• The Slow Implosion of WordPress: 2025 and the CMS That’s Losing Its Soul
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    WordPress in 2025 isn’t thriving — it’s rotting. Bloated, outdated, and hijacked by commercial greed, the world’s most popular CMS has become a cautionary tale of innovation gone stale. If you’re still building on WordPress, you’re...
  • The 7 Stages of Pushing Pixels: From Hope to Existential Dread
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    If you often just obsessively nudge pixels until your sanity starts to fray... This painfully relatable (and slightly unhinged) journey through the 7 stages of pushing pixels is for you! If you've ever cried over a 0.5px misalignment,...
  • AI Didn’t Kill Web Design —Templates Did It First
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    The web isn’t dying because of AI—it’s drowning in a sea of templates. Platforms like Squarespace, Wix, and Shopify have made building a site easier than ever—but at the cost of creativity, originality, and soul. If every website looks...
  • CLS Is the New Page Speed: Why Designers Need to Care More Than Developers
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    Designers, your gorgeous layout might be silently sabotaging your site—**if it shifts mid-scroll, it’s not elegant, it’s broken.** CLS isn’t just a dev metric—it’s the UX red flag your users feel *before* they bounce.
  • Stop Using Hero Images! They’re Killing Your UX
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    Hero images are the web’s prettiest dead weight—slow, vague, and visually overused. It’s time to stop decorating your homepage and start saying something that actually matters.
  • Dear Loading Spinner, We Need to Talk
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    Tired of watching the loading spinner do its little dance of despair? This brutally honest breakup letter to everyone’s least favorite UI element calls out the lies, the stalling, and the silent screams behind every infinite loop. If...
  • Reddit may soon ask: “Mind if I scan your eye?
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    Reddit is considering using Sam Altman’s **eyeball-scanning Orb** to verify users—yes, your actual iris, for internet points. If this goes through, proving you're human online might soon require biometric proof. Welcome to the internet’s...
  • Sustainable Web Design: Saving the Planet or Just a Marketing Gimmick?
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    Sustainable web design isn’t just a feel-good trend—it’s a necessity as bloated, inefficient sites contribute to massive energy waste. Cutting the fluff, optimizing performance, and rethinking design choices can create a web that’s not...
  • Web Design Will Become the Art of Profiling the User
    Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    The next evolution of web design isn’t about looks — it’s about knowing you better than you know yourself. Get ready for a future where websites don’t just personalize your experience — they profile your soul in real-time. Creepy?...
  • Exciting New Tools for Designers, June 2025
    Monday, June 16, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    Another month, another roundup packed with design tools that use artificial intelligence features to supercharge your workflows.
  • The Figma Fanboy: Designing with Passion, Judgment, and a Lot of Auto-Layouts
    Monday, June 9, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    The "I Only Use Figma" designer is convinced Figma can solve all of life’s problems, from wireframes to world peace. They’ll flex their Figma files like a secret society, leaving you wondering if they could design a better universe—if...
  • The Art of Duolingo Notifications: The Subtle Manipulation of Language Learners
    Friday, June 6, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    Duolingo's notifications are a masterclass in psychological manipulation, using FOMO and guilt to keep users engaged and reinforce habits. While effective for habit formation, they raise questions about whether they're perpetuating a...
  • Mastering Multimodal UX: Best Practices for Seamless User Interactions
    Wednesday, June 4, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    Multimodal interfaces offer exciting opportunities for creating seamless user experiences, but they require careful attention to context, consistency, and smooth transitions between input methods.
  • The Death of Web Design: Why Websites Will Soon Auto-Design Themselves
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    Websites are about to start designing themselves—literally. Powered by AI and real-time behavior data, they’ll adapt layouts, copy, and UX on the fly. What does that mean for web designers? Obsolescence… unless we evolve fast.
  • This Website Curates the Best Social Proof on the Internet
    Thursday, May 29, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    Your landing page doesn’t need more fluff—it needs receipts. **SocialProofExamples.com** is the ultimate swipe file of real, high-impact trust signals used by companies like Notion, Webflow, and Zapier. If your testimonials still sound...
  • AI Agents for Designers, Developers, and UX Strategists: What You Need to Know Now
    Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from Webdesigner Depot
    AI agents aren’t coming—they’re already quietly transforming how designers, developers, and UX pros work every day. From building layouts to debugging code and synthesizing user feedback, they’re the digital sidekicks doing the busywork...
  • Excellent 10+ Tools & Resources for Designers and Agencies in 2025
    Thursday, February 6, 2025 from Web Design Ledger
    While it may seem to be admirable, it could turn out to be extremely difficult to rely solely on your own creativity when building a website from scratch. In truth, the ability to build a great website usually depends on the tools you...
