How I learned to be REALLY creative
As I grew up, being a “creative child,” which was the description my school psychologist used to explain why I…
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…
Deal of the week: Inspiring book offer from Smashing Magazine
Almost every business has a web presence these days; from single page ‘business card’ style sites, to million+ product e-commerce…
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…
What’s new for designers, May 2013
The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and JavaScript resources,…
Side project: Type Fight
The side project series is a series of posts in which we’ll be taking a look at the best of…
Our favorite tweets of the week: May 6, 2013 – May 12, 2013
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
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…
SEO sanity check part 1: Google’s Penguin and Panda updates
SEO has always been a tricky business, not only do experts have to spend time on researching keywords and following…
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…
Common usability errors to avoid at all costs
One of the most important tasks on your plate as a web designer is usability. Usability is defined as a…
Art, Copy & Code: advertising in the modern era
It’s been said that the only thing constant is change; and in the world of advertising, this saying is especially…
Deal of the week: The ultimate shortcodes collection
The most popular CMS out there, WordPress has a ton of great features; probably the best of which is its…
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…
Research yourself first
Every time we begin a web design project, we do research. We research our clients, their customers, the website’s target…
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…
How to move from Illustrator to Photoshop without rasterizing (the easy way)
I’ve always had trouble getting large groups of shapes from Illustrator over to Photoshop without rasterizing them all in the…