Is Accessibility Still Relevant in Web Design?

Is Accessibility Still Relevant in Web Design?

Back in 1998 building an accessible website was very different from how it’s done today. You’d open your copy of Notepad, edit the raw Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), save that HTML file, FTP it up to your server, and then test the URL using the W3C tools and presto! You had an accessible web … Read more

What, Your Web Designer didn’t SEO your Website?

Remarking “What, your web designer didn’t SEO your website?” might sound like a flippant remark, but it’s quite common. The situation usually goes something like this; I’ll be talking with business owners about how things are going… Me: “How’s your website doing?” Client: “Very good, thank you, everyone loves how it looks.” Me: “Are you … Read more

A Serious Sign That Your Site Should be Mobile Friendly

When Google says jump many people ask how high? So when the Mountain View search giant announced today that it would start flagging up mobile friendly websites in the SERPS this was a sign of just how serious it is to have a mobile first theme.

Looking at the Analytics stats for one of my busiest sites mobile devices account for over 25% of the traffic. The content was not written specifically for a mobile audience nor does the website cater for such devices, so to know that a quarter of users are already consuming that media in such a manner is important.

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22i Design – 10 Years

When a little London digital agency tweeted the other week something along the lines of “Hooray – we’ve been doing business for 10 years!” it suddenly dawned on me… …22i Design, my little Farnborough web design business, was 10 years old on the 5th September 2010! I’d been so incredibly busy that the date plain slipped … Read more