Articles by Web Designer Depot from March 2016

If youre a fan of WordPress, and you build sites professionally, youve almost certainly encountered Divi; Elegant Themes flagship theme and builder. Weve covered the release of several versions, and s...

Not all developers and tech services consider the visually impaired when rolling out their latest designs and updates, so its refreshing when one finally does. Twitter, which recentlycelebrated its 10...

One more Google service has officially been redesigned, and its about time. Thats right, Google is redesigning their entire Adwords platform. Its been around eight years since the last redesign, and a...

Theres been a lot of talklately about AMP(Accelerated Mobile Pages). From February 24th onward, Google search results began to include links to mobile-page versions that were built with this open-sour...

One of the great things about looking at trends each month is catchinga glimpse of what designers are experimenting with. In particular, you start to see a distinct crossover of elements that you migh...

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 ...

If youre looking for a clean, functional typeface for a project, you cant go far wrong with Unio Creative Studios Venice Serif, so were delighted that were able to bring it to you as a free download. ...

Today, 53% of all email opens occur on a mobile device. Since more than half of people check their emails on mobile, itd be crazy not to have a platform with responsive email design. After all, 70% of...

Responsive design is an essential and necessary part of web development. One of the biggest issues with responsive web design as of late has been images.Many debate the best way to display images on a...

This tutorial will help you with the most important thing you probably arent doing for your MailChimp newsletter: ensuring its delivery. If your newsletter isnt being delivered, then no training, or t...

We live in a world where every startup and its dog promises to change your life through design. The most important works of design, however, are the ones that many of us barely even think about. In th...

The microblogging platform that revolutionized how the world communicates and markets with 140-character snippets just turned 10. Its hard to believe that such an omnipresent service is just a decade ...

The number of web designers who still look down their noses at website publishers (such asSquarespace, Wix, or Webydo) is unbelievable to me. Eye rolling, haughty chuckling, bursts of forced laughter&...

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 ...

After many months of hard work, this week weve unveiled our latest redesign… When Webdesigner Depot first launched in 2010, the Web was a very different place. Back then, the way we all consumed...

Trust occurs when our physical, emotional and logical responses combine into one confident, positive intuitive feeling. When we trust companies or brands, the feelingor experienceis often carefully cu...

Ad blocking has become so prevalent on the Internet that a study from last year estimates that publishers will lose as much as $22 billion from this software. Their fears have only been worsened by Op...

In late 2014, Serif released Affinity Designer to the world. In early 2015, they followed that success with the release of Affinity Photo, the would-be Photoshop-killer. It seems to have worked out pr...

When I first learned to code, and started looking for freelance web design projects, I felt like I was in a Catch-22. My portfolio was totally empty; but I couldnt fill it with impressive projects wit...

Inclusive design is a hot topic and choosing an accessible font for your website is important for all brands, not just public bodies and charities. But how can you tell which typefaces are accessible ...

Formerly known as Project Comet, Adobe Experience Design CC, is now available as a free pre-release download.Adobe XD, or just XD, for short, the consistent mis-spelling underlines the tools target ma...

In this months edition of whats new for designers and developers, weve included coding resources, drag and drop design tools, productivity apps, stock photo sources, coding languages, open source tool...

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 ...

Do you want to work for Google? Oh who are we kidding? Of course you do! Now, how would you like to join a program where you get paid to experiment wildly, creating things in the Google Creative Lab? ...

Olesia is a script typeface with a difference: its extra loops and curly swashes, on letters like ‘b’ and ‘E’, add a charmingly care-free air that it lends to any design its us...

Inclusive design is a hot topic and choosing an accessible font for your website is important for all brands, not just public bodies and charities. But how can you tell which typefaces are accessible ...

Building forms is one of the most time-consuming processes on any website build; you need to code the inputs, validate the data, and securely capture information in a format that you can use. Multiply...

Last month Adobe released an update to Adobe Muse CC, a popular visual web design tool that allows you to create websites without code. This new, powerful tool is included with the Creative Cloud. As ...

Hows it going, compadres? This months roundup hand-picked from all across the web includes icons, design assets, illustrations, vector artwork, UI kits, some really cool code snippets, fonts, template...

Rumored for the longest time, Facebook Messenger on Android has finally joined the Material Design club, with its latest update. Taking virtually no one by surprise, this Material Design update is non...

Welcome, readers, back to our monthly portfolio roundup. Have a look at the sites weve featured, get inspired for the month, and start sketching! If youve recently built yourself a great-looking portf...

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 ...

When we design websites, we do so to get a message across to our audience. However, one of the biggest hurdles that we often have to overcome in order to get that message to our visitors is clutter. W...

Mac-based typophiles rejoice! Bohemian Codinghave smiled on you in the form of a new Sketch update. Where before there were inconsistent baselines and sadness, there shall now be great-looking text, a...

Google Photos, Googles picture and video-sharing and storage service, has been upgraded to give users a bunch of new features aimed at improving ease of use. The changes affect both the desktop-web ve...

One of the biggest clashes in design has been the question of whether to strip down your landing page to the point where its so minimal that it has no navigation at all. Proponentsargue that the only ...

How many times have you been on a website, only to leave frustrated and annoyed at the experience you received during your visit? Believe it or not, this is a fairly common occurrence, especially when...

Since the advent of responsive web design, entrepreneurs, designers, hobbyists, prototyping startups, and design applications have been releasing tools to allow us to preview our designs at different ...