Our favorite tweets of the weekMay 14 – May 20, 2012
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 [...]...
Quick Tip: What Exactly is Web Hosting?
Tired of the “techie” trying to explain to you what web hosting is all about from his bedroom-recorded Skype video? Ever get confused with all the funny terms they drop, like “Shared Hosting” and “Dedicated Servers”? We’ve all been there at one point or anot...
Comics of the week #130
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, p...
Quick Course On Effective Website Copywriting
Many dismiss copywriting as something that ad agency people do. Truthfully, all of us need to pay close attention to copywriting if we want to achieve our business objectives. The goal of a "regular" text is to inform or entertain. The goal of Web copy (and ideally your webs...
Ticksy: A Support Story
When I started designing and developing themes and templates for the ThemeForest marketplace five years ago, customer support was easy. I’d get an email or two a day, answer them, and move on. But as sales picked up, things became complicated. One or two emails turned into five, which turned into...
A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web Development
Responsive design is the hottest topic in front-end Web development right now. It’s going to transform the Web into an all-singing, all-dancing, all-devices party, where we can access any information located anywhere in the world. But does responsive design translate well from th...
Free download: 40 Exclusive Photoshop Patterns
We’re back with another great exclusive freebie for you. This one is a Photoshop pattern file (.PAT) which contains 40 beautiful textures that you can apply to your designs. A detailed step by step instruction is provided inside the file to help you use them. You can use these as textures for...
How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily
If you're just getting started with WordPress, or have been running with default functionality for a while and now want to dig in with some useful and easy ways to customize your WordPress site, a great place to start is the WordPress Admin area, or backend. One of the great th...
Line25 Sites of the Week for May 18th 2012
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Iris, Vimeo, Anthm, Little Red Letter and Olly Sorsby. Iris View the website Vimeo View the website Anthm View th...
Diving Into CSS Regions
This tutorial will cover the basics of CSS regions, which allow us to flow content within various sections of the page. Confused? You probably are; read on! Demo View It Online CSS Region Support At the time of this writing, the CSS Regions specification is a working draft and things may change! Tec...
SASS vs. LESS
"Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose?" is a hot topic lately. I've been asked in person several times and an online debate has been popping up every few days it seems. It's nice that the conversation has largely turned from whether or not preprocessing is a good idea to which one languag...
5 Useful CSS Tricks for Responsive Design
Making the design to be responsive is very easy as shown in my Responsive Design in 3 Steps tutorial, but maintaining the elements to look aesthetically balanced on all breakpoint layouts is an art. Today I'm going to share 5 of my commonly used CSS tricks along with sample cases for coding responsi...
Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point
Mat Marquis keeping us up to date on the responsive images hot drama. Good reminder at the end about not picking sides. Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point is a post from CSS-Tricks...
ShopTalk Episode 18
With ol' Mean Gene Crawford! We talk about crazy clients, responsive images, health, and all kinds of other shoptalk. Thanks to Mijingo for sponsoring this episode. Direct Link to Article — Permalink…ShopTalk Episode 18 is a post from CSS-Tricks...
Showcase of Artistic Hand Lettering in Web Design
With websites being built from digital code it’s difficult to imagine them being crafted by hand, but this post showcases a bunch of websites that feature custom hand lettering in traditional mediums. In place of fonts these websites boast hand crafted typography to add a real artistic touch t...
Line25 Sites of the Week for May 11th 2012
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Guided Creative, Peaxl, Rdio, DS22 and Column Five. Guided Creative View the website Peaxl View the website Rdio...
Giveaway from PSD2HTML
If you follow Web Designer Wall, then you have noticed the PSD2HTML banner ad on the sidebar. PSD2HTML is not only my long time supporter, but they are also one of the most recognized vendors in PSD slicing services. Today I'm happy to partner with PSD2HTML to give away PSD to HTML slicing services...
Free Base WordPress Theme
Although WordPress has made it very easy to create a custom WordPress theme, but it still takes time to learn and build it. So I've created a Base theme based on the free Basic theme from Themify. I've stripped out the framework and the extra functions that you might not need. It includes only the [...
