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Sci-Fi, Frustrations, Flash And Forms: The Typeform Story

Take any new interface design or show know-how, and likelihood is that somebody someplace has already in contrast it to Minority Report. The 2002 dystopian movie, with its see-by way of screens and gesture-pushed interfaces, is remembered extra for its futuristic tech than for the insidiousness of the know-how — pre-crime prediction — that was its precise focus. It continues to be the usual by which we decide new interfaces.

But inspiration doesn’t solely come within the type of flashy, futuristic interfaces. At Typeform, we have been impressed to simplify on-line types by a film that’s decidedly a blast from the previous: the 1983 movie WarGames, which facilities round a scholar who remotely logs right into a analysis pc and, by means of its terminal interface, almost sparks a nuclear struggle. Its computer systems are hardly state-of-the-art, but the computer systems’ query-pushed interface impressed us to reinvent types. Instead of an inventory of questions, how a lot better wouldn’t it be if types introduced one straightforward-to-reply query at a time?

Stripping types right down to their fundamentals and constructing them again up into one thing higher took 4 years of labor, however that core concept guided us all alongside: questions are higher than lists. Here’s the story of our loopy concept to reimagine how types might work, and the way we turned that concept right into a product that’s helped corporations of all sizes get a fifty five% completion fee on their types.

Dismembering A Form

“Everything ought to be made so simple as potential, however no easier.”

– attributed to Albert Einstein

You’ve crammed out loads of on-line varieties, from the usual surveys that you simply get in emails to checkout types and extra. Forms have been with us because the earliest days of the Internet, they usually largely look the identical at the moment as they did within the ’90s. They’re full of lists of questions and tiny bullet factors which might be onerous sufficient to fill out on a PC and are an train in excessive frustration on cellular.

Forms have became some of the annoying issues concerning the Internet, proper together with popup advertisements and auto-enjoying audio. They’re a essential evil — nobody would say that they love filling out varieties, however all of us should fill them out anyway.

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Traditional on-line varieties may be overwhelming.

Crowded with info, types really feel just like the on-display equal of questions being screamed at you — one thing you’d stroll away from in actual life. If your type makes individuals really feel like they’re finishing a tax return in a crowded room, likelihood is they’ll click on away, too.

Questions themselves don’t need to be disagreeable, although. They are the inspiration of small speak and are an necessary and even enjoyable a part of life when utilized in moderation. If that’s all they’re, then certainly we will make a greater type by emulating dialog, with only one query at a time.

That’s the genius of the console in WarGames² . It asks a query, waits for a solution, then follows up with one other query. Without any extra logic than your common type, it feels extra lifelike just because asking one query at a time seems like a dialog. It’s not overwhelming, and but it will get the identical outcome as a type would.

That, we knew, needed to be the way forward for a extra human type. One query at a time, introduced in a approach that might make individuals need to reply.

To Build a More Conversational Form

Simplifying varieties, although, took extra than simply inspiration. It took us on a 4-yr journey, beginning with a showroom Flash software for a shopper in 2010. That software was constructed to run full-display on giant screens at an exhibition, full with video, animations and a option to gather info from guests to the sales space in a contemporary (for the time), interactive expertise. A typical Web type would have been unattainable to make use of on such a big display and would have appeared horrible alongside the opposite parts. We shortly noticed that it was time to reinvent the shape.

There’s methods to make traditional forms better³ , by together with extra whitespace, separating types into sections, and extra. There’s requirements behind the best way varieties feel and appear, which have stored them much more just like a paper type than one thing imagined only for screens. We needed to experiment and see what a type might be like if it was faraway from these linear constraints, redesigned round questions.

It wouldn’t be a standard type, and it will even break conventions—a lot in the identical approach the iPhone’s software program keyboard broke the usual actual-button keyboard conventions—however the WarGames type had given us the concept maybe there was one other option to collect information than the normal type, and maybe it might be higher. We needed to start out out with a clear slate, and reimagine what a type could possibly be with a completely new product.

The design has come a great distance since these early days. But the rules stay the identical.

Our unique answer was Quickyform, a Flash-based mostly contact type that ran on an iMac within the exhibition area. (You can nonetheless try it out today⁴ to get a really feel of our first shot at re-imagining on-line varieties.) It embodied the essence of the WarGames type whilst a tough early prototype. Only one query was proven in focus at a time, and as soon as a customer crammed it out and pressed “Enter,” the subsequent query got here into focus, prepared for them to enter the subsequent reply with out having to click on anyplace. This, we knew, was step one in the correct course for the way forward for varieties.

When we constructed Quickyform, Flash was nonetheless prevalent on-line, and there was lingering hope that Apple and others would undertake it for his or her cellular platforms. Flash has its makes use of, nevertheless it had shortly grow to be apparent that it wasn’t the most effective software for our wants. We shortly shifted to the fashionable languages of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and set to work designing a greater UI that may work all over the place — finally, realizing our dream and even recreating the a part of WarGames that had initially impressed us.

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Starting With The Basics

Our primary concept was to seek out the right strategy to show one query at a time, to mirror pure human dialog. To do this, we needed to totally declutter the UI, eradicating every thing which may take the consumer’s consideration away from the one query at hand. At the identical time, we nonetheless needed to retain a worldwide view of all the type to make it straightforward to navigate and see the remaining questions.

The answer wasn’t obvious at first. For instance, an early model opened and closed every query as you went by way of them. That took care of displaying just one query at a time, however the animations have been too jarring and made it troublesome to navigate the whole type. We took many such detours into the land of unusual animations and interactions that simply don’t really feel pure in our quest to find what would work greatest. The ultimate easy answer of placing the lively query within the middle of the display whereas displaying the previous and following questions pale out above and under appears apparent on reflection however took plenty of experimenting to good.

Putting the lively query within the middle helped out different elements of our UI. It helped our giant typography to make sense, which in flip freed us to utilize Web fonts. We use 24-pixel fonts on the desktop, and between sixteen- and 20-pixel fonts on cellular, relying on the gadget. Very few Web fonts work nicely at sizes under sixteen pixels, so specializing in one query at a time enabled us to drastically enhance the UI’s design.

