Have you ever visited a website and gotten really confused? How about not being able to find something? Maybe you were looking for someone’s contact information and there just wasn’t a navigation tab or link that led you to that page. It’s not an uncommon issue, but it’s one that can be seen over and…
So you have a website. Is it time to get a new website or a redesign? How do know when time’s up? The answer is that you don’t. Every single website on the web serves a different purpose. Some people have a website just to say they have a website (either because it holds their…
The Biophysical Society of Canada holds Annual Meetings where students, professors, researchers and scientists gather to share their findings and techniques in the field of Biophysics. CryoDragon was pleased to work with the BSC to create a brand new, custom website for their Annual Meetings. It includes an archive of old meetings, registration forms with…
Websites are quite the investment, and you want yours to be exactly as you want it to be. When you’re looking for a website designer, or web designer, you’re probably going to look at several places to find out which one has the best price, the best service, and the best quality and make your…
How much text should you actually place on your webpage? It’s been an ongoing debate, and there are two clear sides: the “short side” and the “long side”. Each side has their pros and cons, which we will explore in the subsequent paragraphs, but they both share one common feature that is crucial to each…
When you’re looking to get a new website, you might type the following search terms into Google within your area: “best website designer waterloo”, or something along those lines. But to be honest, what you’ll find might not be what you’re looking for. Every business out there promotes themselves as being the best, and there’s…
CryoDragon had the pleasure of working with the Hyperpolarized Noble Gas MRI Laboratory, run by Dr. Mitchell Albert in the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, on their new website! They wanted a simple research website to showcase their innovative technology and research. You can visit their site here: http://hpgasmri.com.
In the world of search engine optimization, we want to be sure that viewers and search engines can read our websites with ease. The clearer your content, and the greater the quality…the better you will rank in Google and local search engines. It’s unfortunate, but we see this all the time: text in graphics. These…
How do we evaluate websites? How do you evaluate them? Everyone has different criteria and preferences when it comes to design, but which ones are the most important? And what if you could find a way to figure out whether a website design was good or bad based on a theory or model? In an…
We’ve all encountered JPG (JPEG) and PNG images before, and most of you will have heard of or know a bit about TIFF, EPS, vector images and some others. But what properties separate these images from each other? They’re all digital images, right? To web designers and graphic artists, these terms are encountered on a…