A friend of mine wrote me the other day and told me his company was stealing copyrighted work. He was very upset and said that his manager believes that anything on the internet is available to be pu...
Whether you’re developing WordPress themes for yourself, for a client, or to sell commercially, having the ability to customize aspects of your theme via the WordPress control panel makes your theme ...
The February edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, frameworks, jQuery plugins, WordPress tools, and some really great new fonts.Many of the resources bel...
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow...
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 c...
For America, creating a government website from the states, all the way down to the federal government can be an interesting but controversial task. It’s important to follow a user-centered de...
For the past few years, we’ve been admiring Radim Malinic’s work, and his bold stunning illustrations have been gracing our website since its very beginnings.Malinic is a leading London g...
Designing for responsive websites can be a bit challenging at first because the process is so different.As designers, we’ve gotten used to building pixel-perfect mockups as our web blueprints. ...
We at Webdesigner Depot are big fans of Threadless and you can often see us sporting their awesome t-shirts. They’re a lot of fun and feature some awesome designs that often spark conversation....
At one of my first jobs, my lunch constantly disappeared from the community refrigerator. There were no clues and, being New York, “nobody saw nuttin!”I tried marking my lunch. I tried notes pleading...
We have a fantastic freebie to download today from Pixeden, a one stop place for great tools for the modern design.Released first and exclusively on WDD, it’s an infographic vector kit, with th...
It’s not uncommon for a designer in today’s world to pay little attention to how type is laid out, especially with the ever-so-convenient default settings of heading tags and web safe fonts found uni...
We’re thrilled to see bring you another great giveaway of business cards from our friends at Uprinting.This time around we’ll be giving away 5 prizes of 250 die cut business cards each!Wh...
There are a whole bunch of CMSes out there ranging from lightweight micro-blogging platforms to huge enterprise packages.I don’t want to mention any names here or tell you what to use.Instead, ...
Firefox 10, due out January 31st (the same day Firefox 11 becomes an official Beta release), finally rounds out the browser’s growing collection of developer tools with Page and Style Inspectors.In s...
Managing a blog with a single author can be time-consuming enough, but adding in multiple authors can exponentially increase the amount of time and effort it takes to manage.There’s editorial w...
Great websites always seem to combine great design with great code. Since building a website is a pretty simple task you find many people learn HTML and CSS and figure that if they can learn that the...
[Editors note: This is a sponsored post for Template Monster]TemplateMonster.com is among the most well known stock template and theme providers online.They offer templates for a wide range of sites,...
In this article, I’m going to examine the science behind making successful UI icons before teaching you how to make your own embeddable icon font.From designing the individual icons to converti...
When I wrote about QR codes (Designed QR codes: the next level), it was very well received. When I wrote “SnapTags: Will they kill QR codes?” people got a little nasty with their suggestion on what I...
We’ve just released ZeroBundle.com It’s a brand new website, brought to you by WDD and MightyDeals.com, where we offer fantastic freebies for designers for a limited time only.The bundle ...
Designing a new website is great, but not everyone loves taking their PSD designs and converting them into actual, working HTML and CSS.In fact, there are some designers who positively hate it (and o...
Two bills currently making their way through the United States Congress—SOPA and PIPA—threaten freedom of expression and security online, not to mention the American economy (and economies of countri...
As creatives, most times we feel like we can do it all, or we are put in a position to do it all. We typically take on a ‘Jack-of-all-trades̵ 7; mentality, that can either help or harm us.Fo...
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