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Cast your Net wider, get mobile device-optimised!
Over the last few years, the mobile internet has become more prominent with the introduction of more affordable smart devices, as many mid-range mobile phones now come with Wi-Fi built in, as well as being able to surf via the airwaves with 3G. The introduction of the iPhone has certainly accelerated the race to achieve the best internet browsing experience for all mobile device producers and this boom doesn’t look like stopping anytime soon, with the announcement of the next generation of iPhone on the horizon.
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Top Web Design Considerations for Creative Agencies
One of the most important aspects of design is to know your target audience, hence considering the needs of the target users, such as accessibility, layout formatting, and levels of colour and imagery versus text quantity that can be considered as acceptable.
The above points go without question if you wish to create an effective and successful website design that visitors will come back to day after day.
Having worked with creative agencies for some time now, we have seen some fabulous designs right through to their creation and all has been well. However, on occasion, when a design that we receive is predominantly image heavy and difficult to break down, we find that we have to go back to the drawing board with the designers and take a number of steps to make the website more accessible to those users who might not have quite as high speed an internet connection as those more fortunate, or those who are still running older browsers (such as IE 6) which do not properly support transparent PNG images, which are essential to many of the more aesthetically pleasing designs.
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