Articles by Web Designer Depot from February 2013

Mobile web traffic almost doubled in 2012, but that growth slowed dramatically in 2013 and mobile has even lost market share in February. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of mobile growth on the...

Not every designer gets the chance to work on a high-profile redesign. In fact, the vast majority will never have that chance. At least not officially. But that doesn’t mean they don’t hav...

If there’s one thing every designer needs in their toolkit, it’s a workhorse font. A workhorse font is the typeface you turn to again and again; it’s your first stop; your default op...

The greatest sites out there are always notable for their attention to detail. One often underestimated detail is the existence of a useful and user-friendly 404-error page. WordPress provides an easy...

There are a number of options out there for WordPress e-commerce plugins, including both free and paid options. The user experience with many of these plugins though, can be somewhat lacking. ThatR...

Who said that? Both parties often do. Both the client and the designer often accuse each other of ruining a web project. Why? What is it both parties expect that the other cant or wont fulfill. Is it ...

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow...

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great ...

When Marissa Mayer jumped ship at Google to take over the reigns at the web’s second biggest name in search, no one doubted she had a job on her hands. Interest was sparked worldwide by the fact...

Anyone whos up on technology has heard of mobile web design and content marketingtwo terms used with increasing frequency in the online world. Can mobile design and a great content marketing strategy ...

Good enterprise search services are a huge boon to productivity in large companies with a lot of data to manage and access. Google Mini or Search Appliance often come to mind when thinking about these...

Do you want your website to load blazing fast? This article will teach you how to make your website load faster than you ever thought possible. In order to understand why having a fast website is impo...

The Rorschach test is the most widely used projective psychological test, designed to assess and identify personality structures. But while photographer Traci Griffins brilliant new series titled Mirr...

I got my professional start in the world of design at a specialty magazine publisher. Magazine layout and design is, therefore, very close to my heart. A lot of principles of magazine design and layou...

If Bill Shakespeare is to be believed, eyes are the windows to the soul. Designed to look outwards, looking into them reveals a persons deepest emotions. The same might be said of windows. Built to pr...

We are very visual beings. We like to see it to believe it. And sometimes we don’t trust our brain as much as we trust our eyes. Making decisions is often easier when you see something rather th...

While Generation Y may be too young to remember, there was a time in the 70s and 80s when the coolest gadgetry was inevitably Made in Japan especially a series of 35 mm SLR cameras that set the indus...

The February edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and JavaScript resources, productivity and project management tools, CMS’s, CSS an...

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow...

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great ...

Sometimes we become so preoccupied with what can be animated, Photoshopped, and otherwise digitally produced that we lose sight of the fact that often the most awe-inspiring beauty is right in front o...

It is never a bad time to have an idea for the web, and when it comes, the best thing to do is developing and creating as soon as possible before the idea fades away. That’s why freebies have be...

Recently, I had the ‘joy’ of attempting to book tickets withTicketmaster.co.uk and, I knew exactly what I was in for pages to trawl through, lengthy reservation queues and a security enig...

I guess a more suitable title might be is Photoshop still an appropriate tool for designing typography on the web? But that lacks the dramatic appeal of the above. Like many of you, I have always used...

Fonts can become synonymous with brands. Picture, for example, “Yahoo”, “Disney”, or the masthead for “The New York Times”; in each case, the brand and the typeface...

Do you call yourself a freelance web designer? If so, you are only partially correct. The truth is that you also need to be a salesperson. If you cant sell your own services, you likely wont be a free...

Is there anything better than a font named after the Spanish word for cockroach? Maybe a font named after that combined with the word “future”? Futuracha is just that font. It’s a be...

It’s the trend that people are calling for this year. But it’s really a trend that’s been here for the past couple of years. Typography is a concept that’s been practiced for m...

RequireJS is an effective way to improve the speed and quality of your JavaScript code additionally making it a lot more readable and easier to maintain. In this article I’ll introduce you to Re...

There was a time, not so long ago, when flying was considered a glamorous experience, something people aspire to do, a rite of passage, something you had to do before you die. The American Airlines br...

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow...

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great ...

If a companys branding materials should seek to leave a mark, then Austrian design studio Bureau Rabensteiner has more than met the challenge with a recent client project. Using thermo-sensitive black...

As I put the phone down, I was still shaking quietly. It was one of the hardest phone calls I’ve had to make. I had just told the client that I was tired of him messing me around, that the way h...

Photoshop opens up such a huge range of possibilities for photography enthusiasts. And Photoshop actions make it easy for almost anyone to create amazing shots, regardless of your Photoshop proficienc...

It’s a well known fact that a sport is not just pleasure: it’s a business (without a doubt a big business) that can bring fantastic fortunes to those who know the rules of the game. So as ...

Weve all heard of the suffering artist, but photographer Kerry Skarbakka is taking the idea of suffering for ones craft to a whole new level. In his death-defying series The Struggle to Right Oneself ...

The most recent WordPress release, 3.5, has passed the 6 million download mark. It brought us a renewed media experience and various improvements in the dashboard. But life moves on, and the scope of ...

The concept of constraints in design can be defined as the practice of limiting user actions on a system. Constraints limit the actions that can be performed by the user, thus increasing the usability...

Even the most creative mind needs a bit of left-brain order sometimes. While more work is what every freelancer and business wants because it means more earnings, it can also mean more stress, more ad...

Big-budget music videos involve countless people, crazy costumes, and elaborate sets. But Japanese singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumarus song Katachi was brought to the screen in a completely different ma...

Even if you haven’t seen the show, you’ve almost certainly heard of HBO’s hit Girls, created by and starring Lena Dunham. The show follows four 20-something women living in Brooklyn ...

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow...

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great ...

Parents who leave their kids alone with seemingly innocuous items like glue and sticky tape will certainly live to regret it, but professional photographer Wes Namans antics with adhesive have landed ...

Have you ever just finished a project and wondered:How can I do more for this client? or perhaps you were thinking:Oh darn, now I have to look for new clients. It doesnt have to be that way. The most ...

Pinterest have just announced on their blog that they will be experimenting with a new look using a small group of people who sign up as testers. They are not moving away from the gridded style that s...

WordPress is a powerful and popular CMS for nearly all types of websites. But what about content creation? Writing is one of the most important aspects of a website especially for freelancers, small b...