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We are now running CloudLinux on our cPanel servers! Over the last few months, DigitalFlare has rolled out the use of CloudLinux on most of our cPanel web servers. CloudLinux is a linux based operating system designed to give shared hosting providers a more stable and secure OS. Essentially a set of kernel modifications to the Linux distribution, Clo...Read more...
Responsive YouTube Embed Have you ever tried to make a YouTube video responsive? Surprisingly, YouTube does not provide a responsive embed function. All the embed options only offer a fixed width/height. Which can be problematic on tablets/mobiles etc. Since all our website builds are now responsive - we have found a solut...Read more...
Sans-serif logo design revolution Whilst working on a new logo design for a client - we were asked to keep the logo simple and text-based (typographic), yet with a luxury feel. Whilst researching it quickly became apparent that many luxury brands (in particular - fashion houses) have all started to converge... They have been swappin...Read more...
Open Graph: How to Drive More Social Media Traffic to Your Website Social media networks can be a major traffic driver to a website, so it is always in your best interest to optimise your presence on them by adding Open Graph tags to your pages. So what is Open Graph? "Open Graph enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph." - This is how the O...Read more...
Embedding Music and Video on your Website We look at a selection of embed scripts to allow you to place video, audio and other content into your website... But importantly the below examples are all responsive versions of embed scripts which are not always the 'default'. In addition to the scripts, there are often customisation parameters w...Read more...
New website launch: FC Drainage New website launched this weekend! www.fcdrainagesolutions.com - FC Drainage Solutions offer a 24h Emergency call out service to resolve your drainage or plumbing drama day or night... But they also carry out CCTV Surveys, Plumbing, Heating, Tanker Services etc... The new site is mobile friendl...Read more...
Positioning HTML text on background images A great slider / 'Hero Box' or banner can add interest and can set the tone of a website in addition to conveying some meaning. Eye-tracking research has shown that people are attracted to information-carrying photos - but positioning HTML text on an image isn't straight-forward in responsive web de...Read more...
How and why to make your website 'Mobile-Friendly' How and why to make your website 'Mobile-Friendly' It’s a fact, that there are now more mobile devices than there are people in the world!A few years ago the Internet was shaken by what digital marketers dubbed ‘Mobilegeddon’. This term arose when Google announced it would be modi...Read more...
A Guide to the CSS Flexbox The new CSS Flexbox Layout (Flexible Box) module aims at providing a more efficient way to lay out, align and distribute space among items in a container, even when their size is unknown and/or dynamic (thus the word "flex"). The main idea behind the flex layout is to give the container the ability...Read more...
The Perfect Full Page Background Image Our clients often require websites builds with full-screen background images or full-screen image slideshows. Pre-CSS3 we had to use a combination of CSS tricks, JQuery and even Flash, but now CSS3 is widely supported across all browsers/devices we can simply use the 'background-size' property. The...Read more...