mobile

If you have made a decision to have a mobile app developed for your small business, you probably don’t plan on engineering it yourself. Instead, you will be turning to a professional software development service provider to get the job done.

But even if you are not taking care of the technical side of things directly, the functionality and ultimate success will be down to you.  Read more

Whether you’ve chosen to go ‘mobile first,’ have separate desktop and mobile sites or are opting for a responsive website solution, there’s no denying that your website needs to cater for those of who are visiting via mobile devices. Here are our five top dos and five top don’ts for how to go about creating great mobile web design.  Read more

Adobe Business Catalyst is an excellent eCommerce Content Management System, but the static shopping cart is a drawback. We've addressed this and you can download our code to turn a default static layout into a fully responsive cart.  Read more

According to Google, the latest updates to their search algorithm (introduced on April 21st 2015) have now been fully ‘rolled out’. Our "Minimising the effects of Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’" post gave you the main facts about what exactly was changing this time around, but now that it’s been a couple of weeks since the update, we thought we’d dive in a little deeper and offer some advice on what you should be doing to adapt to the changes.  Read more

You may have heard about Google’s latest search algorithm changes that are set to hit many businesses, lowering the website rankings of those not deemed to be mobile-friendly. The changes were announced a full two months ago in February and were released on 21st April. They will be rolled out over the next couple of weeks and look set to be the largest changes the search engine have made to their algorithm in recent years.  Read more

Responsive design might seem like the new kid on the block, the latest must-have for your site, but what if your clients don’t access your site on their mobile phones? What if your visitors use their desktop computer or laptop and are happy to continue doing so? Do you really need to bother about making your site responsive? Or is there something you’re missing?  Read more

The way in which your visitors use and interact with your website plays a critical part in its success. If your webpages are clunky and unresponsive, if they take a long time to load and movement between pages and elements isn’t flowing and intuitive, it won’t be long before your users click away from your site and go somewhere else instead.  Read more

People can be impatient. They don’t much like waiting in queues. They don’t like delays on public transport. And they definitely don’t like slow mobile websites. It’s an unfortunate fact that whilst 64% of smartphone users expect a website to spring into life in three seconds, the average website takes around eight seconds to load.  Read more

Mobile website design can be daunting. Does it need to be different from the desktop version? If so, how? And how will you ever cater for differing devices and screen sizes? Here, we’re keeping things simple with six easy tips.  Read more

In our last blog post, we looked at some of the ways designers are using responsive web design to deal effectively and imaginatively with images, layouts and navigation, but of course these are not the only elements of a webpage. So this week, we’re going to extend the topic to include some more advanced design features, focusing on some of the latest approaches to handling forms, tables and iframes.  Read more