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10 Great Examples of Responsive Web Design

Responsive web design is an approach that allows a website to display effectively on devices with varying screen resolutions. It is a solution to the increasing amount of mobile users accessing the internet, and changes in user behaviour that prefer mobile browsing to the traditional desktop computer. Below is a collection of excellent examples of [...]

Responsive Web Design

What is Responsive Web Design? The percentage of users viewing websites on mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones is rising rapidly; however the majority of websites are designed to be optimally viewed on a desktop monitor at a minimum of 960 pixels. Mobile devices have implemented pinch zoom which makes these websites usable [...]

White Hat amongst the top 100 web design blogs

A new infographic compiled by CouponAudit.com has listed White Hat in the top 100 web design blogs to follow in 2013. The infographic seen below shows White Hat in position 6 http://www.couponaudit.com/blog/top-100-web-design-blogs-to-follow-in-2013-infographic/

10 Great Examples of Parallax Scrolling Websites

Parallax scrolling is a technique used to add depth and movement to a website. It achieves this by moving background and foreground images at different speeds. Originally used in 2D video games it is now being used on the web to create stunning which are fun to interact with. White Hat are in the process [...]

White Hat become Sagepay Approved Partner

White Hat Web Design are pleased to announce they are now a Sagepay approved e-commerce / digital agency partner. We have many years of experience in integrating websites with Sagepay solutions including our own bespoke e-commerce platforms. Checkout us out at http://www.sagepay.com/partners/white-hat-web-design

Website Screenshots with PHP

We recently worked on an online directory website which required us to generate and display screenshots of the websites listed on it. After some initial research we settled on using wkhtmltopdf, or more specifically the wkhtmltoimage program. Install wkhtmltoimage wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltoimage-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2 tar xvjf wkhtmltoimage-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2 mv wkhtmltoimage-i386 /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage chmod a+x /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage Taking screenshots in PHP <?php [...]

Android Application Development

Android has come a long way within the Apps market with almost all major developers releasing their applications for both the iPhone and Android. Android is growing at a vast rate with most of the latest smartphones using the Android engine and with an increasing number of Android users now on the scene, Android is [...]

New iPhone App: E-Commerce Totals

At White Hat we like to keep a close eye on how our clients websites are performing, one of the ways in which we do this is monitoring sales across sites on our e-commerce platform. Up until recently we had a script running on a url which we visited which aggregated the sales across our [...]

How The London Olympics Have Affected Business

With the great success of the Olympics and the extraordinary performance of Team GB, London is bursting with pride and a new found sense of patriotism but what is the true impact of the Olympic Games on local businesses? Has the promised and much needed boost to the economy materialised or has the effect on [...]

New iPhone App: WhiteDrum

White Hat have just finished developing their first official iPhone app. It’s currently being reviewed by Apple for approval into the app store but in the meantime here’s a quick sneaky peek… We set out to build a fun music related app which utilises the functionality of the iPhone to transfer the touch screen into [...]