Tag: Web Design

First appearing in 1981, the hamburger menu is an international icon for navigating a website. It is an efficient and…

User Experience is becomingly an increasingly important influence on conversion rates. In an often saturated market, it is now not…

A harmonious colour scheme that compliments the tone of your brand is essential when designing your website. Choosing the right…

The FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page is a part of your website that provides the space where you can address…

Images speak to our emotions, imagination and our unconscious as well. This is why the importance of using images on…

The contact form is one of the most important parts of your website when it comes to lead generation. Poorly…

Designing a good website is more than just creating a visually pleasing layout, using attractive visuals or good quality images.…

There are millions of websites out there, but how many of them actually convert? As surprising as it may be,…

Northern Handling, a forklift company operating in Newcastle, Middlesbrough and throughout the North East approached us because they needed a website that…

If you notice a drop in your website conversion rate, it will probably be difficult to tell the cause, however,…

Renew Financial Management Limited has recently approached us because they needed a website for their daughter company, Renew Life. This…

Data backup is a process of replicating a copy of your data to another location. However, to ensure business continuity…

An FM integrator, Autonomous, has approached us to assist with their new website. They wanted to redesign the website and…

It’s been a while since we talked responsive web design, hasn’t it? Well, it is time to do that –…

Are you looking at different ways to make your website stand out from the competition and convert more visitors into…

To make sure our projects are delivered in a timely manner, we use project guidelines – they help us present…

Are you looking forward to your new website going live? I can imagine how super excited you must be! But…

Website design/development projects can be roughly split into 3 phases: Web Design, Web Development and Software Development. However, there is…

Split-screen is a smart design pattern that divides one screen into two. You have probably seen split-screen in the film…

Using impressive images on your website is critical for your success. Probably you’ve heard time and again how important a…

I can imagine how excited you must be because your new website is live! You are happy with the design…

You have a perfect and beautifully designed website and yet you are wondering why it is not converting as it…

Sometimes project delivery gets delayed even though the expectations have been clearly set and milestones have been defined. Even the…

With every company, the goal is all about creating a website which stands out from the crowd, whether this is…

How can you evaluate someone’s work and approach when you come from a completely different field or industry? This is…

There are so many different sorts of content you can include on your website. Case studies can be a great…

You can learn a lot about somebody, their experience and expertise from the questions they ask you, especially if you are…

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a standard security protocol that serves for establishing encrypted links between a web server and…

As defined by Google, a bounce is a single-page session on your site. So when a visitor lands on your…

We may have all heard that blogging is important and highly recommended for your website. It boosts your website’s online…

After you have carefully selected the company that will build a website for you and provided the necessary information on…

The importance of user journey optimization on your website User journey is a visitor’s experience during a session of using…

If you are thinking about designing a website or you currently have a site, it should be answering these five…

It feels like homepage sliders have been around forever… Bespoke designs and templates often incorporate image sliders, they display two…

As a web design and development company, we often come across clients who fail to plan their website well enough…

With over 1 billion websites online today do you need a bespoke website, designed & built by professionals to stand…

If your website needs to be understood globally then adding Google’s translate tool could be for you! Google is a…

Building a website has become more than putting content into one place, it has become a design process that needs…

Gestalism is the theory that as humans we focus on the greater whole rather than individual objects. Symmetry is one…

There’s no point investing in a highly engaging, responsive website, if no one is able to find it, right? This…

In todays over crowded digital world, it’s more important than ever before that brands set themselves apart from the endless…

So you need a new website for your exciting business venture. You’ve decided DIY website builders are a no-go, so…

Your website navigation is essentially a map that guides the user around your website. In the simplest terms, it should…

When it comes to web design, it’s all about making an impact for the right reasons. When you’re thinking about…

When it comes to creating a striking website one technique that’s been gathering pace is background video.  The instant way…

Where we sit down with one of our clients to find out a bit more about their business and what…

However great your website is, there comes a time when it needs a refresh. Technology doesn’t stand still, and the…

Get to know us better! Here is a look into the mind of Graphic Designer extraordinaire Elyse… What made you…

Get to know us better! Here is a look into the mind of the founder of sleeky, David… What made…

Where we sit down with one of our clients to find out a bit more about their business and what…

Why is my website text in French?!? Where we take actual questions we’ve been asked and try to de-mystify the…

Internet usage has changed – a global study showed that as of 2014 more people view the internet via mobile…

One of the key features that makes WordPress such a widely popular content management system is the wide range of…

Search has become instrumental to the internet, with many search engines being considered the ‘homepage’ that many users navigate to…

Adobe’s Dreamweaver is the most popular WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML and CSS editor in the…

1991 should have been the year of Virtual Reality. The Lawnmower Man told a semi-true story about the father of…

Our client 180 Training offer flexible learning solutions for young adults. They offer a range of high quality training courses…

How many websites have you visited today? how about this week? this year? The answer is probably, ‘a heck of…

When a visitor lands on your website, you have a brief window of time to grab their attention. If you…

We get a variety of clients through the doors here at Sleeky Towers. Some are just starting up – they…

Things just got easier for North East businesses looking to get online – with the NBSL funding body offering up…

Early this year Google announced it would be ranking mobile friendly websites higher in their search results. Four months on,…

With 180,000,000 active websites currently online, is it now futile trying to stand out in an overpopulated world? First things…

ITC Service Ltd, a Newcastle IT Support provider, needed to refresh their old website to reflect the new technologies and…

An easy-to-use website detailing the range of care homes offered by North East Care Home operator Prestwick Care. Combining concise,…

Sometimes in web design, less is more. Volume 11, an umbrella company offering services to self-employed contractors, required an easy…

We have now been trading for 10 years, well how time flies! Like many a design company, Sleeky (or Grape…

One of the many projects we are working on at the moment is a revamp of www.swishing.co.uk. As well as…

How many times have you visited a beautifully designed website only to struggle to locate the information you need? A…