The Web Design Blog
This is a web design blog where we publish posts, articles and tutorials about the latest web trends, techniques and new possibilities. The team at Active Webdezign is dedicated to provide useful, inspiring and innovative content that is free of charge and perhaps most importantly of all, easy to understand.
What started as an inexperienced blog became an exciting playground for sharing the passion for web design and web development with our customers and fellow web designers.
The web is changing and evolving each and every day, pushing the boundaries of how websites are built from the fundamental structure to the most delicate interaction effects. At Webdezign we want to share some of that on our web design blog. If YOU would like to talk about your ideas or a question you would like to see answered or addressed in a post, write a tutorial or simply share something that you created, please contact us.
How to avoid WordPress emails ending up in your spam folder
Often emails sent by WordPress can end up in your spam folder, because it isn’t setting the message envelope prope...
Free responsive HTML template using Sass
Perfect for the Christmas season we have a special gift for you: A free responsive HTML template! You can browse a demo ...
How to migrate a WordPress website
During the stages of developing a website it is sometimes necessary to Migrate WordPress website, for example to change ...
What is an apprenticeship?
Tired of being stuck in a classroom? What is an apprenticeship you ask? Not sure if university is the right option for y...
Long, Lost Logo Lookalikes
As more and more companies are becoming popular, more logos are being designed in the process. This has lead to some str...
IconBuffet – Free Icons, Stock Icons, Custom Icon Design
I was doing some spring cleaning in my folders and stumbled upon my old sets from iconbuffet, anyone remember iconbuffet...
45 Free fonts for graphic designers
This is another round-up of some of our current favourite free fonts. We present you with a nice and varied selection of...
What’s it like to work within a web design team
Webdezign is more than just a company that makes fancy webpages or complex systems. ...
London Based Web Design Company?
Choose a London based web design company that knows your audience...
Websites with Free Stock Photos
With cameras now being predominantly digital, everyone can take pictures and lots of people are happy to share those wit...
Florian Csizmazia – das Junior Developer
Born in Vienna I started to develop my skills in web design and development in kindergarten. Building websites for Nike,...
Using the new Google plus badges
I just wanted to download the Google+ badges and update the graphic on my site, not become a developer or learn how to c...
Peter Persiel – Our guy at SAP
I’m Peter and I have worked for Webdezign in 2012 for about a month. My hometown Luneburg is located next to the lovel...
New responsive website launched… finally!
Building your own website when you are a web design company is like the mechanic who drives about in an old and battered...
Florian Malapel – le French Resistance
I’m Florian Malapel, french dude born in the North of France in 1993, I always been interested by everything which con...
SQL Joins CheatSheet
This is one of the quickest SQL desk side notes for web developers and php programmers. ...
Top 10 reasons why your web design should be responsive (RWD)
If you have heard or read about responsive websites, but don’t believe that your site needs to be updated in this mann...
Magento E-commerce For Fashion Retailers
Industry experts are in agreement that Magento has the ability to save time, allow you to offer a more engaging service ...
10 Mac Apps/Utility tools to help with web design and development + windows
We all have our little gems that we use to save us time and minimise repetetive tasks in our day to day work. ...
Matthias Knoll – Website Designer to Developer
To finish my course I had to do a one term internship. I always wanted to live abroad and this was my chance. I sent out...
Web designers in London
Our team of web designers in London who founded Active Webdezign fifteen years ago have all been able to evolve and grow...
How to access Magento core inside a custom build
We have recently been working on a few Magento Ecommerce sites that either incorporate wordpress or a custom build using...
WordPress Web Design & Development
Find WordPress Web Design & Development Services at Webdezign. Our WordPress designs are suitable for businesses, charit...
SSL Certificates Padlocks For Websites | London
Ever noticed the padlock that appears when you're logged into your Internet banking? It shows that the connection betwee...
Why We Use: WordPress
When looking for a new website, we recommend WordPress. But, I hear you ask: Why WordPress?...
How often should I redesign my website? | Revamp & Modernise For 2014
So, what if we told you that you could do better? Have you ever heard of Responsive Design? Technology moves very quickl...
Magento eCommerce Web Design Specialists, London
If you are looking for an online shopping cart solution for your website, Magento will make for an affordable customisab...
Ed The Intern doing work experience
What happens when you have a London lad and three web designers in the office while the boss is away? We had Edward visi...
Zsolt Hari – The Hungry one
I am Zsolt from Hungary, and no I am not hungry. :) I worked in London for 6 months in 2007 as a junior programmer....
Andreas Paech – The english student, AKAI
My name is Andreas Paech. I was born in Berlin 1993, but grew up in the area of Lüneburg. I was (unfortunately) only in...
Lebinh Ngo – Our Food Taster
Hi I’m Lebinh Ngo, I am a multimedia designer born and raised in London. I have always been passionate about new media...
