11 Inspiring Minimalistic Web Designs

Here at WDL we love to browse the web for good stuff to show you. It’s always great to see how designers put together different layouts and ideas. Minimal websites can be very inspiring when designed properly. Having the ability to develop a nice website with good UX and interface with a minimal approach is… Continue reading 11 Inspiring Minimalistic Web Designs

Captain Icon: Fantastic Free Set of 350+ Flat Icons in Many Formats

Mario Del Valle from Valladolid in sunny Spain simply loves to create. In his own words, he was passionate about drawing since he was a child. Lately he also became eager to share. He sat down in front of his digitizer and started to come up with ideas for a huge free icon set. Lots… Continue reading Captain Icon: Fantastic Free Set of 350+ Flat Icons in Many Formats

Create Leafy Face Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this “Leafy Face” manipulation in Photoshop. We will go through techniques such as layer blending, layer masks, filter effects, and the use of adjustment layers. Have a try! This is an intermediate level tutorial and some steps can be tricky. Note: The… Continue reading Create Leafy Face Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

What Should New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning?

Today I’m speaking to those just getting started in design. Maybe you just graduated from design school, or you’ve read through all the fundamental lessons offered here and on other design blogs, and you feel you’re ready to start taking on clients. Or maybe you have a couple of projects under your belt and you’re… Continue reading What Should New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning?

Darkness That Feeds Your Mind: 20 Black Joomla Layouts

Behind the color of black there are lot of different emotions. Some think it is the color of evil. Some think it is the color of emptiness. Some think it is the color of love. Black is all of those things. Today we are talking about pre-made Joomla templates that are designed in black and… Continue reading Darkness That Feeds Your Mind: 20 Black Joomla Layouts

What Makes The Perfect Blog Post [Infographic]

Webmasters and bloggers alike are always trying to improve their blogging. Each post has to be perfect before they publish it. It has to have the right amount of nice looking images, a certain number of links to back up your sources, and it has to be engaging to your audience. We do this so… Continue reading What Makes The Perfect Blog Post [Infographic]

Don’t Forget to Cover Your Client Side!

By making sure that your application is tested, you are able to reduce the amount of bugs you find in your code, increase the maintainability of your application, and design well structured code.  Client side unit testing presents different challenges than server side testing. When dealing with client side code, you will find yourself struggling to… Continue reading Don’t Forget to Cover Your Client Side!

Pragmatic Landing Page Can Create Enjoyable Experience

The Petersham Nurseries is an online store dedicated to an internationally-prized garden center has been nominated and recently received the title “Site of the Day” from the respectable Awwwards’ jury. The site was rated far above average and got quite impressive numbers in all presented factors that cover design, usability, creativity and content. So, what… Continue reading Pragmatic Landing Page Can Create Enjoyable Experience

5 Great Examples of Minimal Websites

Minimalism is a design style that emphasizes simplicity and the removal of surplus elements in a design, stripping it down to its basic elements, colors, shapes and textures. This style was overlooked in the early dot com days of the internet, but it has now become very popular in website design. The fundamentals of minimal design in… Continue reading 5 Great Examples of Minimal Websites

Need Coding? Top 15 PSD To HTML Services You Should Use

If web designers were to have their own way, they would like to focus on aesthetics but their end result wouldn’t only have to look good it would have to be user- friendly, cross-browser compatible, easy and fast to load and semantic. It’s a good idea to change your Photoshop mockup using a finished PSD… Continue reading Need Coding? Top 15 PSD To HTML Services You Should Use

Create a Simple Subscription Web Element in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating This piece focuses mainly on the Appearance panel, so you will only need four rectangles and a tiny circle to create the background, the main shape, the subscribe button, the text field and the tiny x button. You will learn how to create pixel perfect shapes using the Snap to Grid… Continue reading Create a Simple Subscription Web Element in Adobe Illustrator

Prelaunch Checklist: 10 Things To Do Before Launching your WordPress Site

  Once you have your new site or theme finished, content has been checked and everything is good to go, there are a few more steps you should take to really get your site ready for visitors. I have launched many WordPress sites over the years and have a pre-launch checklist of various steps and… Continue reading Prelaunch Checklist: 10 Things To Do Before Launching your WordPress Site

