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We are often asked by clients why we chose to open up our web design office in Wirral. In this blog post we are going to list 10 reasons why we love the Wirral so much! 1. The Wirral is one of the most beautiful places in the U.K....

Web design has changes vastly since the first ever website was published, back in 1991. The first websites, from the early 1990’s were single column, text based pages written in HTML. There was no such thing as a high-speed internet connection in the early 1990’s. Dial up modems were...

In this blog post we are going to continue defining the meanings of some basic web design terminology, as promised in last month’s blog post. Anchor Text Anchor text is the visible, clickable text in a hyperlink. This is often blue and underlined. Anchor text is often used to...

With more than 1.4 billion monthly active users, Facebook has become a vital modern marketing tool. Facebook Ads give you the power to put your advertisements right in front of your target audience’s eyes, with its custom audience targeting features. Facebook is the 2nd most visited website on the...

In web design, trends are constantly changing as designers & developers innovate further as the shift towards mobile continues. Mobile First In 2017 we believe web designers are going to start designing for ‘mobile first’, more than ever before. Smart phones are now officially the device at the forefront...

Our team are often asked what the difference is between web design & web development. Essentially web design refers to the appearance and usability of a website. Our web designers use applications like Photoshop to design the layout and visuals of web pages. In contrast, web development is the...

Here at Ctrl Alt Create we specialise in web design. But what exactly is web design? Put simply, web design is the process of creating websites. Everything about a website, including the way it looks, the way it works and its content is decided by web design. The whole...

There are many ways that you can start to learn web design. In this blog post we are going to discuss some of the resources you can use to start learning web design, for free. Our favourite free web design learning resource is Code Academy. Code academy allows you...

In this blog post we are going to define the meanings of some basic web design terminology. We plan on publishing a web design terminology blog once a month. Here is our first set of web design definitions: HTML HTML stands for ‘Hyper Text Mark-up Language’. This is the...

FTP stands for ‘File transfer protocol’. This is a standard network protocol that is used to transfer files between a client and a server on a computer network. Most people have encountered FTP without even knowing it. For example, if you have downloaded a fresh build of Chrome or...