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...

This year marks a new decade in Web design, with it brings a host of new technology, fresh ideas and new problems this brings to the table. This week we are brining a look at different trends that will feature in 2011 and what impact they are going to make on your business in the next 12 months. Today we look at HTML5 and CSS3

HTML 5 & CSS 3 : The Revenge.

For the last few years making your site stand out with multimedia video, graphics rely heavily on a mixture...

Anybody who operates in the direct response game knows that copy matters. Good copy can and often is the difference between a .01% conversion rate and a 10% conversion rate.

But one aspect of direct response that gets overlooked or dismissed time and time again is design, and just as with copy, design can also be the difference between a .01% conversion rate and a 10% conversion rate.

Yes, copy is critical. Absolutely. You’ll get no argument from me there, not...