Articles by Web Designer Depot from October 2013

An absolute must-have for any typography buff, these wood type alphabets, available as a Flickr photoset fromPatricia M, make up one of the most visually stunning collections of wood type currently av...

Web Designers are typically thought to only solve design problems and create trendy sites. Little credit is given to the subtler role we play in commercial sites. Viewers focus and time are an increas...

Name That Blue is a deceptively simple online game that asks you to identify which household name brands go with which shade of blue. Is that IBM or Nokia? Twitter or Skype? Just click on the brand na...

The Web is constantly growing and its easy to forget that all of those pixels sit on top of hardware. That tech is only going to become more and more important with the rise of the mobile web and the ...

Great content connects. It speaks to visitors, makes them want to share it, and motivates them to buy. In a world that spews unending streams of promotionaldiarrhea, these often overlooked pillars are...

The goal of responsive web design is to seamlessly adapt the look and UX of a website to different platforms. The technique is still very young and in many areas outstrips the available technology. Tr...

The blogging platform Ghost has been getting a lot of attention recently due to its recent move from beta to public release (if you somehow haven’t heard of it yet, head over here and read up). ...

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 ...

We know from both our educations and our personal experiences that color has a huge impact on how a design or piece is perceived and received by those who cross its path. Across the Web we see the col...

Sometimes being flat is what a design calls for, at other times we get the chance to really let fly in Photoshop and create photo-realistic textures for our user interfaces. Of course, not everyone is...

Take a look at this incredible Pen, it’s an homage to how radically the Apple mouse has evolved over the years. Using a clever blend of CSS drawing and transitions, Josh Bader illustrates the be...

Do you revel in experimenting with leading-edge web design but feel conflicted by the formal technical specifications set forth by the W3C? Have doubts about applying your avant-garde ideas while achi...

Anyone working in web design and development knows that the working day passes a lot easier if you’ve got a regular supply of fresh resources, online tools and downloadable freebies. So, every m...

Love it or hate it, its getting difficult to deny generative typographys steadily increasing importance in the world of graphic design, and according to a new short film, On Generative Typography, tha...

When Google and other search engines index websites, they don’t execute JavaScript. This seems to put single page sites many of which rely on JavaScript at a tremendous disadvantage compared t...

Since the beta release, there have been countless complaints about the look and feel of iOS7. The community at large has been perplexed as to how Jony Ive Apple’s senior vice president of desig...

Modern browsers can support rich animation and interactive content without requiring use of plugins such as Flash. Instead, using a combination of JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 it’s possible to cre...

At WebdesignerDepot, we love discovering the best new resources for web designers; and when we discover them, we let you know about them too. Once in a while, we gather up these resources in a single ...

Design and development community, Forrst, has announced a completely new and improved website experience. Originally created by Kyle Bragger, the site was acquired by Zurb at the beginning of this yea...

As you know, there is a lot more to building responsive websites than width. You need sensors that give you feedback to adjust sites based on other factors. The best way to improve our feedback from y...

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 ...

TeslaThemes produce some of the most attractive, and feature-rich WordPress themes available on the Web. Now, thanks to our sister-site, MightyDeals.com, you can bag 14 of their best themes for the ti...

There are more than 71 million WordPress sites on the internet and new sites are going live every single day. One of the best ways to get up and running quickly especially if you don’t have muc...

If Angel funded Mainframe2 has their way with the cloud, what they reveal this week at Demo Fall 2013, will make Adobe’s Creative Cloud feel more like a light mist, whilst simultaneously driving...

A great way to sell a concept to a client is with a good mock-up. Mock-ups are the closest you can get to a finished product without inventing some kind of time machine, and will definitely increase t...

Ask the average person whos ever heard about these new fangled computer things which kind of computer is best for design, and youll probably get an answer like this: Well, my cousin does Photoshop, an...

It’s been a fantastic couple of years for HTML5 games, for both consumers and developers. In fact, HTML5 is turning into a great game development platform, rapidly catching up to the ubiquity of...

Placing a video in HTML5 markup is simple, no more complex for any given browser than placing an image. In this article we’ll take full advantage of the built-in browser support to build the sim...

Following months of anticipation the first public release of the Ghost blogging platform is finally live. Released three weeks ago to the 6000 smart Kickstarters who backed the project, Ghost 0.3.2 is...

