Webdesigner Depot Turns One Year Old! (surprises included)

Congrats! Thanks so much for all the great resources!

Congrats!

Web Designer Depot has helped me with my design career, and helped me just launch my own design company (http://grid45.com/) WDD has a bunch of useful articles whether you’re a seasoned pro, beginner, freelancer, or just design as a hobby, its great!! Congrats on the 1 year birthday

Happy One Year Birthday. Very exiting stuff. You guys are a great inspiration! Keep up the great work, I am exited to see what you have in store for us this second year.

Happy Birthday and congrats! WDD has been a great resource for me, and I can’t wait to see what this next year will bring you.

Great work! I follow you on twitter!

Happy Birthday!!!! Congrats!

Happy birthday WDD!
You have given me great inspiration every day to try and learn new things. Oh and the resources! Delicious

I love this site! It is just awesome, but shouldn’t we be giving you things since it’s the sites birthday? Anyways…. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Congrats!
You’re website has been a tremendous help to us as we put together a non-profit website. We’re responsible for doing everything ourselves at the lowest price possible. We’ve been able to accomplish most of our website goals (to this point) thanks in no small part to WDD. We have an upcoming deadline, and again, thanks to WDD, we should be able to finish the project within the next 14 days. We’re always up for new ideas and new features, so keep the ideas coming. Much appreciated. And thanks & congrats again.

WDD has been invaluable for inspiration and resources in this past few months. I follow you on twitter and there is nearly always an interesting article to look at. Whenever I am stuck for an idea or a way of doing something I go to you (and smashing magazine) for ideas and to just absorb knowledge.
Keep up the amazing work Walter, you are an inspiration and help me on a daily basis! I hope one day I will be able to do that same… Hah yeah right!!

Congratulations to WDD!!..

And Do Great in Upcoming Years….

Thanks..

Congratulations and well done. In a time where trends and blogs are very common, you’ve made it possible to be well exposed and respected in the online and offline design community.

I have a lot of your pages saved in my browser pages, kinda like my own personal repository of design inspiration!

Good Work!

I’ve learned a lot from WDD.. Kudos !!

Happy Bday! Great post! Must say this blog has been an constant inspiration and source of ideas over the year. Well done and keep it up!

Happy Birthday and congratulations on a very successful year!

Congrats!!!

Congrats! A lot of good inspiration here .

Congrats!

I can’t belive WDD is only 1 year old. So amazing!

I’m a web designer and I check this site every day, always excited for fresh content.

Keep up the good work, I look forward to many good posts to come

Congratulations from Mexico!

This is the most inspirational and useful blog out there. You have helped me a lot in my webdesign process!

BTW, amazing prices!

Thanks for and awesome year of usefull information… you inspired me in my work.. and give great ideas…my next step its try to make a blog like these :] but maybe in spanish!!! for tha Latin Comunity

happy birthday and congratulations WDD! this blog has been very helpful to me over the past few months, and I cant wait to see what the new year brings. lots of luck for the future!

Congrats WDD! You’ve always served as a great source of info and inspiration.

Congratulations!! I would like to thank you for everything! As a design student, I’m not only influenced, inspired and motivated by this site, but I enjoy seeing all the tweets everyday and can’t wait for the next! Thanks again!

Happy Birthday Webdesigner Depot!

Many articles on this site along with the many you so kindly link to on your Twitter account are an invaluable resource, even more so now that I am starting up a graphic/web design studio. Best wishes and please keep the incredible supply of relevant information coming!

All the best,
Andrew

Happy B’day WDD.. .. I’m always inspired with WDD’s articles. It really open my knowledge more about design. Thanks & Congratz WDD.

The amount of resources you’ve presented in a year along with the amount of research that must have gone into continually finding them is amazing. Congratulations and thank you for all of your hard work.

WDD is an oasis in the middle of a coding desert. Happy Birthday and thanks for all the awesome stuff!

Happy Birthday WDD! I can’t recall how I found this website but I found it not long after your first post and have been coming back here daily ever since. The design of WDD, the articles and tweets have all given me more knowledge than I ever expected and has inspired me to no end in my quest to better designer. All the best for the future and wishing you a million more happy birthdays! Much love and respect from Australia.

Happy Birthday WDD! I love reading your site. Keep it up!

Happy Birthday WDD Congrats on your successfully completion of 1 year & wish you many happy years ahead & thank you for sharing such good articles & keep continuing the good work

WDD’s just a great source of inspiration, about web design or just artistic inspiration. I love it and the way it goes over the limits of web design and extends into art. Great job. Keep it up.

Congrats. I didn’t know you were that young. I follow you via twitter, and I always read your articles and check your links.

Keep the good work

Thanks for the really nice words, I really appreciate them!

Congrats WebDesignerDepot! I appreciate all of your great articles!

I just want a comment…. or maybe I should keep all the prizes to myself!!

Well firstly very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

In one sense I can’t believe it has already been a year and then again, I can’t believe it has only been a year. With so many achievements one would think the website has been around a lot longer.

Well done and best wishes for the future!

Congrats to your 1 yr Anniversary and I am looking forward to more interesting post. Very nice giveaway goodies and very nice of you to want to share your kindness. You’re an inspiration to me.Thank you.

Happy Birthday WDD… hope the WDD motion comes to life! if you know what i mean

Wow!! Happy Birthday WDD..!!

I’ve been a regular visitor to WDD for the last 12 months, and I can proudly say that I have learned a lot of things from WDD.

Me too a Scorpio, and I wish a great future for WDD. Come up with more and more…!

I promise you dear WDD, I will be a regular visitor to WDD till my last breath.

WISH YOU VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY…!

Congrats! Looking forward to another year of WDD being a great resource.

Congrats WWD!!! Awesome Site! Always have fresh and interesting content!! Keep it up!

Happy bday. This site has been a useful resource for me. Hope you can pour more helpful articles in future. All the best

CONGRATS! *Throws confetti* Ever since I found out about Webdesigner I have come here 24/7 to learn everything and anything to become better in my field. There have been so many useful articles and pointers. So much so that they inspired me to start my own be it small design biz on the side. I am optimistic to its future thanks!

Hey, Great work Walter!! I really love your Logo Design stuff… Very insightful! and the site has been very very inspirational to designers like me.

Hey, Great work Walter!! I really love your Logo Design stuff… Very insightful! and the site has been very very inspirational to designers like me.

Congrats. Keep up the good work.

W(eb)eldone D(esigner)one D(epot)ude

Congratulations!

I follow ur twit.. and always some good eye candy.. and inspiration. Thank you the hour soul departure. Congrats and Cheers..

I love all the comments but this one’s very original!

Happy Birthday WDD….. Happy Birthday Machu……

Its awesome to have a website having a big resource and support for free lancers.
every morning when i woke up first i logging to 5 websites daily one is >>webdesignerdepot.com<<

i like all the postings and a big thanks for the moderator for hosting a supporter.
WDD helped me to improve my career and make aware of new technologies and concepts…..

a lot of wishes to continue this saga forever
thanks a lot…

from jaison…

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HaPpY BiRtHdAy To YoU WDD

Congrats on being one year old! I really thought WDD was a little older because of the ‘wiseness’. WDD is definitly my fave blog to read on a daily basis, and i find you normally have the stuff before other blogs. As a web designer and developer, this site has really helped me. THANK YOU!

Oh no(there is a typo) it’s actually W(eb)ell D(esigner)one D(epot)ude….:)

Congrats man….I would say its a big achievement to win a big number of fans, just in a year. Really happy for your success and it is always a pleasure coming to your blog.

Well, I think, we started almost together because GDB also completed its 1 year, couple of months back but missed to celebrate it in a grand way, just like you did

_-* HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOOOOO YOUUUUU!!!*-_

A million thanks for a year of informative tweets. Please keep the good stuff coming!

-o•c•d•z•y•n•r

Happy Birthday WDD,
You inspire me a lot.
Thank you.

Hey, I’m a high-school student exploring the areas of design (and hopefully on my way to crafting a career in it), and webDD has been one if not the most inspirational and helpful as far as planning my future. Also, great resources!
Thanks for all the great content. Long live Web Designer Depot!

So many great posts… so little time to read them all… THANKS WDD!!

Congratulations WDD. You are a teacher for many of us.

Many happy returns WDD, you are a part of my daily routine now!

I just recently found WDD, and I am so glad I did. So much of an excellent resource I can not go with out now. I recommend to all my friends. Keep up the good work!

One year! Thanks for all the tips, I love this site!

WWD is not the blog that I would normally read, however, even since I stumbled upon the site via some random source I have never stopped coming back. I am a marketer, not a designer – more and more WWD is inspiring me to teach myself design and begin my journey down the long, windy, and awesome path.

i discovered this great place at the beggining of the year when i was starting web design and found out this to be a helpful site in that and many other ways, thanks a lot and keep it up

Congrats, keep them coming, WDD is part of my daily work flow..
cheers..

Time really flies very fast. Congratulations on completing 1 year with such success and good luck for future too

hi there! congratz on birthday, and keep the god work coming!!! awesome blog!

Congratulations. You inspired me, now i have a web design blog. thanks for the articles and the tweets of the week section is really cool.

Hey thanks a lot!

Really hopin for that Smashing Book!

Wow, congratulations! Thanks especially for the little list of interesting tidbits, I liked it. What did Steve-O have to say in his email?

Your articles really are top notch, keep them coming. Happy Birthday!

Congrats WDD and Happy B’day!!! WDD has been a great source of inspiration and it really helped me a lot to develop my own blog!..Always looking for awesome posts on WDD!! Thanks WDD!!

WDD is now one of the best resources on the web about Web Design. Congratulations for this success!!

Congratulations WDD !
An amazing source of inspiration and resources for all web and graphic designers !
Many thanks from Mallorca, Spain.

Congratulations, Walter. I’m an avid follower of your twitter and RSS feeds. It’s a fantastic resource for me a a design/CS Engineer. I’ve used the resources for my upcoming iPhone app and SW dev projects. I can’t believe it’s only been a year.

Congratulations again,
Ben

Congrats! There’s no one specific thing, but in general WDD has become one of those blogs I tend to follow. Thanks!

Congrats on turning one! I only found this site recently (via the “Creative Visual CV article”) but the calibre of the writing and advice found here is spectacular and I’ve been skimming through past articles when I have time to see if there’s anything I can use for my own site re-design. Keep up the great work.

Congratulations Walter… I love your blog and follow is everything that is written religiously… Keep up the amazing work…

Happy Birthday!

Congrats! Keep walking man!

Your awesome web-site keeps me always on rail of industry trends! Well done!

First

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

This site is amazing, lot of great tips and inspiration! Continue with a great work Walter!

Wow, it’s hard to believe WDD is only 1 year old! It feels like I’ve been reading your articles forever. Beautiful website. Keep up the great work!

Just discovered your site today (where *have* I been browsing!???), added to feed reader, can’t wait for more!! Those packaging designs were *incredible*.

Looking forward to reading as long as WDD is here.

Happy birthday WDD! Keep up the good works!

Happy birthday! Such a great site! And awesome resources!

Happy birthday WDD. Keep up the good work!

I watch your feed daily (if not hourly), and cannot tell you enough how much I appreciate all the work you’ve put into WDD. Your site stats and fun facts are, simply put, impressive. Keep up the phenom work.

Congratulations! I had forgotten that you are in my backyard here in Vancouver!
Awesome stuff!
Cheers

In WDD we trust!

“The most difficult decision for WDD’s design was choosing the right background color” Loved that! Keep up the quality content and the numbers will continue to grow!

Quality content is what makes WDD special. Congrats, Walter!

congrats!
i’m not sure how long exactly i know and love wdd, but please keep up the cool work!
maybe it’s time to put the year next to the date of each post…

Many Happy Returns! Your site has given me the safety blanket of knowing that the answer can be found, and someone’s there to help. Thanks.

Well it seems nobody is singing here so…

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear Web Designer Depot,
Happy birthday to you.

And to add that up, a German song:
Hoch soll es leben!(Long may it live!)
Hoch soll es leben!(Long may it live!)
Dreimal hoch! (Three cheers!)

I wish you the best and keep up publishing good articles. We(the readers) appreciate the hard work.

To the next 10 years.

Best regards,
Daniel

Congrats! I check WDD every single day for new articles, tips, and tricks that help me become a better web designer/developer! Can’t wait to see what the next year has to bring!

Congrats!
WDD gave me a lot inspiration. Thanks!

Nice to connect with all of you and thanks for the great wishes and for the singing! I didn’t see that coming

Congrats!!! WDD is great! Cheers!

Well done. It is inspirational to see blogs like WDD doing so well. Thanks for all the useful info over the year. Keep up the great work!

It was a communication about the iPhone…

I have WDD in my Google Reader feeds and learn something new with each and every post!

Happy first birthday! WDD is definitely one of the most useful web design blogs out there and I’ve learned so much from it. Thanks so much for all of the great content, I look forward to the next year.

Happy Birthday WDD !
Nice articles in the past and nicer in the futur

Thanks, I follow you every day

Happy birthday, WDD! Always the first place I go for inspiration.

Congratulations on your aniversary. WDD has been providing me with so many information that i know consider a must to have for any designer or even developer to read. Cheers and keep up the good work!

Congrats! http://www.moinid.com/files/2009/09/applause.gif

WDD is one of the best sites in the world, without it my boss would have killed me years ago, but thanks to all the amazing tutorials that hasn’t happened yet. So a big happy birthday to WDD!

I’ve learned how important of the colorfull headers from WDD.
Congrats!

I love WebDesigner Depot. I came across this website when you followed me on Twitter (@ElatedKitty) and have fell in love with it. Your articles are amazing, and top quality.

Happy birthday! Hoping for yet another (acutally loads) year with this high quality. Keep it up!

Happy birthday Web Designer Depot!
I’m always excited when a new post popsup in my google reader. Many of my starred items are from your website.
Thanks for the great freebies too!

I follow you on twitter. Keep up with the good work.

Happy Birthday and congratulations! Over the last several months I have read more and more of your content and have learned a lot, not bad considering I have been a web worker since 98.

thanks,
Steve

Happy birthday WDD! Keep going!

Gratz! WDD for us is an inspiration source of every morning! Stay here, be best!

Been following your site almost since the beginning and found many of your articles very helpful and insightful.

One that helped me in particular with clients (as a newcomer to the webdesign business) was “5 Rotten Things No One Else Has Told You About the Clients You’ll Work For”. Took some of my naive assumptions and turned them into real-world expectations and is really has helped me to deal with clients.

Keep the good work up.

Congratulations on your first year! Really helps, a great resource on graphics and web design..

Well…..this is really kinda “shocking” for me. I thought that WDD is really “old” . Anyway, for me, discovering WDD was a real pleasure and very inspirational, and I know that this was just the beginning.

Best wishes and many inspiring posts.

Happy birthday & thanks for creating such interesting useful content.
I’ve only recently found WDD, thanks to Smashing Mag I believe, WDD is quickly becoming one of my most visited sites, whether through GReader, Twitter or on my iPhone on the way to work.

I have found this site recently but I am already a big fan.

