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How to create a Favicon?

A small bit of a website is the favicon, and by small, I mean about 16 x 16 pixels small. It adds just a little bit more to your site, for very little effort. For those who don’t know what the favicon is, it’s the little icon for websites that’s generally to the left of the address and is used next to bookmarks to that site. As mentioned before, they have to be 16 x 16 pixels and is supported ...

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Aesthetics or Functionality?

Arguably the most important aspect of web development, other than getting the website working in the first place is whether to place more emphasis on aesthetics or functionality. Personally, I think aesthetics come with functionality, so a simplistic or functional site is aesthetic in a way. Of course, many people discuss the Golden Ratio when it comes aesthetics, but I find that a simple functional website ends up being more pleasant than a convoluted website. Of course, there are exceptions, but a ...

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Appropriate usage of Advertisements

Fortunately for web designers, advertisements provide a means of monetising their website, which can often lead to being able to provide more quality content and/or run competitions and so on. Unfortunately for web browsers, advertisements can be beyond annoying and create a massive hassle if the web designers insists on pop-ups or other such things that interrupt the user experience. So yet, another aspect of web development comes down to finding a good balance.

There are many ways of delivering advertisements ...

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Designing Web Pages For All Resolutions

There are many important factors to be considered in Web Development, from browser compatibility, graphic design, optimisation and more, however a big one is designing the web page to work in all screen resolutions. Some people may still be browsing off a small/old monitor (That’s not including mobiles).  According to this Wikipedia article the lowest standard computer screen resolution is 640 x 480 pixels, however, the percentage of web users using it are insignificant. The next highest resolution is 800 ...

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Bad Web Pages

Web development is difficult and mocking those who make attempts isn’t overly constructive, however learning from the  mistakes of others is an extremely useful skill to learn in any profession, not just web design. So for our learning and enjoyment, I recommend  the website www.webpagesthatsuck.com and their recent article “Worst Websites of 2012″. While an enjoyable read, it also contains a lot of valid criticism amongst the jokes and banter. Personally they were correct with picking the first site ...

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Cookies and Web Development

Many lay users get confused by a lot of the names and terminology of the computing world, one of the most prevalent I find in Web Development is cookies, that and a lot of people seem to struggle with “Web Browser” for some reason, but I digress. Cookies are an extremely important part of Web Development relating to user experience, such as remembering session state, allowing them to stay logged in and remembering their setting for that particular site. Cookies ...

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Web Page File Size

An aspect of Web Development that seems to have taken a back seat compared to it’s importance in the 90′s and early 2000′s is web page size. Since the developed world has vastly increased penetration of broadband users, the need for small web page size has been reduced, however, that does not take into account the users who have to use dial-up because of living in rural areas or a variety of other reasons. Developing countries also don’t have as ...

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Different image formats on the Web

Web Design is a fickle beast and it has many different nuances that may not be apparent on the surface, but are all too relevant. An important aspect of web design is as the title of this blog suggests, the different image formats available to web developers. This blog provides an excellent and in depth analysis of the different image formats and their uses, the blog in question goes into detail about the main ones, .jpeg, .png, and .gif. My favourite ...

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Web Development for Mobile

As most people would have noticed over the past few years is the increased prevalence of smartphones within today’s society. Obviously, this comes with lots of advantages, internet access on the go, increased connectivity and so on. However, this presents another user base for Web Developers, the increase of users accessing the web from mobile devices has apparently increased to 13% of all internet traffic according to this article. This is a huge increase from two years ago where it was only 4%. ...

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More on Search Engine Optimisation

A few months ago, we wrote an article about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) because Google had released a video discussing it. While we did discuss the article to some degree, SEO is a lot deeper than that, some might even call it an art. SEO is an ever changing landscape as Search Engines are continuously adjusting their secret formulas to address exploits or to better improve results. Due to the secrecy of these secret formulas, SEO isn’t an exact science, however web designers or ...

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