The information superhighway, more popularly known as the internet, has arrived in a new avatar and sports a look that is more than what can be called just appealing. Websites that are crammed up with textual information and poorly-managed content are now a passé. The internet users of today are more likely to ignore such [...]
Category Archive for ‘Web Design’ 
Outsourcing Your Website To a Web Design Company
Should a company outsource its website to a web design company or keep the process in-house? Outsourcing company’s website development to a web design company is popular among businesses. Over 50 % UK companies currently outsource work to a web design company. Outsourcing website development to a web design company is equally popular with [...]
Web Design: 7 Usability Strategies a Web Design Company Should Use
A web design company’s one of the key challenges is to strike a balance between different web design elements. A web design company’s focus is equally on websites usability than on the visual design of the website. There is little doubt that the design of a website is key to its commercial success.
There are many [...]
Can Web 2.0 Survive the Cancer of Comment Trolls?
I can hear the complaints already: If you read one more geeky media type going on about how Web 2.0 is helping transform the news from a lecture into a conversation, you’ll fire off an angry e-mail or toxic, troll-worthy comment accusing me of trafficking in trendy new media cliches.
Overlay.TV Helps You Customize, Monetize Streaming Video
Overlay.TV, a startup that lets users augment streaming videos with customized text, audio, images, and links, has launched to the public. The service overlays videos from a number of video sharing sites with a new layer containing this customized content, which can be used for entertainment purposes or as an easy (and potentially effective) means of monetizing video.
To use Overlay.TV, you first give the site the source URL of the video you’d like to modify. Overlay then streams this video from the original host (the site doesn’t host any video content, so it shouldn’t have to worry about the copyright violations that plague sites like YouTube). After loading the video, users are free to add their own content as part of a new layer with options that include text, links, custom images, and clip art. The site includes some basic timeline functionality, so you can set specific times for each item to fade in or out, but it can be hard to finetune the position and timing of each element.
Javascript in Modern Web Design
In today’s web design, Javascript is a must-have component. Aside from its functionality, Javascript can enhance user experience by creating transitional effects such as fading and sliding animation. Thanks to the open source Javascript frameworks, we don’t need to write custom Javascript from scratch anymore. Here are 47 Javascript plugins that you can use [...]
Redesigning Your Company?s Website: Top 10 Tips
A company’s web design is in constant need for improvements and enhancements. A web design company should understand the different issues that make a website effective. The importance of an effective web design for a company has increased manifold in recent years. Today a company’s website goes much beyond offering information. Web design plays [...]