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14 Apr
Comics of the week #125
Comics, Funny, Humor
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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… Read more
13 Apr
Free download: Exclusive Stylish User Interface Kit (PSD)
Freebies, Resources, User Interface
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We’ve partnered with the awesome guys at PurtyPixels.com to bring you a wonderful new freebie!
This Stylish User Interface Kit is a cool set of everything UI… toggles, sliders, progress bars, buttons, switches and social icons… in three different colors.
Everything is fully layered, completely vector and strictly organized so you can easily implement any element into your designs. Go ahead and download this set, we’re sure you’ll love it!
This freebie is designed by Richard Tabor from PurtyPixels.com, a Web/UI designer from New York, New York. Check out his site for some more amazing freebies! This PSD has been exclusively designed for our Webdesigner Depot friends.
You can use the file for free for personal and commercial purposes. Redistribution in any form is not allowed. Enjoy! Read more
Free downloads
60 Exclusive Free Icons: "Childish"Exclusive Free Icons: "Appliance Icons"Free Photoshop Brushes: "Sparkling Light Effects"
12 Apr
Grunge Photoshop brush roundup
Brushes, Photoshop, Resources
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We’ll be starting a regular series of roundups of the best free Photoshop brushes, in various themes; this week’s Photoshop brush roundup is on the Grunge theme.
Grunge is a very bold style choice, and is characterized by its gritty style, dark, washed-out colors, and irregular shapes.
Grunge textures can be so varied, from wood to metallic surfaces, fabric, paper and more as far as textures go, but also characterizing themselves by sharp cuts, or slow fades.
They are all very similar in style, but offer subtle variations which can be used in conjunction with other similar or contrasting textures to create depth and wear. Read more
11 Apr
Say hello to DeveloperDrive.com
Blogs, Code, Web Development
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It’s time to welcome a new member to the WebdesignerDepot family of sites!
Say hello to DeveloperDrive.com, our brand new blog dealing with web development. We’ve been in beta for a little while so you may have bumped into it already, but if you haven’t yet, we highly recommend checking it out!
While at WDD we focus mostly on the visual aspects of web design, we hope DeveloperDrive becomes your ‘go to’ place for web development, tutorials, and coding in general.
You’ll find articles covering topics such as responsive design, CSS3, HTML5, WordPress and much more.
We welcome your feedback as we keep improving the site and bring you more fresh content. Thanks for visiting and enjoy!
10 Apr
What’s new for designers, April 2012
Apps, Best Of, Resources
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The April edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, blogging platforms, coding resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts.
Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there.
As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments.
And if you have an app or other resource you’d like to see included next month, tweet it to @cameron_chapman for consideration. Read more
9 Apr
Integrating Google Calendar with your website
Code, Google, How to
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Google Calendar is a great tool to embed in your site, and it’s incredibly easy to do using an iFrame.
Before I go into further styling for the Calendar, I’ll quickly go through how to embed your Google Calendar anywhere into your site.
You can embed a live calendar for other to edit along with you, or privately edit it whilst all visitors can see your updates to events as they happen.
All this is done with Google’s trademark simplicity and ease of use, however if you wish to use CSS to further style your calendar, you’ll need to spend a little time tweaking with trial and error to get it to your liking. Read more
8 Apr
Our favorite tweets of the week
Apr 2 – Apr 8, 2012
Best Of, Compilation, Twitter
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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 Read more