Happy First Birthday Webdesigner Depot

Happy Birthday guys! You guys were truly awesome! Thanks for all the support by including my blog posts in your favorite tweets roundup and all the traffic you sent to chethstudios. Needless to say you are one of the best design blogs. Tryly helps designers like me to get inspired each day.

Just started following this site and am a big fan already of all the useful content! Keep it up

It’s one of the greatest design blogs I’ve seen.
I reed your posts every day, and have such more inspiration for my design work. Thanks!

Currently one of the best design blogs on web…

WDD puplished a lot of interessting articles. and the design is really nice. good illustrations!

you have done really well to get a blog so incredibly popular in the space of just one year. WDD has given me plenty of ‘oh, *thats* how its done’ moments and its a place i visit almost every day. Happy birthday

Congratulations, and happy birthday!

I think that WDD have inspiration resources for designers and developers to be professional

Happy Birthday WDD! The internet would not be the same without this blog .

Viva la WDD, Happy Birthday! Awesome articles in general, good way to get the brain cells moving around first thing in the morning. Keep it up!

Happy birthday!
I’m visiting regularly for inspiration and tips & tricks. Keep on the good work!

Happy Birthday and thanks for all the content.

For myself the biggest thing I’ve got out of this blog is learning about typography, something I had never thought about, and as I had never strayed from Arial, verdana etc, following some of the links on here was a real eye opener.
Trying out different fonts especially for body text has been making site just that litle bit different.

Keep up the good work

Congratulations! And thanks for beeing so awesome!

Happy Birthday WDD!

good article and awesome articles to be inspired !!

Hippo Bathday WDD from UDD!! I look forward to your tweets every day and thoroughly enjoy your blog posts, inspirational showcases and cool links. Keep it up!

When WDD appeared, I just noted the nice design and didn’t pay much attention to it afterwards. One year later, it’s in my daily “to read” RSS list, and I’ve bookmarked a lot of articles from around here. Why? Because the articles and resources are great and on various occasions I found information here, to the point where I decided this is something to keep tracking. Keep up the good work and congrats!

Congratulations on the first year!

Thanks for all the tips and inspiration keep it coming (via RSS for me)

heres to another great year!

We thank WDD for all the interesting and inspirational posts. Keep up the great work

Happy Brithday, WDD!!

Great site, one of my favourites! Splendid articles and inspiration pure, that is what we need and that is what you give us

Congratulations to WDD and thank you very much for writing!

Niclas

*Happy Birthday WDD*, If not for WDD, I would have been and ignorant designer!

I started interesting myself to webdesign last June. I had a problem, I couldn’t know which site provided reliable info and which one was not. When I first arrived on WDD’s start page, I knew it was part of the serious/reliable/stylish site talking about webdesign. I bookmarked it nearby Smashing Magazine and other nice websites
Happy Birthday !

Happy Birthday WDD! Keep on rocking…

I’ve found WDD from others posting in Twitter and to me it is a great resource of info to improve myself as webdesigner. BIG THANK YOU!

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY and MORE OTHERS!

Happy birthday and many, many years to come. Keep the good work.

Happy Birthday

I have learnt a lot from this blog over the year, especially with regards to structuring and planning my work.

There has been some great content over the year, keep it coming guys.

it feels like yesterday, that this site went online
– Congrats!

Congrats man!!
Fantastic blog

Congrats WDD, I love your blog, very inspiring and great quality!

Thanks for the great resource, Walter, and for letting me have the privilege of writing for your great website.

What have I learned from WDD? That you’re a fellow Canuck! I assumed you were somewhere in the U.S., so it’s nice to see a Canadian doing so well in the design community.

The actual things I’ve learned are too numerous to recount, though!

Congrats! Thanks so much for all the great resources!

Happy B-day!
Thanks for the effort and the time invested in the site. Thanks for the great collection of news and resources.

Congratulations. I’ve loved reading your articles each week and they really helped me in getting my skills up to top notch.
Its been a great inspiration to my works!

Happy Birthday,

I’m following you now almost since the very beginning and whether I was looking for the right platform to built my next web site on, some inspiration or the latest CSS3-tricks, my way always lead here.
Thank you for making such a great blog with amazing content on a regular basis.
I wish you many more years and some even greater successes.

WOW! Happy Birthday!

I have learned lots of things from WDD but one thing that I really love about the site are the different round-ups of design. Like the most recent article about creative ads, that was cool!

Happy birthday!

WDD quickly became one of favorite web design blogs, and I look forward to new articles every day! Here’s to many more to come!

I have to say CONGRATS, I would have never in any mind thought that this site was built by one person alone, that is a very impressive feat in it’s own let alone lasting, but there’s no question how when you dive in to the vast articles, I’ve learned such a vast amount of knowledge everyday from just visiting this site.

So THANK YOU!

~Chris

You always have been inspiring to my design line especially I am a self taught web designer. Please continue to inspire me. Happy Birthday to you, mentor!!!

…I’ll join the singing…

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday … dear Web Designer Depot,
Happy birthday to you.

Congratulations WDD!

Happy birthday WDD!
WDD is one of my favorite blog ! Keep up the good work

Happy Birthday WDD! keep up the good work!

great works! you used only 1 year to get such a huge success. tks for the great articles, and congratulations!

I learned a lot for my design career. Thanks WDD!

Wow, it’s just WDD’s first birthday? Amazing!

Happy Birthday from Slovakia!:)

Congratulations! I visit your blog every morning with a fresh cup of coffee: it provides me with a fresh dose of inspiration
Keep up the good work

I just recently found your site… I can only say… IT ROCKS !!!

Happy birthday!

WDD is only 1 year old?? That’s quite a bit done in one year so congratulations for that
Blogs like WDD have helped the company I work in *finally* get to a point where we an have our own blog, so I’m very grateful for that!

Dear WDD!
I wanna thank you very much for your great enthusiasm to WDD, that helps not only me, but also the big webdesigner-and-co-society around the world!
For me it makes a lot of fun to come here day by day to see, if there are any new articles that I could read.
In my early years I always tried to getting better in designing by reading just books.
But with finding WDD, I didn’t found just a dry and boring designblog, I found my new Firefox Startuppage/Homepage, that motivates me day after day for going on with what I like to do: designing
And its more than this: it helps me to get better and better -> which then leads to having a much nicer looking and more valid WEB
Thanks a lot!
Best regards, Alex!

I’m trying to learn web design on my own, without any money for classes or that many peers I can talk to. Webdesigner Depot was one of the first “real” web design sites I found, and its articles were inspirational. They were some of the first things that got me “thinking like a web designer,” and learning the most basic techniques and trends.

Congrats guys !!!
WDD proved me how easy it is to learn/acquire resources for my web based projects. So I started my own business, it is so easy having a resource like WDD

Keep it up!

I visit WDD everyday and i am very happy when i see a new article because i always learn something new. Happy birthday and get even more articles in the future.

I’m genuinely surprised that this is only the first birthday. A well thought out and incredibly useful site which has inspired me many a time to greater design standards. Well done and thank you!

Oh, you’ve got very old )

Thank you for everything! Keep up the good work!

Greetings from Serbia!

Happy Birthday WDD! Thank to help me to understand more about the strange world of web!

It’s hard to believe that WebDesignerDepot is just one year old! I discovered this blog around March this year, and ever since, I have to have a daily look on the blog! I can’t even start telling in how may ways the articles here have helped me!

I wish many more successful years!

No way! Just 1 year old?? You guys are veterans!!

Happy Birthday to you Walter and the rest of your wonderful team! Keep rocking! Here’s to many more

Inspiration. Resources. Fun.

That is how do I describe WDD. Keep up the good job guys!

Congrats! love the site, always good quality and diversity. Keep on truckin’

Hey WDD, I am a reader from Cape Town, South Africa, Love the informative and inspiring content, we need rescources like the ones you offer especially in emerging markets like south Africa, thanks for the post and keep up the great work!!

I read articles here everyday.
They are really helpful to me.
Thanks and happy birthday!

Great news!, i know the WWD for many days a go(as fas as checked with RSS feed it says December 21, 2008) i am getting more inspiration stuff, reviews and some tutorials also WordPress stuff much more…

i am now sort of a WordPress Guru because if WDD

Happy 1st year!!!!
I’m kind of glad that it has sometimes general design articles, I love reading this place every day

good work!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Happy birthday to you!!!!

(no copy and pasting… for real! It’s worth the time )

Happy Birthday.. Wish U Great success in the coming years..

Happy Birthday!

Happy B’day! An thank you for all the inspirations and resources!

I first came across WWD while looking for some free icons. Ever since then i’ve been a daily reader and look forward to being shown some cool design related stuff.

I’m not a big tutorial fan, but WWD supplies great info on the theory of design. Perfect for those trying to educate themselves at their work desks.

What has WWD taught me? It’s taught me that a lot of people don’t understand the “nofollow” tag in the comments section

Happy birthday! My favorite article is http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/09/the-difference-between-art-and-design/

Happy b-day!

I’m reading WDD nearly since the launch and I “scan” (sometimes fully read) every article in my rss reader.

WDD is …

- my brainfood/f*ck to think about (web)design.
- keeping me up-2-date about the latest trends / techniques.
- teaching me about oldskool trends / techniques.
- awesome designed ( )

Greetings from Switzerland
David

Very Happy Birthday!! Your website is a real treat. First thing I read every morning, great source of learning and inspiration . Keep it on !!
One question, I am curious to know what is the percentage of french visitors?

Been following WDD for couple of months now, it’s just awesome. Happy bday!

Happy Birthday WDD! you’ve always been awesome and have helped me learn so much. I’ll always be a devoted reader.

Happy Birthday! Your site was a great resource for inspiritation during the last year for me! keep up the great work

WDD has been a great resource for myself personally and for the company I work for.

I use WDD to keep up to date with all things design and always looking forward to the latest posts.

One of my fav posts are the weekly “Favorite Tweets of the Week”.

Keep up the good work and the influential posts.

thank you for all great stuff !

WDD has taught me personally how to become a better designer…well I hope so atleast Happy Birthday and heres to another year of great tutorials!

We love you!! We love you!! And congrats, of course.
Happy 1 year old, WD!

haha, when there is a gift attached the reply’s are huge.
I’m aware that I am a part of that, but im not replying for the gifts…

Im here to say: congrats!
Although im following WDD for just a few months now, i’ve learned a lot from the website. It even has become part of my daily routine to check WDD.
So thanks! for all the creative input and usefull lessons!

Greetz from the Netherlands,

Bart

Thanks for all your helpful articles, insights, roundups, and such over the past year.

Happy Birthday WDD i wish you many many many more years of great stories, tips, inspirations…

Happy Birthday, thank you for a great site. Excellent, well written articles that have been a useful learning tool over the last yesr. Keep up the good work.

Congrats. I didn’t know you were that young.
I always read your articles and check your links. Keep the good work

Happy birthday WDD…
Thank you for providing us with great stuff and being a great source of inspiration…

Happy birthday WDD and all the best for the future. Always a good read…

Wow! I’m amazed to find out that WWD is only one year old. It looks so professional as if have been here a ages! I love WDD, i’m a design student and I’ve used it all this year WDD as a tool to learn nice stuff they don’t teach in school.

Happy one year b-day and I wish many more to come!

Wow! Happy birthday!
Thanks for all you’ve done so far.
Please keep up great works

Happy Birthday and Thank you for being you!

In this Day of Copied / regurgitated content, it is great to find a unique website that holds it own quality content that brings me back time and time again!

Heres to the next few hundred birthday

WDD just rocks ! Providing so many informations for free, thank you again ! Very useful website. Congrats !

Happy Birthday!!

I’ve only in the last week begun to read your blog and it is now a firm favourite of mine. Keep up the great work and I hope you have an equally successful second year.

Happy Birthday WDD.

You have been useful and interesting. Hope you grow bigger and better each day.
Thanks.

Congratulations, Walter! your site always proves to be a valuable resource. especially your recent post about email newsletters will certainly help me on my current project. many thanks for all this great content and keep up the good work!

Happy first birthday!

I find many useful articles on here, it’s my first stop for inspiration. Keep up the good work. Hope you have many more to come!

It is hard to believe Designer Depot is only 1 year old! You have the nack of publishing the right articles at the right time, many times have I been half way through a piece of work and a tweet has popped up linking to your latest article. I have a ‘quick look’ at the article and end up spending half a day on it and as a result completely change the direction of my project!

Happy birthday WDD!

Mine was yesterday, so nearly the same =)
WDD gives me inspiration – everyday. Topics are not always about the web, that’s what I really enjoy. I’m pretty new in web development and your articles help me to improve my skills. WDD is one of my favourite blogs!
Thank you and keep on!!

I’m one of your really hardcore fans since you launch your site.
Really happy to see the good work and really helpful articles that helps me on web design.

Congrats!

Happy 1st Birthday! (o^_^o) WebDesignerDepot has become one of my go-to resources for Web Design and has been essential in keeping me in the game, so to speak. Please keep inspiring us, your readers! And here’s to many more birthdays!

Thanks Web designer depot! Been following your amazing site now in the whole year you’ve been around and you’ve been a constant place for stunning web design inspiration and resources.

When I wake up your RSS feed is the first thing I check! Love it!

Keep it up!

Illiya

Joyeux Anniversaire from Paris !
French people love to learn with your amazing website. Really !
Take care.

Respect.

ハッピバスデ !

Happy Birthday ! And thanks !

Hi Walter,

Happy First Birthday!

I love the range of articles, I’ve learnt plenty, enjoyed some great non web design articles that I would never have seen otherwise.

I follow WDD on Twitter and link to you from my site.

Elliott

Apart the awesome work, articles and design of the site, the thing that amazes me the most is that you have managed to make this blog a “million visitor blog” in such a short time

Keep up the good work

Felicidades WDD ^^

Congrats and Thanks.
This is a great way to celebrate a birthday..!!

All I can say can be included on one single word

“Awesome!”

Happy Birthday!
Thanks for a great amount of amazing content – i follow you every week!
Keep it up!

Happy birthday WDD !!!!!

Congratulations from Italy! There are always greast resources here on WDD!

Congrats

I can’t say that the whole website influenced me but the “How to choose the right CMS” and “how to not design a logo” posts have had a pretty good impact on me, especially the first…I was always with WordPress in mind, for me and my clients…until I read your article I didn’t realize that the others were that good too.

Great work, and to many more years, even more successful then this one

Happy anniversary!
And keep up with the great work so everybody can enjoy articles and resources for inspiration like I do. =)

Happy Birthday WDD!
First things first…
I get your Posts through RSS regularly and I’m surprised each time about the high quality!
But what I think of when I hear “WDD” is not only the great content. It is your great Blog Design which inspired me so much.
So I hope you continue blogging and I wish you all the best!

Many congratulations to WDD on its 1st birthday.

It has been immence help that I’ve received from WDD. There is so much valuable information that you guys are sharing here which has definately helped in my career.

Keep it up and all the best for the next year.

Happy birthday, I love webdesignerdepot.com, I read it all the time and it helped me a lot, I can see that a lot of your articles are in my bookmarks list.

Happy birthday WDD, i learn much from this site. Im newbie in this world, so would you please … give smashingmagazine books….:D
Congrat… congrats

Happy Birthday and congratulations on such a fantastic resource.

I’m very new to the site but alreay its one of the first sites I look at in the morning when I switch my machine on.

