Readability is an important web design consideration for your website. If the fonts on your website are difficult to read, users will not bother. Instead, they will turn to your competitors for information, products and services. Therefore, you need to make it a priority to ensure that the fonts on your website are readable. As […]
Web server software is used to process requests and deliver data. All websites use web server software. The two most popular server softwares are Apache HTTP Server and Windows Microsoft Internet Information Service (Windows IIS). Your website is most likely using either Apache or Windows. What’s the difference? Apache HTTP ServerThe Apache HTTP Server is […]
Chances are good that you work hard to provide visitors to your website with valuable information and resources. This is an important step in creating a strong online presence for your business. Over time, you will have established your website as the “go to” source of information in the industry you serve. This is great. […]
In web design, the website footer is often overlooked as an afterthought. However, it is a very important element in the overall design of the website. Sure, it’s not the most prominent area area of your website or the most impressive, but it is a place that users generally expect to find information about your […]
Maintaining an active social media presence for a business can be a challenge. This is particularly true for businesses that are active on a number of popular social media sites such as LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. If you’re struggling to keep up with all of your current social media profiles or are just getting […]
Using a full screen image as a background can be a powerful design element. While there are many different methods of implementing full screen background images, CSS code offers cross-browser compatibility without the use of Flash or JavaScript. Here is a short example of the code from PaulMason required to implement full screen background images: […]
When you think of web development, you might not consider user control systems or session lengths. However, these are important web development considerations when you are looking at web authentication, session management and access control. What is a web session? A web session is a sequence of network HTTP request and response transactions that are […]
In recent years, there has been a lot of buzz generated about cloud hosting. It seems to be all anyone is talking about when it comes to web servers. However, if you’re new to owning a website or are looking into hosting for your soon to be launched website, you may be wondering: What’s the […]
Parallax web design is wildly popular in the web design community right now largely because it offers a new level of interactivity to websites. The idea of parallax design has been around for a while. In fact, it was widely used as a visual effect in 2D side scrolling video games. In parallax design, the […]
Everyone has their own favorite web browser. Unfortunately, not all websites perform the same way on all browsers. As a result, you still need to test your websites for different browsers. Cross-browser compatibility testing is an important part of the quality control phase in a web development process. Your websites need to be tested for […]
