Picking the Right Colours

Though there aren't any rules about the colours that should and shouldn't be paired together, there are tools that can help you pick the best colours for the web and provide you with an easy way to match them with their corresponding hex codes (your devel...

Understanding Web Fonts

At long last it's finally practical to use more than the traditional "web-safe" fonts on the websites you design. Sure, there were options going back several years, but we're emphasizing “practical". One of the complexities that still remains with we...

Screen Resolutions and the Fold Line

What you need to know How do I organize my content so that it gets maximum exposure on the largest number of devices?   The history “The fold” was established in the early days of newspaper printing, and refers to showing the most import...

SVG – What Is It and Why Use It?

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a file format, like JPEG or PNG, that is supported by all major modern browsers. When dealing with multiple screen sizes and resolutions, the SVG format has advantages over other file formats (like JPEG) because it is ...

Content and Organization

The site architecture is the underlying structure of the site: how the content is organized, how information flows as visitors navigate the site, the various page types and how they interconnect, and so on. Navigation and page flow The key to e...

Planning

Designers like to design things, but that’s the wrong place to start when it comes to web development. The success of a web project depends on first developing a realizable plan that addresses the client’s short- and long-term goals. Developing...