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Comics of the week #183
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
Learn to count with CSS
Hidden away in the depths of the CSS specification you’ll find CSS counters. As the name suggests they allows you…
The SEO sanity check part 2: gray hat techniques
In the last post, we took an in-depth look at Google’s Panda and Penguin updates and how they have impacted…
How to use the flexbox layout method (part 2)
In part one, we touched on how to harness the power of display: flex in your website layouts, and how…
Comics of the week #182
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
No more Creative Suite: what does it mean?
Adobe has just announced that Creative Suite will cease to exist after CS6 (in name at least), and be replaced…
How to use the flexbox layout method (part 1)
With every new revision of CSS, a plethora of new, exciting attributes come to light; one of which being the…
How to optimize for legibility using text-rendering
The most frustrating aspect of web design for designers trained for print, is the persistent lack of typographic control. Careful…
Comics of the week #181
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
WDD acquires CodeVisually.com
I’m thrilled to officially announce that CodeVisually.com has been recently acquired by Webdesigner Depot and is now part of our…
The perils of A/B testing
There’s an expression in advertising that goes “I know that 80% of my advertising isn’t working. I just don’t know…
How to use local storage for JavaScript
Creating an to-do app is usually the first application you learn how to build in JavaScript but the problem with…
Defensive HTML and CSS
When it comes to rendering on somebody else’s DOM, you can’t naively write HTML and CSS like you might for…
How to use HTML5 audio (part 2)
This is part two of the HTML5 audio introduction video; if you haven’t watched it already, I recommend checking out…
Comics of the week #180
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
How to launch a startup
We all know that there are a few differences between small businesses and larger corporations, especially when they begin considering…
How to use HTML5 audio (part 1)
The introduction of the HTML5 spec introduced new tags for presenting media on a webpage; the <audio> and <video> tags,…
How to use the download attribute
HTML5 came with all new APIs, new input types and attributes for forms. As is often the case, those major…