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What Are the Current Web Design Trends in 2012

2011-12-17T00:12:00.000-08:00

We are eagerly waiting for the New Year day to welcome another year which is supposed to bring for us boundless happiness in our life. Different people think differently – while a businessman would ever eye for more business. Well, here we are typically concerned about increasing business. It is undoubtedly true that better online business the interface or the website of a business has to be very much attractive. A business has to find out what are the latest web design trends 2012 to understand what people would like to look at. If any means a website cannot impress the visitor with its first look, the business potentiality from the coming visitors would decrease day by day.

Well, you must be thinking how before the arrival of the 2012 the web design trends 2012 can be predicted! Well, it is all about prediction man! If you are a freelance graphic designer or web designer and in this field for a decades long, you can easily say what is going to be the web design trends 2012. Simply if you take the Christmas campaign, what idea we can get about that? Quite a few months before businesses begin the campaigns. Same way it is not feasible that trend will be set after arrival of 2012. For grabbing the attention of the internet surfers from the very fast day of the New Year businesses give new look to their website or some businesses create new website following the probable web design trends 2012. Now let us try to find out just few trends:

Single page design: Gone are the concepts of designing multi paged website layout! Now the designers are trying something that is called single page design. It is turning one of the favorite web design trends 2012. The concept is built up from the dropping desire of a visitor against clicking through different pages to know or get the information about the product or the services. So the designers try to sum up everything about a business just in one page.

Big & bold typography: one of the worth mention web design trends 2012 is bold and big typography. It was a time when users used to scan pages and find out what they are in search of. But day after day the tendency is changing. Now businesses have to show of put forth the message to the visitors within just a few seconds. So now web designers try to use bold and big type face or the fonts to throw the main message into the users’ mind.

CSS3 & HTML5: For some worth viewing animations to the web layouts Flash is used. But there are some drawbacks of Flash (slow loading and compatibility issues and etc.). So now the web designers like to use HTML5 for its ease of use and development. At the same time CSS3 is also being used for its rounded corner, mega drop down menus, multi background and other effects that make layouts fantastic to look at. So in the coming year one of the web design trends 2012 will be this one for sure.

Infographics: Nowadays the days giving preference to images and texts separately has gone. It is infographics (images with text information) that rule the present webpage designing. With proper use of images and the texts the whole message is depicted against simply description. So this is one of the major web design trends 2012. Businesses find this really helpful and users useful to understand things better and faster.

Well, these are just a few top web design trends 2012 to note down. But whatever the case may be one thing is for sure – you have to find out one of the best web designer or the graphic designer to present for you one of the best web layout that does not only attract the eyes of the visitors but also push the message across. But before the selection of the designer you need to look into the web and graphic design portfolio to ensure if the designer has the ability to present you one of the web design trends 2012. Best of luck!

10 crazy holiday advertisement ideas

2011-12-07T05:12:00.000-08:00

On this Christmas every business would be trying to gather attention from people. Everywhere we can see the innumerable advertising displays (both offline and online). Nowadays it has gone tough to recognize or differentiate a single ad from another (if both are on same type of product or service)! Well, this does not mean that advertisements have ceased to attract people or you should stop thinking or spending a little on general or the holiday advertisement! In other words if you like to attract great number of people to your business then you need to do something crazy! In the design of the ads there has to be something special that attracts eyes or forces your grey matter to keep it remembered.

However, in making a simple business address special the media can be anything but the approach has to be special. While you are trying to design holiday advertisement you need to put some elements or symbols, images portraying the holiday spirit. Let us now find out 10 crazy holiday marketing ideas:

Crazy logos: We have to mind the logo and its branding power on the holidays. You can easily remember how the Google Doodles come to us pretty acceptable in several occasions. Same way you may do something crazy with your logo! If you can infuse some amusement related elements in the logos, then it will be different to people and help them remind your holiday advertisement efforts.
Brochures: It is very important that you are having a special holiday brochure designed. On the holidays you would certainly have some seasonal products or services. Just like your thought others will do the same! But how would you make people read and keep your brochure with? Simple – you need to design your brochure in a way that it attracts the eyes or help people recognize your business. Remember this time you are using your brochure as a part of holiday advertisements so make it crazy with holiday elements that arouse holiday urge in people.
Giving a new & trendy touch on web layout: While you are trying several means to market your product or the service on this holiday, you need to think about the look of your existing site. It is not feasible that people landing on your portal to see a normal layout that does not meet to the holiday craze! So you have to bring twist in your existing site layout to match it with the trend of the holiday advertisements. An unconventional layout with the holiday elements (off course focusing your product or the services) needs to be created to make people aware that you have something special for them on this holiday.
Banners: If you carefully look at the banners, you will find that those are basically used for adverts. So if you are planning for holiday advertisements then you need to design banners. But don’t you think that your banner advertisement should have something crazy to make people stare at you? Yes, you can do so with unusual color use, animation and graphics that forces people to look at your banners.
E-card designs: All of us know that e-cards have their mesmerizing power! They can nicely convey any marketing idea to people. But don’t you think why people would prefer to download your e-card? There are so many e-card designing companies who sell or free distribute the e-cards. Simply your e-cards need to make a craze in people with the design and theme. If you can do so, your holiday advertisement campaign is going to see great success!
Flyers to fly high: In various offline or on-field marketing purposes the flyers act really nice to brand the identity or advertise the product or the services boldly. But how would you make it sure that people are finding your flyers different on these holidays? Simply design flyers in such a way that inevitably people keep your business remembered and your flyer get successful as holiday advertisement tool.

Crazy cover designs: In holiday seasons you would like to bring out some booklet, catalog or the book that elaborately describers your product or the services. These will certainly work as one of the successful media of holiday advertisement. But again on those covers there has to be some crazy look to make people pick up those while in display. The core message has to be clearly shown.
Postcards: While just above the mention of e-cards is there, you may be thinking why then postcard! But you would love to know that people still love to receive a postcard with greeting or some message! So you may easily use the postcard as one of the media for holiday advertisement. Well, the design has to be someway nice enough to tend people keep the cards preserved at least through out the holiday season.
T-shirt design: Among so many holiday advertisement ploys putting your message through the t-shirt can be a good strategy. But there has to be some attractive design so that your t-shirts are chosen by people and openly your holiday advertisement goes place to place.
Business cards: lastly the business cards also take part in your advertising campaign. However, some would say it is not feasible to change business cards now and then! But on holidays if your business card has some crazy thought applied on to them, people would understand that you have specialties on holidays. So you may try trendy design to use your business card as one of the holiday advertisement tool.

Well, if you carefully look into the above holiday advertisement ideas, one certain point comes to the fore that the designs have to be crazy! Now who is going to give you the crazy designs? Simply an experienced designer from a web design company or a freelance graphic designer. So you have to find out the right partner for your project to make every step of your holiday advertisement campaign successful.

Onlinewebmedia launches festive advertising campaign

2011-12-01T21:44:00.000-08:00

Hi folks! The Christmas has already knocked on the doors and the shopping has begun! Every business has got their bouquet of offers for the consumers. If you have a business then you must have some specialties in store for your potential customers also. But how is your festive advertising campaign? Have you made it sure that your ads are shown in proper places? How affordable is your chosen ad package? Do you get any assistance from the ad service providers while you could not decide the best place to put those? How is the support from them? Do you get business lead from those ads? Have you tried the best festive advertising options from Onlinewebmedia Corporation?

Now having thrown these questions at you what I am trying to prove? Very simple – I am benefitted from proper placement of festive adverts and like to tell you one real story. As you know I am a freelance graphic designer, I never think or can afford to place so many ads in several places! So I have to choose the best festive advertising option that comes under afford, yet all sort of facilities are provided with good business returns. Believe me when I came across the Onlinewebmedia network of sites and its pledge to serve its customers with best of opportunities, I had to choose them.

Well, you would like to know what those facilities are! Let us have a look at some of the lucrative options provided by Onlinewebmedia Corporation network (OCN) for placing festive advertising:

Various ad options: The first thing that comes in mind of every advertiser is the type of ads. What I mean to say is simple – how would be the ads – banners (with images or with simple texts), text based ads and etc. When I searched OCN festive advertising modes I could find out all sorts of ad types for running successful online ad campaign. I just have to choose one that best fits my requirement.
Suggestion on ad placement: While I just became little confused on which position I must display my festive advertisements, the service provider came to my help. They took all the details about my business and my budget. And just with a few hours they suggested the best way to advertise. I can assure that you would not find a single service provider to suggest you about festive advertising placement in this way!
Lucrative discount & offers on bulk ad: Now the moment I decided to place my ad according to my choice, I could not resist myself in throwing one very usual question – will I get some discounts if I wish to run festive advertising campaign in a bulk through OCN? You would be amazed to know that they not only informed me of bulk discount even they showed me discounts in individual ads. All the ads are just irresistible to grab before OCN stops those!
A great support system: Well, it is very common that the service providers would help you until your payment is made. When they have bagged your money, you will be forgotten by them. But believe me or not choosing OCN the case is completely different! From payment problem to any other issues later on you would get instant support from OCN. I myself had an issue in sending the ad materials to them for updating the ad content. I just mailed my issue and they solved it quickly. I can say they are just proactive.

Well these are just a little glimpse on why I chose OCN for my festive advertising purpose or as the best partner in my holiday advertising campaign. There are lots of surprises may be waiting for you (the way I got the opportunity to find my business promoted through their own blog and newsletters). So contact Onlinewebmedia to find out what festive advertising opportunity is waiting for you. Remember the popular web directories provide targeted customers. Cheers friends!

Christmas wallpaper design - Top 10 killer tips

2011-11-23T04:39:00.000-08:00

This Christmas do not leave a single opportunity to brand your business! And in branding your business you can easily use one of the popular marketing techniques - free distribution of Christmas wallpapers. To zeal up with the Xmas fervor people like to download computer desktop wallpapers of different types. Simple they want to feel amused and you could use this sting or instinct for your business promotion purpose. Just create or keep beautiful Christmas wallpaper design in your website for free download. You would certainly see an increased traffic to your site. At the same time you have the option to promote your brand through those wallpapers silently. But here you have to mind some design issues which always help making Christmas wallpaper design attractive enough to people who are in search of such wallpapers.

As a freelance graphic designer I know how to create some really worth downloading and praising Christmas wallpapers. So here I am presenting for you top 10 killer tips:

Christmas color: The first thing, I think, each Christmas wallpaper should have as one of its greatest characteristic – use of Christmas colors (red, green, golden and white). Without these four colors the eyes of onlookers can never be dragged towards your wallpapers. So balanced use of colors give the attraction deserved by wallpapers.
Christmas symbol: There can hardly be even an imagination of Christmas wallpaper without Christmas symbols like pine tree, reindeer or Santa. These symbols do symbolize Xmas and without these any Christmas wallpaper design can justify itself as made for Xmas.
Warm message with tags: A design should not be without the space of messages or taglines. These small and precise texts infuse life in every Christmas wallpaper. So you have to either include readymade message and tag or keep space for placing customized one.
Slick & optimized design: Well when you would be preparing any Christmas wallpaper designs you have to take care that the designs are slick and optimized for easy access or download. The files have to be light weighted. If this does not happen then people would feel unease and never come back for more.
Tactful use of logo: In the Christmas wallpaper design there may not be an open opportunity of using your own logo! So you have to use the logo intelligently in small size and perfect placement to at least grab the attention once for sure.
The size issue: Sometimes it is found that Christmas wallpaper designs create size issues. I mean to say the designer create wallpapers either of bigger size or small one. So it is always better to keep two default size of “1024 X 768” for square desktop and “1366 X 768” for wide ones. This solves the size problem to a great extent.
Compatibility factor: While you would be asking for Christmas wallpaper designs make sure those are compatible to several operating system. Sometimes for use of several design issues like fonts the design deteriorate, these points have to be kept in mind while creating the designs.
Design piracy: While you are asking or buying the Christmas wallpaper designs from any designer or company do confirm there is no image or graphics theft from any where! At the same time there can be some precaution (like water mark or like so) to save your unique wallpapers being theft and used without your branding.
Multiple versions: With progress of time it is found that people now do not like the static Christmas wallpaper designs. They like the animations and presently the High definition wallpapers. So it is better that you try designing your wallpapers in static and other versions. At least the best ones should be like that.
Wallpapers for smart phones: last but not the least, Christmas wallpaper designs for smart phones should be in your mind. I am keeping this separate because people are using smart phones like iPhones or the Blackberry in huge proportion. So if you design wallpapers and trying to grab these people then your desktop wallpapers would not do! You have to design separately. These wallpapers have different design factors.

Well these above points hopefully help you know how should be the Christmas wallpaper designs! But remember you need the expert designers to offer these designs to you. While you are selecting any designer for designing this huge number of wallpapers for free distribution, do check the design portfolio to know how is his or her Christmas wallpaper design. At the same time you should mind the pricing. If you search the internet, you could find out affordable designs for you. Hope you find the right design partner!

Christmas marketing ideas – how to give your business a mega boost

2011-10-31T03:00:00.000-07:00

This Christmas everyone is trying to earn some extra bucks! Hopefully if you have a business, you must be trying the same! Well, I have brought here some tips or Christmas marketing ideas for you that are going to help in boosting your business! The ideas may seem to you footling but those are effective in bringing you business. Whatever return you get over offline marketing can not be compared to the huge returns of the online if the process is proper. You can hardly imagine the power of a newsletter (designed effectively) or the discount coupons floated over internet. It can bring you so many visitors or the customers!

I am a freelance graphic designer and ever try to present my blog readers and the customers with some highly effective tips. So here are some Christmas marketing ideas to boost your online business:

Seasons free products or services: There cannot be any other attraction than a free gift or service! Just imagine if you can offer your customers with any sort of free services (it may be given after the customer buys product or service from you). Everybody would appreciate the effort. But you have to highlight one of this best Christmas marketing ideas properly in your website or other promotional places. You may have to create small banners (text or image based) to gather the attraction of the visitors.

Limited discount coupons: On this Christmas season you can throw discounts on your products or services. You can arrange automatic coupon delivery from your site. People would appreciate of this highly feasible Christmas marketing ideas. You just need to implement the system asking your web developer to do so. You may also float attractively designed coupons through several ad campaigns.

Varied greetings cards: Once you make a deal with someone, you begin a customer and seller relation. And for future business generation you should maintain this relation. This Christmas make use of all your contacts. One of the best Christmas marketing ideas will be to send cards and e-cards. As a freelance graphic designer I design several ecards, post cards even layouts for printed greeting cards. And report says – not only the relation becomes strong, even good business is generated through these cards.

