In part 1 of our guide, “Accessibility in web design:  It’s all about how you look at it.  Part 1”, we focused on why catering for elderly, and, or, disabled people made good business sense, as well as being about inclusion and fairness.  It is on the theme of good business that we now come [...]

It can be a real quagmire, trying to sift through new regulations and interpret them.  Trying to decide if they apply to you, or how to implement them into your design or designs.  You may be wondering why you have to, or what the point of them is.  You could be shaking your head in [...]

If usability and accessibility are fundamental elements in any web design, is it the role of the designer, to dictate to the user how to use a website, or is there role, one of a provider, in which they provide options that users can utilise? This is a fundamental question that arises from web design.  [...]

In part one of our guide, we stated some good, solid reasons, why you should use CSS over Tables, largely focusing on download speeds, cost, and ease of modifications.  Just in case you are not convinced, here are some more reasons that should tip the balance. Accessibility is high on the agenda of nearly everywhere [...]

Though some web designers believe that Tables are a superior tool to CSS in designing lay out, this opinion is in the minority.  Though CSS cannot be used to structure a website in itself, HTML or XHTML, should be used for this, it still should be the tool of choice when it comes to lay [...]

As CSS gains in popularity for its numerous advantages in constructing layout, it is important that as a designer, you get your head around some of the fundamental elements of cascading style sheets.  Pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, are necessary concepts to understand when developing a website, using CSS. The main reasons for this, is that pseudo-classes [...]

CSS has some great admirers among the web community, and many developers are using CSS to great effect in more creative ways.  If you are yet to come across CCS, there is no doubt that you soon will.  What follows, is a guide on some of CSS’s basic syntax rules. Selectors, are elements that are [...]

SEO, or search engine optimisation, is an important element in any web design.   The most popular search engines are geared towards searching for text, and though it is said that a picture conveys a thougsand words, a website’s text will hold the audience to a site, accommodate their needs, and if it is the aim, [...]

Rule number 1 in web design folklore, is to keep a website fast loading.  It is no secret that websites lose their audiences by slow download times, and this is, as we all know, bad news.  You, as a web designer, have a duty to keep websites loading as fast as possible.  This keeps your [...]

Flash, is becoming something of a controversy in the web community.  On the one hand, there can be no doubt that the eye catching website that left you gasping in awe, was probably created entirely in Flash, and that it has clever online applications.  The games you play now and then at work, ahem, were [...]