25 Fresh Creative HTML5 Website Templates (PSD & HTML)

New responsive HTML5 website templates are suitable for any type of business, portfolio, freelancers, travel, creative agency, corporate magazine, Blog, e-Commerce and mobile application sites. All web templates are easy to customize and hundreds of icons can be added dynamically and by using shortcodes. Responsive HTML5 Templates are perfect for landing pages with multi-pages and one page options. You… Continue reading 25 Fresh Creative HTML5 Website Templates (PSD & HTML)

UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career

Advancing technology and the digital revolution are rapidly changing the career landscape for designers. Where web design once reigned as the career of choice for digitally-minded visual designers, that job has recently been dethroned by a new supreme leader of the design realm: UX designer. As more people do business digitally – not just on computers,… Continue reading UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career

Starbis – All in 1 HTML5 Theme for Bloggers, Businesses & Web Stores

Bloggers, freelancers and web design studios are rapidly shifting towards building web resources on the basis of multi-purpose website templates. A broad spectrum of customization features, multiple ready-made layouts, child themes, and rich UI kits lure people’s attention, turning them into avid fans of fit-it-all designs. Today, we are going to bring your attention to… Continue reading Starbis – All in 1 HTML5 Theme for Bloggers, Businesses & Web Stores

Print Web & Mobile UI Templates With Sketchsheets

The best way to plan a new mobile UI is with rough wireframe sketching. You can quickly put down ideas onto paper and compare different ideas side-by-side without being limited by a mouse & keyboard. 20 Detailed UI Concept Sketches + Ready Designs For Your Inspiration 20 Detailed UI Concept Sketches + Ready Designs For… Continue reading Print Web & Mobile UI Templates With Sketchsheets

5 Ways Freelancers Can Increase Productivity with Pre-Built Websites

Posted · Category: Best Collections As a freelance web designer, you no doubt enjoy working to your own schedules. And not having to commute to work, or a boss that likes micromanaging are also good perks. You work hard to improve your skills, and to keep up with the latest trends. As a result, you have little difficulty… Continue reading 5 Ways Freelancers Can Increase Productivity with Pre-Built Websites

Settle Design Debates With Data

Posted · Category: Tools Zarget, a full-service CRO tool, helps marketers drive email subscribers, guide users through the funnel, and get to know their website visitors. Using hard data can help you make vital decision about your website. The point of every website is to bring in conversions, and the point of conversion optimization is… Continue reading Settle Design Debates With Data

The Big Interview: Kevin Ball and Rafi Benkual talk all things ZURB

This month we got the opportunity to interview Kevin Ball and Rafi Benkual from ZURB. We got to talk about the future of the web, the state of web design today, and of course, about Foundation. WebdesignerDepot: Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I am Ezequiel Bruni for Web Designer Depot, and today we are talking to… Continue reading The Big Interview: Kevin Ball and Rafi Benkual talk all things ZURB

How to Completely Remove Comments from WordPress

WordPress comments are an integral part of building a community with a WordPress blog. They allow your audience to connect with you by responding directly to your posts. They allow you to extend the conversation surrounding the topic you wrote your post about by letting members of your community pitch in. They even allow members… Continue reading How to Completely Remove Comments from WordPress

How to use breadcrumbs (the right way)

Bread crumbs…they bring up associations with the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves bread crumbs to help him find his way home again. Although the association with bread crumbs is perhaps still stronger in the realm of Grimm stories, that’s gradually changing as breadcrumbs in navigation help web designers create a better… Continue reading How to use breadcrumbs (the right way)

4 compelling reasons you should embrace VR

While none of us can predict the future, every designer should be thinking about it. All indications point to the next wave of devices that aren’t sitting on the tops of desks. They are wearable, and have canvas sizes that are vastly different than what you’ve been designing for. But should you really care if… Continue reading 4 compelling reasons you should embrace VR

12 JavaScript libraries to watch in 2017

With hundreds of free JS libraries out there it’s tough to know where to put your energy. Some end up discarded or forked into new projects, while others grow rapidly and achieve widespread adoption. Most developers already know the big names like jQuery and React. But in this post I’d like to introduce twelve alternative… Continue reading 12 JavaScript libraries to watch in 2017

Making logos work for the web

When you design for the web, no matter the industry, there are expectations that must be met, and realities that must be accounted for. Although this is true for all forms of web design, it is especially true for logo design. This is something we’ve encountered numerous times. Think about the many different conventions of logo… Continue reading Making logos work for the web

