Articles by Web Designer Depot from January 2014

As a designer, youwant to provide a superb service to your clients, and one of the best ways to do that is to base your designs around an existing template; it speeds up the process, keeps costs to a ...

Before you first meet with project stakeholders for a website design or redesign, youll want to prepare yourself by researching the company the website represents and the nature of the audience it ser...

One of the biggest trends in 2014 will be geometric patterns, inspired by the low-poly look. So were really excited to be able to bring you these great geometric backgrounds absolutely free of charge....

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...

As website designer, Ive always been fascinated by design (of any kind) thatworks and why. Of late, Ive become particularly appreciative of the power of photography toanchor a visually appealing desig...

Last week Squarespace launched Squarespace Logo, a new addition to their service designed to provide individuals and small businesses with the means to create a professional logo. Within hours of the ...

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 ...

We’ve all been there: the moment when we realise that our project is missing something. With deadlines looming and clients on your back, what you really need is a great resource or two to dig yo...

Its often difficult to settle on a strong sans-serif. So many carry a lot of baggage with them; Helvetica is everywhere, Arial is Helvetica, Verdana really only works on screen, and everything else is...

In a previous article, I wrote about design before computers became commonplace in the design industry. A fun look back at the days of toxic chemicals and scalpel-sharp cutting tools. The number of so...

Albert Einstein once said, Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Its one thing to be aware of whats new in web design, quite another to be in the thick of it actually producing usable designs...

jQuery is used on thousands upon thousands of web pages. Its one of the most common libraries to insert into pages, and it makes DOM manipulation a snap. Of course, part of jQuerys popularity is its s...

A great source for high-quality WordPress themes is TemplateMonster,so we’re absolutely stoked to be able to announce this awesome giveaway. What better way to start 2014 than with a brand new l...

If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time studying other designers’ work. I like to look at projects for the experience and the interactions created for the users. Obviously, as ...

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 ...

One of the most appealing kinds of sites, for all types of businesses is the one-page parallax scroll. There’s a spacial delight in simply scrolling through content, and of course, on a mobile d...

Its often described as the CMS from hell; ugly and a total memory hog, to the novice the learning curve is often far too steep and the documentation sometimes scarce. Why is this behemoth of a CMS eve...

When it comes to lettering, theres something about a handmade project that just stops us in our tracks. In this day and age, with so many beautiful fonts accessible to us at just the press of a button...

Today, Adobe have both announced and shipped, new versions of its flagship Creative Cloud applications. In this update you’ll find dozens of new features. Last year thousands of designers droppe...

It’s the time of year when every blogger on the Web pulls out a crystal ball, dusts off the tarot cards and spends hours staring pointedly into tea cups in an effort to predict the trends for th...

A primary goal of all developers is faster development, especially rapid bootstrapping. There are dozens of frameworks made available in the last couple of years that aim to have our prototypes up in ...

The January edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and JavaScript resources, web development tools, responsive design resources, collaborati...

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 ...

The developers behind UX Archive want you to build better mobile experiences. To that end, they find and present mobiles most interesting user flows so you can compare them, build your point of view, ...

One of our very favourite deals of 2013 was for the lovingly crafted Lunchbox font, from Kimmy Design. So we were delighted when we found out that our sister-site, MightyDeals.com, had managed to arra...

When I was around 16, I got into freelancing for graphic design through a small non-profit. They needed some posters and book covers and I figured I could do that pretty easily. I handled things well ...

As designers, we often wonder why certain standards become the right way to do things in our daily workflow. Questions come about which target the reasoning behind certain decisions we make to solve d...

First there were complaints over Apples skeumorphic icons and their inherent cheesiness. Then there were objections to Apples redesigned iO7 once again, for cheesiness. Now, a group of animation stud...

First there were complaints over Apples skeuomorphic icons and their inherent cheesiness. Then there were objections to Apples redesigned iO7 once again, for cheesiness. Now, a group of animation stu...

Ever wondered where all the money in web design goes? Perhaps you’d like to take a larger cut of it? Well this fantastic infographic from Webydo will help explain just where all that money gets ...

Ever wondered where all the money in web design goes? Perhaps you’d like to take a larger cut of it? Well this fantastic infographic from Webydo will help explain just where all that money gets ...

This grid is a fun and pleasing way to show multiple pieces of information in the same amount of space, by having each section of the grid slide away on click or hover, and display extra content. In t...

Although the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are still years away, the official typeface for the event has already been designed and unveiled. Rio 2016 is a fluid and graceful script, inspired by the ...

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 ...

The new year brings new opportunities, and if youre looking to improve your site in 2014 then the first thing you need to ensure is that its responsive. Unfortunately responsive sites can be hard to b...

Last year, WordPress was being used to power 72.4 million websites on the Internet. That was around half of all live sites at the time. Of all the websites using a content management system now, 59.8%...

If you’ve spent time exploring the creative industry, you’ve probably heard the phrase, rule of thirds. It’s one of those expressions people like to use when they want to sound cleve...

Though the Mozilla Foundation has been around for ten years now, they have only recently released their own font, Fira Sans, which is available as a free download from their site. Fira Sans is availab...

The dust hasnt settled on the new Target.com redesign: the Web (OK, well, the web design community and a few actual Target customers) are looking for answers: Why, Target? Why? Who is responsible? The...