Believe it or not QR or Quick Repsonse codes have been around for a while now. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes.

A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.

QR Codes storing addresses and URLs may appear in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards or just about any object that users might need information about. Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader software can scan the image of the QR Code causing the phone’s browser to launch and redirect to the programmed URL.

You can use your phone to read QR codes by installing Kaywa Reader.

And make your own QR code like we have below on the same kaywa site.

QR code containing website link for callendercreates.com

An introduction to barcode scanning on youtube

Here are some recent successes at Callender Creates over the last couple of months that we think you should know about.

• We’ve been accepted into The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) for our clean and well structured code. We have done this from the start of our business, so it’s nice to get recognition for this.
• We have becomeBusiness link accredited suppliers. Where we are listed in the online directory which allows Local and National companies to contact us as a trusted and reliable company in Web Design and Development.
• This website has been listed in no less than 10 CSS galleries for our recent web site relaunch and rebrand. We are proud to be sharing space on these sites with some other fantastic examples of web design and branding.
• Finally, our company has been nominated by a long-term client for a Small Business Award for Sussex Business Awards. Watch this space!

We launched the Concordia International Volunteers in August.

Since then we have been getting great feedback from the charity based in Portslade.

Programme Manager, Fiona Taylor says:

The number of bookings has far exceeded out targets for this year, and it’s all thanks to the site review Callender Creates carried out, they executed the findings in the design and structure of the new site. Very Exciting.. We are just watching the traffic grow each month!

Site redesigns that are done well, are often regarded as switching a switch and letting all the visitors who could not understand the way to navigate around a site, and get the information they require.

In this instance, this has led to:

• Increase in number of bookings
• Increase in seo and accessibility
• With database work planned soon, to make searching and booking even easier online

We have used Google analytics and Crazy Egg to demonstrate to the client the actions and visitor journey on the site. We have explained also the way the pages are written can determine which pages the visitor clicks onto.

Check out the site at www.concordia-iye.org.uk

“Of course we all want webpages to load as fast as possible, but now research has finally shown it: four seconds loading time is the maximum threshold for websurfers.

Akamai and JupiterResearch have conducted a study among 1,000 online shoppers and have found, among other results, that one third of respondents have, at one point, left a shopping website because of the overall ‘poor experience.’ 75% of them do not intend ever to come back to this website again.

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Prior to its release, many were predicting that Internet Explorer 7.0 would break the internet.

Indeed, Microsoft itself admitted that certain sites that worked well in IE6 would fall apart in IE7. However, no one seemed to know exactly how many sites would be affected by the launch of the new browser. Etre.com decided to fire up a couple of machines and compare the homepages of a hundred different corporate websites in both IE6 and IE7.

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It seems that the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is on the verge of releasing a whole new set of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines called WCAG 2.0. With numerous changes in place, it now seems that the whole set of guidelines that many of us have worked so hard to implement are now not sure what the best way to implement accessibility is.

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Definition lists, created using the DL element, generally consist of a series of term/definition pairs (although definition lists may have other applications).

Thus, when advertising a product, one might use a definition list:

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