16 New Free Fonts for Graphic Designers

Modern pixel perfect fonts are best for web and mobile app UI typography. This new font collection only have high quality free font that will make your design clear and elegant. All fonts are available free for download. Amazing Free Fonts for Designers GDJ always keep our readers up to date with fresh resources, especially about the fonts. Today… Continue reading 16 New Free Fonts for Graphic Designers

Free Files For May 2014

Each month the Envato marketplace brings you free premium files. Envato is a web marketplace where you can get premium files for different areas of your website. My favourite marketplaces are the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the theme marketplace ThemeForest. Here are the files which you can get for free for May 2014. jQuery Multiple… Continue reading Free Files For May 2014

Design Freebies For Creatives: May 2014

The May edition of the ongoing iDevie freebies series features a diverse range of really cool design goodies. This month I have found some really nice icons which I already made use of in a project and some pretty cool free PSD’s which are super helpful for a small side project or quick mockup. Download,… Continue reading Design Freebies For Creatives: May 2014

35 New WordPress Themes Perfect For Photographers

You do not need to be well versed in WordPress or be a software developer to create your WordPress powered portfolio site. A majority of WordPress powered themes nowadays allow you to quickly build, customise and manage your portfolio and blog items all without needing to touch a line of code. Today I wanted to get together… Continue reading 35 New WordPress Themes Perfect For Photographers

Free Download : Dark UI Framework

Today’s freebie comes from Eldar Burnashev.Dark UI is a clean and crisp UI in PSD form and you use it freely in your design projects. Advertisement This UI kit includes dashboard,graphs,calendar,widgetboxes(twitter,facebok,weather,player,shoppin cart etc. Full Preview    Download

Introduction to WordPress App Themes

With the increasing growth rate of WordPress powered websites, the need for WordPress themes is rising. Multi-purpose themes are becoming highly popular among website owners. Many existing themes are built mainly to address blog functionality. But with the growth of WordPress web application development, we are in need of specialized themes for different purposes. These… Continue reading Introduction to WordPress App Themes

20 Free JS Plugins with Incredible Effects

Looking for some free JS plugins with incredible effects? We found exactly what you need. These 20 free JS plugins are truly unique and most of all they’re free to use! Save time with these great free JS plugins. Want more cool JS plugins? Check out these carousel plugins, lightbox plugins, search forms and typography… Continue reading 20 Free JS Plugins with Incredible Effects

How to Deal with Web Design Clients You’ve Never Seen

“I could never work for someone I’ve never met.” My friend was discussing my freelancing career with me and she couldn’t imagine working for clients she’d never met in person. But freelance web designers and other freelancers do it all the time. Many freelancers connect with their clients primarily through the Internet. Their clients might… Continue reading How to Deal with Web Design Clients You’ve Never Seen

Create Photo Manipulation with “Alice in Wonderland” Theme in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn the processes of creating a “Alice in Wonderland” themed photo manipulation, by using smart filters, stock blending. The tutorial will show you how to mix stock, create lights, change weather on image, draw hair, eyes, make up and skin, and how to get depth of field on your… Continue reading Create Photo Manipulation with “Alice in Wonderland” Theme in Photoshop

The Gap between UI and UX Design – Know the Difference

Do you know that UI and UX are not the same concepts? Surely, they are closely connected, even mutually penetrated and rarely exist without each other. Would you like to study the differences between UI and UX design in detail? This article will give you such an opportunity. We believe that it is impossible to… Continue reading The Gap between UI and UX Design – Know the Difference

How to Make Any Website Responsive

If you have an existing website that is not responsive, I’m sure you’ve probably given some thought to how you would make it mobile-friendly. It’s really hard to argue against the mobile trend these days with Mobile Web Traffic now at about 25% of all Internet Traffic, and sales of mobile devices (Phones & Tablets)… Continue reading How to Make Any Website Responsive