Website Design Tips

The Web Taylor are a web design agency based in Portsmouth, Hampshire. We know the importance of creating a beautiful, user friendly site. Here you can find useful coding and design tips to ensure that you website looks its best!

ASCII Table – HTML Codes

ASCII stands for the “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”. It was designed in the early 60′s, as a standard character-set for computers and hardware devices like teleprinters and tapedrives. ASCII is a 7-bit character set containing 128 characters. It contains the numbers from 0-9, the uppercase and lowercase English letters from A to Z, [...]

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How to change the page title of an archive in WordPress

If you want to change the default page title of an archive in Wordpress, all you need to do is add this simple little piece of code to your functions.php file

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How to change the colour of selected text using CSS

This very simple piece of CSS will change the colour of selected text, the default is usually blue. You can see this in action on this website, try clicking and dragging the cursor over come text and you will notice that it is orange! As you may have guessed, this working on most browsers but [...]

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How to create a custom post type in WordPress

WordPress custom post types are very handy, if you want an extra section on your blog that is about a different subject or contains different content then this is for you. So lets say you have a business website that contains information about your business, and you want to show the products that you offer [...]

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Animated jQuery Scroll Follow

We have had a few requests from customers who wanted a sidebar that follows the page as the user scrolls down so we decided to write a short guide on how it’s done. This is also something that we decided to incorporate onto the sidebar of our blog. So when a user is scrolling down [...]

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Google Ephasises The Importance of Optimising Your Site For Tablets

In the past we have written about responsive web design (RWD) and now with a recent hint from Google, it looks like the importance of using RWD may be getting greater. With 100s of different tablets and other devices used for browsing the web these days it is essential that your website is built to [...]

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What are breadcrumbs and why do we need them?

When discussing a new web design project for a client recently, the question came up “What are breadcrumbs and why do we need them?”. So we thought we would write a short article on what breadcrumbs are and their benefits when used within a website. What are breadcrumbs? Breadcrumbs are a navigational technique displaying all [...]

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Designing Websites for Mobile – RWD

With the ever increasing use of mobile devices for general web browsing, it is now more important than ever to ensure that your website is compatible with the most popular devices. This can include: iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android Phones & Tablets, Blackberry Phones & Tablets. Responsive Web Design or RWD is the term used to [...]

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10 Common Web Design Mistakes

The web has come a long way over time and if you look at a website designed around 10 years ago you will see a major difference in design, navigation and usability. It is now more important than ever to get your website looking good and making it easy to use. Most people will now [...]

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Fix Cufon Delay Rendering Issue

Since redesigning our site a short while ago, we decided to add Cufon to make thing look a little nicer. Cufon is a javascript based code that transforms the boring standard web fonts into any font you can get your hands on. So after installing Cufon, we noticed that when the page was loading we [...]

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