The best free WordPress plugins for July 2014
Welcome, friends, to WebdesignerDepot’s monthly WordPress plugin roundup, July 2014 edition. Featuring all manner of free-to-download plugin goodness. It’s another…
Grid systems: Discover the perfect building blocks for your website design
We all start somewhere. As a new designer, I couldn’t have cared less about structure in my designs. I would…
The best free WordPress plugins for June 2014
Ladies and Gents, we’re back with yet more plugins for you to try out. As usual, we’ve got a little…
3 fresh CMS options that could be better than WordPress
Quick, name a CMS! Let me guess, you said WordPress. Maybe Joomla? ExpressionEngine? TextPattern? It doesn’t really matter. We all…
The best free WordPress plugins for May 2014
It’s that time again! Open up your local WordPress install (the one that you use for testing plugins)—everyone has one…
11 free, must-have WordPress plugins, April 2014
Welcome back, WDD readers! It’s time for this month’s round of WordPress plugin goodness. As usual, we’ve got quite a…
How to design blogs
As designers, we each develop distinct styles, and usually gravitate towards different kinds of projects when we have a choice…
How to use photography in web design
The power of a good visual isn’t just a scientifically well-documented phenomenon; it’s the whole reason our industry exists. Indeed,…
When toolkits are better than frameworks
Let’s start with an observation: I love me some frameworks. As an alternative to completely reinventing the wheel, or styling…
How to modify Bootstrap simply and effectively
Bootstrap is by no means the only HTML/CSS interface framework out there, but I think it’s safe to say that…
How to design for non-profits
I ought to know a lot about charities and non-profit organizations. My parents are career missionaries; and I grew up…
Research yourself first
Every time we begin a web design project, we do research. We research our clients, their customers, the website’s target…