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The digital age is well and truly upon us and evolving at a rate of bytes. It’s no longer just a desktop environment. In recent years there has been a monstrous influx of devices, from desktops to laptops, tablets to smart phones. In 2012 “58% of UK residents owned a smartphone” and “almost a fifth (19%) of UK residents owned a tablet”  N.Lomas December 13th, 2012. With these figures comes a headache for designers and developers alike. It’s no longer the case that we're designing for just desktops, we have to take into account the large selection of ever growing devices that are out there. Luckily, as the web evolves so do the technologies that surround it. As web designers, the two main approaches to work with, are responsive web design (RWD) or a dedicated mobile website. Responsive web design A web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience – easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling – across a wide range...

--> Using scrolling for navigation of websites has become quite commonplace, but which is better; the click or the scroll? Clicking was the simple answer to this question. The general thought was that if you made your page too long, users would only view and read the top half and glance over or ignore the bottom half. Today, things have changed. Many users do scroll to the end of the page and have no problem doing so. It might be argued that ‘scrolling’ has become a second-nature and ‘clicking’ a chore. The main advantages of scrolling are: * users see everything in a predefined order * no extra page loading is required The first point is probably the most important when making a decision about using scrolling as a means of navigation. If the product or service has some kind of story which should be viewed in a specific order scrolling is the perfect choice. Even if the user doesn't read the whole story they will at least get a glance at it all as it whizzes by. However wh...