In flip, the UI influences the UX. Large typography in our type designer forces you to shorten questions as a result of there’s much less area per line. You should make each phrase rely within the questions you set in your type, and that precision makes the ensuing questions much more more likely to be answered by respondents.

Design Is How It Works

After deciding on the fundamentals of our UI, we tackled interplay design as the subsequent problem. Our focus was a pc and not using a touchscreen, accelerometer, webcam or perhaps a mouse. All that’s wanted to work together is a keyboard. After all, when you’re simply answering questions, what extra do you have to want?

Traditionally, a typical type forces you to maneuver forwards and backwards between the mouse and keyboard. You’ll click on in a textual content field to sort one thing in, after which attain in your mouse or squint to faucet in your smartphone’s display to fill in a a number of-selection query. If the shape doesn’t already look dangerous sufficient, then the rows of tiny bullet factors must be sufficient to get respondents screaming for the hills.

As dated as it’d sound within the age of smartphones and tablets, we determined that keyboard navigation can be central to our redesigned varieties. Users have to make use of a keyboard for questions that want a typed reply anyway, so we added keyboard shortcuts for all different forms of questions. For “Yes” or “No” questions, you’d faucet “y” for sure and “n” for no. For a number of-selection questions, every reply is assigned a letter. For scores, respondents would faucet the quantity comparable to their score, from M to zero (ten).

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Navigation between questions raised a brand new situation: the “Enter” key or the “Tab” key? How would these two buttons work within the context of Typeforms? At first, we allowed “Tab” and “Enter” for use interchangeably to maneuver to the subsequent query, however assigning two buttons to do precisely the identical factor appeared bizarre. So, we requested ourselves, what might we study from what’s been achieved earlier than?

In each different app or web site, the “Tab” secret is mostly used to maneuver between parts. You use it to leap between fields in a standard type and to maneuver between elements of a Web web page. It is a non-committal method to transfer round. The “Enter” key, then again, is mostly used to decide to a choice. It’s the button we press to take an motion or to submit a standard type.

So, in studying from those that got here earlier than us, we determined to assign “Tab” for leaping between questions with out setting off any validation checks. This method, you’ll be able to transfer across the type with out having to make use of the mouse. Pressing “Tab” brings the subsequent query into view, able to be crammed out; “Shift” + “Tab,” in the identical means, take you again to the earlier query; and the arrow keys allow you to transfer up and down within the type as you’d anticipate.

Our subsequent selection in keys was a lot more durable to make: easy methods to use the “Enter” key. It’s extensively utilized in many apps to finish an motion, however can also be used so as to add a line break to textual content. In a type, we really feel it’s much more widespread to wish to shortly full an motion than it’s to wish to put in writing a number of paragraphs of textual content, so we selected to make use of the “Enter” key to validate and submit responses. If a solution doesn’t validate, then the consumer is requested to right their reply; in any other case, they’ll transfer onto the subsequent query. Then, we used the widespread “Shift” + “Enter” shortcut for line breaks when writing a number of paragraphs of textual content, the identical shortcut generally utilized in chat apps like Facebook Messenger.

Ideally, although, customers shouldn’t have to make use of “Tab” or manually scroll to navigate varieties in any respect, although the types present just one query at a time. That’s why we designed the varieties to auto-scroll to the subsequent query as quickly as the present query is answered. Most types require you to scroll by means of to see all the questions, and even click on to different pages to proceed the survey. Our strategy retains respondents targeted on the dialog and makes it far faster to fill within the type.

Iterate, Iterate, Iterate

Even although Typeform’s UX and controls have been in place, numerous wiggle room was left in our UI. When we drafted the fashion information for our UI, the world was shifting from skeuomorphic to flat design. We didn’t need to lure our design in a specific development, so we embraced the most effective of each worlds.

Multiple-selection questions proved to be the toughest. Our unique designs for them nonetheless felt like conventional varieties, itemizing attainable solutions with radio buttons to their left. We needed to maintain the usual elements of types intact, however that didn’t really feel fairly proper — we hadn’t come this far to go away probably the most annoying a part of varieties alone.

So, we determined to show a number of-selection solutions into glass-like parts. Our first attempt put the usual spherical radio buttons on the left, albeit with translucency that made them higher match the shape’s background. It appeared nicer, however the unique usability drawback was nonetheless there as a result of radio buttons are nonetheless comparatively exhausting to pick, particularly on a touchscreen. To remedy this, we expanded the dimensions of the button, turning it right into a glass panel that overlays the reply. This provides a far bigger goal to click on or faucet, good for cellular and desktop. We eliminated the radio buttons solely as a result of their presence routinely makes you assume you’ll have to faucet that smaller areas to pick the choice—we needed individuals as an alternative to be happy to faucet anyplace on the button.

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From fiddly radio buttons, to good huge contact targets.

This “glassification” introduced with it one other problem: ensuring that the buttons look nice on a variety of background colours. After prolonged experimentation, we lastly landed on the answer of categorizing background colours into 5 ranges of luminosity. We then add totally different CSS that adjusts the colour of the button, shadows, border, highlights and a variety of different elements based mostly on the background. LESS¹⁰ turned out to be the right answer for getting the fitting stability of shade each time.

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Buttons react to the background they’re on.

You can see the change most clearly with the border. On a black background (#000000), the borders are a light-weight shade to offset the button. As the background will get lighter, the borders change to a darker shade to offer extra distinction and higher offset the button. We spent numerous time getting the method good, and it paid off with a UI design that appears nice regardless of how our customers need their varieties to look.

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That left us with one ultimate UX drawback: the “Next” button after a a number of-selection query. We wanted a method for individuals to pick decisions — once more, utilizing the keyboard or mouse — after which simply leap to the subsequent query with our auto-scroll. If we auto-scrolled as quickly as somebody had made a variety, then they’d haven’t any probability to vary their thoughts, however we didn’t need a number of-selection inquiries to have the friction they do in regular varieties.

Our answer was so as to add an “OK” button that’s activated by urgent “Enter.” We assigned normal alphabet keys to every a number of-selection merchandise, and we examine mark an merchandise as soon as the consumer has chosen it. A bit of additional textual content is added to questions that record a number of choices, to assist individuals perceive. Once the consumer has made their choice, they only should faucet “Enter” to proceed to the subsequent query.

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Leave the mouse at house. Just faucet or use your keyboard!