Heres to many more happy years of great tutorials and advice!

Congratz from the Netherlands!
This really is a great site, it helps me and my career very much.
Tnx!

WDD is the first site I use to find inspirations, tricks, and have fun. You guys rock!

Thanks for the effort and happy bday!

happy birthday. i’m not in the design business at all but nevertheless i enjoy reading your excellent articles.

Congratulations!!

Happy Birthday WDD! & Thank you for all the useful information about design, but more importantly housing it all in a playfully designed theme!

Congrats!
Among the Smashing Magazine is this my favorite webdesign blog. Surprised that it’s only one year old – this should mean that I’ve been following this website almost since the beginning.
I just checked your traffic/page views – impressive!
Keep going!

congrats & thanks

Congratulations on the 1st Anniversary…Tough I started following your blog just 2 months ago, I have really enjoyed it. Keep up the Good Work.. :D:D:D

happy birthday.

please, keep up the good work.

Congrats!! I recantly found this blog. And its a big inspiration even for me in Sweden.

Happy Birthday WDD! Thanks for all the resource, I love this site!

WDD helped me to broaden my reach for design related stuff. Be it logo design, website. The work posted here along with the information really does open the world of possibilities.

One year goes really fast! Congrats, and keep it up.

woot woot! congrats guys! you just don’t know how many frustrated designers you have helped. more power and keep up the amazing work!

WDD is an amazing resource for all designers, whether they are web based or not, so congratulations on your 1st Bithday! WDD has personally helped me because it was one of the only good design sites I came across when I first started looking more at them in the past year to six months. WDD has had so many interesting, thought provoking and also inspiring posts. It has helped me to focus, to think in a creative way and to also educate me in many different aspects of web design. I think without actually discovering WDD, I wouldn’t have had the confidence to go ahead and launch my portfolio website as successfully as I did (www.rachilli.co.uk)

Thanks so much for a brilliant website, and keep up the great work (as I’m sure you will!)

Wow you’re one! Congrats WDD! I first stumbled upon this website when I was searching for tutorials, and I have not stopped coming in after that! 18th Nov! my birthday as well!

Anyways, looking forward for more good contents from WDD!

I always find WDD an awesome read and packed with great resources! Congratulations on turning one!

Happy Birthday,
one of the best blogs for designers!
Hope other years will be even more better and better.

Always a great source of inspiration! Thanks guys!

Happy birthday!

WDD help me a lot with your useful articles about design.

I really love the inspiration articles and your blog design.

Conrats WDD – happy birthday!

Wow – impressive stats! Getting 40.000 Subscribers / 80.000 Followers by “just” 250 Postings sounds like pretty good ROI And on average 64 comments per posting – i guess most bloggers just dream of this numbers.

So: Very well done & my gratulations!

Hi there,

Congratulations! Good to see that the site is 1 yr old. I’ve been following this site for quite sometime and have learnt a lot which has helped in in some way or the other to design my own site and be fore creative. Thanks for everything.

Cheers,
Eddie Gear

Happy Birthday, Webdesigner Depot!!! You’ve accomplished alot in only one year – respect. Thanks for all the great content, keep it up!

Happy Birthday WDD! Can’t believe it’s one year already. Love your site and look forward to more inspiration from you!

Keep up the great work!

Happy Birthday WebDesignerDepot! Keep up the good work!

Happy birthday! I like all your articles, they’re a source of inspiration.

Learnt a lot from here…
Great posts and resources.
Thanks.
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great year ahead!!

Cheers!
Shachii

Happy B’Day WDD!! Ure doing a gr8 job

I came here from Smashing Magazine.
Happy Birthday from France

Congrats on the Bday! I love the site and check it almost everyday as well as follow it on twitter…keep up the great work!

Congrats!

Thanks for providing all the good stuff!
Keep on enlighting us!

Congrats! Cannot believe it is a year already! Helped me out with a lot of great content!

Keep it up! and hope its the start to many many years!

Happy B-Day WDD. I love your content, continue

Time flies. I still remember when WDD was just launched. It’s amazing how far you’ve come in just a year. Congratulations Walter. You’ve done a tremendous job and deserve each one of the followers, subscribers and visitors. I wish you all the best for the years to come!

Happy Birthday,
mhm … since i’ve began to follow WDD’s posts at twitter, my designs became more detailed and colourful. same happens to typo.
so rock on and give me inspiration!

It’s been a honor to be featured on this website, well done for passing the one year mark and all the best for the future…keep up the good work chap!

Congrats WDD! You’re one of my fav websites. Keep up doing what you do. You’re great!

i love you

Nice, congratz!

alles gute webdesignerdepot und noch viele weitere erfolgreiche Jahre

Hey, Happy Birthday from Germany!
I love your blog. There is always stuff to discover. I also love to browse through older articles and find some helpful information I didnt know before.

Thank you and keep it up!

Web Designer Depot helped me a a lot in my web design works. It’s helpful articles are ones that I can’t forget. Thank You for helping me. Looking forward for more new and interesting articles to read on WDD.

Wow, 10 million visitors in just one year. Congratulations! The ultimate blogger dream

Keep up the good work.

Happy b-day WDD! Thank you for all the great stuff you are publishing!

This is one the first time I visit you so I don’t have much to say about WD. I can say that I will keep an eye on this website and hope to win a prize!

Happy Birthday WDD!!!

I started designing for web and desktop apps about 3 years ago, and I can definitely say that WDD has been the most helpful resource for me to grow and expand my skills.
I really appreciate what you’ve done over the last year and i can only wish that it will keep on going for many more!

So in other words… Don’t stop doing what you’re best at, influencing designers and expanding the knowledge of the world

Happy Birthday!

All of your posts are great!!!

Keep up to great work, you’re number #1 on my all-time favorite design blogs!!

Happy Birthday WDD! I’m not a web designer, still i read this great blog on a constant basis, as it provides some interesting and insightful thoughts on design and the Web in general. Thanks and keep up with the great job!

Congrats! Web designer Depot has managed to become one of the most important design blogs in so little time!

But you deserve, content is great, useful, a must in my RSS reader every day, for design inspiration and help!

Keep up the good work!

I always like the tweets of the week, I had to think I missed out on something interesting on Twitter!

Congrats on your birthday

Congratulations! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! I wait for the next 10 years!!

Sweet site. Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday WDD. *blows party blower*
I have always loved this blog for its inspiration, guidance and great advice. Your header illustration pushed me to beyond my comfort zone to be creative by thinking outside the square or ‘container’. Keep up the great amount of effort that makes this blog one of the best on the web!!

Thanks to WDD for all of those resources

Happy Birthday WDD! Congratulations on the journey so far and good luck with the road ahead. The depot is my favourite source for incredibly inspiring articles, well researched guides and great content, so thank you!

As an accessibility freak, WDD had a few nice posts and I’m looking forward to read more on this important matter. Thank you and Happy birthday!

Congratulations and thanks for a good work. I always like to read articles here

Happy B-Day and tons of amazing ideas in next year of life. This blog is great resource for designer’s imagination and full of good suggestions, which I used most when redesigning or just creating graphics from scratch.

Happy Birthday Webdesigner Depot!
I’ve been following WDD almost every day for a couple of months now. And surely I’ll be reading even more awesome and seriously valuable stuff for years to come!

Keep on rockin’ !

WDD taught me to think like a designer, even though I’m a developer. Thanks for the awesome articles!

Happy Birthday!

A few of the (many) times I’ve visited WDD, there has been an article which has been perfect for the work I’m doing. For example, the email newsletter article on Monday came in at perfect timing for a client project I was beginning work on!

Thanks for all your great work!

Congrats! and thanks guys for your awesome work!

Happy Birthday to you.

Thank you for all your advices. They helped me a lot during my study.

Keep going.

Happy Birthday, it’s a great site and I’m really impressed with your your Stats for only one year!! I’m a designer / marketing kinda guy, i’ve found the posts and the resources invaluable keep up the good work!

Happy MOvember people!

Thanks

oh well done!! congrats, i read regularly

Happy Birthday!
I’ve got out of this blog many different things.
Typography in webdesign is one of my favorite topics.

Keep on movin’

Cheers,
Jules

I hate WDD it looks ugly confusable with lot of images and contents” – hey wait wait dont be angry on me. This is what I thought on my first look on

WDD. But now I am visiting this site 3 times a day (after breakfast, lunch and dinner). I cant believe that its age is just “One” when it works likae an amateau website. It was an unexpected visit to WDD (when searching for logo

impression via google though), but when “I get my answerw without asking questions in one site” I just started to love WDD. I just started to collect

color theme, icons, logo impressions, Creative web designs showcases, useful articles about usability and here the right side advertisements also

teaching me a Good designing skills. Its really unbelievable, excellent website for all kind of webdesigners – begginer to expert. My favourite article

is Microsoft vs Apple – As a windows user Iam still supports MS who loves Apple’s website design and its icon, yes you can include the iphone also , to speak frankly im little fuzzy with english, WDD not only teaching the designing skills also the english and communication skills.
My big applause for WDD
Thanks a lot
Ravikumar V.

Happy birthday. Can’t believe this blog is already 1 year old. I hope to see WDD for many more years after this. And nice give-away too

Congratulations, Walter!

Just one year old and WDD has been a tremendous design inspiration and resource for me. Hope you continue to deliver quality posts. Thanks for all your work!

Thanks for being here
love your articles!

See the header banner image above? When I first saw it on my wide screen monitor, I realized that I do need to have my designs “degrade” to wider screens gracefully. I have since been using it (specifically its image dimensions) as a template for my designs.

Happy Birthday and I wish you many many many more
I found lots of useful articles, tips & tricks here. Keep ‘em coming!

Here is to another great year guys , such as massive well done so far for a beautiful piece of the internet.

Congratulations and a happy one year birthday!

Keep up the inspirational work!

Congratulations! I’m fairly new to WDD, but I’ve read some really really inspiring and useful articles while trying to get back into the “scene”. Thanks for being such a good resource.

Congrats WDD! Thank you for a year’s worth of inspiration!

PS. Why did Steve Jobs contact you? *curious*

Amazing ! Great Job Mr. Apai,
I like the way you publish & write.
Quote: Steve Jobs himself once sent me an email, too
Nice one Dode

WoW !! Congrats … that has been an incredible journey, for me too !! For being a novice in web design Now I am well proficient in PS, XHTML and CSS. I started web designing about a year ago and websites like SM, net tuts, noupe, and yours proved really helpful and uplifted my skills.
Now i aspire to start my own blog and give nback to community, what i have learnt so far… can you give some suggestions to me … I will be very thankful.

Once again…congrats.. and all the best for future !! Keep it up..

Congrats for the birthday! I hope you will grow up to take your driver licence

Happy birthday WDD! Thank you for easing me into my work day every morning by giving me something interesting to read with my morning coffee.

Wow, this is great news! Congrats WDD, and thank you, you’ve really been a big part of my design career

This is a GREAT web site. Thank you for your passion and happy birthday.

Congrats, huge success considering you are only a year old!

Congratulations WDD, thanks for all the quality articles on webdesign and keep them coming in your second year! I especially like the articles that go beyond the general approach on webdesign and are focused on small details to make things perfect.

Happy Birthday WDD!

Thanks for all the great posts so far and we look forward to see more of those great articles.

Happy Birthday! You are doing a really GREAT job!!
Congrats!

Well done! As a web developer and freelancer I love to read your blog and wish you good luck in the future!

Congratulations on your First Birthday.
You are a recent find for me, and so far i have been very impressed with what i have seen and read. Keep this up, and i will be celebrating your second year.

Got Inspired, found solutions, found advice, felt ambitious and wanted to do something new like it?

Yes, all of these feelings and more, I had while following @DesignerDepot on twitter, and reading your posts.

Happy Birthday, and keep up the good work.

Congratulations on 1 year!

Happy Birthday from Brazil. Keep doing this awesome content and you’ll receive another Steve Jobs’s email, heheh

I LOVE WDD! I hope it around for many years to come! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to you WebDesignerDepot. You enlightened the scene of web design so much in 1 year time.

Congrats on the birthday! These are the type of sites that keep me going. Thanks for all the hard work.

Congrats on 1 year. Thanks for your good services.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

This blog is one of the few island providing constantly great and valuable resources, a true reference for wendesigners!

Cheers

Congrats and thank you for many interesting posting. It has influenced my work to some extent and got my brain spinning!

Congratulations WDD Happy first year. A lot of articles were very useful! Thanks a lot for all the inspiration and ideas.

Keep up the good work

Happy birthday!
WDD is AWESOME!!!

Just awesome articles in general!
Nice touch on showing those interesting facts XD

Happy Birthday!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WDD! Really appreciate all your useful and inspirational content.

Happy Birthday,
You’ve helped me out on numerous occasions so thanks for that! Keep up the good work!
Ben

Happy Birthday WDD Congrats on your successfully.

Congratulations!

Happy Birthday!!!! Congrats!

Congratulation!! Web Designer Depot.. We’re big fan of WDD and read from Feed. Want to say “Happy Birthday!!”

All the very best guys, may you continue for many years to come.

Congratulations WDD!

WDD is still inspiring me and i think it has great web-related resources!

Thank you to WDD and thank you by cite my country(Brazil) in your text…

Good job to all writters on WDD.

Happy Birthday WDD!

I love to read your articles every day and have learned a lot so far.

You made me stop using tables for website design, I think, thats great…

Go on!

Happy birthday! Keep on being such a great resource

Happy Birthday!

I’m not really a designer, but as someone wrote in one of your articles, design is something you can learn. And that’s why I’m here.

Keep up the good work

“WDD is a Scorpio (and I’m a Pisces)” – Perfect combination (my girlfriend is Pisces, I’m Scorpio, we love each other passionately)

On a less anecdotal side, congratulations, you’re doing a great job. Keep them (articles) coming.

Excellent site, hope to jump on the giveaway train.

Congrats , well-deserved.
You are a daily inspiration for us.

I’ve learned so much about Freelancing then I could ever wish. So when I think that I have the skills to do it, I can just jump right in thanks to all your articles.

Congratulations!!

Keep on going the good work..

I read the blog every day.

Love, love, love…

Too bad your site doesn’t have a finger, or I would put a ring on it.

Congrats!

Keep up the good work ))

Pretty sure the most shocking thing is that you’re only 1 year old! Lord you seem more established than that…this is a compliment.

I’ve been following your blog for a few good strong months now and love it. Congratulations on your over-whelming success…from one pisces to another.

Over 10 million people in one year?

Congrats!

Thanks for all of this great content. WDD has really helped me sharpen up my understanding of web design as a web developer

Your site has provided a place for me to narrow my focus and cut down my time searching for the ‘latest & greatest’; and it’s normally fun to read.

Congratulations on your first year. Passing by daily and learned a lot.
Keep up the good work!

Thanks again for wonderful resources!

Congrats WDD!

I thought WDD started a long back.. I am surprised to hear this news..
This one year old baby run very fast. Really!
Great Achievement – Cheers Walter Apai

Some more WDD facts from me

1. Out of 20,000 mails, one is mine.
2. I am also a “Scorpio”

Keep up the good work in upcoming years..

Cheers
DesignFellow

Great website. Congrats on the anniversary.

Happy Birthday to my favorite Blog !

