The internet is evolving at a phenomenal rate. Website trends and best practices can be deemed old after a few short months and as website designers, it is our job to move with the times and stay at the forefront of this ever-changing industry.
The internet is evolving at a phenomenal rate. Website trends and best practices can be deemed old after a few short months and as website designers, it is our job to move with the times and stay at the forefront of this ever-changing industry.
Everyone has a business card. No doubt you already have your own. The problem is that it’s very difficult to stand out from the crowd when the vast majority of cards are all the same size, with square corners. You…
Google announced today that its Gmail service has 425 million monthly active users. That means it has blown past Hotmail for the first time, becoming the largest email service in the world.
Objects with sharp corners stick out more than those with rounded corners. It’s difficult to think of rounded corners as a trend, as they’ve essentially become an industry standard.
I’ll be the first to admit that I originally signed up for Google+ with the wrong expectations. I thought it was Google’s attempt at recreating Facebook – and for that reason I didn’t see how it would ever take off….
Navigation can be very simple, or very complex. It can be horizontal, or vertical. It can be static, or it can follow you as you scroll down a page. Because navigation can vary so much between websites, there are no set guidelines or how-to’s for organizing navigation.
In the build-up to Christmas, eBay is opening a pop-up shop near London’s Oxford Street, based entirely around instant purchasing via QR codes. The shop will only be open for five days, selling a mere 200 items yet without the need for any tills!
Around October 2010, QR codes became a very popular tool to quickly link smartphone users through to web pages, provided the phone had a relevant reader installed. Capable of much more than just redirecting your phone to a website address, Quick Response codes have been around since 1994 and were originally used to track parts during car manufacture.
When Google+ launched there was a good level of initial hype surrounding it and lots of people wanted to sign up. But over the months that followed that hype seems to have died away – especially in my circle of friends.