By Jordan Hall 21st April 2010
The Moira Fund, a grant making charity, has been established in memory of Moira Jones, ... Following her death, family, friends and colleagues of Moira wished to establish a fund in her memory that would support others who found themselves bereaved through violent death at the hands of another. Rapid Web Services have worked with the Moira Fund to produce a custom web design built upon the well established, open-source blogging platform, WordPr...
By Jordan Hall 20th April 2010
At Rapid Web Services, we are very happy to announce the launch of the Grinnall Cars website! Grinnall Cars manufactures specialised sports cars, trikes and kit cars, from the Scorpion III, IV to the BMW 1200CL. I would be lying if I said they did not look like tempting purchases! For Grinnall Cars, Rapid Web Services put together a custom web design which was then integrated into a custom developed website. Each product featured on the Grin...
By Jordan Hall 12th March 2010
I previously posted about Google's new web design, and now the BBC website is undergoing a beta web design. Take a look at the new BBC web design in the screenshot below. Click the image above to view an enlarged screenshot. Alternatively, you can take a look at the beta BBC directly at http://beta.bbc.co.uk/ The new BBC homepage design is even heavier in JavaScript and AJAX functionality allowing for some extremely dynamic customisation of the ...
By Jordan Hall 8th March 2010
Google has recently released quite a tweak to its google.com web design to a select few users. Below are a couple of screenshots of the new web design from Google. Clicking the screen shots below will show the new web design, which features more squared off search button, a highlighted sidebar on search results and a change in default link colour to a significantly lighter shade of blue. This also appears to be a slight re-brand of the Googl...
By Jordan Hall 9th February 2010
Facebook, one of the largest and most well known PHP powered social networking websites has made significant changes to its web design. Facebook have taken a more minimalistic web design approach in many respects, removing most of the bottom application and instant messaging bar, and moving to a left hand side bar. From a technical perspective, Facebook have increased their use of many web technologies such as JavaScript and AJAX in an effort to...
By Jordan Hall 8th February 2010
WordPress, possibly the most popular blogging software out there, is set to heavily open source the design of its user interface this year. WordPress is an open source blogging solution written in PHP and powered by a MySQL database backend. Code wise, it is entirely open source and licensed in entirety under the GNU General Public License (version 2), and as of typing this, it is used by over 200 million websites worldwide. Design in WordP...
By Jordan Hall 5th February 2010
As web developers, we are using web browsers continually to preview and debug our web pages, dynamic web application and the website page's we develop. However, many consumers are unsure of what a web browser actually is. Admittedly, for many, this can be very confusing as there are such a lot of Internet related terms flying around now that it can be difficult to explain exactly what a web browser is. This can be especially true where many we...