Articles by Web Designer Depot from March 2018

We can never get enough of the icons drawn by Iconshock, and this awesome free set is no exception. Designed to honor the thousands of animals that are extinct, or endangered, the set depicts some of ...

Recently I have encountered more and more people asking for one specific thing: words, and lots of them. No, truly, I mean a lot of them. They want long-form content: articles that go from 2,000 to 5,...

Its every business owners goal to provide a fantastic experience for every client or customer and ensure that each of them walks away happy. But when you work in a service-based capacity, these arent ...

Sticky menus, sliding navigations, fixed navbarstheres quite a few names for this trend. But they all mean the same thing: a navigation that follows you around the page while you scroll. Not everyone ...

With less than 2 months before the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force on the 25th May, tens of thousands of businesses are woefully underprepared, and many businesses outside o...

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...

Regardless of what kind of WordPress website youre running, chances are an RSS aggregator plugin can help you deliver more value through it. RSS feeds give you the option to curate content from multip...

Its here, people! NBC has gone (more) digital, because we as a society have decided that this was better for the environment, and also because the news gets to our phones so much faster. Its also chea...

Nobody wants to create bad design, and yet it happens all the time. And while the cause of bad design varies, the final result is the samebad user experience. Bad user experience frustrates users and ...

Google Web Designer just released its 3.0 beta version for public consumption and testing. Despite the products name, you still cant design websites with it. For those of you who figured that out when...

Spring is in the air with plenty of new tools, particular color and CSS options. We hope that the change of season has you inspired to create and that these new design tools can make your work life ju...

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 you can get through the basics of PHP then youll have a solid foundation on backend development. Its knowledge you can use for WordPress coding or even to build your own webapps. But developers now...

When you build a site, you need to start with the user experience (UX) and work backwards. Even before you write a single line of code, youll need to know who the users youre writing that code for are...

If experience has taught me anything its that pictures are better than words, nothing aligns everyones understanding of a web design problem like a quick scribble with a sharpie (other writing instrum...

Hello readers! Its March. As is tradition, Ive gone and collected a bunch of interesting portfolio designs for your perusal. Its an eclectic mix this month. Youll see some plain and basic good design ...

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...

Its going to happen a design project or website launch will go poorly. What you do in the first hours, days, and weeks after that mistake can shape your future career path. Every designer makes a mis...

I am consumer, hear me roar! Thats a thing I actually wrote once, un-ironically, in a text conversation with a friend. I was looking for a product that would allow me to perform a particular task in a...

When we design our products, we often design for the happy path scenario, ideal user flow without any obstacles. But in real life, there are situations which dont go to plan. Such conditions are calle...

One of the best things about spring can be website design. Warmer air seems to put designers in a brighter bolder mood, and that shows in this months roundup of trends. From bolder color choices with ...

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 ...

Email remains a resilient form of communication for marketers, despite the myriad of other communication platforms available today. Most people check their emails at least once a day, and spam now has...

Properly protecting the security of your website has to be number 1 on everybodys digital checklist. Unfortunately, security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain, and that weakest link i...