Happy birthday WDD! Your site is growing fast and every day better. I’m just a simple gfx fanatic, but you guys are inspiring me more than others. Congrats! 100 of this years!

happy birtday WDD!

Good stuff,
Great inspiration!

Happy Birthday! I’m a developer who loves designers, apparently that’s rare. I love Reading all the articles on web design it fascinates me. Keep up te good work!!!

Congrats!
I’m actually not a designer, but a videomaker – but following blogs like yours is a way to keep the video ideas fresh, as well. Very good job!

Happy Birthday !

My favorite article on WDD was The Workstations of Popular Websites (http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/02/the-workstations-of-popular-websites/)

Thanks and keep the good work up.

Btw, thanks for the giveaway !

Happy birthday!
No better place for a web design student can be found on all of the internet. WDD has become a natural part of my morning routine and never fails to provide great content.

Congrats & Happy Birthday WDD!
I’ve learned a lot from your articles!

Happy Birthday WDD!! Great year, keep going!

happy birthday web designer depot!

Congrats! Definitely one of my regular sites. Keep up the great work!

Wow, a year already? Congratulations for the great job your doing on WDD, a really good resource with really useful content. Most of the time I print that content to read it while not online…have you ever though about writing a book?

That, along with the Smashing Book, will be hot!

I’ve been subscribed to the rss feed for quite a while, and enjoyed the diverse range of topics covered. I wish you a happy birthday and continued success.

At first: Happy Birthday to you! 1 year gone. That was really fast. Thanks for the great research you do, for most of your articles and your daily inspiration.

Can´t live without anymore. keep up what you are doing. Stand strong.

Hey WDD, Happy Birthday!

Thanks for all the resources and inspiration you’ve given me.

I loved the post about How Not to Design a Logo, it helped me to organize a little bit better the swamp that my brain actually is.

Keep thrilling me!!

PS – the background color? spot on!

Personally, for about a year I’ve ended up here from one source or another. Not just occasionally, but constantly. It’s because of the consistently high quality articles and content. Happy Bday

Great work! Love WDD!

Happy Birthday WDD!
In the past year I’ve learned a lot of things from your articles, and got a lot of inspiration! Thank you very much!

Happy Birthday! I´m a big fan of WDD, too. Love your “Tweets of the week”. Always a nice inspiration. Keep it up! Stefan from Germany

Well first off, Happy Birthday and congrats on being such a success!

I actually first stumbled onto this site by mistake, but have been visiting daily ever since. Great mix of articles and resources I can refer to on a day to day basis whether for web or print design.

Keep up the great articles!

Hi, Thanks for the blog. Content is usually great. This is one of those sites on top of my RSS-reader.

Congrats!

HAPPPY BIIIRTHDAY!
Thank you WDT for providing me endless inspiration for my work.

Congrats!

Happy Birthday WDD
I’ve red almost every article and from each one I learned something new
I started doing web designs before year and a half and I’ve learned everything that I know from WDD and the tutsplus network. But the best thing that I’ve learned from WDD is what people like and what they don’t. And also the difference between design and art, but i think WDD kinda combines them both.
Again Happy Birthday and i hope I’ll write a comment again on the 50′th anniversary

Happy Birthday! Well done!

WDD has been indispensable in helping me set myself up as a developer/designer with all sorts of very useful tips and advice! (There’s only so much you can teach yourself!)

Cheers!

As I’ve started freelance full-time and started my own business around the work I do creatively, I’m so excited every morning to turn to my feeds and read up on tutorials and tips from around the ‘Net to help me in becoming a better freelancer, and designer.

WDD has definitely moulded me to changed certain aspects of how I design and how I deal with the different day-to-day with clients. Whenever searching through me 35+ subscriptions, I am always very pleased with the quality of articles that come from WDD as they are never half-assed, and always contain information that I can use.

Awesome job doing what you do over there – keep it up!!

Big Happy Birthday to a truly inspiring and helpful web resource.
WDD has given more inspiration in my designing in more ways than one and im truly thankful.
Keep up the great work!!

Gz WDD

Happy birthday!!!!! Thank you very much for everything you give us! Keep on this great work!!

Happy Birthday, and congratulations on a very successful first year! I check this site each day, and am always following the links you post on your twitter account. There is so much that you offer, and I am well on my way to starting my own web design company.

Thanks!

Happy Webday!
I am reading the posts on the website for a long time. It helps me go through the boring college readings.

Thank you Webdesignerdepot!

Thanks for a great inspiring website! Happy birthday
I use webdesignerdepot all the time as a resource for my design students!

Happy Birthday WDD! You guys have published some really good articles in last one year.

WDD is my daily doze of inspiration. Keep up the good work.

Congrats. One of the best sources for web design material I on the net. I check my RSS feed daily to help build my knowledge and understanding of web design as I move more and more towards this passion. Keep it up!

Congratulations! I shared some of the insight in your Choosing a CMS post with some coworkers to help guide us away from a lackluster CMS and toward new directions! Thanks for all you’ve contributed to the webdesign community, love your site and keep going strong!

CONGRATS! =D
Ever since I found out about Webdesigner I have visited it often to learn everything and anything to become better in webdesign.
There have been a lot of useful articles, ideas, and pointers.
I am optimistic to its future.
Thanks for all.

Hey, congratulations!
And thanks for your work great!

A big THANK YOU from Italy.

Parabens WDD! I’ve been following for around 8-10 months now and i’ve always found great stuff there. Keep it up! Also proud that brazil is one of the biggest followers.

Inspiration is key in this industry and you guys really do open my eyes to what’s out there and how to approach different challenges we face in UI design!

Legends!

Hey, congratulations!
And thanks for your great work!

A big THANK YOU from Italy.

I think this is a great learning site with lots of great stuff.

Firstly, many Many happy returns of the day.
It was approx 7 month before when I started follow WDD on twitter. Then I fount some awesome design tweets on twitter from WDD.
I was open the designing article and save them as a HTML page.And try them to create in photoshop CS4.I had win designer of the year 2009-2010 award from my web design industry by inspired from WDD’s tutorial.
I have now great confidence and knowledge to create a stunning web design.
And the credits goes to webdesignerdepot
I will like to get more awesome tutorials from you in future.

Congrats!. Your website is THE reference of all web design.

Steve Jobs sent you an email? What was it about?

Congrats on your first, man!!

WDD was one of the reasons I started blogging. I have learnt a lot from your excellent resources and would love to find the time to put an article together for you.

Maybe on day

Happy birthday WDD!

HB!!!

I’ve discovered this web site few weeks ago, but almost instantly it become my homepage.
Carry on for atleast 10 more b’days

The baby has turned 1, its gonna be BIG!

Happy blogversary! One of your regular German readers here.
WDD is one of my daily must-reads since my best friend (designer and webdesign geek) gave me the url to http://www.tagdocs.de who mentioned you an in article, so I arrived here and stayed. My mum is a painter and daddy is graphics designer and I grew up with art and so I immediately fell “at home” , “cozy” and comfortable here and enjoy reading tremendeously especially because you do not restrict yourself to just webdesign but art in general. I am a self-taught webdesigner, work mostly freelance and your articles inspire me enormously or make me laugh, and always I learn a lot. And it is the best source to convince people of a dark layout, like mine. Needless to say I designed my blog myself (and am just redesigning it quitely because the new Movable Type 5 will be ready in two weeks approximately and the architecture behind has changed completely).

Keep up that good work! Lover your blog and the style it is written.

Congrats WDD!

It’s always nice to see progress. Your interesting and non interesting facts where a very nice read, gave me some good tips.
In the last few months I have learned a lot from WDD, going to a multimedia and design University myself. Another thing I am proud to be doing is making a presentation of this website for one of my classes at University called “Visual culture”. It’s not going to be in English but I will be happy to send you a copy when I’m done

Thanks for all the posts and keep up the good work!

Happy Birthday WDD! Thank you for the wealth of information and information you bring us. I come here regularly for inspiration. So much talent out there! Enjoy your special day!

Happy B-Day WDD!

Your blog has been a wonderful resource for students in our high school Digital Arts classes. You post examples of quality design work and links to great resources. Keep up the good work!

I can’t believe that it’s only 1 year. I guess I’ve been reading you from the begining although I never leave a comment… Side by side with SmashingMagazine you are my favourite source of inspiration and knowledge… Thank you for everything that you shared with us and I wish you many more years to come, as succesfull as this first… Congrats!

I am such a big fan of this site, clear info, and most of all INSPIRATION!

Happy birthday and thanks

jac

Congratulations!

First Congratulations ..! Maintaining a quality site that is not easy, I understand and appreciate, as do visits a day from El Salvador, Central America, also recommend it. Graicas for the effort they do and for the benefit we provide to read. Go ahead and once again .. congrats!

Hopefully a prize winner. Greetings

WOW! Happy Birthday! I am always coming here for inspiration and LOVE pouring through previous articles to look at designs. It’s an amazing site and I love it!

First of all I wish you a happy birthday. Thanks for the content, i’m in a graphic school in France, and it give me inspiration for homework. My english is so bad, i think i should stop here.

Thanks for all, and how we said in France : Joyeux Anniversaire

It’s jaw-dropping impressive, looking at what you’ve managed to do with this site.

Happy birthday and good luck ahead!

Congratulations on a great first year and wishing many more to come for you! WDD has been indispensable to me and I greatly appreciate all of your hard work.

Happy birthday!!
Here, in Brasil, we said: Feliz Aniversário!!
Keep up the good work!

You are taking design to a whole new level, but why did I not follow you on Twitter? But don’t worry because now I am!

wow! all this in only one year? incredible. congratulations from argentina! keep rockin!

Greetings from Finland!

Have to say, this site itself is a really inspiring and educational – but through this site and its links I have also found a huge number of other great web/graphic design sites I’ve never known before! So thank you for that also!

… and my opinion is that keep posting those “not only” web design related articles. I have enjoyed them quite much!

Happy Birthday!

I’ve been a regular reader to your blog and I find your content very engaging and useful. I have used the information found on your site to help with countless projects!

Thanks

Congrats

Congrats on a year of great work!

Congrats! Happy Birthday! Thank you for this wonderful site… Wish this site more years to come… Keep it up =)

I love your blog and as a student I have learned so much. I really enjoyed your post on the choosing the CMS… but then again I guess everyone else did too!

Congrats!!

Happy Birthday! You are my design inspiration!

Congratulations!

I’ve visited the site to learn so many things in the past few months. I find it a great resource for tips and finding great ideas.

Happy First Birthday Web Designer Depot! As a college student hoping to become a talented (lucrative) web designer when I graduate, I visit Web Designer Depot daily to get inspiration, advice, tools, and everything else I need to succeed in the world wide web. Thanks Walter, you’ve helped me grow as a designer.

First of all Happy Birthday WDD

Learnt a lot in the past year from this site, ranging from how to build better sites to how to adhere to web standards. Too many to list here.

Keep up the good work and good luck to all.

What? This blog has only been a year old? It really looked like it’s been around for some time. Anyway, Happy birthday and good luck for years to come.

I’m a freelance web designer since only 2 months. Before I was programming for a little company here in germany. I’m following your site since a few months and it helps me very much to make my way. The inspiration I got here is so great!

A little example:
Since the article “The Art of Branding Yourself and Your Freelancing Business” I defined more specific goals and changed my business plan. I was inspired to creating a great logo and to plan a website design for a little webdesigner group in my town.
Also I’m planing a re-design for my site. The last “Favorite Tweets of the Week” from sunday inspired me so much, that I made the first conceptual design yesterday.
Thank you so much!

Please excuse my bad english … I’m just a reader

Thank you for the resources

Just found the site, look foward to learning great things from others experience.

Fantastic! I look forward to more great content as year 2 moves along.

Happy Birthday!!!! I love WDD, I always learn something new with it. I would like contests more often though

Happy Birthday

I wish to WDD a nice one, and keep on the good work!

Congratulations Walter – WDD is simply the best

Very informative website. I love going to it for help. Thanks and keep it up.

One year! Wow, Walter! It’s incredible what you have manged to accomplish with WWD in just 365 short days. Congratulations on that! WWD is definitely one of my favorite Web design sites. Tons of great content!
Hear’s to another great year!

Happy Birthday WDD!

Your blog inspired me to adjust my skills in web & print design. Thanks for all your hard work for creating great articles.

Keep up the good work!

Happy Birthday! Congratulations and thanks for the incredible content

Happy Birthday, and my warmest congrattlations to your fantastic blog!

Greetings from Vienna, Austria
Jakob

Happy birthday!
WDD is the one of my most favorite websites, because it’s a unique website.
I thank the author of this blog for all the great resources and I wish him a good continuation.

Happy birthday WDD!
“I’m mostly criticized for not sticking to only ‘web’ design, yet web design is an extension of ‘design’.” So true. And with your articles on ‘design’, WDD simply jumps above the crowd and noise. Keep up the good job!

Happy Birthday! I just wanted to thank you very much for your hard work. Your articles are very useful and well thought out, and I have learned a lot. *throws confetti all over WDD*

The only reason I use twitter. WWD. Cheers.

I love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this site. It has helped me a lot as I grow as a web designer.

There’s always something interesting to read here, have a happy one year anniversary and i hope that this community grows!

Happy birthday! Keep up the great work.

Love what you’re doing here, I check it every day!

Happy birthday!
Congratulations from Ukraine! Your blog, Walter, is very useful. I am a beginning Web-designer and you give me a many great ideas. Great job. Keep it up.

Congratulations, WDD!

I particularly enjoy the Twitter feed – in addition to all of the helpful articles from WDD itself, I really like all the other links that Walter pulls together on design.

already happy birthday ? Congrats, so many followers in so little time…

My favorite posts : “The Difference Between Art and Design” and “6 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Designers”

Keep on writing, the designers`community is listening… though sometimes the same info is provided on other mashups before or after… maybe the pipes of the internet are leaking

Have a good day everybody !

Happy birthday and thanks for a great site. It has provided me with countless amounts of inspiration and resources and I’m looking forward to the years to come!

Happy Birthday!

Wow only a year? I discovered you a few months ago and am loving the way the posts inspire a different way of thinking.

Happy Birthday! This is a great resource!

Keep up the good work. This is has been an invaluable resource for me, and I’m sure for others as well. Thanks for all your hard work!

Congratulations! Your blog is a extremely helpful resource!

Happy birthday and best wishes for the future!

I’m not a designer by trade but I do run a blog so I’m always digging in your WordPress and writing articles for handy hints. I also have an unhealthy obsession with icons (gotta collect ‘em all!) so your freebies are downloaded and archived for later use

Happy Birthday WDD!
One of the small list of blogs that are really worth reading and being a RSS subscriber.
Keep up the great work!

Congrats on your first year! Love your articles and love how they occasionally step outside the usual (overly covered) web design topics.

Happy Birthday!

Webdesigner Depot always seems to have the article I need. Its such a great resource for web designers everywhere.

I’ve just started following you & of all times, it’s a One Year Birthday Celebration!

Particularly cool to me because I am launching InspreUart.com, very soon, so I genuinely appreciate the way that you are going forward, full throttle, all the while openly sharing some of the potholes and victories from along the way – how generous.

So, consider me a satisfied and challenged student, right from day one.