Working Everywhere

We designed Typeform’s UX to work nice with only a keyboard, however then tweaked its UI to be good on contact screens, too. Designing it as a responsive app from the beginning would appear apparent, then, utilizing media queries and breakpoints to render the identical code on any display measurement.

This isn’t how Typeform works, although. We experimented with delivering the identical UI to a cellular gadget and a PC. That would work, however it created two issues:

1. The entire type needs to be rendered on the similar time. This impairs efficiency on units with restricted RAM, particularly if the shape consists of a lot multimedia content material.


2. It’s a poor use of restricted display area, with beneficial room taken up by pointless parts.

The aim of responsive design is to ship the identical content material and expertise all over the place, and we nonetheless needed that, even when utilizing the identical code wouldn’t obtain that aim for us. Our answer was to maneuver to web page- and slide-based mostly navigation. On cellular, every query is rendered by itself, giving the shape a small useful resource footprint and utilizing the smaller display extra effectively.

To do that, Typeform delivers totally different code to the browser relying on what system is getting used. You’ll discover this in case you open the identical type on a PC and a smartphone. On a PC, we use the bigger show to faintly present the earlier and subsequent questions. On a smartphone, we present solely the present query so as to not waste any area. Respondents can simply swipe up and down on their telephone to navigate questions, simply as PC customers would press the up and down arrows, however no area is wasted with the previews of earlier and subsequent questions. That’s one of many many tweaks we needed to make so as to make our types work completely on each desktop and cellular.

We then have a even easier fallback mode¹⁵ on each type, that’s even quicker to load on any system. These choices have been the methods we balanced between a wealthy net app on desktops and laptops, an equally polished cellular expertise, and a quicker choice for decrease web speeds.

Test Everything

Typeform is a direct results of our personal testing and tweaking of the concept blossomed from WarGames’ inspiration and our shopper venture in 2010, however we had little or no consumer suggestions at first. It was only a aspect venture, labored on in spare moments right here and there. Decisions have been based mostly on instinct and hunches, and we had no concept what the lean methodology even was.

What we did know is that we had stumbled upon a completely new method of interacting with on-line varieties, not simply an evolution of the interfaces that we’re all used to. If we had requested individuals what they needed, we might have designed a traditional type builder. Like Henry Ford, we would have liked to point out individuals what they need. We needed to invent the longer term—to find the story hidden on the clean web page, or uncover Michelangelo’s David in a block of marble as Ed Catmull describes the artistic means of inventing the brand new in “Creativity, Inc.”

So, fairly than quickly launch options within the wild and iterate based mostly on suggestions from our customers, as lean methodology would dictate, we labored with our personal managed check group to seek out what was and wasn’t working earlier than releasing it. If we had launched a public beta earlier, maybe we might have thrown out the closing and opening animation between questions earlier on. But then we might have missed the next iterations that guided us to our present answer of fading out the previous and following questions. By iterating and dealing on instinct and expertise, we have been capable of enormously enhance an expertise which may have been thrown out if we had requested customers.

This isn’t to say that the lean methodology is dangerous or that it wouldn’t work for us now, nevertheless it couldn’t have labored for testing our preliminary ideas and discovering our floor. Only once we had virtually completed constructing the app and opened our beta program did we begin getting a variety of suggestions from our consumer base. The app was completed sufficient that folks understood our imaginative and prescient and have been capable of assist us discover the tough edges that wanted fixing. Feedback is essential, however make it possible for your imaginative and prescient is outlined and obvious in your app earlier than inviting the opinions of others; in any other case, you may miss the levels within the improvement of an app once you study probably the most.

Never Stand Still

We turned our imaginative and prescient of a brand new sort of type right into a product, however we’re not achieved working. Breaking down varieties into their fundamentals opens up plenty of alternatives, as a result of you are able to do a lot with a format that asks one query at a time. We’ve lastly realized our dream of recreating WarGames’ terminal in a type that captures the simplicity of the unique, and we’ve got discovered a ton of uses¹⁶ for Typeforms that go far past the normal type. What different format would allow you to make something from a Stripe-powered buy type to an interactive storybook¹⁷ ?

Typeform’s simplicity provides us a platform on which to construct and do extra with the essential parts of a type. Designers can give attention to issues that make every query higher and maybe extra visible and interactive, whereas nonetheless making certain that all the questions work collectively as a type. It’s already prepared for giant excessive-decision screens and may simply as simply be scaled right down to a watch display or no matter new shows the longer term will convey us.

Our core know-how platform isn’t standing nonetheless, both. Typeform’s present know-how stack consists of Symfony 2¹⁸ and PHP that masses knowledge from Redis¹⁹ and MySQL databases on the again finish, and CoffeeScript²⁰ and Backbone.js²¹ on the entrance finish, all operating on Amazon’s AWS platform. If that’s not sufficient, we’re presently refactoring elements of the appliance, utilizing Node.js²² and NoSQL databases to enhance efficiency and make it simpler to implement new options.

More Human Forms Work

What will keep the identical are trendy, query-pushed types. We’re not the one ones on this journey of exploring how a redesigned type might work. Stripe has redesigned its checkout forms²³ to be so simple as potential, asking only for the consumer’s e mail tackle, credit score-card quantity, expiration date and CSV quantity, in a modern type that might hardly intimidate anybody. PageLanes²⁴ makes use of a query-pushed type to gather contact info, and CoDrops²⁵ was impressed by that to make a primary CSS- and Javascript-powered query-pushed toolkit that you should use to design your personal varieties.

A typeform in its native habitat, able to be crammed in.

Question-pushed varieties get outcomes. Quartz’s staff just lately got 940 C-level executives to respond to its executive study²⁶ . Its cautious wording obtained Quartz a 34% open fee, and over fifty five% of those that opened its interactive survey (powered by Typeform, by the way) truly completed it. That quantity is in keeping with the typical response fee we see from all the greater than N million distinctive Typeform type visits we’ve seen to date. Those outcomes and the brand new distinctive methods you need to use types with Typeform—together with the outcomes these varieties deliver—have been sufficient to get business leaders from Adobe, Uber, MailChimp and extra to make use of our types to get outcomes. That’s an thrilling affirmation of what we’ve believed all alongside: People will need to fill out types if the types are pushed by questions and easy sufficient to reply.

