In the past few years we have seen a substantial increase in the use of touchscreen technologies. From city guides, museum maps, and sales kiosks to the massive supply of hand held touchscreen technologies (iPhone, Droid, iPad, ect.) designers have taken a major interest to understand and design for these platforms.

More and more of us are doing business without ever meeting our service providers face-to-face. There’s one common stumbling block that can hinder any deal, and that’s the issue of trust.

Here are five simple steps that have helped us to build trust online.

"Flash animation" is a buzz word that a majority of our clients will use to describe animation, special effects, and generally any moving part on their web presence. Even though the same solution could be built in many different ways, the customer knows it only to be "Flash", and as such, only asks for Flash. As most clients work in different industries, they may not know that other solutions exist or if Flash is even the best tool for their project.

1. Minimum Width for a Page (Using Expressions)

A very handy CSS command that exists is the min-width command, whereby you can specify a minimum width for any element. This can be particularly useful for specifying a minimum width for a page.

Unfortunately, IE doesn't understand this command, so we'll need to come up with a new way of making this functionality work in this browser. First, we'll insert a DIV under the BODY tag, as we can't assign a minimum width to the BODY: