Posts in the Web Design category

• Why I don't like homepage sliders

  29 August 2014 by Clive Walker

  There’s a common web design pattern that I see a lot these days. It’s a big and bold image slider with five or six images on the home page of a site. Sometimes, they have a text message over each image. Sometimes they scroll the images automatically. I’m sure you’ve seen them and I’ve coded a few of these myself (and will probably do a few more). However, are they really helping get your message across and converting website visitors? Or are they just “eye candy”?

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• Macaw is looking very good

  09 October 2013 by Clive Walker

  I've seen a couple of demo videos now from Macaw, which is a new web design tool that is under development. I'm very impressed. Not only with the interface but also with the code that it produces. Anyway, here's their latest demo video.

• Responsive Day Out in Brighton

  03 March 2013 by Clive Walker

  Last week, I attended Responsive Day Out. It was a full day, great value conference that was organised by Clearleft – and Jeremy Keith in particular. All the speakers gave presentations about Responsive Web Design (RWD). So, here are a few of my thoughts about the day.

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• At the Port80 Web Design Conference

  28 May 2012 by Clive Walker

  Last week I went to the Port 80 Web Design Conference (Twitter) in Newport. The conference was organised by Joel Hughes who wanted to have a web design conference in South Wales. Great credit to him for deciding to do something like this – and then doing it! Here’s my take on the conference.

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• Responsive web design is easy with fluid layouts

  23 January 2012 by Clive Walker

  So, I have been thinking a lot about responsive web design recently. I’ve been reading about some CSS frameworks and recoding some of my core files so they can adapt to any grid system that I choose to use. As a result, I’ve decided to use fluid or elastic layouts or hybrid layouts wherever possible from now on.

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• Checking out responsive grid systems

  27 December 2011 by Clive Walker

  Over the last few weeks I've been browsing a few responsive grid systems/CSS frameworks, partly as a means of learning new responsive web design methods

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• Ideas of March

  15 March 2011 by Clive Walker

  Today, I read a couple of tweets on Twitter which lead me to Chris Shiflett’s post, Ideas of March, where he encourages a blog revival by asking folks to write a similar post (saying why they like blogs) and to blog more for the rest of the month. So, here’s my post with that same theme

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• Review and Revise - How to review your website

  21 February 2011 by Clive Walker

  I’ve been reviewing CVW Web Design recently. It’s my main site, I want it to work as well as possible, and now seemed to be a good time to assess it (perhaps leading to a redesign). In this post, I’ll describe the process I am using. You may have alternative ways of doing this but here’s what I have done so far.

• New website for Chess Dynamics

  10 February 2011 by Clive Walker

  At the end of last year, we finished a redesign of the Chess Dynamics website. It was a project that I really enjoyed working on for a number of reasons.

• Website navigation menu examples

  05 February 2011 by Clive Walker

  Website navigation menus are a fundamental part of any website and it's easy to code these with CSS so that they look attractive and provide accessible links for your visitors and search engines.