Effective newsletters: Sending Christmas newsletter is one of the best parts of Christmas marketing ideas. But here are some big factors to consider. One is the text of the newsletter and the other one is the overall look of the newsletter. You have to take initiative in getting one of the nicely designed newsletter layout. Not only the layout will encourage the onlooker to read the text message but it will also showcase the offers directly through the images. Have a look at one of my newsletter designs.

Making full use of social media: In this present era you would certainly keep several social networking profiles for sure. These media keeps you connected with millions of others. Then why not use social media as one of the parts of your Christmas marketing ideas? Continuously promote your products or services through social networks. Create small and attractive banners to post & share in your profile. These types of promotions do bring huge traffic and help in sales conversion.

Hopefully from the above Christmas marketing ideas you have understood how in this Christmas season you can boost your business. But at the same time it should be clear to you that making offerings attractive you may need help from designers. So while choosing one of the designer, you have to check his or her web & graphic design portfolio for sure. This helps you know the potentiality of a designer for providing you the best of designs to make Christmas marketing ideas successful.

Cutting Edge Website Design – A Key to successful online presence

2011-10-14T06:53:00.000-07:00

Every time I come across each client, they ask me to provide a ‘cutting edge website design’. And I must tell you that the demand is not to a freelance graphic designer but from every website designer! There are several themes, trends shown on the internet but the clients ever look something different and unique. It may be breaking the convention and designing to evoke a typical sense of emotion. On the other hand use of infographics, multi-header or priority to review can give your website layout an edge other others.

Now let us find out so factors that make the website layouts really cutting edge website design:

Design has to evoke typical emotion: Just simply designing a layout for your site you may never get the edge over others. In other words you have to make your site just unique than others. The look of your site has to evoke a purposeful emotion to the visitors about your products or services. Place the best of images, trimmed texts and everything to turn a simple design into cutting edge website design.

Proper use of ‘call to action’: This happen typically to product or service oriented sites generally that the site owners are eager to “drag” the users to some specific pages from just anywhere! Ok, let me clear, a visitor might be reading some valuable information from the site but all in a certain he finds attractive call to visit a page through clicks. It may be irritating to visitors. But it does not mean that you should avoid this! Rather put the call to action phrases at the bottom or ending part of all valuable info. It will then rather prompt the users to stick around your site. You are going to find that your website is have one of the cutting edge website design quality isn’t it?

Multi-headers & infographics: As I told at the very beginning that your website has to be different or edgy from others! So in the design multi-header increases chance to put more useful links at the home page and some infographics (graphical presentation of information) makes the understanding of anything better. In other words you could see that your website is having one of the cutting edge website designing trends for sure.

Keep space for reviews: Last but not the least - now people have really too less time to look into your content. For an example even Google has started to show Google rich snippets with the links in its SERP so that visitors directly see through the review or ratings of the site’s reputations. So don’t you think that keeping priority to the customer reviews in your layout will give you and edge to your site? Certainly keep the reviews in way in the home or other valuable pages and make it one of your cutting edge website designing factor for sure.

These are some of the points that can give your website a cutting edge over others. But here you should keep one point in mind that innovative designing or something unique can never be provided by any novice designer! So while you are seeking cutting edge website designing from a designer, do look at the web & graphic design portfolio to know how expert or experienced he or she is. If you fail to choose one of the best designers, you would find that your website has ultimately got another conventional design not the cutting edge website design!

Bilingual Website Design: how far relevant in this multicultural world

2011-10-01T01:34:00.000-07:00

Every one of us wants to build a great website for our business! Here with the word great I mean to say a website that returns higher than its investment! And it is same way true that we are ready to do anything for better businesses! It is a common factor that a website is built in a single language. The language is generally English for its high popularity! At the same time, Spanish, French and other languages are popular though. But have you thought about bilingual website design? Again you may say for the globalization of the trade and commerce you have to reach the multicultural world in their languages and in this kind of situation a bilingual website designing is not feasible! But it can be practicable for a few good reasons – specified business location, priority in specific search engines, and certainly the budget issue!

Well, while working as a freelance graphic designer, I have come to such typical question of feasibility of bilingual website design. I like to answer the question through the following points:

Business may limit to a specific location: It is not always possible to spread a business to so many locations. So you may have to limit your market to a specific business zone and certainly the language of the location has to be the language of your site! Say the language is French for the targeted location then the primary language may be French for the website. While you may go for a bilingual website design keeping English as the other language. It will increase the chances of business with those people who know English. At the same time some products (cosmetics for special temperature zone) or the services (pest control for specific insect prone zone) you have to pursue people in their own language!

English is not the only language: Till date the convention of web design is of building the site in English. Yes, it was true that once English was a highly popular language. But there are other languages like French, Chinese, German, Spanish and so many others which are getting popular. If you would like to grab the attention of the users who speak one of those languages, you have to think of bilingual website designing. In addition to local language keep English as secondary language to give your site a global attitude.

Priority to specific search engine: Do you think it is possible to optimize your site fast and easily for varied foreign search engines. Yes, I am talking about Spanish, Japanese and other search engines. Why don’t you begin with a bilingual website designing. It is always easy to rank high in foreign search engines if your website language is same of that. When you have gathered considerable business via one of these SEs catering to your local market, you may try other languages. But for start-ups it is always recommended that they start with bilingual website designing.

Money matters: Last but not the least is the investment of money! You may easily go for multilingual website designing as there are some added benefits. But do you think the cost of building such site is easy to bear? Especially for the start-ups? If no, then go for bilingual website designing. Having two languages – one being English and other catering to your local market, you have the opportunity of grabbing the world market.

Well, these are a few points that try to prove that a bilingual website designing is still relevant in today’s multicultural world. But at the same time you have to remember that building a bilingual website is not a child’s play! You got to get help from the expert. An expert web and graphic designer knows how to technically build a bilingual website. If you just assign the work to Tom, Dick and Harry, you will find all your investment has gone to sea. So select the web or graphic designer after you have carefully looked into their web or graphic design portfolio and satisfied yourself about the ability of the designer. Hope you choose the right person and your initiative of bilingual website design gets successful.

Infographics blog creation: What is the funda all about!

2011-09-16T06:20:00.000-07:00

We know what a blog is! We have also come across the new term “infographics”- a combination of information and graphics. Well what is then the punch “infographics blog”? In plain words we can say that we like to create blog to express our thoughts and share knowledge with the world. It is found that nowadays we have little time to read a lot. Then is there no use of texts? Who says so? But some texts punched with images or graphics can catch our attention or let us understand things better. With this concept kept in mind now people are turning towards creation of infographics blogs. However, it is not that easy to create such a fantastic blog! From use of graphics to punch of text there has to be hands of great expertise of a graphic designer.

Yes, I am a freelance graphic designer and people come to me with the urge of creating infographics blog. And they do want to know how graphic designers like me work in this matter. I simply tell them the following things followed by any graphic designer. Find out how a blog owner also comes as indispensible:

Visualization: To create an infographics blog the first thing is visualization of the thought or subject you are trying to present to the visitors. Without proper visualization it is impossible to express anything with graphics and text. In this regards if you cannot imagine the representation you may take help of the designers with creative bent of mind.

Cutting edge design: It is not that you take up a template to create a blog where you would keep some places for text input! An infographics blog is a sheer balance of purposeful images and texts. So the work of design in this matter has to be cutting edge – every image or graphics has to be associated with proper text explanation. Performing this task the look should not become a mess of elements. Yes, you are to rely on your graphic designer but never hesitate to express your opinion every time you feel a mismatch.

The power of words: It is fine that you are taking help of graphics to visually strengthen your thoughts in your infographics blog! But you should not forget that the associated texts with the graphics have great importance. If you do not use concise, to the point text with the graphics, you could hardly make out your thoughts to the visitors. So you have to carefully write the small copy or take the help of professional content writers.

Search engine friendliness: While you are creating a blog you must have a goal – to deliver your thoughts to the world. Again you may be trying to promote your business through blog! Whatever it may be, you have to keep one thing in your mind – if search engines cannot understand what your thought is, people would not find your infographics blog! But if you represent your blog topic as a big image, no text is found by the search engines, then your blog would never come in a better positions of search engine results pages! So what should you do? Simply keep the texts in the code of the layout with proper user of keywords. In this regards a professional graphic designer or coder will certainly help you.

Well these are some of the factors that you need to take a look at while finding your infographics blog ready. Hope from the above points you have understood that you need to take the help of expert graphic designer who would not only help in the design but also help you visualize everything. Even giving suggestions on content write ups too! So while selecting a graphic designer, it is essential that you look into the graphic design portfolio of the designer to whom you would provide the responsibility of creating your infographics blog. So get your latest blog ready to grab more visitors fast.

Flash website gallery: Pros and cons of usage in a website

2011-09-09T04:26:00.000-07:00

For every website proper exposure is a must. To make a site attractive we some times use animations! Whenever we name animation, flash comes first in our mind. Interestingly if we find creation of a full flash site difficult for budget or any other reasons we attempt at least a flash website gallery. And it is proven that a gallery has great importance to a website. A gallery always helps to express things better than simple text or images! Not just a flash gallery can attract visitors to your products or services; it can also be made interactive in guiding the visitors in use of your site. However, a gallery created with flash can come down as a backlash for its slow loading, annoying attitude or search engine unfriendliness.

I am a freelance graphic designer and have come across situations when clients want to know if they should use flash website gallery in their website or not? I never discourage them but do like to inform the following things for better returns on their investment on building a fantastic website. Let’s have a look at first on some pros:

Attention grabbing: The first thing a website aims at is to attract the users to its products and services. Simply putting some static images in your photo gallery you can hardly keep the visitors glued to look at the products or the images! A flash website gallery would keep your visitors mesmerized with its style of approach to the users.

Better exposure of everything: Whether it is your family photography or the images of your products or services, you would like to see those better exposed. Just using a flash website gallery you get the better opportunity to expose the images in various modes. A simple image can be turned into a video gallery with expertise of a flash developer.

An interactive guide: Yes, would you mind to guide your visitors properly with an interactive attitude? No, you would love to do so! Just using flash website gallery you can make your site interactive providing audio visual approach. Simply the potentiality of visitors turning into customers increases manifold.

Let us now see some of the drawbacks of using flash website gallery in your site:

Some animations can be annoying: It is fact that not always we like the over animation – non-stop audio of forced visit to a flash gallery. It is also found that sometimes the sites are full of animation and fewer places are found with text. So this situation should be avoided for sure.

Inexperience makes things mess: I am not against the use of flash website gallery! But some times for the inexperience of developers heavy flash files are created. Again there is no guarantee that the user’s internet connection is on average! In these cases the files load slowly and the users may not wait to see your beautiful presentation for sure!

Flash is not search engine friendly: It is till date true that Flash is not very much search engine friendly or in other words search crawlers cannot read the flash website gallery. So your presentations would hardly be found in the search engine results page. So the gallery is not coming up with the expectation posed on it. Your investment in building such gallery can go to sea to some extent.

So in this way hopefully you have understood how far useful a flash website gallery can be made! At the same time due to the lack of experience of the flash developers your investment can go into sea. But you can avoid such situation if you get the suggestion or expertise of an experienced designer. Again it is clear that limited use of flash can fetch out great result. To know how expert a designer is you should visit their web & graphic design portfolio. You would get an overall idea of the ability of the designer.

Printed business card: How to leave an influence

2011-09-02T07:37:00.000-07:00

You always try to establish the brand identity of your business. With a purpose of promotion you have built website, gone for several advertisements and every possible ways. But have you ever thought about a printed business card for your business use? Yes, a business card can really leave great impact on people. The best impact is a quick glance on your contact details and you have to do something so that people keep you remembered. A quality or standard printed business card can do this for you. With its simple look, design, a catchy slogan and other factors - a business card can influence onlookers.

I am a freelance graphic designer and do design business cards for different sort of business persons. But I would like to tell you in plain- printed business card design needs to be taken little special care for a few print related factors. Let’s see some of important factors:

A simple design is a must: When you are thinking for designing a business card you should keep in mind that people need to remember you just at a glance. And to achieve this purpose a simple design is a must. So while choosing the color combination of the printed business card or thinking about the use of graphics you have to be minimalist. Too many graphics or a super glossy color would not attract the onlookers to remember the content. But the white space would focus on the minimum content in the card.

Managed content on the card: You have to remember one thing while putting content on the printed business card for you. The main purpose of the card is to let the onlooker remember the key contact details of yours. So while adding the content in the card keep the contact details in readable manner. Never thrust too many detailing in the card. At the same time you have to keep the content (texts & logo) bold in simple fonts. Even there has to be a compact and impressive slogan to keep you and your business remembered to the card bearer.

Printed format is different from computing: It is many a time found that the impression on the printed business cards is different from what it was found on the computer monitor. These can be so if your printer had shown you a color combination in RGB and showed the proof in CMYK. But these are no issues at all only a reflection of in experience. If you can get the service from an expert and experience business card developer or designer, you would find that designer is using CMYK color pallet and always keep the “hue & saturation” high while showing the proof on computer monitor and on paper you would find things right.

Size & formatting of the card has to be perfect: While you are trying to get your printed business card ready to be served to people, you have to be careful in the size of the card. It has to be of a size that fits in wallets or the card holders. Again the print should not be in a font that creates problem in reading. Even the size of the font should not be below 6 points. While the logo, company and your name has to be in 12 points. Even margin or the distance from the borders has to be well managed to show a good structure. These cases happen for inexperience of the designer and you need to go for maximized proof reading.

Quality of the card has to be excellent: Last but not the least, the paper quality of the card has to be good. You should not compromise in this matter for cheap rates. While the printed business cards would go in the hands of people then the thickness, glow of the paper would leave an impression in minds. So try a quality of card that certainly matches status of you and your business.

So these were the few important factors in getting a properly designed and printed business card. Everything depends on the output. Ultimately how the card look does matter. If you carefully remember the above points while getting your business card designed, you would find your card leaving great impression on everybody. When bestowing the responsibility of getting your printed business card ready to any designer, you should just check the graphic design portfolio of the designer to know how expert and experienced he or she is. So get your business card today!

