Articles by Web Designer Depot from December 2013

In 2013, we covered a ton of new apps, resources, and more for designers and developers. In fact, we covered hundreds of resources! So rather than you having to go back through our archive of posts, w...

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 ...

We love web design resources, and we love them even more when they’re absolutely free. so each month we scour the Internet to bring you the very best free resources for web designers and develop...

It doesn’t matter how great your photos are, if they aren’t presented well, odds are that no one will ever see them. The best photographers rely on sophistacted image galleries to present ...

Merry Christmas! Everyone here at WebdesignerDepot would like to wish you a very happy holiday season and because it’s Christmas, we thought we’d indulge in a fewEaster eggs Google has bec...

Conversion rate optimization (CRO, for short) is having a moment among marketers. With the rise of billion dollar companies built on the back of clever growth hacks and continual optimization, more ma...

With the holiday season in full swing, you would almost expect a plethora of holiday themes to saturate the market. But that’s not the case at all. Designers released quite a few excellent free ...

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 ...

Christmas is nearly upon us, and for web designers, traditionally that means a huge slowdown in the work coming in the door. So what are you to do with all that spare time? Well, why not take advantag...

It’s easy to get wrapped up in a trend and choose the option you think is most popular. But do you really know the drawbacks as well as the benefits of flat design? How about skeuomorphism? We&#...

As a part of my role at iStock by Getty Images, I run global research projects that involve monitoring visual trends to help us stay one step ahead in sourcing fresh, relevant content for our customer...

Im honestly a bit wary of making a simple, flat declaration that x is the best program for y; real life is usually trickier than that. As a guy who tries out new software for fun (Im a riot at parties...

With all the terms that get thrown at us during our design education (be we self or institutionally taught), it is easy to understand why some land only glancing blows with barely any penetration into...

Apple released their newest iteration of OS X, called Mavericks (finally straying from the “big cat” theme that’s been prevalent from the first OS X release), a few weeks ago, and th...

We all love exciting new typefaces, and 2013 has been a bumper year for type design. So, with 2013 coming to a close, weve put together this list of the best fonts in the last 12 months. For each mont...

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 ...

With so many web technologies, platforms and programming languages, web designers and developers are still searching for new opportunities to engage visitors and turn them into regular clients. There ...

We’re delighted to be able to bring you this sensational set of icons designed exclusively for WebdesignerDepot by Webalys. The unique, icons focus on environmental issues, from solar power to w...

This week’s deal from our sister-site, MightyDeals.com, is an incredible 87% saving at ingimage.com. ingimage.com has a library filled to the brim with 2,000,000 premium-quality stock photos and...

For designers passionate about the latest developments across the full spectrum of visual design, there’s a brand new site that features some of the most exciting, innovative and inspiring desig...

The new geolocation function in HTML5 adds the functionality to the browser necessary to detect the user’s location, generate co-ordinates, and return them as values back to the user. Not only w...

The December edition of Whats new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, graphic design tools, inspirational resources, web design tools, icons, typography resources, and some really ...

Color watchers may be intrigued to see Pantones color of the year for 2014. The influencial team at the Pantone Color Institute have analyzed media, socio-political events, technological advances and ...

Once upon a time, in decades and centuries past, Lorem Ipsum served typesetters and printers well. That was back in the day when communication vehicles provided a passive, one-way experience. Todays c...

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 ...

UI kits are a fantastic starting point for many projects. You can quickly mockup a professional solution and then customize the files into a bespoke solution in no time at all. In this round-up, we...

UI kits are a fantastic starting point for many projects. You can quickly mockup a professional solution and then customize the files into a bespoke solution in no time at all. In this round-up, we...

Typefaces are the most elemental resource designers have in their toolbox. Theyre a great way to add personality to designs, and really make your projects stand out. Unfortunately, building a large li...

For designers passionate about the latest developments across the full spectrum of visual design, there’s a brand new site that features some of the most exciting, innovative and inspiring desig...

Last time we covered our bicycle enthusiast’s page, we built an entire basic page in less than twenty minutes flat using the magic of Foundation. Today, we’re going to take that magic even...

With yesterdays announcement about the general availability of its Compute Engine, Google has rounded its service-rich computing Cloud Platform into a full-on competitor to the elite and powerful hand...

Just a few short years ago the majority of web designers wouldn’t have been able to spell skeuomorphism, much less provide an accurate definition. Now, skeuomorphism is set up as the pantomime v...

Freebies are everywhere on the web these days, but it’s rare that you get something that is really high-quality for free. Once in a while we come across a freebie that makes all the searching wo...

The art of creating a website these days is learning how to create an online experience. Many of these experiences are extensions of a brand or person and are relayed via different colors, fonts, etc....

With the release of iOS7, Apple made the most significant changes to their application design guidelines to date. iOS7s design language emphasizes a light, almost minimalist aesthetic approach to inte...

Web sites are built to perform a function, and communicate to their users.But beyond this, web sites can also be engaging, exciting, even fun to use. Adding visual interest to a site helps sustain our...

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 ...