All about favicons
What is a favicon
A favicon is the little picture that appears before the URL in your web browser, a visual representation of the site or brand.
Tips for Choosing Fonts for Your Website
The content of your website is the key to its success. How your content actually looks is vital to creating a positive impression. In order that visitors to your site will absorb that content, you need to decide what feelings you want to evoke in your target audience and what kind of voice you want the text to have. This is where choosing the right font comes in.
The following advice will hopefully help make this decision easier for you. (more…)
Wise Genius launches Website Appraisal Service
Spring is upon us, a perfect time to clean up your website with our new Website Appraisal Service.
Is your website working hard enough for you? Is it optimised for search engines so your potential customers can find you easily? Once they’ve discovered you, does your site grab their attention and quickly give them relevant information about your services? Is it accessible and usable, thereby making it available to as many visitors as possible?
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Top 10 Go-to Web Design Resources
These are my top 10 go-to web design resources – the tools, websites, blogs, magazines and articles I use all the time as I go about designing and developing websites.
1. Sitepoint Reference Guide
A truly invaluable resource, the Sitepoint HTML, CSS and Javascript guide is my go-to code reference. It provides comprehensive documentation on each specification, with useful examples and the chance for user contributions. What I particularly like are the browser compatibility notes – as well as giving an overview of browser support, they provide detailed explanations of how different properties and elements actually behave in troublesome browsers!
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