Tech Life

Accordion menus are a type of display widget found on desktop and mobile apps. They allow you to display a large number of menu options while conserving space. But before you use them, you should know how to best design them for your users. Every accordion menu needs an affordance icon to tell users what  Continue Reading…

By any reasonable measure, WordPress is a phenomenon. Altogether, WordPress-enabled sites power 25% of the Internet, and WordPress has a 59% market share of all Content Management Systems (CMS). WordPress has spawned a truly incredible ecosystem of plugins (more than 40,000), themes (at least 10,000), hundreds of thousands of “Wordpress developers”, and thousands of hosting  Continue Reading…

You could think that background music in web design was totally out. We, the web designers and developers thought we had left behind this anachronistic way of attracting attention since the early stages of web design. But we were wrong. Sound, in the shape of effects or background music for particular areas of a website,  Continue Reading…

So, did it hurt? When you landed at the bottom of the SERPs, I mean, and Google slapped a scary red warning message on your site telling people to keep out. If this happened due to an error on your part (bad SEO, shady linking tactics, etc) that’s one thing. But if your site was hacked  Continue Reading…

One thing that not enough designers focus on when designing websites is cutting down on user errors. That’s a pity because user errors have a direct impact on a site’s user experience…which has a direct impact on a site’s conversions…which has a direct impact on how much money your client stands to lose. Put another  Continue Reading…

Some site owners may well have been surprised this morning, when checking their analytics, to discover that customers are still visiting them using Internet Explorer. Despite the fact that yesterday Microsoft ended support for any version of IE older than 11—Microsoft will not be providing updates and security patches for them—IE8, 9 and 10 have  Continue Reading…