Now that multiple devices exist that allow you to browse the internet in all its glory, its time for developers to adjust and start optimizing their sites for all methods of browsing. 5 years ago, and still to this day, the task of rendering pages properly across all major browsers is a necessity. However, the shift from putting focus strictly…
April 16, 2012
CSS Selectors – Calgary Web Design Tips
Cascading Style Sheets (better known as CSS) is the element behind every website which gives it style and design. Through CSS you are able to set anything from font size and style, to animating the direction and speed a page or menu item loads on the page. Paired with HTML5 we are now seeing some amazing ways to go about…
April 16, 2012
WebP Images – Announcing a New Web Image File Format
As defined in a previous post about Image Formats, we outlined the leading edge file types for usage on the web. Though this information is very relevant, we have recently found that Google is introducing a new format that will be another leading type we will be using in our site development. The file type is webP, and Google is…
March 7, 2012
Image File Formats for Web Design: The Rundown
Whether you are full time designer or a first time user publishing your first website, the burden of deciphering what file format you want to save your image as will surely come up. Now that there are multiple applications for editing your images, mainly within the Adobe Creative Suite, there exist proprietary formats which are software dependent and simply…
December 30, 2011
Bison Credit Solutions New Site launch – Calgary Web Development
Amortech launches anorther amazing web project for Alberta's top collection agency and debt recovery firm. This is a great example of our well rounded skills for delivering attractive and highly functional marketing pieces. Bison Credit Solutions Ltd (BCS) is a Calgary based collection agency and debt recovery firm that engages in collection management of active and delinquent accounts. Our…
November 30, 2011
Intro to HTML5 Web Storage – Calgary Web Design Tips
Nowadays its virtually impossible to imagine web browsing without cookies enabled. All major web sites use cookies to store various identifying procedures, functions and state information. I'm sure at some point you have seen those messages from where a website is asking you to enable cookies for proper viewing experience. HTTP cookie (also known as a web cookie, or browser…
August 14, 2011
Google +1 and SEO – What to expect
Google is by far the internet giant and has had strangle hold on much of the online market for the past decade. It is nearly impossible to find anyone in the western world who does know about the Google Search Engine. In fact its already finding placement in the dictionary with the ever popular verb phrase 'google it'. In addtion…
August 12, 2011
17 HTML5 Tips and Techniques
The HTML5 revolution is moving fast and more and more browsers are taking full advantage of the great new features. We finally at a time where us developers can safely make the switch so here are some of the basic but powerful new features that HTML5 has to offer and tips and techniques to help along the way. 1.…
August 2, 2011
Site Launch – AC Glass and Mirrors gets a facelift
Amortech rolled out a new website this weekend! Version 2 of the AC Glass project and its jammed packed with sleek jQuery and HTML5 and based on the powerful ASP.NET framework. AC Glass has been a client of Amortech's for over 5 years and the old site we developed was based purely on Flash. The site got rave reviews from…