Apparently doctors make the worst patients. As web designers, working on our own websites can be similarly life threatening.
We must be getting better at this though, because this was a cinch.
With more postal strikes on the way, now is the perfect time to save money, help the environment and send your Christmas cards electronically.
Silktide Studios are offering two ways you can send festive greetings this year.
Defra has been widely criticised for spending £180,000 on redesigning their website – because it looked ‘too brown’.
Now it’s easy to poke fun here, but as web designers we’re interested how that money was spent and why. I mean, the money didn’t just go on a colour change… right?
The problem with most websites is they’re built for the people who are building them.
All the things which matter to the person who pays for a website are almost entirely irrelevant to their poor audience. Is it cool? Are the corners rounded? Where is the SEXY GROUNDBREAKING NEW FEATURETM?
“Welcome to this book. Below you will see a list of the pages in this book, called The Contents. On other pages you will find the start of the story, the middle and – finally – the end, which is particularly exciting. Turn the page using your ‘hands’ to read more.”
Welcome text like this is common on the web, and just as stupid. For some reason, almost every small organisation has textual fluff like this throughout their site.
Wondering why your website doesn’t score highly in Google? Not sure what you can do about it?
Silktide Software has just launched Nibbler, a free tool for testing websites.
Take a look and tell us what you think! You can learn more on their brand new sexy blog.
Even our beautiful clients sometimes make mistakes. These are some of the most common, and what you can learn from them.
(We love you really).
This is the best explanation we’ve heard as to why splash pages are a bad idea.
“When we have clients who are thinking about Flash splash pages, we tell them to go to their local supermarket and bring a mime with them. Have the mime stand in front of the supermarket, and, as each customer tries to enter, do a little show that lasts two minutes, welcoming them to the supermarket and trying to explain the bread is on aisle six and milk is on sale today.
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We’ve become so successful, we have to change everything.
We’re changing a few things here at Silktide Studios. Now the lofty age of 8, we’ve grown, our work is our best yet – and this means a tonne of new challenges.
This is part of what we’re doing about them, and the lessons we’ve learnt along the way.
