Google asks you to take action against the U.N.
On December 3rd a closed-door meeting will take place in Dubai. In attendance will be members of the United Nation's…
By Ben Moss
Building your first WordPress plugin (part 3)
There is no need to ask why anybody would want to write a plugin for WordPress. It's one of the primary features that…
Amazing bundle from MightyDeals.com
It’s hard to believe, but it’s true: our sister-site MightyDeals.com is 2 years old. Hard to believe, because it’s only…
By WDD Staff
Amazing free bundle from ByPeople.com
Most web pros can't make it through a week without falling back on some else's work: you may be a great programmer, but…
By Ben Moss
How to make design decisions
This post examines an important part of the design process that, for some reason or other, is often omitted from…
By Rob Bowen
SEO for the mobile web
With the explosive expansion in the use of tablet computers and smartphones for web searches, why are so many SEO…
By Gerald Hanks
Comics of the week #156
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
By Jerry King
What's the point of favicons?
When I start telling people about the importance of a favicon to their overall online branding strategy, they usually…
By Ray Vellest
Ride the Rails way
Ah, Ruby on Rails. The champion of the startup hustle, and the side project. That in essence describes a lot of why I…
By Dain Miller
Phenomenal usability bundle
We’ve all been in the situation: sat opposite a client, having delivered your best ‘gimme a job’ pitch. You’ve walked…
By WDD Staff
Is customer service dead?
Doing business in the age of social media and online communities is not the same as it was some 20 plus years ago. It’s…
10 JavaScript frameworks to improve your mobile development
Issues of cross-browser compatibility, screen resolution and inconsistent HTML and CSS code are things of the past in…
By WDD Staff
Extraordinary day to night photography
Our lives, particularly within the urban environment, are governed by light; half natural, half artificial. Light is…
By Ben Moss
15 easy ways to lose clients
Clients are an important part of any business. But when it comes to web design, clients are everything! Whether it is…
How to keep your text clean
Nothing is more important than readability when it comes to the text on your website.
Absolutely nothing.
If you can’t…
Yesterday, Internet Explorer seemed so far away…
…now it looks as if it's here to stay.
Having been introduced as part of the Windows 8 operating system launch last…
By Ben Moss
How to plan better content
Building stuff for the web is fun. Want to know what isn’t? Waiting on a client to give you content so that you can…
By James Deer
40+ essential WordPress plugins
If you run your website on WordPress, chances are you use at least a handful of plugins. That's what's so great about a…
Kestrel flys into view
Born in London, England in the early 1950s, Alan Meeks began his career as a trainee artist, typographer and typeface…
By Ben Moss
Are corporate logo changes always necessary?
It seems that everyone is on the logo change bandwagon. Why are so many companies choosing now to change logos that are…
What's new for designers, November 2012
The November edition of what's new for web designers and developers includes new web and Mac apps, JavaScript and…
Faster internet! Kill! Kill!
It will come as no surprise to anyone, that slow buffering of a video is highly likely to see viewers give up, and go…
By Ben Moss
Comics of the week #155
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
By Jerry King
Google simplifies but retains dead space
It is a commonly held view that the minimalist approach to design is what lifted Google, in the early days of the web,…
By Ben Moss