Articles by Web Design Ledger from December 2015

In the Billing Like a Boss series, youve learned about how to work through the uncomfortable money talk with clients and the basics of an invoice for web designers. Weve also shared some easy ways to ...

Anyone who has ever tried explaining technical jargon to someone who is not well-versed with the terminology is aware of how difficult the explanation process can be. Simplified JavaScript Jargon, as ...

The Challenge Today, HTML is over 20 years old. Over these 20 years, HTML was upgraded 4 times, leaving us with current HTML version 5. The upgrade path was not an easy one: W3C, official maintainer o...

Awww, vintage and retro style designs are simply awesome. By using various design elements such as textures, patterns and brushes to add an aged or used appearance designers can easily pull of timeles...

PSD templates can be quite useful for web designers of all skill levels. When using one you are able to start your project with a ready-to-go layout and a pack of UI elements, instead of a blank Photo...

Website development is considered to be a complex process, requiring a lot of investment, effort and time. Different minds have to work together in order to implement a web project on behalf of a clie...

There is a new player in the crowded field of social networks: meet Koko, a social network that lets you speak your mind to help you relieve yourself of stress and emotional trauma. Sounds interesting...

Recently, Adobe launched a new mobile app: named Adobe Post, it lets you transform photos and text into graphics that you can share on Facebook, Instagram and other social networks with ease. Availabl...

There's a cool new player of the vector scene and turns out they are a generous bunch. To celebrate their first Christmas, VectorState are providing all WDL readers with an Xmas present of 100 free pr...

Behance is one of the most popular and well-loved websites where designers and creative artists can showcase their works. Whether you are a web designer, or graphic designer, or someone who works with...

Earlier today, Angular 2 Beta was announced, and with this, AngularJS has officially moved towards a new version, with many new changes and enhancements. The Beta release is functional enough to let y...

Elegant Themes new magazine WordPress theme Extra is one of its most highly anticipated and promising themes to date. The reason for this is Extras stunning selection of layouts and templates, and th...

When it comes to web browsers on Windows, both Google Chrome and Internet Explorer had been offering 64-bit web browsing experience for quite a while. Mozilla Firefox, on the other hand, had remained ...

Some days back, Apple released a new battery case for iPhone 6S. Currently priced at $99, this new battery case offers up to 25 hours of talk time, and 18 hours of internet browsing, or video playback...

Apple is well-known for its sleek and thin devices, and the quest does not seem to be stopping anytime soon. Apple has recently opened a new and secret lab in Taiwan, wherein a team of nearly 50 engin...

Earlier in theBilling Like a Bossseries we coveredhow to talk about moneythat isnt awkward and the inner workings of what goes in an invoice to look professional and become the biggest boss on the blo...

Uncode is a premium ThemeForest multipurpose theme. Introduced in November 2015, it is has already gained a large following of satisfied users who find it highly innovative in its approach to website ...

Sketch, the popular design app for Mac, has released a new version -- Sketch 3.4.4 Sketch 3.4.4 comes with several new bug fixes and enhancements. For instance, it now offers an updated iOS App Icon T...

The latest version of django CMS, version 3.2, has been released and it comes with a better user interface, and moves further towards better support for touchscreen devices. This new version of django...

Cortana is Microsoft's version of Siri, the virtual personal assistant that helps you get things done. Thus far, Cortana was available only on Windows devices, but it has now come to iOS and Android a...

For quite a while, Team Treehouse has been a popular website for learning new web design and development skills, such as PHP, .NET, JavaScript, WordPress, and so on. Recently, Treehouse has decided to...

Traditional methods, such as wireframing, outsourcing, and online website builders have their pros and cons, none of them however match the advantages of pre-built websites. Wireframing is popular, bu...

Mozilla has decided to put an end to its smartphone adventures, and henceforth, Firefox OS will no longer be available on newer smartphones. Ever since its beginnings in 2013, Firefox OS had struggled...

