Website design

When discussing website design we naturally  focus on the homepage. In reality, the majority of your customers who come from search engines will be directed straight to your landing pages, category pages or product pages. The effectiveness of the different pages deeper within the site is vital to persuading these browsers into buying customers. How [Read more]

Useful analysis of carousels – you know, those “rotating” images people put on their home pages. Bad carousels in Flash, which is a complete no-no, as they don’t work on iPhones etc. The bottom line is that visitors get confused, frustrated and irrelevant content. The solution? Test.

When we take on new clients, we ask them what websites they like and where websites their customers shop. Overwhelmingly, they say John Lewis and Net-a-Porter. To a certain extent, this is driven by the fact that we take on niche brands selling to the ABC1 demographic, mostly with “robust” average order values. Many of [Read more]

A summary of web design trends for 2010. Top three are, oversized logos & headers, sketch/hand-drawn illustration and Slab typefaces…

We have recently been asked to jot down a few website extensions and updates that we have implemented recently. Screen Pages has a team whose sole purpose is to extend existing websites – fundamental to our approach of creating bespoke websites, but the trick is to develop modules that can be easily re-deployed on other [Read more]

We have recently been asked to jot down a few website extensions and updates (“gizmos” that we have implemented recently. Screen Pages has a team whose sole purpose is to extend existing websites – fundamental to our approach of creating bespoke websites, but the trick is to develop modules that can be easily re-deployed on [Read more]

If you are stuck with a colour and have no idea what complementary colours will look good, check this site out COLOURLovers.com. It’s a resource that monitors and influences colortrends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use colour – whether for websites, ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification -a place to check out a [Read more]

Nearly half of all consumers (or 46.1%) in a Web Watch study assessed the credibility of sites based in part on the appeal of the overall visual design of a site, including layout, typography, font size and color schemes. Screen Pages maintains an award-winning dedicated graphic design team focussed on the needs of online retailers.