Free Bundle for Designers

February 3rd, 2012
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Today is Friday, and what better way to celebrate than by presenting you with something new. ZeroBundle.com is a website that offers an awesome free bundle of goodies for designers. It is brought to you by WebDesignerDepot and MightyDeals.com. The bundle will be available for a… read more

23 Free Textures for your Delight

February 2nd, 2012
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Here at WDL, we take great pride in being able to find useful freebies and share them with our readers. It saves you time, and allows you to focus on creating, instead of hunting. Here you will find 23 free textures to add to your resource… read more

WDL Premium: Vintage Inspired Infographics

February 1st, 2012
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This week, for our WDL Premium members, we have a PSD file from WeGraphics that contains a collection of shape layers that can be edited and reused as various charts and information graphics. With this file you will be able to create stylish vintage looking infographics,… read more

Keeping Yourself Motivated Throughout the Workday

January 31st, 2012
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Centering your attention throughout the workday can be a difficult process. You need to truly love your work and cherish the time you spend. Unfortunately not all of us can feel this way 100% of the time.

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21 Inspiring Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design

January 30th, 2012
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We all know that color is a key aspect of web design, and here at WDL we like to show you how designers are using colors in their projects. We’ve already showcased lists showing colorful websites and sites using white, so today, to keep you inspired… read more

15 Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials

January 27th, 2012
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Icons are a very important element of web design and play a big role in a website. Designing the perfect icon is definitely a challenge and is always good to have resources and tips in this matter. Today we decided to gather a few Icon Design… read more

30 Amusing and Funny Photo Manipulations

January 26th, 2012
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Photo manipulations are quite popular among all generations of designers and digital artists. It is also a genre often used in the advertising industry because of the effect these manipulations have on people. This sort of artwork are usually shocking and unrealistic and they are demanding… read more

WDL Premium: Retro UI Set

January 25th, 2012
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This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have a set of retro UI elements from Vandelay Premier. The set includes a considerable number of unique elements that are sure to be useful for those who like the always trendy retro style.

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10 New Free Fonts for Your Designs

January 24th, 2012
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Finding the perfect font for a project is a real challenge, and that is why we like to provide our readers with as much fonts as we can. We know that having a lot of options to choose from is very helpful, so today we gathered… read more

21 Examples of Inspiring Typography in Web Design

January 23rd, 2012
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From print to packages to web design and pretty much all other media that you can think of, typography always plays a big role. Not only can good use of typography add to your design from a visual standpoint, it can also play an important role… read more

WDL Premium: Portrait Photoshop Actions from Union Actions

January 20th, 2012
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For our WDL Premium members, we’ve got an awesome bundle of Photoshop actions for professional quality photo enhancements. This collection is called Portrait Suite and it’s from Union Actions. This suite has a lot of actions to change the look of your portrait.

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Tips for Keeping Focused on Freelance Deadlines

January 19th, 2012
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It can be a bummer when you’re stuck in a freelancing rut. Anybody who has worked this field will understand the grief of struggling to finish project deadlines in time. Often the work quality will suffer along with the accompanied mental fatigue. Rushing to the finish… read more

Uber: A Responsive Portfolio and Business WordPress Theme

January 18th, 2012
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At Theme Trust, we’ve just released our first WordPress theme of 2012, and we’re quite proud of it. This one is called Uber, and it’s a responsive business and portfolio theme perfect for freelance designers, photographers, or design firms. The portfolio section in this theme, with… read more

21 Excellent Portfolios and Design Agency Websites

January 17th, 2012
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It has been a while since we last showcased Design Related Websites here, so today we decided to check out how is it that design firms, designers, and other creative agencies are presenting their work. From design studios to brand firms and freelance designer’s portfolios, you… read more

Inspiration from Package Design

January 13th, 2012
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As a package/label lover I really like to pay attention to everything surrounding package design, from textures to colors schemes, from materials to layout. I also believe that web designers can get a lot of inspiration from well designed packages. It’s incredible to see how many… read more

Usability Design for Online Web Forms

January 12th, 2012
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Designers aren’t just creating pleasing graphics for the Internet anymore. As a web designer you need to consider other properties of user interaction and coding. UX design is possibly the most important topic to cover, and this is especially true designing web forms. All webmasters should… read more

WDL Premium: Seamless Floral Patterns Vector Pack

January 11th, 2012
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Here’s a new set of vectors for our WDL Premium Members. This pack from Designious contains 6 high quality vector patterns with floral motifs that will give your nature related designs an organic and beautiful touch.

