We conclude our short weeks look 2011′s Design Trends with a simple look and simple colour designs.

Simplicity, there is nothing quite as striking as an simple message on a quiet backdrop. Quiet can usually mane more than just black and white for there are also many shades of green and red and blue and green …. you get the idea. Using green, yellow or even red as your primary colour and limit the range of your palette to two to three colours for the design will bring a simple and...

Today our adventure into 2011′s design trends we look for the common Photographic Backgrounds.

Photographic Backgrounds have featured in websites for many years, this didn’t work well as file sizes were usually to high for the users connection meaning people had consumed the content before the file was displayed. Sites were also very slow to use, due to the way the page was rendered the picture would hog memory and the browser suffered. Designers moved away from this to more repetitive...

Banners are not dead, they’re doing fine and they’re going to be around for a while.

They’re making a strong stance due to their new home – Google Display/Content Network to be precise. If you are advertising on the Content Network and not using banner ads then you’re missing out on a really big and tasty piece of the advertising pie.

The competition on AdWords is strong but there are still some places where the competition is not so fierce. One of those places...

Continuing with our look at 2011′s design trends, today we are looking at a big change in the way people will interact with your site – Touch Screens.

Computing has become much more tactile, instead of navigating with a plain old mouse, your destination is now available at your fingertips. How does your site accommodate fingertip navigation?

You will be surprised on how much of your site design has mouse-oriented design elements? As designers, we use mice every day...

When you are working on developing a website it needs to have the fundamentals of good design. When we work on developing a site, we always follow these rules



Presence
Your site needs presence to own the browser window once it has been pointed to your site. Its the same as when a celebrity walks into a club, they need to be the feature of attention to keep their status and notoriety. Your site needs to do that too, if it does not your potential client or reader...