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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
Partners
Rippleffect’s policy is to create partnerships with leading organisations whose area of expertise in the new media sector complements ours. This means we never deviate from the Internet, we never lose the focus of our stated mission -- to provide an unrivalled online service for our clients.
British Telecom
Pipex
Open SRS
World Pay
Protx
Privacy Policy
Rippleffect Studio Ltd is a registered company with the Data Protection Act 1988 and is aware of its responsibilities under that act.
In general, you may visit the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about you. Our servers collect the domain names, operating system in use (e.g., Macintosh, Windows) and browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer). This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the Site, pages viewed, etc. Rippleffect Studio Ltd uses this information to measure the use of our Site and to improve the content of our Site. E-mail addresses and other personally identifiable information such as first and last name, home or other physical address, telephone number, and other similar information are known only when voluntarily provided by a visitor for registration or other participation of visitors in any available online interactive activities.
Unless otherwise disclosed during the collection, personally identifiable information that may be collected in connection with visitors to this Site is retained by Rippleffect Studio Ltd. Rippleffect Studio Ltd do not sell, transfer or otherwise disclose this personally identifiable information outside this company, except where disclosure is required by law.
We may use the personal information you provide for any of the following purposes: (1) to understand the use of our Site and make improvements; (2) to respond to specific request from visitors; (3) to obtain parental consent from visitors under 18 years of age, where necessary; (4) to provide any necessary notices to our visitors or their parent or legal guardians, where necessary; (5) to protect the security or integrity of our Site when necessary; (6) to send you notices and solicitations regarding Site and our businesses; and (7) in general to promote and market products to you. These solicitations may take the form of mailings or other couriers, telephone calls, e-mail solicitations and other methods of contact. If you do not want to receive these solicitations from us using your personally identifiable information, please notify us.
It is our policy that visitors to our Site who are under the age of 18 should not post or provide information on our Site without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. You should supervise the online activities of your children, and consider the use of parental control tools available from online services and software providers that help provide a kid-friendly Internet environment.
At times, we conduct on-line surveys to better understand the needs and profiles of our visitors. When we conduct a survey, we will try to let you know how we will use the information at the time we collect the information from you on the Internet.
This Site may contain links to other sites of third parties. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those other sites. We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. You are responsible for checking this policy when you visit our Site to review the current policy. If you do not agree with the policy, you should cease use of the Site immediately.
Flash
Macromedia Flash is a proprietary, robust graphics animation/application development program used to create and deliver dynamic content, media (such as sound and video), and interactive applications over the web via the browser. It is not a standard produced by a vendor-neutral standards organization like most of the core protocols and formats on the Internet.
Many graphic artists use Flash because it gives them exact control over every part of the design, and anything can be animated and generally "jazzed up." Some application designers enjoy flash because it lets them create applications that don't have to be refreshed or go to a new web page every time an action occurs. There are many sites which forego HTML entirely for Flash.
Flash detractors claim that Flash websites tend to be poorly designed, and often use confusing and non-standard user-interfaces. Up until recently, search engines have been unable to index Flash objects, which has prevented sites from having their contents easily found. It is possible to specify alternate content to be displayed for browsers that do not support Flash. Using alternate content also helps search engines to understand the page, and can result in much better visibility for the page.
The most recent incarnation of Flash's scripting language (called "actionscript", which is an ECMA language similar to JavaScript) incorporates long-awaited usability features, such as respecting the browser's font size and allowing blind users to use screen readers. Actionscript 2.0 is an Object-Oriented language, allowing the use of CSS, XML, and the design of class-based web applications.
The final consensus is that Flash is simply a tool, and like all tools it takes a skillful craftsperson to know when, and how, to use it properly. Macromedia's other two products, Fireworks and Dreamweaver, makes Flash integration with graphics and HTML a lot easier.
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.