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 today.

So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons.

Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below as well as any related stories of your own…

Most sites have too much information; users are overwhelmed as CEOs wax lyrical on everything from their favorite charity to the dimensions of their first office.

In today’s increasingly information-saturated world, what studies find users often prefer is a simple, straight-to-the point, presentation of key facts.

One of the best ways to deliver that is a compact, single-page website.

While fine art is a subjective field, graphic design is more formulaic in its fundamentals. An effective design should make people feel a certain way and take a certain action. In this article I’d like to share Gravity Switch’s web design principles and our thinking behind them.

Those rules are: define goals first; focus on users second; design for emotion; follow the rules of visual design; build a clear, visual hierarchy; be consistent; break the rules (when necessary); don’t overuse gimmicks; and finally test, measure & improve.

I’m a lucky person. Every day I get to do what I love, which is helping clients work out what their web project is going to look like.

As any good account handler or project manager will tell you, their primary role is to make sure that a project goes as smoothly as possible. This can mean managing people on both sides of the fence, and keeping everyone happy is no mean feat.

I’m a big believer that getting a project off to a strong start is integral to the success of that project, and for me that means helping the design team hit the ground running, and making sure they can begin doing what they do best as soon as possible.

I’ve read plenty of material recently describing account handlers as having a negative effect on the creative process of a project. These criticisms range from the account handler not allowing the designer access to the client throughout the project, through to making the designer jump through hoops on the whim of a client. Whilst I’m sure these aforementioned criticisms occur every day in the industry, I want to discuss how I believe an account handler can make a designer’s job in a typical web agency so much easier.