Validation as a future-proof quality check
Checking that your webpage “looks fine” in several popular browsers may be a reasonable insurance that the page will work today. However, a poorly designed web site that doesn’t validate rarely performs well in the myriad of browsers available. Your site may look OK on one platform (e.g. IE7 on [...]

It’s not clear where the humble splash page originated. A decade ago, when Flash was experiencing an upsurge but the average internet user was still stuck on dial-up, the splash page provided a useful way of indicating to the user that the page was “loading”, and as a result was a fairly common occurrence. Although [...]

Whenever we take on a new web design project for a client, we do not initiate the graphic design phase until a marketing analysis exercise has been carried out. One of the key decisions we have to make relates to the use of colour on the website – in particular, which colours we are going [...]