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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...
How Much Should a Website Cost? Pricing a website isn't as easy as you may think... At DigitalFlare, we regularly receive questions from people who want to know, 'Exactly what do websites cost?' And like asking how long a piece of string is, it is a question that really has no black and white answer. DigitalFlare have been build...Read more...
Logo Design Styles and Logo Build Questionnare Logos are very important for business and a must if you are planning to build or design a strong brand identity. A well-constructed logo can create loyal followers through simplicity and memorability. If you are looking to have a logo designed by our team, you should consider some key steps and be a...Read more...
Get Google Apps for your custom Domain Google Apps is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. If you don't know much about Google Apps take a look at the Google Apps website here. Many of our clients love to use Google Apps to mainly make use of Google's reliab...Read more...
Why a Bespoke Website? The most powerful and profitable e-commerce systems on the internet are often bespoke e-commerce systems. Bespoke e-commerce websites acknowledge the fact that no two businesses are identical, that a 'one size fits all' approach simply doesn't work. The services or functionality considered essential...Read more...
Creating a Website Brief In order to present our customers with an accurate quote, we need to gather some information from you regarding your company and it's goals for the website project. Please read the questions below and try your best to answer as many questions as you can. Not all the questions will be relevant to you...Read more...