PSD to CSS conversion: What are the benefits for a website development

2011-08-31T06:43:00.000-07:00

At the primary level of website layout creation, designers create Photoshop documents (PSD). And based on that PSD latter on HTML coding is done to enable an overall image (PSD) into webpage. We also know that simple HTML coding of the pages do not help creation of stylish output – for that we need the application of cascading style sheet (CSS). But you may simply ask a simple question – why do PSD to CSS conversion- what are the key benefits? Well there are some good benefits as conversion help in separation of content from presentation elements, prevents duplication of structural content, helps in cross browser compatibility of the web pages and many other things.

Well working as a freelance graphic designer, I do face several queries of using CSS in the plain web pages. We all know that first a PSD file is sliced in html format and then the use of CSS comes. Well here I am directly jump starting the discussion as PSD to CSS conversion and its few benefits:

Converting a plain look into stunning one: You may think of getting a out of the box design structure and coming to people like me (designer). We would certainly give you a great looking structure. But never think that creating the PSD is all done! I have to slice the PSD to html and there will be some issues of giving font, color, hovering effects through html. But If I have experience in PSD to CSS conversion knowledge, I will simply use the CSS file and sort out these things in no time. Eventually it would be very much easy for me to edit the styles on your demand (if any). I will be able to just give you what you want your web pages to look like.

Coding time can be saved with proper PSD to CSS conversion: After you find PSD file is ready to be coded, you have to wait for a little to get it coded in html. There may be a lot many pages to be coded to get your site ready. Now think if designers are to code every page individually, the consumption could have been too much. But as I know the PSD to CSS conversion, I would use CSS through which just one time the style or code would be written and it can be called in innumerous pages. It also prevents the repetition or duplicate use of same code several times.

There will be optimum page load time: Many a time it is found that for the use of too many coding and images the page load time increases. But it is no matter to me as I know how PSD to CSS conversion can work for me. Simply with less coding, CSS sprites and other compression methods will automatically help decreasing page load time.

Browser compatibility issues are solved: In various cases it is found that the designs do not pass compatibility in different browsers. It happens for some special structural matter in the PSD. Then how the problem will be solved? Simply a good knowledge on PSD to CSS conversion will help in sorting out the problem. I will use the specific browser hacks in CSS files (those are generally not supported in html) and everything will be solved.

Well these are just a few benefits of PSD to CSS conversion for making web pages far better than what could be the output of simple html coding from PSD files. But for you please try to find out the web & graphic design portfolio of any designer to confirmation on his or her ability on successful and perfect PSD to CSS conversion knowledge. Select the right kind of person and get ready to see your website pages just what you desired to look like! Hope your search for experienced designer finishes with a discovery of a good designer.

Flash Vs HTML5: How relevant is the point of contradiction

2011-08-19T06:31:00.000-07:00

In many cases you may like to build a website highly dynamic in look but not in function! Yes, I am talking about animations that just make the simple web pages just attractive in various ways! Well again to have some videos, games for entertainment, or the browsing mode (access through mobile phones) in your website you have to go for flash development! With its various facilities and friendly plug-ins flash developments have been serving us to build superb websites. However, there are some drawbacks of flash developments that have made the developers to think a new alternative for it. And thankfully a new alternative has come – HTML5. With its open source platform, easy access in mobile phones and other features, HTML5 is going highly popular just within few days. Interestingly again people have started comparing these two technologies and we are seeing lots of discussions about flash Vs html5.

Well, why such situation is created? This has gone a common enquiry among people or the customers who want to get their site developed with flash or html5. I am a freelance graphic designer and frequently I am asked how far the point of contradiction- flash Vs html5 is relevant? In what respect it is better to go for flash or the html5. Let’s see the things:

Use of resources & performance: It is true that Flash has been giving us better animations. But we have been accepting the slow performance. Yes, flash was not that much efficient in using the graphics processing unit (GPU) to perform better. But thanks to html5 that has come up with better use of GPU. At the same time html5 does not consume a lot of memory like flash which makes the performance of the operating system slow. So in this respect comparing flash Vs html5 we can say html5 is better for sure.

Mobile friendliness: Till people were satisfied using computers while accessing internet, everything was fine for Flash developments. But in recently we have found that mobile is taking the place of conventional computer types. People like to browse websites by mobile phones and here flash applications are falling short in showing charisma. Well html5 has come to rescue as it helps in creation of mobile friendly animations. So while thinking flash Vs html5, we have to say flash needs to improve this matter of mobile friendliness.

Open source so cost effective: When we like to develop some nice looking animations in flash animation, we got to think about the high development cost! Sometimes people back off because they do not get the desired development within budget. So when comparing flash Vs html5 we have to uphold html5 as it is open source.

Html5 not yet competitive & ready: For so much use and popularity Flash has become highly developed. And interestingly html5 has not yet become compatible with all the browsers even. So when we try to discuss the matter of flash Vs html5 we have to think twice as a child (html5) can hardly compete with a full grown man (flash)! Think till date html5 has not come out with many an implementation process while Flash has so many tools ready to get things done in proper way.

Hopefully the above points have pointed out how html5 is emerging against the drawbacks of flash. Yet as I have just mentioned in the above point we should not try things too hard in comparing flash Vs html5. As html5 is slowly getting developed and miles to walk, we should use flash properly where applicable. But how would you know where to use flash and where html5? It depends on the selection of the designer for your project. You have to look into the web and graphic design portfolio of the designer to know who far competence they are in using flash and html5. Hope you forget the flash Vs html5 controversy and get your site properly developed as per your desired.

Construction website templates: Features that make a solid foundation

2011-08-16T23:16:00.000-07:00

Who does not like to find a home - sweet home - to relax and recline to wipe away the fatigue of everyday work! People are always in search of space to turn into houses. Thanks to the businessmen who construct or provide idea of constructing houses. Well, here we are going to see how people who have construction business that spreads helping hands to people in search of home! Yes, the fastest way of finding help is internet – websites. If you can build an informative website on construction, you can easily help people to find ideas and houses. But now the question is how should be your site? Simply what type of construction website templates should be chosen to give your site the look and feel that attracts the users to know about you and your services? The answer for this question is- choice of solid feature-packed layout.

Now, how would you understand that you are selecting one of the best construction website templates? Being a freelance graphic designer it is a very common question to me as I directly interact with my clients. I feel more than happy to let my clients know what are best of features of construction website templates.

Excellent use of color, graphics and images: People would come to find some nice construction ideas or information in your site. So you have to select one of the construction website templates that have been structured with use of images or graphics in just best proportion. If there is excessive use of graphics or such elements, the users may leave the site being irritated.
Attractive header: Every time we look into a webpage our sight is first attracted by the header portion. So it is very much essential that you choose one of the construction website templates that have a place for attractive static or animated header effects. Remember with such a header you can make your message clear to the viewer very fast.
Ample space to put text information: People would love to see the images of construction sites or the ready houses. But they would certainly love to get details of the construction elements. So whenever you are selecting one of the construction website templates, find if it has place to put text information or not.
A great structure with better navigation and other panels: Whenever you are trying to get a site developed, your aim would be to let users feel at ease while browsing your site. So the placement of the navigation menus and other panels need to be well managed. Sometimes it is found that some advertisement panels in a few construction website templates are not in proper place and does irritate the users.
W3C standard with cross-browser compatibility: Many times it is found that the layouts are creating problem in different browsers. At the same time the html coding and CSS files provided with the construction website templates are not compatible with W3C standards. So you need to take care of both the issues.

So these are the few major features that you need to look into while selecting one of the templates for developing a website for your construction business. Remember you can only get these features if you have found a designer who has experience in designing such layouts. You can simply make out an idea on the ability of any designer just having a glance on his or her web and graphic design portfolio. So select one of the best construction templates and make an attractive site for your business.

Professional WordPress templates: What are the qualities to look into!

2011-08-11T07:54:00.000-07:00

You have decided to go for WordPress website development as it is ease to use, maintain and backed by huge community of developers? You are right in you decision to use WordPress (WP) platform provided you have chosen one of the best professional WordPress templates to fit with structure. Not only that, even you would get scope of adding widgets on your site.

Well, while working as a freelance graphic designer people want to get suggested on use of various open source platform. Some come with the query on the qualities of professional WordPress templates. My answer and suggestion always point to use of WP. There are several good reasons of using WP theme templates. So here are some key factors:

Ease in customization: Every time you use any template your first priority should be to customization. Without the customization, the template would remain ordinary. So while you are choosing one of the professional WordPress templates never forget to see if you get all resources (PSD, CSS and Javascripts files) for customization.

Structurally perfect & optimized graphics: Would you mind to see your website layout loading properly and its graphics just befitting the structure? Certainly not! So you should use professional WordPress templates that are designed properly to load the header, body and the side bars one by one. And the thoughtful use of graphics in proper size, format and combination reduces the http requests and consequently faster page load is possible every time.

Semantic html coding maintaining W3C standard: The html coding, provided with all the professional WordPress templates, must be semantic (logical).Every elements in designs must be named logically just corresponding with elements used in the coding. Even the header, title and other html tags combined with apt use of keywords makes the layouts search engine friendly. At the same time find if the WordPress coder has made the coding W3C standard or not. Interestingly the logical coding helps rendering of these templates easy in browsers built for the visually impaired people.

Scope for use of useful widgets and plug-ins: WordPress is highly popular for its thousands of plug-ins and easy use of widgets in the layouts. Say, you want to use a panel for the Adsense, then you have full privilege of keeping that portion in the layout with proper widgets in use. Using one of the best professional WordPress templates tour site is also ready to make use of useful plug-ins for future functionality enhancement!

Browser compatibility issue: Many times it is found that your website layout is not compatible with different types of browsers. The main issue comes with IE, where layouts are shown broken if there is use of CSS 3. You cannot avoid IE and up to its version 8. But these will never come as issue if you use one of the professional WordPress templates that come with proper CSS hacks (some typical CSS properties or Javascripts) to make the layout compatible.

So these are just a few features that always make professional WordPress templates so much popular and of top quality. Ultimately your aim is to make your site look nice and function properly! You can also feel relaxed using professional WordPress templates as those are backed by huge community of WP theme designers. Finally what you are to do is simple – have a look on the theme portfolio of the designer from whom you are buying the theme. If you do not be careful, you would end up buying one of the professional WordPress templates that does not come in any use.

Google recipe view: benefits not only for foodies but for businesses serving delicious foods

2011-07-29T06:39:00.000-07:00

Who does not like to have a bite on a Hamburger just to fill out the tummy for a while? Again you would definitely like to know the recipe of "pork and pineapple" provided you are a foodie like me! Well, I must thank Google for letting me find some quick-make dishes that I may try managing a couple of hours from my somewhat busy schedule. You know that I have no fixed working hours just because I work as a freelance graphic designer. So it may be the case that Google thought about you people and added a new search criterion – "Google recipe view" that shows a refined search on the recipes depending on the preparation time, calories, images and the user ratings. Obviously it does benefit the businesses that serve delicious foods to us. They now just get the opportunity to serve us with the recipe of the delicacies we order them to cook for us!

Well, now we may have a little discussion on how the Google recipe view works and come beneficial to both the food lovers and the maker too:

Refined search saves time: Until recently if anybody wanted to find a recipe of any dish, he or she has to Google and find the desired one from the tons of results. Thanks, now with the implementation of Google recipe view, type the name of the dish on search box, choose the "recipe" option on the left hand panel of the search criteria and you get only the recipe results for your desired dishes. No killing of time – even find the recipe that can be prepared within hours!
Custom search for health conscious people: I know it is always tough to manage a couple of hours for our appetite! But how about the mind that longs to taste something new (at least on the weekend)? Here comes the use of Google recipe view! Specifying calories or the nutrition, Google shows the review results of people who tasted noted the review against the dish. It is just fantastic to find what we are in search of! Many other criteria are being thought to be added. And yes, how we could forget the mouth watering Images shown with the results!
Let the world know your invention: You may be running a business on food and you are a master to serve new delicacies on every now or then! Why then let the world remain devoid of tasting your invention? Just put the description of the recipe, image and time it takes to season. Google recipe view will certainly let all food lovers know your culinary skills!
Attract the food lovers to you: It may be the case that you have a website for your restaurant or hotel and serve the guest cum customers with some desserts. Why not upload the recipe in your site with the specification provided by Google to get those enlisted in the Google recipe view? You would certainly be amazed to see the increase of the visitors in your site! Won’t you like to invite us to your business place to taste the delicacies before we decide to try our hands on it? At least if the price does not dig a big hole in my pocket, I will certainly pay a visit for sure (next time I may invite you to taste the same at my place – free of cost!)

Well, Google recipe view has a good many miles to walk on! We are waiting to find the search become more human and wide! Let the day come when we can specify the measure of salt to be used in a recipe or the desired smell it fumes at the time of preparation! But at the same time we must not forget that Google recipe view may have ignited a malpractice in the recipe makers who just want to see there recipe on top of the search results – we go through a recipe that assures of being ready within a hour to find it wrong at the end when we ourselves try a hand on it! This injustice should not be done at all on Google recipe view. There are some cases to me from some new clients who deal with food. They ask me to include their recipe in the website with some preparation time that is false!

I could easily code for them – instead, I try to make them understand – please let us not adulterate this great Google recipe view with inappropriate information. Instead, provide me with proper recipes, images and I will design and code those in most appropriate way with assurance that those will be shown in Google recipe view for sure (certainly not on the top of the results).Finally Congratulation to team Google for providing us with so nice a search option! 5XCEVXDXMTP2

Points to ponder upon to get effective web design

2011-07-22T01:38:00.000-07:00

Who does not want to build a website that generates good revenue! But to fulfill this purpose, you need to get an effective web design for your website. However, is there any way to know if the web layout is effective or not? Yes, there are quite a good number of points that can clear to you if your site is having an effective web design or not! Starting from business oriented look to proper use of text and graphics there are many good features to ponder upon when you are asking any web designer or freelance graphic designer to design your website layout.

