Text effects are a great way to enhance your web designs, and with just one CSS property you can replicate effects that were only possible before by using images of text. Text-shadow is supported in all major browsers except IE, and along with RGBa colours, allows us to replicate some popular effects. Text-shadow is easy [...]
Web Design
Understanding compatibility – What to expect from your Web Designer
There are countless ways that the everyday consumer can surf the internet, and even more factors that determine exactly how it will look on their device. What does this mean for businesses offering services like the ones we do – Web Design, Web Development and Web Marketing – considering all the devices out there? Because no [...]
CSS3 features you can use today
CSS3 opens up a whole suite of web design features that make things that used to be a chore incredibly easy. Unfortunately, despite the benefits of CSS3, there’s still very little support across browsers for many of the properties and selectors. The biggest browser culprit is Internet Explorer, particularly IE8 and below, which continue (painfully) [...]
Adapting your design process
One of the biggest problems we have when starting a new web design for a client, is trying to figure out what image of the final product the client has in their head, or even the direction they want to go in. Some clients know exactly what they want a web design to look like, [...]
6 web design trends and resources for 2011 & 2012
Web design trends this year are all about embracing new technologies and moving into the future, which is brighter than ever. 1. App UI influenced web design This is perhaps the most obvious to-the-day trend consuming the Web Design industry. User interface design for computer and handheld apps is growing rapidly and with new technology [...]