Alex Mardapittas – Our man in China
I'm Alexis Mardapittas. I worked at Webdezign for about 1yr? I've lost a lot of my memory since then. Editors note: t...
Luke Williams – The Young Gun
I'm Luke Williams, a North London-er born and bred, and I first joined Active Webdezign on a two-week work experience pl...
What lies beyond Webdezign?
I've decided to try and track down some of the web designers and web developers we have had at Webdezign over the years ...
How to Create an impressive WordPress Gallery on your site
Nowadays, there are countless websites out there ! Some websites clearly stand out and attract more and more visitors ev...
How to setup your domain’s email in Gmail
We had a client in this afternoon who was wondering how to setup her email; hosted with ourselves, in some kind of email...
Benefits of building your website in London
It has been fifteen years since Active Webdezign opened its doors and modem connection to the world of the Internet. Bei...
We use WordPress
Wordpress is one of the biggest and most popular content management system in the world and it's available in 53 languag...
We are utilising responsive design!
Instead of creating a new website version for every different device that exists, we can work on making the information ...
Browser stats, Chrome has overtaken IE
Chrome has overtaken Internet explorer (5+ I assume) as the most popular browser in the world, ending Internet Explorers...
(cookies) KEEP CALM & CARRY ON
With all the historical references around the Jubilee last weekend, we were reminded of the stoicism of our parents and ...
The stupid EU cookie law in 2½ minutes
We have spoken about the new Cookie law in the past but today I stumbled upon a video by Oliver at Silktide explaining t...
Internet Explorer has stopped working
We had one of those days here in the office! As massive fans of the 'officespace' movie we used a picture of Milton. ...
Free ecommerce template using HTML5 and CSS3 animations
Christmas is over but I thought we would give away a little something even though it is mid January. I've created an eco...
Form CSS Free download
You know how you see all these great looking sleek UIs on websites giving away free PSDs....
We are looking for a senior web developer in London
We are looking for a motivated developer to join our team. You will be working in a small team where you will get the op...
Round navigation with overlapping CSS3 animations
I had some time to kill on friday afternoon so I decided to try if I could make a navigation that overlaps the neighbour...
Steve Jobs RIP
It has been a difficult year for all of us as it is, and to top it all up Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple Macintosh c...
How to fix position:absolute disappearing in ie
If you've experienced this problem you are probably ready to pull your hair out. It is completely random, sometimes it d...
Setting up an email account on your iPhone
If you have any problems to setup your email account on the iPhone or iPad, have a look at this article....
Setting up an email account on your BlackBerry
The process of setting up an email account on your Blackberry is fairly easy....
New cookie laws un-realistic within grace period
The 25th of May marks what could be a major turning point of the internet's privacy laws. This may change the way websit...
20 great free fonts, not the usual suspects
There is a myriad of great free fonts out there, we've all heard of League Gothic and Museo, but I wanted to list a few ...
Webdezign joins the Annual Design Awards
When we were approached to join the Annual Design Awards by it's founder, we were delighted. These awards are truly a sa...
Default search in Chrome – how to setup
We are not quite sure how you lost them in the first place but Mike managed to do so. So we thought someone else might m...
The Internet has 234 Million websites, Dec 2009
Put simply, if you are not online: You are most definetely missing out on potential clients/customers. Here is a video s...
Google looked different this morning (testing)
As most of you will know, Google actively A/B tests a multitude of elements and pages at any given time. So why this bl...
Payment Systems for Ecommerce
Millions of consumers use the Internet for banking, shopping and so forth on an everyday basis and are reliant for the...
The common fonts of the web and why we use them
If your computer and browser does not support Verdana it will try and use Arial, if there is no support it will try Helv...
YouTube is down – OMG
It was a big shock, but somewhat of a sobering revelation to see that YouTube website was down this morning....
Free wordpress 2.9 theme – Bright lemon
Bright Lemon is a free template to use with the open source blog WordPress....
Google to phase out support for IE6
rom the 1st of March 2010 Google are to phase out support for the Internet explorer 6, the so called week link in recent...
Free download – Glossy PSD buttons
We thought we would give away some free glassy buttons! They are made using Photoshop and each button is made up from 2 ...
Tomboy and how to sync two set of notes
Tomboy is a note taking application from GNOME written in C#. I first came across Tomboy notes when using the Ubuntu Liv...
Free HTML5 template
I've been playing around with some of the new HTML5 elements and ended up with a little template that I thought I would ...
How much does a Website Cost?
The answer to this question is not a single sum, nor is there a standard equation to determine the website cost. However...
Google is A/B testing image search
We have mentioned google A/B testing their homepage in the past and today we noticed they are up to exciting things on t...
Do I Need A Website?