Happy Birthday!

CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 1 YEAR!!! Love the site BTW!!

Happy Birthday WDD!

I might not be the sxact target audience since I am a software engineer (who admires the work of the talented graphic designers). However I feel that a little at a time, reading the posts in, the information does stick in and lets me worry no only about functionality, but the aesthetics as part of my own process.

Keep up the good work!

Wow! Happy Birthday WDD!!

I started visiting the site a while back but not until recently that i actually subscribed to the newsletter. at first i thought the newsletters were long but once i read through them, i saw the full potential of reading the post and the newsletters.

Many thanks, and keep growing.

Happy anniversary, WDD!

I’m Creative Lead at a small agency in Missouri. As such, I and my staff wear and frequently swap ‘duty hats.’ Like most of your readers, WDD is one of our very top sources of inspiration, from concepts to layouts to storyboards to scripts to video; we get a lot of good ideas here. And probably some bad ones.

But we don’t talk about those.

Much.

Thanks for the consistently great content!

Congrats on One Year! Been a loyal RSS subscriber since I started my own blog back in March – several of your articles have inspired and helped me with my own work. Thanks for all that you do.

Congrats… nice job.

Happy Birthday! Thanks for putting all the time and effort into this blog Walter, it really shows

happy b wdd!!!! bring the keg!! xD I learned and discovered a lot because of you… but my favorite posts every week is Best Tweets of the Week… can’t miss any of them… also learn a lot of marketing, and loved every Site Analysis you do… Keep on it, thanks for being a helpful hand in our lost freelance minds

Thank you WDD for a full year of inspirations! Keep it up!

Happy Birthday!

Congratulations on turning 1 – and may the next year be even more successful!

I love your site, I visit WDD almost everyday…I take the weekend off! And I’ll be damned if I don’t have something new and interesting to read with every visit.

The content on your site is always 100% and has given me lots of inspiration since my first visit about 6 months ago – sorry for missing the first 6 months.

I always make sure to point like-minded people to WDD because there really is no better resource out there.

Keep it up Walter, and thank you!

Congratulations!

Continue doing articles helpful for Web Designer and Developer.

WWD build professionals.

Happy Birthday. Great site with some very helpful links – I’ve found a few useful jquery links that have helped solve issues with client websites, so thank you very much.

Keep up the good work

one year alerady.. congrats! Keep on the good work. I like the wide variety of posts you have.

Happy Birthday…

At first I was overwhelmed by the design blog out there, therefore I only pick some of the design blog to follow. Although I’ve unsubscribed from the RSS feed, I still get to know the article thanks to the people I follow who spread the word. I like the article on webdesignerdepot that focus on web-design/management around CSS, strategy, and how to work. And I hope it’ll be the same in the future, always grow…

Congrats on the year!

Happy B day keep up the good work.

Weldone WDD! Great articles.

Happy Birthday! Your site is a wonderful resource! Keep up the awesome work!

Congratulations on your first year! While I’m not a web designer I have been inspired by your articles and the great designs you showcase. Keep up the great work, I look forward to more awesome designs!

Thanks for all the great articles guys. very helpful. It’s been a full year already eh?

Congrats on the birthday! I grab a lot of inspiration from all of your articles. Whether it be learning something new, or just seeing what other designers are doing – You guys really come through on quality of each article! Thanks!

Congrats WDD!

Congratulations, and thanks for the quality articles you keep posting. This site has become in a very short time one of my fundamental resources regarding design and general web trends. Keep up the good work!

WDD articles are always great. I read them during the night when I am awake at around 3:00 AM.

I like your articles on logos, WP, etc. All of them are unique. The dos and donts provided have helped me become a designer at the age of 14 and hope that you will provide more articles on typo and logos.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Thank you very much for WDD!

I am one of the ones reading from Germany and would very much like to be where you are to visit the 2010 Winter Olympics… Have fun!

Congrats!

Congrats on 1 Year! This is an awesome site!

Congrats WDD !! Now, lets see how lucky I am

That’s an impressive list of WDD trivia Walter. Here’s to another year (and more emails from Steve Jobs)!

yayyyyy!

Congrats!
WDD is one of the few blogs I read not only now and then but every single post. Thanks for so much inspiration!

Happy Birthday WDD! I visit this site almost every day, enjoying the articles very much. Thank you for running such a great ressource for webdesigners and good luck for the future!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Your site has given me (us) a great amount of resources, and inspiration, to keep making the design world a better place for everyone to live in!!

Keep up the great work!

WDD has helped me get over the fear of the blank page. Thanks for everything!

Hopefully this comment isn’t seen as a perfunctory gesture to receive goodies, but I sincerely appreciate the articles… ESPECIALLY the non-”web”-related ones. Some of the best inspiration comes from images and ideas that are non-web related. Plus I often come here with Firefox and Firebug in hand to pull apart your design and strip back to the CSS and help me with coding my own pages.

Thanks a mil good chap!

Danny

WDD is on my must-check list every morning when I come in to work. The content of the articles and the professional presentation of ideas and technology trends continue to keep me coming back. The Twitter feeds are great as well.

Happy Birthday WDD! My daily inspiration!

Congrats! The site has been a great resource. I’ve learned a lot and been able to send a lot of articles to co-workers!

Congratuliations, WDD!
You always surprise me with interesting articles that are easy to read. Keep up the good work!

Received and sent over 20,000 emails, over 80k Twitter followers and almost 40k RSS subscribers, visited by over 10 million people – huge numbers Walter, holy moly! I still don’t know how you get it all done in a day…

jeremy

PS – I’ve created a special link for your readers to score 25% off and some free digital resources for web/graphic designers:
http://beingastarvingartistsucks.typepad.com/basas/wddproducts.html

I’ve really enjoyed WDD over the last year. Keep up the good work and cheers to many more fruitful years…

Web Designer Depot helped me a lot, it’s one of the most useful website I found, and the content is really useful. Sometimes I read some articles twice because they are interesting and helpful.

Thank you for delivering us this amazing content !

Happy Birthday, Web Design Depot! I’m fairly new to the site, but I subscribe to your feed and read it religiously. I’m always picking up some new ideas and tips and your site inspires my own creativity.

Keep up the good work!

Happy Birthday!!

Thanks for a year of all the resources and tips! Keep it up! :3

Congratulations!!

Love the site and keep up the good work!!!

~Jon

Happy Birthday to WDD and great job on the site Walter. It’s hard to believe that you get criticized for not just sticking to “web” design. I’ve always enjoyed the posts when you brought in a new medium. Keep up the good work and here’s to many years to come!

I always seem to be running a year behind. I just came across WDD but congrats on you b-day!

Thanks @abduzeedo for the link here!

Keith

Congratulations! Your posts are a continuing source of creative inspiration. Here’s to another interesting year of web design, and design in general.

Happy Birthday WDD!

Happy Birthday!! I started using your site last year when I had to teach a class how to use software and I found great tutorials in your site. I give all my students this web address! Great job!!

WDD teaches me a lot. Mostly its what I don’t know about design, which means you guys are truly a great resource.

Hellow, cheers from Poland.
Love Your work.

Happy Birthday! I’m always checking your site for inspiration and tips. Keep up the good work!

Lots of inspiration, a lot of useful tips, a lot of knowledge transferred from the WDD … With you today, with you in the future … Thank you! And happy birthday!

Great resources for web geek. Keep up the good work.

Happy B and best wishes for the future!

you always have such amazing posts on your website and i love reading it all! a great inspiration website.
congrats on turning 1!

Very nice, congrats!

So much success in such a little time. Good job!

Happy Birthday!

I´m glad you have kept on keeping on with the top notch content, I stop by mostly when I´m looking for inspiration, but you have featured some great articles which have afected directly the way I work and think about designing, and I always know a visit to WDD will turn up something interesting and informative, new techniques and softwares.
I don´t have many bookmarks but WDD is one.

Thanks a million and best of luck for the comming year!!

Congratulations on a really successful first year – keep it up

Happy B-day WDD! Your tweets bring me great tidbits inspiration everyday. Keep up the great work.

I read your site almost everyday. Thank you for all the work you do and all the questions you have answered and all the designs you have helped create/inspire.

Here’s to many more years! *cheers!*

I remember reading and reading and reading again, your article on How to Choose the Right CMS. I subscribed to your rss feed via my igoogle page, as a result of that article, and have been reading ever since. Keep up the good work!

Wow, what a way to get plenty of good birthday wishes? Just joking! At any rate, I can’t believe that you’re only one year old–I was under the impression you’d been around much longer. Great website, great information to be had, great source of inspiration, and I hope you’ll be around for a long good while!

Awesome work on WDD Walter… taking it from nothing to THIS in one year is incredible. It’s been fun to see you push hard on this site and create such valuable content. keep up the great work!

Happy birthday! This is one of my favorite blogs, awesome stuff, keep up the great work and I look forward to many more birthdays.

Congratulations WDD! If that isn’t success in such a short period of time, I don’t know what is.

WDD has inspired me to get away from the oh so horrible tables in web design and move to CSS. Now, I’m learning CSS inside and out. I found out what WordPress is and am using it to my advantage. I’m even building my new portfolio website as a WordPress theme. I’m blogging as well, just not as much. You inspire so many people and make people like me realize that success can be achieved. Go WDD!

Congratulations guys! One of the everyday reading magazines on the web by me. Thank You!

Happy Birthday! Keep up your great work!

Congratulations and thanks to you.

WDD has become my doorway to all the web design related content out there. From here I access to many other design blogs.

Your blog has been very inspirational to me and thanks to it I’ve learned a lot about web design and development.

What else can I say? Keep up this great project, and once again, congratulations and thanks!

Happy Birthday WDD!

Web Designer Depot has been a source of inspiration for many of my personal projects.. It has remained in my top list of must read sites in my Google Reader.

Keep up the great work!

Congrats! It’s amazing how much usefulness and awesomeness WDD has delivered in one year. Thanks for your hard work, it’s very much appreciated.

WDD rocks the house!

Congrats WDD! WDD has been a go to source of inspiration for me over the past year and I’m confident it will be well into the future. I especially enjoy the inspiring photo collection posts that are published on the site. Keep doing what you do.

Great work! Thanks for all contents and the quality.
I trust that this website will be in one year so cool, as it is now.

Simply awesome.

Happy birthday! I love your useful and original content.

Congrats on the 1 year mark!

I was hitting a brick wall in my design studies and design career, wondering if this is even something I’m cut out to do for a living. Having been a web designer for more than 10 years, I was running low on inspiration and fresh ideas. Following blogs like Web Designer Depot has helped me refresh my views on design (especially web design) and gain new inspiration.

Seriously great work, and what an accomplishment in such a short amount of time!

Great work. I hope to see the site grow even more in 2010.

Happy birthday WDD!

Congrats on the 1 year milestone!

I came across WDD a few months ago while searching for a solution to a design problem I had and have been hooked ever since. I’m always excited to learn something new and you have definitely taught me a few things.

Thanks again WDD and keep up the great work!

WOW STEVE JOBS HIMSELF?? NICEEE!! one thing, I miss and anchor link to the comment form, 550 comments, it’s a lot to scroll down! heheheh Congratulations Walter, your work is fantastic. Thanks for everything.

Happy Birthday WDD!

As a recent New Media graduate, I cannot begin to describe how resourceful your website has been! It is an integral part of my learning, and I continue to enjoy reading your posts everyday! Thanks guys, and keep up the great work!

WDD is the first person I followed on Twitter, and the site itself has helped me learn all about web design and perfecting my photoshop skills. I have been able to start my own company (www.social-target.com) with the confidence provided by the great posts of WDD. Thanks for all the great information, and congratulations to 1 successful year and many more to come.

Have a beautiful day on your day is nice moment…

Happy Birthday WDD!

Congrats & happy bday!
This is one of the best blogs i know =)

Happy Birthday! This has been one of the most consistently awesome sites I’ve ever followed, so I hope you have continued success for many more years!

WWD is one of my favorite resources for inspiration and thought-provokery. Love the work you do — keep it up!

Happy birthday and keep up the good work!

Walter – Congratulations on a great site! Very well done.

Cheers,
Jason

Really helpful in my design inspirations, tips, tricks, resources… lots more man Good Job. Keep it up.

Happy First Birthday WDD! Whether its inspiration or seeing what the latest trend is, I love visiting this site. Thanks for all the best practices, example work, and just good solid blog posts. This site has come a long way from its origin.

Congratulations on your first year. I love Web Designer Depot for the great range of subjects covered by your articles. Keep up the good work next year!

Happy Bday WDD!

I really enjoy the links you all leave. I am inspired everyday as a designer. Thanks and keep up the good work.

Congrats! and happy Birthday!

I love WDD. It has the best tutorials and always keep me inspirated.

Has it really been a year already? Congrats!

I’ve always learned that the first year or so of blogging is the hardest – it usually determines if the blog succeeds or fails. It’s really great to see that WDD has succeeded beyond anyone’s expectations so I give kudos to everyone responsible for that.

Happy birthday WDD!

Happy Birthday WDD, over the past 6 months you have really helped me along with all the resources and interesting stuff you guys put out on the net.

Hope the site continues to grow over the coming years.

Happy birthday and thanks for the always helpful articles.

I’ve found WDD to be a great resource for me when I needed ideas of coding CSS, or just design inspiration. Happy birthday, WDD! Thanks for putting out such a useful site!

Happy birthday> it always packed with really helpful information that always comes in hand whatever shape or form. Goodprizes from smashing magazine and envato

Congratulations on a year of a greatly-run site! Great resources is what web design is all about, and you’re one of the best sites around when it comes to resources. Thank you much for always providing great content and writing.

Happy Birthday! You two have done an amazing job – and your website has become a huge resource for designers like me looking to keep up with the latest trends and pick up new code-knowledge.

*Toast* Here’s to another year of great success!

Needed some inspiration for a business card design and I stumbled across 100 great examples.

Also happy birthday WDD!

Congrats! This is a great website & resource. Thanks!

One year old, huh? You’re so mature for your age

Happy Birthday WDD and Congrats!

After I finished college i needed to continue to keep learning and growing my knowledge as well as practice some of it. This blog has been extremely helpful in keeping me updated on design trends and best practices. I wish that colleges would incorporate more knowledge like this blog has into their design classes instead of just using teaching us the classical methods without the current, real-world applications and new techniques.

Congratulations!
WDD has been a great resource for all my web design needs. I continuously visit the site, and if I were to forget, I have a bunch of people on twitter who always promote the new posts. Keep up the great work!

I started following WDD depot early this year. It was one of a large pack of web design blogs that I subscribed to. Of those, this is the only one I still subscribe to – the others either lacked meaningful content, lost coherency, or just folded outright. This is the only one that stayed on message and stayed relevant to my work.

Thanks for keeping up the good work!

Happy Birthday! And Congrats on the incredible6 stats! I visit everyday.

Many Many Happy Returns of the Day WDD!!

I’ve learned plenty from WDD, keep up the good work… this site has come a long way in a year, and I’m sure it’s only going to get better.

Happy Birthday WDD.

Happy birthday! Your tweets are among my favorites!

I’ve come to learn quite a bit from reading blogs like this one, actually.

Happy Birthday, and thanks for the giveaways!

Wow, great prizes.

