Articles by Web Designer Depot from March 2021

Who is Grammarly for? Can a grammar checking tool like Grammarly replace a human editor and proofreader? Is the Grammarly checker worth it? Are the Grammarly free checks sufficient for me, or should I...

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...

For many, SEO is more of an art than a science, a mysterious process in which a tiny tweak to a sites code can propel it to page one of Google or send it plummeting to the depths of page 50. Myths abo...

ITF (the Indian Type Foundry) has launched a brand new font service to bring beautiful typography to every business for free. The service, named Fontshare, will be familiar to anyone who has used Goog...

Every month 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...

Illustration is a big trend in 2021. Every designer should have some ability to illustrate, whether thats producing icons, creating lettering, mocking up layouts, or crafting full-blown illustrations....

This months collection of the best new websites launched or updated in the last four weeks features color, and more color, and then just for good measure a bit more color. Yellow is a hue of choice,...

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...

Its Friday, and we wanted to have a little fun with a design test that might make you go cross-eyed. Here are ten images, each with a dot in the middle of another shape a square, a circle, or maybe s...

As a web designer, youre not really in the business of building websites that your clients will love. I know that may seem counterintuitive, but think about how vast the differences often are between ...

Weve been big fans of Ghost since it first launched via a Kickstarter campaign way back in 2013. Ghost 4.0 has just been released, and the host of new features is another giant leap forward for the po...

A key part of designing successful websites for clients is making sure that as many end-users as possible can access and enjoy that site. So, what if you discovered that around 1 billion people couldn...

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...

Every month 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...

Web design is chock-full of acronyms like WWW (World Wide Web), and HTML (HyperText Markup Language). But how many of the terms we use every day do you actually know? Take our fun quiz and see how man...

We tend not to think about it, but the Internet has a physical dimension. Its a complex network of wires, cables, servers, and technical odds and ends if you really want to, you can track it down; do...

A domain name is an essential element of every project, product, and company. Its central to a brand and has a disproportionately large impact on user experience. Not only that, but it also impacts SE...

Looking for something new to get you excited about design work? This list is packed with all kinds of goodies to help you feel inspired and ready to work. Heres what new for designers this month. Top ...

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...

The constituent parts of a typeface design have some bizarre names. Any ideas what a beak might be? How about a crotch? Take our fun quiz and find out how well you know typeface anatomy. Featured imag...

Advertising knows you better than your friends, better than your family, perhaps even better than your partner. Look up pizza recipes, and advertising will show you promotions for pizza ovens. Downloa...

Stock images are an essential tool for anyone working with clients who cant afford to hire a photographer for a bespoke shoot, and with the cost of photography shoots running into thousands of dollars...

Proxima Vara, a variable font version of the enormously popular Proxima Nova type family, has just been released. Designers love Proxima Nova for the simplicity of its letterforms, its wonderful rhyth...

D&AD Shift is a free design school program for creatives over the age of 18, who do not already have a degree-level qualification. Its been running since 2016 and is a 12-week program led by succe...

March is that time of year where the feeling of newness starts, from the first Spring days to fresh design projects. These trends are no exception, with fun new takes on some classic concepts. Circles...

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...