it all, this is a free landing page psd mockup for promotion of your newly designed application.

I got my first design job by creating my own online resume/CV. It was so simple, and was nowhere near as good as this. If you’re lacking experience a great way to stand out is with your own site as your portfolio. This free PSD template could help you do exactly that.

Zoom UI Kit is a free resource you can use to create landing pages for your applications.

I really like this psd template, could be used for practically anything especially a good landing page.

It provides a block layout template and it is featured by bold colours, large headlines and dominant imagery.

The Lifestyle Free PSD Website Template is based on a Responsive layout with Mixed Columns and uses a Blue, White colour scheme.

Looking at enhancing your portfolio in 1 landing page? This template is perfect for anyone looking to build a one page portfolio.

Liberty is a one page template featured by modern and clean design, best suitable for portfolios.

Parallels is a dark PSD template for any business website.

This is a travel focused PSD template that could be used for multiple purposes. Enjoy.

Last, but not least we have the free startup framework provided by the Designmodo blog.

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Every person and their brother wants to start their own ecommerce business. Truth is it’s not as easy as building a website, adding some products and waiting for the internet to start ordering away. In most cases when business owners come to launching their website they seem so shocked that no one is ordering from them. I mean they put all that time, effort, and sometimes a lot of money into this spectacular website to find out that no one wants to buy anything.

The reality is building the website and creating the store is actually the easiest part. The hardest part is building traffic, and then turning that traffic into sales. So if you have a busy schedule and want to build a business, don’t waste too much time designing your own custom website. Because you should be focusing your efforts elsewhere.

One of the biggest reasons I personally use premium woocommerce themes is because they save me so much time. That way I can focus my energy on to the things that matter. Sales.

Remember that this doesn’t just apply to your clients. It applies to you too, because if you’re a freelance web designer, then you also need to build a business not just a website.

There are more benefits than time consumption

Aside from the time you save. There are a few different reasons why you should be using a premium woocommerce theme. This doesn’t just apply to web design businesses, but to every business out there. When you look through these premium themes you’ll notice that the designs convey nothing but professionalism. They are genuinely built with premium quality in mind.

The developers and designers that created these websites really took the time to create something decent. After all, they want you to purchase their theme. But there’s also a bigger picture behind all that, and it’s not just about them selling you a theme. It’s about how their theme can make your business look credible and professional.

Now surely design doesn’t create credibility, but in fact it’s one of the biggest deciding factors potential customers use when deciding whether to buy from your business. Moral of the story is, design really matters when it comes to your business.

Anyone that thinks otherwise, take a read of these interesting facts.

The Facts, Source: BlueCorona

Fact 1: Given 15 minutes to consume content, two-thirds of people would rather read something beautifully designed than something plain.

Fact 2: 38% of people will stop engaging with a website if the content/layout is unattractive.

Fact 3: 48% of people cited a website’s design as the number one factor in deciding the credibility of a business.

Building For Mobile

All premium woocommerce themes are built fully responsive for phones and tablets. Please don’t think for one second that you don’t need your site to be mobile friendly. If you think that your business doesn’t need a responsive website then here’s some advice for you.

Quit.

Don’t mean to be harsh, well I do, but if you haven’t adapted to the mobile “era” yet then you are way, way, way behind.

Here’s some facts about this:

The mobile side of things. Facts.

Fact 1: 62% of companies which designed their website(s) for mobile platforms increased their sales.

Fact 2: 40% of people will choose a different search result if the first is not mobile friendly.

Fact 3: 48% of users say that if they arrive on a business site that isn’t working well on mobile, they take it as an indication of the business simply not caring.

I could go on all day, so now it’s time to show off 10 Beautiful premium WooCommerce themes for your online business. These themes are some of the best rated themes in WooCommerce, all compatible for ecommerce and completely responsive/mobile friendly.

1. Vitrine Multi Purpose WooCommerce Theme

This is a fully customizable WooCommerce theme with a bunch of unqiue features. One of the best rated themes on themeforest. With multiple demos and even a variety of unique product layouts.

2. Voisen – WooCommerce Responsive Fashion Theme

This clean, modern, fully responsive premium theme comes with a mega menu, product carousel and multiple unique demos for any fashion type business.

