Blog Profile / Webdesigner Depot
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Blog Post Archive
Comics of the week #177
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world [...]
Get motivated
In the journey from fledgling startup to full-blown success, any burgeoning business will undoubtedly face its fair share of obstacles along the way. But those who traverse the bumpy road to emerge victorious typically have one thing in common: They choose to see the world through a set of visionary glasses. With this in mind, [...]
15 inspirational approaches to CSS
HTML will only take the web designer so far and if you want to create dynamic, attractive, reactive web design then you need to learn and implement CSS. Not only can you create improved design elements for your pages but you can expect to enjoy faster loading times, easier maintenance, and less time to create [...]
How to use CSS specificity
If you plan to use CSS on a regular basis you need to develop an understanding of what specificity is and how it is applied. Other than floats and positions, specificity may be one of the hardest things to get used to, let alone master. The selectors you use in your CSS all have different [...]
Google forks Webkit
Yesterday, anyone old enough to have been working during the browser wars, felt the icy cold fingers of fear creep up their spine when Google announced that its browser Chrome will be abandoning Webkit in favor of their own Blink rendering engine. Based on the open source Chromium Project, that will be forking Webkit, Chrome [...]
Video tutorials are the bane of my existence
We’ve all been there. You have an idea, something that just seems like it would work perfectly for your current project. It’s the ideal solution. Nothing could possibly be better suited. Except you’re not quite sure exactly how to implement that idea. You can see it in your head, and you’re pretty sure you’ll need [...]
The typographic portfolio of Peter Tarka
Talent, discipline, and creativity just might constitute a triple threat in the world of design; and if it does, 21-year-old Peter Tarka easily meets the definition. Each month, the ambitious Poland-based creative produces a collection of mesmerizing 3D typographic art. Currently a graphic designer and illustrator with Grate Studio in Wroclaw, Tarka’s digital artwork has [...]
Should creatives be unionized or earn certification?
Every now and then, on some blog or design group, someone brings up the question of designers unionizing or having some sort of certification in the hopes of assuring the public that we are professionals and adept at our craft. Can it be done, and if so, how? The huge response to Monday’s April Fools’ [...]
April Fools’ roundup
It’s April 2nd, and news sites have gone back to reporting the news instead of inventing it. Yesterday’s annual festival of invented headlines, some convincing, some lame, many frighteningly plausible, was as popular as ever with websites. We played two pranks of our own: the introduction of certification for U.S. designers, and Apple turning to [...]
An introduction to Edge Reflow
Edge Reflow is one of the exciting new weapons in Adobe’s ever-expanding Creative Suite arsenal; helping to bring the modern web’s powerful features within reach for designers. Reflow is designed to help creatives work towards the holy grail of current web design standards: responsive design. Previously only possible for the HTML-savvy, now everyone can produce [...]
Essential tools for every web designer
Every web designer requires the right tools to do their job. To create well crafted original designs you certainly need to be inspired to do so. Getting to that point is sometimes the hardest challenge in the field of web design. Luckily enough for us and our fellow design community there are tools available to [...]
Apple turn to Flash for security
Late on Friday night, Norwegian blogger Ally Tenor posted a number of screen grabs from Firebug that appeared to show Apple’s Norway store running scripts through an eu-ampd.swf file — a format output by Adobe’s Flash Professional software. Over the weekend several other commentators reported the same thing and by Monday morning a reported 74.8% [...]
Certifications for U.S. designers to become law in 2015
The much talked about step of creating professional certification for graphic/web designers looks like it will become a reality in a little more than a year. Having passed the U.S. Senate as a rider to a larger work rights bill, the measure is expected to easily pass the House of Representatives as well as having [...]
Our favorite tweets of the week: March 25, 2013 – March 31, 2013
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of [...]
Comics of the week #176
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world [...]
Arial vs. Helvetica, can you spot the difference?
It’s long been thought that Arial is to Helvetica what the ugly step sister is to Cinderella. Helvetica was designed in Germany in the 1950s to compete with Akzidenz Grotesk; Arial was designed in America in the early 1980s, believed by many to be a move by Microsoft to supply a Helvetica-like font as part [...]
How to win customers, the Pinterest way
In just a couple of years, Pinterest has established itself as the third largest social networking website, behind Facebook and Twitter (and ahead of the likes of Google+). For a website that is still in relative infancy, such a record is definitely commendable. The question that now arises is, can we harness Pinterest’s popularity to [...]
Beautiful botanical alphabet
Since the very earliest illuminated manuscripts, dating back to the 5th century AD, we’ve associated flora with enlarged type. Perhaps it’s something to do with the way plants repeat the same shapes, echoed by type. Or perhaps it’s simply that we can bend an organic shape to our design without compromising its integrity. Whatever the [...]
Best practices for creating app sites
If you have a smartphone, a tablet or a regular computer, chances are you have used an app at some point. We can’t get enough of them. They make life easier and quicker. Apps help you remember things, help you find and see things and just all around help you be an awesome(r) person. There’s [...]
New app to get you Unstuck
It may be a project at work you just can’t get a handle on, or an important decision you can’t seem to make; but regardless of the situation, everyone can relate to the feeling of being stuck. Luckily, there’s Unstuck — a free iPad app designed to help users break free from a sticky situation. Released [...]