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9 Mar

Today we’re announcing the winners of the UPrinting contest that we held on WDD for the past week.

Many thanks to all of you who participated. The response was great and we’ve got almost 500 comments.

Each of the 10 winners has won a set of 500 free business cards of their choice with free shipping to anywhere in the world.

The winners were selected at random and you can see the results after the jump.

All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prizes. Read more

2 Mar

Win 5000 Business Cards from UPrinting

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We all know that as web designers, we should market ourselves both online and offline.

For online purposes, a great portfolio website or blog is a perfect way to spread the word, but for offline purposes, nothing beats the traditional business card.

We’ve partnered with UPrinting to bring an amazing contest to WDD. One week from today, we will be awarding 10 prizes of 500 free business cards each!!!

You can choose from a variety of business card styles, such as the traditional US Standard, square, slim and specialty shapes. Let your creativity flow and design the cards any way that you want. We will ship them to you worldwide absolutely free of charge.

Read on for more details on how to enter this contest… Read more

1 Feb

Winners of “Fluid Web Typography”

Contests, Freebies, Typography

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Last week we run a great contest here on WDD to give away 5 free copies of the book “Fluid Web Typography” …and today we have the results!

Congratulations to all 5 winners: Christopher Barnes (#392), Claudiu (#145), Tutorial City (#403), Austin (#113) and Patricia (#346).

Each of you have won a free copy of this excellent web typography book written by Jason Cranford Teague.

All winners will be contacted via email for details on how to receive their books.

Thanks to the over 400 of you who participated and for leaving links to all those awesome typographic resources.

We’ll be running more contests in the near future, stay tuned! Read more

25 Jan

Win 5 Copies of “Fluid Web Typography”

Contests, Freebies, Typography

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Typography on the Web has remained unchanged for over a decade, but we’re now in the midst of a type revolution.

In a great effort to bring light to typography on the web and how to use it properly, one of our respected authors, Jason Cranford Teague, in association with Peachpit has released the book “Fluid Web Typography”.

Today, we’re bringing this must-have book to the WDD audience.

We’re running a one week contest where we will be awarding 5 free copies of this unmissable book. Read on for all the details and how to participate. Read more

15 Dec

Win 10 Premium Accounts at Grafpedia

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We love to bring great contests to all our loyal readers and today we have another great one lined up for you.

We’ve partnered with Grafpedia a great provider of Photoshop gradients, brushes and vectors to bring another great giveaway to some lucky WDD readers.

We’re giving away a total of 10 premium accounts with access to ALL of Grafpedia’s content for 3 months. That is thousands of Photoshop brushes, vector shapes and patterns, and much much more.

The contest runs for one week and we will announce the results on December 22nd.

For a chance to win, please follow the participation guidelines after the jump. Read more

1 Dec

Winners of ‘Fancy Form Design’

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The results are in! Today we’re pleased to announce the winners of the SitePoint book giveaway.

All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prizes.

Check out to see if you won and view the winners’ names after the jump.

For those that didn’t win this time, you can buy the PDF version for only $14.95 until December 5th via this link OR get $5.00 off the print book, published in full color, shipped to your door anywhere in the world by following this link. Worldwide shipping is free when you add a 2nd book to your order.

Thanks to the almost 1000 of you that participated and thanks to SitePoint for sponsoring this great contest for the WDD community. Read more

24 Nov

Win 5 Free Copies of ‘Fancy Form Design’

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We’re partnering once again with the awesome folks at SitePoint to bring you another great giveaway for one of their latest books.

The book this time is called Fancy Form Design and it guides you through the creation of beautiful forms for your websites.

Forms need not be ugly, they can be beautiful, too, and their coding can now be hassle free.

We will give away a total of 5 copies of the book, and the contest will run for a week, with the results announced on December 1st.

To get a chance to win, please follow the guidelines for participation after the jump. Read more

19 Nov

The wait is over! And the prizes go to…

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Thanks to everyone that participated in our massive first birthday giveaway.

Your response of over 1,200 comments was absolutely unbelievable and made me realize how influential the blog has been to so many people out there.

The comments were great! Funny, artistic, original and charged with positive vibes.

A very heartfelt thank you to all of you for your support, and for the great feedback in your comments.

I’m now truly charged to propel WDD further into its second year! Feel free to always send me your feedback, ideas and suggestions. I read all emails and will definetely take your feedback into consideration.

And now, what you’ve been waiting for since last week… the prizes! And there are 42 very lucky winners… are you one of them? Read more

11 Nov

Webdesigner Depot Turns One Year Old! (surprises included)

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It’s been one year already and today we celebrate WDD’s first birthday!

It’s been an incredible journey so far… and I’ve enjoyed it immensely, and still am.

I started WDD out of my curiosity for blogging and my passion for design. I wanted to put my mark out there by pouring my design vision into the world.

Since WDD began, the blog has been visited by over 10 million people and that number is growing in leaps and bounds month after month.

Today, I’d like to share a few interesting details about myself and WDD, and I also have some very special birthday surprises in store… Read more

28 Jul

Interview with SpecWatch:
The Naked Truth About Design Contests

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“Spec work” stands for speculative work. It’s a term used to refer to any job for which the client expects to see examples with no guarantee of payment.

The Internet has accelerated its growth in the form of “design contest” websites, and these businesses have advertising machines that draw in thousands of unsuspecting designers who think it’s normal to give away their intellectual property for nothing.

With the increasing prominence of “spec work” businesses, we’re witnessing more and more about the downsides of the practice, and there’s one initiative in particular that’s documenting what goes on — SpecWatch.

David Airey, a well respected graphic designer, has approached WDD with this important issue and we felt it was necessary to bring light to this important subject.

Here’s the exclusive interview David conducted with SpecWatch for WDD readers. Designers take note… Read more

27 Apr

Winners of ‘Sexy Web Design’

Books, Contests, Freebies

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Today we’re happy to announce the winners of the SitePoint book giveaway.

Congratulations to @innervoices, @kmog, @sherri_g, @6bdesign and @TylorSkory. Each of you have won a full copy of the book “Sexy Web Design”.

All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prize.

For the ones that didn’t win, don’t despair as SitePoint has generously provided a 25% discount for all of our readers that would like to purchase the book. Note that this discount is only valid until May 1st: Discount link

Thanks to the almost 600 of you who participated and thanks to SitePoint for sponsoring this great contest for the WDD community.

16 Apr

Win 5 Free Copies of ‘Sexy Web Design’

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I’m always reading tons of design blogs as well as buying books and magazines to gain more knowledge on design and bring fresh ideas to WDD.

A little while ago, I ordered Elliot Jay Stocks book “Sexy Web Design” and after reading it, I thought it would be a great idea if I could bring this book to the loyal readers of WDD.

So, I’ve partnered with the publisher SitePoint, one of the leading resources for designers, to bring this great book to the WDD audience.

Starting today, we’ll be running a 10 day contest here on WDD, where you can win one of 5 free copies of the book that we’ll be giving away. Read more