This is the last post of our 3 part-series on Responsive Design. We truly could spend the entire year discussing its importance and different attributes but we want to create some variety in our blog. As always never hesitate to email us if you have additional questions about mobile responsiveness for your website. One of our team members will be happy to answer you. Today we want t...

In this week's webinar, we talk about the tedious process of adding Schema Code to your website, and why you would want to use it. What does it do? It is being encouraged by all major search engines, and can really help boost your ranking on search engines. It's something that only a programmer could do because it needs to be coded into the core of the site, so if you want to add it, so you rank better, you will need a web designer. If you want to have Schema code added to y...

Welcome back to our responsive design series. Making your website responsive on mobile devices does not mean that you should try to compress and fit in every single image and text you have on your desktop version on a small device like a smart phone. The new trend is to actually rethink your website so it makes sense to visitors when they are using a phone or tablet to view your site. Let's take our own website for instance. The desktop version of our homepage is quite intricate with lots of ...

In our company, we were doing responsive design websites before it became a necessity or well known by most. At the time we were using JavaScript but now the code (thank you CSS3) has evolved so much than responsive design has truly become the coolest and biggest change in website design in the past ten years. What is responsive design? It is the readjustment of a website design, layout, elements and text to conform to a specific screen size. For a long time (and many olde...

In this week's webinar, bringing in the new year, we tell you about some things you can do to adjust the design of your website to maximize its potential. This week we are starting with website footers. One of the major design trends is to have much larger footers, which has been brought about because of mobile devices making people more used to scrolling on longer pages. It is a good idea that when your website is designed to at least keep in mind your mobile audience. Some sites are even be...

Thanks to new coding techniques using HTML5 and faster Internet connection throughout the world, having a video as a background or moving backgrounds is now a possibility. The video can be coded to play upon the visitor’s arrival with or without sound. It can also be set to play with a specific time delay or play upon clicking on an icon. What is even more exciting is that these videos can be filling up the entire screen of the visitor no matter what their screen size is. Thanks to responsi...

Typography for websites (aka fonts) has come a long way. Less than 10 years ago we used to have only a half dozen fonts to choose from which we called “web safe fonts”. The most popular ones were Times New Roman, Georgia, and Helvetica. But this is no longer the case. Now a site owner can ask his web master to use any fonts of his choices. The font files can be embedded into the code of your website just the same way a font file can be saved in your computer. The process is very similar. ...

It was not long ago that having a full-width high resolution image on a homepage was quite a coding challenge. First there was a compatibility issues with all major browsers (reacting differently to the code), mobile device issue (since compressing such a large image would greatly slow down the website on a smart phone or tablet) and an Internet speed issue (as large images typically are very large files). Thanks to HTML5 and CSS3, web designers are now able to design cool an...

Yes you may have noticed that today’s newer websites have less clicking and far more scrolling. This trend has been influenced of course by mobile devices especially smart phones. We are almost at a point where we, web designers, are designing websites for phones and tablets and then adjusting the design and code to desktop. This is going to be one of the most popular trends in 2015. The homepage especially has become a landing page where each element is a way to either giv...

During the next few weeks we are going to address very specific web design elements and attempt to go in more depth as to what they are, what benefits they bring and how to assess if this design item is a good option for your own website. This week we will start with Ghost Buttons. We are all familiar with call-to-action buttons asking the visitor to do something immediate such as “Click here to get started”, “Buy this item today”, “Email us now” and so forth. Gho...