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8 Responsive jQuery Slider Plugins

January 10th, 2012
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Whether you’re already a pro at creating responsive web sites or your just learning what it’s all about, it’s good to have some scripts handy that you can easily integrate into your site. We all know how popular image and content sliders are now, and for… read more

20 Inspiring Minimalist Web Designs

January 9th, 2012
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Minimal websites can be a pretty polemic issue, especially when we stop to think how minimal should a minimal site be? Some people think that a good minimal website is that which has few design elements as possible. While others believe that the number of elements… read more

Inspiring Logos

January 6th, 2012
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Here at WDL we really like to provide our readers with lots of inspiration. Since we believe that logos are a great source of inspiration we decided to gather a list showcasing logos from one amazing source of inspiration: dribbble. From popular logos to fresh ones,… read more

10 Fresh Free Fonts

January 5th, 2012
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There are tons of remarkable free fonts out there, and helping you find them is something we really like to do. Since we know that having great fonts to count on is very important we decided to start the year presenting you a few fresh free… read more

WDL Premium: Fire Light UI Kit

January 4th, 2012
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For our WDL Premium members, here’s a UI kit containing dark elements with hot orange highlighted accents from WeGraphics. The file is a fully layered PSD for easy editing.

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Juggling Between Freelance Designer and Business Owner

January 3rd, 2012
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The world of digital design is full of both young and experienced talent. Freelancing has slowly become a more affordable career path for many web designers and developers. But it’s not enough to just create pretty websites in HTML/CSS. You also need to have some sense… read more

21 Examples of Subtle Textures and Patterns in Web Design

January 2nd, 2012
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First of all, we would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! To kick things off for 2012, we’ve gathered some amazing examples of subtle textures and patterns in web design. The web sites in this collection demonstrate that you don’t always have to over… read more

WDL Premium: Tattered Scrolls Vector Pack

December 30th, 2011
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Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. The Tattered Scrolls Vector Pack is a must have for fans of the original scrolls pack. These scrolls range from the lightly used to the downright demolished. The pack has all sort of vectors to spice… read more

20 Inspiring Examples of Colorful Web Designs

December 27th, 2011
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Last week we showed you examples of white usage in web design and today, for our last web design inspiration post of the year, we decided to show you some examples of colorful websites. We will show you how colors can give your design a nice… read more

Theme Trust Hiring More Support Staff

December 23rd, 2011
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Back in May, Theme Trust hired it’s first support team member, who has worked out perfectly. However, since that time we’ve ran into a little problem…our sales have nearly doubled. Okay, I suppose that isn’t really a problem, but it does mean a busier support forum…. read more

Inspiring Typography in Print Ads

December 22nd, 2011
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Here at WDL we love to show our readers inspiration from different media, especially inspiration involving typography. From package to web and print, we believe that typography can always be a great source of inspiration. Today we gathered a few examples of inspiring and creative typography… read more

WDL Premium: The 80s Vector Pack

December 21st, 2011
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Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. The 80s Vector Pack is a beautiful theme pack dedicated to one of the most innovative decades in recent history. The pack has all sort of vectors to spice up your designs.

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Optimizing your Website for Social User Experience

December 20th, 2011
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Social web 2.0 trends have taken over many of our modern static websites. Nowadays it’s difficult to find a company who isn’t on Facebook or Twitter or Foursquare, or any of the other increasingly popular social networks. It’s important to consider this experience and how you… read more

White Usage in Web Design

December 19th, 2011
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White is known to be the sum of all colors, the combination of all the colors of light. And in web design white is not only a color but a strategy, a way for designers to give a layout a minimal, classy or bright look. From… read more

WDL Premium: Minimal General Web Icons

December 16th, 2011
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This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have a set of minimal icons from Vandelay Premier. The icon set includes 33 general use icons with a minimalist design that will give your project a sleek visual, check it out!