Apple has recently released its selection of the best and most popular iOS apps of 2015. Some of the picks, such as Instagram and Snapchat, come as no surprise to anyone, whereas the success of certai...

Long before the Internet, scientists have been unraveling the mysteries and peculiarities of human sight. As a visual medium, web design has only to gain from their discoveries. Aside from simply know...

Ho, ho, HO-LY MOLY! That's a lot of design goodies. There's enough stress during the holidays over what presents to buy for others, or whether or not your Christmas bonus is going to cover all your gi...

Introduced by Google, WebP is an image format that provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. WebP images are considered to be nearly 26% smaller in size as compared to PNGs, and a...

WordPress 4.4, nicknamed "Clifford" after the famous Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, is now available for download. This latest version of WordPress comes with several new features, such as support for...

The idea of Daniel Blaser and coded by Tad Thorley, Merry Quizmas is a delightful website made to be much more than fun design, it is also the ultimate challenge! The website is designed as a quiz gam...

Just in time for the Holidays and the Winter season, get these amazing design elements for a fraction of the price. Snow generator text is 71% off. Lets you easily create 3D style typography with a sn...

In the past two years, weve seen massive cyber attacks and privacy issues surface in the US. The government has struggled to define a fine line between keeping its citizens safe without violating thei...

Recently, Mozilla launched a new tool that works with Safari, not Firefox. Yes, you read that right. Meet Focus, a free content blocker for Safari users on iOS 9 that gives you better control over you...

Listable is a listing directory and user-friendly WordPress theme which will help you to create, manage and monetize a global or local directory website. With Listable you can get your favourite spots...

Pixate, the native prototyping platform for creating high-fidelity iOS and Android Apps without code has joined the Google design team and launched Pixate Studio 2.0. The original Pixate was launched ...

For many years, Adobe Creative Cloud has been the de facto leader of design tools. While the name does have cloud in it, Adobes products initially began as desktop applications, and even today, many u...

Speedtest.net is one of the most popular services for checking the speed of your internet connection. Thus far, the interface has relied on Adobe Flash to perform the test. However, all of that is goi...

Facebook is no longer looking to support its internal startup Creative Labs. This division of Facebook was used as an experimental and creative approach to mobile software. A couple of the apps create...

  Earlier in the Billing Like a Boss series we covered how to talk about money in a way that isnt as awkward as that time you realized (mid-conversation) that you didnt know the name of the perso...

Recently, the inaugural WordCamp US was held in Philadelphia, wherein Matt Mullenweg delivered his 10th annual State of the Word address. A lot many things were mentioned in State of the Word 2015 by ...

Dropbox has announced that it will be shutting down its photo and email apps Mailbox and Carousel. After acquiring the startups, Mailbox in 2013 and Carousel in 2014 shortly after, Dropbox is already ...

Everyone with an Android device can now look forward to the excellent editing and synchronizing of photo files that come with Adobe Lightroom. Adobe released Lightroom for Android version 1.4, with a ...

Meet project Phoebe, a design concept introduced a the first iteration of mutative design, a design methodology that would UI be created and evolve according to a user. with mutative design interfaces...

Meet project Phoebe, a design concept introduced a the first iteration of mutative design, a design methodology that would UI be created and evolve according to a user. with mutative design interfaces...

This last year marked a huge leap in web design, with the dominance of mobile browsing and the increase in HD devices. Everything from typography to layouts has been restyled to suit the tastes and ex...

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As designers and creatives, we are always in pursuit of great design resources. Be it web or graphic design, everyone needs an assortment of resources to choose from, such as fonts, templates, themes,...

The holidaysare here and that means one thing for a majority of users, shopping. For a web designer working on a retail website, that means a variety of things. One of the most important is design, eR...

Every year CSSDA awards a trophy to honor the best and most outstanding web design and development of the year. This year that award was given to Weber - BBQ Cultures, bbqcultures.com. Weber, a brand ...