3. UX Shop – Premium Responsive WooCommerce Theme

This was one of my favourites. Especially the bike demo for this theme. It was also one of the highest priced themes, but I guess you pay for quality.

4. WoodMart – Responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme

WoodMart has a modern clean design and comes with an abundance of demos. It has a theme for every type of store, and is fully responsive. If you sell furniture, electronics, tools, food or even digital products. This is a pure multi purpose theme.

5. Artemis | Multi-purpose WooCommerce WordPress Theme

Artemis is a fully responsive WordPress WooCommerce theme, perfect for your e-commerce website. It offers a great design and an awesome collection of features, with which you can achieve a remarkable e-commerce experience for your website.

6. Unero – Minimalist AJAX WooCommerce WordPress Theme

Unero is a clean & minimal AJAX WooCommerce WordPress Theme for shopping online stores. With design minimal and focus on products, Unero will make your online store look more impressive and attractive to viewers. Help increase high conversation rate to buy product with your customers so quickly. This theme is suited for a lot of e-commerce website such as fashion store, furniture store, decoration store, etc.

Flipmart is a premium responsive ecommerce theme that comes with a wide variety of demos. As of right now this premium theme is only 29USD which is super cheap. I think it may be a limited time only sale for this Walmart looking premium theme.

Vinero is a premium theme for creatives, but is built to be woocommerce compatible and offers a simple, elegant product display with it’s demos. It’s also one of the best rated themes in the woocommerce section.

If you’re looking at starting a toys & games store then say no more. Juno is a premium Toys & Games theme built with eCommerce compatibility. It’s colorful, simple design allows for you to be up and running in minutes with pre designed layouts ready for launch.

Last, but not least is another one of my favourite premium themes. This site is a premium WooCommerce book store. Though it’s primary function is to be an ecommerce book store, you could use it for a bunch of different projects.

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After spending weeks of compiling resources and tutorials. I wanted to take some time and experiment on my own tutorials. The beauty with CSS3 is that you can take something that would usually take a long time to develop and build it in an instant. Well, in an instant may be overkill, but quicker than you would using other resources such as JavaScript.

I wanted to create a CSS3 FullScreen slider with some simple image transitions. After googling some ideas I decided to put together my own tutorial. I had a look at some of the other tutorials on full screen sliders, and noticed that developers were writing code that was far too complex for something so simple.

I’m not the best css developer in the world, but I think some of the guys & girls writing these tutorials are so smart, that they forget how difficult it can be for people that are still learning.

They can sometimes add code that isn’t always necessary for what they are teaching, and sometimes over complicates things. So I decided to dumb it down . I mean you will have to have some sort of HTML & CSS knowledge for this tutorial, but you could definitely go through it and figure it out yourself if you are a complete beginner.

This tutorial has the goal of helping beginners better understand the code, and at the same time not overwhelm anyone with too much information. This tutorial is for all levels of developers/designers. Feel free to use it on your own projects and share it with your fellow designers.

You’ll learn how to build a CSS3 FullScreen Slider with a slow, scaling transitional effect. Be sure to visit the demo so you can see what it is you will be building. You can also download the source code and experiment with it yourself.

The images are from pexels.com, completely royalty free. I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to include them in the zip file so you’ll have to get your images directly from their website.

Please note: This tutorial and demo will only work in browsers that support CSS3 transitions only. However, most modern day browsers now support CSS3 transitions.

HTML Markup

Ok, so lets get right to it. The first thing we’ll be doing is creating the HTML markup for the fullscreen slider. We will start by creating an unordered list and we will be using the span section for each image.

 
<body id="fullscreen">
<ul class="dev-show">
   <li><span>Image 01</span></li>
   <li><span>Image 02</span></li>
   <li><span>Image 03</span></li>
</ul>
</body> 

It’s very simple markup, and that’s about the only HTML you are going to need. All that does is create an unordered list.

Each of the span sections represent each changing image. I also added the body id to disable the overflow of the slider so the browser doesn’t add scrollbars when the animation is scaling. We will add the background images in CSS further below, and use animations to cycle through the images.

If you don’t fully understand yet, not to worry. It will all make sense as I go through the tutorial, and I explain each individual element. The next part, we will be creating the CSS.