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A Showcase of Minimal Workstations to Inspire You

December 14th, 2011
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The basic idea of minimalism that less is more can also be applied to your workstation, and the result is really inspiring. Clean, minimal and beautiful stations with exactly those things you need to work, nothing more, nothing less. The spaces are simple: desks, a nice… read more

Web Design Trends in 2012

December 13th, 2011
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It’s that time of year again, where we look into our crystal ball to see what will be the hot trends in web design for the upcoming year. It’s no secret that trends come and go, with some hanging around longer than they should. (Yes, splash… read more

21 Examples of Ribbons Web Design

December 12th, 2011
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Trends in web design come and go, with some hanging around longer than others. One trend that seems to be withstanding the tests of time is the use of ribbon style graphics or design elements. Web designers have been using ribbons for a few years now… read more

Best Free UI PSDs of 2011

December 9th, 2011
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So far in our Best of 2011 series, we’ve shown you our picks for the best free fonts and the best jQuery plugins. For this week, we’ve went back through all the UI PSDs that’s been released over the past year and picked our favorites. We… read more

WDL Premium: Pro Photoshop Action Suite from Union Actions

December 8th, 2011
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For our WDL Premium members, we’ve got an awesome bundle of Photoshop actions for professional quality photo enhancements. This collection is called Photo Designer and it’s from Union Actions. There’s over 30 actions in this suite, and they’ll give you the power to change the entire… read more

25 Inspiring Logos

December 7th, 2011
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Here at WDL we like to provide our readers with as much inspiration as we can. And from logos to print and web, we like to show you beautifully designed pieces to keep your juices flowing. Since logos are always a good source of inspiration, today… read more

HTML5 Essentials and Good Practices

December 6th, 2011
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HTML5, together with CSS3 and responsive design are the new buzz around web technologies these days. This article will help you get started using HTML5 on your projects today and show you some good practices to put what you learned to good use.

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21 Inspiring Blog Designs

December 5th, 2011
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It could be said that with all the themes available to design a blog it’s getting harder to find new and authentic blog designs. In one way this is good because more people have the opportunity to easily get a nice looking blog up and running…. read more

WDL Premium: Retro Web UI Collection

December 2nd, 2011
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For our WDL Premium members, here’s an awesome kit containing 40+ retro style common web UI elements from WeGraphics. In this kit you will find a lot of elements to give your design the old school look you always wanted.

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20+ Free Textures for your Delight

December 1st, 2011
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As you know, here at WDL we like to find freebies and share them with you. It saves you time, and you can focus on doing what’s important, like creating amazing designs. So for today, we’ve rounded up some really nice textures. Whether it’s used in… read more

Inky Deals Bundle Giveaway

November 30th, 2011
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Today we are happy to announce a giveaway from InkyDeals, a place where creative professionals can find some really nice deals. InkyDeals is offering our readers 5 bundles of their Inky Deals Bundle: the biggest graphic design bundle ever. And yes, the bundle is enormous, check… read more

Focus On: Design Trends in Mobile Apps for iOS

November 29th, 2011
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Apple’s mobile operating system has gained a huge following in just a few short years. Although it can take months of dedicated study to even begin programming iOS apps, there still seems to be a solid market of intelligent developers. In the last year alone we’ve… read more

21 Examples of Single Colored Backgrounds in Web Design

November 28th, 2011
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In web design, there’s a variety of approaches that can be taken when it comes to a web site’s background. For some designs, it might be appropriate to use a pattern or a large image. While on others, a single solid color makes more sense. So… read more

Best jQuery Plugins of 2011

November 23rd, 2011
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jQuery was first released in 2006. Nearly 5 years later, it’s still going strong – due largely in part to the community that’s been built up around it. This community of developers constantly releases plugins that allow web developers to easily add amazing functionality to their… read more

Perfect Beginner Tips for Branding your Startup

November 22nd, 2011
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During the process of launching a new company your logo and branding ideas are possibly the most important concepts. You have to consider not only the solid brand, but a whole slew of factors additional including website design and user interface, internal graphics, print work, marketing… read more

21 Examples of Circular Elements in Web Design

November 21st, 2011
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Designing a website is something that requires creativity, talent and a lot of thinking. To develop a nice website – both beautiful and with a good UI – we have to pay attention to elements like navigation, menus, content, header, icons and so on. And giving… read more

WDL Premium: Pure – A Super Clean and Minimal Blog Theme

November 18th, 2011
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Today, for our WDL Premium Members, we have a beautiful premium WordPress theme for your blog. The Pure theme from Theme Trust is a super clean and minimal design with great typography and a good amount of white space, perfect to give your blog an elegant… read more

Best Free Fonts of 2011

November 17th, 2011
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With only a month and a half left in 2011, it’s hard to believe another year is drawing to a close. If you’re a long time reader of WDL, you probably know that at the end of each year we publish a series of posts that… read more

