We’ve recently done 3 websites that use a white background, and no bounding areas for the content. The results are quite varied: One is bold and hard-edged; one is ordered, like a document; one is clean and slick. No borders There are many variations when it comes to the visual layout of a website. In […]
White open websites |
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Achieving the purpose of your website |
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When you’re planning your website, pretty much the most important thing is to write down what the purpose of the website will be.
Lorem ipsum sid what now? |
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A brief background of ‘lorem ipsum’ dummy text and why it is used.
Size and scale of Products on online shops |
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When photographing products for your online shop, how do you show size and scale? It’s a tough one…
Web-Safe Fonts |
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A few do’s and don’ts for working with web-safe and non-web-safe fonts on your website.
Supportive Content Blocks |
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Adding an article to your site will provide your visitors with useful information, but to provide the most value for your page, it is often helpful to provide supporting information to an article. We always provide a page layout template that includes a thin right column next to the wide main column specifically to allow […]
Image Gallery Content Blocks |
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Image or photo galleries are extremely useful in many situations, and essential for some websites (photographers’ websites, for example). They come in many shapes and forms, each according to the purpose of the gallery, and how it is to interact with the rest of the content on the page. To cater to the various styles, […]
Standard Content Page Structure for Websites |
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Our standard Content module allows a website administrator to manage the content of the site, but how does it do this? Well, basically, the module takes all the content of the site and conceptually breaks it down into smaller and smaller parts, until we end up with simple blocks of content that can be easily […]
How much does a Website cost? |
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It’s not really polite to answer a question with a question, but: how long is a piece of string? The size and complexity of your website will determine the cost, which can range from very cheap (eg: R5000) to extremely expensive (eg: R500000). So we can’t really answer the question of ‘how much’ until we’ve […]
5 Steps to a Website That Works For You |
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This is a bit of a generalisation, but these five areas cover most of what is required to make any website successful: Step 1: Business Analysis The very first step is to decide what you need the website for. A website is a tool, and a tool does something. You need to take a good […]
Geekiness Scale
Sometimes we post about our Christmas party. Other times we post about in-depth CMS functionality or the x-height of Helvetica. Here's our geekiness scale to help you tell whether you need your thinking cap on:
