Articles by Web Designer Depot from November 2017

The online world is dynamic and constantly evolving. One method holds the high ground today only to lose it tomorrow. But in spite of this volatile nature, one thing remains the sine qua non of online...

This is the 4th part of The Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS Customer On-Boarding. SaaS Customer On-boarding is the process that users have to experience while initiating their journey on a companys s...

All three of this months essential design trends have to do with typography. And the trends showcase some pretty stellar ways to use beautiful type to create user engagement and make a great first imp...

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 huge discounts at the mall arent enough to drag you away from the turkey leftovers, then weve got the perfect solution for you: Weve put together the 35+ best crowd-funding projects that are live r...

Header navigation menus can often be overlooked when it comes to inventive and creative web design. But as the primary way users explore and interact with your website, investing in engaging header na...

Header navigation menus can often be overlooked when it comes to inventive and creative web design. But as the primary way users explore and interact with your website, investing in engaging header na...

Business owners and web designers are pulled in many different directions when determining what features and content they should add to their website. Variables like site colors, button designs, anima...

There are basically two kinds of portfolio websites nowadays: those with asymmetrical layouts, and those with background images that change when you hover over the name of a project. At least, thats k...

With everyone getting excited (on a positive or negative note, depending on who youre taking to) over Gutenberglaunching in WordPress 5.0, its easy to forget that WordPress had another major version u...

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 ...

This week, Mozilla launched Firefox 57aka Quantumthe biggest update to the browser in its 13 year history. 75% of Firefoxs code has been rewritten for Quantum, 5,000,000 lines of code in total. 700 de...

When you do it right, a call-to-action button will get visual attention. When paired with an offer that is compelling, it actually gets people very eager to act. The way the CTA button is created, as ...

In an ideal world, people would come to our websites feeling happy, refreshed, and disturbingly eager to buy stuff. They would know exactly what theyre looking for, and exactly how to get it from us a...

In a few short years Instagram has become one of the leading social networks for advertizing, with active monthly users in the US alone expected to reach 104 million in the next 18 months. With almost...

Fall into something new this time of year, with a collection of challenges, tutorials and new tools to speed up your workflows. This months collection of new design and development tools is sure to in...

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 were not mincing words, web design is the business of getting people to buy stuff, or buy into stuff. Except, you know, its on the web. And unlike with printed ads, or TV ads, we have to make sure ...

Its easy to get caught up in the everyday routine if you are a website designer. Whether you are managing sites for clients or taking care of a company website, it is important to step back from the d...

Online blogs have morphed into digital publications with every major print brand running its own website. These blogs usually take the form of a digital magazine which looks much more professional tha...

Its one of the worst parts about being a designer: Being forced to create work you feel is subpar. Work thats absolutely doomed to fail. Designers go through this every day. This isnt exclusive to des...

With Black Friday/Cyber Monday just a few weeks away, its time to get clients set up and ready to sell. The list of solutions to choose from keeps on getting longer, so how do you pick which one to go...

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 ...

WebVRis an amazing way to create immersive 3D Virtual Reality experiences in the browser. Its an experimental specification of Javascript APIs and has a lot of backers and people pushing it forwards, ...

Once in a while, I just have to try something new. Maybe I feel my skills are slipping. Maybe I want to jumpstart the neurons responsible for my creativity. Maybe Im bored. There are a lot of good rea...

Search is like a conversation between the user and system: the user expresses their information need as a query, and the system expresses its response as a set of results. Search is a fundamental acti...

Its Halloween, and theres no better way to enjoy it than to grab a flashlight and peer into some of the darker corners of the web. The festival dates back to the ancient Celts, whose year began on the...