The October edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, app creators, coding resources, productivity tools, testing tools, and some really great new fonts. Many...

Introducing Shumway, Mozillas open source, JavaScript-based SWF renderer. Thats right: Mozilla is making good on its promise (or threat) to create a native Web technology that will do everything the F...

The jQuery UI effects framework is modularized, just like the widget framework, allowing you to choose which parts of the package you want to use and reduce the code requirements. You can create a cus...

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 ...

Just weeks after the successful launches of the first Firefox OS smartphones to Spain, Colombia, Venezuela and Poland, Mozilla has announced that new launches of Firefox OS smartphones will begin soon...

All creatives have great ideas, it’s what we live for; that moment of inspiration at 4am that sees you leaping from bed and rushing to your desk is the excitement that makes life worthwhile. Sad...

Lunchbox is a beautifully designed typeface that brings a sense of hand-crafted goodness to your projects. In a world where companies are perceived as distant, it’s great to see a typeface that ...

Google have announced that all their searches are now encrypted. All of them. Every single one.This means no more keyword data will be passed back to site owners. Anyone watching keyword search activi...

Summer is just past, and sadly this means that Ill no longer be able to look up from my keyboard and out the window, only to come face to face with one of the seasons prettiest offerings the butterfl...

So, you think you’re a good designer? You went to a good school? You’ve got a portfolio filled to the brim with cutting-edge design? Well, think again. Because buddy, you ain’t got t...

“Let there be light” could very well be the mantra for a very talented artistic trio known as (fos). Eleni Karpatsi, Susana Piquer and Julio Calvo make up this multidisciplinary team with ...

When I was younger and I had to make Powerpoint presentations, I never really liked to do them. I couldn’t figure out why other than they just didn’t do what I wanted them to do. They were...

After going through a successful weight-loss experience, Riyadh-based designer Adelbanfeel decided to add a few extra pixels to some of the most well known fast food logos in the world, all in order t...

Sticker Mule is a kick ass service that lets you design and have printed premium quality stickers for business, promotions or just plain ole fun. All kinds of shapes and sizes are on offer; you can bu...

One of the hardest parts of starting your business or freelancing is trying to figure out what you should charge. Years ago after accepting pennies on the dollar for work, I decided I wanted to get re...

At its very heart typography is about two things: legibility, which is concerned with how distinguishable letters, words and phrases are; and readability which deals with how easy it is for the brain ...

With web users bombarded with so much information, web designers are constantly exploring new ways to deliver content. One-page websites are now being widely adopted with some of the biggest brands in...

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 ...

For the last few years millions of Americans have been asking her questions ranging from the intellectual, to the ridiculous; now thanks to CNN, we finally know the face behind the voice of Siri, the ...

If you’re not in the position to photograph your work, product mockups can be a great alternative to showcase your designs. They’re inexpensive, easy to use and relatively hassle-free. The...

Designing websites can be a fun, engaging and rewarding career. What isn’t so fun is coding sites; we’re constantly hearing how a great design concept is hampered by the complexity of codi...

Here at Webdesigner Depot, we love bringing you the amazing deals our sister-site, MightyDeals.com manages to put together. This week, we’re going to come right out and say it from the top: this...

As designers, we each develop distinct styles, and usually gravitate towards different kinds of projects when we have a choice in the matter. For me, its content-driven websites and nothing is more co...

DesignerBen Barrett-Forrest has created a delightful and informative stop motion animation about the history of fonts and typography. The History of Typography, which is just over 5 minutes long, cove...

It was once all about gradients. It was once all about the watercolor effect. I even remember a time when it was all about the fun strokes and swooshes in logos. We have gone through so many different...

You might create spectacular websites, but your efforts can be wasted if your client’s sales pitch doesn’t feature a unique value proposition. What’s that? It’s a promise that ...

Yesterday Google released the beta version of its newest project: Web Designer. Announced earlier this year, Web Designer is a visual tool for building HTML5 adverts; although one suspects Google̵...

Building complex, flexible layouts has never been easy, but CSS3 has certainly taken away a lot of the headaches. CSS3 features like Flexbox and Columns have made some complex layouts a real possibili...

When it comes down to it, user experience should be the number-one priority for mobile developers. Really successful mobile experiences are not compromised, stripped-down versions of their desktop cou...