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A great user comment on a website we produced…

It was great to receive this really positive feedback on the South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust website today. We are particularly happy  as it perfectly reflects all the recommendations we made to the client at the beginning of the project. I just wanted to say what a fantastic website you have! My mother has AMD [...]

Flash. Saviour of the BlackBerry universe?

BlackBerry losing mobile smartphone market share With the introduction of the iPhone and Android phones, BlackBerry’s share of the worldwide mobile smartphone market started to reduce dramatically… some might say plummet. In fact, it was only a couple of days ago that a San Francisco Chronicle article reported that Research in Motion Ltd (RIM), the [...]

New Adventures in Web Design Conference (#naconf)

Last week Phil and I attended the New Adventures In Web Design Conference (#naconf) at the Albert Hall in Nottingham. A new conference for 2011 it was billed as being “carefully curated; chock-full of integrity, opinion, and fresh content, with an emphasis on shaking things up and challenging convention” by curator and organiser Simon Collison, [...]

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Creative website typography

The area we are talking about here is website typography – any type elements on a website, including the body text For a long time, everyone has talked of ‘web safe’ fonts and a large part of website design and copy styling was often limited to the basic font libraries on a Mac or PC (Arial, [...]

External website links. New window or not?

Right. A big bug bear of mine! It has been a growing and annoying trend that links to external sites from one website to another open in a new browser window and it has been something that we advise our clients against… time and time again. Some common misconceptions are listed below with several facts, [...]

Opening external links in a new browser window

For the majority of websites that we work on, clients tend to request that external links open in a new browser window so visitors are not lost to other sites. On first inspection, this may appear to be a reasonable request and that the client’s wishes may hold water. However, and this may sound controversial, we don’t develop [...]