Ben Moss
Ben Moss is Senior Editor at WebdesignerDepot. He’s designed and coded work for award-winning startups, and global names including IBM, UBS, and the FBI. One of these days he’ll run a sub-4hr marathon. Say hi on Twitter.
Poll: Is AMP Dead, and Do We Care?
It’s fair to say that AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a controversial topic among web developers.
AMP is a Google-gui…
By Ben Moss
3 Ways to Design More Inclusively
Inclusive design is often mistaken for accessibility, or even used as an interchangeable term, which is a good indicati…
By Ben Moss
Poll: Fast CDN, Cheap CDN, Good CDN, Pick Any One…
This week, a significant portion of the Web fell over when on Tuesday, sites powered by Fastly were impacted by a massi…
By Ben Moss
Poll: Is Basecamp Right To Shutdown Politics At Work?
This week, in a move like something from a particularly eventful episode of The Office, popular project management app …
By Ben Moss
3 Effective Ways To Improve Your Site’s Carbon Footprint
To mark Earth Day 2021, we’re looking at the ways you can reduce your site’s carbon footprint, while boosting performan…
By Ben Moss
Wix vs WordPress: 3rd Round Knockout
Over the last fortnight one site builder has gone toe-to-toe with another, as Wix launched a marketing campaign aimed a…
By Ben Moss
Poll: Is Environmentally Conscious Web Design Really Worth It?
We’re no longer arguing about whether climate change exists because climate change is now extensively documented. Inste…
By Ben Moss
Poll: Should You Fire Good Clients?
We all get excited about new projects; we're daydreaming about possibilities from the first contact with a potential cl…
By Ben Moss
7 Skills You Need To Thrive As A Web Designer In 2021
Web design is an ever-evolving field. Those of us that have been in the industry a long time (i.e., six months plus) ha…
By Ben Moss
Key and Surface Tracking Comes to Chrome
This week Google announced further details of its plan to remove cookies from ad tracking. The strategy, which the ad g…
By Ben Moss
ITF Launches Free Font Service Fontshare
ITF (the Indian Type Foundry) has launched a brand new font service to bring beautiful typography to every business for…
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Ranked: Top 10 Illustration Apps in 2021
Illustration is a big trend in 2021. Every designer should have some ability to illustrate, whether that’s producing ic…
By Ben Moss
15 Psychology Principles Every Designer Should Know
As a web designer, you’re not really in the business of building websites that your clients will love. I know that may …
By Ben Moss
Ghost 4.0 Released
We’ve been big fans of Ghost since it first launched via a Kickstarter campaign way back in 2013. Ghost 4.0 has just be…
By Ben Moss
Comics for Designers #440
Every month we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging a…
By Ben Moss
Poll: Is It Time to Merge Browser Engines Into a Browser Protocol?
We tend not to think about it, but the Internet has a physical dimension. It’s a complex network of wires, cables, serv…
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8 Domain Name Myths Every Web Designer Should Know
A domain name is an essential element of every project, product, and company. It’s central to a brand and has a disprop…
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27 Exciting New Tools For Designers, March 2021
Looking for something new to get you excited about design work? This list is packed with all kinds of goodies to help y…
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