Popular Networking Tools for Freelance Web Designers

November 15th, 2011
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Communications and networking are the sole properties we look for in web applications. The Internet has improved our communications tenfold and allowed us to share information at a much quicker pace. As such I tend to jump around through many different applications just to get a… read more

23 Inspiring Single Page Designs

November 14th, 2011
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A website should be designed to accommodate it’s content. So when there’s not a lot of content, it might be make sense to place everything on one page. If you’re thinking about taking this route for your next project, we’ve gathered a few examples to inspire… read more

WDL Premium: Hand-Drawn Design Elements

November 11th, 2011
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This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have a set of hand-drawn design elements from Vandelay Premier. The set includes 55 vectors and a set of 55 Photoshop brushes of various hand-drawn elements, and these elements are perfect to give your designs a nice touch!

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Black and White Logos for your Inspiration

November 10th, 2011
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Here at WDL we believe that logos are a really good inspiration source, specially when they are well designed. For this post, we’ve gathered a collection of great back and white logos. You’ll see that you don’t always need color to create an effect design. From… read more

Infinity: A Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme

November 9th, 2011
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I’m happy to announce the launch of our latest WordPress theme at Theme Trust. It’s called Infinity, and it’s a responsive portfolio theme with a minimal style design and layout. With this theme your work will be front and center and look great across multiple devices… read more

30 Free Professional and Useful UI PSD Files

November 8th, 2011
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Free PSD files have become really popular nowadays among web and graphic designers. You can find lots of websites which provide high quality PSD files available for free download. One of the newest trend in this field is user interface (UI) elements. These elements become really… read more

21 Examples of Illustration and Hand Drawn Elements in Web Design

November 7th, 2011
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There are a lot of ways to give a website some personality, depth and style, and certainly illustration and hand drawn elements are a good example. From small background elements to complete illustrated websites, from illustrated icons to hand drawn typography, today we will show you… read more

Beautiful and Inspiring Offices

November 4th, 2011
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Today we decided to show you a different kind of inspiration… we gathered a few beautiful offices images to show. These are not photos from Google, Facebook or other famous offices we all talk about, these are from other companies and smaller places that also care… read more

Responsive Web Design Templates and Frameworks

November 3rd, 2011
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Eventually, we’ll all stop talking about responsive web design – not because it will go away, but because it will become what’s expected. Flashback ten years ago and we were all talking about CSS and tableless design, but today there’s no need to mention it. It’s… read more

WDL Premium: Organic Web Interface Kit

November 1st, 2011
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This week, for our WDL Premium Members, we present an awesome kit containing 50+ web elements from WeGraphics. This is definitely a beautiful set of pixel-perfect web elements, ideal for adding that extra something to your web designs.

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21 Inspiring Examples of Typography in Web Design

October 31st, 2011
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Here at WDL we love to see beautiful typography and we never get tired of showcasing them to our readers. From Typography Wallpapers to Typography in Beverage Bottles and Typographic Logos, we are always trying to show you different type approaches. Today we gathered a few… read more

Top 4 Reasons Your Beautiful Website Doesn’t Convert

October 28th, 2011
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There can be many pitfalls on the way to getting traffic to that beautiful site you created. All the design and creativity in the world won’t bring visitors to your site. You have to know a few basic laws of optimizing a webpage for search before… read more

25 Gorgeous Typography Wallpapers

October 27th, 2011
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Inspiring desktop wallpapers can help you get into a creative and productive mood. In this collection we will focus on beautiful wallpapers based on typography. Nowadays typography plays one of the most important roles of effective and beautiful web and graphic design, but typography can also… read more

WDL Premium: Flock of Birds Vector Pack

October 26th, 2011
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Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. This flock of birds vector pack is from Go Media. The pack contains 14 various formations of birds flying together. Each and every bird in these flocks are 100% unique. Be creative and experiment with some… read more

20 Fresh Free Icon Sets

October 25th, 2011
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We believe that icons are a great asset and it’s always good to have several sources, especially because hight quality icons can do so much for a design. In this post we have 20 Fresh Free Icon Sets for you – all of them are free… read more

20 Inspiring Navigation Menus

October 24th, 2011
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Navigation is certainly a very important part of web design and an important aspect to think about while designing a page. Today we gathered a few examples of navigation menus to show you. From clean and simple typography based menus to colorful and fixed positioned ones,… read more

Inspiration from Packages & Bottles Design

October 21st, 2011
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I have to admit that I’m a package lover and that I also believe that packaging is an art, the art of designing a beautiful “protection” for a product. I really like to browse packages and pay attention to details like typography, color schemes, materials and… read more

8 Fresh Free Fonts for Your Designs

October 20th, 2011
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Here at WDL we love to hunt down nice freebies for our readers… and one of our favorites freebies to find are fonts. Since we know that a fresh font is always a great asset to any designer, here are a few new fonts to spice… read more

WDL Premium: Business Icon Set

October 19th, 2011
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Today for our premium members, we have a set of Business Icons from Web Icon Set. These are perfect icons for e-commerce websites & blogs and they will help with making your website look more attractive. Check it out.

