How To Sell Stock Photos - Part 1

This article is the first part of a 2 part series in which you will learn about the basics of stock photography, the…

How To Create A Vibrant Image Using Photoshop

In this tutorial, we'll explore how to add more energy and dynamism to a photo. The effects can be extended and used on…

Happy New Year, 2009!

And that's a wrap for 2008... We'd like to wish all of you, your families and friends, a very happy, healthy and…

Why Mood Boards Matter

It has happened to everyone. You spend countless hours producing a beautiful, pixel-perfect comp only to have it…

10 Usability Tips for Web Designers

Simply put, usability is making your website easy for your visitors to find the information they need when they need…

WDD Wordpress Showcase

We're currently being featured in the design category at Wordpress.org If you enjoy the work we're doing at WDD, and…

Create an amazing illustration using scraps

In this tutorial I will walk you through a few steps that will show you how I managed to create this illustration. I…

Designing Outside Your Comfort Zone

When you've been designing for a few years, it's easy to fall into patterns. You carve out your personal style and find…

Quick and Easy WordPress Development on a Mac with MAMP

Ready for some WordPress development on your Mac? First, you need to be running Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Although Mac…

100 Websites With Outstanding Artistic Design

We live in a world of information saturation, and that translates to web design. In such a competitive world, it…

10 Places to Sell Templates

Creating new web designs from scratch can be lucrative, but it's also time consuming. If you want to make money…

How to Make Money Off Social Media

Social media sites and technologies like Twitter and Digg are something that the tech savvy take completely for…

Video Game Design Between 1990-2008

Remembering the good all days, when me and my friends were playing Doom, Mortal Kombat, Quake or War Craft on a…

10 Excellent Tips For Designers To Improve Their Income

Sometimes, it seems absolutely impossible to keep up with all the design work you've got coming in. But, other times,…

9 Common WordPress Problems and How to Solve Them

WordPress is a great tool for creating blogs. It works well most of the time, it offers automatic updates, and it…

10 Characteristics of Excellent Portfolio Sites

Recently we looked at the characteristics of effective blog theme design, and I'd like to take a similar look at the …

Pass or fail: The top 30 technology company homepages

Although there are lots of posts that evaluate different design blogs, I haven't seen many that focus specifically on…

40 Stunning fantasy wallpapers

Here at WDD we get inspired by beautiful imagery... We look at our computer screens for long hours a day and what…

7 Free Tools to Identify A Font

So you're browsing through your favorite website and found a site that uses a font you love. You want that font too,…

13 Characteristics of Outstanding Blog Design

Most web designers and getting more and more requests from clients to design custom blog themes. While designing a…

Twitter is No Longer an Option. Why You Should be Tweeting.

Twitter is kind of like Apple fandom - either you love it or you find it a dreadful inconvenience to interface with. In…

40 Wallpapers loaded with color

When was the last time you changed your desktop wallpaper? Odds are it's been a while. Why not take a break from what…

Peeling a Hand in Photoshop

Today we're going to demonstrate how to peel a hand in Photoshop. You can use this technique to peel other objects of…

Large Website Backgrounds Do's and Don'ts

Large backgrounds make a very impressive visual impact on websites. A web designer has the possibility to play with…