Now that BellaOnline has upgraded to a mobile friendly responsive layout, each article needs a featured image. If you are familiar with Wordpress, you know about featured images. A featured image represents the contents of the article.

If you are a creative in need of a new portfolio, you might want to consider Adobe Portfolio, which is free with any Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

With the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan, you not only get Photoshop CC but also Photoshop Lightroom CC, Lightroom Classic CC, Adobe Spark Premium, Adobe Typekit, Adobe Portfolio and 20GB Cloud Storage.

When creating a sell or tear sheet for your surface pattern collection, including mockups of your pattern collection on potential products can play a big part in presenting your art for licensing. These mockups can range from simple flat 2D line drawings to 3D product mockups.

Now that we have the Elementor Wordpress plugin installed, we can install our Wordpress theme. Astra is one of the themes suggested by the Elementor team and I found it very easy to use. So let's move on and install the Astra theme and set the basic options for the theme.

After using Sketchbook Pro, digital sketching software from Autodesk, for almost a year, several of my favorite features include the Flipbook animation, digital Copic Markers, Radial Symmetry, Predictive Stroke and unlimited brushes for just about any project, from Manga to fine art. Now it's free.

In this tutorial series, we will create a custom Wordpress website using Elementor, a drag and drop WYSIWYG page builder plugin by Pojo Me Digital LTD, that can work with any Wordpress theme. We will take our first look at Elementor and make some preparations for building our website.

Lynda.com is my go to place for learning because the courses thoroughly cover the topics. If you have an Adobe Creative Cloud account, then you can create a free online portfolio. If you want to get up and running quickly with Adobe Portfolio, check out this Lynda.com online course.

One task that takes up a lot of time is creating social post graphics for all of your blog articles. Whether you are using Canva, Adobe Spark or Photoshop on your computer, starting with a custom template can shorten this task to just a few clicks. So what should you include in a template.

We will take a look at HTTPS and how the web is changing. HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transport Protocol Secure and requires the addition of an SSL certification to your website. With these two features, your website will have a secure connection to your host server.