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It’s often tempting to cut corners and attempt to design a logo yourself. Perhaps you have an idea of what you want or you know the basics of a design programme.

Maybe you are a small business with a lack of budget. So why choose to spend it on a …

Exchange rates can present a real challenge to any website selling products or services internationally, but in this blog post we will show you how simple it can actually be.

First of all you/your client will need to sign up to an exchange rate service; in this example our client …

While everyone can write, to do it well is a skill that comes naturally to some more than others. Yet I’m starting to feel that as a web designer it’s an increasingly vital skill in my toolbox.

Over the past year especially I’ve worked on a number of projects where …

As developers we have all been there, you have a site and people complain its slow.  So where do you start?  There are different levels of optimisation as well as various tools for front and back end optimisation. Some changes will have a big impact on performance, whilst others may …

With growing support for CSS transitions and keyframe animations it’s become more common to see websites adopt a variety of effects, such as fades or motion, on page load to create a more visually dynamic website.

It’s hard to argue that done right these effects don’t delight new users, at …

With all the emphasis on site speed and a rise in the adoption of SVGs for web graphics due to increased use of retina type screens, optimising vector graphics has never been more important but not everyone goes to the trouble of ensuring this is always the case. One of …

Here we will guide you through how to integrate Sage Pay’s “Form” method of integration. Sage aren’t much help here with their overly complicated integration kits, but a huge shoutout goes to Timur Olzhabayev and his library on Github which simplifies the process.

Download the afforementioned library from …

I hoped being set the challenge of organising a group of list items so that they’re arranged top to bottom, left to right was going to be fairly simple with CSS Grid Layout; but it proved a little tougher than I expected.

With grid-auto-flow:column I expected that I could easily …

Cinemagraphs (a combination of cinema and photograph) are living photographs, a still image with subtle animation that infinitely loops to create a mesmerising effect. Although they look complex they are relatively easy to produce in Photoshop. The key to a great Cinemagraph is choosing the right footage.

Whether …

In the past I have used a variety of different editors, but over the last four or five years, I have stuck with Sublime Text. There are various reasons for this: it’s fast, reliable, extendable and feature rich. I’m hoping over the course of this post, you will learn something …