When you’re running your business and doing it successfully, it’s easy to take for granted everything you’re an expert on. No matter how skilled or seasoned, we can all get caught up in the process and unintentionally be holding ourselves back. At Matcha Design we’ve...
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5 Essential Tips to Secure Your Website
In today's scenario, technology alterations are very frequent, it befits more stimulating to retain information protected on the web. These tips will upsurge your chances to keep hackers and cyber-thieves at bay. 1. Create and preserve solid passwords. Earlier there...
5 Tips for Staying Safe Online
The Internet is an amazing accomplishment, making the sharing of enormous amounts of information and data as simple as clicking a mouse or tapping a screen. But like all human endeavors, there are criminals waiting to exploit it, people who delight in breaking trusts...
5 Ways a Website Can Break (and what to do about it)
Web developers, at least good ones, try not to release the programs they write without having full confidence they'll work under normal (and many abnormal) circumstances. Testing is an absolutely necessary part of every development cycle. Despite a dizzying variety of...
A Birthday Letter to Google
In the last 15 years, many tech companies have done great things that have surpassed our imagination by leaps and bounds, but Google's unique achievements have indeed made the world a better place. Make knowledge accessible to anyone who can get online. By...
Responsive Design: From an Edgy Trend to a Blog Necessity
In 2013, Website Magazine reported responsive design as one of the hottest Web trends. Today, designers no longer see responsive design as a popular fad–it has become a mainstay for successful blogs. So much so, that you might not even remember a time before...
Finding The Right CMS For Your Website Project
Managing your website does not need to be hard or overwhelming. The key is finding a content management system (CMS) that gives you the flexibility to edit and website features you need. Matcha Design primarily uses Concrete5 (C5) as the CMS to power our custom...
Discover Seasonal Website Design
You may have noticed the color scheme change on Match Design lately, but before you assume we have completely thrown out our branding, let me explain. When the temperatures drop Matcha Design feeds the innate desire to jump in piles of freshly raked autumn leaves and...
Thoughts on Media Queries and the iPad 3
The line between mobile and non-mobile has been blurry for a while. We have tablets and netbooks that fall somewhere between phones and desktops, and even other devices such as game consoles browsing the web, all with varying screen sizes, resolutions, and densities....
How You Present a Website Matters
As web professionals, we always try to find creative ways to present web content in order to provide a more comfortable viewing experience. One of the more popular web features nowadays is to use custom web fonts on web site vs the good ole Arial, Verdana... However,...
What is OOCSS? (Object Oriented CSS)
Object Oriented CSS is a method of development as it pertains to the HTML and CSS relationships designed to reduce redundancy in CSS, primarily to make more manageable code. The idea is (basically) to take reused styles and assign them to individual classes, then the...
QR Code Demystified – Part 6
We've covered almost everything we need to create QR Codes. The next thing we need is version information blocks. The version information blocks simply tell the reader what version the symbol is, and therefore how many modules wide and tall it is. Table 11 shows the...