The CSS

We will start by positioning the viewport. The idea is to stretch this area over the screen. We use “position:fixed” to keep this class in the same place even if the page is scrolled, and the width and height to position the height and width 100% across the screen.

.dev-show,
.dev-show:after; {
position: fixed; 
width: 100%; 
height: 100%; 
top: 0px; 
left: 0px; 
z-index: 0; 
overflow :hidden; 
} 

Now we’ll create the CSS for the main slider image area. This will cover the entire screen. The code below basically stretches the image across the screen and is set to an opacity of 0, we will then turn this opacity to 1 using our css3 animation. By turning the opacity to 1 it will show the image. We’ve also named our animation “fullScreenAni” and set the total animation time to 30seconds, and to loop infinitely.

ul {
list-style: none; 
}

.dev-show li span {
width: 100%; 
height: 100%; 
position: absolute;
top: 0px; 
left: 0px; 
color: transparent; 
background-size: cover; 
background-position: 50% 50%; 
opacity: 0;
z-index: 0;
animation: fullScreenAni 30s linear infinite 0s;  
}

We created the ul class above to hide the default bullet point list display. Then we’ve created the css class for the li and span sections that were represented in the HTML markup above.

We’ve used the background-size element to “cover” the screen. Then the positioning to position the images directly in the middle of the screen. As mentioned above we’ve used opacity: 0 to hide the image, but it only hides the image temporarily because below we will be using the CSS animation to set the opacity to 1 which will then show the element, you won’t actually notice that the image is hidden it’s just how we create the transition effect.

Before we conclude by setting up our animation. We need to add our background images and the selectors that will select the child elements of the list.

First we’ve uploaded our images and used the CSS to call on each background image through out the animation. We’ve then used nth-child(1) that selects the first list element in the HTML markup and applies the CSS properties to that. The nth-child(2) does it to second list element, and nth-child(3) to the third.. You could add as many child elements as you like if you wanted to have a larger inventory of images to showcase. We’ve also used an animation-delay of 10 seconds to the 2nd and 3rd classes. Giving each image 10 seconds to display before transitioning out to the next.

.dev-show li:nth-child(1) span {
	background-image: url(../fullscreen-css3/images/wall-e-pex.jpg); 
}

.dev-show li:nth-child(2) span {
	background-image: url(../fullscreen-css3/images/waterfront.jpg);
	animation-delay: 10s; 
}

.dev-show li:nth-child(3) span { 
	background-image: url(../fullscreen-css3/images/green.jpg);
	animation-delay: 20s; 	
}

Then to wrap it up we’ve called on the animation for the transition timing and scaling effect.

@keyframes fullScreenAni { 
    0% { opacity: 0; animation-timing-function: ease-in; }
    11% { opacity: 1; animation-timing-function: ease-out; }
    33% { opacity: 1; transform: scale(1.5); }
    66% { opacity: 0 }
    100% { opacity: 0 }
}

@keyframes calls on the animation name “fullScreenAni“. 100% equals to 10 seconds.

Between 0-100% is where you would apply any transitional or image effects. In this case 0-100% is over the course of 10 seconds which is the full animation time for each image. At 0-11% is where the image transitions in. This is what creates that slow transition. At 11-33% is the time it takes before the image starts to use the scale effect. The scale effect is triggered from the transform css3 property. Then once we are in at 66% the image is beginning to transition out and change to the next image at 100%. The ease-in is what makes the next image transition in slowly.

And there you have it. This tutorial feels really short to me, but it’s so simple that I don’t have anything more to explain. That’s exactly what I want it to be, so simple that I don’t need to explain anything more.

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After writing 25 HTML5 & CSS3 Tutorials for every web designer. I had inquires from people wanting to become developers and designers with little to zero experience. They wanted to know where was the best place to start learning.

I find that the best way to learn anything is to dive in heads first and get down and dirty. In the work ethic way ;). I built my first website with notepad++ and Google. It was before HTML5, but I literally googled every tiny little detail. The website was horrendous, but it was a working version of it, and I was proud of it.