Happy Birthday! I wish you many more years of success.

Congratulations!

Since I’ve stumbled into wdd, I became a dailychecker. Keep the good work!

Bye

-Antylope

Congratulations !!
Keep up with this great site !!
Thanks for your efforts and hard work !!

Congrats! I’ve learned a lot from your blog. Keep it coming.

Your website is, and has always been, incredibly useful and amazing to read. Keep up the great work!

Congrats WDD!

I was first introduced to WDD by GReader as a suggested site for me back in March of 09. Since then, I have been graced with hundreds of tips and tricks, interesting and inpirational articles to read, and above all else an extra boost of confidence in my skills as a web designer by applying the knowledge that I have picked up from the site.

My main way of following your tips is by twitter. And I love the favorite tweets of the week posts. I look forward to them every Sunday.

Thanks for all the hard work on this site, and let’s hope it only gets better with the upcoming years!

Cheers!

Happy birthday, WDD!

Happy Birthday WDD!!!!!!!

Your site truly has a wealth of information

Congrats and thank you for all the very helpful posts.

Walter,
Thanks so much for inspiring me and others! Your site has exploded in a year… thank too for the awesome posts! Keep up the great work.

I’ve been coming to WDD for every post for about 6 months now! I love it! Thanks for all the great content!

Congratulations on one year! I find it hard to believe that it’s only been that long. Seems like at least two!

In that one year though, I’ve made sure to check the site practically everyday, and it actually helped me quite a while ago last year while going through the equivalent of writers block for Web Designer’s! Thank you Web Designer Depot!

I can’t believe it has been a year already. You have educated and entertained me in the past year, and I look forward to the next!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WDD!!! I am so grateful for having found your site. It pops up immediately as soon as i open my browser to insure that I dont miss an addition which have always been insightful, informative and helpful. I am currently a web design student in my first year and use WDD as my model of success!!! Thank you for helping to improve my skills, my creativity and my motivation!!!

Congrats to WDD on your one year anniversary!

I discovered the blog about 8 months ago, and it has been a great resource for me in all aspects of web design. Thanks so much for all your hard work!

Congratulations! Thank you for all your very interesting stuffs.

Congrats, I can’t believe the site is only a year old. You’ve created some awesome content in that short amount of time. Smashing who? WDD is the web designer’s resource!

I’ve gotten some great resources from this site, and some helpful information when I hit a block when designing for clients. Happy Birthday WDD!

happy B’day…congrats…keep it up

Congrats Walter! It’s been great being your host.

For those who might have tried the VPS.NET coupon – WDD25 – it was activated a bit late (blush) … but works now! I’m sorry for the troubles.

Good luck to everyone!

I just found this site and have enjoyed and benefited from the creative inspiration here. Congrats on a great first year!

Happy birthday WDD! Thanks for all the good content! Great!

I can’t believe WDD is only one year old!! I want to know how you’ve achieved so much success in so little time. Wow! Congrats. I always come to WDD for tips on successful design and web development. Good luck in the future!

Cheers!

Preston Lee

Thanks so much for the invaluable resources that you’ve provided over the past year. This is a great site that should keep on growing.

i JUST came across WDD about a month ago. it has been an excellent source of information as well as inspiration for me. keep it coming. happy birthday!

WDD is grrrrrreat! I love the content and the header. Keep it up!

Congrats Walter! I’ve been a regular subscriber and visitor for some time and would disagree that those who criticise you for going outside of strictly ‘web design’. I really enjoy the varied design topics and inspirational articles you post, so just keep rockin’.

Here’s to the next year!

Happy birthday!
I would fly from Florence (Italy) to Vancouver to have a piece of cake.
Can you send me?

Glad to here the news. Happy Birthday!

I like to read your articles. I am not a designer, I am a developer, but love to know design trends and tips. Thanks be there.

Happy birthday! reading your posts every day .. enjoying them .. learning a lot for the project i’m starting to build!

thank you and keep up the good work

Happy Birthday!
This site is always and great resource for freebies and inspiration.
Couldn’t get through the day without ya!

hey walter, love the blog, follow it daily, great job!

Congrats on the B-Day! Blogs like this one have helped me take my hobby of web design into a freelance career that provides for my family. It’s a daily visit for me and I appreciate all the time and effort you put into your blog. Plus you got an email from Steve Jobs, probably only 20 people can say that

Thank you for what you do!

I read WDD every day, and find it to be an invaluable addition to my daily education as a designer.

Congrats on a successful year!

I found this site recently as part of a web design class that I am taking and immediately subscribed. You have such great information here. Please keep doing this!

Congrats for this year! I`m just starting my blog (i don`t have my own hosting yet) and i am happy to see that there are some blogs for inspiration (yours).

Happy birthday guys! I am really blown away how fast you achieved all of these amazing statistics, and even more impressed that someone with a blog as large as this would actually share information like this back to the community.

I read this blog quite a bit, and I was amazed when one of my articles was mentioned in a post here. Keep up the awesome work, and I hope you have as much fun in year 2!

Happy 1st Birthday, WDD!

This website has been a great resource for me in my quest to become more educated about web design and design in general. WDD features quality content in the form of well written articles and provides inspiration on a regular basis as well. Thanks for all the hard work you do, and here’s to may more birthday celebrations in the future!

Happy Birthday WDD!

Thanks for great inspirations, excellent tutorials, and all the industry news that’s fit to print.

We’re looking forward to the next year!

Thanks again for your dedication and efforts.

I am following you on Twitter since probably half a year and I really like the quality and frequency of youur tweets! Keep the good stuff up!

Congrats! Happy 1st Birthday!

Guys, Congratulations on WDD’s first birthday!

WDD really helped me and it’s like a big source for me. I’m addicted visiting your site everyday. It’s full of inspiration and really helpful.

Great Job! Happy Birthday!

Congrats on your first year. Your site is the best.

Congrats and happy birthday. Always appreciate the quality posts along with your quality design of the site. Keep up the good work.

Follower for month+ now, great stuff!

and thanks!

WDD is a valuable asset and has helped me beyond words. Thank you and Happy Birthday!!

Happy Bithrday and congratulations .. this website has been of a great inspiration to me .. great posts and lots to learn ! keep it up

Happy Birthday and congratulations .. this website has been of a great inspiration to me .. great posts and lots to learn ! keep it up

happy birthday WDD! I appreciate everything you did for me so far! :_)

Web Design Depot has rocked my world I check it everyday and
love the interviews and tweets of the week!

Thanks WDD!

Congrats dude…well done…so far to me this is probably the most commented post..
BTW, if you don’t mind me asking, what’d El Jobso contact u for…like nice job on the site stuff like that or something?

Congratulations on the 1 year anniversary! I visit the site everyday and there is always great information and or inspiration to be found.

Congrats for this cool site!! (I’m Sagittarius)

Thanks for all the great Tuts, Resources, and Inspiration! You’ve guided me through many roadblocks and I’m really looking forward to more years!

I found this website about 6 months ago and it has been fantastic – really helped me improve my design from being bad to awesome! Thanks so much and go for another million years!

Congratulations to your first birthday, I already found a lot of helpful inspiration and tutorials on your website!

Happy Birthday! I never miss an article, youre keeping us all on our toes, web designers need to stay current or risk being hopelessly outdated.

Thanks! I have learned so much from this site with endless amounts of useful links!

Wow, I thought that you were here forever.

Professionally-written articles, friendly design and interesting content make this website very reliable resource.

The main advantage is that you are really helping people to find inspiration or understand design principles.

Best wishes for you guys and keep on going:)!

One the best sources for web designers hands down!

Happy Birthday.

I start my day in Web Design Class by reading WDD !.It’s great. Plus, I love Vancouver.
Cheers mate! Dan

Congrats !! You have a really nice site with great articles !!
Keep up the good work and nice giveaways !!

Great! Congratulations dude!
I always find something very useful on WDD!
You’ve saved lot of times!

Ever since I found this site I have been subscribed to the RSS feed. There is always something here to help me as I continue to grow as a developer/designer. Great site – thanks for all of your work.

You guys are great. Here’s to many more years of great tips, tricks, and all around advise.

WDD is on my top 10 list. Thanks for the original content. Here’s to another year!

Happy Birthday WDD! Every morning, the first thing i do is check this site for updates. Your twitter feed is awesome too!

Congrats! I love WDD, keep up the great work!

I’ve been following the twitter feed for about 6 months now and I love the articles. Followed many links to great tutorials. Thanks for your work and keep it up.

Mark

Congrats! Thanks so much for all the great resources!

Happy birthday!

What a great site. Congrats on making it a year, although it was obvious you would. You have really high quality content and your following is apparent by how many people have left comments already!

Thanks for the inspirational posts, those are my favorite. Really helped me when I had a case of designer’s block.

Here’s to another year!!

WDD is an example to all. Amazing what’s been accomplished in only 1 year. Once of my favs to visit

Congratulations! Keep up the great work!

Congrats on 1 year!!!! Here is luck for another 20 more. Your site is the greatest for informational and helpful design articles. Thank you so much for creating it!

Congrats on your first year WDD. Your tweets keep my day interesting!..

I got inspiration from WDD daily
Every morning I have to have my ration of this very appealing site.

Congrats WDD!
You’ve doing such a great work.

Happy Birthday! Webdesigner Depot helps me to find inspiration for many of my projects and it’s a pleasure each time I visit the site. Congrats!

Thank you and congrats.

Hello, Im one of your brazillian readers!
Congrats on the first year and I hope you keep up the quality for very long!

Best regards

Happy birthday young WDD! You’ve just added another 548 comments to your collection!

I love the site and all the great resources. And… My iMac is on the top of the site.. just makes you all that more awesome!!! keep up the good work!! and Happy Birthday!

Happy one year! I enjoy your articles and have learned some valuable things by reading them. I hope you keep helping make good designers great.

Wonderful!

I read this Blog since 3 months now and I love it!
It inspirates me (nearly) every day.

Thanks for the great content.

Happy Birthday, WDD!

It’s always a pleasure reading the articles on WDD, because they give me the perfect amount of inspiration when needed!

Keep it up!

Greetings from Germany!

Well sorry to bring down the chance of everyone else winning, but I am for sure going to join this awesome contest!

I love your blog and find not only the articles fascinating but also the the clear way you manage your posts and admin the site. Good work!

Dear WDD
Well I didn’t realize that you guys were so young
It seemed to me that it is a mature publication with steady quality content. Keep going!

And happy birthday of course!

That was an awesome show of your success. WDD also helped me in many ways to make my blog design much better than before and I am now pleased with working on elegant designs because of WDD.

Wish you all the best in future..

happy birthday! i cant believe its already been a year!

Congratulations and Happy Birthday!
Keep up the great work!

Web Designer Depot has intorduced me to sites, inspiration and information I might not have encountered on other sites or on my own, so thanks and keep up the good work!

I am a great fan of WDD. The best part about WDD I like is that the articles here are different than the ones we see on usual design and development blogs.. Keep up the good work!

You are the Gold Standard!

Love WDD – keep up the good work.

I’m a pisces too! But seriously I had no idea this was the one year b-day of WDD I just figured it had been around for a while.

Happy Burstday!

Thanks for all the great tips and congratulations!

I’ve only been subscribing for the past couple of months, but the content has been consistently brilliant; keep up the good work

This site really helped me get my own personal site going when I first started using WordPress. It continues to inspire and help at the same time!

Congratulations! You’ve made finding inspiration so much easier!

Happy Birthday! You’ll never know how appreciative we are of your offerings. Thanks a million!!

Love this site – it’s really helped me grow my designs and learn more about techniques!

Happy birthday Web Designer Depot (and Walter)!

Congrats! I’ve just run into your site. I’m amazed at how much notoriety you’ve gathered in only one year! You’ve got one more subscriber!!!

Happy B-Day WDD!!!

I love the stuff you’ve been offering and have learned so much from your experience. Thanks for everything you do

Happy B-day! WDD has really helped me grow as a designer in the past 6 months that I’ve been reading it. Keep it up!

Happy birthday! Keep going!

Happy Birthday, and thanks for all the great articles over the past year.

Congratulations on your continued success, and happy birthday! I am a current web design student, and have found that your articles provide great insight into all aspects of design (and not ‘just web’ design). Thanks for everything, and keep up the great work.

Happy Birthday! WDD rocks!

CONGRATS and Happy bday. Your Fact sheet was very interesting to read. Keep up the great work. Always excited to see a new post come across in my reader.

Happy Birthday! WDD has almost been a great source of information for me. Thanks!

Thanks a lot for all your features, & all the lessons we can learn from here!

Happy Birthday!

Skarry

Happy Birthday, WDD!

This is a great resource for industry professionals no matter what your title is.

I look forward to another year of inspiring and informative articles.

Cheers,
Andrea
@ProtoShare

I have been reading WDD for a few months now and I’ve found it is a VERY helpful blog. I use some of the information I’ve found in my web development class at Illinois State University and even suggested the site to my professor.

I look forward to future use. Happy Birthday!

Congrats and Happy Bday WDD!

Congratulations on a great year! This is a valued source and referred to often.

Thanks for all the resources, tutorials, and various web-design goodness!

Happy B-Day WDD! Hope there are many years to come? This is a great website/source of inspiration!

Keep up the good work!

Congrats on 1 year of wonderful service to the design community as a whole. I find your articles a wonderful source of inspiration, knowledge and an all around fantastic resource. (yes, even those not about web design)

Well.First of all i want to congratulate you on the first birthday of WDD.I have nothing to say but i simply love WDD.Whenever i need help first of all i look at wdd.the articles are awesome and unique as compared to other design blogs

wow this site is only one year old? i thought it would be much older, because it is already on such a high level.. so for once wow you re old is a compliment!

happy birthday WWD!

I’m really surprised WDD is only a year old. I came across it 6 or 7 months ago and it has always seemed to me like a very established blog. It’s really helped me learn more about design and actually sparked my interest in web design (first came here because of PS tutorials).

Happy Birthday WDD!

Happy birthday WDD, please continue to be awesome! So far I’m pretty sure you’ve contributed a lot to my webdesigning improvements!

Happy Birthday! I am so happy to find this website. I’m also in Vancouver

Happy Birthday! Love the great articles. I’m on here several times a week!

Happy Birthday WDD! Walter – you do an amazing job with the site and it is a wonderful source of information.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I always enjoy reading your blog hope next year comes with the same excellent quality of reading material!

Congrats! There is so much inspiration in your posts, I love it. Thank you for this amazing 12 months.

Congrats! Love your site:)

Congrats, guys! WDD is a great site, I check it every day! Keep up the great work.

My 9-5 Job has a creative cafe every week, to kind of get together and share our latest and greatest, whether that be tools, design trends, etc. I generally also share the latest article for that week from here. Its been successful and my co-workers tend to visit the site often now

Thanks!

Happy Birthday!

Congrats bro! Great stuff always…
Cheers,

Happy birthday!
I love wdd. Very nice and useful articles here.
congratulations!

Just found out about webdesignersdepot.. But im already loving it.. Just started reading a couple of the recent post and there most helpfull!

Keep up the good work!

congratulations to WDD, its been only four months also when I started my design blog, and the first link that I added to my inspiration was http://www.webdesignerdepot.com

I learned a lot of thing with the months that I am making my visit here. Thanks for sharing good ideas

More year to come.

