This question is often mentioned amongst web designers and web developers. I only heard this debate rear its head the other day and it all comes down to does the website do what it was built to achieve? This article gives both sides of the debate and hopefully sheds some light on it.

When creating websites, one of the most often overlooked functions is how accessible your website is to people with disabilities. This may be weird for a few people to understand but people with disabilities (including visual impaired!) access the web and may come across your website. If your website isn’t built with accessibility in mind it can be unusable. So why does accessibility matter and how hard is it to accomplish?

The golden rule of marketing is to test and measure. Testing and measuring allows you to work out exactly what aspects of your marketing are working. Your website is included in this yet many companies still do not monitor who visits their website amongst other related statistics

Now, this isn’t a post against Dreamweaver and similar software. This post is about using a web designer/designer who truly understands the web and doesn’t use this type of software to generate bloat code. One question you may be thinking, but why does it matter? Read on to discover the truth.

Adobe Flash is common place on the web, ranging from games to fully featured websites. With modern technologies you can can achieve most of the affects created in Flash without using Flash. Does this spell the end of Flash or does it have its place?

You may think that this is a straightforward and easy question to answer, however many companies just have a website for needs sake. When you know the benefits of a website only then can you really start to exploit them.

A website is never finished. It continually needs refinement as the Web grows more mature. But changing an already successful website can be nerve-racking experience. Introducing the power of the A/B testing technique to compare how successful new features of your site are takes away all the worry.

Even as few as 5 years ago, designing websites, which are viewable on mobile phones, was reserved for specialist websites and applications. Nowadays designing a mobile version of your site, or at least a site which looks good on desktops and mobile, is a necessity.

You would think that a print designer would be able to handle any form of web design and likewise a web designer would be able to come up with a stunning business card design. This may be true but to get the best results you need to have a different designer for your print and web work.

Web designers have struggled with fonts on the Web since, well, people began designing websites. We have never had a large selection of native fonts that work across most platforms and the inconsistencies between the ones we do have, are huge. However there is a faint light at the end of the tunnel, which should hopefully solve many of today’s issues.