Articles by Web Designer Depot from November 2013

There is nothing worse than trawling through icon sets, looking for the right icon, as the clock clowly ticks down towards a deadline. There are so many great vector icon sets out there, but very few ...

It’s Black Friday, a day when all sensible Americans stay home eating leftovers and doing their shopping online. In honor of the almost-holiday, today we’re going to take a look at some of...

It’s pretty easy to get confused as to who owns what right now. Pick any web start-up and there’s a good chance that it’s either owned by a major player, or in the process of conside...

For designers passionate about the latest developments across the full spectrum of visual design, there’s a brand new site that features some of the most exciting, innovative and inspiring desig...

If you are a freelancer or you work from home, then you might know exactly how it feels to be on your own little island. You’re cooped up in your office all the I time trying to get work done. I...

Zurb’s Foundation is one of the most widely-used responsive frameworks available at the minute and for good reason, too. With a flexible grid system, a seemingly endless features-list and a com...

If youre a WordPress developer, youll know that there are a huge range of themes out there to build a site from. Many free ones are good, but for the very best features you need a premium theme. The d...

It’s a sad fact that the biggest problem freelancers face, is disagreements with a client once a project has started. It seems judging by the amount of problems overheard by complaining designe...

WordPress, one of the most popular blogging and website platforms in the world, accounts for thousands of new blogs and websites every day. One of the best ways to get up and running quickly especial...

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 ...

This fantastic icons set, created exclusively for WebdesignerDepot by PixelKit, is a brilliant twist on the repetitive ‘flat’ icons that are everywhere right now.Using the bright but desat...

Theres no escaping the fact that some of the most vital information can be as dull as dishwater. No matter how you try and write up facts and figures, they just dont grab people. When it comes communi...

Web design is an adventure. Creating awesome projects requires time, creativity, and a lot of hard work. And sometimes you need a little help, so every month we bring you a selection of our favorite t...

Today, the California-based product design team at ZURB announce the release of Foundation 5, the responsive web design framework thats been adopted by millions of designers and engineers. Designers h...

Today, the California-based product design team at ZURB announce the release of Foundation 5, the responsive web design framework thats been adopted by millions of designers and engineers. Designers h...

User Experience has come a long way in the last decade, especially in the world of web design. Now more than ever, people are more focused on making sure the user not only has it easy, but also enjoys...

Dutch design studio Today Designers has printed a book using a very special kind of inksquid ink. The book, entitled Naar Inkt Vissen (which translates to Fishing For Ink in English), contains 48 page...

One of the most important things about creating a brand is making sure everything is cohesive. Once a brand pinpoints their values and how they’d like to be perceived, they have to make sure all...

Recently while perusing some of the discussions that are currently happening throughout the web design community, I happened across an active dialog going on in the comments of a Tuts+ article,All Abo...

Web designers use a lot of tools to make the sites they design the best possible for site visitors; one of the best ways of achieving this is incorporating actual science and research into design to m...

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 ...

If you’re a living, moving, breathing person, then the chances are very high that you’ve heard of the newest infatuation in the design world, flat design. If you’re unsure, here̵...

The constant geometric precision of screen-based design is enough to dehumanize any design project. The best way to counter that is with a typeface that screams “hand written!” That’...

On the celebrated heels of its new logo and custom typeface, the Olympic brand team has just completed the most exhaustive collection of Olympic pictograms ever created in the history the event. Takin...

A lot of designers use some sort of CSS pre-processor, whether that be Sass, LESS or Stylus. If you’ve used any of these, you’re probably also aware that Compass is a framework built on Sa...

The normal process when encoding video goes something like this: sort files, set preferences, start encoding, make a coffee, check progress, make another coffee, check progress, phone home, do some on...

In case you’ve been living in a cave with no internet access for the past few years, you’re almost certainly familiar with Dribbble. But just in case you aren’t, it’s a place f...

How do you date a photo? Normally, you take a look at the fashion, the buildings, and the cars. If that’s how you do it then these nostalgic photos may well have you fooled. Often recreated in m...

In the previous part of this tutorial,using a mixture of HTML5, jQuery and CSS, we constructed the barebones functionality of our HTML5-driven full-screen video background. This time, we’re goin...

The November edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, graphic design tools, coding resources, project management tools, icons, mapping resources, and some re...

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 ...

Welcome, friends, to WebdesignerDepot’s first monthly WordPress plugin roundup. (Try saying that out loud really fast a few times!) If there’s one word that I would use to describe the Wor...

Fleurons are typographic elements, much like swashes; they add an elaborate touch to display text, they create borders and frames; they can even be used as background patterns. Complex to draw, these ...

App design powerhouse, ZURB today launched Ink, a powerful new resource for designers to easily produce responsive HTML emails that look and work great across more mobile platforms than ever, includin...

You may have heard of CSS preprocessing and be wondering what all the buzz is about. You may even have heard of Sass or LESS. In short, preprocessing your CSS allows you to write more concise styleshe...

Make something interesting is a client request we dont hear often. When Adobe asked it of Kelli Anderson (they wanted a handout for AIGA’s annual design event), she decided this was the perfect ...

We love responsive web design and rightfully so. As a matter of fact, it’s almost mind boggling when a website isn’t responsive these days. It’s been a trend on the up and up for a w...

Full screen images used as the background of sites have an amazing visual impact, but did you know that you can use video in exactly the same way? After all the excitement of working with HTML5 audio,...

Charts are far better for displaying data visually than tables and have the added benefit that no one is ever going to press-gang them into use as a layout tool. They’re easier to look at and co...

When someone lands on your website for the very first time, what happens? Thats the most critical point of conversion for any website: That moment when a new visitor takes their first glance at your p...

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 ...

In advertising and marketing, the term “soft sell” is an approach at selling and item by connecting with a potential customer. By soft selling a product, you don’t put any pressure o...

Looking for a good alternative to the tedium of Helvetica? Us too, and we think we’ve got the answer right here. Out sister-site, MightyDeals.com, has revived its sensational deal on the Verb Fo...

The old saying is that the optimist sees the glass as half full, while the pessimist sees the glass as half empty. It is, however, the opportunist who drinks the water while the other two argue about ...

Let me start by saying this, I will not be including any point-and-click design tools in this list (think Adobe Edge Reflow). The reason is simple enough, I believe that theyre bad for everyone; desig...