  • 10 Best WordPress Plugins to Try Out in 2025
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Web Design Ledger
    A feature-rich WordPress theme that offers “unlimited flexibility” may still not be able to handle certain demands you place upon it. You may have to accept the fact your need or needs will go unfulfilled, try to resolve the problem...
  • Top WordPress Themes to Elevate Your Website in 2025
    Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Web Design Ledger
    What you can incorporate in a website design can have a definite impact on its performance and by extension on your business. What you are actually able to incorporate into that same website design depends heavily on the WordPress theme...
  • Webdesigners Favorite Comfort Purchases
    Monday, July 8, 2024 from Web Design Ledger
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  • 10+ Excellent Web Design Tools & Resources to Use in 2024
    Thursday, February 15, 2024 from Web Design Ledger
    It’s a New Year, but one thing hasn’t changed. The number of web design resources and tools just keeps on increasing. That’s a good thing. But it does make it that much more difficult to find a theme, plugin, or resource you really have...
  • 5+ Best WordPress Plugins to Try Out [2024 edition]
    Thursday, January 18, 2024 from Web Design Ledger
    The WordPress directory has 50k+ free plugins that were developed so you can extend a WordPress website with functions and features far beyond your imagination. Additional thousands of WordPress plugins are available from various...
  • 10 Excellent WordPress Themes for 2024
    Thursday, January 4, 2024 from Web Design Ledger
    There is certainly no shortage of excellent WordPress themes you can select from to help you create an engaging and high performing website. Finding the best one for the job would most certainly be a challenge as there are literally...
  • Behind the Screens: Building Websites That Tell a Story
    Sunday, December 3, 2023 from » Web Design
    In the digital age, websites are more than just a collection of pages and links; they are a canvas for storytelling. A well-crafted website can tell a story that engages, informs, and inspires its visitors. This is especially true for...
  • Chase Advertisers Away from Snooping on You Online
    Friday, October 21, 2022 from InstantShift
    Say you have Googled several nearby pet stores. You found one, reviewed the products, and closed the browser. Soon enough, websites you visit feature ads for pet items like food and accessories. The same pet-focused goods follow you on...
  • UI/UX Ecommerce Website Tips That Will Take Your Stores to The Next Level
    Tuesday, October 4, 2022 from InstantShift
    Do you know what is one of the most irretrievable things in the eCommerce business? It is called “the First Impression”. So you better buckle up and make the most of it! The internet seems to be flooded with eCommerce websites, each...
  • You Have Seven Seconds to Sell Your Home
    Wednesday, August 17, 2022 from InstantShift
    The days when you put a sign on your front lawn with the hope of selling your house are long gone. Sure, you might still put out a sign and circulate fliers, but most of your traffic will come from online viewings at websites like Zillow...
  • The Top Trends in Web Design Today
    Wednesday, August 17, 2022 from » Web Design
    Are you looking for a way to increase your online presence? If so, you probably understand just how important it is to have a strong website. Most people use the internet when they are looking for something they need, so you need to have...
  • What is Linux VPS Hosting?
    Thursday, July 28, 2022 from InstantShift
    Linux VPS is a virtual private server that uses Linux as its operating system. On top of that, there is also a high degree of variability as to the choice of your Linux VPS OS, since the open-source nature of Linux allowed the developers...
  • Top 20 PHP and CSS Development Tools for Developers
    Monday, July 18, 2022 from InstantShift
    PHP is the most popular and fastest server-side scripting language for developing websites and web applications. For various reasons, many developers prefer PHP development tools to other server-side languages like Python and Ruby. PHP...
  • Benefits Of A Customized WordPress Theme
    Monday, January 24, 2022 from » Web Design
    When it comes to customizing your WordPress theme, the sky is the limit. There are endless possibilities when it comes to tweaking and adjusting your website’s appearance to make it truly unique. Not only will this give your site a...
  • 30 Best WordPress Themes of 2019
    Thursday, February 28, 2019 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    WordPress is a perfect example of how the web has evolved from static to interactive, a shift driven by our desire to share thoughts and a great opportunity to promote our goods. A truly good WordPress theme goes beyond simply looking...
  • Common WordPress Errors & How to Fix Them
    Thursday, February 28, 2019 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    WordPress is an amazingly stable platform thanks to the dedication and talent of the hundreds of professionals contributing to it, and the strict code standards they follow. Even so, the huge variety of themes, plugins and server...
  • 4 Web Development Trends That Will Take Your Website to the Next Level
    Monday, November 12, 2018 from » Web Design
    The Internet has changed significantly since its early days with every year introducing us to brand new trends. Needless to say, not all these new changes are equally good. Here are four of the top current trends in the field of web...
