A sense of community
Web design is big business. There are a lot of companies offering similar services, and at times there can be a real struggle to stand out from the crowd and offer something different. You might know that you do the work for less, or offer better designs or features, but the key is persuading prospective [...]
Typography tools
As promised in the previous post on typography resources this is the follow up post which will contain links to fantastic online typography tools to aid in graphic and web design. This post will follow the same format, link then brief explanation. Join me after the jump.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Keeping up with web design trends
Designing websites is far more than running around with a certificate saying you attended a web design course. Web design evolves and changes…almost daily in some respects. To keep on top of the game you need to be constantly moving with new developments and design trends. It can become overwhelming at times. I’m going ot list the best [...]
The importance of quality hosting
For websites to appear on the Internet they need to be hosted. What we mean by this is a computer specifically designed for web hosting has to project the files into the digital space. These hosting machines need to be online 24/7 365 days per year. Being a web development company our main priorities are to cater for the digital online [...]
Hub Internet Media – Website Woes
We got our name, and we love it! We needed a website now. We knew we’d face problems but oh my God did we face problems lol! The design of our website needed to reflect what we are about. This was the issue, we never wanted to give people the impression of our design capabilities being [...]
