Mintleaf Web Design Blog

Don’t get us wrong - we’re more than happy to work with some instructions scribbled on a napkin. But having a solid starting point, specifically a good creative website brief, can make the process of gathering quotes and working out what you need almost fool proof. We thought it might be worth highlighting some of the best we’ve seen and how it helped the client get exactly what they need.

We now have more devices and input modes then we have ever had to consider before. We need to think about how our websites will respond to desktops, smart phones, iPads, kindles, netbooks and fridges with computers built in them. Don’t laugh, you know you want one.

Your site will break. It may just be a small html error on a static page, or your checkout page will start spitting out 404 errors. Something, somewhere, will break. And users will see this. In answer to this inevitable fact, defensive web design will minimise damage, and keep your audience on track.

Defensive web design (or contingency web design) is about intuitively responding to things going wrong on a site...

Have you noticed your Google results changing as you type a search query? Have you checked out the instant visual website preview in Google results?

After almost four years our previous website was looking a little dated. The marketing team (Matt) engaged the production team (Paul, Jon, Pat & Ollie) to re-connect with the Mintleaf brand. The result is now live! And here is how we did it...