We’ve destroyed the normal type — actually, in a joke game²⁷ that we made lately — however far more could be carried out with varieties. That’s what retains us engaged on Typeform and what makes us excited to see new developments from others. But types aren’t the one a part of the online that would use some new design concepts. All it takes is breaking issues right down to their fundamentals, determining what’s actually necessary, after which constructing again up round that. If that strategy can change varieties this a lot, think about how a lot it might change the belongings you’re engaged on.

You might have to interrupt some conventions, and your ultimate product is perhaps absolutely new as an alternative of simply an up to date model of the previous—the app model of the motorcar versus the previous horse-and-carriage. It won’t even work. But you’ll make sure you uncover one thing new and thrilling alongside the best way, one thing that simply may allow you to make a greater product.

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The Ultimate Guide To Choosing A WordPress Host

These days you have an awful lot of options for hosting your website, so many that it’s easy to get lost. How much should you pay? Is support important to you, or are you a tinkerer who likes to do your own thing?

Put in different terms, are you a master chef who can cook a delicious meal with the right assortment of ingredients, or would you rather go to a nice restaurant and just sit back and enjoy the experience?

Let’s dive in.

An Overview Of Hosting Categories

A couple of years ago, choosing a hosting company was a lot simpler. Shared hosting providers had relatively low prices (between $5 and $15 a month), while other companies rented out dedicated servers from $500 a month up to as much as tens of thousands of dollars a month. If you knew your budget, then the decision was easy. Today, not so much.

At the entry level, we still have shared hosting providers and managed hosting services, which are still technically “shared” but which add a lot of value and specialization. We have virtual private servers (VPS), nowadays usually called “cloud servers”. They differentiate themselves based on the virtualization technology that they use and how much computational power and memory are included in their packages.

Finally, we have the option to rent a dedicated server — also known as co-location, whereby you place your own box in a data center. This hasn’t really changed that much, except that data centers have become a lot more sophisticated and computers have become smarter than they were three to five years ago.

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Page Speed Matters. A Lot.

Before your head spins with hosting jargon, let’s talk a bit about page speed. Back in 2010, Google stated that the loading time of your website would factor into your ranking. So, if you care about search engine optimization and free traffic from Google, then you should care about your website’s performance.

Forrester Consulting found³ that about 47% of Internet users expect a website to load in under 2 seconds. Aberdeen Group has data⁴ that shows that a 1-second delay in page-loading time can result in a 7% loss in conversions. All of these studies were conducted a couple of years ago, and since then the web has only sped up! Or has it?

Look at your website’s loading speed with a tool such as Pingdom⁵ or WebPagetest⁶ . If it’s above 2 seconds, then you could get a massive increase in revenue just by switching to a better performing hosting package or maybe even switching hosting companies altogether.

How big of an increase? Tagman has the answer⁷ : “Let’s say a website’s average ticket size is $75 and conversion rate is 5%. So if it takes their pages an additional second to load then for every 400,000 unique visits each month, there would be a loss of $1.3m in revenue per year.” As you can see, performance affects the bottom line in a huge way.

Don’t forget, though, that a good hosting service will help your website only so much. If your WordPress installation has dozens of plugins activated or if your theme is bloated or poorly written, then you could have serious performance issues no matter where you’re hosted.

Let’s dissect the different types of hosting solutions, then.

1. Shared Hosting

If you’ve ever had a website, then you’ve come across shared hosting providers, which offer packages from as low as $1.99. They are considered the “public transportation” of the hosting world: extremely low fees, yet little flexibility and a lot of overcrowding. As soon as your website grows, you can expect a lot of problems, such as bandwidth limiting and slow response times. Slow response times happen because the only way that hosting companies can offer packages for such a low price is by putting a lot of websites on the same server.

For example, if a hosting provider puts you on a computer that costs them $400 to run every month, then they would need 200 clients on that machine just to break even. And to get the maximum profit out of each server, they would need to add hundreds upon hundreds of clients to it, overloading the otherwise good configuration.

Think of the difference between a dedicated server that an online business doesn’t share with anyone, thus ensuring the highest possible performance, and a machine that has a couple hundred websites on it.

Shared hosting providers are often overloaded with support questions as well. Hours, if not days, can pass before you receive an answer to your question, and most of the time the answer won’t be of any help because the provider does not employ WordPress specialists. Most hosts provide only basic support, at the level of the operating system. On top of that, you are literally just one out of thousands of customers — per server!

However, there are advantages — the rock-bottom price obviously being one of them. If you’re starting a business, this is a very cost-effective solution. In addition, you can run all kinds of scripts on these accounts; you’re not limited to WordPress. You can use the space to test different projects. And if your website gets low traffic (a couple of hundred visitors per month), then you can host it very affordably and not have to worry about system administration or anything else.

Who Is This For?

If your revenue doesn’t depend much on your website or if you have a hobby blog, then an affordable shared hosting package is a good choice.

Several well-known examples are GoDaddy⁸ , Media Temple’s Shared Hosting⁹ , Bluehost¹⁰ , DreamHost¹¹ and NameCheap¹² , among many others.

2. Managed Hosting

In the past, managed hosting meant one thing: hardware and operating system management for separate boxes (either virtual or “bare metal”). You would hire an expert or team of experts to look after your server, and they would install an operating system on it, install security patches, change the hard drives when they break and perform other tasks. We’ll discuss this in detail later.

Relative newcomers to the hosting scene are application-level managed hosts. Companies that specialize in hosting one or another application are popping up almost every day. WordPress is one such application — and no wonder: WordPress has become the go-to content management system (and, lately, the go-to web application platform) for many people.

This hosting category is similar to shared hosting, but you could think of it as a new generation of shared hosting. It’s like a local grocery store that specializes in few but high-quality products, one that knows you by name and that is unlike those huge everything-for-cheap supermarkets.

Instead of allowing (and supporting) all kinds of scripts, these companies build their infrastructure around one — usually open-source — product. These companies know their product very well, they have fine-tuned their machines and operating systems for it, and they have a dedicated support team that knows the ins and outs of it.

Considering that roughly 23%¹³ of all websites online today run on WordPress, you can imagine that there is a lot of demand for hosting services custom-tailored to WordPress and only WordPress.