In this article I’ve compiled 10 HTML5 Tutorials strictly for beginners. It focuses on the best resources for up and coming freelancers & developers who need a place to learn. When it comes to web development. Don’t think about it too much, just get started. It’s an everlasting process so you aren’t going to learn everything at once. I’m still learning to this day, I think some people might be a little intimidated by it as it does sound complex, but there’s really nothing to it. These resources make that process even easier as they weren’t around 10 years ago, and now you have a starting point so start!

1.Learn HTML – Codeacademy

Here you have the pure basics of HTML, with a hint of HTML5. If you’ve never touched html before and are looking for the best place to start. I strongly recommend codeacademy. It covers the fundamentals of the markup language, and features interactive challenges that allow you to get hands on with the language. This is where I’ve learned a ton, it’s one thing knowing the syntax code, but another thing knowing how it works and what it’s for.

2. HTML5 Tutorial Introduction – thenewboston.com

I learn the best visually and through video. Most developers I know are the same, and if you have a short attention span. I would suggest these tutorial. These HTML5 tutorials are a series of videos from an experience developing showing you how to build a website using HTML5. It covers everything from start to finish.

3. Learn HTML5 Programming From Scratch – Udemy

Another great place for HTML5 tutorials is Udemy. Udemy is perfect for beginners. There are some paid courses on udemy, but there are also a lot of free courses. One of them being Learn HTML5 Programming from scratch.

4. HTML-5-Tutorial.com

This tutorial websites covers everything to know about HTML5, perfect for beginners. HTML5 looks confusing, but once you go through some tutorials you’ll start to see that it’s actually quite simple. It’s the other development languages you need to worry about.

5. Beginners HTML5 Tutorials – The Free Tutorial Centre

This is a free guide walking you through every nook and cranny of HTML5. At the bottom of each article there button sending you to the next HTML5 tutorial. Go through this HTML5 tutorial and you’ll be sure to learn the markup language after completion.

6. HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners

Anyone with little to no experience with both HTML5 and CSS3. I encourage you to watch this video series. It goes right into the details and fundamentals of both the markup language and CSS.

7. Learn HTML5 With This Simple Avoider Game Tutorial

Now this tutorial is a little more advanced, but after completing all the tutorials above you should be ready for it. You can start here, if you’re up to the challenge. It includes more than just HTML5, but it’s a great way to learn. Includes alot of javascript and some CSS elements.

8. Coding an HTML5 Layout From Scratch

Smashing magazine is one of the most credible resources in web design so what better place to learn HTML5. This tutorial covers coding a HTML5 layout from scratch. It’s one of those tutorials where you dive in head first and try your best.

This tutorial shows you how to design a blog with HTML5. You’ll be hands on with some of the new attributes of HTML5. This tutorials primary focus is creating a blog, but it touches on the structural elements which is also important.

This is an old, but gold tutorial. The title says it all, but basically you’ll be learning how to create an app using HTML5. I saved this tutorial for last as it’s probably one of the most complex tutorials.

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You need to ask yourself these questions before reading this article.

1. Do you want to increase your freelance business?

2. Do you want to save your precious time?

3. Do you want the highest possible customer satisfaction rate you can get?

If you answered yes to all of these questions then keep reading. If you answered no then this isn’t the article for you.

Let’s get started

When I first started developing websites, I was so convinced that I would never have to purchase any premium themes or templates ever. I had the mentality that I would only use the free stuff, or I would do it myself because why would I pay for it???

Now having been a web designer for around 7-8 years. The reality is unless you have endless amounts of time. You’re not going to get the quality you are looking for in a free theme and in most cases the DIY route.

Now, I’m a premium theme addict and the biggest selling factor for me has to be the time and money you save for the quality you receive.

I run multiple businesses so it’s a no brainer for me, but I fully understand it’s not within everyone’s budget. Think of it like this: You’re either going to pay $60.00 for a premium website, or you are going to have to hire someone for a thousand dollars and have them build “their” own quality of website.

The 3rd option is to spend about 150 hours doing it yourself, and not coming close in quality. Simply because today’s premium themes are built with teams of developers.

I Hate To Be The Bearer Of Bad News.

Hey I’m not trying to be negative or burst your bubble. It’s great that you think you can do it yourself. If you really can, please go ahead. Here’s all I ask once you’ve completed your “premium” theme.