The best new portfolio sites, October 2016

Hello readers! World events have been very interesting lately, but now it’s time for what we all know is really important: other peoples’ portfolios! Okay, it’s not that important in the grand scheme of things, but design is one thing we can all agree o… ahahaha. I can’t even properly finish that sentence. Not even… Continue reading The best new portfolio sites, October 2016

Top 10 resources for designing email newsletters

The world of email marketing is constantly changing. There are dozens of tools out there tailor made to help marketers write emails, designers craft emails, and developers code emails. But with so many tools available, it can be frustrating to find the best ones. That’s why, in this post, I’ve curated the top ten best… Continue reading Top 10 resources for designing email newsletters

Zendesk releases a new logo

We’re all familiar with the old Zendesk logo, right? The memorable image of the Buddha who’s wearing a headset (melding old-fashioned mindfulness with modern-day tech) was an instantly recognizable logo of a big brand in today’s tech industry. Now, the new Zendesk logo is a combination mark of a logotype or wordmark design together with… Continue reading Zendesk releases a new logo

Bookshop With React & Redux II: Async Requests With Thunks

Previously, we got ourselves started with React with Redux fundamentals and touched all the core concepts of Redux including Actions, Reducers and Stores. We also had a look at the features of React-Redux library including connect and Provider. What we can do now is move further to complexity and reality by fleshing out the application… Continue reading Bookshop With React & Redux II: Async Requests With Thunks

Essential design trends, November 2016

It’s time to break out of your (design) shell and try something bold. Larger-than-life bold techniques are the big theme this month as we look at three trends that incorporate items that make users look at the design. Here’s what’s trending in design this month: 1. The color purple Purple color palettes are traditionally somewhat… Continue reading Essential design trends, November 2016

Angular 2 Transclusion using ng-content

Free Course Getting Started with Angular 2 Angular 2 is the shiny new framework that comes with a lot of new concepts. Learn all the great new features. Get Started Wait a minute… What is transclusion? Understanding Transclusion Don’t get confused by the term Transclusion. It’s best explained using an example. Let’s say we have… Continue reading Angular 2 Transclusion using ng-content

4 modern background tricks to try out

It seems that, as a constituent of a design, backgrounds live in the shadows; however, that’s not entirely true. In times when CSS only began to make its first steps towards the world conquest, the background had already taken on the role of the main decorative element of the website. Nowadays the situation has not… Continue reading 4 modern background tricks to try out

Automatic responsive images with client hints

Over time, developers have wrestled with forcing images into responsive layouts. Media queries and fluid grids are constantly employed to achieve visually flexible images. Achieving such flexible images as pointed out by Ethan Marcotte in the seminal first edition of his book  is as easy as: img { max-width: 100%; } The image resources being… Continue reading Automatic responsive images with client hints

Automatic Art Direction with Cloudinary’s Responsive Images Breakpoints Generator

Posted · Category: Tools Earlier this year, Cloudinary released the Responsive Breakpoints Generator to help developers automate the process of generating optimal sets of responsive image resources. This tool makes it easy to generate *resolution-adaptable* images – upload any high-resolution image to get the responsive image markup and an optimal set of resources to back… Continue reading Automatic Art Direction with Cloudinary’s Responsive Images Breakpoints Generator

The Best Watercolor Brushes You’d Download

Advertisement The watercolor brushes give you a chance to make a connection between traditional art and digital art. Designing with watercolor effects in one of the most popular concepts in recent years, and has ensured a place both in web design and out-of-the-box photo editing. Some people argue that replicating watercolor effects in the digital… Continue reading The Best Watercolor Brushes You’d Download

Free Stock Photos – Where To Get Them From

Advertisement One thing that has always been a very integral part of web design is photography. One of the most unfortunate things about this, however, is that we’ve come across nothing but mediocre stock photos of men in suits shaking hands. In addition to not only being extremely tacky, these kinds of photos can also… Continue reading Free Stock Photos – Where To Get Them From

Every Designer Should Know The Importance Of Prototyping

Advertisement The importance of prototyping should be obvious to anyone involved in designing website or mobile apps. A prototype allows a designer or developer to create a form out of a concept, so that everyone who is involved in the process can give their feedback and make necessary adjustments before a final version is produced.… Continue reading Every Designer Should Know The Importance Of Prototyping