There is a thin line between design and development, and as we move into a new decade, this line is becoming extremely blurry. Is it enough to draw beautiful mock ups in Photoshop? Maybe 5 years ago. These days, the average internet user requires more. All beauty, with no substance, gets boring after a while. If your only goal is to impress a community of fellow designers with your flashy designs,

Freebies Best Free Textures and Patterns of 2010 Henry JonesDecember 9, 20108 Comments05.7k It’s no secret that we love textures and patterns here at WDL. They’re great for easily adding lots of interest and depth to a design, whether it be a huge background pattern or just some subtle textures here and there. So to continue our “Best of 2010” series, this week we’re covering textures and patterns

For our “Best of 2010” series we’ve already shown your our picks for best free WordPress themes and free fonts. So for this week the focus in on jQuery. This javascript framework continued to grow in popularity during 2010, which meant an abundance of plugins being released. This made it difficult to choose our favorites. We made a conscious effort to choose from a variety of types, and ones that

Resources 10 Useful jQuery Plugins and Techniques Henry JonesNovember 12, 201010 Comments08.7k jQuery is great for enhancing a website. Whether it be by adding effects that give the site a wow factor, or by making navigation easier, jQuery can have a big impact on the way a website is perceived and used. jQuery is extremely popular among web designers and developers for it’s flexibility, ease-of-u

Tutorials 10 Fresh jQuery Plugins and Tutorials Henry JonesOctober 22, 201013 Comments05.3k The popularity of jQuery continues to grow. This means that we’re seeing it used on more websites these days, and there are more developers coming up with new ways to use it. The great thing about that is many of these developers are sharing what they learn though tutorials and plugins. We’re always on the

What is the font used for the title of Friends? How about the typeface of that old copy of Moby Dick you picked up at that garage sale? The back of your Starbucks pastry bag? And please tell me, how can you find the font on a worn out birthday card that your client wants you to replicate? Graphic designers are consistently asked to use a client’s nameless favorite font. Thanks to the typeface rena

Resources 10 Excellent WordPress Themes for Portfolios and Galleries Henry JonesOctober 14, 201016 Comments06.4k Themes can extend WordPress into much more than just a blogging platform, and it’s common for theme developers to create themes with a focus on specific niches. For example, a few weeks ago we posted a collection of business WordPress themes that were aimed at giving business owners an

Tips Simple Flow: Minimalism in Web Design Jake RocheleauOctober 5, 201028 Comments04.3k There are so many techniques when it comes to web design, it’s hard to get a full grasp on all of them. Minimalism is one of the few which stand out from the crowd in a seemingly ubiquitous flow. The trend follows the concept of keeping things simple and easy to work with. Removing clutter from pages helps use

19 Comments Thanks for the photoshop actions I like the first one Regards Great post, exactly what I needed to kick start my day. I’ve never really used the Photoshop Action feature as I’ve always done it manually (God knows why). It seems like a great collection of actions to use if you are wanting to give a the same effect to images you are batch editing. I followed a couple of the links you sup

Tutorials 11 Useful jQuery Tab Navigation Solutions Henry JonesSeptember 29, 201024 Comments07.4k Sometimes using tabs just makes a lot of sense. For instance, if you have a limited amount of screen real estate, tabs can allow you to save room by giving the user a way to toggle between several items in a small space. And to take your tabs a step further, you can throw jQuery into the mix for some

Resources 10 Professional WordPress Themes for Business Websites Henry JonesSeptember 22, 201026 Comments07.9k Custom website designs aren’t right for every business, especially those that are on a tight budget or trying to stay as lean as possible. Many of these businesses turn to WordPress. It’s an excellent CMS solution, and there is a large selection of affordable themes available designed spe

Tutorials 19 Unique jQuery Tutorials for Web Developers Jake RocheleauSeptember 10, 201013 Comments05.4k jQuery is the premier library for coding JavaScript page effects. Most popular content management packages run jQuery for both admin and frontend design effects. As a web developer jQuery can be a fun library to spend some time learning and offers tremendous design potential. It seems there are

16 Comments Planer font is not “free” on the 3 links on the presentation page ? Cool, ALT retro is awesome =0 Am I missing something here? I was expecting free fonts, but alas, no such thing here. Planer isn’t free. Other than that nice collection. For those thinking Planar is not free, click on the second link. Then download Planar priced at $0. I like ayita type font, very sweet. Very nice Colle

CSS3 continues to gain popularity as we’re seeing it used in more and more websites. However, there are still those out there that are holding out on learning it and using it. This is probably due to the fact that it’s not fully supported yet in all browsers. Nevertheless, if you’re one of those that haven’t started using CSS3 or you’re a CSS3 pro just looking to speed up your work flow, here are

25 Comments Thanks for the fonts. Font ‘Age’ is great Hey, great list of fonts as usual. Thank you! Especially Amperisk is very interesting. Greets Andreas Thanks, Andreas, I’m glad you found our font interesting. Thanks for this post. Unfortunatly the fond 01.Base is not available: I get a 404 error when trying to download… Nice collection, QUB is really nice… Great post on some new fonts. Thanks

20 Comments Blue Bubble and Foliogrid are nice theme. Thanks for share… It’s a small list but looks nice, clean theme maybe suitable for the magazine website than a personal web blog Really like the clean look, very appealing. I love the minimal look. I personally use the Clean Home design for my blog but I have made a few changes by adding style switching so users can change from red on white to

21 Comments Excellent Work. you cover all the useful google products. This will be useful for all the google users. Nice compilation, but the last “Google Search Advanced Operators Reference” goes to google reader shortcuts. Might want to fix it. Google Search Advanced Operator Reference should link to: http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html or http://www.googleguide.com/prin

Resources 10 jQuery Plugins and Techniques for Doing More with Images Henry JonesJune 17, 20109 Comments05.2k When we see an image on a web page, it’s second nature for us to move our mouse over it or try to click it. We have come to expect some level of interactivity when it comes to images, especially with modern web design technologies, such as jQuery. If you happen to be working on a project t