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06:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 29, 2013
Web Designer Depot Mesmerizing minimalist fractals
They say you cant create fine art using fractal algorithms; but Finland-based digital artist Jukka Korhonen has set out to prove them wrong. Fractal art is a subclass of two-dimensional visual art tha...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 29, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to use HTML5 audio (part 2)
This is part two of the HTML5 audio introduction video; if you haven’t watched it already, I recommend checking out part one to get up to speed! Today, we’ll be working on our HTML5 audio ...
01:07 pm GMT - Sun, April 28, 2013
Web Designer Depot Our favorite tweets of the week: April 22, 2013 April 28, 2013
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...
01:38 pm GMT - Sat, April 27, 2013
Web Designer Depot Comics of the week #180
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 ...
06:15 pm GMT - Fri, April 26, 2013
Web Designer Depot Flat design sites that work
Whilst the term flat design might not be a phrase youre yet familiar with, you will definitely have noticed the concept and the design features whilst browsing the internet. For those of you that have...
01:15 pm GMT - Fri, April 26, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to launch a startup
We all know that there are a few differences between small businesses and larger corporations, especially when they begin considering the web design aspect of their marketing plan and branding. And wh...
11:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 25, 2013
Web Designer Depot Deal of the week: 54% off PsDefaults
Its easy to become jaded with an application, especially an application like Photoshop, where you open up a new document to be presented with a blank screen. Professional results are easy to achieve w...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 25, 2013
Web Designer Depot Facebook redesign
The long, painful and drawn-out death of skeuomorphic design lurched forward another step this week with a redesign by the worlds biggest social media site, Facebook. The new look is spearheaded by a ...
01:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 25, 2013
Web Designer Depot Why should you become retina ready?
Oh, look! It’s a brand spanking new, shiny technological feature. And it probably helps that it’s being implemented by Apple products. A couple of great sites (like this one) have already ...
06:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 24, 2013
Web Designer Depot Are you a font nerd?
A few weeks ago, we posted a nifty quizto test your prowess at differentiating between Helvetica and Arial. If that typography challenge succeeded in whetting your whistle for font games, a new app de...
01:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 24, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to create a great about page
Here’s one thing that never made sense to me: people make websites so others can find out more about them, but most “About Us” pages absolutely suck. They’re either really long...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, April 23, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to use HTML5 audio (part 1)
The introduction of the HTML5 spec introduced new tags for presenting media on a webpage; the <audio> and <video> tags, rendering the <object> tag no longer fit for video and a...
01:15 pm GMT - Tue, April 23, 2013
Web Designer Depot Mobile first: Luke Wroblewski interview
The Mobile First philosophy has radically changed how professionals approach Web design and become the way companies as diverse as Facebook and IBM build their products. The Mobile First approach is t...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 22, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to use the download attribute
HTML5 came with all new APIs, new input types and attributes for forms. As is often the case, those major additions often obscure the minor upgrades and I think that this is particularly true of the d...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 22, 2013
Web Designer Depot Getting creative with usability
When it comes to designing a truly intuitive, responsive, and coherent website thats also unique and interesting, it often feels like its difficult to reconcile the two sets of priorities. But in fact...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, April 21, 2013
Web Designer Depot Our favorite tweets of the week: April 15, 2013 April 21, 2013
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...
01:20 pm GMT - Sat, April 20, 2013
Web Designer Depot Comics of the week #179
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 ...
09:15 pm GMT - Fri, April 19, 2013
Web Designer Depot jQuery 2.0 released
Hot on the heels of jQuery Mobile 1.3 comes jQuery 2.0, a brand new, full release version of the popular JavaScript library. The big news that we’ve known for a while is that jQuery 2.0 has dr...
01:15 pm GMT - Fri, April 19, 2013
Web Designer Depot Innovative animated gifs
At first thought, animated GIFs might conjure up images of dancing under construction signs and cheesy banner ads circa the year 2000. Luckily, the creative minds of present-day animators, designers, ...
11:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 18, 2013
Web Designer Depot Formal degree vs. self taught
For many web design professionals, there was no option but to be self taught. Years ago, the academic qualifications simply didnt exist. Sure, you could study design, but youd be left to learn the tec...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 18, 2013
Web Designer Depot IM-Creator: Build awesome HTML5 sites for free
A few years ago, it was tough to create a professional-looking website without designing and coding something from scratch. There were free templates and website builders, sure, but the results from m...
01:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 18, 2013
Web Designer Depot 4 subconscious mistakes youre probably making
It’s like biting your nails. It’s like sucking your thumb. It’s like cursing too much. We all have some bad habits, some we just cannot seem to shake. I’m not sure why that is....
09:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 17, 2013
Web Designer Depot Deal of the week: Certified Adobe training
There is so much technology employed on the web, its difficult to keep up, and even harder to know where to begin when youre just starting out. Thats why, for this weeks deal, our sister site MightyDe...
06:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 17, 2013
Web Designer Depot App icons with hidden messages
I was having a chat with a friend of mine recently and somehow we got onto the subject ofhidden messages in Apple icons. Admittedly it’s not something I’d thought too much about prior to t...
01:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 17, 2013
Web Designer Depot Twitter tip-toes into the ad game
Twitter finally tossed a bigger hat into the advertising realm on February 20, 2013 by announcing the new Twitter Ad API and the five initial partners who will power this new vehicle. Yes, Twitter alr...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, April 16, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to host a WordPress blog on your computer
When I’m designing themes for WordPress, I find that working remotely can be a little troublesome at times; particularly when using stylesheet preprocessors such as LESS or SASS. I’ve been...
01:15 pm GMT - Tue, April 16, 2013
Web Designer Depot 20+ wonderful design-heavy websites
If you’re asking me to share with you some of the best web designs in the world, chances are I’m going to point you in the direction of something that’s pretty minimal. In fact, if y...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 15, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to write markdown
Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about markdown as an alternate way to format text. I decided to do a little research and see what all the talk was about and I was actually quite glad of wha...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 15, 2013
Web Designer Depot Whats new for designers, April 2013
The April edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and JavaScript resources, mobile apps, educational resources, mockup kits, frameworks, web ...
01:16 pm GMT - Sun, April 14, 2013
Web Designer Depot Our favorite tweets of the week: April 8, 2013 April 14, 2013
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...
01:12 pm GMT - Sat, April 13, 2013
Web Designer Depot Comics of the week #178
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 ...
10:15 pm GMT - Fri, April 12, 2013
Web Designer Depot How web posture affects user experience
What makes a great website? There are many ways to measure the effectiveness and quality of a website. Web designers can use a handful of quantitative data that will help them determine if the web des...
01:15 pm GMT - Fri, April 12, 2013
Web Designer Depot Really easy responsive design
It’s no secret that many believe responsive web is the future. Creating a responsive site means that it’s able to adapt to the many different browsers and sizes that are available. If I wa...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 11, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to use CSS3 transitions
Everyone loves motion. Adding the fourth dimension (time) to a site design is the main way screen-based design stands out from print design. CSS Transitions are a simple method for animating propertie...
01:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 11, 2013
Web Designer Depot 15+ food and restaurant web designs
How do we live without food? It’s our sustenance. It’s the reason why we live and can be the reason for the opposite. Many events, conferences and groups surround themselves around the ide...
11:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 10, 2013
Web Designer Depot Deal of the week: The Bricks UI Framework
DesignModo’s hugely popular set of resources ‘The Bricks’ is available once again through our sister site MightDeals.com. Massively popular with designers and developers, ‘The ...
06:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 10, 2013
Web Designer Depot An introduction to AngularJS
When I came across AngularJS a couple weeks ago, I was intrigued at first. By the time I had worked through the set of tutorials available on the AngularJS website, I was thrilled to have found this f...
01:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 10, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to turn your icons into a web font
I had created some neat icons for a website redesign I was doing, and I previewed the new site on an old iPad. The layout looked OK at normal size, but zooming in to part of the page, I suddenly saw t...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, April 9, 2013
Web Designer Depot Particle effects in Edge Animate
One of the most exciting perks of using Adobe’s Edge Animate is the seamless integration with new, exciting CSS features that I didn’t even know existed until exploring Edge Animate furthe...
