design

Templates help keep both your costs and time to launch your site down but also usually require sacrifices. Not anymore! We think the wait was worth it and have developed flexible responsive web templates for SiteCM.

We monitor changes in browser market share based on real world data from our customers and update our testing commitment every quarter . Knowing what to focus on helps us deliver the best web experience for today's dominant browsers.

The City of Vancouver just unveiled their new logo which as led to a lot of discussion about its (lack of) inspiration and the price tag. While we will leave the design discussion up to others, it is a great time to discuss the cost and what goes into a logo design.

If your web site is older than your mobile phone, then it is overdue for a redesign. There is no hard and fast rule when it comes to how often to go between web design updates so here are a few things you might want to consider.

No matter how great your site design was when you launched it, there comes a time when you will need to consider a redesign. While this might send shivers of terror down your spine, getting a new web site design is a great opportunity to revisit your strategy and look at what your site is doing well, what it is doing poorly, and what you want it to do.

Good web accessibility makes sense when you consider that up to 20% of the population has some sort of disability. As more jurisdictions introduce legislation around Accessibility, you need to understand how it affects your site.

Before we start on a web design for a client, the designers spend time doing research and searching for inspiration.  When they are working on tight deadlines on multiple projects a week for everything from retailers to manufacturers to insurance companies I am always impressed by their fresh ideas and creativity.   How do they do it week after week?   (Besides the fact that they are crazy talented!) I noticed through their time logs that they have a daily routine of surfing the web, reading...

"I want my site/store/software to be easy to use" is a requirement we hear all of the time.  The original iPod crushed all of the other MP3 players on the market because it was so easy to use.  History is full of examples of leaps of innovation making things so easy we can't imagine doing it any other way.  Early cars were steered with a tiller like you would a small boat for over a decade.  Doesn't that sound fun?  Hard to imagine though because the steering wheel makes so much sense. The...

When localizing or translating a web site elements frequently change size. You need to plan ahead with these tips.

The content rotator control is a fabulously flexible application for our SiteCM and CommerceCM users, which has been made evern more awesome with the addition of thumbnail images for the index control we have grown to know and love. [caption id="attachment_473" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The final result of the Richmond Oval New design for the thumbnail based Content Rotator"] [/caption] I have wanted this new variation of my favourite SiteCM control for months when finally one...