A month ago I wrote that little design changes can make a big difference to conversion and now here’s the conclusive proof.
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Yearly archives: 2006
John Lewis – great fluid design pity about the tables
This week I discovered the John Lewis website and I must say it has mightily impressed me. The only thing that troubles me is the HTML/Javascript code lying beneath. Admittedly, isn’t as awful as some (we’ve all seen worse) it isn’t as forward thinking as the website would suggest. A quick View Source reveals the
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Why I drive 35 miles every day to make websites
Whenever I tell somebody in Manchester that I work in Wigan, they can’t fathom it. They think it’s such a long way to go to work everyday (despite the fact that many people make the reverse trip). For me, the task of designing websites and building them is really enjoyable so being given the opportunity
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G24 – a new era in newspaper publications
This week saw the launch of G24 – a PDF version of the Guardian that is updated throughout the day. Here is the blurb: G24 brings you the latest stories from the Guardian, Guardian Unlimited and the Observer – updated throughout the day. There are five pdfs to choose from: Top stories, World, Media, Business
Little design changes can make a big difference to conversion
In his article Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Re-align Cameron Moll talked about not redesigning a site completely and certainly not just for aesthetically reasons but mroe a redesign (or realignment) should be done purely for the purpose of improving the goals of a website. Really small, some might say insignificant design changes can have
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Understanding CSS floats
In my designs, I tend to use floats, as opposed to relative/absolute positioning, as I find it gives a design more power and a greater ability to scale vertically. When I first approached CSS I couldn’t for the life of me understand how floats worked. My main struggle was trying to comprehend why floating something