Toronto Web Design Blog - "The Web Industry"

Taking on a website is no easy task. Whether you're a new business owner or a veteran in the industry you re in; you know you need a website and that s usually where your expertise with the web ends. There are so many hidden complexities to consider before you get to the stage wh...

Facebook Connect was actually released back in 2008 but is definitely worthy knowledge. Facebook Connect allows users to "connect" the website they are currently on to their Facebook identity. How does this help? Well Facebook Connect has 4 major features. Trusted Authenticat...

Apple released the public beta for Safari 4 on Tuesday; this is a major revision of their web browser. Safari 4 has had some great key features added. They have introduced a tool similar to Opera s Speed Dial, where your most visited or user selected pages are displayed as thu...

Success in the Toronto web design industry relies on many different factors. With design being one of them, here are five important points to remember when creating a new design for a web site.Do your researchI research new and old artists, designers, sites, magazines and books....

Aesthetic DesignAesthetic design is all about getting the look right. If you are good at this it means you will be able to design sites that not only look good but are appropriately designed. Different designs convey different messages to an end user, so it's important that a des...

Search engine optimization (SEO), these days is changing to utilize different tools for better results. One of them is business blogs; this may sound alarming to both small and large companies. The truth is business blogs are one of the latest tools available to improve any websi...

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is probably one easiest and most effective ways to keep customers, investors and the media up to date with your organization s latest news. Information that you normally may not have gone out of the way to publish to all different recipients can e...

Keeping your website profitable and generating new traffic can be a daunting task, especially with all the buzz words floating these days. One term I often hear clients asking about is search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is a fast growing industry despite the fact that most p...

Keeping your website design ahead of your competition may seem like a daunting task, but in many cases it s essential to a company s online success. Whether your website is for the purpose of implementing new features, refreshing the design or simply improving its effectiveness,...

Having a website is only the first step to generating new leads or processing impressive amounts of orders online. Most business owners track how many hits or views that their website receives, but how many of these become customers or potential client? Wikipedia defines a webs...

The internet has opened a whole new wealth of information to the average consumer with a just a few clicks of a button. How, then, can you get your web site to stand out amongst the rest? One part of the formula is to increase your website content with quality information for you...

Overview There is a lot of talk these days with regard to proper development practices and accessible web design. If you don't think any of this applies to you or your website, you probably don't understand exactly what this is all about. Web Accessibility refers to the practice...

Here's the LinxSmart Toronto web design top ten list of reasons why: 10. It's free. Completely, utterly free. You don't have to pay a penny to download it. Firefox is a product of the Mozilla foundation, a tax exempt non-profit foundation, which was established to create innovat...

This is a question asked by both clients and web designers / developers who are yet to dip their feet in the depths of web standards. Lets take a look at this from both sides. First we need to get clear what web standards actually are. To explain what web standards are we need t...