Designers today are confronted with many challenges particularly those in transition between the world of print and the world of web. The skill sets between web design and print design are very different and designers considering the transition should be aware of this. Print designers will have developed skills that demand knowledge of CMYK, lithography print techniques […]
WordPress is currently the most popular publishing platform in the world with over 60 million people choosing to use it! The question is ‘why is it so popular..?’ The answer is not that difficult … because, it’s so easy to use you could teach your granny to use it! In-fact your granny could download it and […]
Someone recently asked me if I could recommend a reliable offsite SEO company, my short answer was no! I’ve never found a reliable partner to work with as yet, not to say there aren’t any just that I haven’t found one. Queue quick tip, here’s a bit of SEO advice for you… A bad offsite SEO company […]
From a design and marketing point of view having well structured website headers with a good user interface (UI) is going to impart a good user experience (UX). A fundamental facet for the user is going to be the header of your website and that at least should include your branding, clean navigation, contact details and possibly some […]
With the advent of the new twitter embedding feature for WordPress, here are a few of my favoured tweets over the past few weeks… Big thanks to @elliottrichmond for helping us with some tricky coding issues! #coding #wordpress #webdesign — Edge IT (@edgeitsupport) May 21, 2012 @elliottrichmond Just to say a huge thanks for all […]
There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some point and sync the database. Although very achievable it can be a pain in the proverbial, especially […]
WordPress can be a cost effective solution for small businesses with the famous 5 minute install, all the freely available and reasonably priced premium themes on the market. Premium themes are certainly cheap and are usually designed to do a particular job – being designed specifically to service a Magazine style, Food Recipe or Design Portfolio style web site. Usually these […]
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Security with WordPress can be something of an issue amongst web developers and to be honest I’ve learnt the hard way. After having several sites hacked a few years ago I made it somewhat of a mission to safeguard against issues like this happening again. I’m going to keep these posts short and sweet to […]
A collection of working web design studios, the ideas, the ambiance, the production… the web design! This is where it all happens. Many working environments aren’t always up to scratch ….however here are a few that are… I especially like the ping pong table in the middle of the studio, great for batting around ideas! Feel […]
