Website Design using JQuery UI
Michael Angrave showcase's the excellent JQuery User Interface and how the theme-able platform can improve user experience within your own website design projects. Continue reading →
View ArticleTips for spellchecking your website pages
This week James goes solo with a quick and easy way to check the spelling of your website content and Meta tags. Continue reading →
View ArticleW3C MobileOK for Website Design
Ensuring your website design is capable of performing well on mobile devices, is an integral part of future proofing your efforts on the web. Here are a few resources for testing your site across a...
View ArticleTesting Web Designs with Adobe BrowserLab
In this week's web design video blog, Nick and James explore Adobe's new Browserlab service. Browserlab allows web designers and developers to easily test how their website renders on all the major...
View ArticleWebsite Design Flash Alternatives
If like many of us, you've spent any time recently, considering the possibilities of life without Flash, then Michael Angrave will point you in the direction of some very simple yet effective JQuery...
View ArticleXSL Stylesheet for a XML Sitemap
Today Luci shows how to quickly add an XSL stylesheet to your XML sitemap, to make them easier to read for humans whilst still being great for Google Continue reading →
View Article5 simple tips for optimising your website’s logo
One of the constant but often overlooked elements on a website's design is the logo. Nick and I share 5 tips that contribute to the usability and optimisation of your website's logo. Continue reading →
View ArticleWeb Design in HD? Will Retina Screens change the way we design?
In this week's web design video blog we give our opinion on the trending topic of HD Web Design in light of Apple's Retina Display debuting on the new Macbook Pro. Continue reading →
View ArticleWeb Design: Why your website isn’t converting
In this weeks video blog, Gav and Rob bring up a few things that we know drive bounce rates up and conversion rates down. Continue reading →
View ArticleDisable Billing Agreements and Recurring Profiles in Magento
Today, Claire shows us how to remove Billing Agreements and Recurring Profiles areas in Magento Continue reading →
View ArticleResponsive web design – SEO & usability considerations
In this week's web design video blog we consider SEO factors and usability when creating responsive websites. Continue reading →
View Article5 Ecommerce Web Design Mistakes That Annoy Your Users
Lack of Detailed Product Information and Imagery When shopping online we’re unable to see an item in its true form. We can’t hold it and feel the item in our hands and appreciate the material or the...
View ArticleWireframing in Web Design
A Blueprint for a Successful Website A wireframe is a blueprint showing a low fidelity design made up of simple lines, boxes and text. They are used to focus on the function, layout and hierarchy of...
View Article4 Page/Site Speed Tools for webmasters
This week, James shares 4 great, free tools for improving the speed of your website. Tools include Google Page Speed, Analytics, mod_pagespeed and Pingdom. Continue reading →
View ArticleFade parts of your html page as you scroll using JQuery
This week, Claire takes us through how to fade in parts of your website as you scroll down the page. Continue reading →
View Article4 Web Design Guidelines You Can Use Today
In the world of web design you may find yourself justifying a decision you’ve made, and struggling to find the right words. Below I’ve listed 4 web design guidelines to help you with these decisions...
View ArticleColours in Web Design
As designers colour is a powerful tool at our disposal. Throughout life our culture and the influences around us have conditioned us to relate colours to emotions and actions. Traffic lights are the...
View ArticleGrab my attention – Calls to Action
A call to action in web design is a term used for elements that grab the users attention and draw them to a certain goal, usually it’s a button or line of copy. To create a good call to action, …...
View ArticleCalendar Plugin for WordPress by Time.ly
After searching for a Calendar plugin for an events website i am currently working on, i came across the All-in-One Event Calendar plugin by Timely. Most plugins that i had previously seen are quite...
View ArticleEcho Magento Store info in CMS and PHTML pages
Dynamically show your Magento Contact details on the frontend. A few simple lines of code for PHTML and CMS pages to display the Phone, Email, Store name from the admin panel Continue reading →
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