Articles by Web Designer Depot from June 2013

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 ...

Ampersand 2013 held today in Brighton, UK was the third iteration of the popular web typography conference. Describing itself as “an affordable one-day event for knowledgeable web designers an...

Web designers are expected to be masters of all trades; from responsive websites to email templates, animated banners to WordPress SEO techniques. Its pretty hard to be great at everything. Take the o...

The days of CS6 are fading into the distance behind us, and Adobe has officially launched the newest version of what has, until now, been called Creative Suite (though from here on out it’s call...

Today, everyones a photographer, grabbing their iPhones for a quick snap. Pictures are posted at a moments notice on Facebook and Instagram, so theres never a void of visuals. Perhaps this image satur...

In order to deliver a clean, fresh, and more importantly effective user interface, usability tests are required. It is very unlikely any designer, regardless of his reputation and skills, will be ab...

Silver Screen Society is a project curated and maintained by graphic designers Trevor Basset and BrandonSchaefer. The idea is to honor themany stories told through the world of cinema by each month fe...

We’re all familiar with Adobe Creative Cloud (ne Creative Suite). Popular favorites are Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. They’re great tools that are extremely powerful, get the job d...

I dare say that many of us are interested in the nuts and bolts of how things work. I know I was fascinated by the exposed interior of my first iMac back in the 00s. Im not sure Id go so far as to act...

I ought to know a lot about charities and non-profit organizations. My parents are career missionaries; and I grew up in an environment where everyone I knew was dedicated to improving the lives of ot...

Responsive design is everywhere, and whether you’re using a framework or writing media queries yourself, some elements on your page are bound to move or scale. If your media queries are based on...

Stock photo sites are almost always behind any great designer. Good stock photos can do great things for a project, just as bad stock photography can ruin it. Picking the right pics has a lot to do 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 ...

One of the biggest problems designing websites in Photoshop is that time-consuming period after your design gets approval, when you have to work through it layer by layer, converting your design to CS...

The first thing that springs to mind when we think of branding is likely the large, cultivated brand imagery that forms the face of billion-dollar firms such as Apple. The reality is that branding is ...

Got a great idea for a site, but don’t know how to create a WordPress theme? Maybe you’ve already built a site but your client wants a CMS and you’re not sure where to start. Or perh...

The Everywhere Project is a collaborative project curated by designer and illustrator, Adrian Walsh. It was created as a tribute to the classic folk song “I’ve Been Everywhere” which...

For some web designers, its pretty standard practice to place a link back to their own site on the footer of a website designed for a client. Whilst many reputable designers have always avoided it, in...

This set of 25 Colorful Grunge Textures was designed by Florin Gorgan and is perfect for use as overlay textures on your photos. You can see more of Florin’s work in his site or hisEtsy shop. Fo...

Somewhere around 18% of the web is powered by WordPress. The humble blogging platform has grown into a web-titan of monster proportions. Substantially fewer sites are hosting on WordPress.com Automat...

Back in January this year jQuery announced a new plugins registry, so now seemed like a great time to write a tutorial combining building a jQuery plugin with my passion – realtime web technolog...

Imagine this: you’re sitting at a bus stop, patiently waiting for your ride. Maybe you’re checking Facebook or reading an ebook on your phone, or staring off into space, or mentally review...

The June edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, JavaScript resources, Photoshop scripts, web development tools, color palette tools, image apps, video reso...

The Secret Handshakeis a fabulous project, aimed at helping young designers (1825) find their way into the industry. You should always quantify the advice you take based on who’s giving it to yo...

When I was first introduced to graphic design, I was extremely young and a member of a pretty popular message board. Posters showed respect for other members by presenting them with these things calle...

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 ...

It was only a matter of time before Apples recent updates by hardware design chief Jony Ive became fodder for talented jokesters and spoofers alike. A new Tumblr blog, aptly named Jony Ive Redesigns T...

Most of the time, the first contact a customer will have with your business is through your website. Consequently, the website could make or break your business. To ensure that the website makes it, h...