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Teaching Yourself Web Design While You Freelance

October 18th, 2011
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There is plenty of opportunity to make a decent living online. The field of web design is extremely popular in the current information age. Everybody needs to have a website up and you can always find a few solid business clients. But what about building upon… read more

24 Examples of Texture Usage in Web Design

October 17th, 2011
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Using texture is a good way to add depth, detail, and a layer of interest to a web design. Whether it’s in big doses or just a few subtle patches here and there, texture can help give personality to your website. So for this post we’ve… read more

WDL Premium: Edges Vector Pack

October 14th, 2011
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Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. This edges vector pack is from Go Media. The pack has a super versatile variety of various edge pieces including shredded notebook paper, spiral binding, and other miscellaneous rough edges. Perfect to give a nice touch… read more

21 Beautifully Designed Ads for your Inspiration

October 13th, 2011
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Here at WDL we understand that inspiration can be found in all medias, including print, tv and online ads. A great website to browse to keep the juices flowing when you need inspiration in that area is Ads of the World. For this post I gathered… read more

Clean: A Responsive and Minimal WordPress Theme

October 12th, 2011
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Last month we released our first responsive WordPress theme at Theme Trust, and it was well received. Since viewing of the web is no longer limited to only desktops and laptops, it’s clear that responsive design will soon be the norm. That’s why we’ve decided to… read more

10 New Twitter Tools That Will Get You Tweeting

October 11th, 2011
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Whether you’re new to Twitter or an experienced user, Twitter tools make everything easier. Here are some of my favorite new tools to make Tweeting easier and more useful for any user. Try one or two that looks useful and leave a comment in the box… read more

Steve Jobs, Always Inspiring

October 10th, 2011
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Last Wednesday October 05, 2011, we lost an icon, one of the biggest geniuses of our times, Steve Jobs. Jobs was not only an icon, he was an idol, an eternal source of inspiration, a master. From Apple fan boys and girls to those who insisted… read more

WDL Premium: deFacto – News Magazine WordPress Theme

October 7th, 2011
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Today for our premium members, we’ve got a new premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift. deFacto is a powerful news magazine WordPress theme. Through custom widgets, page templates and post layout options you can easily tailor the theme to your special needs with no coding skills.

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20 Beautiful Logos for your Inspiration

October 6th, 2011
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Here at WDL we really believe that logos are a great source of inspiration. We already showcased typographic logos, negative space logos and minimalistic logos. To keep going with our logo collection, today we decided to gather a few new logo examples to inspire you. From… read more

10 Online HTML5 Tools For Web Designers

October 4th, 2011
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If you haven’t heard, HTML5 is taking the web by storm! It is currently being enhanced by experts to provide us Web Designers & Developers with awesome new revolutionary web page features!

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25 Examples of Dark Websites

October 3rd, 2011
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Last week we showcased examples of color usage in web design, and this week we will keep the focus on color, but this time around we will showcase examples of dark colors usage in web design. The right amount of dark color can create an elegant… read more

30 Colorful Autumn Wallpapers

September 30th, 2011
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A clean workspace and an inspiring wallpaper can help push you into a positive and productive mood. Summer holidays have flown away and now is the time to focus on work. To find motivation to work we present you 30 inspiring autumn season wallpapers with variety… read more

A Showcase of Landing Pages Designed for Conversion

September 29th, 2011
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The best landing pages are the ones that have been built with one specific goal in mind. Whether it’s to encourage users to sign up, encourage purchases or convince people to buy a product, the landing page can make or break a sale.

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WDL Premium: Flourishes Vector Pack

September 28th, 2011
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Here’s a new set of vectors for our WDL Premium Members. This pack from Designious contains several amazing vector flourishes that will give a nice touch to your designs.