  • Key Ways to Help Your Online Store to Thrive
    Wednesday, November 7, 2018 from » Web Design
    Whether you have recently launched an online store, want to in the future or have been running one for a while, you need to understand the sector and what’s required to make an ecommerce venture work. While ecommerce has definitely been...
  • Build Your Custom Website Using Artificial Intelligence With Wix
    Thursday, June 22, 2017 from » Web Design
    If your business isn’t out there on the internet, you’re probably missing on a major part of your target audience. As much as 84% of individuals in the E.U. use the internet regularly. Making a website for your business, however, is a...
  • Themify Shoppe – The Ultimate WooCommerce WordPress Theme
    Wednesday, February 15, 2017 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    I’m excited to announce that Themify has released another awesome theme – Themify Shoppe. Designed by Liam McKay and coded by Themify team, Shoppe works hand-in-hand with WooCommerce, making it the ultimate multi-purposed...
  • Best Email Marketing Tips to Increase Engagement & Subscribers
    Thursday, February 9, 2017 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    Email is your post powerful marketing channel when used well. Your visitor’s inbox is a perfect opportunity for you to capture attention, communicate important updates and invite readers back to your site for increased visibility....
  • Four Elements of Truly Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menus
    Wednesday, February 1, 2017 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    There are hundreds of ways to create responsive navigation, limited only by your creativity and the boundaries of what CSS can accomplish. Good responsive navigation is a little harder – a responsive menu must become a mobile menu,...
  • Level Up Your CSS Skills With These 20 Pro CSS Tips
    Thursday, January 26, 2017 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    Front-end development is quickly becoming more and more focused on efficiency – faster loading and rendering through selector choice and minimizing code. Pre-processors like Less and SCSS go a long way in doing some of the work for...
  • Easy CSS Animation Using @keyframes
    Monday, January 23, 2017 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    CSS Transitions and transforms work beautifully for creating visual interactions based on single state changes. To have more control over what happens and when, you can use the CSS animation property to create easy CSS animation using...
  • Easy CSS Animation With Transition & Transforms
    Thursday, January 19, 2017 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    Recently, I walked you through how to create a simple landing page that used a couple different CSS animation techniques. “Animation” is a loose term, in web design usually referring to anything that involves movement. CSS...
  • Master CSS Flexbox in 5 Simple Steps
    Thursday, January 12, 2017 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    CSS flexbox is an incredibly useful tool for layout without using floats or positioning. Currently almost all current browser version support flexbox, making it a go-to standard for web design. It can solve a number of problems...
  • How to Create Spotify Colorizer Effects With CSS Blend Modes
    Tuesday, January 10, 2017 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    When Spotify launched their colorful new brand identity, featuring hip duo-toned imagery, it went hand-in-hand with a new Colorizer tool that allows artists to apply a variety of filters to images. This solved a problem in which Spotify...
  • Tutorial: Duo Layout With CSS3 Animations & Transitions (Pt. 2)
    Thursday, January 5, 2017 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    Last week I demonstrated how to build a split-screen website layout using CSS flexbox and viewport units that offers an alternative way to present a brand’s featured content. Clicking on one side or the other navigates further into...
  • 30 Truly Interactive Websites Built With CSS & JavaScript
    Tuesday, January 3, 2017 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    All websites are somewhat interactive…we click on links or scroll a page, but truly interactive websites take us on a user-driven adventure or draws us in through motion and sound while giving us the power of choice. Interaction...
  • Tutorial: Trendy Splitscreen Layout With CSS3 Animations (Pt. 1)
    Thursday, December 29, 2016 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    There is no better time than the end of the year for some fresh inspiration! One of the most popular trends this year, features splitscreen layouts, lots of white space, clean typography and subtle effects. With this playful trend in...
  • Design Trends in 2016 & What to Expect in 2017
    Tuesday, December 27, 2016 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    The year ahead should be a really exciting one for design, with the introduction of wider support for SVG and a host of new things we can do with CSS as CSS4 gains broader acceptance. In taking a look back at what made a big splash this...
  • CSS Vertical Centering – Everything You Need To Know
    Thursday, December 22, 2016 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    Getting content to center perfectly within an element and then ensuring it responds properly at different screen sizes is one of the biggest challenges that still face front-end designers. It is not that it is difficult, but because...
  • You Might Be Tempted to Use These CSS Tricks But Should You?
    Wednesday, December 14, 2016 from Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials
    The temptation to dive right into new and exciting CSS tricks is strong – you might even do it without knowing it through learning by example or implementing that hot new framework everyone is talking about. It is more important to...
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