As technology moves forward more and more users are accessing websites on mobile devices. Therefore sites need to be ‘mobile friendly’ the technical term for this is ‘responsive design’, this is where a website resizes according to the device screen width, height, or resolution. But I’ll cover this in more detail another day, until then ...
As a developer I often get designs handed to me which have features such as a section to display current child pages, a ‘Services Overview’ page is a perfect example. As usual the kind folk over at WordPress have got a function for that. But if your reading this article it’s probably because it isn’t ...
As designers we’re always trying to figure out how to draw potential customers to various parts of the websites we design, be it filling out a contact form, or purchasing a product. But often the issue of ‘what makes someone leave your website’ is overlooked. The kind ladies and gentlemen over at KISSmetics have collated ...
Recently the types of websites which I’ve been developing in WordPress have gradually become more and more bespoke with regards to interlinking content on the site. It goes without saying that if you’re a developer you’ll know all about custom post types, fields and taxonomies. What happens when you want to query certain posts which ...
As a web designer I’m always on the lookout for new points of inspiration and notes that will make my job a bit easier and I like to share my knowledge with other designers/developers. I recently stumbled upon the below infographic – very useful, here are a few things every designer should bare in mind with his/her ...
Each website I’ve worked on recently the preferred CMS has been WordPress, most of these websites aren’t blog based. As a web developer who is very familiar with WordPress, I prefer not to run to the high ground in search of a plugin to do something which I can set-up myself. Needless to say the ...
I do like a good bike ride, I like longer challenging bike rides even more. A couple of years back I set the challenge of participating in the London to Brighton bike ride in 2012, time flew by and before I knew it there was a limited amount of spaces available. It wasn’t until one Saturday ...
Draw something seems to of taken the world by storm if you havent heard of it, it’s pretty much pictionary, but on your phone! If you haven’t played it before, you can just imagine how hard drawing on a touch phone or tablet can be right? Well some people certainly like to show off. Have ...
Following up from Andy Johnson’s post ‘Is the Gym Dead?’ many of us seem to be trading in our four wheels for two, as our main term of transport seems to be getting more expensive every day. With that in mind…. How many times have you ridden your bike? How many times have you or someone you ...
As a web designer is crucial to get the right colour balance, and choose the correct typeface to suit the design and existing branding of the company, with the right font, and perfect selection of colours your website can transform from being good, to amazing. But you as a web designer you always have to bear in mind ...
