Typography Resources
Carrying on from my earlier post on the art of typefaces I’ve decided it would be a good idea to list good resources which help us understand, design and work with typography. This is going to be more of a link fest than an in depth post by myself. But I’ll give each link an [...]
I’d like a quote for a website, please
Being asked for quotes is both good and bad. It’s good because someone is interested in the product you provide, and want to know how much it would be for you to create something for them. It’s bad because a quote is not that simple. It’s easy to just give out throwaway quotes that have [...]
First impressions count (but you have to be quick!)
Back in 2002 the bbc stated that people on average spend 8 seconds on a website before leaving. That was 2002. At the time the Internet was still growing into the beast we know and love today. That’s the problem! Back in the day Google would cough up loads of pages of content for any [...]
Know your market
Yesterday I saw Intels new advertising campaign, and I have to admit that I wasn’t really all that impressed. It’s not because I have anything against the fine people at Intel, it’s more that the advert itself didn’t seem all that coherent. I’ve linked it above so you can see what I mean. Watch it, [...]
Designing for content management systems (CMS)
These days every website we produce features a CMS. Our CMS of choice is WordPress. While they make it very easy for the user to edit content without years of technical knowledge, they are far harder to design and produce for from our point of view. If we were lazy so and so’s we’d love [...]
Captcha: good with spam
Yes, all right, I made a joke based off the fact that spam and Spam share the same name. I have no idea why that is, I’ve never bothered to research it, but what I do know is that I love Spam, and I hate spam. I know that I am not the only one [...]
Facebook for businesses
We’ve extolled the virtues of Twitter here on Hub Internet Media many times, but there’s another social platform that’s never really got a mention. That platform, as I’m sure you’ve guessed from the title, is Facebook. One of the things we love about Twitter is how simple it is, and how many people you can reach with [...]
Unethical SEO – do we really have a chance?
I decided to bust out Yahoo Site Explorer to check out the competition when it comes to the search term ‘web design’ in major search engines, Google, Bing etc. What I found was very shocking indeed. It seems methods of blackhat SEO are still ruling the roost when it comes to that all important first [...]
Content Management Systems are the future
We absolutely love CMS platforms. Our favourite is, of course, WordPress. It’s brilliantly supported, there are thousands of people making plugins and keeping them up to date, and WordPress itself is constantly being improved. It’s rare that you log in and don’t find some sort of update waiting for you, whether it’s just a news [...]
The art of typefaces
To most people, text is text. To me text is an integral part of the overall design. Look at it this way, text is the medium in which most website content is delivered. It needs to look nice, fit in with the websites design and most of all it needs to be readable! With typefaces [...]
