Designing the new, fully responsive wired.co.uk article pages

Recently, Condé Nast Digital undertook a complete redesign of the articles published on wired.co.uk. The aim was to…

Side project: The Phraseology Project

The Phraseology Project was originally setup by Drew Melton as a way for him to hone his typography skills. The idea…

Comics of the week #183

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…

How I learned to be REALLY creative

As I grew up, being a "creative child," which was the description my school psychologist used to explain why I didn't…

Learn to count with CSS

Hidden away in the depths of the CSS specification you'll find CSS counters. As the name suggests they allows you to…

The SEO sanity check part 2: gray hat techniques

In the last post, we took an in-depth look at Google’s Panda and Penguin updates and how they have impacted on search…

Deal of the week: Inspiring book offer from Smashing Magazine

Almost every business has a web presence these days; from single page ‘business card’ style sites, to million+ product…

How to use the flexbox layout method (part 2)

In part one, we touched on how to harness the power of display: flex in your website layouts, and how versatile this…

What's new for designers, May 2013

The May edition of what's new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and JavaScript…

Side project: Type Fight

The side project series is a series of posts in which we'll be taking a look at the best of designers' side projects.…

Farewell to Fireworks

Last week, Adobe announced that there will be no further development of their Fireworks application. Security updates…

Comics of the week #182

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…

SEO sanity check part 1: Google's Penguin and Panda updates

SEO has always been a tricky business, not only do experts have to spend time on researching keywords and following the…

No more Creative Suite: what does it mean?

Adobe has just announced that Creative Suite will cease to exist after CS6 (in name at least), and be replaced…

Common usability errors to avoid at all costs

One of the most important tasks on your plate as a web designer is usability. Usability is defined as a gauge of the…

Art, Copy & Code: advertising in the modern era

It’s been said that the only thing constant is change; and in the world of advertising, this saying is especially true.…

Deal of the week: The ultimate shortcodes collection

The most popular CMS out there, WordPress has a ton of great features; probably the best of which is its…

How to use the flexbox layout method (part 1)

With every new revision of CSS, a plethora of new, exciting attributes come to light; one of which being the…

Research yourself first

Every time we begin a web design project, we do research. We research our clients, their customers, the website’s…

How to optimize for legibility using text-rendering

The most frustrating aspect of web design for designers trained for print, is the persistent lack of typographic…

How to move from Illustrator to Photoshop without rasterizing (the easy way)

I've always had trouble getting large groups of shapes from Illustrator over to Photoshop without rasterizing them all…

Comics of the week #181

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…

Kandinsky style type

Lovers of abstract art are undoubtedly familiar with the superlative Wassily Kandinsky — the Russian-born painter,…

WDD acquires CodeVisually.com

I'm thrilled to officially announce that CodeVisually.com has been recently acquired by Webdesigner Depot and is now…