Essential web design tips for start-ups
With so many new websites and start-ups springing up every day, a high-quality, professional web site is no longer…
By Lior Levin
How to design from a blank canvas
Most web design and/or development projects have some history behind them. Sometimes you have to re-design or…
Adobe announce new features for Muse
Adobe has just announced new features in their Muse web design app. Muse launched just nine months ago, and in that…
25+ awesome redesign concepts
Not every designer gets the chance to work on a high-profile redesign. In fact, the vast majority will never have that…
Is mobile in decline?
Mobile web traffic almost doubled in 2012, but that growth slowed dramatically in 2013 and mobile has even lost market…
By Jason Mark
Sensational discount on Verb font family
If there's one thing every designer needs in their toolkit, it's a workhorse font. A workhorse font is the typeface you…
By WDD Staff
“You ruined the project!”
Who said that? Both parties often do. Both the client and the designer often accuse each other of ruining a web…
Better e-commerce for WordPress
There are a number of options out there for WordPress e-commerce plugins, including both free and paid options. The…
Comics of the week #171
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
By Jerry King
Integrating content marketing strategies and mobile design
Anyone who’s up on technology has heard of mobile web design and content marketing—two terms used with increasing…
Yahoo! redesigns
When Marissa Mayer jumped ship at Google to take over the reigns at the web's second biggest name in search, no one…
By Ben Moss
How to speed up your website load times
Do you want your website to load blazing fast? This article will teach you how to make your website load faster than…
Faceted enterprise search from SearchBlox
Good enterprise search services are a huge boon to productivity in large companies with a lot of data to manage and…
Magazine design principles applied to web design
I got my professional start in the world of design at a specialty magazine publisher. Magazine layout and design is,…
Amazing mirror images
The Rorschach test is the most widely used projective psychological test, designed to assess and identify personality…
By Stacey Kole
Windows of New York
If Bill Shakespeare is to be believed, eyes are the windows to the soul. Designed to look outwards, looking into them…
What's new for designers, February 2013
The February edition of what's new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and…
Retro Branding
While Generation Y may be too young to remember, there was a time in the 70s and 80s when the coolest gadgetry was…
By Stacey Kole
Comics of the week #170
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
By Jerry King
Fresh freebies for February
It is never a bad time to have an idea for the web, and when it comes, the best thing to do is developing and creating…
Is Photoshop dead?
I guess a more suitable title might be ‘is Photoshop still an appropriate tool for designing typography on the web?’…
ReCAPTCHAing the importance of UX
Recently, I had the 'joy' of attempting to book tickets with Ticketmaster.co.uk and, I knew exactly what I was in for —…
How to find your USP
Do you call yourself a freelance web designer? If so, you are only partially correct. The truth is that you also need…
Saving a city with a serif
Fonts can become synonymous with brands. Picture, for example, "Yahoo", "Disney", or the masthead for "The New York…
By Stacey Kole