CSS media queries are pretty much the reason why we can now build responsive websites. They allow us to define CSS based on a number of different options but mostly we tend to use min and max width options.
There are three main methods of defining media queries currently…
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After contributing to a Twitter conversation about quality in the web development industry it got us thinking about how do people assess the quality of the work we produce?
There are 4 factors that play a part in a web project:
Customer ServiceIn service based industries customer service is …
If you attended Dave Naylor’s session at SMX London 2014 then you will have spotted a few illustrations within the presentation that represent Google’s Panda and Penguin penalties. We never expected them to be the subject of twitter love…
Dave’s awesome Google bots pic on #SMXLondon @DaveNaylor pic.twitter.com/Q6FjHlBmqD
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I’ve got no clue as to when but at some point I reached a tipping point where I began writing more of my own JavaScript (well jQuery really) rather than taking the easy option and looking for a plugin.
There’s two reasons why I started to do this…
The following article is written purely from a security point of view as I am sure there will be a multitude users out there who will beg to differ, but just how many themes should you install on a WordPress blog? The answer if you care about security is usually …
One of the things I always try and implement at the code design stage when developing web pages and applications is keeping the number of database calls to an absolute minimum. In an ideal world this should always be just once on every page, but in reality this is not …
Mobile has been and still is a hot topic in the web design community. Pretty much since the first iPhone was released there has been a growing trend for consumption of websites through mobile devices.
It’s expected that mobile devices will overtake the traditional desktop as the primary method for …
In CSS there are a number of units by which we can dictate the size of an element. The most common on the web are pixels (px) and percentages (%). But CSS has evolved and a host of new units have been developed; one of which is Viewport Units.
For …
Spam; once just a tasty lunchtime snack it’s now a curse on your inbox. It follows a long history of unwanted communication that includes junk mail and cold calling. Alexander Graham Bell probably had people cold calling him about his PPI’s. But where spam differs is that much of what …
Signing off a design can be a little scary for clients and in truth it should be; but for good reason.
Design sign off is the final milestone of the design phase of a new website. It’s an agreement between agency and client that the design is complete and that …