While working with clients every time they ask me how they can get really effective web design for their sites. I tell them just a few points that can really solve their queries:

Business oriented design: It is for sure that you must be looking to get a layout that best shows off your business! Every way there cannot be any doubt in visitor’s mind about the business (products/services) the website is designed to serve for. At the same time it is essential to have your contact details (phone no, email address) to reach you. It is the foremost criterion of the effective web designing.
Attractive look: It is always advisable that you get web pages designed in an attractive way. Remember the color combination has to be cool (not eye-sore), the fonts need to be normal so that visitors feel comfortable. If you cannot get attractive look then you are not getting effective web design.
Balance of text and images: Sometimes it is found that the web pages are either full of images or texts. Remember even the formatting of the text does matter. You should not just pile up anything on the web pages. A layout is having effective web design if the visitors feels urge to view the images and read the texts. If you cannot just make the users concentrate on your products or services how would you ignite desire of using or buying your products or services!
Optimized design: Sometimes for lack of designing sense designers use Javascripts, Ajax or even CSS files in haphazard way. And for these very reasons the webpage load time increases. The visitors feel irritated to see blank or half loaded pages. So now you could understand getting effective web design does not limit in having your web pages designed – it does extent to the part of HTML coding and development a little bit.
Following modern trend and tools: There cannot be any doubt that your site should go with the trend of time – having option to get socially connected through placing several social networking buttons (Facebook, twitter and others). But some times to provide very much attraction to these tools, designers place the tools in a way that visitors feel irritating in using web pages (placing button hanging on the right or left side in a way that block the text while reading the information or viewing the images). If this thing happens, how could you say you have got an effective web design!

So reading the above points hope you have understood just following some simple steps you can get really nice and truly effective web designing for your website. But you should remember that you need to choose a web or graphic designer who has experience in providing your effective web designs. You should check web and graphic design portfolio of the designer who you are thinking to select for your project.

How colors play a vital role in good logo design

2011-07-15T07:52:00.000-07:00

The primary goal of a good logo design is branding. In every means you try to leave a lasting impression on users’ mind about your business! Up to this everything is fine! But the question arises when you first conceptualize to design a logo for your new business or think of having some modification/change on the existing one. How should be your logo? There is no question on the typography but the use of color for sure! Do you have some fascination on colors? You may be having so but when you are looking for a good logo design, do your designers inform you that play or use of color has importance in designing logo?

At least, you will always find me, a freelance logo designer, informing and clarifying the clients about this matter. I do tell them how attracting the attention of the viewers, color plays a good role. Again how playing with the emotion of the viewers has got necessary to leave a lasting impression on their mind about your brand! Now let me point out a few factors in using colors in good logo design.

Grab viewers’ attention with bold & catchy colors: As I said at the beginning, logos have to catch the attention of the viewers, for that reasons you have to design your logo with bold & catchy colors. In every webpage or any written document there will be thousands of texts, images. A good logo design has to attract the eyes of the viewers in the crowd of other things with its bright, bold colors.

Color combination & shades does matter: In every logo, the designer has to be very much careful in using color shade. Depending on the shades of colors the impression of the logo develops. At the same time the combination of the colors of a good logo design leads to keeping great impression in viewers’ mind. A mismatch of color combination may irritate the viewers for sure. Color should match with overall page theme.

Color perception of people evokes emotions: In a good logo design the designer has to use the color perception of the users. For example the RED color is identical to energy, whereas the blue and green is considered for evoking calm and environment-friendly feelings respectively.

A good logo design uses colors matching business purpose: If we carefully look at the famous logos, we would find out that those are designed with the purposive colors. Take for example the logo of "IBM", its blue color indicates the calmness and stability. Again the logo of "RED BULL" has the bright Red color that shows the energy and bold attitude of the energy drink and its maker.

Medium of use affect the color implementation: When clients come to you for having a nice logo designing, as a designer you need to ask the client what will be the medium of use. The reason is very important, as normally for the web use purpose designers use solid RGB color. But for using for printing the color needs to be generally CYMK. If you do not go by this separation the impression of the logo will not be attractive or impressive for sure.

So these are some of the important factors that determine the used of colors in a good logo designing. Interestingly an inexperienced logo designer would not tell you as they may not be having this much knowledge. So it is always better to ask a mature logo designer to design you a good logo. You just check the graphic design portfolio of the designer before assigning him or her project.

Image optimization: How important it is for your website

2011-07-10T23:08:00.000-07:00

Our websites must impress visitors with a mesmerizing look. Remember any layout may not work for your online business as your website and its web pages have to be optimized. Optimization is needed as the websites have few seconds to get impresses the visitors. The images often create problems – not loading properly, the most valued images are not recognized by the search engines so do not come in image search. But the solution to image related issues is image optimization! Just following a few simple steps – using several image tags properly, reducing file size, compressing images – you can get rid of these issues.

While working as a freelance graphic designer various clients come to me with image related issues in their sites. I simply tell them these are no headache – only lack of experience! Now come let us see how I help them with image optimization.

Images have to be reduced in size: Many a time it is found that due to lack of experience, designers use larger images in the layouts. Consequently, the images take time to load and the visitors see blank pages. Just taking a little step of image optimization – using CSS image sprites (using small images in a single folder that reduce server requests also) you can get rid of this issue.

Use compressed images: Sometimes there may be situations when your website has so many images. And you may be using image sprites but the volume of the images is large. That may create issues in display of the web pages. But if you know image optimization, you can solve the issues with compressed image formats (.jpeg, .png, .gif). This ploy helps very much.

"Save for web & devices": For sheer inexperience many a time I find images in the web pages are saved simply – not in the "save for web & devices" format! It is nothing but lack of knowledge on image optimization. These just make the images unfit to be used in the web pages. It is the reason that images come larger even after compressed format. Sometimes working with these simply saved images create other issues too.

Use proper tags: Many a times it is found that images are not given proper image tags. And for this reason your images are not properly recognized by the search engines. For this your website (may be selling some products or services and uses huge number of images) do not get proper ranking or position in search engine results page. If you have the knowledge of image optimization, you would always use Alt tags (so that search engines read the images), Title tags (to name the images). These tags make the image recognized by the search engines and improved SERP of web pages.

Adding images to sitemap: Last but not the least is neglecting images to be added to sitemap. This is nothing but a lack of experience in image optimization. Excluding images from site map many times result in image going invisible in image search. People do search images to get idea on any product or services. So using this technique you even help visitors to find your images through site map (if your site deal with photographs).

Are not these techniques very easy to use or implement? But again I must say, for hurry or pressure of too much work designers forget to implement these simple image optimization tactics. So as a client you should choose a designer who knows these things. Just having a look into the graphic design portfolio of the designers you could check the status of the image optimization done by them. Hope you will take the right step in this regard.

Print ad design - What should be the expectation from the graphic designer

2011-07-02T07:08:00.000-07:00

Can you ask anybody to know if he or she loves to see or even listen to advertisement? Maximum number of people would say that they do not like to waste time to notice advertisements. But does it mean that advertisements have lost their value? No, it is not at all. Actually the advertisement designers or creators make every people to see or notice the ads. We people need to congratulate specially the designers who create fantastic print ad design. With some animation, any ad can get the attractions easily. But think about the static printed advertisements. It is the color, fonts, arrangement of space, use of proper image and graphics thorough which print ad designs attract people to them.

Working as a freelance graphic designer, I have found people sometimes ask me how should be their print advertisement layout! At the same time I do face questions from clients regarding several requirements for their print ads. So let us see some facts that will help graphic designers come to the expectation of the clients. In other words if you are a clients you may note this points and can expects these things from your graphic designers when checking through their print ad design portfolio.

Clarity & Space managements: It is very much essential that as a print advertisement designer you know how to arrange the white or blank space in an advertisement layout. People do not like to look into very much clumsy ads. So quite a good quantity of white space will certainly help show off the ad matter cleanly.

Focused, persuasive text content placement: Being a print ad designer you need to know that the text content of your ad has to be very much focused, persuasive and has to be placed nicely in proper place. It should be given a proper importance to get perused. Even there has to be a headline.

Use of engaging image & graphic: We all know that simple texts cannot attract the viewers and make them to look at them for a few minutes. So as a print ad designer you got to use some engaging (certainly matching the purpose of the ad) images and graphics in your ad design. The images and graphics has to attract the viewers for making them read to understand the purpose the advertisement. But the use has to be limited as excessive use spoils the look.

Use of font has to be proper: Some times while trying to go very much fancy, we print ad designers try several odd fonts (not familiar to everybody), capital styles. But we need to realize that these things may irritate the viewers and sometimes people do not get the message to be conveyed. So every time we may use some styles in fonts but that should not look odd.

Color combination: Last but not the least – color combination of every print ad design has to be very much eye soothing. Remember while using colors in ad layouts the combination needs to be commensurate to every graphics, images and texts. If these things do not match, the total labor may go in vain.

Hope form the above points you have understood how should be the print advertisement designs. While selecting a designer, you must look into the print and graphic design portfolio of the designer. It is not that you cannot get affordable solutions for your business promotion! You need to just find the suitable designer. Finally, it is essential that your print ad design is purposeful in look and conveys the message properly. Hope your initiative gets successful.

PSD to XHTML Conversion - why it is important in template based design

2011-06-24T05:05:00.000-07:00

For the purpose of building a website one of the basic needs is of layouts. It is the layout that first comes to the sight of viewers. So the layouts or the templates have to be very much attractive at the same time showing off the purpose of your business. However, in this speedy life, how many of us have time to get out website layouts custom designed? It is always better to purchase a ready template. With the ready templates there come PSD files. These files help build the site within less time just with simple PSD to XHTML conversion. The templates are also affordable.

Anyways, we have to admit that the templates need to be customized to mould them according to specific business needs. Clients come to me with a ready template. Consequently, as a freelance graphic designer, I have to do the PSD to XHTML conversion. Now while this conversion takes place the result needs to be perfect. But to achieve the perfection, there are some certain points that need to be taken care off. Let us see some of the points:

The pixel perfect conversion: When we designers design anything, our aim remains the best output that soothes eyes yet goes very much user-friendly. So when we or someone else does the PSD to XHTML conversion, the slicing of PSD elements (then images) need to be perfect. If there is any difference in a single pixel the look may just turn different when tested on browser.

Image compression: It is very important that the web pages are light weight to load fast and the viewers see the beauty of your design. So when performing PSD to XHTML conversion the images need to be compressed and these will help even compression of the XHTML. Even the image resolutions have to be proper.

Fresh & table less coding: When performing PSD to XHTML conversion it is very important that the coding is done preferably in DIV structure. It helps the exact conversion. At the same time the coding has to be fresh and there should not be any unnecessary DIV. If these things are done with care, the looks of the layout remains same as it was designed in the PSD.

Logical coding: It is not that we designers or the html coders do not want to find our work reflect the output we desired! But it is the PSD to XHTML conversion that may prevent the same result. Simply without any logic of conversion can lead everything to sea! For example, not using the external and separate file for CSS and JavaScript shows different result in the browsers.

W3C validation: Last but not the least is standard PSD to XHTML conversion norms. Yes, it is always expected and not unexpected that the conversion is validated according to W3C. Just following the validation you would find that PSD and XHML have gone perfect. It also provides mental satisfaction to you about the quality of work.

These are one of the major important points to remember when you are buying templates for building your website and have to go for PSD to XHTML Conversion. Most of the times you may find there is need to change the PSD also. There come some sections that do not go by the standard of XHTML. So it is always better that you buy the readymade templates from reputed designers. And to know the quality of design of any designer, you may check the web and graphic design portfolio. These will help you to judge the design sense and perfection. On the other hand it is a good decision to buy the XHTML files from the same designer. However, you may find PSD to XHTML conversion not that, much costly. Hope you find better PSD and expert coder to do the conversion to XHTML.

jQuery templates Vs static templates: The underlying story

2011-06-15T04:26:00.000-07:00

It is not the time to go ordinary in any aspect of life! Obviously the trend of the online presence has to be the same. When looks does matter, you can hardly think of static templates to build your website with! And more importantly if you can get some of the best dynamic effects just choosing jQuery templates, why you just think of little fast loading and some savings on the costs?

While working as a freelance graphic designer, clients ever want to know from me which templates would be better for their websites? I do tell them some of the best features of jQuery templates in comparison to static templates. Here I am trying to tell you people some facts about these two layout types:

Little fascination on dynamic design: If you do not like to make your web pages very much plain and static in look, you should choose jQuery templates. You would love to see some catchy dynamic touch in designs for using jQuery. Without going for expensive Flash effects, you can get some nice dynamism of javascript animations through the huge jQuery library. But your wish of having some colorful effects without animation can easily be fulfilled with static templates for sure.

Cross browser compatibility is no headache: While working, we have found that static layouts create some tough issues while making the templates (missing) cross browser compatible. But at the time of using jQuery layouts there is hardly any issue as all JavaScripts in the library comes compatible. So why waste times with the static ones!

Plug-ins work very nice with jQuery templates: For various reasons your website developers has to use the plug-ins in your sites. And many a times complains come from the developers that the static templates are not working fine. While the jQuery made templates almost do not create any problem with plug-ins functioning.

Maintaining standard compliance is important : It is found that using the jQuery templates validation and standardization is no problem. jQuery effects are XHTML, CSS validated through W3C. While using static templates designers and developers have to work hard to make everything properly validated.

Fast loading & easy update is a matter of consideration: You may be thinking of a low cost design and hiring comparatively less experienced designers to get your templates designed. In this case static templates turn good as updating those are easy. Again static and plain layouts comparatively can be made to load fast. jQuery templates can be little complicated to handle if the designers are not that much experienced. You should not end up losing time, labor and money.

Hope the above points have made it clear to you how is the scenario incase you want to know what is gone be the result in the tussle of jQuery templates Vs static templates. Finally I can tell you, it completely depends on the affordability and desire of you on choosing one type of template for your site. But whatever the choice, while choosing designer or their work, you must have a look at their web and graphic design portfolio to know how much capable they are to provide you jQuery templates or static templates. One thing more, it is not that you can not get the jQuery based templates in affordable price! You only have to search a little on internet – that is all.

MooTools vs jQuery – the most cool fight

2011-04-30T06:38:00.000-07:00

No, it is not the fight with the gun and shell… All of us know that in tussle of MooTools vs jQuery will not be any adverse result at last. It is only an effort to make a site much more effective or functionally good and doing so, the two JavaScript frameworks come in use. One is being the jQuery and the other one MooTools. Some developers have become habituated with the ease of learning jQuery for its conciseness. Again some developers have become fascinated with the holistic attitude and strong coding of the MooTools. Both the JavaScript tools and the frameworks provide the superb animated effects, inheritance of class structure and so many other effects. But the developers sometimes argue that either of the one is better for the development. And for this very reason, the issue of MooTools vs. jQuery has come into existence.

Now we may find out in what issues we may find out developers choosing or suggesting the clients to use MooTools or jQuery.