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How to Create a Responsive Portfolio Site with WordPress and Semantic.gs

September 27th, 2011
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I doubt that I need to explain to WDL readers what responsive design is, or why it’s important. Suffice it to say that it is a big part of the future of our industry. Fortunately, making responsive layouts is easier than it was when when we… read more

27 Examples of Color Usage in Web Design

September 26th, 2011
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Here on WDL, we’ve discussed how colors can be used to invoke various emotions. For example, the color red symbolizes excitement and energy, while the more tranquil color blue represents calmness and stability. Here we’ve gathered a collection of web designs that make good use of… read more

Inspiration: Minimalist Posters

September 23rd, 2011
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Our minimalism tag is filled with eye candy images to help you get inspired remembering that old and wise premise “less is more.” To add content to our tag and to keep showing you good examples of minimal designs that work we decided to show some… read more

Negative Space in Logo Design

September 22nd, 2011
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Here on WDL we really like to keep our readers updated on everything we believe can be a good source of inspiration, including logos. The result of negative space in logo design is an elegant visual effect. Reach a good result and communicate the right message… read more

WDL Premium: Victorian Ornaments

September 21st, 2011
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Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. This victorian ornaments pack is from Go Media. These vectors combine fluid foliage ornaments with the lightest of distressing to convey age, elegance, wisdom, they will definitely give a nice touch to your design.

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10 jQuery Plugins to Enhance your User Interfaces

September 20th, 2011
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With a recently estimated over 20 million websites currently using jQuery it is essential to know what jQuery plugins there are out there in order to stay with the web design trend. Today, we’ll put some focus on some popular jQuery user interface plugins to help… read more

23 Examples of Screenshots in Web Design

September 19th, 2011
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Whether you’re developing apps or websites, it’s a good idea to show potential customers what their getting in the form of screenshots. And if your product is good looking enough, you might just want to put them front and center, making them the focal point of… read more

Inspiring Typography and Color Schemes from Beverage Bottles

September 16th, 2011
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Here at WDL we believe that typography is always a great source of inspiration… and we never get tired of finding good examples to show our readers. Today we gathered a few breathtaking beverage bottles to show you that a good combination of typography and colors… read more

10 New Free Fonts for Your Inspiration

September 15th, 2011
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Typography definitely plays a big role in any design, and here at WDL we really like to keep our readers updated with free and inspiring fonts, so we decided to gather a new list of free fonts for your delight. Check them out and remember to… read more

WDL Premium: Portfolio Icon Set

September 14th, 2011
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This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have a set of portfolio icons from Vandelay Premier. The icon set designed by Umar Irshad includes 15 icons intended to be useful for portfolio websites and design blogs. There are 15 PNG icons at 32 px by… read more

Practicing Perfectionism as a Web and Graphic Designer

September 13th, 2011
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The idea of artistic perfectionism lies in a duality. Most web designers try to perfect their work with creative updates and patches. Not only to code, but also in Photoshop mockups and Illustrator vectors as well. There is a limit to this perfectionism mindset where you… read more

24 Excellent Examples of Responsive Web Design

September 12th, 2011
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With the ever increasing popularity and wide spread use of mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad, it’s difficult to ignore the fact that websites are being viewed across various screen sizes. And it looks like the days of designing a site for one minimum resolution… read more

The Science Behind A/B Testing

September 9th, 2011
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If you own a business, there’s always concern that your marketing efforts aren’t reaching their full potential. Of course, great design will sell but having strategies and formulas in place to make sure your hard work is paying off it well worth the time. One of… read more

8 Tools and Scripts for Responsive Web Design

September 8th, 2011
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At Theme Trust, we recently launched our first responsive WordPress theme. Since it was also my first time building a responsive website, I had to do some learning and research. Along the way, I discovered some interesting techniques, useful resources, and handy tools to help with… read more

WDL Premium: Dark Modern Web Elements Kit

September 7th, 2011
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This week, for our WDL Premium Members, we present an awesome kit containing 60+ dark modern web elements from WeGraphics. Bring your designs to another dimension with this stunning, modern interface kit.

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Avoiding Distractions and Procrastination

September 6th, 2011
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We have all been there. Staring down the nasty to-do list and mentally checking through each of your tasks. Procrastination can be a deadly practice for those working on the Internet. It is so easy to put off work until tomorrow while focusing on more pleasurable… read more

25 Examples of Big Typography in Web Design

September 5th, 2011
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Here at WDL we love typography and we are constantly showing our readers good typo usage, from print to logos, from web to random typographic works, we really feel the need to keep the juices flowing in that area, and we could not forget to mention… read more