Here are 12 reasons to use WordPress when developing your next website. 1 in 3 websites use WordPress and that’s not a coincidence, find out why in these 12 reasons why to use WordPress for your business website. 1 in 3 of websites on the internet are powered by WordPress, one of the reasons is…
OrbitCarrot have been in business for around 4 years now and in that time a lot has changed, the web has changed dramatically but so has our business. We started out as a Digital Marketing Agency but as the years went on we’ve became more and more focus on the web as that’s were our…
Intro Every social marketeer has the dilemma between manual and automated social media, automated posts allows for a constant flow of content being provided to users however it is usually often obviously automated and therefore not engaging. Manual tweets on the other hand take up a large part of time each day but are engaging and…
Intro Before I start this post, I have to say there is no way for a cross platform blur effect like iOS, but there are ways with WebKit/Blink. Earlier in the year we created the website high-wycombe-web-design.com to demo the approach. In the next section we will explain how it works and go through the short…
How a non-mobile website gives my competitors the edge? In this article we’ll explain why it’s important to have a mobile friendly, and what your options are with creating one. Mobile device usage has exploded in recent years with over 60% of the web’s traffic coming from mobile devices. Smart phones are essentially glued to people’s hands,…
Face++ API At OrbitCarrot we’re always looking for awesome new web technologies, and today we came across Face++ Face++ is a new vision platform built by Megvii Inc. It aims to provide a compact, powerful, and cross-platform vision service. Face++ uses the latest cutting-edge technology of computer vision and huge data banks to provide 3 core vision services…
What can we do about IE8? What do you say when a client wants to make their site IE8 compatible? Creating amazing websites, and supporting legacy websites has always been a big issue for web developers. So what are the options when working on a new website? Create a separate stylesheets tailored for IE8. This is a common trend,…
Intro Apple products have always said to be successful because of the software/hardware integration, the teams work together and communicate to make sure everything work perfectly together. A similar process is also important in the web development world, many agencies have a design/development team which work separately, others specialise on either development or design and…
CAPTCHAs are the bane effect of the internet. Those annoying jumbled up collection of numbers and letters mismashed into one barely readable image, which requires more guess work then anything else to get right. Well, now Google wants to improve all of that with an update to reCAPTCHA, a simple one-click checkbox which says “I…