The basic point: In the matter of MooTools and jQuery fight what developers like to argue is that jQuery is best effect on HTML, event, animation, Ajax type web development process. So there cannot be any comparison with MooTools which is object oriented flexible coding.
Ease of learning: The logic that tries to stand in MooTools vs jQuery issue is ease of learning. It is fact that jQuery is comparatively easy to learn and implement. It even does not feel like programming. But in the case MooTools, the developers have to have little bit of deep knowledge in JavaScript. But learning MooTools developers can give some superb effects on web pages.
Holistic attitude: Another great point that is really worth notice in the fight of MooTools vs jQuery – the approach or boundary of usage. It is fact that jQuery comes in best use inside the Document Object Model (DOM). But the MooTools can easily be made to use in a holistic approach to give a web page some great effects.
Structural base: The fight of MooTools vs jQuery goes little more interesting when it comes to structural matters. It is found that the jQuery is very much expressive, quick and easy in coding. In the MooTools there is a strong structure of inheritance. So using the parent and child structure goes very smoothly.
Large community: Sometimes it is found that developers argue on the fight of MooTools vs jQuery is justified. The reason they show is nothing but the support in terms of problems faced! As the jQuery is very much popular and used, the community backup against the debugging is better. On the other hand MooTools support is not that much big as its usage is not so popular. So it is not faceable to use it just for few great effects.

Anyways, what we see from the above points is very clear- the fight is not very much justified. Both the framework is part of the JavaScript and enhances the effects of any webpage. It is up to the developers to use either of the two. Does it mean, at least to you, that having little knowledge on anything can be termed not worth usable? The things should be different. Only stop MooTools vs jQuery discussion, start using the tools that you feel required for your webpage. You may even ask any freelance graphic designer about the probable required tools to be used in your website. However, hiring designer or developer is up to your discretion. But you should not forget to check the web development or graphic design portfolio of the developer or designer for sure. Hope your site gets best effect with MooTools or jQuery- may be by the both!

Should we use HTML 5 right now

2011-04-01T06:24:00.000-07:00

Nowadays a new type of question is wandering in the mind of people- should they use html 5 for their website building purposes? Some doubt that this new version of html will simply revolutionize the website building whereas some feel html 5 has to walk a long distance to become friendly to all the browsers! So, now you must be thinking, what is the main scenario then? If you are planning to build a website should you use html 5 or you go by the present proven markup languages available – html 4 or the XHTML!

Actually working as a freelance graphic designer, I do face this situation and I try to make the clients understand that we have to embrace the future technologies or improvements coming in the ways of website development – we should apply html 5 for the creation of the new -age web pages, however, it is still in the labs to come out of the greatest issue – browser compatibility.

Now let us see how still we can use html 5 in our website creation and there may be some benefit on its use. Hope this will help you understand or clear the doubt on html 5:

We may use html 5 as it is coming with new elements that simply provides the coders with facility to use semantic tags. For example, in the html 4 and even in xhtml there was no tag like "header", "footer", "nav" and others. To use these tags the use of CSS was the easy and best possible way. But now coders can use the html 5 and directly code these elements and markup will be cleaner.
Coders may use html 5 to get one of the exciting features of this html version – web forms. Now in creating the web forms will be very easy and there will be less or no headache to write or copy paste the various Javascripts that may be blocked by some of the browsers (IE 6 or lower versions) and your visitors may see nothing but blank fields. Whereas, if coders use html 5 the browsers will show standard display text fields. Isn’t the coding getting easier and will be with some newer functionality for any type of web forms!
There was no "article" tag in the html 4 or other versions. But now coders can use the html 5 and easily let the html represent any portion of the web page as a stand alone part for creating a blog post, forum entry space or commenting space against any content. This is really a great option and good benefit of html 5.
Now on coders or the developers can use html 5 to apply any API to integrate audio files or video files directly and with great ease! With the advent of html 5 and its "video" and "audio" tag the coders are even getting the drag and drop facility in the process of integrating any API. The process is less time consuming and clean.
The mobile version of the websites has gone almost unavoidable as the surfing of the web through the latest smart phones has gone really a habit among everyone of us. And the mobile applications as iphone , android applications now come with webkits to use the 3G and other telecom facilities for the users. And when you are trying to build the mobile version for your websites why do not you ask your developers to use html 5 with which the development will be much faster and easy.

The above are just a few instance of effective use of html 5! In this way there are quite a good number of reasons to use html 5. There may be some issues against browser compatibility of html 5 but slowly the popular browsers are accepting the fifth version of html. And hopefully within coming two or three years the older version of Internet Explorer (IE 6 and the lower ones) will be completely obsolete and the entire browser community is going to accept html 5. Finally, you may be having a desire to use the html 5 for making your site future ready, carefully choose the developers or the designers for your website projects. When you are making the choice and looking into the web or graphic design portfolio, check out the live sites to get confirmed if he or she knows how to use the html 5.

Personal website templates help to personify your identity and presence to people

2011-03-18T03:20:00.000-07:00

Hope nobody doubt that every one of us like to personify ourselves differently from the crowd. This is one of the reasons the millions of profiles in Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and other social networking sites quite uniquely present each others. However, it may be the case that your portfolio is simply design with the tools available on those sites! But think if you are to present yourself separately through a website or you would prefer to create your own page completely in superb way! Then, the solution to this situation is personal website templates. Just one of the best templates can make your presence bold, highlighted and you stand out in the crowd.

By the way, now you may be thinking how you would understand that personal website templates can have some features which may personify your attitude and person through it? Let us see some features that will help you to understand the things:

You have to choose one of the personal website templates with ‘out of the box designs’. It may be that your web page is going to be for your personal purpose not the business. Then also you should have the complete freedom to get it modified in your way. Say, unusual design of menus (bold, highlighted etc). You may also ask the print (embossed or letterpress) effect or something like that. It will show your taste.
The color combination does matter. You should not choose the personal website templates that do not fit your taste of color. Every one knows that our color choice reflects our visual impression or nature. For example the red color is symbolic of force, vigor and energy while blue is for spirit, contemplation and prayer. So color does make sense - right?
Never choose personal website templates that do not have ample scope to highlight your activities or character from the header onwards. There should be space to embed flash or 3D effects in the header to let your visitors understand what your message to them is. Even the layouts should have scope to make those completely matching with several other animation effects. Everywhere your person should be in focus.

Today it is time to make the online presence very much interactive. And to make the sites interactive there need chat option, videos, podcast and other facilities. Are you choosing personal website templates which are having scope to put these things? You see the social connect buttons will help users notify your sites to their friends. Whereas the chat will give you chance to interact with you. Ultimately it shows that you are running with trend of the time.

Hope the above points clarify how your taste and natures can be depicted through the personal website templates. Every time the chosen layouts are with the facilities to infuse with latest technologies as drag and drop boxes or fields (using java-Scripts, or j-query), it shows your urge and taste to remain modern and trendy. But here you have to remember that the layouts have to be completely customizable to make those 100% yours. You may even choose a freelance graphic designer to help you customize one of those personal website templates. Even you can gather the features of several layouts and ask any designer to design your own novel one. In this case you have to confirm that the designer you are selecting for the customization process has a good web and graphic design portfolio, otherwise he or she may cost you good chunk of money and loss of time in customizing one of the standard personal website templates.

Online fashion house or boutique can set new trends with amazing fashion web templates

2011-03-11T02:44:00.000-08:00

Fashionable people are undoubtedly trend setters! But it is not that these categories of people only include men and women who use fashion products; rather we must not forget the designers and the sellers who present us with these products! However there are various ways to come across the fashionable goods – website is one of the media. Thanks to every web designer or freelance graphic designer who strive to present us with the most attractive and useful fashion web templates! If they stop to present us with best of layouts, how will we be able to view the fashionable products just the way we see those in stores or fashion events and buy those online even?

But the easy way I could tell you about the great design of the fashion web templates; it is not that easy to design those templates! There needs great experience to understand the trends of the time for showcasing those properly. And there needs great intelligence to structure the fashion web templates in a way that it ever matches with the sudden changes in the trends! Now being a designer, I have tried to pull out a few great features of the layouts that can make those great fit for the online fashion sites. Let us see the things:

All the fashion web templates need to be structurally unique to match several demands to show the fashion goods. What I mean to say is the proper use of the header with little flash work or even video to present the latest and attractive products and the offerings. And it is always better to make it dynamic, so that according to the need of the time easy changes can be incorporated. The navigations have to be clear and easy.

The color matters very much for all fashion web templates. Fashion means multicolor affair and for this very reason we need to be very much careful in the use of the colors. The layouts need to have a perfect blend of colors that suit the placements of differently colored goods. In other words we may say the background effects needs to be carefully placed in every templates. The goods have to depict the original colors they have, certainly matching with complete structure of the site.

The exposure of the products in the fashion web templates need to get first priority. People are coming to see your products and they must get satisfied with the view of those. So the placements of the product blocks have to be very much attractive. If you can not expose the products, the complete purpose of building the site gets unsuccessful.

In the use of text all the fashion web templates should be economical. As the complete focus is on the products, the text descriptions have to be limited. Yes, you may put some fashion tips and the notice about the upcoming event, but those should not crowd the layouts.

All the fashion web templates need to be updated with the latest technologies in use. What I mean to say is there should be social sharing button, chatting option, RSS feeds and other latest features to keep your visitors stuck to your site and updated.

So, if you can find these features in fashion web templates, you can be sure that any of the layouts is worth buying for building your website. But remember you got to be little careful in the process. There is no question that you got to confirm that you are getting the resource files with the layouts. The layouts need to be completely customizable to make those fit for your sites. And there is certainly the question of affordability! It is not that you have to pay a lot for getting the one of the best fashion web templates. In this competitive market there are lots of designers and design houses who can offer you best layouts at really affordable prices. You just need to carefully visit the web and graphic design portfolio of the designer you are selecting the design from. Finally, I hope you come across the best designer and get one of the best fashion web templates for your site!

Extend your legal helping hand through your law firm website built with the best law website templates

2011-03-04T01:57:00.000-08:00

When legal issues come calling, people sometimes feels tensed! Thanks to the lawyers who come to help people wade through any complexity regarding legal affairs! However, it is not always possible to contact these busy friends via phone! But that does not mean that we remain helpless! We can find out hundreds of legal help sites ready to listen to our problems! Are you a lawyer or somebody engaged in resolving legal issues for people? Do you have a legal website built with one of the best law website templates? Again, are you thinking to build a site that can extend your helping hand to the world people? Whatever the case is, you need a nicely designed and developed site for sure!

Well, there may not be any particular definition on how law website templates can prepare the most perfect legal website! But it is for sure that there are some certain points that I have found necessary to incorporate in a law site while I get such layout design issues as a freelance graphic designer. So I thought it will be best for me to let you know how should be the law website templates that can help to build one of the best legal websites. Hope the following points helps you to choose or hire website designer for designing your legal or law related sites; in other words you must tell those designers to include the following features in the layout design of your site.

Choose one of the law website templates that have wide or ample space to place the texts. Now you may think why? It is because a legal site deals with huge information and people would like to read several solutions matching their cases. For example the case studies need to get proper place in the layouts to be visible and read well. Even there should be a place to add a notice board on newer issues of interest.
It is right that images speak louder than the words, but in the law website templates the use of the images have to be very much limited or no to leave space for the texts. The reason for not using or placing very limited image is simple – let people read the things in details – it is not possible to make everybody understand the legal affairs with images only. Whereas limited images may be used (the smiling or rejoicing faces can be there) to relieve or encourage the tensed people suffering from legal complexities.
All law website templates have to be very much user-friendly in navigation and advanced in search. If you carefully notice all the existing sites, you can see that the sites are full with so many navigation menus, and there is a search box. People are coming to get information on various legal issues, naturally there will be ample space to place various menus and those should be designed or placed well to come in notice. At the same time all law website templates needs to have a search box (placed at proper position) through which people can find out the contents from within the site and outside (via Google search option).
Won’t you like to make your site interactive! Just imagine if you can keep some videos, animations that describe the legal issues or documentations step by step. On the other hand the chat support, the contact forms or the “request a help” similar to “request a quote” can make your site more helpful to the visitors. But to keep theses things, you have to choose one of the best law website templates that provides with scope to place such things or the functionalities!
It is an era of social connectivity and fast speed! So why don’t you keep the social connect options in your legal help site or the RSS or Atom feeds to keep people updated? At the same time the site has to support multiple languages to reach maximum people through their vernacular. But these are only possible when you buy one of the law website templates that has place to add such things.

Hope you have understood how should be the legal sites to extend the legal assistance or help to the world people. But it is also true that you may not find all these facilities in all the easy available law website templates of the template shops. Why not hire website designer for building your site. You may also take the help of any expert freelancers in this regard. Remember you have to check if the law website templates are completely customizable or not. If you buy a layout with minimum customization, you can never fit it for your business. It will be always better to note the best features of various law website templates and design one befitting your business purpose at an affordable price.

Which Web Log Analysis Tool Is The Best

2011-02-28T04:36:00.000-08:00

In plain words web log analysis tools are the analytics software that purses a log file from a web server, FTP server or the mail severs to trace the activity of the visitors of those sites. In other words we use these tools to trace the visitors of all sorts for our websites through various servers. Gone are the days when the site owners simply wait for the direct activity of the visitors on the sites or simply rely on what the search engine optimizers or the developers are saying about the activities and success of the websites! Now even a common man can use the one of the many web log analysis tools in his or her site. For example, simply putting a short code in the html coding of any webpage, a site owner can use the Google analytics to fetch the most comprehensive log details from the web server about the visitor activities!

However we are not supposed to discuss about Google analytics (if it is not the best web log analysis tools)! Then now the question is very simple which tool is the best? And the answer to this question is not that simple! There are many web log analysis tools available on the internet and each one is packed with several great features! Some come totally free and some are paid services! But it is fact that all of those are not equally popular to the users. When working as a freelance graphic designer, open source developer and SEO consultant, I come across this particular question – which tool should be used to analyze the log data? I simply tell them that it depends on what type of services you are looking from the web log analysis tools or how would you like to use them? Do you have deep knowledge to handle the configuration data? Do you want a very easy to use and install tool for your site? Depending on the basis of the answers, I try to tell them the following things about few popular web log analysis tools:

Google analytics: This is one of most used web log analysis tools as it is free, comes with comprehensive analysis and the trust of the giant search engine – GOOGLE. It helps to get traffic report with an eye on the marketing effectiveness of the visitor activities. It comes with the customization (drag and drop of the several analysis boxes) facility for the report to get the subsets of the traffic analysis, multi-dimensional analysis. It is best for anyone who wants simple interface to install and use.
Web Log Analyzer: If you are trying to get one of the best web log analysis tools that can perfectly map visitor locations with the tracking of IP addresses, this tool is the best for you. This feature is the best one with all other features it has.
Deep Log Analyzer: The best part of this tool that separates it from other web log analysis tools is its ability to log the files without any code or bugs in the sites. It can also analyze log from all the popular web servers. You can write your own queries or download the log files from the FTP servers.
AWstats: If you are looking for web log analysis tools that can graphically analyze FTP or mail server statistics this tool is one you are looking for. More on that is its ability to export the analysis report in XML, text or PDF file formats. It even can generate the 404 page reference reports also.