Come back here and send me the link. Show me the theme that you poured your heart and soul into, and I’ll find a premium theme that is just as good, probably better, within minutes.

If yours is genuinely better I’ll admit defeat. I’m that confident in this that I really do encourage you to challenge me on it. I’ve tried the DIY route and I’ve built some good looking websites, but still nothing in comparison to the themes that I’ve bought.

There is just too much competition and teams of talent to compare too..

How Premium Themes Helped This Company Grow..

This is definitely one of my biggest success stories with Premium Themes. The premium themes being from Elegant Themes. This blog is actually running on an Elegant Theme template right now. It’s using the Nexus theme.

But what got me into Elegant Themes was a company I used to work for. They purchased a subscription around 5 years ago now. I was the lead designer and we were working on hundreds of local business websites.

We had a huge increase in web design business after we started using the Elegant Themes subscription, and here is exactly why.

It wasn’t because we were using the Elegant Themes brand. It was because we changed our entire work process, our lead times, and the fact that we were producing a “premium” quality in websites.

These sites weren’t even comparable to the previous work we had done. We even had some older customers approach us asking for an upgrade. The upgrade being Elegant Themes.

For anyone who hasn’t heard of Elegant Themes you can read more about them by clicking the image on the right, but for a hands on experience of Elegant Themes, you can actaully try their greatest creation Divi here.

Here’s The Biggest Time Saving Change We Implemented.

The biggest change and the part I enjoyed the most was the fact that we completely eliminated that painful proof design concept. Don’t get me wrong, I love designing websites. I just don’t like designing them for other people, and you all know exactly why..

When it comes to designing a website the CUSTOMER IS ALMOST ALWAYS NEVER RIGHT. I know that sounds harsh, and I’m not trying to be mean, but it’s the truth and you all know it. Sure, they’re experts in their own industry, but it doesn’t mean they know anything about yours and I’m not afraid to say it.

I’ve had my fair share of customers over the years, and you know how many websites have been ruined because of their ridiculous requests. Too many to count.

Whoever said that they are always right was probably not a web designer. It’s like saying my electrician doesn’t know anything about electrical, so I’ll reinvent the wheel and wire my own house. We all know how that’s going to end.

The point here is. I know that most of you can relate to this so imagine a world without that painful process… Well we did exactly that. No more DESIGNING, no more magical unicorns jumping across your screen, no more rainbows, no more “make it look sharp” without adding a knife to the background. No more!

Proof designs can sometimes take up half the customers budget, and that’s because of the time that is put into it. How we avoided this was by showcasing the demo themes when we met with the customer. Those themes being Elegant Themes. That way if they liked what they saw. We would suggest that same design, layout, and completely re-brand it to suit their business needs. I’d say we had like a 95% satisfaction rate with this process.

I actually quit my job at this agency within 6 months of this time, but within those 6 months I’d say we probably created around 60 different websites using Elegant Themes and those websites were valued at around $1000-3000 each. So we’re talking $100,000 – $180,000 in revenue in around 6 months which is amazing for a small time agency.

How Can Premium Themes Help You Grow Your Business

So how do premium themes really help you grow your business?

Don’t get it twisted, you won’t be able to purchase a new theme and business will all of a sudden start picking up. It doesn’t work like that. The biggest value I find has to be with Elegant Themes. It creates a smooth, time saving workflow that allows for you to produce mass websites. These mass websites being of the highest quality, ultimately leading to increased profits.

The main contribution it adds to growing your business is through the process and the workflow it creates. Here’s the process broken down:

• Step 1: Meet with customer
• Step 2: Showcase premium themes or Elegant Themes
• Step 3: Customer chooses a theme for you to brand
• Step 4: Provide quotation for website & development
• Step 5: Receive deposit
• Step 6: Produce results
• Step 7: Customer satisfaction rate is through the roof

Not only do these themes create a more efficient, time saving workflow, but think of it like this too.

These premium themes, especially the ones on themeforest are absolutely phenomenal, and there is no denying that. To a web designer they are beautiful to a customer they are amazing.

The professionalism that they convey is priceless. They can make a 1 man in your basement business look like a big box corporation (if that’s the goal).

