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Web Development Help & Advice
Web and Graphic Design
5 Basic Rules on Typography
Whenever you get projects for designing graphics for different media materials, there are certain rules you need to know before venturing to the complexities and elaborate world of graphic design. On...
5 Steps to Understanding HTML
HTML is a relatively simple language, but that doesn't stop people from having problems with it. Why is that? It's mainly because, while the HTML tags themselves are easy, creating an HTML document t...
7 Pointers about Web Design
In order to master the art of web design, designers must follow the subsequent pointers: 1. Web designers are marketers per se. Web sites are all about advertising products, ideas and services. Thus,...
A Graceful Flowing Font
Do you think anyone has declared moving type to be the end of civilization in the same way people said typewriters were killing letter writing, telephones were isolating people, and television and th...
About HTML fonts
It is very tempting to use fancy looking fonts when designing a web page. After all, the fancier the font the more attractive it will be to visitors and the more likely they will be to stay at your p...
All About Batch Image Format Conversion
If you already have photo editing software on your computer, you may want to know how to convert a number of images at a time to the format you desire. This feature, batch image format conversion, ma...
Anti-Aliasing for Great-Looking Text Graphics
Macromedia has a wonderful software application that helps users create great-looking text graphics by using anti-aliasing capabilities. In Fireworks MX 2004, artists and designers can create readabl...
Avoid Graphical Overload
When designing a website, it's easy to start loading it up with graphics. While tempting, you have to resist -- otherwise, you'll end up with graphical overload. Why is that a bad thing? Here's why....
Build a Home Page the Right Way
A home page is basically the main page of a website which is the first thing that an internet browser or surfer first sees once he/she visited your site. This is part of a web page (though in this ca...
Color: The Root Of All Graphic Designs
Consistency should be the best practiced value in any kind of business. You also have to have a process to run things from day to day. This keeps things organized, can reduce time that is wasted and ...
Consistency In Web Design
The human mind constantly searches for patterns in everything that it sees everyday, striving to find the unified picture as a whole. If the mind cannot find pattern in what it is seeking, it has a h...
Designing Your Website
‘First impression lasts’ is very much true for online business. Website content (texts, graphics and animations) must create a 3D picture of product/service in the mind of the consumers, and entice t...
Developing Websites With A Theme
I like to think of the theme of a website as something that makes the website easily identifiable. It can be a combination of colour patterns, navigation effects, layout...etc that leave a lasting im...
Elements of a Good Design
So you’re aspiring to create designs for companies advertising their crafts online? Hold on! Before chasing after your dream of being a ‘great’ and ‘well-known’ graphic designer…Let’s go over the man...
Essential Of Good Web Design
If you want to design a web site, you should follow nine rules of thumb. 1. General Impression Your web site is like a window display of your business. If the impression that it creates is not good ...
Examples of Bad Webpage Graphic Design
There are two major problems inherent in most graphic design for the Internet. One of is ‘too much’ and the other is ‘no connection’. Designers tend to put ‘too much’ emphasis on the graphic elemen...
Font Tips
The fonts used in a publication affect not only its appearance, but also its commercial printing cost. This is most applicable for those who have already set a specific budget for a printing job. Yo...
Getting Back To Basics: Creating A Logo From Start To Finish
When I began my career in the graphics industry, almost 17 years ago, I would approach the design of any new logo by first taking out a pad of paper and a pencil and sketching out basic ideas before ...
How to Choose a Web Designer?
Hiring a web designer is the next big step upon entering a web design business or anything in relation to it. Moreover, we have to make a good choice because our business depends on it. To give you a...
How To Design Your Site Effectively
You decide you want to have a web presence. How do you design your website in a way that is effective? How do you effectively create website in a way that makes your clients want to come back? A clie...
JPEG and GIF the differences
JPEG and GIF image formats are both compression based formats. They are the most widely used and supported image formats for web. They take an uncompressed image such as bitmapped image and compress ...
Logo Design Buyer’s Guide
Across a period of time a logo is the image which symbolizes a corporation, its products and services in a complete explanatory manner. Its purpose is to create an unforgettable, familiar feeling on ...
Quality Website Design At An Affordable Price
I always have people asking me if I know of anybody who can build them a website which is affordable but also professional looking. They want the website to be search engine friendly, there is no poi...
The Importance of a Well-Designed Logo
You have one chance to make a first impression. Potential customers will form an opinion of a business within seconds. A company’s logo is therefore extremely influential, as it is almost always the ...
Top 5 Mistakes that Drive Your Visitors Away in Less than 2 Minutes
You took the leap. You set up a website to display your important message. Congratulations! As in life, first impressions are important on the web. Web researchers found that you have about 2 minutes...
Top Ten Pages to Include in Your Website
1. Home page. Your home page is the very first page that someone will find when they input your domain name into their browser and press the enter key. Within seconds, they will form an opinion o...
Types in Logo Design
Text-Based Logo Design The mainly extensively used of all logo types; the Text-Based design focuses on text and style but can include other elements as well. A Text-Based design may be best suited fo...
Universal Web Design Catering to All of Your Visitors
The world wide web is an extremely unique place that allows everybody to have access to the same information from all around the world. This truly is an ability never experienced before by humankind...
Web / Graphic Design
When it comes to web design it is very important that you pick the right person to design your site. Taking your business online is just like opening a new store for the first time. The more you put ...
Web Design By Example: www.cj.com
Commission Junction is a popular online advertising company and has a number of big clients including ebay in their portfolio. This site has a strong corporate identity and a very user friendly navig...
Web Site Design Color For You
Color is an attitude. It can make you strong, weak, wild, wanting, passionate and complete. Colors can influence our behavior, feelings and psyche. In fact, colors are oftentimes used as treatment to...
Website Colors That Turn Off Your Customers
Using too many colors or the wrong combination of colors could alienate or turn off customers completely. Out of any form of non-verbal communication, color is the quickest way to communicate a messa...
Website Optimisation & Design: Which Screen Resolution to Design for?
It is at times a common mistake for web designers, especially beginners, to create a website which is not optimised for various screen resolutions. With over 40 different screen resolutions, it is ex...
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