I wanted to try and help you to visualise this concept which will probably result in you thinking how obvious it sounds but I am amazed by the amount of websites which still do not follow this principle. Continue reading
I was getting frustrated by the same old facebook and twitter share buttons and most of the tools out there are either very standardised or complicated. I wanted to use my own style share buttons for some of my web designs. I have aimed the tutorial at Squarespace websites but the principles should work with any site. Continue reading
I had previously tried a free trial of one of these services promising to get ‘Real’ ‘Quality’ Twitter followers for your business account and I must say that I was not really satisfied with the results. That is until I signed up with SocialQuant.net. Continue reading
As my followers are probably aware, I am a big fan of Squarespace and it accounts for over 50% of all of my web designs for clients. I still feel that Squarespace is best suited to brochure style websites but it does have a feature for eCommerce which we are going to have a look at. Continue reading
Since 2014, Google has been redesigning its apps and services according to its own Material Design principles. Yesterday it announced on its design blog that an upcoming release of its Chrome browser (version 49.2) will adopt Material Design as its default rendering. Critically the new version of Chrome—dubbed Chrome MD—will override site-defined CSS in deference…
via Google rolling out Material Design web-wide — Webdesigner Depot
One of the great things about looking at trends each month is catching a glimpse of what designers are experimenting with. In particular, you start to see a distinct crossover of elements that you might have missed at first glance.
That exact thing happened with this month’s collection. Note all the yellow and gold tones. Even in picking out examples of great work for other trends, websites with these hues kept creeping in.
Read what’s trending in design this month at http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2016/03/essential-design-trends-march-2016/
Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages and are aiming at different markets. I found this very good comparison that should help you make your decision.
http://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/squarespace-vs-wordpress/
It’s a genuine question that I am investigating!
I am sat writing this blog post at 4am after around one and a half hours sleep which seems to be normal for me at the moment. Admittedly, I may doze off at around 6pm for an hour tonight but these habits seem to have become prominent since starting my own web design business. Continue reading
This is a question that I get asked a lot. It is usually quite straight forward to receive email from your domain address i.e. matt@switchtoonline.com but it can become confusing when you want to send from that address.
Squarespace offers an excellent range of SEO options to give your website the best chance of climbing the rankings.