Piwik: Are you in search of open source web log analysis tools? The facility of open source – add, edit or removal of any feature- is available with this tool. If you have some developing knowledge or can hire website designer or the developer to customize it in look and functionality (plug-ins), this tool is the one you should use to analyze log data completely in your way!
Analog: Among all the web log analysis tools, this one is the easiest to install and run on any operating system and can generate reports in 32 international languages! Particularly for these two features site owners and the developers love this tool most.
Web Analyzer: Sometimes we find that many web log analysis tools are not functioning well in all the browsers! Those have a bunch of features but due to incompatibility with several browsers we feel sorry to use those! But the solution is here with Web Analyzer that can generate all the reports in HTML format and we till get all the bunch of comprehensive log reports!
W3 Pearl and My Blog Log: These two small web log analysis tools are popular but not that much comprehensive ones. Yet with W3 pearl we can track the web log analysis data with the use of a page bug. On the other hand, via ‘My Blog Log’ we can get the information about a visitor activity (when he or she is to which page, how long is staying on a page or even page to page navigation). This helps to improve the page depending on the report. But these two tools are not complete to use singly for getting log data. These can be supplementary to other web log analysis tools.

Anyways, this is my reference on the use of tools for web log analysis. As I told at the beginning that it is always impossible to say which tool is the best, you may use any of the tools according to your requirements and expertise. There are lots of paid services also. Some of the above web log analysis tools even have paid versions. You can easily go for those to get more facility on analysis report. But it never means that free versions are useless. Whatever tool you select that will definitely work for you if you can make complete use of it. So choose one and get the proper analysis of your visitor and web or ftp server activities.

How to use DTD in XML and DTD in HTML documents

2011-02-18T05:01:00.000-08:00

Document type declaration (DTD) is simply a notification or instruction put with a HTML or XML to clarify the mode of rendition of the documents in browsers, the version of HTML or XML in use and for validation of the coding. Though there are other factors to use DTD in HTML and DTD in XML. In other words it is the DTD for which the html and XML files properly work. There will arise several issues if the DTD is not properly used with the two file types.

Now here we will try to point out what type of situation may arise if you hire website designer who does not know how to use DTD properly. The coders should mind just a few points mentioned below to use DTD in HTML and DTD in XML. Let’s see the things:

DTD in HTML and DTD in XML files are stated to identify the version of the XML or HTML in use. Without this declaration it is not possible to validate the files. All the validation systems use this process to put the mark of ‘standard verified XML or HTML’ against all the XML and html files. So the coders need to add red portion in their declaration.:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<note>

<heading>Reminder</heading>

<body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>

</note>

If the DTD in HTML and DTD in XML files are not stated properly, the browsers would not understand the mode of XML or HTML to be shown to the viewers. When a browser does not find the DTD description then it directly shows the web pages in quirk mode, if finds out the description then shows the standard mode. In the following example follow the red marked area:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

But look the following one

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC>

Finding only the “public” note the browsers have to render the webpage in quirk mode (a display of web page in older version of a browser for finding DTD in HTML and DTD in XML files. It is because the coding is not compiling with the latest validation updates provided to current browser version).

Suppose the client browser does not support the latest updated CSS formats you have used in your coding, what would be the display or how will you be able to show the web pages in proper condition on those browsers? Answer is very simple use “transitional” mode of coding. But if the case is otherwise the mode of DTD in HTML and DTD in XML files will be “strict”. See the coding below:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC

"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Or simply

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC

"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

Now there may be some cases when you need to code or use DTD in HTML and DTD in XML files for your private view. The web pages will be visible in your system only. How would you stop the public view of those pages? The answer is very simple use “system” keyword in the coding, instead of “Public”. Look at the code below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE note SYSTEM "Note.dtd">

<note>

<heading>Reminder</heading>

<body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>

</note>

If you write “public” at the place of the “system” the pages will be visible to the world. So DTD in HTML and DTD in XML files has to carefully state if the pages are to be viewed by public or not. A small mistake may disclose huge confidential matters to the world.

Without the proper DTD in HTML and DTD in XML files the page elements may not come in display. Particularly in the XML files DTD are the building blocks to structure the legal elements. If there is any mistake the complete coding will be useless. On the other hands many a times XML data is shared within various groups. In such cases if common DTD is not present, sharing will not be possible.

However in this way you may have understood how to use the DTD in HTML and DTD in XML properly. There are many other document type declarations for proper functioning of the XML and the HTML files. I have only tried to exemplify the few ways to use it. But here I must tell you one thing for sure, there are many coders who do not perform these tasks or take this ways to make the web pages perfectly functioning in all the browsers. As a freelance graphic designer, I never feel any lethargy to make the DTD in HTML and DTD in XML perfect for all my client sites. I know how to make my clients satisfied with best of design and development. Hope you find the best coding for your web building purposes!

What is cross browser dhtml

2011-02-11T05:40:00.000-08:00

We more or less no what is Dynamic HTML (DHTML). Simply to give the plain HTML the interactive attitude the developers use DHTML. And really it has bought life to the HTML. At the same time there are some issues for which dhtml do not perform well across all the browsers. Especially the problem of cross browser compatibility of the dhtml occurs in the "Netscape Navigator" (NS) and "Internet Explorer" (IE). Actually the dhtml is a coding that works for the document object model (DOM) manipulation in the object oriented coding structuring. But it has gone really a headache for the developers to make the dhtml compatible in cross browser platforms (NS and IE). But it does not really mean that the developers are going to end up sacrificing to the issue – they have invented the cross browser dhtml coding with which their dhtml can nicely work on all the browsers.

Now here we are going to see what the purpose of cross browser dhtml is! Rather as a freelance graphic designer I will try to venture how the dhtml is made cross browser compatible in plain language. Let us see the things in a non technical language:

Adapting to the specific DOM for all the browser platforms is a great issue. We all know that DOM is the key for modifying an object‘s property or triggering a specific behavior. This is a no issue for the developers to code in dhtml. But eventually it is found that the NS and IE have developed some specific DOM structure to integrate into their browsers. Foe example the coding to comply with the IFRAME model for the IE is not supported in NS. So what is going to be the solution - cross browser dhtml. Developers simply code their dhtml for both browsers.
It may be the case that developers have to use two separate dhtml pages to comply with the NS and IE. This process of cross browser dhtml coding is known as creation of "forking page". The client (browser) side when requests as NS it pulls the code for it and same way it shows specific dhtml code when requested from IE. The compatibility issue is more or less solved in this way.
Another way of creating cross browser dhtml is through amalgamation of the requirements for NS and IE. In this process developers create a coding structure that contains the contingencies for both the browsers. This is a code which works as relevant when particular browser request is got. The importance of using this type of dhtml is nothing but the light weight coding. At the same time the developers do not have to update their dhtml files also.
To make the cross browser dhtml situation the developers also use syntax patching or the meta dhtml creation process. In this process a ‘fork page’ is used at the beginning of a the dhtml structure which creates common library. In other words a patch up work is done atop the syntax structure of the DOM language. Simply meta dhtml is simple building blocks from which cross browser dhtml can be constructed.
To make the cross browser dhtml situation developers use the meta function library. This is nothing but a set of functions all of which operates separately on the basis of particular meta language principles that make the dhtml cross browser compatible. The useful part of this is very much interesting. Depending on this functional library no incompatible situation occurs as the library is huge to support almost all the issues.

Hope you have understood what is cross browser dhtml and how the developers have gone their all out to make the dhtml coding compatible to all the browsers. There are other processes in use for making dhtml working for all the browsers. I have tried to show you only five points that are hugely effective in this purpose. At the same time I must tell you that no specific example is cited simply to make the reading a normal one for all the reader who feel little uneasy when reading with technical citations. So when you hire website designer and web developer, do care and ask how will be the coding of the web pages. Do they know how to tackle the cross browser dhtml situation? I have told you to ask the designers as they do have a helping part in making the web pages compatible in several cross browser platforms. However in my case, as a freelance graphic designer, I never stop coding the web pages of my client cross browser dhtml compatible for highest performance in all the browers! At least I help my client in this regard up to my level best.

Colocation rack space - pros and cons

2011-02-04T06:10:00.000-08:00

For a website, hosting is very important. If you have a very small website then there is no need to think so deeply about the hosting services. But if you have larger business type, you have to think twice on choosing hosting service for you. There are many types of hosting available in the market - colocation rack space based hosting is one of such. In plain words this particular type of hosting is a freedom to the user – physical rack space, software and maintenance is yours. But you house to a reliable second party and take the broadband connection from them with guaranteed undisrupted power supply. However in colocation rack space use, there are some disadvantages that deviates the users or the customers to select this type of hosting services!

I have found that people get little confused to select the type of web hosting after they have selected or completed the process to hire website designer and the developers. To make the things little clear to you let us have a look on some pros (advantages) and cons (disadvantages) of colocation rack space hosting:

There are some cases when it is necessary that you want total control of your hosting to keep complete confidentiality of things in your hand. Then it is always better that you go for colocation rack space. Even you get the exact hardware and software as per your requirements.
It is always necessary that your hosting service is always available with guarantee. There should not be any excuse of power cut, failure of broadband connectivity or limitation of bandwidth. If you choose colocation rack space hosting, your hosting partner will assure you these things with power backups, 3 tier broadband connection and unlimited bandwidth. You feel relaxed.
Colocation rack space hosting not highly scalable; it is because it is not possible to improve the hardware or the software as and when required. Due to remote location and fewer number of service providers the maintenance becomes a headache. You always should keep your server with excessive resources. Besides that the service providers may not take the responsibility to even reboot the server in need.
Colocation rack space hosting is not for the inexperienced, newcomers. It can be that you are plunging in the online business with no knowledge in the hosting matters or may know the things but not well experienced. If the either of the case matches with you, this type of hosting is not for your business as you may not completely use and maintain it.
One of the setbacks that have pushed the colocation rack space hosting on the back seat is high expenses. First of all you need a dedicated team to manage it. Even your team may need to travel to the location of the physical server. Otherwise you have to pay extra to the service provider to maintain your server.

Anyways, you may have understood what are the primary advantages and disadvantages of colocation rack space hosting service. You may see that on average the points are against the use of this service! But does it mean people are not using this service! Certainly not! Today sometimes even working as a freelance graphic designer I face situations when my customers want advice about most reliable hosting. They feel sad that they are not capable of going for collocation racks pace due to shortfall of budget, but I tell them about the new service “managed colocation rack space”. With this new service you can simply use all the top benefits of this hosting service within your afford. Whatever cost effective the other hosting seem to us, unlimited bandwidths at low cost and constant availability of all resources are hardly 100% present in those services.

A new era in web designing

2011-01-28T03:58:00.000-08:00

Gone are the days when the web pages used to be designed for showing the information this ways or that! Now we see new web designing trends or methods are coming in front of our eyes! Whether it is the structure, use of tools, medium of display or the nature of interaction, web design has gone admirable changes to make it more acceptable and striking to users! Actually the thought behind web page designing has gone upside down – now the motto is to convey the message and gain return on investments by any means.

Anyways, here we may have a look on a few aspects that has been giving web designing ever new lease of life. In other words the designers are trying to survive against the increasing and ever changing demands from the users and the site owners. At least when people seek and find out a freelance graphic designer like me, the first thing their demand is - what is new with you to offer? Let’s see the things:

The structural look of the web pages has gone huge change. The latest trends of web designing are driven to break all the conventions. No way are the three column structures bound to be there! Now designs are purpose oriented or simply to attract the eyes of the visitors. For example we may find out a huge header and small footer or embossed design reflecting the printed effect. All the icons and logos are bold and glossy!
To create ever effective web designing, the designers are ever innovative to try with new design tools. They want to create designs fast, effective and prefect. And in making the designs truly perfect new design tools (Firebugs, fireworks or panic coda) have come up in use. For example slicing and dicing images to create PDF with clickable component in light weight Fireworks is just amazing.

Now web pages are not only designed for the desktop, laptops or other computer types! Browsing webpage has entered into mobile phones. Now web pages are specially designed to fit in mobile phone browsing. Some websites even have two separate versions of websites. We find trimmed texts, images, graphics and animations are what designers aim to create mobile versions of web pages.
Now the web designing has become interactive in true sense. With the evolvement of web 3.0 technology – the mantra of which is to interact and present what the user is looking for – designers are designing to match this technology. The 3D or animated characters, navigations are designed to let the users feel ease and at home. Even structuring the designs for "augmented reality" is cared by the designers.

The above are only the four aspects of web designing that has come up with the changing taste of the era. There are so many other things that have come up with this era and its users. But remember one thing for sure, you as the site owner, never should go for anything new that does not suit the purpose of your business. Actually you should be properly guided by the experienced and expert designers about your web designing requirements and the trend of this new era. Again you have to be initially careful when you hire website designer or a freelancer to design your site. Carefully look out for their web designing portfolio and you will understand if they are keeping up with the changing of the era or not. Hope you will select the right designer for you!

Custom error page - do's and don'ts

2011-01-14T03:30:00.000-08:00

We all know why the error pages occur.Apparently this may look a simple matter, especially if you are newbie in handling the matters of your website. Plainly speaking, error pages does matter. Particularly the most common error page is the 404 which comes in case there is any broken link, unidentified deleted page or page with a misspelled URL. Whatever the case may be, there has to be proper reply to the user query. Here is the use of a customized 404 page.

Now there may be a question how should be the look of the custom error page? You may also ask what should be there in a customized 404 page when you hire website designer to know the level of efficiency he or she has. Anyways, let us have a look on the matter.

Never let your visitors feel irritated with junk scripts rather state them in clean and clear language that the requested page is not found. Custom error page should clearly say what the reason of the error is. The user should understand that the result against their query is not found through a simple customized 404 page.
The custom error page has to be designed just like the other pages. It is sometimes found that the 404 pages are very dull in look and does not fit to the overall design with the site. Remember you are to show the customized 404 page in a way that user feel it no way boring or something irrelevant.