Managed WordPress hosts deal with all of the back-end tasks of running a WordPress blog so that you don’t have to. This frees you to focus on what truly matters: selling your product to customers. Beyond hosting your website, the providers also offer WordPress-specific experience that will help you optimize your web presence in many ways: speed, security, uptime, core and plugin updates, and theme and plugin compatibility.

Although this solution is more expensive than shared hosting — prices start at around $10 and go up to as much as $3,000 per domain — the benefits are usually worth it, even for relatively small websites. Many of the features — including customizable backup options, one-click staging areas, integrated CDN support and much more — cannot be found in packages anywhere else. Let’s look at some of the most common benefits of managed WordPress hosting.

Support

Support is not limited to basic problems with your hosting account. These hosts provide advice on WordPress plugins, themes, settings, updates and so on. Many of their employees are active contributors to WordPress’ core or have published plugins and themes for WordPress. They know the ins and outs!

Security

Fine-tuning your hosting environment (both software and hardware) will make your WordPress website or application as optimized as it can be, thus making it quick to load and to respond. Security is another important aspect, and that’s where the word “managed” comes in. Managed hosts keep your WordPress instances up to date for you. They also keep an eye out for malicious plugins and themes, and they work with you to prevent hacks of your website through known security holes.

If you have to optimize the environment of just one open-source package, then hardening the server and securing the system become a lot easier. At the level of the operating system, administrators don’t have to install a hundred different packages in order to enable customers to run Magento, Joomla, Dolphin, WordPress and many other platforms at the same time! Having fewer packages frees up a lot of resources for other important processes, and the system will naturally have many fewer entry points for malicious attacks.

Speaking of entry points, did you know that WordPress’ core is extremely safe? The biggest vulnerability occurs when someone is running a version of WordPress that is out of date by several years. Too many people simply do not update their core files, despite it truly being a one-click affair. Managed hosting providers make sure that core files are always up to date, and they’ll even update for you if needed!

Caching

Most of the time, managed WordPress hosts have their own caching system that is custom built for WordPress and that is a lot faster than any plugin-based ones! That’s why most don’t allow plugins such as W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache. If you’ve had trouble setting up either of those in the past, then you’ll be thankful for this. Not having to worry about any of the technical mumbo jumbo is a blessing when you have a business to run!

Caching can be done in many different ways. First, there is object caching, which is accomplished by running Memcached or, lately, a Redis-based in-memory datastore service and a WordPress plugin counterpart. You would have to activate this for your website (or the host would do it for you). This will take a load off the database and the PHP interpreter, thus speeding up your website a lot.

In addition, modern configurations take advantage of the so-called reverse proxy wherever possible. This could be the immensely popular Varnish or something like the built-in FastCGI Cache of the Nginx web server. These essentially take a snapshot of your website, saving a full copy of the final WordPress-generated HTML pages. By default, these usually break dynamic parts of the page, such as the “Hey, Joe” part of the navigation bar once the user is logged in, the “Latest comments” section, and the shopping cart.

But with a good amount of tweaking, you can get the configuration right. And the speed is unbeatable. Instead of at least three software modules working on each request from each visitor (those modules being the PHP interpreter, the MySQL database server and the web server’s software itself), you can have only one: the reverse proxy. Less computation means much faster page-loading times!

These cannot be used on general shared hosting accounts because there’s no way that a hosting provider could write a configuration for all of the open-source PHP scripts out there! This is where dedicated hosts excel: creating configurations that work extremely well for WordPress and only WordPress.

Backups

Regularly backing up your website might not seem important, until your server’s hard drive gives up and your data is not recoverable! Or perhaps your website will get infected so badly that restoring it from a clean backup point would be easier than manually cleaning up everything.

Managed WordPress hosts back up your website regularly (usually daily). So, if the worst happens, you’re covered. Be sure to read the fine print, though. Some companies do not back up the wp-content or uploads folders, in which case you could lose all of your images, which would make the backup not worth much!

The disadvantages of managed hosts are the heftier prices and the lack of support for any other web applications. WPEngine, for example, lets you run other PHP scripts on its servers, but it doesn’t support them in any way. Other companies actively discourage customers from running anything else on their machines, meaning that customers would have to get an account with a general hosting provider to run something alongside their WordPress installation. These hosts dedicate their entire infrastructure to WordPress on the assumption that you can do almost anything with WordPress nowadays, including complete forum systems, complex CRM solutions, social networking websites, and crowdfunding marketplaces — the list is long.

Who Is This For?

Managed hosts are good for people who run their business on WordPress. These hosts deliver great performance, fine-tuned servers, a lot of exclusive services custom tailored to WordPress users, and affordable prices.

Given how important your online business is, a managed hosting account for $30 a month is probably a great deal, especially if you take into account the extra income that an optimized environment will bring in.

Some companies that offer WordPress-specific hosting are

Media Temple¹⁴ , Kinsta¹⁵ , WPEngine¹⁶ , Synthesis¹⁷ , Flywheel¹⁸ and Pagely¹⁹ .

3. Virtual Private Servers

If you know your way around Unix-based operating systems, then you might want to look into building a custom stack on a VPS or a bare-metal dedicated server. Digital Ocean’s price for an entry-level virtual server, which can serve a couple of low-traffic websites, is only $5 a month. You can also get a free node with Amazon AWS, with specifications similar to those of Digital Ocean’s droplet. As cloud computing has become more and more popular, these virtualized servers have become popular, too. For a fraction of the cost of a dedicated server, you can get your own (virtual) machine, and tune it to your exact needs.

The downside is that you usually don’t get any support, and you will have to do several things yourself: keep an eye on system components, install web and database server software, keep everything updated and, of course, configure all of the applications in a (mostly) Linux-based environment. There is also the “bad neighbor” problem: Because hardware resources are shared between many virtual machine users, poor performance is possible if someone else is overusing the resources of the machine that your account is located on.

VPS’ have different tiers, based on the service level, from absolutely no support to fully managed. A fully managed VPS will usually install all of the required software, keep it (and the operating system) updated and proactively monitor the server to minimize downtime. Obviously, the monthly price goes up with your requirements.

Who Is This For?

