Webdesigner Depot - Archives (novembre 2013)
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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 […]
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There is nothing worse than trawling through icon sets, looking for the right icon, as the clock clowly ticks down towards a deadline. There are so many great vector icon sets out there, but very few are as comprehensive as PictoFoundry’s Elite Pro. With over 850 unique vector icons, Elite Pro should be your first […]
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It’s Black Friday, a day when all sensible Americans stay home eating leftovers and doing their shopping online. In honor of the almost-holiday, today we’re going to take a look at some of the techniques store managers use to sell to us, and how we can apply them to our sites to take them from […]
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It’s pretty easy to get confused as to who owns what right now. Pick any web start-up and there’s a good chance that it’s either owned by a major player, or in the process of considering offers. Small companies innovate, but it takes big investment to fulfill the potential of those innovations. iStock is one of the […]
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For designers passionate about the latest developments across the full spectrum of visual design, there’s a brand new site that features some of the most exciting, innovative and inspiring design projects taking place today. Every day our sister-site, DesignFaves.com, trawls the web seeking out the projects with the most buzz surrounding them and delivers a compact, […]
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If you are a freelancer or you work from home, then you might know exactly how it feels to be on your own little island. You’re cooped up in your office all the I time trying to get work done. If you’re anything like me, you only look up and go outdoors when your stomach […]
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Zurb’s Foundation is one of the most widely-used responsive frameworks available at the minute — and for good reason, too. With a flexible grid system, a seemingly endless features-list and a community working to push new and improved features as often as possible, you can see why. Not only that, but it’s full of scaffolding […]
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If you’re a WordPress developer, you’ll know that there are a huge range of themes out there to build a site from. Many free ones are good, but for the very best features you need a premium theme. The downside to premium themes is that they usually have a premium price tag, which is why […]
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It’s a sad fact that the biggest problem freelancers face, is disagreements with a client once a project has started. It seems — judging by the amount of problems overheard by complaining designers — is that terms, changes, direction, and payments more often than not become roadblocks to a smooth and successful working relationship, usually […]
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WordPress, one of the most popular blogging and website platforms in the world, accounts for thousands of new blogs and websites every day. One of the best ways to get up and running quickly — especially if you don’t have much design or development experience — is to use a theme. And some of the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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This fantastic icons set, created exclusively for WebdesignerDepot by PixelKit, is a brilliant twist on the repetitive ‘flat’ icons that are everywhere right now. Using the bright but desaturated colors, favored in flat design; the icons are attractive, cheerful and friendly. In a fun twist the long shadow technique has been applied to actually increase the […]
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There’s no escaping the fact that some of the most vital information can be as dull as dishwater. No matter how you try and write up facts and figures, they just don’t grab people. When it comes communication, an infographic is worth a thousand statistics. So we’re delighted that our sister-site, MightyDeals.com, has put together […]
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Web design is an adventure. Creating awesome projects requires time, creativity, and a lot of hard work. And sometimes you need a little help, so every month we bring you a selection of our favorite tools, resources, fonts and assets, all designed to make your working life a little easier. This month we have 45+ […]
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Today, the California-based product design team at ZURB announce the release of Foundation 5, the responsive web design framework that’s been adopted by millions of designers and engineers. Designers have loved previous versions of Foundation for its mobile-first attitude and great documentation. Now a ton of features have been added and existing ones streamlined to […]
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User Experience has come a long way in the last decade, especially in the world of web design. Now more than ever, people are more focused on making sure the user not only has it easy, but also enjoys the product or service that they’re using. But whilst most people are working to form a […]
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Dutch design studio Today Designers has printed a book using a very special kind of ink—squid ink. The book, entitled Naar Inkt Vissen (which translates to “Fishing For Ink” in English), contains 48 pages full of sailor stories written by Menno Smit and Edwin de Voigt. In order to add even more nautical flair, the […]
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One of the most important things about creating a brand is making sure everything is cohesive. Once a brand pinpoints their values and how they’d like to be perceived, they have to make sure all their touchpoints refer back to these values. What’s of extreme importance is the look of a brand. In order to […]
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Recently while perusing some of the discussions that are currently happening throughout the web design community, I happened across an active dialog going on in the comments of a Tuts+ article, All About Trends in Web Design. The write-up itself, plus the lively convo in the comment section got me to thinking about “flat design”, and […]
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Web designers use a lot of tools to make the sites they design the best possible for site visitors; one of the best ways of achieving this is incorporating actual science and research into design to maximize user satisfaction. Eye-tracking research provides designers with a blueprint of sorts to guide them on the priorities with […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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If you’re a living, moving, breathing person, then the chances are very high that you’ve heard of the newest infatuation in the design world, flat design. If you’re unsure, here’s a quick crash course: it’s flat color. This means there are no (or very subtle) gradients and we are no longer making buttons and other […]
