How to write simple, elegant CSS with Compass & Sass
A lot of designers use some sort of CSS pre-processor, whether that be Sass, LESS or Stylus. If you’ve used…
Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic pictograms revealed
On the celebrated heels of its new logo and custom typeface, the Olympic brand team has just completed the most…
Review: Fast video encoding in the cloud from Encoding.com
The normal process when encoding video goes something like this: sort files, set preferences, start encoding, make a coffee, check…
The ultimate guide to everything Dribbble
In case you’ve been living in a cave with no internet access for the past few years, you’re almost certainly…
Astounding photographic trick recreates mid-century America
How do you date a photo? Normally, you take a look at the fashion, the buildings, and the cars. If…
How to use video bgs for incredible visual impact, part 2
In the previous part of this tutorial, using a mixture of HTML5, jQuery and CSS, we constructed the barebones functionality…
Our favorite tweets of the week: November 4, 2013 – November 10, 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 #208
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
The best free WordPress plugins for November
Welcome, friends, to WebdesignerDepot’s first monthly WordPress plugin roundup. (Try saying that out loud really fast a few times!) If…
Deal of the week: Wiescher Design fleurons
Fleurons are typographic elements, much like swashes; they add an elaborate touch to display text, they create borders and frames;…
Design responsive emails with brand new Ink
App design powerhouse, ZURB today launched Ink, a powerful new resource for designers to easily produce responsive HTML emails that…
The easy way to answer, ‘Should I take that job?’
“Make something interesting” is a client request we don’t hear often. When Adobe asked it of Kelli Anderson (they wanted…
How to use video bgs for incredible visual impact, part 1
Full screen images used as the background of sites have an amazing visual impact, but did you know that you…
Easily create stunning animated charts with Chart.js
Charts are far better for displaying data visually than tables and have the added benefit that no one is ever…
How to design for maximum traction
When someone lands on your website for the very first time, what happens? That’s the most critical point of conversion…
Our favorite tweets of the week: October 28, 2013 – November 3, 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 #207
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
Deal of the week: Verb Font Family
Looking for a good alternative to the tedium of Helvetica? Us too, and we think we’ve got the answer right…