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…
Our favorite tweets of the week: April 29, 2013 – May 5, 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 #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…
Kandinsky style type
Lovers of abstract art are undoubtedly familiar with the superlative Wassily Kandinsky — the Russian-born painter, printmaker, and theorist who…
iOS vs Android
It’s billed as the battle of the century, at least as far as app developers are concerned; which has better…
Deal of the week: Beautiful Solomon font family
It’s rare that you find a typeface with both legibility and character; the latter often obscures the former. So you’d…
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…
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 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…