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The constant geometric precision of screen-based design is enough to dehumanize any design project. The best way to counter that is with a typeface that screams “hand written!” That’s why we’re delighted that our sister-site, MightyDeals.com, has been able to arrange a huge discount off Laura Worthington’s Alana Pro. Alana Pro is an award winning […]
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On the celebrated heels of its new logo and custom typeface, the Olympic brand team has just completed the most exhaustive collection of Olympic pictograms ever created in the history the event. Taking their cue from the typeface designed for the Rio 2016 Olympics by London-based studio, Dalton Maag, the team worked for 16 months […]
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A lot of designers use some sort of CSS pre-processor, whether that be Sass, LESS or Stylus. If you’ve used any of these, you’re probably also aware that Compass is a framework built on Sass, and although its installation may be off-putting, once you use it you’ll quickly discover it’s one of the best skills […]
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The normal process when encoding video goes something like this: sort files, set preferences, start encoding, make a coffee, check progress, make another coffee, check progress, phone home, do some online shopping, check progress, make another coffee, check progress, do your taxes… You might think that the process would be even slower using a cloud […]
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In case you’ve been living in a cave with no internet access for the past few years, you’re almost certainly familiar with Dribbble. But just in case you aren’t, it’s a place for designers to show off their designs, discover and explore the work of others, and even find more work. Based in Salem, Massachusetts, […]
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How do you date a photo? Normally, you take a look at the fashion, the buildings, and the cars. If that’s how you do it then these nostalgic photos may well have you fooled. Often recreated in movies, mid-20th century America is an obsession for many people, so a book portraying everyday scenes from this […]
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In the previous part of this tutorial, using a mixture of HTML5, jQuery and CSS, we constructed the barebones functionality of our HTML5-driven full-screen video background. This time, we’re going to be styling it, preparing fallbacks for it, and understanding how it can be used as part of your own working designs. In today’s guide, we’ll […]
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The November edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, graphic design tools, coding resources, project management tools, icons, mapping 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Welcome, friends, to WebdesignerDepot’s first monthly WordPress plugin roundup. (Try saying that out loud really fast a few times!) If there’s one word that I would use to describe the WordPress community, it’s this: huge. It should come as no surprise, then, that there are plugins being released and updated every single day. Some of […]
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Fleurons are typographic elements, much like swashes; they add an elaborate touch to display text, they create borders and frames; they can even be used as background patterns. Complex to draw, these carefully balanced fleurons from Wiescher Design are an excellent addition to any designer’s toolbox. The calligraphic nature of the lines adds a hand-written […]
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App design powerhouse, ZURB today launched Ink, a powerful new resource for designers to easily produce responsive HTML emails that look and work great across more mobile platforms than ever, including Outlook. “If you’re not considering mobile devices for your emails,” says Jonathan Smiley, Partner at ZURB and Creator of ZURB Foundation, “you’re not just […]
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You may have heard of CSS preprocessing and be wondering what all the buzz is about. You may even have heard of Sass or LESS. In short, preprocessing your CSS allows you to write more concise stylesheets which are formatted nicely and require less repetitive techniques commonly found when writing CSS code. The result is more […]
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“Make something interesting” is a client request we don’t hear often. When Adobe asked it of Kelli Anderson (they wanted a handout for AIGA’s annual design event), she decided this was the perfect opportunity to address a quandary that we all encounter from time to time: Should I take that job? Is the low pay […]
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We love responsive web design and rightfully so. As a matter of fact, it’s almost mind boggling when a website isn’t responsive these days. It’s been a trend on the up and up for a while now. It’s also been a trend that seems to change and create new technology every week to make it […]
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Full screen images used as the background of sites have an amazing visual impact, but did you know that you can use video in exactly the same way? After all the excitement of working with HTML5 audio, I felt it was only logical to follow-up by moving into the next realm of online rich media: […]
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Charts are far better for displaying data visually than tables and have the added benefit that no one is ever going to press-gang them into use as a layout tool. They’re easier to look at and convey data quickly, but they’re not always easy to create. A great way to get started with charts is […]
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When someone lands on your website for the very first time, what happens? That’s the most critical point of conversion for any website: That moment when a new visitor takes their first glance at your page and decides whether or not they’ll stick around a little longer to learn more. Hopefully they do. But what […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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In advertising and marketing, the term “soft sell” is an approach at selling and item by connecting with a potential customer. By soft selling a product, you don’t put any pressure on a person to buy right now, but you give them the opportunity to decide if it’s for them or not. Sometimes we use […]
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Looking for a good alternative to the tedium of Helvetica? Us too, and we think we’ve got the answer right here. Out sister-site, MightyDeals.com, has revived its sensational deal on the Verb Font Family, giving you access to this powerhouse of a font for for just $37! What’s so great about Verb? Well, for starters […]
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