Typography and layout are fundamental in successful graphic design and are two of the most confusing areas to understand. My aim here is to shine a light on the basics of their terminology and impart some pieces of good practice.
Typefaces vs fontsThe fundamental difference between typefaces and fonts …
In the past week or so PageCloud, a new web design tool, has been announced for launch later this year. It’s appeared on a wave of more intelligent CMS/design tools that arguably include the likes of Squarespace and The Grid.
As a digital agency where our services include web …
When you need to add a relatively simple new feature like this, if you’re anything like me, you don’t want to be reading through pages and pages of documentation; you want an example you can implement quickly then edit as you see fit. I couldn’t find any such thing when …
Simple and easy to use navigation can be a challenge when building a responsive website. You’ll find the navigation system might alter at various screen sizes in an attempt to minimise its impact on the elements that surround it.
It’s in attempting to minimise the dominance of the navigation on …
A few weeks ago we implemented mod_pagespeed on a couple of websites to automate some speed optimisation techniques. At the time it seemed like a no brainer to roll it out onto a few of our servers and speed up a large number of our clients’ websites.
I thought the …
I’m not going to say that an image is worth a thousand words (or maybe I just have). It’s an often repeated phrase that through repetition has lost much of its meaning. People say it without really thinking about it. Like those that say literally when they actually mean figuratively.…
Last week I wrote about our efforts in speeding up the David Naylor website in an attempt to get a perfect 100 out of 100 score on Google PageSpeed Insights (GPSI). We got close but we’re stuck on one last problem; server response time.
We’ve improved things a little since …
This week we decided to challenge ourselves to achieving a perfect 100 out of 100 score on Google PageSpeed Insights for davidnaylor.co.uk.
So far we’ve failed, but are happy to have moved much closer than the 70/100 for mobile and 81/100 for desktop that we started with a few …
Height has always been something of a problem in web design. There’s never been a very good way to have a grid list of items with equal height, not since the days of table based layouts.
Hard coding heights within CSS offered one solution but with Responsive Web Design and …
Blank faces. This is the response you’ll receive when you mention responsive web design to some clients. In the web community it’s an understood term, one we could talk about for hours but for clients it doesn’t really explain what it is within the term itself nor is it always …