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Comics of the week #185
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
A taste of CoffeeScript (part 2)
In the first part of this article about CoffeeScript, you saw its basic capabilities; but let’s be honest, most of…
Social networking noise
Everywhere you go online you see lots of tweets, Facebook posts, and Google+ updates: the social networking noise can sometimes…
iOS7 to adopt flat design
The last great bastion of skeuomorphic design, Apple Inc., is rumored to be completely revamping its mobile OS, ahead of…
What’s new for web designers in Illustrator CC
On May 6th Adobe announced its latest updates to its creative software. Some of these updates have big implications on…
Ghost: a crowd-funded blogging platform, launching soon
Sometimes you need a fully-fledged CMS; something that lets you create any kind of website you want to create, with…
Comics of the week #184
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
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…