Web
How OWASP Helps You Secure Your Full-Stack Web Applications — Smashing Magazine
The OWASP vulnerabilities list is the perfect starting point for web developers looking to strengthen their security expertise. Let’s discover how these vulnerabilities materialize in full-stack web applications and how to prevent them. Security can be an intimidating topic for web developers. The vocabulary is rich and full of acronyms. Trends evolve quickly as hackers…
Design Handoff Pitfalls: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them | Web Designer Depot
When it comes to web design, the handoff process is where the magic (or more often, the chaos) happens. For many advanced designers, this phase — where you move from the creative and technical development phase into the hands of developers — is one that can be fraught with stress, misunderstandings, and, let’s face it,…
Mapping India: How Google Designed a User-Centric Navigation Experience | Web Designer Depot
Building Google Maps for India wasn’t just about technology—it was about truly understanding how people navigate a country as complex and diverse as this. Unlike cities with orderly grids, India’s roads are often winding, unmarked, or informal. And the way people think about directions? It’s as human as it gets: “Take a left at the…
How Everything We Know About SEO Is Full of Lies | Web Designer Depot
From its early days as a relatively straightforward set of practices to the current labyrinthine ecosystem of algorithms, penalties, and competing theories, SEO has become a science—and an art—that often feels more like a game of cat-and-mouse with Google. But here’s the bitter truth: much of what you think you know about SEO is either…
Google’s Willow and the Quantum Menace: A Design Perspective | Web Designer Depot
When Google announced its new quantum computing marvel, the Willow chip, the tech world buzzed with excitement. Capable of solving problems in seconds that would take classical supercomputers millennia, Willow promises to revolutionize fields from healthcare to logistics. But for those in design and technology, Willow raises profound questions about security, ethics, and the future…
Liquid Web VPS Hosting Review: Very Fast
Most hosting services offer two or three types of plan: shared hosting (few or no dedicated resources), Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting where you have dedicated CPU and RAM resources and dedicated hosting where you pay a lot for your own physical box. Founded in 1997, Liquid Web is taking a slightly different approach, with…
10 Free Resources for Web Designers, January 2025 | Web Designer Depot
Everyone loves to work smarter. This list of free resources for web designers will help you find tools, themes, fonts, and other resources that can make design and development faster and more efficient. Starting this month, we’ll post a monthly collection of these tools to help you design better. Enjoy! 1. Portfolio X – Free…
How ProductHunt.com Became Overrun with AI Products | Web Designer Depot
If you’ve ever been a fan of Product Hunt, you probably remember the excitement of finding something genuinely cool—a new app, a fresh productivity tool, or a clever gadget that made you think, Wow, I didn’t know I needed this! For years, it was the go-to place to discover the latest in tech and innovation….
Evolving Usability: Advanced Heuristics for Pro-Level Interfaces | Web Designer Depot
In the world of User Experience (UX) design, Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design have long been the cornerstone for crafting intuitive, user-friendly digital interfaces. These principles—spanning visibility of system status, match between the system and the real world, user control, and error prevention—are as foundational to UX as grammar is to…
40 Best New Websites, 2024 | Web Designer Depot
As regular readers will know, each month we roundup the best new designs of the previous 4 weeks. And now, at the end of the year, we’ve selected our 40 favourites from the monthly collections. All the sites chosen stand out in some way, whether that’s through the approach to a design problem, embracing a…