Happy Birthday, WDD! I love your site <3

Congratulations ! Your in my bookmarks ! Keep doing !

WOW !!!
I thought you are at least 5 years old

Page rank #6 by google
and all this going on

thanks and keep it up

Happy Birthday and congrats! WDD has been a great resource for me, and hope you will get OLD & FAMOUS

Happy Birthday WDD! There’s a reason you’re at the top of my RSS reader!

Sending you wishes for many more fabulous years here! I really enjoy reading the variety of content here. WDD has sparked my interests in area other than what I have been working in, and has gotten me to try new things! Awesome site, keep up the great work!

Thanks for the excellent web site. I enjoy the great resources you’ve introduced me to.

Happy birthday! WDD has helped me advance as a designer without spending money. Awesome resource

Happy Birthday WDD and thank for one year of great articles

Congratulation to a wonderful year and thank you very much for posting so many interesting and helping articles. Your side has really inspired me, not only about design, but also other work related or even social stuff, too.
Thank you for that and I wish you all the best for the future.
Cheers
Julian

WDD ! Congrats!

I have learned from WDD to watch closely to design trends and to see what works and what doesn’t. I have also learned better approaches at dealing with problematic clients.

Great job, guys!

WDD Rocks!!

Love this site, keep it up!

Happy b-day WDD! Keep up the great work!

keep going!

Wow. Awesome. I met this blog recently. But it has became one of my favorites in almost no time. I’ve learned so many things. I love every single post of WDD (specially the “favorites tweets of the week”).

Well. I would be really thankfull if i get the Woothemes or some cash vor Envato

Thanks for being such a great blog!
(Sorry for my bad english)

Congrats on your 1 year. Here’s to many more annual celebrations to come. Love the resources on your site, they are top notch!

Happy birthday! You have a great site…keep up the good work

I love this site. I can’t quite remember where I stumbled upon it, but since I’ve bookmarked it, nearly every post has helped me with some designing trouble, and it also is a great inspiration for me.
I don’t think I would be as sure what I am going to do after my A-levels as I am now without WDD, because it really helped me push my focus on my creative side.
Congrats, WDD!

Happy anniversary
WDD is one of my fav design related site.

Congratulations on a great milestone and an awesome resource!
Tim Miller
Miller Design Studio
Detroit, MI

Happy Birthday WDD!

One year? The time really flees. But on the other side… I clearly remember how i got here. I was looking for some solution for wordpress error saying “Cannot modify header information – headers already sent” and found you in google. It was on the year break 08/09 when i was setting up my first wordpress page. But I do not found a solution here . What turns me into your regular reader was the article “13 Characteristics of Outstanding Blog Design” and the comments underneath, founded next time probably a January 09. (and I like and always read comments because they usually have better solutions or are valuable and interesting to me). I have/had read almost every article that has something to do with web/design and had only one response/comment sent (that was either not so relevant) but that`s me . Only a reader…

From Slovakia -> Cheers!

this is a great site, and congratulations for the milestone. I have only been reading for about 4 months now, but I made sure to read EVERYTHING you have posted so far.

Again, grats. Cant wait to see what your second year has in store!

from a Twitter follower and frequent reader – appreciate the range of articles and information – even other than web design!

I’m very happy to wish you another great growing year. Webdesignerdepot is amazing and one of the best sites out there… go on like this!

great..the bible of web design!

Congratulations! :=

Happy B-day and congrats! I would like to create blog while I’m still young and Ambitious, but I believe I still have many more articles to read before that!

Congrats!

WDD has been a great source of information and inspiration for me as I start my own design studio.

Thanks for all the good work.

Bravo!!! You guys have not only been an inspiration but you have also been very useful. Your site is one of the first things I go to when I get to work. Thank you very much and keep up the amazing work.

Congrats WDD! One of my 10 daily must reads!

You guys taught me how to design a logo by teaching me what not to do.

Thank you so much for a year of great articles, and all in all awesomeness!
Happy B-Day! and wishes for many years to come!
Ran

Wow, only 1 year old! You’ve done so much and made this a great blog in such a short time. Congratulations and thanks!

Grats on the 1st anniversary. Up to the 2nd and may many years follow up!

Congrats WWD! Your articles and links have provided me the inspiration and the basis for discussion that has gone into our soon to be unveiled website. When I am looking for solid up-to-date articles about UX, design, and development I always come here. Keep producing this awesome content.

Hello! I’m a mexican designer almost finishing my studies at college and I have to say that I’m very grateful for all the resources and themes I’ve learned and founded here. Thanks for such a wonderful year of success. Happy Birthday WDD!!

I’ve only recently discovered WDD (after announcement of smakshing mags network) but I must have spent at least 10 hours reading your posts since then. They are well written and very informative. Keep up the good work

WDD is a all in one package! Congrats!
I might become a computer geek thanks to you!

Congratulations with your 1st anniversary!!

I hope you will be here for many years..

Awesome and congratulations! I just found out about WDD today from a twitter link to this post and I can say for sure I’ll be returning.

I’m starting my own blog and looking for tips/tricks best practices and everything else that goes along with trying to bring many people what I hope will be considered great content.

I hope to be where you are in a year…more realistically about 13 months

Keep up the great work!

Congrats on your many successes. Hope you continue to be a great resource for many years to come!

Keep up the great work WDD and Happy Birthday!

My life got easier after discovering the WDD RSS feed.

Happy Birthday WDD – Keep up the very good work!

Nice work! I really like all the inspiration WDD puts out there, it’s great to have and keeps the drive alive! Thanks!

Congrats and thanks for the continual inspiration. Am always excited to see any updates thats come out, and believe site such as this are paramount to help an aspiring web designer.

Thank u for making such a good blog guys ;]

Congratulations, i like your bg color!

I’ve never seen so many comments. This should add to your comments count. Thank you so much for all the help that you’ve provided. Thank you, as well, for ignoring the insane people who think you should stick to web design alone. Also, if I could throw you roses, I would.

I love WDD! Happy birthday! Keep producing the awesome content and I’ll always keep reading! =)

Congratulations – Keep up the great work!

Congratulations WDD, an amazing amount of helpful and interesting articles that keep me interested everyday. I find myself re-reading articles multiple times yet still learning every time I do so! Thanks alot and keep up the fantastic job. Happy Birthday WDD!

Way to go…Happy born to the web day. Big wishes for the new year to come. This blog has been such a reliable resource, a useful time killer, and time filler. Hip, hip hurray!

Congrats!
I’m quite new here on WDD but since I found out about you I make a daily visit to take part of your great posts! Since I just started as a student @ Hyper Island I find a lot of useful tips and inspiration the site!

Thanks and best regards!
Robin Åhlgren

Wow, already one? I remember when you guys were first starting… WDD has helped me so much in the past year with website design as well as seeing some interesting things (404 errors). Thanks so much, and here’s to many more years!

When I look at WDD I feel all the work and dedication deposited here with hope and confidence. In just a year you managed to turn this site into a huge success. The heart of the WDD is the community, a really hight level community. Congratulations for keeping feeding us with such great material.

Happy Birthday!

Congrats!

As a design student and freelancer, WDD has been an excellent resource for me. I’ve learned so much through this blog. From tutorials, to freelance tips, design inspiration, and other posts…WDD has it all!

Thank you!

Happy Bday WDD from Australia! One of my top design weblogs

congrats!

WDD always my teacher!

Congratulations WDD!

I must admit I didn’t know that WDD is only 1 year old and also managed by only one person. That’s amazing!

This site is so great and was so useful the last months.

Keep it running like that Walter!

Cheers,

John

Congratulations! I’m blown away by how successful the blog has been so far in such a short time!

I love the posts on this site, because they give me insight on how to improve my design and make it more user friendly!

Happy B-day WDD! And here’s one to grow on–I met your blog about 9 months ago when I was searching for some PS brushes and I’ve been reading it ever since! Keep it up, I’m counting on ya!

Since I am subscribed to WDD feed, I learnt a lot of web developing stuff. I dont think really “learn” but you are sharing really useful information.

Congrats on the past year, I read your blog all the time and has been an amazing resource for me.

Congrats again and have another amazing year.

Great site. The best web design blog out there!

Happy Birthday WDD

WDD has inspired me to create my own design “blog” and teach others about design.

I am a daily reader of WDD, and appreciate all of the time and hard work you put into making this blog what it is today. I love the Tweets of the Week roundup, and also enjoy looking at your ad collections for inspiration.

Thanks again!

Joshua

Congratulations!!!
Webdesigner Depot is one of my favorites website ever!
A enjoyed a lot all of the articles!

Happy Birthday!! Wow!! Where do I begin, I just started looking into moving my blog from blogger to wordpress and this blog has taught me so much in just a short week. Thanks so much for spreading knowledge in a clear concise manner.

Happy Birthday WDD!!

Hi Walter!

Congratulations on one year. Out of the work I’ve done in the past year, the work that I’ve done with WDD is some of the work that I’m the most proud of, and that is in no small part because of your incisive input and expert feedback. Many happy returns and I hope to be writing for the site for most of them!! (Put my name back in the hat if you happen to get it for the draw and give something to one of the lovely readers!!)

By far the most anticipated post I get daily! Keep up the great work!

It takes a lot for me to bookmark a site these days, and even more to subscribe – but you’ve had my devotion for awhile now. Great stuff here, keep it up!

Happy 1-year!

Congratulations on your one year anniversary Webdesigner Depot!! I value my inbox and very rarely subscribe to mailings and yet I still look forward to the next Webdesigner Depot almost immediately after reading through one.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. Webdesigner Depot always seems to come out with the perfect article right when I’m about to need that exact tutorial, resource, tip, or whatever. It’s the only web design blog I subscribe to via email, and it’s been the best education of the web design world I’ve had… other than my blood, sweat, and tears… of which WDD has saved me quite a few.

Congrat, WDD I was just subscribe to your RSS feed not long ago and you are now 1 year old!
Happy Birthday!

Thanks so much, and happy birthday! I love visiting your site. I get so much inspiration here!

Happy Birthday, WDD!
I love checking this site to see what sort of awesome things you’re going to post next!

Congrats guys! You haev done such an amazing job in just a year. The content is ACE! Keep up the great work. Cant wait to see what this next year has to bring

Love, love, love WWD. I’m surprised to hear that you are criticized for not concentrating on purely web design. Perhaps that’s why I love it so much (coming from a professional web designer). Your at the top of my list as a inspiration and advice for design and I continually share your posts with all of my colleagues. Keep doing what you do and I’ll keep following.

Later.

Devon

PS. love the background color too.

Happy Birthday WDD! This site has helped me tremendously! Looking forward to see how much more it will grow in the near future!

*that’s WDD.

Congrats WDD! You’ve always served as a great source of info and inspiration.

Your site is one of my favorite must reads!

WDD rocks. Love your posts. Very helpful and informative.

Great job turning one! Happy Birthday

I make sure WDD is one of the first RSS feeds I read daily to keep up on great tips/tricks/tutorials and everything else under the sun. Your site has helped me as a designer as a whole in many ways.

looking forward to another great year

Congratulations WDD. Happy birthday to you. Hope to read more fantastic article and more freebies to come .

Goodluck WDD!

Thanks guys! You us Vancouver designers proud.

I learned o much from this site!

Congrats and Happy Birthday! WDD is an awesome resource and inspiration. Thank you!!

Congratulations, and hi from across the Strait in Victoria! I’ve been a fan since the beginning, and your posts always inspire me. I look forward to the next year!

Congratulations WDD – although I only came across your site in the last couple of months I have referred to it so many times since then for great inspiration and ideas. Please keep it up!

While I don’t do web design as a primary function, I do it often enough that I must keep current. Your site has helped me do that. Thank you, and good luck in the future!

Great site – check it every day. Loved the recent Print advertising article.

Congratulations and happy birthday! WWD has been a constant source of reference from time to time. Keep it up and thanks for all the good work!

I love WDD! I found it from an article from Smashing Magazine, and since then, I’ve been infatuated. Keep up the good work. Zum Geburtstag viel Glueck! Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday WDD! Congratulation on your success! ^^ WDD has given me lots of new great information about website and design. From the first day, I worked as a Web Designer (was a Graphic Designer), I found WDD, and you help me a lot! I wasn’t able to understand about CSS, CMS, and anything about website. But WDD has given me much inspiration and now I can be a proud web designer! ^^ Keep up the good work.

happy anniversary, WDD! )

New(er) subscriber. Love what I’ve been seeing and congrats!

Happy Birthday WDD!

Cheers from Mexico!

Your CMS article still makes a lot of sense and I show it to my clients so they can avoid Joomla. They remain as always blissfully unaware of the issues

Happy Birthday WDD! Nice site

Cheers from Mexico!

Happy Birthday! This site is amazing! It is an awesome inspiration! Thanks for all that you do!

Love the site! Not really a web designer, but finding myself having to learn some of it for the job I’m working in. This has been a great place to get resources and inspiration!

Awesome resource! I read it nearly every day! Thanks and Congrats!!

Happy anniversary WWD. I’m both happy for you and severely jealous of your success. Yay! and UGH!!

Im a starting web designer wanting to start up a company. WDD has been a great help with great resources and inspirational stuff. I Visit the site everyday. Awesome.

wow! you are only a year old? the quality of content i get from here is at par with those of ‘more mature/experienced’ sites. i thought i was just late in finding out about you when i stumble upon one of your articles. not long after, yours was a regular feed i check, and have been bookmarked in all my browsers…

and all those quality work is just a year old! congratulations! nice job!

congrats! I always find great resources here * throws glitter and confetti*

Are you sure it’s 1st birthday??? Just 1 year? I mean if you look at the content (which is most imp. for any blog) it’s so mature & resourceful. I do copy & store so many posts for reference… Amazing work… so, !!! Happy Birthday to You !!!
have a great day…

Happy birthday WDD!!!! WDD helps me getting in touch with awesome concepts along with out-of-the-world creative people. I am thinking about changing my career track into advertising and promotion … WDD is the key thing that motivated me to do so. I wish WDD all the best.

Happy Birthday and congrats WDD

Congratulations and Happy Birthday to WDD.
Apart from being a great design resource, WDD also showed what you can achieve with a blog with just 1 year of hard work and passion. Hats Off.

Happy Birthday and Congrats for WDD!

Thanks for inspiring us in every single day. Before i get to work I always visit your site, and it’s brighten up my day. Keep being our depot for design inspiration. I owe you much WDD. Kudos!!! ^^

Congratulation!

Thank you for great articles, and keep up the good works!!

Congrats. I was really impressed with the website contents.Thanks for sharing all the knowledge.

Felicidades!! Desde Venezuela te agradezco por todas tus contribuciones!!
Cangrats!!! From Venezuela. I really appreciate all your wondefull contributions, they enrich my designer carreer!!

wow. a birthday. those are nice. I like the contest…although they are few, they are inviting.

Cheers,

Happy Birthday WDD! Thank for giving me inspiration and useful resources on days that I’m creatively drained

Congratulations ^_^
Thank you for sharing very impressive contents, ideas, lessons and web trends.

WDD is great

GREAT JOB…

I always come back to the Do’s and Don’ts in dark web design. When it comes time do design a dark design I comeback to see if I missing anything It is certainly a different process on the eyes.

