2009

13

Aug

Image licences: painting a clear picture

By Daniel Keegan

High quality stock images are available at bargain rates from agencies, and there’s a huge variety to choose from. However, navigating round the different licence types can be somewhat confusing. It can be devastating to your business if someone finds you using their image outside the terms of its licence!

Making head or tail of each site’s terms & conditions is daunting even on a good day, so we’ve summarised the most typical and common here.

Read on…

2009

15

Jul

The case for outsourcing design and development

By Daniel Keegan

Out-of-the-box solutions offer the personal blogger or site news manager the kit they need to get a dynamic and active news site up and running in no time. There is currently a huge range of systems to choose from that provide a means to this end, and that are easy to rebrand and develop beyond the original installation. Read on…

2009

21

Mar

Best practice website navigation

By Dan Hawtrey

We were recently asked to review a website for usability. One of the key pieces the client wanted to look at was navigation. Surprisingly, there’s not a huge amount available on the web about this. Even Jakob Nielsen, the guru of website usability is pretty quiet on the subject. So we pulled together a few thoughts and rules of thumb when it comes to creating a good website navigation: Read on…