Showing posts with label Web Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web Design. Show all posts

15.12.10

Online Resources For Graphic Design Services

Graphic design services can help you choose the right colors and visual effects to make your website stand out, and using these online tools, you will have what you need to get started, so you are not overwhelmed with technical jargon.

Another great way for you to find out everything you can about graphic design services is to join online community groups with web and graphic designers.

There are organizations like the American Institute of Graphic Artists, providing a great resource if you want to keep up to date with the software and study programs available for graphic artists at a number of institutions across the country.

When you upgrade from a graphic design school of your choice, you will definitely want to participate with ArtYears, which is an association of art school graduates who work in various parts of the country.

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12.11.10

Web Graphic Design Software To Build Websites

You can use web graphic design and programming skills to create interactive characters on your website, that are linked to your company. For example, if you have a mascot, like an animal or animated object to promote your business, it should be part of your website as well. The character can help to lead customers through all the pages on your site.

Once you develop web graphic design techniques and use the right software, you will have a wider range of digital design choices. For example, you can choose the right colors and develop design ideas for your site.

This means, you can customize your site as much as you want. For example, you can create borders around each web page, with the same color scheme as your logo, or use an animated font that will go on each page on your site.

It may also be a good idea to purchase Adobe Dreamweaver and install it on your computer, go through the tutorials that will teach how to use the software and learn more about how to build a great website. You can also visit the Adobe Dreamweaver website to get more tips and ideas to improve your site.

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11.7.09

Reasons To Make A Web Page

Make a web page and show your artistic talents online. There are so many ways to make new web pages these days. One of the cheapest, is to use a free blog with Blogger or Wordpress. Another way, is to have a basic site with a small number of web pages, and increase the content over a period of time. As you keep adding more pages, you may attract more traffic to your website.

Once you have uploaded the new pages, you need to ensure all the pages are displaying correctly and all the links are working. You also need to check your web pages with different browsers, as some browsers may display your web pages differently, from the display you see on your favorite browser. You should also check your pages with a validator, to ensure there are no errors on your web pages.

Apart from using the basic fonts, you should also use web safe colours. This means, your colors should be viewed the same everywhere on the internet. If you have a colour you really love, another person may see a different colour when visiting your website.

For this reason, you need to ensure all the colours on your pages are web safe and always include the hex code, in your programming code, to ensure browsers show the correct colors.

Before you upload your new pages, validate your pages, to ensure there are no code errors. You should check for spelling mistakes. Once your new pages are uploaded, view them on different browsers, to ensure the web pages are displayed correctly.

You should always be ready to make changes, after you make a web page.

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26.5.09

Reducing Bandwidth Costs With An Image Hosting Service

Image hosting service can help cut the cost of hosting images on your website. If you have a family website, with many images and videos, then you may have to pay more for bandwidth to your hosting service provider.

But, if you use an image hosting service, then your images are not hosted on the same server as your website, and therefore you are not faced with increased bandwidth costs. There are free image hosting services, but they have annoying ads and image size restrictions.

If you have a small site, with free access and you do not want to pay for the extra bandwidth you may need to host images and video, then you may look at using a free image hosting service.

If you are running an online business and you need to run databases with a large number of images and videos, then it may be worthwhile to either use a paid image hosting service or use your site to host your images and video and either pay for more bandwidth, or better still, use a dedicated server.

As cost of bandwidth becomes cheaper, it may be better to use a paid hosting service or pay for more bandwidth. There are some hosting services that allow you to use unlimited bandwidth with a dedicated server. Although these hosting servers are more expensive than a shared server that most sites use, you may find in the long run, you may be making more sales as you will not be scaring customers with annoying ads and image size restrictions that are prevalent with a free image hosting service.

All you need to do, is shop around and find out what hosting services other people in your field are using. You may find a lot of them are using the same reliable hosting companies and they are using a dedicated server. I myself, am talking to my hosting service provider and asking them about their dedicated servers. I am prepared to move my sites to another hosting service where I can get more bandwidth with a reliable dedicated server.

I am hoping to find a quality hosting service over the next few months, without the need for a separate image hosting service.

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24.6.08

Website Design Elements For Better Websites

Whether you work in graphic design, digital design or website design, the basic principals of designing are the same. You cannot just slap together some HTML tags on a page and call it a website.

You need to learn how to design it in a pleasant way and once you understand how the elements all work together, you will have everything you need to become a great designer.

Shape is a major element in design, and normally you see square or rectangular used on a web page, but you can create many different contours to avoid monotony. A unique website design can be created using lines and line work as well.

Lines are used to help delineate spaces around elements, are used as dividing lines between text and as decoration. They also tend to increase the readability of a design.

All of your design work starts with a blank page no matter what type of design you prefer or use. When you look at the page, do you just start placing elements and putting them around the page randomly or do you work like most good designers and actually think about the placement of the tables, graphics, text and nav bar in your website design?

The actual placement of the elements is a huge part of creating the perfect web page.

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