Posts on: Web Design
All posts related to web design and development including design tips, code and internet marketing strategies.
Parallax Scrolling Banner using jQuery
CSS3 seems to come round in waves, every month there seems to be 1 new effect or functionality that is used more than another. In my last blog post I showed an example of the transform and transition effects available in CSS3. Maybe it’s just my search patterns and the sites I come across, but this month I have come across more sites using Parallax scrolling than ever before. It’s often used to create some awesome transitions on single page…
Things to think about when getting a new website designed
This is a post for you, the client. So you want a new website, the old one looks a bit dated and doesn’t do anything fancy. You ring up a web designer and say “I want a new website”, all’s going well so far. Then the designer asks if you have a design brief, which you don’t, at this point the designer may well whip out some prepared question for just such an occasion. However, the only answers you can…
Our recipe for designing a perfect logo
Elevatelocal’s recipe for designing a perfect logo. Follow one of our designers, Ian, on some of the steps we take.
Received IE6 Countdown shirts thanks to Microsoft
Just over a year ago Microsoft created iecountdown.com to raise awareness and to get people to upgrade their IE6 browsers to a modern browser. We were one of the first companies who supported this initiative and as a result we were contacted by the Internet Explorer team to get some “goodies”. Today we received a few IE6 Countdown shirts in the post and thought we should share a couple of pictures of our team donning them. As you can see members of…
CSS3 hover effect, using transform and transition
CSS3 has given web designers some great new features to work with, from subtle text shadows to all out animation. As a web designer I always want to try new things and learn new techniques. I have found that working with CSS3 and all it is capable of, has forced me to think in a different way when working on websites. There is almost another dimension to think about. I have seen some really cool effects created just by using…
HTML5 Prefetch
Another awesome feature of HTML5 is prefetching. What is prefetch? Well apart from being awesome it also allows a browser to utilize its idle time to load a page, document or image that a user may visit next. By placing a set of prefeches in the <head> of a web page the browser, once it has finished loading the current page, will fetch the linked documents and store them in the cache. So when the user visits the fetched item…
Web animation after Flash: what you need to know
In the transition period from Adobe Flash to new technologies, I look at the past, present and future of creating web animations for the masses.
How to Design a faster website
As Designers we sometimes get carried away with our ideas, the creative mind is very hard to tame. You may have this Lion of an idea where things fading in, fly around the screen and explode (All done very tastefully of course). We get overly excited, consume far too much caffeine and stay up until it’s early. Only to find once the site is built it takes about a week to load and that’s even after you’ve taken Usain Bolt’s…
Turning small projects into big profit
From time to time all web agencies will be faced with projects that have little to no budget. It’s all too easy to turn these projects down in favour of larger projects that yield a higher return. It’s also easy to forget that turning these projects down adds up. Projects with budgets of around £1,000 to £2,000 may seem like more effort than they are worth but with a good design process and a strict plan these projects can yield…
What is metro design & what are its principles
What is Metro? Metro is a term used by Microsoft to describe one of its key “design languages”. This means that although each product designed using Metro is individual and has its own specific appearance, there are common themes that mean there’s a consistent look and feel. A great example of what’s meant by a design language is a chess set: although a bishop is obviously different to a pawn, there will be a similarity in style that clearly unites…
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