Well, with the new year, always comes change, and at webgarden.ca we are excited to announce that we are implementing some changes to our blog!
The webgarden blog is expanding it’s topics to not only include information about decorating for the web -  but also, decorating for your life! We are going to be writing articles about beauty [...]

The last but not least, is three column navigation. The typical three column layout has a wide center surrounded by  left and right narrow columns. Three column layouts can easily appear cluttered – so white space is essential! Three column layouts are used for sites that have tons of navigation, short bits of content (such as [...]

The opposite to left column navigation, would be (of course) right column navigation. Surprisingly there are not many sites with right column navigation. It is quite easy to find sites that use the right hand column for sub-navigation, or advertising but not for the main navigation.
I am not sure why there aren’t more sites that [...]

You may have some wonderful, creative and rule breaking ideas swimming around in your head as to how you want your website to look. But, before you start laying out your site in photoshop, you need to determine, if in fact, these ideas make good design sense.
Although the web is filled with endless possibilities of different [...]

Good design is determined by 2 points: usability and aesthetics. Some website designers get caught up in the cool graphics, or crazy fonts and forget about the end user. In contrast, some programmer’s get so caught up in user testing that they forget about the presentation of the site.
Design is about communication, if it works [...]

There are many steps involved in the process of web design. To give our clients and potential clients a general idea of what to expect when they meet with a web designer, webgarden has laid out the general steps in a series of blog posts.
The first step of the web design  process is “Discovery”
Webgarden starts the [...]

For the last few days I have been fighting with my dreamweaver because every time I go to modify any php code, the application crashes! So the first few times, I thought it was me – Did I press the wrong button? I restarted the application after it automatically closed and tried again, but still, Dreamweaver keeps crashing. Then [...]

You should be able to look at the homepage of your website and know what it is about in 5 seconds. If you can’t, your website is a failure. Make sure your company name and tag-line are clear and make sense to the reader. Here is a good example of a really bad company name [...]