Category: Website Design and Architecture

Jun 05, 2013
5 Super Interesting Studies About Using Photos On Your Website

Research from website studies has taught us a lot about using photos on websites. Find out what to do and what not to do here.

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May 15, 2013
How to Use Google Web Fonts On Your Website

Click here to watch a video tutorial on how to use Google web fonts on your website

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May 03, 2013
Has WordPress got a Ghost?

A new Content Management System on the horizon? Could it be the Ghost to haunt wordpress and other content management systems.

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May 02, 2013
Great Website Design – A Case Study on How To Upgrade Your Website's Performance

This video shows you the process we go through to take an average website and make it into a great website, with on-page search engine optimisation (SEO) and conversion rate optimisation “built-in”. This is the story of Morocco Retreats, a luxury retreats company based in, you guessed it, Morocco. Although we’re based in Manchester we […]

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Apr 24, 2013
4 Extremely Useful Tools For Speeding Up Your CSS3 Coding

CSS3 is the latest incarnation of CSS can be a really powerful tool for creating beautiful webpages. One of my favourite features about CSS3 is the graphic effects that can be made such as gradients, shadows and rounded rectangles.

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Apr 22, 2013
How to Add a Favicon to Your Website

In this video tutorial I show you where to transfer your favicon.ico on a Wordpress site using ftp, what HTML code to use to link your website to your favicon and where to put it.

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Apr 22, 2013
How to Use Inspect Element in Google Chrome

This video tutorial shows you how to use inspect element in Google Chrome

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Apr 22, 2013
How to Optimize Images for Web

In this video tutorial I talk you through how to choose the best file formats for your images. I look at JPG, PNG and GIFs, their advantages and disadvantages and when to use them for the web.

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Apr 18, 2013
How to Create a Favicon

In this video I talk about: what is a favicon, how to choose what image to use, what should the favicon dimensions be, and how to convert to .ico format.

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Mar 13, 2013
What is HTML5?

HTML is a markup language used to make websites. HTML is at the core of all websites, whether they be built in WordPress, Joomla, Dreamweaver… it doesn’t matter. Every website has HTML as its base. Originally, HTML displayed nothing more than text. Connections were very slow and so even the smallest black and white image […]

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