Articles by Web Designer Depot from June 2014

We might be inclined to think of highly decorative and multi-colored fonts as belonging to the digital type age. Not so. Chromatic Type which enabled the use of outlines, shadows, and multiple colors ...

Copy, paste, drag, copy, paste, dragif youve ever built up a collage of images in Photoshop youll be well aware of how laborious the process is. Well labor no longer! Our sister-site, MightyDeals.com,...

Designing in the browser used to scare me. Not because it seemed hard but because I thought I would end up with a design made up of a lot of little boxes, something that was so generic and bland I wou...

Today Adobe are releasing a major update to Creative Cloud. It will see significant updates to all 14 major applications, and theres more exciting news about the product range. Since the announcement ...

Bicinternationally renowned maker of ballpoint pens, lighters, and razorshas a fantastic record for imaginative self-promotion. Their latest project is the Universal Typeface Experiment,a collaborativ...

Pitching is a toxic and addictive habit that sucks up valuable resources and ultimately demeans both you and the work you do. In the creative industries, pitching is understood to be the most commonly...

When designing a website we have to strike a balance between the visual elements and the text elements of the site. This is no secret, but it is often not thought of in these terms of balancing betwee...

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 ...

When designing a lot of websites, we tend to focus on how to best use text for things like navigation. Images are primarily thought of assupport for the text (with the exception of things like portfol...

When designing a lot of websites, we tend to focus on how to best use text for things like navigation. Images are primarily thought of assupport for the text (with the exception of things like portfol...

With the current fashion for hand-lettering, any designer who isnt at one with a brush and ink may find themselves at somewhat of a disadvantage in the current climate. Fortunately our sister-site, Mi...

You may have thought it was the extra caffeine intake that makes your coffee-house visits extra productive, but studies show that it may not be the beans that get your creative juices flowing. An Amer...

The June edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, frameworks, grid systems, game platforms, inspirational resources, Photoshop plugins, text editors, and som...

Storytelling is virtually as old as the human race itself. Ever since human beings could talk, they used storytelling as a way to communicate ideas, lessons and concepts. Web design is all about commu...

We all start somewhere. As a new designer, I couldn’t have cared less about structure in my designs. I would open up Photoshop, and pushpixels around until I made something that I thought looked...

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 ...

Web design is one of the most exciting fields to work in, but keeping up with the technology involved can be a challenge; and when you add into the mix the industrys favorite software, Adobe Creative ...

This is not a management article. Well, it kind of is, but please leave your agile-lean-workplace-organization-human-resources backpack at the door. Were here to talk about making things; making them ...

There are some tasks that are so tedious to complete online that we always put them off until the last minute: whether youre filing your taxes or buying groceries, the number of required fields is alw...

There are some tasks that are so tedious to complete online that we always put them off until the last minute: whether youre filing your taxes or buying groceries, the number of required fields is alw...

Webdesigners dont work in a vacuum, our designs dont exist in the whitespace of a monitor; they are out there in the real world, where real people use them in their everyday lives. This has always bee...

While a lot of online communication has moved to social media, email is still a very important part of any online marketing campaign. And when we think of marketing emails, what generally comes to min...

[ This is a sponsored post on behalf of Webydo ] Hot on the heels of their professionalweb design platform, WYSIWYG front-runners Webydohave announced their community-choices latest feature:Parallax S...

At Apples WWDC today, the company debuted some pretty meh changes to iOS7; iOS8, which will be available to download in the Autumn of this year, might have more appropriately been named iOS7.1. Amongs...

Ladies and Gents, were back with yet more plugins for you to try out. As usual, weve got a little something for everyone; from improving your writing to improving your communitys code. Take a look thr...

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 ...