Author Marcel Moerkens

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Marcel Moerkens is an award-winning web developer, entrepreneur, and founder of DigiShark® LLC. Under the brand UNITED THEMES™, a division of DigiShark® LLC, he develops and sells digital products on Envato, the world’s largest marketplace for digital assets.

As a 26th Power Elite Author, he is among a select group of developers who have achieved this prestigious status. His work, including the highly successful Brooklyn WordPress Theme with over 50,000 sales, has gained international recognition and has been featured on platforms such as HubSpot, Envato Tuts+, and Colorlib.

His designs and innovations set benchmarks in the web development industry.

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How I Created A Popular WordPress Theme And Coined The Term “Hero Section” (Without Realizing It)

February 10, 2025 — In 2013, Marcel Moerkens was working on Brooklyn, his WordPress theme, and he needed a way to make it stand out from the pack of other WordPress themes. Little did he know that the intro section he called a “Hero” would become one of the most recognizable patterns in web design today. Here’s how the idea came to life and how it changed everything. Read more…