Category Archive: Web Design

CSS techniques to spruce up your blog

By Rob Ousbey. Published January 11, 2010 in the Web Design category

Happy New Year, and welcome back to the Distilled blog. Over the holiday season, and with a bit of down-time, many people had the chance to pick up some new skills or look into something that they’ve never had time Continue reading »

Usability versus Dyslexia

By Leonie. Published August 12, 2009 in the Distilled, Web Design category

Legibility guidelines for dyslexia often conflict with usability conventions for websites. My challenge was to find a way of designing a website that adhered to both sets of rules. Background: Just before embarking on the new website design for the Continue reading »

The future is here, my day at FOWD 09 – Part Two

By Andy Davies. Published May 7, 2009 in the Web Design category

In my last blog post I outlined my experiences from the morning of FOWD 09, if you haven’t read it, I suggest reading it here first. If you have then great: read on. After lunch I was looking forward the Continue reading »

The future is here, my day at FOWD 09 – Part One

By Andy Davies. Published May 6, 2009 in the Web Design category

The Future of Web Design (FOWD) is a great way to keep in contact with the latest trends and issues in the web industry. Every year we gain access to leading thinkers in the field; this year was no exception. Continue reading »

What makes designing for the web different to designing for Print?

By Leonie. Published March 5, 2009 in the Web Design category

Design for the web is considerably different to designing for print. This post discusses ten ways they differ and explains how we at Distilled design for the web. As a web designer, I’m constrained by the build. Not all designers Continue reading »

Converting Controversial Conversations into Conversions.

By Lucy Langdon. Published March 4, 2009 in the Reputation Monitor, Web Design category

A couple of words collided for me the other day. The first was conversation, which Ciaran wrote about recently, arguing eloquently that the word is being horribly misused by marketers. The second was controversy, which has, for a long time, Continue reading »

How Does Google Analytics Register Direct Image Visits?

By Tom Critchlow. Published February 11, 2009 in the SEO, Web Design category

Quick headscratcher this one – on a wordpress blog I’m looking at in my top content report I see visits to an image: This image has been posted to reddit and has received lots of traffic from there which is Continue reading »

The Problem with Google’s Broad (Advanced) Match Keywords

By Richard Cotton. Published January 27, 2009 in the PPC, Web Design category

I just read a very interesting blog post from the Rimm-Kaufman Group about the changes that Google had made to Broad match keywords and the resulting effects. In the article they point out how the performance of broad match terms Continue reading »

World Vision PPC Competition –Result

By Richard Cotton. Published August 11, 2008 in the Distilled, PPC, Web Design category

First of all, a big thank you to everyone who entered the competition. The response was excellent and you can be sure that your efforts will have been of real benefit in assisting World Vision in their Relief work. After Continue reading »

Is The New Media Agency Model Broken?

By Tom Critchlow. Published August 4, 2008 in the Distilled, SEO, Web Design category

I love the internet marketing industry. It’s so open and full of love. To that end – this post is all about promoting the blog of my former company Bloom Media. Now obviously I’m biased since I’m still friends with Continue reading »