Peter Sofocleous | Web Developer

• 84 tips on how to generate traffic for your website
  Q: What is traffic?       A: Traffic inadvertently means money, as that is what it equates to if executed wisely. It is in everyone’s interests with a business, to be educated in how to benefit economically. The amount of data sent and received by visitors to a website is classified as internet traffic. [...]

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• New Offices
  Exciting developments for the future. New Year. New Offices. Digital Mosaic takes a new perspective overlooking the London Eye. Waterloo – I was defeated, you won the warWaterloo – Promise to love you for ever moreWaterloo – Couldn’t escape if I wanted toWaterloo – Knowing my fate is to be with youWaterloo – Finally facing [...]

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• Kraft Foods
  Digital Mosaic designed and developed the website for Kraft Foods to enhance their recruitment strategy, whilst creating a visual feast. Sadly, the position for food-tasting was not an option. ;o)

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• Photography Interview with Conor McCabe
    Q: How did you become involved in photography?   A: I started off my career in photography in Whitespace Publishing Group Limited based in Dublin. My job role was to supply business and editorial photography to their newspaper supplements and business magazines.   Q: What advice would you give to someone whose interested in [...]

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• Airbus Programme Matcher
  Reach new heights with Airbus Programme Matcher: I believe I can fly I believe I can touch the sky I think about it every night and day I spread my Airbus wings and fly away…

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• Store Street Bloomsbury
  Take a look and see what Store Street Bloomsbury has in store for you! ;o)

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• Dolphin Shopping Centre
  Now in Poole, Dolphin therapy has a new meaning of the retail kind. ;o)

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• Chapter 6: Typography in Web Design – Interview with Grant Bowden
  Typography Interview with Grant Bowden: Creative Director of Deep.     Q: What excites you about typography?   A: I could happily write about the never-ending beauty of the letterforms, the utilitarianism of Sans Serifs, the timeless sophistication of Serifs, the elegance of Script Lettering, the no-nonsense of slab serif, the aggression of Black Letter [...]

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• Chapter 5: Typography in Web Design – Serif & Sans Serif Fonts, Typography as Art.
  Serif and Sans Serif Fonts Serif fonts such as Times, Georgia or Baskerville are used for large bodies of text as they are more distinctive, familiar and legible. Whereas Sans Serif fonts such as Ariel, Helvetica and Verdana etc. are more effective for low monitor resolutions and therefore applied to captions, headlines and logos. Serifs [...]
• Chapter 4: Typography in Web Design – Hyphenation, Emphasis.
  Hyphenation Hyphenation in typography serves to connect words that are divided when they cannot fit comfortably at the end of typed lines. To avoid fragmented words, hyphens should be placed predominantly between consonants. A useful tip is to ensure that a hyphen is sandwiched between two letters on one line and three on the following [...]
• Chapter 3: Typography in Web Design – Kerning, Tracking, Baseline, Leading.
  Kerning/Mortising, Negative/Positive Spacing-Tracking Kerning-also known as mortising, adjusts character spacing in proportional fonts for an aesthetically pleasing result. This is achieved via moving the letters closer together, otherwise referred to as negative spacing. Tracking or positive spacing on the other hand, moves the letters further apart. When a font is kerned correctly, the area of the two-dimensional [...]
• Chapter 2: Typography in Web Design – Space, Widows & Orphans, Alignment, Paragraphs, Measure.
  Space Allow your text to speak by having enough negative or white space to envelope it. Another web typography rule is to keep 140% of line spacing in relation to your font size, as specified by the line-height CSS property. In fact the attention to micro space within the type, is the mark of a [...]
• Chapter 1: Typography in Web Design – Contrast, Font Size & Hierarchy
  Typography derives from the Greek words (τύπος) typos and (γραφή) graphy, meaning form and writing. In web design it is the technique and art of arranging typefaces, which manifested when Tim Berners-Lee launched the first website in 1991. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/nationaltreasures/2194133/Sir-Tim-Berners-Lee-portrait.html Contrast The contrast between typography and background requires consideration of colour and font types. The purpose [...]

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