Artbees Blog

As a growing nonprofit, community center or organization, your ability to broaden your presence beyond your local region relies almost solely on your website. Understandably you’re most likely strapped for time, money and even manpower to get a sleek and motivating site up and running, but that doesn’t mean you should settle for a second-rate website. Your initiative has an important underlying story driving its mission and an integral way of sharing that story and gaining more momentum in terms of funding and participants is with a website that is informative and inspiring.

In our exclusive interview with Curtis Hays, founder of Curtis Hays Consulting, you may discover that choosing the WordPress theme that you'll use to build your website is as big of a decision as picking a business partner or even tying the knot!

In our one on one interview with BlizzardPress' co-founders Kristen and Trent Blizzard, get two online marketing and web design expert's advice on how to scale your business using the Jupiter WordPress business theme.

Here in the Artbees Hive, our team's focus is constantly fixed on optimizing the performance and capability of our products and services. We pour over each post-type, shortcode and plugin to make them more functional and easy-to-use for our customers. We question what else can be added to provide more customizability, more user empowerment. After all, at the end of the day it is our hope that our customers will be able to experience the freedom to grab hold of the steering wheel themselves and kick their site into full drive.

WordPress theme Updates are usually known to only offer technical improvements and back-end additions. Though there are some WordPress updates which address visual deficiencies, add website user interface trends and elements or increase the customizability of an existing component by more and possibly newer options. Many WordPress theme updates are missioned to introduce new templates that cover a wider range of niches and many are simply technical back-end improvements. So just how did we decide to improve the Jupiter user interface and what strategy did we use to create our plan of attack?

Online events are nothing new to us, and they come in many different forms. We are constantly bombarded by product and service websites featuring online “how to” webinars which detail the key points and advantages of the product. Or there are the online training courses that happen in the form of one-time online sessions. Additionally, one may find that many tech conferences are held up virtually as online events or that independent brands will deliver their service in the form of online events for which people can register and attend.

The announcement of the next big update for Jupiter WordPress theme is imminent. We cannot wait to launch a product for which we have run one of our most complicated ideation and brainstorming sessions. The resulting proposal was a clear depiction of the current status of our product, its shortcomings, and possible ways to improve it. This post introduces a series of blog posts we wrote to discuss the ideation process, the methods we employed in development of the update and its results. Starting with a post from our head of development, Bob Ulusoy explains the multiple steps of the ideation process for Jupiter V5 and how it helped to designate the mission objectives. The most important of which was a modular framework that provides a brand new experience of speed, power and extendibility.

Striving for simplicity and purity leads to a better usability and a positive user experience. That being said, reaching minimalism in WordPress layouts is a goal every designer should master. Minimalism bring elegance, aim to do more with less and that's where perfection is achieved.

If you have bought a WordPress theme, customized it and are not happy with the results - as it seriously looks like a dumb template edited by a non-talented designer - you're not the only one. And it's probably got nothing to do with your design skills. It's more likely the same pitfall that is true for every other template based design that so many users can't avoid.