Flash is a technology by Macromedia that creates animations, interactive websites and other fancy features that can be embedded into a web page. The Flash file is called a movie file. Once the file has been downloaded it will “play”. You probably have already encountered websites containing Flash movies. Some designers use Flash to create [...]

Web graphics play an important part in the presentation of a website. Using the correct type of web graphic which has been optimized for optimum download speed and web hosting space conservation will affect the performance of the website. Sites containing lots of images will be slow to load and require more web hosting space. [...]

How does your site look in any of the major browsers? Not everyone is using Internet Explorer to surf the Internet these days. Are you prepared to loose visitors because your site uses proprietory coding or just doesn’t render properly in all browsers? Can you afford the lost sales? Is Your Site Cross-Browser Compatible? Cross-browser [...]

Improving download speed of webpages is important to the success of a website. Internet users are impatient with slow websites and will move on if the webpage takes too long to render (also known as download). There are a few things you can do to improve download speed of your web pages which include implementing [...]

Using uncommon fonts in your web page or website can be a problem. Windows based and Mac based computers come with different fonts installed by default. One problem web designers have is that they forget that the average computer user may not have the same fonts installed on their machine. Once you add a program [...]

Have you ever visited a site and just left? What caused you to leave? Couldn’t read the site? Couldn’t navigate the site? The site required a special plug-in to view the site or a portion of it? The web page content was not useful or informative? The web page broke in your chosen browser? The [...]