Comics

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.

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

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

Ben says: The font comic is funny but true. Here is a good a good site for all of us who sift through fonts day and night. wordmark.it
Business

Search for any design-related term and you’ll be greeted by a wall of competition.

From invasive AdWords pitches to aggressively marketed websites, online competition in the web design world is rapidly approaching its breaking point.

Small freelance businesses are unable to market themselves without an ample budget and plenty of time.

Increasingly, freelancers are forced to turn to bidding websites in search of work. They compete for projects that offer little in the way of income and that entail a great deal of stress.

Thankfully, there are other ways to generate business. Many go against the “online only” marketing slogans that designers have been fed for years.

GraphicDesignBoss says: Matthew, I'm not sure that Yellow Pages will super charge your business. It may super charge Yellow Pages profits, but that is...
Apps

New apps and websites appear on an almost daily basis, but trying to find the good ones among them can be tough, especially considering how many are not that great.

That’s why every month we research and showcase some of the best and latest resources available for web designers.

Included below are twenty-five great ebooks, fonts, apps, resources, and other tools for web designers and other useful resources for designers from the past few weeks.

As always, if we’ve missed something, let us know in the comments. And if you know of an app you’d like included in the next roundup, please tweet it to @cameron_chapman.

Mobile website developer says: Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed browsing your blog posts. Beautiful...
Blogging

We have looked at the different types of designers, developers and clients in previous articles, but there is one viewpoint from which we still haven’t looked at ourselves.

We all have our designer, developer and client hats on as we surf blogs such as this one, but many of us are also bloggers. Anyone can be a blogger, but not every blogger improves the quality of content on the Internet.

A successful blog is the result of a lot of hard work by the blogger(s) who run it. The extent of its success depends on the blog’s style, its content, its focus on its core subject matter, as well as its marketing and publicity.

It is time to look at the 7 different types of bloggers who contribute to the quality of the web in the hope of creating an engaging and entertaining playground for all.

SenseiMattKlein says: I see many examples of your 7 personality types every day. I think we all strive to be the Quality Supplier or the Influential...
Review

After creating two successful bundles for creatives, our friends at Bundle Hunt are back with their latest installment of popular design resources and applications packaged into one neat and powerful bundle.

This time, the bundle includes 20 great design items valued at over $1,200 and is now on sale for only $49.

The new bundle includes fantastic products such as the Pictos Icon Set, GoMedia Arsenal Ultimate Vector & Font Collections, WordPress themes from Press75, the newest Smashing Magazine eBook and a 3 month MultiSitePlan from WPEngine.

BundleHunt 3 was released yesterday and will be available for 14 days for $49 (regular price is $1,287).

Vivek Parmar says: wow that's a great offer, would love forward to buy this. One question though, those who buy this (means everyone) will win iPda...
Apps

If you work as a freelance web designer or developer, you probably rely on a number of applications to perform daily tasks. From crafting code and pushing pixels to productivity and business management, it’s usually safe to say, “There’s an app for that.”

Shiny new apps are popping up more than ever. You are well familiar with the routine: a hot new URL sporting early beta invites buzzes its way across Twitter, picks up a handful of users and eventually falls off the map, never to be heard of again. This pattern is particularly strong for productivity apps (a.k.a. “getting things done” apps) and web development tools.

Don’t get me wrong: some of these little gems find success in segments of the market. They add to a vast reservoir of quality solutions that can be found for every task. With so many apps to choose from, how does one decide which to try and which to ignore?

In this article I will highlight a few apps that I’ve relied on heavily over the course of my career as a freelance web designer.

Ben says: Great post! I have to say I like Omnifocus more than Things. It allows syncing via MobileMe, WebDAV and over Wifi. It's less of a...
Best Of

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

Virtual Agent says: Thanks for these great links. That design posted in the twitter link about "Useful Tips to Design Well Under Pressure" is pretty...
Comics

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.

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

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

Cheryl Ellemberg says: Love reading these comics! Really look forward to them. It's so good to have a sense of humor. With all humor is a little...