WDL Premium: Origami Icon Set from Icon Dock

Today we’re giving our WDL Premium Members an awesome set of icons from Icon Dock. The Origami Icon Set consists of 204 colorful and playful icons. You can use them as web icons or put them together to create sticker-looking art.

For more great icons be sure to check out Icon Dock. It’s an icon shop by N.Design Studio where you can buy stock icons at affordable price and download free icons. You can buy vector icons individually (as low as $1 each) or a complete set. Shopping experience is fun at IconDock. The shop is powered with Ajax features, you can easily add or remove items by a single click or drag & drop. (more…)

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11 Excellent Solutions for Making Your Website Mobile Friendly

It seems that almost everybody has a cell phone these days, and with the growing adoption of smart phones, more and more people are browsing the internet on their mobile device. Even though some phones, like the iPhone, have browsers that make viewing regular webpages suitable, a mobile version of your website can mean several benefits, like faster load times, and ensuring your content can be viewed on a wider range of phones.

Creating a mobile version of WDL has been on my to-do list for a while now, but yet there is still no mobile version of this site. Sensing that I’ve been putting it off for far too long, I’ve started to do research on the best mobile solution for Web Design Ledger. I’ve found that there are a number of solutions out there that make it easy to go mobile with your website, but here are eleven of the best. (more…)

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UPrinting Giveaway: Poster Prints

A few months ago UPrinting teamed up with us to give you a chance to win free poster prints. It was such a hit, we are doing it again, but this time we’re giving 10 people a chance to win 18×24 poster prints. Winners will be able to choose from either semi gloss or high gloss. (more…)

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10 Useful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

The iPhone has revolutionized the mobile device, and the App Store has taken it even further. There are literally apps for just about everything. While some of them are for having fun or passing the time, there are many apps that can help us perform serious tasks. There are even apps to help us web designers and developers do our jobs from anywhere. Having the ability to mange a database or update your blog all from your phone can come in handy. Here are 10 super useful iPhone applications to help web designers and developers perform tasks like these. (more…)

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WDL Premium: Superheroes Vector Pack

Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members from the talented people at Go Media. Superheroes is the skilled handiwork of master illustrator William Beachy & includes 10 easily customizable superhero templates in dynamic, foreshortened poses, plus 24 speech bubbles. Add your own costumes or use them just the way they are! (more…)

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30 Magical Examples of Natural Light Photography

There are many elements of great photography. One of the most important is lighting. Whether you’re using artificial lighting or natural lighting, you must have a good understanding of each. With natural lighting, a lot of it comes down to timing and angles. But when a photographer has a good understanding of natural light, the results can be amazing. Here are 30 examples of natural light photography. Notice how the lighting becomes much more than just a way to light the subject. In many of these the light takes on volume and becomes the focal point. (more…)

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10 Time Saving Google Chrome Extensions

Google Chrome is quickly becoming a popular browser due to its speed and now its growing collection of extensions. Extensions are a great way to add functionality that doesn’t come packaged with the browser.

There are extensions for just about everything, but in this post we’re focusing on helping you save time in your everyday tasks. Web workers have to do a lot of little things throughout the day that seem to add up and take up a lot of time. So here are 10 Time Saving Google Chrome Extensions that can hopefully help you streamline your daily work flow. (more…)

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13 Excellent Tools and Systems for CSS Grid Based Layouts

A good grid can be a strong foundation for any design. Using grids got its start in print design, but has made it’s way over to the web. There are several advantages to using grids in web design, but primarily they help achieve structure and consistency in layouts. If you have yet to start using grids in your web design projects, but want to get started…we’re here to help. In this post, we’ve rounded up 13 excellent tools and systems for CSS grid based layouts. (more…)

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WDL Premium: High-Quality Vector Brush Strokes

Today we’re releasing a set of high-quality vector brush strokes for our WDL Premium Members from Designious. Brush strokes are a great way to add depth and texture to a design, and give it a natural feel. The fact that these strokes are vector makes them ideal for both web and print design. This huge vector pack includes 43 unique brush strokes. (more…)

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26 Free Progressive and Experimental Fonts

Design is constantly changing and moving forward. However, typography is one aspect of design that seems to resist progression. When it comes to typography, there are standards and traditions that have been around for many years. These rules are there for a reason – to make sure that letters and words are legible. But to move forward, sometimes rules have to be broken. So for this post we’ve rounded up 26 free progressive and experimental fonts. These fonts might be pushing the limits of traditional type design, but the results are stunning. (more…)

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