Articles by Web Designer Depot from September 2018

When you take the leap into freelancing and self-employment, its really exciting at the start. Eventually, the honeymoon phase wears off and you comfortably adjust to life as a freelancer, which, in a...

If any single tech company embodies the spirit of web-savvy, then it is Mailchimp. Since its beginnings as a side-project in the early-2000s the marketing service has walked the line between creative ...

CSS Grid and CSS Flexbox are complimentary web layout technologies that have been hotly anticipated for years. However, despite some superficial similarities they are actually used for very different ...

Placeit offers thousands of smart templates which you can customize by simply clicking a few options, while still keeping a professional layout. You wont have to worry about resolution, dimensions or ...

The typeface Gotham is one of the most popular sans-serifs in circulation. Designed at the turn of the millennium by Tobias Frere-Jones for the Hoefler & Co. type foundry, it is based on the basic...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

Frustrated with your client? Beginning to wish youd never taken this job on in the first place? Do you just need some feedback so that you can move forward? Picture it: Youve managed to land a great g...

At least once every day, some designer somewhere in the world will look at something made months or years ago; failing that, some executive will get the bright idea that they can make their mark on a ...

Welcome to our roundup of the best websites launched (or relaunched with major updates) in the last four weeks. September marks the beginning of Fall in the northern hemisphere, and reflecting that ch...

I love the hamburger menu. I hate the hamburger menu. I am constantly contradicting myself about this tiny website element; whether I think it works beautifullyor just makes a mess. And Im not alone. ...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

Worldwide, retail e-commerce sales totaled $2.29 trillion last year. By the end of this year theyll have reached $2.8 trillion. If the trend continues apace, e-commerce sales will reach a whopping $4....

A little less than three years ago, Uber rebranded as the cab-service of choice for dystopian sci-fi pac-man fans. It was a move reportedly intended to recast the startup as the choice of every day pe...

The market is overcrowded with web tools and services, today its easy to launch your own product and everybody is playing the game. Its good to have competition but some of these solutions are far fro...

If WordPress is the worlds favorite blogging platform, then WooCommerce is surely the most popular e-commerce solution available. WooCommerce is currently leading the WordPress e-commerce market and i...

The hotly anticipated Smashing Book 6: New Frontiers in Web Design, is released today. Dedicated to some of the thorniest problems we face in our professional lives, it takes a swing at some of the bi...

Development time is a precious resource. In order to be more efficient and responsive, product teams continuously try to use advanced techniques for product creation. One of the most popular framework...

This months collection of new tools and elements for designers has a common theme productivity. There are so many things here to help you do work better and more efficiently. But theres fun toomake s...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

Have you ever visited a website, looked around for a bit, and then headed straight to the footer to find the information you were looking for? Youre not the only one. Footers are unique pieces of scre...

Businesses have more options today in terms of how they get their goods and services out to customers: strictly brick-and-mortar, 100% online, or a combination of the two. Because of this, web design ...

Creating great UX is a primary goal for all product designers. Its up to the designer to make a process of interaction with a product as simple as possible. Modern products try to achieve simplicity b...

Hello Readers. Its September, so as soon as your kids are off to school, maybe you can finally have a five-minute power nap. Take that power nap with equal parts gusto and relief, dear Reader. Youve e...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...