8Apr
I’ve gotten into a poor habit recently of skim reading many new posts about the web, and not doing the necessary investigation into some of the new advancements on the web. One of these is responsive design. My understanding of responsive design is to think of designing a website using a liquid layout but with added media queries to alter the layout somewhat at certain resolutions.
This is so that you can create more suitable layouts not only for mobile devices but also utilise the greater space available at larger resolutions. Though I’m not sure if I’ll be looking to use such a method of design in all client work just yet I thought it was worth investigating the concept and attempt to implement a suitable solution.
So with this is mind I thought I would hijack the new Becky Naylor website to try this out. With recent redesigns of Dave’s site late last year and the Bronco site more recently Becky was looking for a refresh to her site. So with some spare time between client work I tested out how to implement the media queries correctly and then began designing the new website, which is now live.
As a personal website the site of course has to suit Becky and I really hope it does, it keeps aspects of the previous site but updates it, cleans it up and utilises some new technologies so it looks simply awesome in any modern browser.
Let’s hope it last’s her another couple of years.
4Apr
Today marks 8 years since the start of Bronco and over that time I’ve worked for the company for about 4.5 years. In that time I’ve loved working at Bronco, even if there are times I find the job and the clients testing I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else.
But enough about me, the point of this post is to introduce yet another new Bronco website to the nation. It’s more coincidence than anything else but with it being Bronco’s 8th birthday it seemed apt to launch our new website. This is the 4th Bronco site I’ve designed and built in my time at Bronco and as always I think this is best yet.
It’s my belief that our site has to be the best that we can do and at times it just happens that we want to have a bit of an update. There are elements of the site I would love to revisit but on the whole I’m really happy with the new design and the additions we’ve made to the website.
You can read more about what we have added to the site and why on the Bronco website and if you have any feedback then please leave a comment below.
Enjoy
10Jun
A lot of online companies add testimonials to their website as a way to improve a prospective customer’s view of them. By adding quotes from previous customers it’s expected that it will make new customers think “how can we not work with these guys, they’re great”.
But can you trust these testimonials?
Without an upload function like comments and reviews seen on most websites it means the testimonials are hard coded into the website. Between a customer submitting a testimonial and it appearing on the website it will come across the desks of the web developers and company.
Continue reading “Testimonials – The right or wrong message?”
3Dec
Google have gone all minimalist this December and rolled out an update to its homepage. On coming to the Google homepage now you are simply met with the core elements of the logo, search box and the two buttons, everything else has vanished. It’s only when you move your mouse over the site that the other elements, which are primarily all links, fade in.
From what I’ve been told over twitter and a bit of Google research it seems this is something they’ve been quietly working away on for the past couple of months, but unusually for some of Google’s playtoy’s this has actually gone live.
Continue reading “New Google Homepage”