The world is divided into Right brain and Left brain people. Images grab the attention and resonate more with right brain thinkers. While left brain people are more attracted by headlines and the text that follows. Either way, both images and text are equally important to have in order to grab as much of your audience as possible.

The world is busy and fast passed - you only have minutes, if not seconds, to grab someone's attention and make a connection. By including imagery on your…

Most people sign on to their computer every morning without much thought as to the tool they use to browse their favorite sites. If you (or your IT department) are not in the practice of staying up to date with the latest browser versions you may find that eventually a website looks different on another computer (which has a different browser or browser version). As a result you are not getting the best user experience possible.

Of course a good web developer painstakingly reviews their …

Part 1 was all about padding – giving your web page layouts some breathing space. Now let’s go one step deeper into “breathing space”. If your website has lots of content, paragraphs and paragraphs of text, then this is perfect for you.

Line Spacing or Line Height:The amount of vertical spacing, expressed in points (or pixels), from the baseline of one line of text, to the baseline of the next line.

Line spacing may not be obvious to the reader but it sure does make a difference in how…

In the Font series of blogs we talked about ways to chose and use fonts to make your site easier to read and understand. When it comes to space and layout it’s no different. All of these components add up to the general feeling your site gives to the public, even well before you add graphics and colour.

Padding – it’s not just for contact sports

Padding is the empty space that surrounds all content, images and design elements (such as boxes, buttons etc.) on your web site. Padding gives…

In Part 1 we talked about fonts and how many you should use on your site. The General rule is to use no more than 3 fonts.

Here is a guide you can use when applying the fonts you’ve chosen to your web site.

Font choice #1: Headings

Your website headings should be larger than the rest of the content on the page and usually in a colour that stands out (by this I don’t mean that you need to pick a bright colour, just a colour that is different from the content and has enough contrast).

For…

We all love using images on our pages. They add that 'Je ne sais quoi' to our meal. But what happens when we want that image to link to another webpage. Most often, the average user would try to put an image (example: a logo) inside an anchor tag. Finishing it off by giving it an alt attribute, in the case that the image doesn’t show for whatever earthly reason.

I know what you're thinking: I'm not an average user, buddy! So I say: 'Good on you mate!'

Let's improve and evolve our ways,…

When it comes to searching the web your first and last stop (likely) is Google.  Now, with two new Google web services you too can harness the power of Google from within your own website.

In the past year Google created two new web services: Custom Search Engine ( http://www.google.com/coop/cse/) and Google Site Search ( http://www.google.com/sitesearch/). At their core, these tools allow you to add a Google search box to your website. Not just a plain old Google search box which…

That's a fair question. I'll try to explain why in this very brief article.

The IGLOO platform generates URLs by stripping non-alphanumeric characters, removing white spaces, transforming to lowercase letters, and truncating it to 10 characters. Easy stuff.

Now, let's say you've created a folder with an already existing name. You'll notice the URL will have a ~ character followed by a number which represents the number of duplicates.

Using the igloosoftware website as an example, I'll show…

Flash paper is the viewer in which you view documents. Working similarly to Adobe Reader, Flash Paper
allows you to view a document without having to download it. You can search for specific words, zoom
in and out of the document, or print form the page.

There are certain attributes a file must have to appear in Flash Paper.
Flash Paper currently supports the following file types:

• Word
• PDF
• PowerPoint
• Plain text
• Excel
• Text
• CSV

Flash Paper will not display documents that are corrupted, password…