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Good images and photos are an essential part of good web design. However, finding great images can be difficult due to the high volume of tacky stock images full of fake smiles and people in suits shaking hands! On this blog post we have compiled a list of our...

In web design it is vital that you choose good typography, if you want the website to be successful. Typography has a huge impact on numerous aspects of a website. These include readability, user experience, perceived length of page, mood and more. Here at Ctrl Alt Create, we find...

In this blog post we continue our popular blog series ‘Basic Web Design Terminology’. Each month we release one of these blogs, which define some of the most commonly used terms used in web design. Accessibility – In web design, web accessibility is the practice of removing barriers that...

In this blog post we are going to list the error codes and messages that might occur when a web browser makes a request to a web server. 1xx Informational 100 Continue The request headers have been received by the server. The client should now proceed to send the...

Your website is potentially the first impression that someone will get of your business. It gives users an idea of what they can expect from your business. This is why it is important you make your website as user friendly as possible. Our team have compiled 5 reasons why...

In this blog post we are continuing to define the meanings of some basic web design terminology. This series of blogs has been one of the most popular, so we thought we would continue! PHP – PHP stands for ‘Hypertext Pre-processor’. It is a widely used, open source, programming...

In this blog post we are going to outline some of the most common file types used in the web design process. .HTML – Hypertext Markup Language is the standard markup language for creating web pages. HTML describes the structure of web pages .PHP – PHP stands for ‘Hypertext...

To the majority of people shopping online an outdated website is a massive put off. An outdated website can lead to a decrease in enquiries and orders. Your website is essentially a first impression of your business so it is vital that your website is eye catching and modern....

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...