Let me start by stating the obvious, you need a website! In the context of a credit crunch when businesses rely upon ret...
Launch of the all new Back2 ecommerce website
We are proud to announce the most recent launch of the long established central London based ergonomic furniture company...
Google robots.txt defends itself on Halloween
Google has decided to add 3 lines into their robots.txt this Halloween...
(Yahoo) You nailed it, just a few tiny changes
Yes we are fully aware that this is viral marketing promoting Yahoo and it's brand, but to be honest; we don't care. Thi...
Top 10 Benefits of a Website
We are often contacted by people who have been told that they need a website, but they are not really sure as to why the...
Google is A/B testing their homepage
A few days ago we read about how google was experimenting with their homepage again. ...
Google Chrome Themes by famous designers
The increasingly popular browser Google Chrome (3.0.195.3 and above only) has just launched a number of themes for their...
Microsoft new search engine Bing launches new visual search
Software giant Microsoft has introduced "visual search" to its Bing search engine to try to further set itself apart fro...
Pro bono work for local charity
Our London based web design and development team at Active Webdezign ltd. have been working hard on a charity website th...
Table Less Design is not the future it’s the past keep up!
In the world of web design, things have changed drastically since the early days of the internet when the online world w...
Team building day at the Go-Kart track
The summer has once again finaly arrived without any sign of a heatwave, but that can be expected in the UK, it's not un...
Cameron calls Twitts Twats, but what exactly was he implying?
What a fiasco..>!! David Cameron made a remark, which backfired on him.... Twat! (can i say that?)...
We need this, that and the other
All over the world, businesses deciding to launch an internet website often make the mistake of believing that their web...
Broadband speeds not up to the mark?
It has finally emerged publicly that the speed at which our broadband connections actually operate at, compared with wha...
Reading Glasses Direct Launched
We recently embarked on an e-commerce project of our own, setting out to prove to ourselves that you can create a succes...
Logo not looking the same on screen?
No matter how happy you are with the colours and design of your company logo, when it comes to displaying it on screen o...
Domain Registration Privacy
Everyone wants to keep their information safe and secure online with various organisations constantly reminding us not t...
Top 10 Tips The Set Up Of An Ecommerce Site
Any business that has yet to develop an online presence is missing out on the strong growth in online spend in the UK, e...
Should I change my browser from Internet Explorer IE 6?
Internet Explorer IE is one of the oldest and best known web browsers in the world. This is largely thanks to the popula...
Maintaining a Website
There is little doubt that creating a website opens up doors for any forward-thinking business, whether it be for e-comm...
I want to be number 1 on google
I want to be number 1 on Google is probably the most common request we get from potential customers. In response my ques...
UK Ecommerce Market Size
UK Ecommerce is an abbreviation of electronic commerce and embraces the buying and selling of products or services throu...
sIFR and What it Is
Update: sIFR is a thing of the past, see @sifr for more info. As broadband continues to improve, the internet is becomin...
What hosting is
The term ‘hosting‘, in a website context, refers to the storage, processing power, connectivity and other in...
Website Cost
As the world wide web grows bigger and wider ever day, it should come as no surprise that we all find ourselves losing p...
Website Security
For any company conducting business over the internet, the impact of a website security breach can have far-reaching eff...
Team building extravanganza – crocodile burger BBQ and poker
This Friday we gathered the troops of webzign and invited some of our friends over for a barbeque and poker evening at t...
How do I optimise images for Google?
“How do I optimise images” you ask. For companies with an online presence, attracting site visitors is large...
Safe Typography on the Web
Lets have a a talk about Typography on the Web. We have all seen websites that look as though they were created by someo...
Website hosting in London
The Webdezign policy on hosting for our clients websites has always been to achieve the highest standard available in th...
Spam spam spam and more spam, where does it come from?
Spam Spam Spam and Spam... the only encounter I had of that phrase in past years was the famous Monty Python sketch (I h...
So you got a creative brief, now what
We know it can seem a bit daunting with some of the questions but this process should be fun, and if you do it correctly...
Arbras Gallery new ecommerce development project
Webdezign are proud to have been chosen to take on the new ecommerce and web design project for one of our oldest return...
Domain Privacy Protection
Some people who own a domain name may already be aware that their personal details are openly available via the who-is d...
Webdezign launches website 2.0.1
The team at Webdezign have been very busy building new websites for our clients during 2008. It was only down to the det...
I’m not number 1 in Google
This article has been written in response to a member of the public responding to the ‘i want to be number 1 in Go...
How big is the Pie?
Online retail sales to reach £25.5 Billion Pounds in 2009 With a recession looming the general consensus of opinion ...
BetterJPEG Tutorial
Welcome to our series of tutorials on using the BetterJPEG software. Here you'll learn how to resize, crop and watermark...
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