Articles by Web Designer Depot from February 2021

Design is on a loop; it goes round and round, repeating the same ideas, and revisiting the same problems. If you want to know what will happen in design tomorrow, take a look at yesterday. This weeks ...

There are many reasons you might be wanting to improve your design skills this year. Perhaps you have extra time on your hands and want to put it to good use. Or maybe youre new to web design and find...

If you like to build websites with WordPress, then youre in for a treat. Now, for the first time, you dont need to know how to code to use Googles popular Material Design system on your WordPress webs...

Its February, and the spring sun is finally starting to peep through the winter clouds. While many of us are still largely restricted to our homes, the web has kept on growing. We see a shift in attit...

Everyday design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development...

UX principles guide many of our decisions when we design and build sites and apps. Understanding UX principles doesnt mean you can dodge your own testing, but they do give you a head start. Often name...

Since the skeuomorphism of the early 00s, the design trend of choice has been minimalism. In fact, minimalism has been de rigueur for substantially longer than that. You can make a fair case that mini...

When photographers take images to sell commercially, like every other business, they want to maximize their returns, so they adapt their ideas to meet commercial trends. As a result, stock always look...

Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has developed a variable font, that is designed to make the effects of human-driven climate change tangible in a simple graphical form. Whereas most type designers ...

There are some interesting shake-ups on the horizon for ecommerce: Experiential shopping, Virt-ical worlds, Au naturale models. Were starting to see signs of them already many of them spurred on than...

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...

What is WordPress? It began as a simple CMS for building a blog, and it has evolved over the years into a complex ecosystem of tools and resources. WordPress can power ecommerce sites, interactive cou...

This article is brought to you by 4Kdownload.com, a suite of video tools that help you make the most of YouTube, Instagram, Vimeo, and many more popular resources. YouTube isnt just for videos of cats...

When you think of installing analytics, you probably reach for Google Analytics. And you wouldnt be alone. The platforms tight integration with SEO and the implication that using Google products is be...

One of the few bright spots in 2020 has been the creativity companies and individuals alike have exhibited in dealing with what, at times, seemed to be overwhelming problems. The world of web design w...

Were going to try something a little different this month; with this roundup of tools and resources for designers, were going to pick a few of our favorites and group everything else in a manner that ...

Every week users submit incredible stories to our sister-site Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, sorting the wheat from the chaff, and then post it for us to relish. If you want to keep...

How you present yourself as a designer, the core skills you nurture, the type of work you take on all contribute to a creative career you enjoy. With various roles to choose from and an exponentially...

The need for speed is an essential item on every websites bucket list these days. And why not? Enhanced speed is directly responsible for converting traffic into paying clients. Anyone in any industry...

Welcome to our roundup of the best plugins for popular CMS, this month. Were going to cover plugins built to enhance WordPress, Shopify, Craft CMS, and Joomla. Enjoy! WordPress Tutor LMS Elementor Add...

The CMO at Twitter, Leslie Berland, has announced a substantial rebrand intended to reflect the experience of using the site. The move was announced on the platform first and later confirmed on its bl...

Its hard to believe we are more than a month into 2021 already. But that means more trends to dive into this year, right? So far, the biggest trend of 2021 in website design is an overall lack of peop...

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...