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Author: Gavin Skeels

Gavin Skeels

Gavin is a Senior Web Designer at The Web Showroom. Formerly of the United Kingdom, he's made Australia home since 1990 and has successfully gone 20+ years without ever disclosing his sporting allegiances. Armed with a passion for all things web design and sharing these discoveries with his fellow designers, Gavin is a multi-discipllne designer with over 10 years website design and search engine optimisation experience. Outside of The Web Showroom, his interests include basketball and long MW3 sessions along with a bit of YouTube commentary thrown in for good measure.

  • Clean, flat design in favour of skeumorphism by Gavin Skeels
    in Website Advice
    8 May 2013  | 0 Comments
    I touched on this topic a little in my previous blog post on 2013 Web Design Trends but like most things web design it’s good to delve a bit deeper in an effort to understand it better but first lets define it. Skeumorphism is a design technique or approach to make elements look like their...Read More
  • 2013 Design Trends by Gavin Skeels
    in Web Design
    10 Apr 2013  | 0 Comments
    Following on from last month’s blog post about the design trends of 2012, today we pull out the crystal ball to see what trends might feature in the websites of 2013. Large, large call to actions and buttons Call to action buttons have a purpose – to get you to click on them. Increased...Read More
  • 2012 Design Trends – A look in the rear view mirror by Gavin Skeels
    in Web Design
    19 Mar 2013  | 0 Comments
    Leather sleeved jackets, printed pants and wedge sneakers. These were supposedly three fashion trends from 2012. I wouldn’t know. I had to look it up. Mercifully this is not a fashion blog post, but much in the same way that fashion trends come and go, we see the same in web design trends....Read More
  • Adobe's Create The Web Conference by Gavin Skeels
    in Web Development
    12 Oct 2012  | 0 Comments
    Generally speaking, most companies that make the tools and applications used throughout the web design industry are pretty quick on the uptake when it comes to changes in browser technologies & web standard compliance. One company that has always been at the forefront of this web development...Read More
  • Website Design & Anatomy by Gavin Skeels
    in Building a Website
    21 Mar 2012  | 0 Comments
    Website Anatomy - Where do users look? As an agency focused on web design we’re constantly looking at ways of improving the user experience of our client’s sites. Whilst it’s important for us to keep up with current trends we also need to respect how people have historically...Read More
  • What is a web design prototype? by Gavin Skeels
    in Building a Website
    12 Mar 2012  | 0 Comments
    A prototype is a working website that establishes functionality without any design. They are simple black and white website outlines that allow clients to understand functionality before design. Our research shows that having clients approve functionality before design, allow The Web...Read More
  • Harness the power of social networking by Gavin Skeels
    in Online Marketing
    19 Jan 2012  | 0 Comments
    As a web design company, we've spent a substantial amount of time integrating our CMS with the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google+ so your website can harness the power of social networking. Whilst it's no secret that big business uses social media to it's advantage, nearly 40% of small...Read More
  • Web Redesign by Gavin Skeels
    in Web Design
    4 Jan 2012  | 0 Comments
    As an agency focused on web design, a large portion of the work we do is the redesigning and redevelopment of a business' existing online web presence. There may be a number of reasons that you've arrived at to think about a website redesign, but generally they can be narrowed down to these key...Read More
 
 

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