Hyperlinks, or simply links, are what connect pages together to form websites, and ultimately websites together to form the web. Without them we simply wouldn’t be able to navigate from page to page, website to website. You most likely followed a link to this article; it’s one of those things you don’t even think about…
Content management systems, open source v bespoke
We’re agnostic when it comes to choosing between open source and bespoke content management systems; both have their strengths and weaknesses. Over the past couple of years we’ve favoured the open source CMS (Content Management System) route, and have persuaded a number of customers’ using ageing bespoke system to make the switch to use an…
Why is my website a certain width?
At least once during a website build I usually get asked the question ‘Why is my website a certain width?”. It’s a fair question, and to be honest there are a few reasons why I usually like to set a maximum width to web pages. Screen sizes. Desktops, laptops, ipads, tablets, netbooks, phones, each available…
A Brief History of the Golden Ratio
What is the Golden Ratio? The Golden Ratio is a ratio which describes a rectangle, whereby the rectangle’s length is approximately one and a half times its width. In both the arts and mathematics, two quantities are said to be in a golden ratio when their ratio is the same as the ratio of the…
Marketing Driven Web Design
So what do we mean by Marketing Driven? Many websites fail to deliver on their owners’ expectations simply because they’ve been designed without considering their business objectives, their markets and their customers’ needs. By assessing the competition your website faces, the search patterns of your customers and the market your business operates in we design…
Basic Website Usability Guide
Website usability – basic guidelines. It might sound like common sense really; I mean every website needs to be usable right? But there are still a lot of websites that fail basic usability guidelines by missing some simple obvious points. So read on for some simple tips to ensure your website is as usable as…
Responsive wordpress website design
We’re choosing to use WordPress for more and more clients websites these days. The good thing is that we can rely on wordpress to handle all the dull routine which leaves us more time to concentrate on the presentation and usability of our websites. This keeps development costs as low as possible which enables us…
A guide to the meanings of colours used in web design
Is colour important? Colour runs through every aspect of our daily lives. The brightly coloured breakfast cereal packaging designed to help wake us up, the traffic lights that tell us when we’re safe and when we’re in danger. The brown and green packaging around our takeaway cup of coffee confirms we care about the environment.…
Website re-design
A re-design could be anything from a simple facelift to freshen up a site through to the development of a completely new one. So before embarking on a website re-design it’s important to have a good plan in place and to ask a few questions about your current website. What’s effective in the current website…