This week I was looking at other web design blogs and came across the term ‘cinemagraphs’. These are a mixture of a still looking photo and animation by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg. I decided I had to have a go at making some of my cinemagraphs as these are a great digital art form. On Saturday I took the train into London and took some cinematography footage on the tube. I…
Page Ranking is an important factor when optimising your website. There are various factors that major search engines calculate for when ranking websites such as topicality, relevance, value-add, reputation, etc. Google takes 200 factors for calculating your website ranking. Recently Goggle has added site speed to the Google Analytics tracking data. In Google Analytics tracking code site speed is added as a major factor in deciding page rank. Thus, site speed…
Cross-browser compatibility is the most challenging task for web designers and web developers. Websites with browser compatibility are considered as good quality websites. It gives easy web surfing, user-experience and provides the same look and feel to your site visitors. The most popular browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox (Mozilla), Opera, Netscape Navigator, Safari, Google Chrome, etc. Browser incompatible web design looks different in a different browser and even in a different…
Social Media is an incredible way to explore your business network. Understanding the concept of social media and effective utilisation can proffer efficient results of social media optimisation. Nowadays mostly all internet users use social media to expand their social network globally. There are many social networking websites, but very few popular websites, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. You can best utilise these networking sites for marketing your business to a…
The success of your online business depends on the visibility of your website to your target audience. You should put emphasis on Search Engine Friendly Web Design when you start thinking about designing a new website or re-designing your existing website. Understanding the latest tips and tricks for preparing Search engine friendly web design puts you at an advantage. You have to adopt the latest SEO Techniques in order to design your SEO friendly website. These…
Flash based websites are popular due to its interactivity and enormous features that gives your website live and stunning looks. It can also help in attracting more visitors to your website. Cross-platform compatibility, Animations, Games, Vector graphics, Video and many more reasons have made flash popular among internet users. With advantages of websites containing flash there are also some drawbacks of flash based websites. Nowadays, more and more people use the most modern…
QR Codes are suddenly becoming very popular, because of the rise in people using smart phones such as iPhones, Blackberry, Palm, HTC, the list goes on. Most Smartphones come with the QR application installed, if you do not have it then there are many third party applications to download. You may have seen these black and white blocks of pixels on boxes of cereal, magazine adverts, postcards, bottles, cans and wondered what…