Get Ready For Next Month’s Google Shakeup
With the update scheduled to roll out in May 2021, now is the time to make sure your websites are prepared for it. It’s…
Stark Launches Public Library For Accessibility
Inclusive design is all about designing sites with everyone in mind instead of designing for your own preferences. It’s…
By Simon Sterne
Poll: Should You Fire Good Clients?
We all get excited about new projects; we're daydreaming about possibilities from the first contact with a potential…
By Ben Moss
7 Skills You Need To Thrive As A Web Designer In 2021
Web design is an ever-evolving field. Those of us that have been in the industry a long time (i.e., six months plus)…
By Ben Moss
3 Essential Design Trends, April 2021
The best thing about writing about website design trends each month is looking at all the great sites that are being…
Key and Surface Tracking Comes to Chrome
This week Google announced further details of its plan to remove cookies from ad tracking. The strategy, which the ad…
By Ben Moss
15 Useful Tools & Resources Worth Checking Out
As a web designer, you face plenty of challenges, both good and bad. One of the bad ones is to suddenly find out that…
By WDD Staff
The Most Comprehensive Grammarly Review Ever
Who is Grammarly for? Can a grammar checking tool like Grammarly replace a human editor and proofreader? Is the…
By Waqas Khan
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About SEO?
For many, SEO is more of an art than a science, a mysterious process in which a tiny tweak to a site’s code can propel…
By Louise North
ITF Launches Free Font Service Fontshare
ITF (the Indian Type Foundry) has launched a brand new font service to bring beautiful typography to every business for…
By Ben Moss
Ranked: Top 10 Illustration Apps in 2021
Illustration is a big trend in 2021. Every designer should have some ability to illustrate, whether that’s producing…
By Ben Moss
20 Best New Websites, March 2021
This month’s collection of the best new websites launched or updated in the last four weeks features color, and more…
Quiz: Can You Spot The Center Of These Shapes?
It’s Friday, and we wanted to have a little fun with a design test that might make you go cross-eyed.
Here are ten…
By Louise North
15 Psychology Principles Every Designer Should Know
As a web designer, you’re not really in the business of building websites that your clients will love. I know that may…
By Ben Moss
Ghost 4.0 Released
We’ve been big fans of Ghost since it first launched via a Kickstarter campaign way back in 2013. Ghost 4.0 has just…
By Ben Moss
Getting Started With Inclusive Web Design
A key part of designing successful websites for clients is making sure that as many end-users as possible can access…
Comics for Designers #440
Every month we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging…
By Ben Moss
Quiz: How Many Web Design Acronyms Do You Know?
Web design is chock-full of acronyms like WWW (World Wide Web), and HTML (HyperText Markup Language). But how many of…
By Simon Sterne
Poll: Is It Time to Merge Browser Engines Into a Browser Protocol?
We tend not to think about it, but the Internet has a physical dimension. It’s a complex network of wires, cables,…
By Ben Moss
8 Domain Name Myths Every Web Designer Should Know
A domain name is an essential element of every project, product, and company. It’s central to a brand and has a…
By Ben Moss
27 Exciting New Tools For Designers, March 2021
Looking for something new to get you excited about design work? This list is packed with all kinds of goodies to help…
By Ben Moss
Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Anatomy of a Typeface?
The constituent parts of a typeface design have some bizarre names. Any ideas what a beak might be? How about a crotch?…
By Simon Sterne
Google’s FLoC Promises a Radically Different Web
Advertising knows you better than your friends, better than your family, perhaps even better than your partner.
Look…
By Ben Moss
8 Best Premium Stock Image Sites for 2021
Stock images are an essential tool for anyone working with clients who can’t afford to hire a photographer for a…
By Simon Sterne