Web Development & Design

In a previous blog I discussed how Google's founding philosophies can be applied to internet marketing campaigns. They also have another set of philosophies related to their principles of design, so I thought it would be beneficial to blog readers to write another entry for this serialization, but applying the design principles to web development.&...

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 is one of the first elements that a user registers when viewing something for the first time. Users naturally make association...

The construction of a new website should be a landmark occasions for a business, and thus web development is an incredibly important process.  A website will act as a platform to display your product to a broader spectrum of potential customers as well as allowing you to conduct surveys, compose blogs and becoming another source of revenu...

When the requested file or image does not exist the server should return a 404 Not Found header. When this happens with an image, you are left with a hole in your design where the image was supposed to go. If you are a good coder then your should see your alt text. But again, less than ideal. What you need is an image to return when the requested i...

A fair number of web designers will now avoid using frames on your website design. Frames, which set out information neatly in an easy-to-access portion of the page, were once a popular way of easily distributing information on a site. So why has their status changed? A lot of the time, older design techniques are abandoned because they no longer...

How often, do you think, the search engines encounter the word 'home'? Once a second? Once every hundredth of a second? 'Home' is one of those words that have crept its way into the language of the internet, and this has doomed it to become a word that's ignored. In terms of web design, it's a word that's best left out altogether. The use of the w...

Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. But when internet and search marketing, good web design can attract new, unique users and visitors. A great design will stick in their mind, encouraging them to come back in the future and tell their friends, giving you great free advertising through word of mouth. But how do you know what’s attra...

Apple is releasing their iPad 2 model on Friday, with anticipation reaching fever pitch across the globe. Slim, light and with a faster processor than the first incarnation, it’s expected to sell thousands of units as soon as it hits the shelves and give users whole new options when browsing the internet. Apple CEO Steve Jobs says: “We’re ex...

We wrote a while back about the problems Lush was facing when it came to security, and how more than anything, its reputation will have been hit hardest after the hack attack on its sites. Though, sadly, there’s not much you can do when people decide to try and break your online boundaries, you can always make sure during the web development...

Hiring a web development company to create a website for your business is an incredibly exciting time and at this point of development there will be many ideas swirling within your head and eager to get out. You will likely have an idea of how you want your website to look, the different pages you want it to include, the information that will featu...