Articles by Web Designer Depot from June 2015

New projects are being released all the time that make us excited, curious, inspired and sometimes a little bit jealous. Today we continue our monthly series of the very best free resources for web de...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

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 ...

The Internet isn’t all in English. I mean, I know this. You know this. But unless you actually have to stop and think about building a website in more than one language, you might not look close...

All thetime freelance web designers spend in coffee shops was bound to rub off sooner or later; whether its the hipster style aesthetic, or the dramatic scale they allow us to work on, everybody loves...

Its no longer enough to simply make sure your web content fits on a small screen. Google reinforced this precedent by updating its algorithm to emphasize the importance of carefully planned and well-e...

Being able to quickly and efficiently one-line our skills and the focus of our professional life has a lot of value. The title that we use can effectively tell others what we do, and where our career ...

2015 continues to be a fantastic year for fonts. Type designers are increasingly prolific and theres a new design for every possible project, often completely free, or with a free option or weight. Th...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

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 ...

Designing your website navigation is like laying the foundation for your house. Failure to plan your foundation properly could put your building at risk of collapse, regardless of how nice it looks. I...

The only thing we love more than a good font, is a good free font. So weve combed the Web for some of our favorite free fonts, and gathered them here in a single download. Youll find a variety of usef...

Divi is more than just another WordPress theme. Designed and built by Elegant Themes, Divi is a complete theme builder, enabling you to create unique designs for WordPress sites, right out of the dash...

Adobe have just rolled out a majorupdate to their Creative Cloud suite of design tools.In addition to the usual bug fixes and performance enhancements, all 15 primary apps have new features. Synonymou...

Have you ever heard the saying web design is 95% typography? If you have, its with good reason: its 100% true, the majority of what youll encounter on the Webis written content.The idea was coined bac...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

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 this months edition of whats new for designers and developers, weve included lots of podcasts, design resource directories, lots of web apps, inspiration sources, productivity resources, new framew...

When you consider the success stories of the internet age, you could be forgiven for believing that luck has been the deciding factor. Amazon, for example, is a retail company whose launch coincided w...

It used to be that you could just whack out a tileable image as a gif or jpg at 72dpi and tile it with CSS. Its a common practice amongst web designers, and has been for years; its a quick and easy wa...

Yesterdays keynote at the Apple WWDC featuredtwo new OS.The new MacOS is named El Capitan after a rock formation in Yosemite (which has been taken by most commentators to indicate that Apple sees its ...

Social media is the key to any websites popularity. Taking advantage of the psychological phenomenon known as social proof, social shares greatly influence whether people read content or sharesharing ...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

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 ...

Affordances in design are important to usability and function. Theyre one of the components of design that have to come together to provide an impeccable user experience. To understand exactly what ma...

Its 11:20am on a Tuesday and my husband and I are working in our favorite coffee shop just around the corner from our office. Hes busy responding to emails while Im looking at busy peoplewatching and ...

WordPress is a really powerful platform. Making a responsive theme and integrating it is pretty easy once you know the basics of theming. Responsive images, on the other hand, are not something WordPr...

Very few of the major players from the Webs early days are still with us. Business models that thrived in the days of dial-up connections and web-safe color palettes tend not to suit the modern mobile...

When youre working on a branding project, the principle asset is the font you use for the logotype. The decision on what font to use is a critical point in any identity design. You often need somethin...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...