All in all, VPS is a cheap way to get as much flexibility as you need, with the option to deploy popular software packages (including WordPress) in one click. Don’t forget, though, that you will need to be very familiar with installing Linux via the command line in order to run a VPS and resolve problems.

Notable VPS players are Linode²⁰ , Digital Ocean²¹ , Amazon AWS²² , Microsoft Azure²³ , Google Cloud²⁴ and (mt)’s VPS hosting²⁵ .

4. Dedicated “Bare Metal” Servers

Having your own dedicated server is almost the same as a VPS, but instead of sharing a massive pool of hardware resources with others via virtualization, you get to use “all the metal” of the computer for your website only. Prices usually start at $100 a month, but the sky is the limit. Packages for thousands of dollars a month are not rare either, although those machines serve really large applications that draw millions of visitors each month or that require unusually high computational power.

The downside (other than the price tag) is that you have to deal with occasional hardware failures. This is different from the other categories we’ve looked at because if, for example, a hard drive fails and you don’t have another one mirrored, then you’ll face hours (perhaps even days) of downtime. If you don’t have any backups whatsoever, then you’re out of luck completely. A faulty CPU or RAM unit can cause serious headaches, too!

Who Is This For?

A dedicated server is definitely not for everyday website owners. This is getting into the enterprise end of hosting solutions. However, if you prefer to drive a Ferrari just because you can, then this is the one to get.

Summary

As promised in the introduction, you have quite a lot of options to choose from! Hopefully, having read this article, you now have a clearer picture of the different packages available, and you will be able to make a decision based on your website, requirements and budget!

Did I leave out something important? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

(dp, al, il)

Footnotes

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Dropbox’s Carousel Design Deconstructed

Many of today’s hottest technology companies, both large and small, are increasingly using the concept of the minimum viable product (MVP) as way to iteratively learn about their customers and develop their product ideas. This two-part series, looks into the product design process of Dropbox’s Carousel.

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Trend Carefully: DiGiorno Delivers Hashtag Gaffe

DiGiorno is still scrambling today to make up for a tone-deaf tweet that made light of a rather serious Twitter dialogue surrounding domestic violence.

The hashtags #WhyIStayed and #WhyILeft have been trending since Monday, when writer Beverly Gooden leveraged the coverage surrounding the suspension of Baltimore Raven’s running back Ray Rice to discuss what motivates women who suffer from domestic violence.

Participating in trending hashtags is on page one of the social media playbook for brands, but whoever runs DiGiorno’s social media forgot to take the temperature of the discussion before chiming in, tweeting, “#WhyIStayed You had pizza.”

The tweet was almost instantly deleted, but screengrabs of the offending tweet began circulating just as quickly. DiGiorno followed-up with the standard issue apology you would expect a brand to make after a bonehead move like this, but the apologies haven’t stopped there.

In an unusual strategy, DiGiorno has take the extra step of individually apologizing to people who mention the blunder on Twitter. Each apology is in the first person and seems sincere. In reading the dozens of individual mea culpa’s made in the aftermath, the brand sounds much more heartfelt and human than the many brands who have faltered before.

As this incident becomes a case study of how not to participate in trending topics, it will be telling to see if other brands use the same tactic for future PR nightmares.

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New Features From Issuu Enable Publishers to Connect With Tumblr Audiences

Tumblr is possibly one of the most underrated social media platforms — perhaps not for long. This week, Issuu, a digital newsstand, announced custom themes and Tumblr embeds, expanding its distribution channels and enabling publishers to connect with a wider audience.

The new custom themes arrived just in time for New York Fashion Week, with publishers like Daily Front Row providing exclusive daily coverage. Other early adopters include Polyvore, V, Bello and Heaven Has Heels.

The Issuu integration includes custom modules that enable publishers to distribute interactive content directly to Tumblr while also driving traffic back to the most recent magazine issue.

“The new products and features that we develop at Issuu are created to help make quality, magazine-like content and advertising more socially sharable and widely distributed,” said Issuu CEO Joe Hyrkin in a statement.

Hyrkin added that Tumblr has the potential to help publishers engage with their audiences and develop a deeper relationship with brand partners. He pointed to the June issue of V, which featured a photo shoot with Madonna and Katy Perry, and generated lots of buzz in the fashion and entertainment social channels.

“[The customer themes set] up V magazine to deliver that content in its native container, along with the beautiful creative work of V magazine’s sponsoring brands like Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Dior, Ralph Lauren and more directly to Tumblr. We’re just getting started with what is possible here,” he said.

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End-to-End Encryption is the Only Real Security

Encryption has become a topic of concern over the last few years. This is partly a result of revelations from Edward Snowden, which exposed the reality of government accessing and storing data we thought was private. The only solution may be end-to-end encryption, but plenty of services are still vulnerable.

Dr. Abe Baggili, assistant professor of computer science at the University of New Haven, identified more than 20 apps that may be storing sensitive data, sending messages and leaving multimedia unencrypted on company servers. This list of apps includes Instagram, OkCupid, Grindr, Kik, Whisper and Vine.

“A lot of these apps don’t encrypt the data, like pictures, text messages or audio,” Baggili told VentureBeat. He added that “these developers are sloppy and don’t take security seriously.”

The research also noted that some of these apps behave in ways that are very unsecured, which may be caused by poor design rather than deliberate oversights.

“One app, TextPlus, takes screenshots and stores them on your phone. If someone gets access to your phone, they can see what messages were sent,” Baggili told VentureBeat.

Creating effective encryption requires deliberate thought — there are lots of services starting from the ground up with good technology and practices. Those that recognize the problems of lax encryption are starting to modernize their systems, as Reddit started to do this week.

“When using HTTPS on Reddit, your connection will be fully encrypted. Anyone watching your connection (such as WiFi hotspot providers) will be unable to see the plain-text contents of what your browser is communicating with Reddit,” according to the company blog. The post also notes that Reddit has been operating for more than nine years without any encryption.

However, this “sitewide encryption” isn’t exactly bulletproof. The post acknowledges that older browsers or third-party apps may not respect the encryption. Emil Protalinski, a technology journalist for The Next Web, points out that users must opt in for this encryption.

Without robust encryption or at least two-step verification, apps and networks will fall behind the pack. As data leaks out or is outright stolen from services thought to be secure, users may reduce their use of those services — or stop using them entirely. Then again, users may be content to find alternative outlets for expressing their clandestine thoughts and desires online.

