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“You don’t know the power of the dark side.”Darth Vader
Have you heard of dark mode? It’s a design style that’s recently been gaining popularity and now comes pre-installed on most desktop and mobile operating systems.
In short, it tells your computer to use dark interfaces by default. Typically this means interfaces change from dark text on a light background to light text on a dark background. The beauty of it being a preference on individual devices means that users can choose themselves which they’d prefer to use.
Mobile-friendly websites: something we’ve all heard of, but what are they exactly? Many people hear the phrase ‘mobile optimisation’ and think they need a fancy mobile app alongside their desktop website.
You’ll be pleased to know that isn’t the case. Mobile-friendly websites are, in fact, the exact same website as you already may have - just with added elements so they display better on mobile devices.
Do you know if your website has an SSL certificate? Is your website ‘secured’?
There are lots of different security measures taken to keep your site online; these prevent hackers from taking down or driving traffic away from your site. A secure site gives customers confidence engaging with you as a business, and increases the legitimacy of content on your site.
This article is based on an excellent piece by Nielsen | Norman - you can read the full article here. I'm summarising the article below whilst adding our own take as web developers as to the issues that this design approach can bring up.
How do you know if your website is actually doing its job properly? It may look great and say everything you want it to say but is it actually effective at attracting visitors and converting them into sales? Here are a few ideas to help you answer this question.
We all know the annoyance of changes to the Google search engine algorithm, or to your Content Management Site or even the creation of new technology that wreaks havoc with your website and leaves you scrambling to make alterations to your site. Don't you wish things could be simpler? Well it turns out there are ways to safeguard against these changes, it's known as 'future proofing' and it could save your company thousands of pounds as well as a great deal of stress.
