Articles by Web Designer Depot from October 2018

When looking at good design, I often look for things that arent totally obvious. Theres an instinct that you like something before you know why. Thats the common thread among this months three essenti...

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...

Before you ever sit down to design a website for a client, you develop user personas that are representative of their target audience. Once youve established an identity for the main user (or users), ...

WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal; these are perhaps the three biggest names in the world of the consumer CMS. They are known, they are loved, they are behemoths for a good reason. Theres no escaping them...

Tech folklore has it that the landing page was born in late 2003, when Microsoft created the concept in response to poor online sales of Office. Realising that the buying process had to be smoother an...

Welcome to our roundup of the best websites launched (or relaunched with major updates) in the last four weeks. This months collection features one all-pervading theme: color....

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...

By now, youve likely encountered and worked your way out one of the more common problems freelancers face. In moving your business model from one that bills by the hour to value-based pricing, you bec...

Okay, for the love of any God you prefer, read this bit before you start writing commentsplease? Ive been studying up on philosophical Taoism lately because someone very near and dear to me is a (phil...

How to create very cool effects with a rarely used feature....

Adobes annual MAX conference is well underway in LA, and as usual theres a big buzz around changes to the Creative Cloud suite. Adobes product line often seems archaicparts of Photoshops first codebas...

You might notice a theme this month in our collection of new tools for designers: color. There are lots of color resources sprinkled throughout this collection. But there are plenty of other goodies a...

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...

When was the last time you visited a website with no images? As web designers, we love adding images to our designs because images are memorable and give us a direct channel of communication to the au...

Theres little doubt that WordPress is one of the biggest web technologies in the world, powering around a third of the web, and growing all the time. Until recently WordPress was only for the initiate...

I know I know: Content is king! Youre already sick to the back-teeth of hearing it. Youve made your content, you know your target audienceyou just want to build some links and get some darn traffic to...

Last year, Rachel McPherson shared 9 ways to organize successful creative projects. Its a very useful article that highlights the main things to do if you want to bring greater control and organizatio...

Hello Readers! Can you believe that I have not found one single Halloween-themed portfolio? I guess no one wanted to base their entire site on a one-day holiday. While understandable, this disappoints...

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 a universal truth that theres more than one meaning to just about every word. This is doubly true for industry lingo. If youre just getting started in web design, you need to know what everything ...

The competition in the e-commerce market is fiercer than ever, as brands wrangle to outdo rivals by deploying the latest techniques and practices technology can offer. However, its hard to predict an ...

One of the perks of freelancing is that you can work from pretty much anywhere. However, the pressures of staying connected to work may leave you stuck behind a computer all day anyway. While theres s...

Looking for a new browser? Lots of people are, right now, thanks to certain developments in a certain browser that rhymes with Dome. Enter Vivaldi 2.0. Yep, the Chromium-based browser created by a for...

This months trends have something in common: Youve probably seen all of these ideas before, maybe just presented in a slightly different way. Designers are returning to dark backgrounds, large headers...

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...