Archive for the ‘Client Information Series’ Category
What is a search engine? A search engine is a program that crawls the internet, following links, and analysing the content it comes across. When the ‘Google-bot’ visits a website, it looks for certain criteria relating to the page it is currently on and then decides which keywords or phrases are most relevant to that [...]
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Most people are pretty familiar with what a browser is these days, at least to the point of knowing that that’s the programme they use to look at the internets (it’s the big blue e right, that you double click and it opens and tells you about all sorts of security problems before letting you [...]
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The vast majority of websites built for clients these days are made using a Content Management System that enables the client to edit and update their website without knowledge of any computer programming languages. However there are some tasks that are difficult to automate and at the same time allow a client to have complete [...]
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Designing websites can be a complicated business. Unlike print design, where end users all see the same final product regardless, web users all see a design slightly differently. When designing for the web we have to accommodate different operating systems, different browsers, and perhaps the biggest variable, different screens. Screens come in various shapes and [...]
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For anyone that has managed a website before the answer to this is obvious and the concept easy to understand. But I remember when I knew nothing much about websites and searching for a simple, non-technical answer to this question brought few results. But the answer is simple. Q. What is a Content Management System [...]
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As web designers one of the many functions we simply could not live without is the ability to capture the contents of our screen as a static image. It is useful to capture logos, work on design mock-ups, show clients work that still needs coding, or send images that display problems that need fixing. It’s [...]
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What is a Relation Tree Diagram? To be honest I’m not sure whether that’s actually a technical term or not but I decided it sounds better than ‘one of those diagram things with boxes and words and arrows and stuff’, so I’m gonna roll with it. A relation tree diagram in Web Design is a [...]
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In internet marketing theory there is an often quoted axiom which claims that the average internet user has a very limited attention span. A so-called ‘digital goldfish’, he jumps from link to link, scanning images, watching videos, and possibly reading a headline or two.
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The internet is a complex place. We recognise that much of the information required to plan and maintain an effective online presence is often specialist knowledge that requires an understanding of technical language and concepts. As full time computer geeks and design-heads we often take this knowledge for granted and forget how perplexing everything was [...]
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