Blog

How to give effective feedback to your designer, and get results that truly deliver.

How to give effective feedback to your designer, and get results that truly deliver.

This article draws on the Liquid Light teams joint experience of working within different sectors and focuses on providing some tips and guidelines that we have found helpful when receiving design feedback.

Using Slack to Improve Team Communication

Using Slack to Improve Team Communication

Team communication is one of the most important things in a company. We use Slack to make sure everyone is up-to-date with company and client news - this blog outlines how we, and others, use the popular instant messaging client

How much does a website cost?

How much does a website cost?

One of the obvious questions asked by any prospective client when they get in touch is ‘how much does a website cost’? For the uninitiated, this can be a complete unknown quantity…

How do I know if my website 'works'?

How do I know if my website 'works'?

You invest a great deal of time, effort and budget on your website, but how do you know if it's well spent? Proving ROI is key to measuring success.

Responsive Images Solutions - Adaptive Images

In this episode, we are going to look at a solution with a very different approach to responsive images and a more modest ambition to solve some but not all of the issues of concern - called Adaptive Images.

Git for Beginners: An Overview and Basic Workflow

Git for Beginners: An Overview and Basic Workflow

Git is a tricky subject to get your head around. Knowing the commands is one thing, but knowing how to use them is another. This article will walk you through a simple, single developer Git workflow - covering the commands that you would use at each stage.

Does it matter if users need to scroll?

Does it matter if users need to scroll?

A large proportion of people in the web design industry are of the opinion that it isn’t an issue if people need to scroll to see content and images. Why is it then that this seems to be a big issue for clients who will often feedback that they don’t get to see enough of a “design” without scrolling?

Responsive Image Solutions: Picturefill and the <picture> element

Picturefill is a popular solution to the responsive images problem within the web design community and has many influential supporters. In this article though, we will attempt to take a more level-headed and unbiased look at the merits and drawbacks of this solution.

I need to be on every Social Media platform, right?

I need to be on every Social Media platform, right?

We’re constantly bombarded from so many different social media channels, it’s hard to keep up. It’s easy to think that as a business you need to be visible on all of them, but do you?

Social Media is largely seen as being ‘free’...

Homepage image sliders. Good or bad?

As a web designer I have often relied on the trusty image slider as a homepage design feature and functional content tool. I mean why not? It ticks all the boxes right? Visual wow factor and multiple messages can be displayed...

Responsive Image Solutions: Fluid Images

In this installment we are going to look at the first of these and the most basic responsive image solution of all: Fluid Images - which aims to address the scaling issue.

HTML Emails

HTML Newsletters - Design Considerations

HTML emails are a great way of keeping your customers up-to-date, but are not as versatile as web pages. Here's our list of things to consider when designing and building HTML emails.