Elementor Launches the First Centralized 'Mission Control' for Pro Website Design On WordPress

New breakthrough allows professional web creators to oversee and implement a design system thereby reducing design debt, eliminating inconsistencies and saving precious time

Elementor, the leading WordPress website building platform, announced today that with their new version 3.0 release, website designers can, for the first time, implement an advanced and comprehensive design system on WordPress sites.

Elementor's new functionality gives web design professionals the ability to view and control any web element on their sites from a centralized hub, thus streamlining the implementation of a design system. With it, users can now apply sitewide changes to overall layout, typography, color, style, images, logos, favicons, buttons, and form fields.

Implementing design system capabilities means advanced website builders can now cut through workflows, design and edit new and existing websites at lightning speeds, shortening time-to-market while maintaining brand and visual consistency.

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With WordPress powering 38% of all websites on the internet - at 15 times the size of its closest competitor - this release brings a new way of designing websites to the largest web creation environment in the world. The new breakthrough rolled out by Elementor builds on the advantages provided by the open source platform including its flexibility, customization and adaptability to changing needs, and adds a new dimension to WordPress.

"Elementor V3.0 brings comprehensive design system capabilities to WordPress and allows website creators to build sites in ways previously not possible," said Yoni Luksenberg, CEO of Elementor. "By allowing users to spend less time on unnecessary legwork, they can shift focus to the important aspects of their design. With Elementor V3.0, we are providing our community not only with powerful features, but we are also enabling a new professional standard in a way that will revolutionize the workflow of web creators and designers."

About Elementor

Elementor is the leading website builder platform on WordPress. Serving over 5 million websites, Elementor's code-free, open-source platform, empowers web professionals including web developers, designers, and marketers in 152 markets. Elementor's mission is to radically simplify web building, enabling web professionals and agencies to unleash their creative and business potential. For more information visit www.elementor.com or follow us on Facebook.

Furniture Maker IKEA Unveils "Soffa Sans" A Font Made of Sofas

Last week, Furniture retailer IKEA unveiled "Soffa Sans," a font where each letter is formed by pieces of a sofa.

Soffa Sans is born out of the internet memes from its digital "Design your own sofa" tool. The planner allows people to configure different sectionals, and showcases the final product in 3D.

IKEA has called the font “the world’s comfiest font" which creates a typeface out of the Vallentuna couch. The Vallentuna is IKEA's flagship modular sofa series that can be customized by combining individual modules of seats, storage seats and sleeper seats to design the ideal sofa for space by Individual choices.

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The free font can be downloaded from here, and is available in white, blue, and gray colors. The Drum notes that Soffa Sans features 1,434 products, and would cost £106,320 (about $134,500) if the font were recreated in real life.

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Why Future-Oriented Entrepreneurs No Longer Work Without A Progressive Web App Today!

The mobile presence of small and medium-sized enterprises is already necessary today and will play an even more important role in the future. From mobile websites to native applications to progressive web applications. All this should be considered in a modern business and marketing strategy to successfully win new customers.

But isn't that just something the biggest companies can afford? No!
Progressive tech companies have already set themselves the task of enabling even the smallest companies to communicate with their customers through an app. And that works!

pwa-builder.io specializes in creating progressive web apps for small and medium enterprises in India with a DIY kit. The focus was on the Indian market, as there is very great potential here, which will be further expanded in the coming years.

As a small company, this step towards new technologies already gives you a valuable advantage over your competitors without great financial expenditure, as you can manage your customers with state-of-the-art technology.

Companies that have already upgraded to a progressive web application have achieved the best results. With a progressive web app, Trivago achieved a significantly higher conversion rate than with its native app. The click rate on hotel bookings increased by 97%.

The conversion rate has improved significantly, which is due to the fact that the pwa is much easier to achieve for users.

A native app must first be downloaded from the Appstore and then takes up a large part of the memory. This takes a lot of time in today's always faster getting world and is less and less accepted by users these days.

Steps for native apps

Open the appstore → find app → install → download and maintain → approve → use app
this is a long way to go - it’s too long for your users

Step for progressive web applications

require only one click, just open the URL, which you can then use immediately.
That “20% of users are lost with every step on the way to the download” gives you an impression of how outdated the technology of the native app is compared to the progressive web app.

Directly after opening the progressive web app the user reaches the complete unfiltered content of your app. After a short time a banner appears asking the user if he wants to accept push messages from the app.

A moment later, a second banner appears, with confirmation of which the pwa is added to the home screen with a click.
The progressive web app can now be seen on the smartphone's home screen and looks exactly like a conventional native app from the appstore thanks to the icon. Even if the pwa is opened, it looks and feels like a native app.

Nevertheless, it is a PWA that is always up to date and can also be used offline due to its storage in cache.

Companies that already recognize this trend can communicate easily and quickly with their customers, send them push messages and inform them about current company news.

The app takes over the booking of appointments for previously necessary telephone calls.
The progressive web app can be managed on the go and created and modified according to your own wishes. What normally costs tens of thousands of dollars is now possible for every small company, so small business owners can now book a package for only 1 dollar and publish their own first app.



The DIY pwa builder opens up a whole new target group for the app industry. This means that small and medium-sized enterprises can also take advantage of their own app. Progressive web applications are much faster than their predecessors, the native applications, because the amount of stored data is much smaller.

Choosing an advanced web application right from the start and taking advantage of the cost benefits Advantages over a native app are worth it.

This software has been designed for you to communicate optimally with your users and customers.
App users can quickly and easily find out everything about your company and will get the best possible user experience.

With your own Progressive web app you have the possibility to offer your customers great discount promotions through stamp cards and campaigns as well.

