Recently, Three.co.uk (the mobile and broadband provider) got a big facelift and had their website redesigned. In this article I describe key elements of this redesign. When you first load the page, your eyes are not drawn strongly to any particular section of the screen. The design is very flat, something which I will raise [...]
All too often in the web design world, usually from a client perspective, web sites must have flashy animations, glossy buttons and other “Web 2.0″ style graphics. It is often overlooked that some of the most beautiful designs are the simple ones – usually created by a charming colour scheme alongside some kickass typography. In [...]
The building in which I work (for Save9), Woodend Creative Workspace, recently had a bit of a facelift for its website. The work was undertaken by Colour Creation, one of its many tenants. This project wasn’t a completely new design. It was a transformation of a simple information based website, in to a website driven [...]
Ok, so maybe this doesn’t have to do entirely with the actually property listing websites themselves, but more so in relation to the content they have. I am currently looking at new accommodation and I’m growing increasingly frustrated. I’m not moving out for another few months, but I thought it’d be worthwhile checking out some [...]
Every two weeks I will be reviewing a website of my choosing, and examining certain key aspects of the design. The reason for this? I have grown a little bit tired of seeing website publish lists and lists of websites because they look good. Sure, these posts are popular, but they have little value other [...]
On Thursday 25th February, an initiative (from Google, Enterprise UK, BT, e-skills UK and Enterprise UK) launched a web service called Getting British Business Online (GBBO). The aim of this initiative is to help get 100 000 UK organisations to get their first website online by the end of 2010. In this service, people who [...]
My email inbox gets spammed with all kinds of stuff – a lot of which is my fault. Anywho, I got one of those emails from Monster.co.uk, telling me about all the latest IT jobs that were available – none of which matched, because it was an out of date C.V. So I decided to [...]