Rippleffect is a leading provider of Web design in Liverpool and the whole of the UK. Our web design expertise is demonstrated in our work for top companies of the North West, including Everton Football Club and Chester Race Company.
Our competence has facilitated us to obtain national and international clients such as the Centre Island Hotels, Living Ventures, and EN Magazine, beyond web design in Liverpool and the North West.
As a Liverpool design agency, Web Design Cheshire is focussing its efforts on strengthening creative ideas and web design in Liverpool. Rippleffect's web design is particularly characterised by its creativity, technical skill, and web design expertise. Our web design focus on dynamic content makes us a precursor of web design in Liverpool, the North West, and the rest of the UK.
Since Liverpool was awarded the title of City of Culture 2008, artistic and entrepreneurial ventures are emerging increasingly, creating an atmosphere of creativity. This situation fosters the demand for web design in Liverpool, which Rippleffect is first to satisfy.
Web design in Liverpool is high on the agenda of the services in Cheshire is offering its customers in Liverpool and the UK, considering the importance design and appearance hold in our design conscious society which is displayed in all areas of private and business life. Web design is certainly part of this development, since it communicates the expertise and professionalism of an organisation offline as well as online.
Rippleffect's most important services, apart from web design in Liverpool, are search engine optimisation and online marketing. The optimised keyword 'web design Liverpool' would list Rippleffect's optimised page high in a search for the term 'web design Liverpool'.
Awards
National Business Awards 2004 (Highly Commended) – Everton FC - Daily Telegraph
National Business Awards 2004 (Shortlisted) – Living Ventures - Daily Telegraph
Young Director of the Year 2004 (Shortlisted) – Ben Hatton - Institute of Directors
New Media Entrepreneur of the Year 2004 – Rippleffect (Ben Hatton) - EN Magazine
Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 – Ben Hatton - Downtown Liverpool
Best New Media Company 2003 – Rippleffect - EN Magazine
Contact
1 Henry Street
Campbell Square
Liverpool
L1 5BS
t: 0151 709 6848
f: 0151 709 6844
21 Ralli Courts
West Riverside
Manchester
M3 5FT
t: 0161 839 3944
f: 0161 839 4348
Liquid versus fixed layouts
Programmers were the original web page designers in the early 1990s. Currently most web designers come from a graphic artist background in print, where the artist has absolute control over the size and dimensions of all aspects of the website design andf implementation. On the web however, the Web designer has no control over several factors, including the size of the browser window and the size and characteristics of available fonts.
Many designers compensate for this by wrapping their entire webpage in a fixed width box, essentially limiting it to an exact pixel-perfect value, which is a fixed layout. Some create the illusion of liquidity by building the graphics for their webpage at a size larger than any current standard monitor size in flash and using tools like photoshop. Other designers say that this is bad because it ignores the preferences of the user, who might have their browser sized a specific way that they like best.
There is a usability reason (rather than wanting control) for why a designer may choose a more fixed layout. Studies have shown that there is usually an optimal line width in terms of readability. But users may choose their windows size and font selection to optimize other factors to their own ideas and descriptions more important to them.
This decision of which style of layout to use is often made on a case by case basis, depending on the needs and audience of the website.