01:15 pm GMT - Tue, April 9, 2013
Web Designer Depot Adaptive content with WordPress
Responsive design not only challenge our tools and approaches to web design and development, but also forces us to review our ways of planning and managing content. New workflows require the right too...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 8, 2013
Web Designer Depot jQuery Mobile 1.3
jQuery Mobile 1.3 is now available as a stable release. This new version spearheads the jQuery teams efforts to fully incorporate responsive web design principles into its robust library. Among the ne...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 8, 2013
Web Designer Depot 10 amazing design founders and why you need one
A design founder is a founder of a company who happens to be a designer or makes sure to create a large role for design in their business. Design is extremely powerful it influences what we see, what...
01:51 pm GMT - Sun, April 7, 2013
Web Designer Depot Our favorite tweets of the week: April 1, 2013 April 7, 2013
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...
01:49 pm GMT - Sat, April 6, 2013
Web Designer Depot Comics of the week #177
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 ...
06:15 pm GMT - Fri, April 5, 2013
Web Designer Depot Get motivated
In the journey from fledgling startup to full-blown success, any burgeoning business will undoubtedly face its fair share of obstacles along the way. But those who traverse the bumpy road to emerge vi...
01:15 pm GMT - Fri, April 5, 2013
Web Designer Depot 15 inspirational approaches to CSS
HTML will only take the web designer so far and if you want to create dynamic, attractive, reactive web design then you need to learn and implement CSS. Not only can you create improved design element...
11:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 4, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to use CSS specificity
If you plan to use CSS on a regular basis you need to develop an understanding of what specificity is and how it is applied. Other than floats and positions, specificity may be one of the hardest thin...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 4, 2013
Web Designer Depot Google forks Webkit
Yesterday, anyone old enough to have been working during the browser wars, felt the icy cold fingers of fear creep up their spine when Google announced that its browser Chrome will be abandoning Webki...
01:15 pm GMT - Thu, April 4, 2013
Web Designer Depot Video tutorials are the bane of my existence
We’ve all been there. You have an idea, something that just seems like it would work perfectly for your current project. It’s the ideal solution. Nothing could possibly be better suited. E...
06:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 3, 2013
Web Designer Depot The typographic portfolio of Peter Tarka
Talent, discipline, and creativity just might constitute a triple threat in the world of design; and if it does, 21-year-old Peter Tarka easily meets the definition. Each month, the ambitious Poland-b...
01:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 3, 2013
Web Designer Depot Should creatives be unionized or earn certification?
Every now and then, on some blog or design group, someone brings up the question of designers unionizing or having some sort of certification in the hopes of assuring the public that we are profession...
01:15 am GMT - Wed, April 3, 2013
Web Designer Depot April Fools roundup
Its April 2nd, and news sites have gone back to reporting the news instead of inventing it. Yesterdays annual festival of invented headlines, some convincing, some lame, many frighteningly plausible, ...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, April 2, 2013
Web Designer Depot An introduction to Edge Reflow
Edge Reflow is one of the exciting new weapons in Adobe’s ever-expanding Creative Suite arsenal; helping to bring the modern web’s powerful features within reach for designers. Reflow is d...
01:15 pm GMT - Tue, April 2, 2013
Web Designer Depot Essential tools for every web designer
Every web designer requires the right tools to do their job. To create well crafted original designs you certainly need to be inspired to do so. Getting to that point is sometimes the hardest challeng...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 1, 2013
Web Designer Depot Apple turn to Flash for security
Late on Friday night, Norwegian blogger Ally Tenor posted a number of screen grabs from Firebug that appeared to show Apple’s Norway store running scripts through an eu-ampd.swf file a format o...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 1, 2013
Web Designer Depot Certifications for U.S. designers to become law in 2015
The much talked about step of creating professional certification for graphic/web designers looks like it will become a reality in a little more than a year. Having passed the U.S. Senate as a rider t...
01:17 pm GMT - Sun, March 31, 2013
Web Designer Depot Our favorite tweets of the week: March 25, 2013 March 31, 2013
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...