Happy B-Day!
I love the fresh ideas as well as the tipps and fun-stuff
Last position, but, hey, Germany is at least in the list, yay!

Happy Aniversary WDD! This site is helping me each day in my work being a constant source of inspiration and tuition. Keep up the good work!

Great!

Congrats on the 1 yr. Just started visiting the site about 3 or 4 months ago…and its amazing! Keep up the good work!

Congratulations!

The nice thing about WDD is that the articles are relevant to what we do today as Digital Designers. Every single newsletter has something useful and is written in a way that we all can understand!

I have yet to find another blog with content of such high standards!!
Thanks for inspiring us!!

Well done guys!

I’m not into Web design yet. But if I ever decide to “take the plunge”, I have about 6 months of help (at present). Congrats and thanks for all the info and graphics. I’ve learned a lot. Keep it up!

Congrats on the first birthday!

I cannot remember how I found WDD, but it’s been one of my very few websites to visit everyday. Thank you for teaching and sharing ideas, thoughts, trends, and all different kinds of things with us. I wish WDD many more years of success to come.

First of all, congratulations for the achievements, very well deserved. Like for many designers out there, WDD has been a great resources and inspiration source for me, and I always get excited when I see any new posts on Twitter as I know there’s always something useful to check that gradually helps me improve my skills and not only.

Thanks for everything WDD, and happy birthday!

Wow, what a variety of nice messages, thank you all…

Hi!
very lovely site, interesting and well done!
I really love your guides and showcases!
thanks a lot
Andrea

Web Designer Depot is an inspiration and a great resources. Happy Birthday WDD!

Happy Birthday & Congrats!
I enjoy your tweets of the week! They definitely make my day =)

Kelsey

Congrats

Happy Birthday WDD This site along with 2-3 others are my breakfast. I start my day with WDD. Thank you for everything till date

Happy birthday !!!

A big congrats on your first year success, Walter. I hope the second year is even better for you.

Im really happy for you, and imma let you finish, but smashingmag is the greatest blog on design. just kidding, happy birthday. keep up your good work.

a feedreader

I just discovered this site and really love it, keep it up!

Happy Birthday! I am an entrepreneur and don’t have much time to read so many blogs, but yours is one I subscribe to and read every post. I also tweet your posts more then TechCrunch

Keep up the great work!!

Discovering webdesigner depot help me to learn lots of tips about photoshop and design. The first time I bumbed into this blog, I put it in my bookmark. I knew that I will carryon getting valuable information. also, now you gave me a big inspiration to see, what could be achieved in a year time.

Happy birth day.

When I was out of inspiration, WDD was always there for me:)

Congrats! Thanks for all great topics and information

Very nice site, with quality content !

Love your work!
Congrats!!

Hoorah! Happy b-day WDD – one of my favorite design feeds ever

hiiiiiiiiiiiii…
well this site has helped me a lot…i am a freelance graphic designer from India. I have joined this site as a graphic designer and now I am a webdesigner….woaaaaa..
This site has inspired me a lot …and due to this i hav just completed my web designing course….and now heading towards creating my first website…..thanks for ur support…
All i can I do is pray for your future success…and would be very happy to join you as a team member in future…
thanks man..
cheers..
and happy birthday/..

Hi there,

First of all, happy “birth”-day. This blog is great. I have to say I’ve also read the article about choosing a CMS twice so I’m not amazed that it’s so popular. I also found the showcases of business cards and website designs to be very inspiring.

I really hope you’ll keep up the very good work as I’m constantly out looking for inspiration.

To anyone new to this site, know that you may find solutions to problems you thought had been solved, I had this experience more than once when reading articles on webdesignerdepot. I also follow them on twitter for really nice updates.

One of the greatest thing about webdesignerdepot is the weekly post entitled “Our Favorite Tweets of the Week”. I always find something interesting there, please keep writing these posts every week for those of us who might miss them on twitter.

WDD is fantastic, it’s on my Reader since the second month…
I found a lot of solutions searching the archives of the blog,

Happy Birthay and stay awesome!

Hi Guys.

Happy birthday.

I love reading your articles. I am myself a developer with a passion for design. I am about to get a job as a UI developer so I am very excited about making the move to the “design side of the force”.

You have inspired me and I will keep reading to improve my skills.

All the best.

Jean-Philippe

wow…WDD is amazing website. Go WDD!!!

Thanks for sharing knowledge to us

Congratulations! I’ve visited your site very often and will be for a long time!

Happy Birthday WDD! So nice website with so much interesting articles concerning design. Already nice to find inspiration! Thanks

Happy birthday! Congrats for the site and thank you for the inspiration and for all the fish!

Happy Birthday!

A constant source of inspiration, the posts at Webdesigner Depot never fail to suprise me. Congrats on your first year, and I look foward to many more.

Thanks

Stuart

Happy Birthday!!!

WDD is one of top sites of my personal have-to-check-daily websites list

Happy Birthday ! One year went by and another is here!
Let us discover your new posts and i will always be a pleasure to read you.
Thanks for all , your post have helped me so much
great blog
just go on !

You guys ROCK!!! You were my first RSS feed year ago and are still at the top of my list. Congrats on your Anniversary.

Happy Bithday WDD. I am a new fan. I recommend your website to fellow architects/ designers. Very interesting, very useful. I expect the best for you to come. Good luck!

WDD is really inspiring and resourceful! Keep up the good work!

Hi WDD and the staff behind this blog.

Since I started my own company for creating websites with suitable webdesign I have been coming back here constantly to gather information to even improve my skills. By day I started the company in March 2009 it has been expanding or maybe I should say exploding! It has growing much more than I ever expected, and customers are standing in queue!

I just want to give my warmest thanks to the people behind WDD. Continue like this and my company will continue expanding to skyhigh limits!

Best regards,
DH

Happy birthday!!! Best blog ever! Keep going.

Great site, keep up the good work!

WDD has been a great resource for me and many other graphic and web design artists. With lots of great information and inspiration. Keep up the great work guys! Congrats on the one year. With the amount of great posts I thought you guys were around longer than that.

Thank you for great content and inspiring topics.

Congratulations and Happy birthday!!!

Webdesigner Depot is one of my favourite websites about, web, graphic, design and so on. When I first saw it it blew my mind and got a spot on my favourites RSS feeds.
Thank you for what you have done and how much you have contributed to this industry.

Oh btw.. I can imagine the content of the Steve Jobs email:

“I learned my 1337 ninja skillz on ur website omg lol”

Well done!!! Keep up the hard work Walter and Team.

I rely on you to keep my lunch breaks exciting

Thanks Web Designer Depot

Happy Birthday to that wonderful website that is WDD.

Everytime when I try to kill my self of depression I think about WDD. Then I change my mind and browse WDD. Awesome content. Good design.

Congrats on your success. I have been following this blog for at least the last 6 months. Good stuff. I’ve learned a lot.

-Scott

LOVE THIS SITE.

yes, lots! thanks for all that you do!

Congrats!
I look forward to reading WDD daily before I start everyday. Its helped me gain a lot of knowledge over the past year and I appreciate the quality of the posts that make it on this site.
Thank You!

Congrats! i hope WDD will go on being the awesome resource for info and inspiration / teaching it is.. your showcases have helped me lots n’ lots of times

Congratulations. I recently stumbled upon your site, and have been a frequent visitor ever since…great stuff!

Thanks for a truly inspirational site. I real “must read”.

Happy Birthday! Thank you for all your inspiration and articles. Having a “PRINT” background, your site informed me on the latest ways to transform to the “web” world. Thank you.

Congrats on your first birthday!

WDD has been a great resource and inspiration. Keep up the good work!

I had come across the Depot a few months ago, and ever since, it has been a site that I continually come back to in order to keep my sites on top of their game. Keep up the fantastic work.

Congrats!
I read this blog everyday and am always learning from it.
Hope to see more awesome things..

Happy Birthday!
I absolutely love this site, I was so ecstatic when I found this through my random surfings. I have learned so much from this site and I have no idea what I would do if I had not ever found this site!
Thanks so much and good luck in the future!

Happy Birthday!
Webdesigner depot is a great resource for everybody who’s into design.

Keep up the good work.

Happy Birthday! One year old, and already walking. How time flies.

Congratulations, Webdesigner Depot! I visit this blog daily and I’m surprised to hear it’s a “Vancouver Production” – I love the city!
(And I’m pisces, too)

Greetings from Germany

Everyone loves a birthday, especially when its the first one. Thanks for all the great work over the past 12 months and keep up the inspiring work. I just wish I had more time to implement all the excellent advise that WDD offers.

Happy Birthday WDD!!

Colin

Awesome job, keep it coming!

come on big prizes, no whammies no whammies!!!

You have set the bar very high! As one of the founders of another web design magazine we want to be just like you when we grow up! To have this type of success I know you have worked EXTREMELY hard. Congratulations to you!

Love the site, congrats on one year!

WDD love the site and..

I’M A FAN,
MY FAMILY IS A FAN,
MY GRANDMA IS A FAN,
MY GRANDAD IS A FAN,
MY DOG IS A FAN,
MY UNCLE’S BROTHER IN-LAWS WIFE’S.. SECOND SISTERS SON IS ALSO A FAN..
AND, AND WELL.. WE ARE “ALL” A BIG FAN..LOL

*Would love the Envato prize.. thanks

Congratulations!! – WDD has been my #1 source of inspiration and knowledge.
Thanks a lot and keep up the good work.

Happy Birthday WDD! Keep up the great work Walter it’s amazing what you have achieved in one year, its a big inspiration to me!

Wow! I didn’t realize you were only a year old. I’ve been following for months! You’ve come a LONG way in a short time. This is by far my favorite site to read. I love the tips and the tweets!

This site is amazing! I always look here to inspire myself when Im in a slump! Great work and congrats on the 1 year!

I just found your site yesterday from a tweet and I have been loving it! Thanks so much for the rich resource.

~David

Happy 1st birthday! I enjoy your posts and look forward to reading many more in the future. Congratulations!

Happy birthday WDD

I came across WDD almost 5 months ago. And since that day, till today, I have just one word to describe it – Fabulous. I really enjoy each and every article and post on WDD, and keep craving for more.

You guys have done an awesome job with the site, and I truly wish you the success you deserve for the years to come.

Thanks and Happy B’Day again!

Regards,
Arania Jain

I just love WDD! It amazingly helps in all kinds of design.

Happy Bday! WDD = pure content, real articles, great suggestions, essentials and ideas. WDD learn me best web practices. More articles for WordPress users please. Cheers.

Happy birthday…
I am using your site for preparation, completion and checking my webwork. Thanks for this possibility.
Thanks,
Max

Congrats WDD on the first yearly celebration on your inception. May there be many more!

I find WDD to be a very helpful resource in coming up with inspriation and informative articles. I check this site on a daily basis.

Thanks!

I always look forward to reading the Webdesigner Depot posts — I subscribe via email. Your content is always worth the time, and I salute that. It is rare, and obviously hard to do that. Thanks for all you do (and write).
– Marsha

Congrats on a year of great work!

Happy bday! I am a daily reader of your blog. I have learned so much from the articles as well as been inspired from them as well. Keep up the great work because I will continue to visit the site and spread the word about how great it is.
Thanks
Matt

Congratulations, Walter, on your anniversary. As a professor, I have used a number of your relevant and timely articles with my courses and students for instructional design and elearning, particularly the topics on graphic design, message design, and typography. So, thanks for the approachable resources and the contributions to my work.

Keep up the good work, and I look forward to hearing about the second anniversary.

Blessings!

I lecture in digital media production and encourage my students to read WDD precisely because it is broad and increases awareness of a wider range of subjects and disciplines.

Happy one year birthday! I wish you 1000 years and even more

Congratulations on your “baby’s” first birthday!
I have a couple of kids of my own, but I have never learned so much from a one-year old as I have from WDD -about webdesign!
Very inspiring. Thank you!
Peter

Wow, with that amount of prizes, I might have a chance!

I’ve used Webdesigner Depot’s header and background image to show several clients a good usage of background/header graphics that extend in to various browser and monitor sizes. Aside from that, Webdesigner Depot is always in my speed dial bar and my bookmarks.

WDD was my first Designer Blog I read and I wont stop reading it. All the Inspiration I’ve needed for my projects I’ve found them here…

Love the info you provide and the sense of wonder you instill. Thanks WDD!
Mark Hess

Happy Birthday WDD! I love that the site is full of such wonderful inspiration and resources. Thanks!

how much everybody loves free stuff, unbelievable But anyway thank you guys for great and usefull posts and Smashing Book I ordered months ago

Congrats for all of your achievements and milestones!

WDD is one of the first websites I visit on a daily basis and I’m always excited to see what it has to offer. I’m thankful to have such an incredible resource available to me.

Thanks WDD!

The riff on “design” is the best part about WDD…keep it coming!

Happy Birthday! I couldn’t resist getting in on all the fun! I enjoy reading your blog posts, lots of varied content and great reading material for a designer and freelancer. Thanks!

I’ve really enjoyed this blog since day one. Thank you and congrats.

Any time I need design inspiration for basic layout or UI, I always turn to WDD for ideas. Thanks for all your help and inspiring content!!

Happy Birthday!

Congratulations!

WDD is one the greatest place to get tips and references about design.
Keep it up. The next year should be even better.
Also, the prizes are great. LOL.

Congratulations for the achievements, very well deserved.
Thanks for everything , and happy birthday!

Congrats Walter!

It is really awesome to see the site grow and continue to contribute to the design community.
It is a great resource. Keep it up!

~ Aaron I

great site and congrats

LOL! So many comments, nobody will ever read this comment

Happy Birthday and congrats on a job well done. As a novice designer in the early stages – WDD has been a top choice of mine to improving my design skills and source for inspiration and design statistics. Thanks again and good luck on another successful year!

♪♫ Ha-ppy Birth-day to YOU!♫♪

always a pleasure to visit…
CONGRATULATIONS & THANKS A LOT!

MY HEARTFELT GREETINGS…A great site with great info…looking forward to your future goodies .

Congrats on the 1 year! I can’t say that I’ve been around for the whole year. But the about ½ year I’ve been following this blog has been great! Thanks for all the resources, tips and tricks!

Helo all, yesterday, i jst saw this blog and i m very happy to be here… i really enjoy the designs at smashingmagazine too

Congrats on all the success over the past year and Happy Birthday. Thanks a lot for providing a great resource for us.

Congrats!! I love this blog

You’re wrong there, I did

Happy B-Day from TX! I stumbled upon WDD right after you started. I’m not a web designer, but I am a small business owner who works on my own site. I have learned not only website info but tips on running a small business too. Your site is great & I always look forward to your emails. I love the pics & tips that you put in them-keep up the great work!

hApPy bIrThDaY!!
:-):-)
Got a lot of inspirations and tutorial news.
Keep up this good works……….

Hey, just a comment to say thanks for all the great content. I have gotten to laugh out loud at some posts, admire beautiful/inspiring art in others, and I’ve learned a few things, too. I subscribe on my igoogle, and i’ve never bothered to do that until I found your blog.

Keep ‘em coming, and thanks again!

many congrats and keep on keepin’ on with the awesome job!