Articles by Web Designer Depot from September 2012

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 ...

If you have ever flicked through the digital pages of The Commons section of Flickr, you will have inevitably have stumbled over a few photographic gems you would never have otherwise known existed. T...

If you build new WordPress websites on a regular basis, you may be familiar with the process of setting up a local WordPress installation using WAMP or XAMPP to do your development work before migrati...

Not every company or designer has a lot to say. There are people who believe in letting a product or service speak for itself, and there are some folks who just downright don’t talk much. Someti...

[This is a sponsored review for MachForm, the opinions expressed in the article are the author's only] Creating forms isn’t the most complicated thing a web designer or developer can do. But cre...

After a packed summer of seminars, inspirational talks, and crowd-pleasing predictions, we’ve reached the tail end of the conference season. October is the time your boss expects you to get star...

Facebook is a stupid name for a social media site. Facebook: a book of faces; a directory of the cool kids; an elitist tome to which most of us, with our thick-rimmed glasses, obscure music taste and ...

InDesign boxes are as simple as click-and-drag. Photoshops layers let painters color pixels anywhere they please. But layout with HTML and CSS is a game of nudging and cascading. It happens every day:...

Yesterday, Adobe used the keynote slot of their ‘Create the Web’ event in San Francisco to preview what they hope, will be the next generation of tools that you and I use to build the web....

With the right fonts, we can do anything, and create anything. Fonts help portray a mood or emotion. Your font choice can make or break your designs, so you must careful in choosing the right one. Typ...

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 ...

Running a web development business isn’t an easy endeavor at all. You have to manage multiple projects, tough clients, and a constant stream of relentless deadlines. One key methodology which en...

The web design field has gone through immense advancements and in some cases overhauls over the last decade. These advancements have undoubtedly introduced new technologies and innovations in order to...

I’m not sure whether it’s Instagram, Hipstamatic, or some other smartphone photography app that should be thanked (blamed?) for the advent of applying vintage or other effects to every pho...

The law: stuffy, complex and boring. You’re a designer; you’re bleeding edge; you laugh in the face of ‘the rules’; if you wanted to be hemmed in you’d have become a bank...

Optimizing how space is used on a screen is a key component of good web design, and especially of responsive design. There are a number of ways to approach this kind of challenge, and one of the most ...

It’s hard to identify universally accepted rules in web design, but if there is one that the whole community agrees upon, it’s that you should always separate your content from its style. ...

Every now and then Im approached by design students and clients asking me to critique their logos. While Im not particularly fond of critiquing anyones work, especially when it’s hard to find so...

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 ...

At last, the much anticipated iPhone 5 was finally announced on Wednesday. After the disappointment of the iPhone 4S, which was really just the iPhone 4 with a slightly better camera, Apple have a lot...

It’s time for another great giveaway! This comes courtesy of our sister site MightyDeals.com where you can find the best deals for web creatives, with discounts up to 90% off! If there’s o...

It’s time for another great giveaway! This comes courtesy of our sister site MightyDeals.com where you can find the best deals for web creatives, with discounts up to 90% off! If there’s o...

One of the primary reasons for WordPress’ continued popularity is the ease with which it can be extended and customized with plugins. Building a plugin may seem like an impossible task, but it&#...

Icon fonts are incredibly useful when designing a site, and have a huge number of advantages over regular icons. Because they are delivered as a font file and embedded like a font, these icons are eas...

The September edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, JavaScript and jQuery tools, plugins to make your sites more useful, productivity tools, new takes 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 ...

The success of a business often depends on how easy the shopping mechanism is for the end user. Whether you are selling goods online, or in a conventional store, at the end of it all the payment syste...

Working with clients can be tough. There can be a lot of back and forth communication and many requirements. Every client has their different level of standards and can make bouncing from project to p...

Amongst all the new features and improvements that the recent WordPress 3.4 release has introduced, there is a hidden gem. The Custom Header Image feature has been supported by WordPress for some time...

You already have a great app idea and are working furiously to build and launch it. Or you’re developing a mobile site, to compliment a desktop build. Or perhaps you’re refining a desktop ...

jQuery is the largest open source, cross-browser, CSS3 compliant, JavaScript library around and it has made client-side scripting a breeze. The syntax is simple and jQuery can produce beautiful almost...

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 ...

Concrete5 entered the CMS scene in 2008, and since then has been making solid headway to becoming one of the premier go-to web publishing platforms available today. Getting started with Concrete5 is r...