A website is now, more often than not, the most common and easily accessible source of information about any company. With this in mind it is very important to ensure the use of colour on the website is appropriate.
Colour…

WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) can seem like a godsend to new web designers. When HTML is still very unfamiliar, and the basic principles of web design are fresh and awkward, having a ‘what you see is…

Web design… relies upon the skilful use of colour in order to, firstly, delight the eye, and secondly, draw attention to certain areas of the page. The overall use of colour must be balanced or the design will feel off

Sometimes a web design… firm might be wary of allowing clients to have too much input into the design process, perhaps because of past experiences where the end result became hopelessly compromised. This can happen due to the internal politics

Flash is useful for adding animated and interactive elements to a web design…. Using special software, images can be drawn which are scalable. This means that outlines remain crisp when enlarged or shrunk, rather than appearing jagged in the

It can be more difficult to make web design… work using dark colours than it is using a light background, and an airy approach. Pale text on a dark background is a lot more tiring for readers’ eyes than the

When visitors read web pages… they make assumptions, based on previous experience, about what will happen next. Usually, after entering details into a form, one would expect a button to appear below allowing one to submit the information. It could

Deciding on a font can take weeks in the publishing and internet marketing… industry. Fonts can have such an impact on how a piece of text is read that companies frequently design a whole new one for important documents. Publishers

Often during web development …the structure of a page ends up being imposed upon the content. Numerous columnar and box-like shapes surround and enclose the text, creating a strong and sometimes distracting abstract pattern on the screen. There can also

When a business is looking to build an effective website… it can be a daunting prospect.  Just surfing through the internet looking at what the competition already offers can also be disheartening when it comes to knowing where and how

If there was nothing on the television all day but commercials, or if magazines were filled with nothing but advertisements from cover to cover, not only would it quickly become tedious and repetitive to either watch or read, it would …

Before you set about redesigning your website, you should make sure that you are going about it the right way. All too often companies make changes to their websites without taking into consideration some of the more technical aspects of…