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30 Premium One Page Bootstrap Templates

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If you’re looking to build a one page responsive web page, Bootstrap is a desirable framework to work with. The 12 point fluid grid system is makes it very easy to design responsive layouts for web pages.

In response to the increase demand for mobile first web pages, many theme authors have been creating beautifully designed one page Bootstrap templates.

The following gallery contains 30 premium one page templates from BootstrapBay, a growing marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes & templates. These templates are perfect for freelancers, creative agencies or any kind of businesses. Enjoy.

Papel – Single Page Portfolio Theme

Papel is a clean and modern one-page creative portfolio template. It is the perfect solution for web designers, graphic designers or any kind of creative person. It’s built off Bootstrap 3.2 and packed with great features

Easy – One Page Template

Easy is a lightweight Bootstrap template that comes with 2 different layouts and a coming soon page. The theme is very lightweight thanks to the minimal design and all of the background colors can be changed with ease in the CSS.

Start – Responsive One Page Template

Start is a premium responsive one page Bootstrap template designed for anyone about to launch a product or business. It is multipurpose and features a super clean design.

Oceanica – Responsive Single Page Theme

Oceanica is a clean, beautiful, professional, HTML5 and CSS3 single page Bootstrap template. It’s designed for the creative, digital agencies, photography, illustration or other type of business to present themselves and their work.

Fullscreen – Responsive Template

FullScreen is a beautifully designed responsive Bootstrap template. The theme utilizes parallax scrolling over top of changing background images.

microStore – OnePage ecommerce Theme

microStore is the perfect template if you’re looking to sell 1-3 products. The template is clean, modern and fully responsive.

Heather – Bootstrap Landing Page

Heather is an HTML template built on Bootstrap 3.2. The template comes equipped with 4 different variations and detailed documentation.

Makers – Agency & Portfolio Template

Makers is a clean responsive theme for your agency, business and portfolio. Every single detail is carefully designed, in order to create a wonderful user experience. If you want to amaze your customers – this template is for you.

PixyWEB – Responsive One Page Template

PixyWEB is the perfect Bootstrap template for creative agencies, digital studios personal freelancers, and other creative professionals.

Agenzio – One Page Responsive Theme

Agenzio is a multipurpose and responsive Bootstrap template with a filtered Ajax portfolio and working contact form. The template uses animated effects and swipe menu on mobile.

Wilford – Responsive Agency Template

Wilford is a one page template that is perfect for agencies and freelancers. The template is fully responsive and easy to customize. It can handle both corporate and personal projects very well.

Uneaty – Responsive One Page Theme

Uneaty is a lightweight and responsive Bootstrap theme with an easy to use two-level navigation menu on the side which converts to a neat drop down menu on smaller screens. The template features full screen backgrounds with stylish CSS halftone like effects.

Awesome – Photography/Portfolio Template

Awesome is a Bootstrap template for creative people looking to showcase their photography or art work. The theme uses all the latest design techniques to wow your audience.

Crafto – One Page Responsive Template

Crafto is a responsive one page Bootstrap template. This template is ideal for freelancers or creative agencies looking to showcase their portfolio and advertise their services. Crafto will catch your attention because it is amazing combination of nice looking design, CSS 3 animations, stunning parallax effects and clean look.

Duster – Responsive Single Page Template

Duster is an awesome parallax single page template adaptable to all devices. It is best used for a corporation, design agency, portfolio, gallery or business website.

Jiggy – Single page portfolio theme

Jiggy is a beautiful one page Bootstrap template with a parallax scroll design. It’s perfect for an agency or freelancer looking to showcase their work.

Appion – Get More App Installs

Appion is a simple, minimal and responsive theme designed to showcase your app or product.It uses the latest Bootstrap 3.2 framework and includes 6 different theme variations.

MIA One – Page Agency HTML Template

MIA is a premium one-page HTML5/CSS3 website template, based on Bootstrap 3.2. This template is designed with agencies and small teams in mind. It features a simple slide menu with click to scroll functionality and beautiful animation effects during scrolling.

SimpleApp – App Landing Page

SimpleApp is a simple but stylish HTML theme for your next product launch. This landing page is packed with some awesome features such as CSS3 animations and a cool minimal form.

ANUBIS – Ebook/App Landing Page

Anubis is a Bootstrap landing page perfect for someone looking to promote an e-book, app or some type of product. The theme features a flat design and modern design techniques.

Liberty – Responsive One Page Template

Liberty is a responsive one page Bootstrap template that is fantastic for featuring an app or product. It has a very stylish and clean design that brings out the features of the product.

Ophiuchus – Mobile App Landing Page

Ophiuchus is an interactive and modern landing page template for mobile applications. The landing page comes with a variety of different styles and neatly organized code.

FLAT KING – One Page Template

Flat King is a very clean and flat one page responsive Bootstrap theme. It’s ideal for businesses looking to feature a project or product.

Flip Resume – Book Style Resume Theme

Flip Resume, a unique book style resume template, built on Bootstrap 3.2, comes with eight pre-set colors. It has a unique style so you can have an awesome online resume to showcase your background and skills.

Magnet – Multipurpose Theme

Magnet is a one page multipurpose lightweight Bootstrap theme with touch enabled sliders and carousels. It features a variety of different sections and plugins.

Koopi – One Page Flat Creative Theme

Koopi is a flat, one page Bootstrap theme designed for multipurpose use and powered by HTML5 and the latest CSS3 techniques. The theme includes external HTML pages, 8 color options, filterable portfolio and a working contact form with live validation.

Mixer – Responsive One Page Template

Mixer is a one page versatile Bootstrap template that is suitable for a variety of functions. The template could be utilized as a landing page, portfolio showcase or for any type of business.

Desi Dezine – Bootstrap Landing page

Dezi Dezine is a Bootstrap landing page with a very clean layout, perfect for business and corporations.

Pearl – Single Page Template

Pearl is a responsive single page template perfect for a start-up presentation, as well as an artist presentation site. With a clean design, Pearl will help you showcase your brand in the best way possible.

Jessica – One Page Resume Template

Jessica is simple and clean one page resume / cv template built off Bootstrap 3.2.. It’s perfect for publishing your online resume to the world.