Since its introduction in 2014, The material design system has been influencing and setting the standard for clean and flat design. Since then, Googles Material UX team has been scouting the internet ...

Every web application that powers the web, CSS, HTML, and JS is about to get turn on its head with the introduction of HTTP/2. The basic of HTTP/2 are simple and yet amazing. It is much more efficient...

Responsive design is something that is always up for discussion, it affects the design process from concept to creation. Designing sites to be responsive is a must, Google favours mobile-friendly desi...

Responsive design is something that is always up for discussion, it affects the design process from concept to creation. Designing sites to be responsive is a must, Google favours mobile-friendly desi...

The programing language made popular through it properties of speedy performance and safety, is now open source. Since originally presented by Apple last year, it has become one of the fastest growing...

Figma launches the worlds first professional-grade, online tool created specifically for interface design. Its a new way for teams to collaborate on web and app interface design projects entirely in t...

Today Pantone introduced to the world its 2016 Pantone Color of the year. This year they introduced the much-anticipated color in a very non-traditional manner, by choosing two colors. The two shades ...

Google UX Designer Owen Otto, recently participated in a field study where he interviews designers who worked in the digital space to find out what the pain points where when in the process of design ...

Mark Twain said, "There are only two types of speakers in the world: the nervous and liars." Most of us are in that first category. Maybe you even looked forward to being a graphic designer because yo...

C4 is a coding framework that allows you to program using native iOS. It is open-sourced and so you can explore endless possibilities. C4 is great for beginners who want to get into programming for iO...

The money talk is an awkward one. At least it is for us creatives. Is it just me, or were most of us never trained to talk about payment as a legitimate, natural progression of any project we undertak...

Here is a great example of technology expanding into different creative mediums like fashion. ShiftWear Shoes is a creative startup placing custom animations on sneakers. The shoes display animated gi...

Google has teamed up with Santas developer Elves to bring you the Google Santa Tracker. The creative dashboard is Google latest festive release. During the month of December, you will be able to use t...

We first heard of Fuse CC at the Adobe MAX conference, where teasers of the product features were presented. Now a Adobe has released additional details on about their latest product. The concept of F...

Today the latest version of Adobe Photoshop is revealed, CC 2015.1 is now available. The new version comes with latest and greatest Adobe has to offer for one of its most popular products, along with ...

While 2015 might take some flak for not delivering on the promises of Back to the Future 2, the web design industry made Biff-sized leaps in what technology allowed and what users expected. Existing w...

Sketch announced today they will be moving away from Apples Mac App store. Why? Apparently this is something the design platform has been considering all year. According to their announcement, they st...

The money talk is an awkward one. At least it is for us creatives. Is it just me, or were most of us never trained to talk about payment as a legitimate, natural progression of any project we undertak...

Urooj is Co-Founder of pinpic Inc. and Product Owner at 123ContactForm. Urooj has served in the global IT sector since 2000 and has made valuable contributions in the areas of gaming, enterprise solut...

Designershave a tendency to think visually. This is not a strength shared by non-creatives, which can sometimes be a greater challenge than the design itself. At times, it seems impossible for other t...

Google, with their latest redesign of Google+ featured a fully responsive design. With it came many successes, they hit their goal of never downloading over 60K of HTML, Javascript or CSS at one time....

The latest UN Study reports that apps meant for dating have been linked to an rise in HIV spread among teens in the Asia-Pacific area. Due to the social stigmas of the area, the hookups via dating App...

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Visual Hierarchy Visual Hierarchy an online store that offers a variety of resources for designers is sharing a special deal with Web Design Ledger readers. They are offering a variety of beautifully ...

Whoever thought up Cyber Monday must have been tired of waiting in long for the stores to open. Now, you can shop at your leisure. You dont have to wait in line or try to elbow your way from one place...