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Download Valera Beaver Builder Template (Free)

We’ve created another free Beaver Builder template that you can use for any personal or commercial project. In a hurry? Need a clean, modern design for a client and don’t have a lot of time? Checkout the free Valera Beaver Builder template! It uses gorgeous photography with unique layout elements (like not touching the sides…

Increase your hourly rate in just one afternoon

What are you doing this weekend? Instead of binging Netflix, what if you learned how to go from making $ to $$$ in your web design business? This post will show you something cool that we’ve been using for years. Being successful in web design comes down to one thing… how much value can you…

Learn Gravity Forms – Student Q&A Answers

I asked the students that got early-access to the Learn Gravity Forms course to submit any question they had about Gravity Forms and I would put together a video answering each question… this is that video! This is a looooonnnngggggg video (about 30 minutes) so if you are short on time you can use this…

Mechanical Turk: How we created a business machine for less than a dollar

Mechanical Turk gives your website the instant power of 200,000 people who are ready to accomplish any digital task to help grow your website. This tutorial will walk you through your first Mechanical Turk Project. I recently read the (gigantic) book by Ray Dalio named Principles. If you are not familiar with him, Ray Dalio…

Say hello to OutsmartCarbs.com

It’s one thing for us to write about designing websites… it’s another thing to actually do it and then show you exactly what we did. OutsmartCarbs.com will be our new teaching tool and great example of what’s possible. Like all great stories, this one starts with pizza. After a terrible week of clients freaking out…

Behind the scenes of “Inspired”

It’s always fascinated me to see how people create cool things. Seeing how Tesla manufactures their electric vehicles or how the Empire State Building was built back in the 1930’s makes the product or building even more impressive when you see it. One of the features on the Web Designers Academy website is a curated…

Save BIG This Month Only: Announcing The September Savings Event

10/1/2016 UPDATE: Offer extended until October 5th! It’s that time of year again. Summer is over, students are back in school, leaves are changing color, pumpkin spiced lattes are coming to a coffee shop near you and snow is on the horizon for much of the USA… and today we’ve got some awesome news. This month…

A little trick to make a hyperlink start a phone call

It’s 2015 and everyone has a smartphone. Everyone. Since 2008 over 1 BILLION iPhones have been sold and my wife and I are personally responsible for 7 of those sales. You are welcome Apple. Anyway, add that billion to the number of Android phone out there and you’ve got a lot of people browsing the web on…

Helping clients understand the difference between Portrait VS Landscape photos

You: No, that photo is not going to work for the banner area. Client: Well. HHhmmm. What about this one? You: Now that one is too tall. Client: UUUmmm. Can you try this one instead? Doesn’t that suck? And it usually goes on and on and on. Education is the key The problem is…