Articles by Web Designer Depot from May 2019

To stop the all too familiar scenario of seeing a beautifully designed identity go out into the world only to be misused by a client we need to be empowering them with the right kind of identity guide...

The Internet of today is a highly competitive place. With so many individuals and businesses spending money and time on digital marketing and SEO trying to outperform their rivals and sit at the top ...

Tricking people can be well tricky. The problem, at its most fundamental level, is that people only like to be tricked when they expect to be tricked. Obviously, if you trick them and take money they ...

Welcome to our monthly roundup of the freshest web designs, released (or rereleased with significant updates) in the last four weeks. This months selection eschews popular trends in favor of intellige...

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...

For websites running on WordPress, theres a myriad of plugins that can ramp up their SEO ranking and enhance organic traffic. But with more than 50,000 WordPress plugins available in the official dire...

Word-of-mouth marketing is one of the best ways to get new business and high-quality business at that. But unless youre focused on a very small space where everyone knows each other, it can be hard t...

In a perfect world, wed all have all the content we needed before we ever touched a wireframe, on paper or otherwise. The hate for lorem ipsum is real, and I do understand why, but its a simple fact t...

Within hours of the recent mass shooting at a New Zealand mosque by a far-right terrorist, the countrys authorities were scrambling to ensure a sickening video the murderer streamed on Facebook was ba...

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...

Designing an interactive interface or a website is not an easy feat. You have to analyze everything about your audience, in the first place their behavior, and then implement thorough planning. New te...

How long ago did you start your design business or side gig? Three months? Three years? And how long has it been since you evaluated your business since then? As a web designer, your job is to think c...

I really dont need to explain how important your reputation is, do I? Short version: if people think you suck, either as a person or as a designer, they wont hire you. Its not a difficult concept, all...

There are plenty of cool new tools and resources available for designers this month, and youll be especially happy if you are looking to find photos with ease, increase productivity or even create bet...

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...

WordPress is the most used CMS across the world today. It has attained the number one position because it is so simple to use and maintain, not only from a designers point of view, but also from the e...

Its no surprise that some businesses are convinced that all they need is a Facebook page and some awesome paid posts in order to go viral. I get it. Its relatively cheap. Its easy. And they see it as ...

When youve worked in the digital industry for long enough, eventually youre going to have to work with code that youve inherited from someone else. Whether this is part of a handover process from anot...

Hello all, as Justin Timberlake once predicted, it is now May. Now that Ive subjected you to the latest and greatest in boy band jokes from the 90s, lets check out this months portfolios. It should be...

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...

Web design gets broader everyday, with new technologies entering the field on a seemingly weekly basis. As a web designer, you need to stay on top of these technologies, and upgrade your skills, or yo...

Design work is very time consuming. But its not just the labor you put into building websites that takes time and concentration. Because the projects you work on typically have a short shelf life, you...

The Internet as a concept, and as a community, is much like a teenager: its struggling to establish its identity, everyone is trying to tell it what to do, and it tends to lash out at both people who ...