Have you customized 404 page with only a blank message"page not found"? Make its presence relevant, put there your site map which will help the user navigate to other pages. If you can custom error page in this way, definitely the user going to stick with your site; otherwise they will never return to your site anymore. At least there should be a link to go to the sites home page.
When you customized 404 page, have you ensured that the pages are not indexed by the search engines? Sometimes it is found that the custom error page is left to be indexed by the search engines. This creates really bad impression to the eyes of the visitors. Simply block the page with meta tag from the web crawlers to crawl.
Custom error page with widgets that help to show a search box with which users can search anything within the site just staying on the page. It will certainly help the users to stay on your site.

However these are few dos and don’t about the custom error page. There may be many other things to show a customized 404 page to the users. Even today it is found that the pages are with an option to report the broken link. Visitors are politely requested to report through this type of custom error page. However the error page design is no issue to me. I have been working as a freelance graphic designer for last decade and no client of mine has any question about the customized 404 page design for their websites. You should equally take care of customized 404 page design issue and keep your visitors coming back to your site.

Why html code validation is important for your website

2010-12-29T21:11:00.000-08:00

Arguably there can not be any website without HTML. But here the matter of discussion is not about creating a website without html. We are going to discuss about the html code validation. Many a time a question wonders in our mind - is there any importance of html validation, what are those? First we have to understand the meaning of validation in general. Validation is nothing but standardization. So when the question is about html validation, it is all about standardization of the html code used in any website. There are some good reasons of html code validation. I have tried to jot down few points below:

If a website has web pages without validated html codes, the pages become incompatible for different browsers. Browsers work on specific standards to read the html. If a webpage is not up to standards, the design is bound to break in different browsers.
In the case of programming, html code validation comes in use of debugging. If the codes maintain validation standards, it becomes easy to find out the bugs.
Validated html coding ensures compatibility of future up gradation of the html and do help in maintenance. Whatever the upper version of the html is to come, those will incorporate the present standards. And maintenance of the site gets easy.
Errors in the html coding prevent the search engines to crawl the web pages properly. All the crawlers follow specific standards of html code validation. If those crawlers find errors in the coding, the indexing of the site goes wrong and ranking of the pages will never be good.
If codes are according to html validation standards, the developers working on those get ease in the development procedure of any simple or complex website structure or the whole development.

So you could well understand why it is so important to validate the html coding of any website. Remember everything adheres to standard. Same applies to website building. Today html code validation has gone almost a mandatory part of website design and development. At least as a freelance graphic designer I never forget to validate the html code against all my designs. Moreover it boosts my confidence that I am offering something to the clients that is certainly validated or certified according to world standards.

How business houses influence shifts of spot light on web design trends

2010-11-23T00:28:00.000-08:00

Oh Tom, tell me what’s the trend!

We all know the term ‘trend’ is pretty trendy! What Mr. Tom today advises me as the latest fashion trend, I find it next day replaced by something else! Same is in practice for the web design trends! Today a huge image at the header of a web page; the next day footer is oversized! Naturally the spot light shifts its angles and falls on what is latest.

But my question is – why this shift in spot light? I know you have the answer! Let me tell you what I found. It is the instruction of the businessmen and their business perspectives. For catching the attention of the visitors to the cliché products or the services, designers throw a bucket of colors or draw few lines on a blank webpage in such a way that we have to say Wow!
Now let us see how business demands manipulate in the shift in spot light!

The wings of imagination

Web design is a matter of creativity. It is the designers who tend to set forth new web design trends. They are free to design a whale tied with a rope and being tried to be carried by little birds! But if you can spare a little of your grey matter, you can well understand how they are drawing business. It is no new matter to render forth. What I try to say here is the use of new and emerging web design trends and their use in different businesses. In short, how the designers and their use of web design trends uplift the business!

The course or the flow

Not going by an elaborated discussion about what web design trends are now in vogue, I rather like to bend the course of my discussion in a flow which will show the banks where businesses line up to pump in or out water from the current. I will discuss the use of web design for products, services and other purposes. It is going to be a touch and go about new tools and web design trends in application for web page designs eyeing the business.

Give me sandpapers!

There are quite a handful of design tools that are coming into use, for example, Javascripts, CSS3, HTML5 and so on and so forth. These tools are new brushes to paint the white canvas far better.A javascript can easily add some small effects like click menu button, pop-up window, dialogue boxes or small icons. These are the flexibilities which designers have got when the space is limited in a web page or without excessive texts many things have to be said.

With the help of CSS3, creation of rounded corners, shadow effects and designing mobile compatible web pages has got easy. The designers as if have got sandpapers to even the edges of a wooden table!
The use of RGB color and better Opacity is also coming in action to give web page design a better and distinct look. Sometimes water color effects and every time clear illustration give better look to the web pages.

HTML5 is the latest version of HTML language and it is still in the development process. It provides several options like drag and drop of any image and embedding videos etc. Soon we will see its massive use, no sooner all the browsers accepts it.

The common factors

Some of the latest web design trends are so much useful that those may be used for all type of web page designs. Actually it is all about user friendliness and attraction.The design perspective has got a change. Formerly the look used to show simply the products or the services. But now if a product, say wine, is to be shown there has to be design effects. Same is the case for depicting services, say hotel industry, the designers are showing designs of suits in such a way that the viewers get impressed with the first look. Web pages are no different!

Interactive web design trends for better feel. The designers are trying to provide scope for making the designs interactive, say horizontal menu or the social media navigation buttons. These help the visitor to navigate fast. Even key navigation to provide keyboard shortcuts has been applied. And the use of letterpress for text or text links really gives feel in designs. More the user gets opportunity to interact, more chances increases for business!

It’s all about presenting products!

The designers are instructed to give boost to the presentation of the products. And they are showing web design trends that are simply awesome in having impact on viewers mind! Now we are going to have a glance on those web design trends.

Rich and strong typographic effects: Typically to show the offers or the ingredients of any product the text effects are must. And to produce that kind of text effect, designers have started to play with each letter, word or number. We find web pages designed with colorful effects and huge letter or word size, as we find in word art or the same!

Model or light box and slide show: When web pages are designed for any vendor of products, the main purpose of the website is to sell the products. Suppose a visitor want to have a close look at his or her selected product, he or she will come across the light box effect that only highlight the product in much better way. At the same time to view the group of products a slide show effect is just what a visitor will ask. These web design trends are nowadays hugely in demand.

Over sized logo/header and one page layout: A website is created to market and brand any company and its product internationally. So it is natural that the web pages have to highlight the name and the logo of any company in prominent way. So the designers start to use oversized logo or the header, designed in a way that the name of the company is well highlighted and leaves a great effect in the mind of the visitors. The companies liked these web design trends and those have got popular enough. And some companies want to develop sites for their unique products. In that particular case designers have created one of the unique web design trends – one page layout where in a single web page customers nicely view the products.

Intro box, text shadow and thumbnails: For better focus on information of products and to give products liveliness, the designers have started using intro box and text shadows. With the help of intro box a product is better highlighted to the users whereas shadows make every product lively. And the proper use of thumbnails shows many products at a time. The businessmen like this type of web design trends.

Minimalism and massive white space: Sometimes less effort earns maximum result. Designers used this theory in designing the web pages. They have started to grow two effective web design trends- minimum effects and maximum white space. These particular trends are effective as people sometimes get bored to see too many texts, images. Similarly blank spaces or maximum white spaces soothe the eyes. And in such spaces a product with little description is sure to catch attraction.

Please visit again!

There are thousands of service providers. They are eager to pursue the visitors to avail their services. So web designers have began to grow some web design trends that are going to help the service providers to gain a strong online presence. Now we may have a little journey about the web design trends developed with an eye to serve the purpose of the service providers.

Magazine layout: An important part of any service industry is all about getting information about any service. With this idea in mind designers have taken to grow one of the typical and really catchy web design trends – magazine layout. In this type of layouts, designers place information as we find in news dailies. Beautiful descriptions of services come to visitor’s sight as if they are reading news with headlines. This trend is gaining popularity fast.

Print design effects: The designers are ever to pull anything new and unique. After all, they are setters of new web design trends! They have introduced web pages with print effects. The effects are so embossed that visitors feel to see printed catalogues or brochures. The trend attracts the user to read and know about the services.

Media blocks: The designers have infused a new trend in web page designing – use of media blocks. With this block the services can easily be given maximized attention. A video or the like can have superb effect on the visitors mind.

PNG and textured background effect: A few services need to show some special effects. And for those cases the designers have introduced one of the web design trends of using PNG files or different types of textures to be set as backgrounds. This really has a deep impact on the visitors mind.

Organic layout: In this type of design the designers use different organic shapes to draw attention of the users. Most of the times it is found that this trend is for excuses against faulty services. We can see social networking sites using this type of web design trends, when for over load to their servers they cannot provide service. They apologize to the user in this type of interesting and funny way. There are other fantastic uses of this trend also.

Slab typefaces and font replacement: For few services some different attitude comes in demand. These two are very much unique web design trends from the rest. In these matters the web pages use slab typefaces (all capital letters) in texts or unusual fonts in body texts. Designers intentionally use fonts that are not used in common web page designing. These texts certainly give extra attention to the service headings and the like.

Retro, sketch and handwriting effects: The web design trends that nowadays coming into great effects are retro or the designs with vintage art look; sketching effects; and the handwriting effects. In retro style the whole design looks as if painting of vintage artifacts. This type of designs are used for heritage related industries or services.

The sketch design is also used for art related service industries. These types of designs impose the natural and familiar touch to the eyes of the visitors and communicate the purpose plainly. Similar effect comes from designs with handwriting effects. Websites related with education or such types of industries use these web design trends to grab emotional attraction of the visitors.

Excuse me please!

There are some industries that cannot be categories as typical product or service based. So what web design trends those going to adapt to become popular? I am talking about the entertainment and similar industries. As in the entertainment industry you get both services and products. So the businessmen could not decide what web design trends they can use for their businesses. But the designers came with some web design trends that serve typically their business and may also be used for other industries. Let’s talk about two most common web design trends used in these types of industries.

3D elements, 3D text effects: The most exciting web design trends are use of 3D elements and 3D text effects. I particularly choose to say few words about this trend separately for their use in entertainment industry. There cannot be anything more engaging than 3D effects. There are hundreds of websites, say gaming sites that use this effect for visitors. There has to be something different to entertain people. All 3D effects come for help to this industry! As I told before this effect is so much catchy that the designer have to use them for other service and product oriented business too
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Introduction box and multicolumn: These two web design trends were designed to serve some particular industries say entertainment again, but have become web design trends for all. The introduction boxes better introduce any product or service, for example an tutorial or the like. Same way multicolumn designs came to show information in an organized way. It is found that multicolumn design is used for home page design. We all know that home page is a page to introduce a business precisely and almost as a whole. So both the web design trends -multicolumn and introduction box play vital role in designing that page.

Let’s have a ball...

It is really great to see and feel how new web design trends are coming and staring themselves in the web industry. My point of discussion was the influence of businesses on web designing. Yes, now you can see how businesses do have influence on designing in a positive way. The new web design trends could not have come in at regular intervals, had there been no influence of business people on the web designers! Necessity is the mother of all inventions.

Let there be light – spot light!

What about the spot light? Yes, the spot light ever falls on the popular and the celebrated. Here we are talking about the web design trends! What is today’s trend is for certain to get replaced by the one of tomorrow! So today may be the spot light is on Magazine layout, who knows tomorrow it could be on something related to … …! But what is for sure is the lever or control of shifting the spot light will always be in the hands of business houses. They ask the designers for new web design effects. And it is the business use of those effects that makes every designing effect a trend! Three cheers for all web design trends!

How to design your splash page

2010-11-09T23:48:00.000-08:00

Today we do not walk but rush! And for this very reason we hardly can concentrate on anything more than a few minutes. So a new conception has grown that there is no need to design splash page for a website as people are going to skip it! But the things are not exactly the same. We can use splash page or the introduction page (some call it jump page) in a smart way and it can still benefit us.

Now we are going to see how to design splash page to make it most useful to achieve the ultimate goal of a website development. Before letting the things go clear to your mind, one thing I here should first clarify that the main purpose or motto to design splash page is to catch quick attention of the visitors to the best product or the service of a website with true and clever marketing attitude. Another thing that comes as a restricting factor (as public conception goes) in the path of having a splash page is its search engine unfriendliness. There are ways with which we can avoid that too.

Now let’s come to the point! I am trying to tell you how you should design splash page or what should be the instruction from you to designer in case you are willing to have a splash page for your website.

First priority has to be given to portray your products and services precisely. The page should not have too many images or texts. Fewer images and text has to convey your message. This will also decrease the page load time.
If you use flash or 3D animation to design splash page, ensure those are not lengthy and supports multiple browsers. There has to be automated redirect to the index page if any plug-in is not available or load time exceeds than the permitted time. It is possible with programming or skip button.
Try to keep something on the splash page that will not become obsolete or old after a few days. To avoid this situation try updating the splash page or provide specific links that will be options to search your products and services. Do not bore your visitors.
Try to design splash page with such programs or scripts that do not prevent the search engines to index your other pages of the site. It is found that the faulty javascripts create disturbances to the search engine robots.
Be creative and intelligent to design splash page. Don’t implement aggressive marketing approach. The design has to be something that interests the visitors and should have an USP.

So this should be the way of designing a splash page. When you decide to ask a web design company to design splash page, do not forget to see its experience in this matter. Remember to consult your thought of a splash page with the designers and the search engine optimizers about the smoothness or effective attitude of the page. Never try to impose the idea to the designers. The pages can earn you great result, at the same time inefficient use will lead to the failure.

As a freelance graphic designer, I have been effectively designing the splash pages for my clients. I try to catch the strain of the customer business and ask them to tell first their thoughts to my designs. So whatever the case may be at the time you hire website designer cooperate and match your thoughts with him to design splash page successfully.

Difference between web 2.0 and web 3.0

2010-09-14T04:58:00.000-07:00

One day I bought a mango sapling and planted it in the garden of my farm house. I was too excited to get some juicy mangoes in the coming summer. I used to water the tree everyday and daydream about the mangoes! Next summer my tree was full of juicy mangos. But my expectations were also growing in leaps and bounds. Now I was hoping for some miracle and was expecting to get mangoes, oranges and apples from the same tree!!

Now do not tell me that it is something really odd or I was growing mad! I swear I can imagine something better than that too! If I could get my virtually projected girl friend and me strolling on the virtual sea shore or could easily have an opportunity to play Formula 1 finding myself as Jenson Button, inside the computer and feeling the exact sensation sitting on my computer desk then an easy grafting can bring out the result to a tree to bear such three fruits together! Well, that’s not all in my imagination. That’s the budding concept of web 3.0.

