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 and this week we focus on Christmas.

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…

Quality Web Design says: Haha.. ROFL. I love the 1st one.. thats the best... happy Xmas every one.
Illustrations

Thanks to the might of JavaScript, the words “dynamic” and “illustration” no longer apply exclusively to Flash-based websites.

Now that dynamic HTML is a reality in most commonly used browsers and that a lot of fancy JavaScript libraries exist to make using it easy, CSS websites can take back some of the street cred held so tightly by Flash.

Of these new JavaScript libraries, jQuery has become one of the most widely adopted because of its ease of use, breadth of features and initial focus on visual uniqueness.

Here are 24 clever examples of website designs using jQuery and Illustration.

Mike says: Great sites guys. As an older (arghhh!) designer searching for new ways to give my client's sites a lift, they were very...
Freebies

Just in time for the holidays, “Xmas Stickers” is an exclusive set of icons for WDD readers.

Feel free to use them to decorate your websites and blogs and bring the holiday spirit to the web.

The icons are free for personal and commercial purposes and are released exclusively to all WDD readers.

The set is available in three different sizes: 64×64, 128×128 and 256×256 as well as a vector file for easy resizing.

The full preview and download link are located after the jump.

Enjoy the free icons and Happy Holidays from Webdesigner Depot!

Elisa says: Very good and original design; thank you very much for this gift. And Merry Christmas to you and all Webdesigner Depot's readers!
Compilation

Although the web is a great place to look for quick inspiration for a project, nothing can beat going on a long walk in nature.

The summer brings us sunny days, fields full of crops and plenty of insects and wildlife, whereas the winter brings us rain, icy roads and snow.

When Christmas comes around we often find people looking at plastic tree decorations saying “snowflakes don’t look like that!”. That, of course, is where they are all wrong.

With a decent camera and zoom or macro lens, things we wouldn’t normally pay too much attention to become a complete world in themselves, making them a magnificent source of inspiration for artists and designers all over the world.

Below we have collected some incredible close-up/macro shots of snowflakes to really get the arty-side of you in full flow this Christmas season.

Nic says: No you can't. You leave yourself open to prosecution if you do I will if I find someone using my work without my permission.
Contests

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.

Walter says: The contest is now closed. Check here to see if you...
Ajax

The modern web developer who does not consider Ajax when planning or building their websites is potentially missing out on a powerful tool to enhance usability.

There are however, challenges in implementing Ajax functionality on a web page.

In this article we’ll discuss solutions to five of the most common challenges that a developer faces when using Ajax to enhance the content on their website.

Although there is a lot more to discuss and research on all five topics, this post should give beginners and intermediate Ajax developers some solid tips on implementing Ajax functionality in a more user-friendly and accessible manner.

Assad says: I need some help about an issue. i.e i am loading the contents (from php files e.g xyz.php) when any menu button is clicked...
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

Punta del Este says: is hard to think that the spyral light in Norway was not a fake, and it was real. Intresting
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…

Teacher Teacher says: I used to work with a guy who reminded me of the sentiment in the last comic. Makes me think, like any good thing, it should be...