Take the chance to be a big step ahead of your competitors by using a progressive web app - this is the future of websites.

→ The shop module

Use the shop function of the app and create your first own online shop where you can sell your company's products online to save more time and money. Your customers can order directly in the app with paypal.

Your visitors benefit from a fast app that doesn't take more than 3 seconds to load, they get the best possible user experience as the app adapts to any device and looks perfect. This is what mobile websites and apps will look like in the future, and you can already have this now.

If you want to use this technology today, you can create and test your own app for free in a few minutes. Look here on pwa-builder.io

Making websites gets easier with Purrx Technology's 'Website Interface Builder'

What if I told you that you could develop as many websites as possible and it would be just a small copy paste job for you? Hard to believe, right?

Parag Garg, a graduate of Jaypee Institute of Information and Technology, Noida has developed a product 'Website interface builder' to make website development an easier task. The product officially started in July this year though Parag has been working on Purrx Technologies since Aug 2013, Purxx is Ghaziabad Startup currently in bootstrapped mode.

The idea came to him while he was interning as a web designer at a big firm and realized that it was a simple job of copying and pasting of different UI Components. He created a tool which could be used to create webpages just by drag n drop. "I started working on this as and chose this topic for my final year B Tech project. I merged my company idea with my college project so that it will have some deadlines and can devote my college time in my company project."

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There are a few other companies in the market, but none of them are free for users. They give the code of the created website on their server which can be used. "When I started, the best company in the field was Divshot which was just 6 months old. Though I found Divshot's web interface builder convincing, it lacked some features I wanted," Parag says. "Service oriented companies in this field (Web development /software development) lack innovation which is a need of current Industry," he adds.

They work on PHP, YII framework, node.js, Javascript, PhoneGap to make the template easy to use for everyone. Their 5 member team based out of Ghaziabad plans to extend their website builder to 'Mobile App Builder'. "Currently due to shortage of funds we are Outsourcing Projects for different Organizations/Companies/Users," they say. Apart from working on 'Mobile App Builder', they are creating innovative Software's/Apps/Websites for their users.

UIPreneur to provide handcrafted & affordable design resources

Arun Pattnaik was looking for an organized, curated collection of beautiful plug-and-play chunks of design for a client. After checking out CreativeMarket, GraphicRiver, ThemeForest he realized that the companies online had more of a market than a collection. So he along with friends from Delhi and Chennai started a project called UIPreneur. It’s still a stealth startup being built under the hood.

We asked him what makes UIPreneur so different, and he said "The main difference is that we're trying to be very affordable and startup friendly. UIPreneur has a simple membership system which allows you to download everything we build for a small annual payment. Unlike the existing marketplaces, you don't pay a per-product price. Apart from that, we're trying to put more categories so you get a one-stop-shop while building your project. We're trying to build all things creative – PSD elements, icons, mascots, vector graphics, stock photos, HTML/CSS themes, plug-and-play jQuery animations, WordPress/Ghost themes & anything else we can build". The users surely would find a lot of value in this.



The site is being built on Ruby-on-Rails and they plan to have a lot categories, while keeping the quality high. "It needs a lot of creative manpower", he added. With the aim of helping fellow designers, they want to start small and stay small. "This is the only way we will be able to maintain quality" said Arun. With their product launch coming up soon, they have done some market surveys and the response has been very good. Once launched, they would collaborate with content producers on different design marketplaces who could also build products for them.

We asked Arun if he ever had doubts about his work, and he said ‘Yes, very often. You can’t work on a startup without thinking of taking risks. The fear of being proven wrong stays with you all the time. The challenge is to get over it and see if you actually fail. That’s how you learn. You cannot know if you’re right or wrong unless you go out there and do it.’

And one advice he give the future entrepreneurs is "Once you get praised for something done well, you should move on quickly to build better things than dwell in the success"

Come back to us for an update and launch coverage and in the meanwhile, check their website - http://uipreneur.com and get notified when it will be out for public release. UIPreneur is sending some exclusive FREE INVITES to people who sign up now.

Google launches new free Web Designer app, to create HTML5 Creative

Google has launched a new and apparently a Photoshop like tool called 'Web Designer' however it is more for creating HTML5 creatives, animations, banners and ads with design and coding layout options, though you weren't required to do coding to use this tool. Google says it has launched this tool in order to unleash the possibility of HTML5 where you can build once use it everywhere - desktop, mobiles or tablets. Everything you create in this app is accessible on any screen or devices without any compatibility issues.

Google Web Designer in public beta stage and Google says that this Web Designer app will be the key to making HTML5 accessible to people throughout the industry, getting us closer to the goal of "build once, run anywhere."

If you want to have a quick look creatives, animations made using this app would look like you can visit the app's own home page to see it, as animations on its homepage were created using Google Web Designer itself.

HTML5 is widely seen as the standard that everyone on the Web should adopt it is a universal language for building beautiful, engaging content that can run across desktops, smartphones, and tablets. Google also says that as per research advertisers expect the amount of mobile and tablet work they do to increase by 41% over the next 12 months, and over 67% of respondents believe that it’s important to design specifically for mobile campaigns.

Google Web Designer enables you to:

1. Create animated HTML5 creative, with a robust, yet intuitive set of design tools.


2. View and edit the code behind your designs and see your edits reflected back on the stage automatically.


3. Build ad creatives seamlessly for DoubleClick and AdMob, or publish them to any generic environment you choose.


4. Receive updates to the product automatically, without having to re-download the application.

And of-course access all of this entirely for free.

You can read through  getting started guide of Google Web Designer and can also send Google feedback about the app, share your ideas via app's user forum or it's Google+ page.