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30 Premium One Page Bootstrap Templates

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If you’re looking to build a one page responsive web page, Bootstrap is a desirable framework to work with. The 12 point fluid grid system is makes it very easy to design responsive layouts for web pages.

In response to the increase demand for mobile first web pages, many theme authors have been creating beautifully designed one page Bootstrap templates.

The following gallery contains 30 premium one page templates from BootstrapBay, a growing marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes & templates. These templates are perfect for freelancers, creative agencies or any kind of businesses. Enjoy.

Papel – Single Page Portfolio Theme

Papel is a clean and modern one-page creative portfolio template. It is the perfect solution for web designers, graphic designers or any kind of creative person. It’s built off Bootstrap 3.2 and packed with great features

Easy – One Page Template

Easy is a lightweight Bootstrap template that comes with 2 different layouts and a coming soon page. The theme is very lightweight thanks to the minimal design and all of the background colors can be changed with ease in the CSS.

Start – Responsive One Page Template

Start is a premium responsive one page Bootstrap template designed for anyone about to launch a product or business. It is multipurpose and features a super clean design.

Oceanica – Responsive Single Page Theme

Oceanica is a clean, beautiful, professional, HTML5 and CSS3 single page Bootstrap template. It’s designed for the creative, digital agencies, photography, illustration or other type of business to present themselves and their work.

Fullscreen – Responsive Template

FullScreen is a beautifully designed responsive Bootstrap template. The theme utilizes parallax scrolling over top of changing background images.

microStore – OnePage ecommerce Theme

microStore is the perfect template if you’re looking to sell 1-3 products. The template is clean, modern and fully responsive.

Heather – Bootstrap Landing Page

Heather is an HTML template built on Bootstrap 3.2. The template comes equipped with 4 different variations and detailed documentation.

Makers – Agency & Portfolio Template

Makers is a clean responsive theme for your agency, business and portfolio. Every single detail is carefully designed, in order to create a wonderful user experience. If you want to amaze your customers – this template is for you.

PixyWEB – Responsive One Page Template

PixyWEB is the perfect Bootstrap template for creative agencies, digital studios personal freelancers, and other creative professionals.

Agenzio – One Page Responsive Theme

Agenzio is a multipurpose and responsive Bootstrap template with a filtered Ajax portfolio and working contact form. The template uses animated effects and swipe menu on mobile.

Wilford – Responsive Agency Template

Wilford is a one page template that is perfect for agencies and freelancers. The template is fully responsive and easy to customize. It can handle both corporate and personal projects very well.

Uneaty – Responsive One Page Theme

Uneaty is a lightweight and responsive Bootstrap theme with an easy to use two-level navigation menu on the side which converts to a neat drop down menu on smaller screens. The template features full screen backgrounds with stylish CSS halftone like effects.

Awesome – Photography/Portfolio Template

Awesome is a Bootstrap template for creative people looking to showcase their photography or art work. The theme uses all the latest design techniques to wow your audience.

Crafto – One Page Responsive Template

Crafto is a responsive one page Bootstrap template. This template is ideal for freelancers or creative agencies looking to showcase their portfolio and advertise their services. Crafto will catch your attention because it is amazing combination of nice looking design, CSS 3 animations, stunning parallax effects and clean look.

Duster – Responsive Single Page Template

Duster is an awesome parallax single page template adaptable to all devices. It is best used for a corporation, design agency, portfolio, gallery or business website.

Jiggy – Single page portfolio theme

Jiggy is a beautiful one page Bootstrap template with a parallax scroll design. It’s perfect for an agency or freelancer looking to showcase their work.

Appion – Get More App Installs

Appion is a simple, minimal and responsive theme designed to showcase your app or product.It uses the latest Bootstrap 3.2 framework and includes 6 different theme variations.

MIA One – Page Agency HTML Template

MIA is a premium one-page HTML5/CSS3 website template, based on Bootstrap 3.2. This template is designed with agencies and small teams in mind. It features a simple slide menu with click to scroll functionality and beautiful animation effects during scrolling.

SimpleApp – App Landing Page

SimpleApp is a simple but stylish HTML theme for your next product launch. This landing page is packed with some awesome features such as CSS3 animations and a cool minimal form.

ANUBIS – Ebook/App Landing Page

Anubis is a Bootstrap landing page perfect for someone looking to promote an e-book, app or some type of product. The theme features a flat design and modern design techniques.

Liberty – Responsive One Page Template

Liberty is a responsive one page Bootstrap template that is fantastic for featuring an app or product. It has a very stylish and clean design that brings out the features of the product.

Ophiuchus – Mobile App Landing Page

Ophiuchus is an interactive and modern landing page template for mobile applications. The landing page comes with a variety of different styles and neatly organized code.

FLAT KING – One Page Template

Flat King is a very clean and flat one page responsive Bootstrap theme. It’s ideal for businesses looking to feature a project or product.

Flip Resume – Book Style Resume Theme

Flip Resume, a unique book style resume template, built on Bootstrap 3.2, comes with eight pre-set colors. It has a unique style so you can have an awesome online resume to showcase your background and skills.

Magnet – Multipurpose Theme

Magnet is a one page multipurpose lightweight Bootstrap theme with touch enabled sliders and carousels. It features a variety of different sections and plugins.

Koopi – One Page Flat Creative Theme

Koopi is a flat, one page Bootstrap theme designed for multipurpose use and powered by HTML5 and the latest CSS3 techniques. The theme includes external HTML pages, 8 color options, filterable portfolio and a working contact form with live validation.

Mixer – Responsive One Page Template

Mixer is a one page versatile Bootstrap template that is suitable for a variety of functions. The template could be utilized as a landing page, portfolio showcase or for any type of business.

Desi Dezine – Bootstrap Landing page

Dezi Dezine is a Bootstrap landing page with a very clean layout, perfect for business and corporations.

Pearl – Single Page Template

Pearl is a responsive single page template perfect for a start-up presentation, as well as an artist presentation site. With a clean design, Pearl will help you showcase your brand in the best way possible.

Jessica – One Page Resume Template

Jessica is simple and clean one page resume / cv template built off Bootstrap 3.2.. It’s perfect for publishing your online resume to the world.

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