Using Facebook’s Like Button on your Website
Facebook recently launched a suite of social plugins for websites allowing Facebook users to interact or promote your website to their friends. The most widely used of these plugins will be the Like button as shown below:
Latest Website Design Work
Its been a while since I have had time to post an update (how many posts start this way I wonder?) – anyway, we have been mostly busy with work from existing clients with only a few new projects to report – sign of the times I guess. » Read in full
Bristol Floating Harbour website launch
The Bristol Floating Harbour web resource brings together a wealth of primary sources from Bristol’s Museum Galleries & Archives and Libraries and additional material including learning projects that explore, explain and bring to life the area of the Floating Harbour.
The website encourages cross-curricular learning opportunities utilizing a range of skills that will support further investigation of this fascinating and historical area of Bristol. » Read in full
Spambots, CAPTCHAs and Honeypots
Spambots are automated programs (like search engine spiders) that scour the internet – these bots however ignore all the rules and look specifically for website forms to fill-in with malicious content (links to porn or viagra sites, malware downloads, password phishing sites, etc). They are a growing menace, and for website contact forms can produce a huge amount of spam email to the website owner. » Read in full
Optimum Size for Website Design
This is and will be an ever-changing consideration, but research has shown that the current optimum width is 960px or thereabouts, and the average page-fold is 700px. While it is important to keep the primary page content above the fold, users are happy to scroll down to additional content if the visual clues are there to encourage them, so don’t try to cram everything in at the top. » Read in full
