Site Design Archives

Effective Colour Contrast

Have you taken a serious look at the colour scheme your website uses? Are all parts of your web page visible to everyone? Some times when we pick a colour scheme for our website we forget that there are people with poor vision and colour deficiencies. Even website visitors with “normal” vision can have difficulties [...]

Does Your Website Have to be Accessible?

Accessible websites have come to the forefront of people’s minds with legal actions being taken against websites that are not accessible. As a website owner you may think this doesn’t affect your small business, association or non profit website but it does. Let’s take a look at accessible websites beyond the buzz word accessible, the [...]

Not Designing for Most Common Screen Resolution

As a website owner or web designer you have to take into consideration what are the most common screen resolutions for the intended target audience of the website to determine what web page width is suitable for the website. Have you visited a website that has a web page width too wide for your monitor [...]

Heading Structure – Heading Tag

Heading structure is important not only to present a clear structure to the web page but also in consideration of those using text readers and the search engines. First let’s go over what Heading tags are. Heading Tags Heading tags are used to define the headings in your page. There are 6 available, h1 set [...]