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Website Design Secrets – Tips to Making a Website Look Professional

Making a website look professional is not that difficult, you just need to follow a few rules. But it is so easy to go from a professional looking finish to a childish version that you need to take care at every step. There are no great secrets to making a website look professional, you just [...]

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Best Practices of Page Navigation in Website Design

Getting the page navigation correct in your website design is critical. Get it wrong and your visitors and the search engines cannot find their way around the site. Get it right and you will have a well optimised site in which visitors can find what they want. There are many views of best practices for [...]

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Web Design – The Best (Tried & True) Fonts For Websites

What are the best fonts to use if you are building a new website? Are fancy, curly, eye catching fonts the best, or the plain and boring standard fonts? Frequently when I am building a website after the customer has looked at a few revisions, the topic of conversation drifts to the fonts that should [...]

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What Screen Resoutions Should We Be Designing For?

Long ago the 800 X 600 screen was the norm. Even last year, it was highly prevalent and websites had to be designed for it as well as 1600 pixel wide screens. This meant either an expanding screen to fill whatever size screen is being used, which can be problematic, or a narrow 800 pixel [...]

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The easiest form to email script I ever did write!

I got completely fed up recently with writing long form to email scripts, testing them and spending the time to get them working. Quite often a small spelling mistake would lead to failure of something, sometimes going unseen for a while. But then two sites came along at the same time each with several different [...]

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