Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.

So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons.

Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below as well as any related stories of your own…

3D dessert

Non converting visitors

Negative cubicle

 Can you relate to these situations? Please share your funny stories and comments below…

April will bring warmer weather (fingers crossed!) and plenty of great alumni events and volunteer opportunities like these: 

Admissions Receptions (various dates)

Are you a proud Retriever Believer? There are a variety of ways alumni can volunteer to give back to the UMBC community. One unique opportunity is to attend one of our many spring Admissions Receptions. These events are offered through Alumni Relations and the Admissions Office.

• Tuesday, April 1, 7 – 9 p.m., UMBC Reception for Academically Talented African-American Students
• Tuesday, April 15, 7 – 9 p.m., UMBC Reception for Academically Talented Hispanic and Latino Students
• Tuesday, April 22, 7 – 9 p.m., New Jersey Reception, The Olde Mill Inn, Basking Ridge, NJ
• Wednesday, April 23, 7 – 9 p.m., New York Reception, Eisenhower Park, Long Island, NY
• Thursday, April 24, 7 – 9 p.m., Pennsylvania Reception, The Mercer Museum, Doylestown, PA
• Wednesday, April 30, 7 – 9 p.m., Transfer Student Alliance (TSA) Reception, Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th floor, UMBC

Get more info and register to volunteer on our website.

Career Week 2014
April 7 – April 10

Career Week offers an opportunity for students to explore professional options through presentations, workshops and mentoring with alumni and employers and offers alumni an opportunity to volunteer, hire, learn and build personal contacts. Don’t miss a week of events including the annual spring career fair, and seminars such as dress for success, social media and personal branding, financial literacy, and interview skills. Click here to learn more and register.

Black and Latino Senior Reception
Wednesday, April 23, 7 – 9 p.m.

Join the UMBC Chapter of Black and Latino Alumni for a dessert reception celebrating the achievements of the Class of 2014. This event presents a great opportunity to connect with some of our newest alumni. RSVP today.

Wine Tasting & Silent Auction
Friday, April 25, 7 p.m

This is no average trip to the library. Get dressed to the nines and join fellow UMBC alumni and guests for an elegant party in the beautiful and historic George Peabody Library. Located in picturesque Mt. Vernon, the George Peabody Library will be a studied backdrop to an evening filled with jazz, excellent company, refined refreshments and fine wine. Your attendance and participation in the silent auction will benefit the Alumni Association Scholarship for current UMBC students. Psst… early-bird pricing ends today! Buy your tickets now.

Check out our full events calendar.

Name: Dominick DiMercurio

Internship, Co-op or Research Site: UMBC Review

Major(s)/Minor(s): Biological Sciences

Expected Graduation Year: May 2015

Briefly describe your internship, co-op, research, or service- learning opportunity, including your day-to-day tasks, responsibilities, and assignments.

My work with the UMBC Review involves a variety of tasks from contacting off-campus reviewers to editing student research papers. I meet with the other editors and our faculty advisor weekly in order to discuss the many tasks that we have ahead of us so that we can eventually publish the journal in time.

What have you enjoyed the most about your position or organization/company?

I have enjoyed meeting new people through this organization. I never knew how many people it took to create a student research journal. First, you have the hard-working student authors and their experienced faculty mentors. Then you have the Office of Undergraduate Education whose support makes the journal possible, in particular Janet McGlynn, her assistant Devon Fick, and Michael Mower, the website technician. On the editing team, our faculty advisor Dr. McDonough has been an invaluable guide to the other editors (Gagan Singh and Vanessa Rueda) and myself. Past editors like Morgan Madeira and future editor hirees also play a pivotal role in our success, as they provide their own perspectives. Meanwhile, the graphics design team has two student designers (Morgan Mantell and Daniel Grove) and Dr. Abrahams is their mentor. When you add in the anonymous contribution of the off-campus Reviewers, the financial contributions from the Vice Provost and up, and the countless contacts of professors who encourage their students to submit to the Review, you have a long, long list of names who are all linked to just one year's edition of the Review. I would like to thank each and every one of them for their superb support and excellent efforts.

What have you gained from your experience that you could not have gained from another opportunity?

I have gained an immense appreciation for the publishing process. First, a student author works diligently with their faculty mentor to create a worthy research paper. Those papers that we select then get sent to professional researchers in the field who critique it on a more technical level. We then spend countless hours working with the authors and the graphic designers to make appropriate edits, format figures, and perfect the overall journal. A year's worth of hard work on everyone's end goes to making it possible for students, faculty, and even President Hrabowski himself can hold in their hands a book that represents a showcase of the amazing research performed on our campus. It is both humbling and intimidating.

What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience?

Com. Mun. I. Ca. Tion. That cannot be stressed enough. Many simple mistakes could have been avoided if there were ample communication between all parties involved and if no one was left uncertain about how to proceed next. Ask many questions or else you will never have any answers. Don't be afraid to divulge your problems to your co-workers or else you will never know if they have possible solutions. Make sure there are as many channels of communication open as possible. Otherwise everyone might spend an overwhelming amount of time trying to reinvent the wheel when there was already an easier but unspoken solution all along.

How do you see your experience as meaningful? This might involve skills you’ve gained, information you’ve learned, mentors you’ve connected with, or projects you’ve completed.

I will one day be a professional researcher myself, and knowing the process that papers must go through to be published will certainly provide me an insight on how to create noteworthy research papers and how to help others avoid the problems that I have encountered during this internship. Beyond that, I have gained many important useful experiences, such as learning how to advertise effectively, working with various groups of people, and fostering connections to research professors on campus who I might have not otherwise met.

Please provide a short quote about what you liked most about your position / earning internship credit / the internship placement process.

Over the years, UMBC has offered me many research opportunities, both in the lab and behind the scenes, and for this I am very grateful.