Word of Mouth Marketing Still Exists.

There’s no doubt in my mind that with a premium theme you are going to leave the customer with a happy smile, and a happy smiling customer is exactly what you want for new and returning business.

Don’t for a second think that word of mouth marketing isn’t effective anymore. Yes it is the 21st century and online advertising does produce results. I totally agree it does, it produces results for a product that costs fifty dollars. It’s a little different when it’s going to cost them upwards of a thousand dollars.

It may not reach the masses like facebook and google advertising, but let me tell you one thing. When it comes down to a $2,000+ website you’re going to need more than a banner ad to get that sale. After all it’s two grand.

What you need is word of mouth marketing and social recognition. I’m not talking about social recognition on facebook. I’m talking about actual real life social recognition. Because I’ll tell you one thing. No one is going to part with $2000 without hearing about someones previous “amazing” experience. If you want that continued growth then out of this world customer satisfaction is exactly what you have to achieve, and “premium” quality is how you achieve exactly that.

For all you know, a potential customers conversation could go something like this:

Potential new customer: That’s a good looking website you got there.
Existing customer: Thanks John, yes I’m really happy with it.
Potential new customer: Where did you get it done?
Existing customer: It was done by “insert freelancers name here”
Potential new customer: Nice, you got their number or a business card?

I know that conversation is a little far-fetched, but similar kinds of conversations do happen all the time. If your customer is blown away with the design, and the service they received. Then you can bet that they won’t be reluctant to discuss it with anyone else.

Your Business Conversion Rate

Another food for thought: How many business meetings and proposal discussions have you lost?

If you’re a busy freelancer than I bet it’s probably a happened a few times. You have to question how many of the projects would you have received if you had better examples of the work you produced?

I know I could have showcased much better work if I had discovered premium themes earlier. There is nothing wrong with you showing off the demo of a premium theme as your own. If you’re planning on buying that theme for the project then there is nothing wrong with that. However, if you showcase a demo and try to build it yourself, well that’s not going to go well for either party. So try and avoid that at all costs.

Like I said before some of the demos on Themeforest are truly amazing, and I could almost guarantee that they would lead to a better conversion rate. Here’s a link to the WooCommerce section for premium themes on Themeforest. You take a look and tell me that they aren’t outstanding.

These tiny little details are what’s important when running a business. Especially a successful business. It’s what makes you unique as a freelancer.

Please, please don’t try to cut costs when it comes to design quality. You think about it, if you land a $2000 project. 3 percent of that is the equivalent of a premium theme. 3 percent is nothing. At the beginning of a business it’s not about the money. It’s about the everlasting impressions you leave with your customer and the quality of your product which leads to more business. Premium quality achieves exactly that.

Now Some Premium Theme Examples I’m Using

Update – Apr 2018. No longer am I using the theme below. I’ve moved on to a different premium theme for my ecommerce business, but Salient is still a phenomenal theme.

Here’s one of the premium themes I’m using for my ecommerce business Exooto Media. I used the premium theme Salient and it’s one the best purchases I’ve made. I’m still working on Exooto Media to this day, and there is no denying the quality this theme brings to my website. This site cost me a whopping fifty nine dollars and saved me endless hours in design time. It is now my full time income, and I actually think the theme is cheaper now.

I’m not saying that this theme created my full time income, because I’ve put a ton of hours into this business. However, it sure made the entire process a whole lot easier. The design conveys trust and professionalism into my customers that I couldn’t have done on my own.

Here are some examples of the demos that Salient offer. Click the image below to see them in action.

Lastly, The Soul Sucking Job I Had And The Premium Theme

Another example, I used to work for this multi-million dollar company as their web developer, but it wasn’t the best place to work in fact if I’m going to be brutally honest it was a soul sucking job.

Internally this company was a huge disaster and I was literally doing marketing, web design, graphic design, printing, and on top of all that I was even doing tech support. Having said that, it was also one of my best paying jobs, but money isn’t everything as it was hands down the worst place I’ve ever worked in my entire life.

Sounds harsh, but it’s the truth. It was not a good place to work and I’m not going to say their name for that reason.

