Articles by Web Designer Depot from August 2011

There are usually two camps among designers when it comes to typeface choices. One group has a handful of favorite typefaces they adapt to every design they create, believing that these handful of typ...

Of all of the types of websites, the portfolio site has to overcome what might be some of the most difficult hurdles. Talk to almost any designer and they will agree, launching your own portfolio site...

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 ...

Are you a freelance designer? Are you interested in boosting your credibility, building your client base and increasing your number of paying projects? The answer is obvious, but knowing where...

We often look at application design and website design as two different, if related, fields. The lines blur a bit with web apps (which are technically both apps and websites), but we still tend to try...

We've lined up another fresh giveaway today from the cool folks at Custom Bags HQ. They’re bringing a great idea and marketing tool that you can actually use for your business or your clients...

Logos are often considered the image of a product or service and is thought of as the center of all branding endeavors. If you are trying to be a legitimate company, you’ve probably had someone ...

Earlier this year, a London, Ontario-based mom noticed that her 5-month old son Emerson got really frightened when she blew her nose. She caught one of his petrified moments on video, and posted it on...

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 ...

Have you ever visited a blog and noticed immediately how the typography added sophistication and really made the content stand out? Perhaps it was an elegant typeface that fit the theme of the blo...

From time to time, an industry experiences fundamental changes that radically alter it. Along with this comes an explosion of opportunity: opportunity for individuals to stand out, for new products to...

Today our good friends at Vzaar are giving away 25 lite accounts of their professional commercial video hosting. As you know, websites like YouTube are great for hosting your online videos. The bigges...

In this post, we're going to learn about a bit about Illustrator’s Mesh tool. It's one of the hardest tools to master in Illustrator, but if you want to achieve a 3-D look in your illustrations,...

Say what you will about QR (Quick Response) codes: they are just a fad, they will be forgotten once augmented reality takes hold or they're just an extra step in inputting a URL but they are here and ...

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 ...

Today we bring you a great set of icons from IconShock designed exclusively for WebdesignerDepot. These are large icons 256×256 and provided as transparent PNG files. These icons are completely f...

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored review for Approval Manager Any time you’re working in a team environment, it’s likely you’ll need a series of permissions and approvals for various s...

Forms are often considered one of the most painful HTML elements to program. But form design and development has progressed by leaps and bounds; it is not nearly as hard as it once was. That being sai...

Graphic design is one of those job that everyone needs but whose value perhaps not everyone appreciates. People who don't understand the true value of graphic designers will try to take advantage of t...

The August edition of what’s new out there for web designers and developers includes a number of new web apps, JavaScript plugins, tools for creating smartphone apps, and browser tools, along wi...

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 ...

Forget the Farmer's Market. Today we have a 100% organic bouquets of gorgeous graphic floral designs from Stock Graphic Designs at a price that will make you stop and smell the roses. The Hand Drawn F...

It used to be that if you wanted to create an animated, interactive interface for a website, you needed to use Flash. You might be able to get away with some basic animations using JavaScript, but if ...

It used to be that if you wanted to create an animated, interactive interface for a website, you needed to use Flash. You might be able to get away with some basic animations using JavaScript, but if ...

"If youth only knew: If age only could."  "" Henri Estienne I reconnected with a former art school teacher the other day. I've tried to keep in touch with all of my old teache...

For some sites, image galleries are an absolute must. Portfolios are the first to come to mind, but galleries are also useful for blogs, e-commerce sites, and really any site that regularly displays m...

Step with me, if you will, into my humble DeLorean, and travel back in history to that time you fell asleep in your design theory course. You didn't need Gestalt theories, you thought. You already kne...

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...