Archive: web design

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/11/the-end-of-an-era-internet-explorer-drops-below-50-percent-of-web-usage/ Anyone who had had to either do an extra 50% of work to get IE working, or had to pay someone else to do so. I’m sure you are thinking what we think. Yes! More Reading:Freely Available Windows Virtual Machines for Testing IERunning Internet Explorer under Ubuntu LinuxGot the Insecure Content on a Secure [...]

If you are putting together a new web site and would like a logo and design creating, the traditional approach is to first choose a design agency and then get them to create a design for you. However a new approach is to get the agencies to create the designs first and you choose your [...]

Just came across Kuler – by Adobe. A nice little flash app for creating colour schemes http://kuler.adobe.com/ More Reading:Symfony Colour Scheme for NetbeansGot the Insecure Content on a Secure HTTPs Page Problem – Easy SolutionThe End of an Era: Internet Explorer Drops Below 50 Percent of Web UsageStarting an Ecommerce Business, in a NutshellFreely Available [...]

Recently came across this article all about working with IE6. http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/definitive-guide-to-taming-the-ie6-beast/ Noted here for future reference and for anyone else looking for this. More Reading:

I recently came across rgba colours which are a very simple and logical way to produce a colour (rgb) with alpha transparency as well. This is ideal if for example you want to create a translucent white box to put some text in. CSS does have some (dodgy) opacity controls, but they set everything as [...]

Just came across this and its so cool and easy I had to blog about it straight away.. http://www.fivesecondtest.com/ Basically people see a screenshot of your design and then get 5 seconds to ‘take it in’ and give you feedback on which bits they managed to assimilate. Very useful More Reading:

My favourite platform for web development has to be Ubuntu Linux. As a desktop system to work on (rather than play) I think it is unsurpassed. However there are some times that you really need to use windows. For example my laptop seems to refuse to install Ubuntu which means that I am forced to [...]

osCommerce is an awesome ecommerce package. It has many critics and this is mainly due to the fact that unlike many modern open source packages it is not really ready to run “out of the box”. That is a drawback, however it is not really so much of a drawback when you take into account [...]

Ubuntu Linux is undoubtedly the most successful desktop version of linux available today. It has managed to tempt across many dedicated windows users with its easy installation procedure, comprehensive bundle of applications including open office and firefox, its greater security and reduced vulnerability to internet viruses and malware. And of course the fact that it [...]