A good cursive typeface is hard to come by; most have a tendency to look like either a hand-written note from the Marquis de Sade, or a grocery list written in haste by a particularly harassed doctor....

Responsive design is a relatively new term in web design. It was only coined three years ago in May of 2010, when web designer Ethan Marcotte used the term inhis articlefor A List Apart. Today, theres...

There has been furious debate in the last twenty four hours on the merits and failings of Apples iOS7 update, and the most hotly debated subject is the new icons. Theyve been hailed as a daring, and r...

Modus Versus is a free multi-purpose PSD template, designed on the 1170 grid system. Excellent for use with responsive frameworks like the popular Twitter Bootstrap, it could form the basis of a good ...

A couple of weeks ago the famous Foundation framework released its fourth version. If you have never heard of Foundation we’re going to guide you through using this responsive framework. Since v...

There were plenty of announcements at yesterdays Apple WDDC keynote speech: the new Mac Pro; MacBook Airs; and of course, iOS7. But the announcement that seems to be universally well received is the n...

If you’re a designer or developer with an idea for a new product or website, the chances are that you will need someone who has the skills that you lack in order to help make it a reality. It...

Over the past few years, soaring mobile usage has sparked an evolution, or perhaps revolution, in the way that we approach delivering content to online users. The ultimate goal is a fluid, mobile and ...

Over the past few years, soaring mobile usage has sparked an evolution, or perhaps revolution, in the way that we approach delivering content to online users. The ultimate goal is a fluid, mobile and ...

As expected, Apple used today’s keynote presentation at their WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) to launch the latest version of their mobile operating system: iOS7. The launch has been grea...

The web’s increasing infatuation with flat design has lead to a rapid rejection of artifice like drop shadows, in favor of a cleaner more shape-based look. But this leaves the designer with a pr...

Why are magazines and books always laid out the same? Even with alternative design, there is a harmony in layout or the readers head will explode or they will just stop reading and skip to the next pa...

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 ...

While most artists seek to have their work immortalized, 51-year-old Jim Denevan plans for his art to be temporary. His enormous land creations use natural materials like sand, earth and ice, effectua...

I think it’s safe to say that we all love a bit of web nostalgia. Towards the end of last year the Space Jam website which hasn’t been updated since 1996 started doing the rounds on Twit...

For this week’s featured deal our sister site, MightyDeals.com, has put together a massive bundle from the team at CrazyPixels; sure to help out any freelancer without the chops or the time to p...

Cutting a path through the clouds, heading to some far-flung destination; or working through the night to connect national and international business; the way we perceive airlines has barely changed i...

As an amateur designer, there were two things I loved to go to when making pieces: filters and brushes. Filters were just cool and fun to mess around with. Brushes were tons of fun as well, but I woul...

The growing dissatisfaction with Adobes exodus to the cloud and the accompanying subscription licensing model shows no sign of abating. Thousands of designers have been searching for alternatives to C...

The Wander Postcard Project is the brainchild of the team at social media start-up Wander. Theyasked some of their favourite designers and illustrators to imagine a postcard from everywhere and nowher...

There’s always that one big problem in art school, where you spot a few fellow students that you know “have it!” They don’t need to learn anything because they came into school...

In version 2.5 WordPress introduced shortcodes, and all of us have probably used them at one time or another.They usually come bundled with plugins, or even themes, and what they do is watch for when ...

Nostalgia is very common in the world of web design. We see it in varying degrees in vintage and retro styled websites, as well as in small touches on otherwise-modern designs. A lot of designers like...

Today we have a neat giveaway from our friends at Jumpeye which will come in handy for all developers. The Jumpeye framework is a responsive design framework that helps users build websites that look ...

Web design is a subtle science that is lost to most who are not in the field. The amount of choices that go into building the perfect presentation for the content the client has to offer are so vast, ...

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 ...

Its fascinating to watch the evolution of a brand. Companies large and small inevitably change their identity over time.Those branding changes can be inspired by changes of personnel, changes in the c...

After a few years (or even months) of designing and developing WordPress themes, especially for clients, you start to realize that a lot of the functionality can be standardized or distilled down into...