Archive for Web Design

29 Jun 2010

How to design effective call to action buttons in iWeb 09

8 Comments Tutorials, Web Design

Call to action buttons are everywhere on the WWW, but what makes an effective call to action button? What is a call to action button and why do we use them?

In this post I want to explain the call to action button ‘best practices’ and how you can use iWeb 09 to build your own. Read more

12 Apr 2010

Another collection of inspirational iWeb sites

16 Comments Web Design

It’s been a while since I ran one of these posts despite the fact that I enjoy nothing more than searching the WWW for good looking sites built with iWeb. So to get you in the mood for a bit of iWeb design this weekend here is the latest collection of sites for your delectation. You can click on the site title to visit the site itself. Enjoy! Read more

23 Mar 2010

Welcome to the new look All About iWeb

15 Comments Web Design

After talking about it for months and planning it for weeks I finally sat down and started the redesign of All About iWeb. If you’re a regular visitor I hope you like what I have done with the site, and if not welcome, where have you been?

So what has taken me so long? why have I redesigned? and what changes have I made? That’s what this post is for, to explain the whys and wherefores of the new build and to help you get the most from it. I hope you like what you see and I would really like to see your comments. Read more

23 Feb 2010

It’s all about the colors

8 Comments Web Design

At the beginning of the year I posted 10 iWeb New Year’s Resolutions and since then I have noticed in the stats for All About iWeb quite a few of you have been clicking on the link for kuler.com. It is good to see that so many of you want to get your iWeb site’s colors looking as best as they can, but you aren’t just limited to Kuler. There are many more on-line based tools to assist you in getting the best look for your iWeb site.

Here’s a fantastic selection of 7 other useful on-line tools to help you choose the best color palette for your iWeb site. Read more

20 Feb 2010

How to detect an iPhone visitor to your iWeb site

10 Comments Tutorials, Web Design

Last year I wrote a post all about making an iWeb site look good on an iPhone or iPod Touch and a few of you have written to me to ask whether it would be possible to have an iPhone user automatically redirected to a completely different page, one that had been designed specifically for an iPhone’s smaller screen. Well I have been doing a bit of digging and a bit of experimenting and I think I have finally come up with a solution.

There are several ways of achieving the automatic redirection however many involve PHP or HTML and Conditional Comments which change the CSS layout of a page. All well and good if you are an established web-designer not using iWeb so I had to find a different method. Read more