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11:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2013
Web Designer Depot Enchant, simplify and amaze; the Android way
The Android User Experience Team have published their own design principles for delivering a world-class user experience.Their 17 key points are divided into three categories: enchant, simplify and am...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2013
Web Designer Depot Deal of the week: Mega design bundle
Youll find enough great deals on our sister site MightyDeals.com to keep you busy for weeks at a time, but even so, very few of them are able to live up to the incredible money-off awesomeness of theM...
01:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2013
Web Designer Depot The SEO sanity check part 3: White hats always win
The last two articles have dealt with black and gray hat techniques employed by some search engine optimization specialists, and how these can affect rankings in Google. This time well be examining wh...
06:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2013
Web Designer Depot Social networking noise
Everywhere you go online you see lots of tweets, Facebook posts, and Google+ updates: the social networking noise can sometimes be overwhelming. All marketers have been taught that content is king, an...
01:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2013
Web Designer Depot A taste of CoffeeScript (part 2)
In the first part of this article about CoffeeScript, you saw its basic capabilities; but let’s be honest, most of the time we use the jQuery library to help us write our JavaScript and what I s...
11:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2013
Web Designer Depot iOS7 to adopt flat design
The last great bastion of skeuomorphic design, Apple Inc., is rumored to be completely revamping its mobile OS, ahead of a relaunch at the Apple WDDC on June 10th. Speculation is that the next version...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2013
Web Designer Depot Graphic designer dads lunch bag surprise
Pulling a peanut butter and jelly, or ham and cheese on rye out of your lunchbox every day can get boring pretty quickly, but Evan and Kenny LaFerriere dont have that common school-kid problem. Their ...
01:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2013
Web Designer Depot Common misconceptions about responsive design
I browse the internet everyday, on multiple devices. I use my Macbook Pro, iMac, PC, iPad, iPhone and yes even my television. So it really bothers me when I see websites that arent optimized for large...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 27, 2013
Web Designer Depot Ghost: a crowd-funded blogging platform, launching soon
Sometimes you need a fully-fledged CMS; something that lets you create any kind of website you want to create, with tons of bells and whistles. But other times you want a simple, elegant blogging plat...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 27, 2013
Web Designer Depot Whats new for web designers in Illustrator CC
On May 6th Adobe announced its latest updates to its creative software. Some of these updates have big implications on how users work with their tools. In this article, I’d like to review what A...
01:11 pm GMT - Sun, May 26, 2013
Web Designer Depot Our favorite tweets of the week: May 20, 2013 May 26, 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...
01:02 pm GMT - Sat, May 25, 2013
Web Designer Depot Comics of the week #184
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, May 24, 2013
Web Designer Depot Side project: Coloradore
Coloradoreis the side project of graphic designer Anna Kvecses in which her aim is to create a collection of interesting color palettes that take the form of simple, quirky poster designs. Alongside e...
01:15 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2013
Web Designer Depot A more social Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe has been rolling out some major changes and updates to Creative Cloud. While the new subscription-only model and individual product updates have gotten most of the attention, the new social and ...
11:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2013
Web Designer Depot Deal of the week: Responsive parallax templates
Most sites have too much information; users are overwhelmed as CEOs wax lyrical on everything from their favorite charity to the dimensions of their first office. In todays increasingly information-sa...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2013
Web Designer Depot Flat UI Kit (free download!)
Trends start everyday: an idea is adopted, passed on and before you know it its being discussed on design blogs. However, most trends vanish as quickly as they appeared. To paraphrase Andy Warhol, eve...
01:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2013
Web Designer Depot Design = emotions Plus usability
While fine art is a subjective field, graphic design is more formulaic in its fundamentals. An effective design should make people feel a certain way and take a certain action. In this article Id like...
06:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2013
Web Designer Depot Dos and donts of typography
As so much of the content available on the web is text it’s essential for web designers to understand the basic principles of good typography. Having such knowledge allows designers to communica...
01:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2013
Web Designer Depot The designers secret weapon: an account handler
Im a lucky person. Every day I get to do what I love, which is helping clients work out what their web project is going to look like. As any good account handler or project manager will tell you, thei...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2013
Web Designer Depot Fantastical fairytale photos
Film studios spend millions of dollars to create stunning epic masterpieces like The Lord of the Rings. But sometimes visual perfection can be created on a shoestring that is, when enough time, energ...
01:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2013
Web Designer Depot A taste of CoffeeScript (part 1)
Let’s face it, JavaScript hasn’t always had the best reputation among developers, and since the foundation of CoffeeScript back in 2009 this little language has taken the world of JavaScri...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2013
Web Designer Depot Side project: The Phraseology Project
The Phraseology Project was originally setup by Drew Melton as a way for him to hone his typography skills.The idea is that peoplesubmitwords or phrases and Drew, or a guest contributor, creates a typ...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2013
Web Designer Depot Designing the new, fully responsive wired.co.uk article pages
Recently, Cond Nast Digital undertook a complete redesign of the articles published on wired.co.uk. The aim was to provide a more content-first and immersive experience. These aims were established af...
10:37 am GMT - Sun, May 19, 2013
Web Designer Depot Our favorite tweets of the week: May 13, 2013 May 19, 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...
01:04 pm GMT - Sat, May 18, 2013
Web Designer Depot Comics of the week #183
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, May 17, 2013
Web Designer Depot Learn to count with CSS
Hidden away in the depths of the CSS specification you’ll find CSS counters. As the name suggests they allows you to count a thing on your page with CSS incrementing the value every time it appe...
01:15 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2013
Web Designer Depot How I learned to be REALLY creative
As I grew up, being a “creative child,” which was the description my school psychologist used to explain why I didn’t care for school or the usual subjects like math and why I wasn&#...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2013
Web Designer Depot Deal of the week: Inspiring book offer from Smashing Magazine
Almost every business has a web presence these days; from single page business card style sites, to million+ product e-commerce hubs, owning a website is as universal as taxes. Of course, there are ne...
01:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2013
Web Designer Depot The SEO sanity check part 2: Gray hat techniques
In the last post, we took an in-depth look at Googles Panda and Penguin updates and how they have impacted on search rankings for businesses. Whilst we established that using black hat SEO techniques ...
01:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to use the flexbox layout method (part 2)
In part one, we touched on how to harness the power of display: flex in your website layouts, and how versatile this new layout concept has proven to be. With those thoughts from the previous video ke...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2013
Web Designer Depot Side project: Type Fight
The side project series is a series of posts in which we’ll be taking a look at the best of designers’ side projects. To get things started, this week we’re going to be looking at Ty...
01:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2013
Web Designer Depot Whats new for designers, May 2013
The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and JavaScript resources, educational resources, wireframing kits, image tools, Photoshop ext...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2013
Web Designer Depot Farewell to Fireworks
Last week, Adobe announced that there will be no further development of their Fireworks application. Security updates will be provided and bug fixes may arrive, but for all intents and purposes Firewo...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2013
Web Designer Depot 40+ free PSDs and actions for mock-ups
It’s all about presentation. Ideas and concepts are great, but mean nothing if they cannot be properly communicated. To help others understand them, we may create prototypes or sketch out an ide...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2013
Web Designer Depot 40Plus free PSDs and actions for mock-ups
It’s all about presentation. Ideas and concepts are great, but mean nothing if they cannot be properly communicated. To help others understand them, we may create prototypes or sketch out an ide...
01:05 pm GMT - Sun, May 12, 2013
Web Designer Depot Our favorite tweets of the week: May 6, 2013 May 12, 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...
01:50 pm GMT - Sat, May 11, 2013
Web Designer Depot Comics of the week #182
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, May 10, 2013
Web Designer Depot No more Creative Suite: what does it mean?
Adobe has just announced that Creative Suite will cease to exist after CS6 (in name at least), and be replaced exclusively by Creative Cloud. On its most basic level, that means there won’t be p...
01:15 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2013
Web Designer Depot SEO sanity check part 1: Googles Penguin and Panda updates
SEO has always been a tricky business, not only do experts have to spend time on researching keywords and following the best practices, they have to be prepared for the changes which search engines in...
09:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2013
Web Designer Depot Deal of the week: The ultimate shortcodes collection
The most popular CMS out there, WordPress has a ton of great features; probably the best of which is its extensibility. Taking advantage of that Lizatom Shortcodes provides literally thousands of shor...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2013
Web Designer Depot Art, Copy & Code: advertising in the modern era
Its been said that the only thing constant is change; and in the world of advertising, this saying is especially true. For years, successful Mad Men merged art with copy, effectively defining the crea...
01:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2013
Web Designer Depot Common usability errors to avoid at all costs
One of the most important tasks on your plate as a web designer is usability. Usability is defined as a gauge of the quality of the users experience when interacting with your website. Any website you...
01:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to use the flexbox layout method (part 1)
With every new revision of CSS, a plethora of new, exciting attributes come to light; one of which being the understated display: flex approach. The flexbox layout model has been floating around the w...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to optimize for legibility using text-rendering
The most frustrating aspect of web design for designers trained for print, is the persistent lack of typographic control. Careful typographic choices are the hallmark of quality work and the lack of t...
01:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2013
Web Designer Depot Research yourself first
Every time we begin a web design project, we do research. We research our clients, their customers, the websites target audience, and the competition. Throughout our careers, we research new trends, t...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to move from Illustrator to Photoshop without rasterizing (the easy way)
I’ve always had trouble getting large groups of shapes from Illustrator over to Photoshop without rasterizing them all in the process. Up until recently the only way I knew how was to copy and p...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2013
Web Designer Depot 15+ innovative flat design websites
I first took notice of flat color web design when Google started to redesign their sites. This was during a time when gradients and drop shadows were all the rage. In using what was then Google Docs a...
01:30 pm GMT - Sun, May 5, 2013
Web Designer Depot Our favorite tweets of the week: April 29, 2013 May 5, 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...
01:43 pm GMT - Sat, May 4, 2013
Web Designer Depot Comics of the week #181
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, May 3, 2013
Web Designer Depot Kandinsky style type
Lovers of abstract art are undoubtedly familiar with the superlativeWassily Kandinsky the Russian-born painter, printmaker, and theorist who was recognized as having painted the first purely abstract ...
01:15 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2013
Web Designer Depot WDD acquires CodeVisually.com
I’m thrilled to officially announce that CodeVisually.com has been recently acquired by Webdesigner Depot and is now part of our growing family of sites. If you don’t know the site yet, Co...
09:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2013
Web Designer Depot Deal of the week: Beautiful Solomon font family
Its rare that you find a typeface with both legibility and character; the latter often obscures the former. So youd be wise to take advantage of our sister site MightyDeal.coms current offer on the be...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2013
Web Designer Depot iOS vs Android
It’s billed as the battle of the century, at least as far as app developers are concerned; which has better ROI, Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android? Consumers are split: Apple have the ...
01:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2013
Web Designer Depot 15 really creative 404 pages
We’ve talked about ‘Contact’ pages. We’ve talked about the ‘About’ page. You know what to put on these pages because, hopefully, you’ve thought long and hard ...
01:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2013
Web Designer Depot The perils of AB testing
There’s an expression in advertising that goes “I know that 80% of my advertising isn’t working. I just don’t know which 80%”.The same logic applies to all forms of desig...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2013
Web Designer Depot How to use local storage for JavaScript
Creating an to-do app is usually the first application you learn how to build in JavaScript but the problem with all those apps is that when you reload the page all those to-dos are gone. There is a s...
01:15 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2013
Web Designer Depot Defensive HTML and CSS
When it comes to rendering on somebody else’s DOM, you can’t naively write HTML and CSS like you might for your own self-contained web application. You’ve got to think carefully abou...