The positive side to this story, is if I hadn’t had hated my job so much I wouldn’t have walked out, and made the best decision of my life to start my own business. So some good came out of it.

Anyway, the point here is I ended up purchasing a premium theme for their website because of all the additional hats I was wearing. They literally to this day don’t even know that I did that, but I had no choice because I was pressured to finish an amazing website and had all these other jobs?!?

I chose the Kallyas theme for this company and it’s actually sent them a huge amount of wholesale business. At one point the Kallyas Theme was a best seller on themeforest, and I think that was around the time I bought it for this company. I’d also like to mention that I bought it out of my own money just to save me some time. They were really impressed, and it probably saved me my job at the time. Even though I hated working there..

I didn’t expect this article to be as long as this, but their was some explaining to be done. I’m going to end it here with this.

Consider switching to premium themes today and change your freelancing business. If you want to read more about Elegant Themes, check it out here. They’ve introduced a bunch of new WordPress themes, and are always creating more. They also have their own line up of customer plugins that include innovative WordPress features such as a drag and drop builder, and more.

If that’s not what you’re looking for then I also encourage you browse the themeforest marketplace who also have a huge variety of premium themes.

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If it’s not clear yet, I’m a CSS3 freak. I do realize that this article is called 10 CSS3 Tutorials that will make you go “wow”. Just keep in mind that I get a little over excited with simple transitions created in CSS so I could have called this 10 CSS3 Tutorials that make me go “wow”.

In the next couple of weeks I’ll be creating some of my own CSS3 tutorials, in the meantime it’s time to enjoy these “wow” factor CSS3 tutorials that you can learn a lot from. With CSS3 there is so much more you can create with all these additional properties and possibilities. At this point in time, most modern day browsers are completely compatible so there are zero excuses for learning CSS.

It’s time to start amazing your clients with transitions and effects that not every average Joe can build. In this list I’ve compiled the CSS3 Tutorials that amazed me the most. When you look at the code to these tutorials you’ll start to see that they aren’t as difficult as they look, it just took a creative mind to put them together and create something brilliant.

1. Blur Menu with CSS3 Transitions

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create this unique blur menu using transitions and text shadows which ultimately create this creative blur effect.

2. CSS3 Navigation Bar by Jan Kaděra

This 3D navigation bar is simple and creative. There’s something about it that makes me want to keep hovering over and clicking it. The CSS3 features that are used are transform and transition and it didn’t take much code to get this bar up and running. See for yourself.

3. Sliding Image Panels with CSS3

This simple tutorial turns into something amazing. These sliding image panels are built as the background images that animate when you click on the labels.

4. Thumbnail Proximity Effect with jQuery and CSS3

This is a neat proximity scaling effecting using both jQuery and CSS3. It scales the thumbnails as you hover over each of them, but at the same time it scales the thumbnails surrounding the thumbnail you are currently hovering over. Sounds confusing so check out the demo. It’s a really cool effect, but does use alot of jQuery.

5. Fullscreen Background Image Slideshow with CSS3

This tutorial is a CSS only full screen background image slideshow. It utilizes different image transitions and displays the title using CSS3 animations. It actually made my stomach turn when I was sat there staring at it.

6. Slicebox – A fresh 3D image slider with graceful fallback

Now you can create the classic 3D slicebox slider tutorial using both jQuery and CSS3 transforms.

7. Fullscreen Slit Slider with jQuery and CSS3

A huge slider effect that “slices” open when you navigate to the next slide. This tutorial uses jquery and css animations to create these unique slide transitions that could be used for a wide range of purposes.

8. Animated 3D Bar Chart with CSS3

This magnificent 3D bar chart is created with pure CSS code. The thing I love about CSS3 is you can create almost anything with less complications and here it comes, less code! It’s great for me because I’m horrible with jQuery and if you’re a beginner then there isn’t a better place to start learning.

Everytime I look at a new CSS3 tutorial I’m just blown away with it’s capabilities. The sky is the limit when it comes to CSS3. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a page layout inspired by flipboard. It lets you navigate pages by dragging or flipping through and uses jQuery and CSS transforms to accomplish this.

An awesome tutorial that changes the words in a sentence using CSS3 animations. The preview of the demo in the image is my favorite effect so be sure to check that out.

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