You may think –“is this guy really out of his mind?” No I am not. A few days ago I also had to scratch my head for a while just like you when one of my clients from USA asked me to design a website suitable to web 3.0. I asked him why not web 2.0? It has all that the business is in need presently! I tried to make him understand that web 2.0 is the present trend of the web design and development. Why you do not try believing that web 3.0 technologies are still a thought process inside the pipeline! He then endowed me with a great piece of advice “Don’t live for the present. Live for the future!”

He encouraged me to apply the newest of the technologies in application on website design and development. I then assured him that I never make any fuss on adapting new technologies. Rather I would be more than happy to design for a technology that relies more on the user experience, irrespective of the look or the layout!

So it is time to tell you what difference I have found between web 2.0 and web 3.0. And slowly I am developing an addiction to the later one! Want to know why? Have a look:

Gone are the days of searching for Pizza Hut or asking your friend if he likes Pizza or not!

Until 1999 the internet was taken as a useful media where anybody can make a heap of information which is supposed to be used by the people in search of such information. If you are looking for ‘Pizza’ you have to find its availability to your nearest location from the huge number of search engine result pages (by the time your appetite could have poke you out to a nearest cake shop to douse the fire with a pastry).

But in web 3.0 era you don’t even have to think of a friend who likes pizza! You got to write just that you are hungry and you want to get information on which shops you may get pizza first on the basis of your previous searches on likes and dislikes. Isn’t it like your personal assistant who knows that you like pizza when you are hungry! It is the magic of web 3.0 that uses resource description framework (RDF) and other applications which empower your machine and related software to read, analyze and produce results for you. Yahoo! search is believed to be based upon web 3.0.

Forget propagating “my template designs should be slim and trim - have a look”

This present era is all about sharing information. Hardly we can find out anybody who does not have a facebook, twitter and similar social networking accounts or profiles. This is nothing but the web 2.0 trends that asks everybody to share information either in elaborate way or in 140 characters. I can remember the rise of Blogger (in 1999) which has given the start to the exposer of expression openly. And within a few years came facebook and twitter that added sharing option to expression and the total thing got immensely popular!

But what’s about the web 3.0? Certainly it is managing the social contacts in structures to create a database which is available to the individuals in an inter-connected manner. It will help the individual to reach everything simply fast. So there is no need to be afraid that your work is going to be lost among other thousands. Machines and software are going to work for you in reaching people who are in need of exactly the service you render.

Web is going to be based on augmented reality, what about present reality?

With the advent of the smart phones and blackberry type services the web had already gone portable. The slender look of the web 2.0 had well matched with the format. But people have started to think beyond reality! The virtual reality came into being. In this world the 3D application took people to a new life where everything has gone virtual and people started to enjoy the things. The web 2.0 was the basis to introduce this. But soon the concept of virtual reality started to adopt augmented reality! And this is the introduction of another web 3.0 technology.

Now with a spectacle or camera or phone users are going to feel 3D experience for anything he or she is looking into. The users are going to feel and know anything anywhere. It encompasses from knowing any product on the go before buying or just to get information about any service. Just a desire to get anything will lead to projection of that in 3D model in front of eyes. One day it could easily happen when I am passing by you and you could easily reckon me and say you have written the article about the difference between web 2.0 and web 3.0 right?

Just wait and watch what the coming decade is to offer!!

To sum up the things I can say, let computer and software adapt the artificial intelligence. We will not even type anything in the search box of any search engine but will just think of the matter and everything will be in front of us. But till the web 3.0 comes out of the thinking pipeline web 2.0 is going to reign the World Wide Web. We have to admit that believing the reality is inevitable, rest is future! The evolution in the field of technology has bought to us the web 2.0 and one day web 3.0 will be reality. Who knows what will be the concept of web 4.0!

How to design printer friendly web page

2010-09-11T05:42:00.000-07:00

Today almost the whole world has gone tech-savvy. Whatever information we are looking for can be easily got from internet. That is why so many websites are there. But it does not mean the need or the use of printed information are vanished. We still have little bit ease in using printed information especially applicable for elderly people and children. In other words we should say this is why printer friendly web page is available.

Now we may say what the uses of printer friendly web page are and how to make the webpage really printable? What are the reasons web pages becomes printer unfriendly? First see why we need printable version of the web pages.

Use of animation and other dynamic effects cause trouble for reading and users then feel that there may be a printable version.
Long and informative articles or texts becomes little strenuous to read on the digital media (monitor, e-book reader).
It is not always possible to carry the reading devices with us. If we may have a printer friendly web page and take print, we can carry it anywhere.

Now the question comes how to make the web pages printer friendly? And it is fact that with a little care of the things I have tried to put down here will help in making any web page a printer friendly web page. Let us find few things:

First to increase the readability of the webpage and also to ready printer friendly web page the font size should be 12pt and font color is preferably black on white background. And the links has to be underlined to show them as links.
Necessarily the animation effects have to be used less or there has to be option to print pages without animation. Otherwise the print impression becomes illegible.
Web pages include advertisements. People taking print of any page for gathering information would like to avoid advertisements. So keep option to print the pages without advertisements. This makes user happy and web pages printer friendly web page.
To make a web page worthy to be printed, the height, width and margin has to be set or given option to adjust.
To prepare printer friendly web page is to use CSS media types, and in coding use of HTML 4.01 and above versions. These two design tools works fine to make pages printable. Avoid using too much table base coding and never use frames. It also helps in preparing print version of pages.

So now it is crystal clear that with little and easy steps, a web page can be made printer friendly. Whatever the case may be, the fundamental thing is to keep the web pages clean and worth reading. Never thrust the pages with too many animation effects or advertisement. Remember, if you first irritate the users with a clumsy look, it is going to cost you in the loose of users.

If you want to know how to keep the design intact in look and make every webpage printer friendly web page, hire website designer who knows how to design web pages both printer friendly and stunning in looks! At least as a freelance graphic designer, I always design website layouts or templates printer friendly. You may have a look at my portfolio and you could understand how templates are great in look! And yet those can be made very much printer friendly.

CSS tips and tricks - Must go through

2010-08-21T02:52:00.001-07:00

We all know that cascading style sheets (CSS) are determines the look and format of a web page. Though there are many facilities in using the CSS, still we face some problems in some application of it. That is the reason we can find in the internet – designers and developers are providing so many CSS tips and tricks.
Now the question is why writing this article? Am I going to give you some new CSS tips and tricks? No, I am not going to stuff internet with some same CSS tips and tricks as if presenting new wine in an old bottle! So here is for you some must go through CSS tips and tricks that come in consideration while using CSS effectively and successfully.

In particular cases inline elements have to be started in new line like block elements or vise-versa, in controlling height and width of inline elements and spreading background color to match text of block elements without specifying width. Here applies ‘display inline’ or ‘display block’ codes.
In IE 6 browser sometimes rendering problem comes in setting width of any element against border and padding has already provided. It is known as box model hack alternative. To solve this problem a code comes in great use and that is "padding: 2em; border: 1em solid green; width: 20em;width/**/:/**/ 14em;".
Sometimes we face problem in making web pages cross browser compatible. It is because different browsers have different CSS properties. So it is not possible to code for individual browsers. Here one of best CSS tips and tricks is CSS reset that makes pages compatible to all browsers.
Many a times 3D buttons are in needed to match the layout of web pages. But we can not go for expensive 3D development. We can easily get this effect with a code like the one given below. We will see that a button will be created with raised 3 dimensional effects. The is like " div#button {background: #888; border: 1px solid; border-color: #999 #777 #777 #999 }"
When CSS code is not working properly up to your expectations and you want you debug it but can not decide how much space it has occupied in the html code the following code comes in help. But remember a careful handling of the extra pixel in the border is needed otherwise situation will remain the same. "element {border:1px solid red}".
I have got immense help when finding CSS tips and tricks for removing vertical scrollbar in IE browser. My code was not befitting and the page was looking odd with the scrollbar I used the code below and got the solution. "text area { overflow: auto; }"

There are so many CSS tips and tricks available online to resolve you problems in the use of the CSS. But I only mentioned the few of them. When people hire a freelance graphic designer or hire website designer for website development they do not know the things really. But I have faced this situation many a times and the available CSS tips and tricks have helped me a lot. But with my research on the internet I have solved many problems that are common like the above ones. So you need not to care a lot about the situations. There are lots of CSS tips and tricks available. You just need to see which are of your use. Find the solution and customize the code in your way.

Website checklist - a must go through before you make your site live

2010-08-09T02:22:00.000-07:00

Who does not like to see his or her website performing at its level best? But to see a website performing up to the expectation there are some particular testing procedures to follow before and after launch of the site. We are talking here, rather I would like to talk is of following a website checklist that guides both the testers and the customer before the launch of the website. We are avoiding here the post launch checking as the pre launch check has to be almost cent percent satisfying to prevent the formation of a wrong idea or impression in the viewers mind.

Now let us see what the main and standard website checklist contents are before a site goes live:

Check the design layout first. We have to mind if the layout is same which we have agreed to see on launch. Make sure there is no design breaks, navigation menus look properly, all the images are placed accordingly and overall look is not hurting the eyes for improper color match.
The second priority in website check list is content. The placed texts are proper in writing style, formatting and no grammatical mistakes are there. The images chosen to be placed are relevant and matching in size and resolution.
How are the functions in every webpage? This element of the website check list relates with user experience. How the links are functioning in the navigations (no broken link is left or the orphan page is there), several forms (contact us, blog comments etc.) are working, site is compatible with different browsers and all.
The performance checking is another vital in website checklist. The checking has to be done to see proper page load time, database performance, the caching process, configuration and functional attitude of shopping cart and etc.
Check if the SEO techniques are well followed to get search engine attraction and visitors. The keywords are well optimized and placed. Meta tags (title, description, keywords), Mark up tags (alt, H1, strong) are properly used. URLs are properly directing to the targeted pages, robots.txt and XML sitemaps are there.
The most vital in the website checklist is the security and risk testing. See if the sensitive pages are protected, no paucity of disk space, protection against outside penetration is strong; login sections are secure and working.
Check if the HTML and CSS validation is done and the icons for several other validations also being put in the proper pages. Presences of these things increase faith in the minds of visitors.
Finally at the finishing, see if the error pages (for example 404) are created to avoid the confusion of the readers’ minds.

So now you understand how much important the website checklist is before a site goes live. It is the duty of both the developers and the customers to follow the website checklist properly. But unfortunately we find that either web development companies are not providing the website checklist to the customer or the customers are not well following it. For this kind of careless attitude and lack of professionalism the potentialities of websites can be nipped in the bud.

Finally what I can say is that I, as a freelance graphic designer who is working with designing and development of the websites for last 8 years, do follow the website checklist and take care that the customers are doing the same too. My suggestion to you people is that take little care when you hire website designer for your project. Ask them if they follow website checklist before making a site live. I take it for granted that we follow the check list ever sincerely.

CSS sprites - mystery unfolded

2010-07-30T22:47:00.000-07:00

CSS spirits, sorry it should be CSS sprites actually, are the small images that play a sweet role to provide some nice styles to the overall appearance of a web page. Yes, it is true that “Sprites” are considered as spirits that appear and vanish within fraction of seconds in a webpage. These CSS sprites are intended to catch attention of the visitors, sometimes with mouse hover or odd shapes of menu and navigation buttons; even spirit effects on positioning of links.

The mystery about the CSS sprites is nothing but sudden appearance of those on web pages. It is nothing but the intellectual play of web or graphic designers to present so many graphics in a grid or master image without sending the web server too many ‘http’ requests. In fact, sprites provide an opportunity to the graphic designers or the web designers to keep a visitor stuck to a page, instead of showing static images.

Whatever the case may be, it is true that the concept of sprites originated from the video games. How can I forget that I used to get extra points or the ‘stars’ for hitting some blocks or bricks on the path to reach the destination as a Mario Game player? Forget about it. This is a small example against the presence of sprites in the games.

Let us now see how in CSS sprites are doing little wonders. I mean to say why these are used for web pages. We are not going by the codes; rather we will talk the things in plain.

To create catchy menus, CSS sprite comes in use. Designers create small images (sprites) for curvy corners to avoid simple edge and gather the small pieces to make master image.
In the creation of mouse hover effects CSS sprites is used in the best way. Graphic designers create small images for structuring a back ground image and a foreground image. Then both the images are placed on each other. The movement of mouse calls one image before other.
Anywhere in a web page small buttons or graphics may be used with 2D or 3D effects. We designers are asked to represent some special attractions on the pages. So we again create sprites that easily grab attraction of the visitors.
To provide any web page background effect, small images are used. Instead of using larger images in a web page as background, small image slice are cut and rendered through ‘x’ axis or ‘y’ axis. This effort easily shows backgrounds quickly without causing delay in page load.
To stop the unnecessary use of javascripts for giving scroll or little dynamic effect, sprites are used. Javascripts take time to be called on the page or sometimes go missing. Dazzling effects can be given to links with CSS sprites.
CSS sprites make use of single file to minimize overall page load time for images. If you carefully read the points, I have mentioned ‘master image’. It is the CSS sprite that create bundle of small images and use them in a master image file which loads fast with single http request.

In short these are the main use of sprites, rather for these main reasons CSS sprites are still used in the web page design with graphical effects. Now the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) has come and is making the use CSS sprites less only for page load timings. Whatever the case may be, sprites will remain to give little yet catchy effects to the web pages.

At least I, as a freelance graphic designer, love to use them, in my designs. All designs in my template shop have the potential to use the small image effects. So any time you want to hire website designer, ask him if he can give you some the spritely effects. Believe me those small images just pour dazzling effects to a webpage.

Web design tips to build your website in two days

2010-07-17T03:50:00.000-07:00

Today developing a website has got easy and anybody can get a site ready within just a few hours. All it takes is to follow some web design tips that uphold the advancement of web development techniques, clearing the obstacle in the path of fast website development. Gone are the days when people waited for new layout to be designed and custom code being written for web design and web development! Today we can obtain templates and open source programming modules on Joomla, Magento, Wordpress, Drupal and others, ready to serve our purpose.

In the following web development and web design tips I only avoid the domain registration and hosting web space booking. And the rest web design tips can tell you how you can develop your website within just two days with the latest web development technologies. Have a look:

First select a reputed web design and development company. It is essential as few companies have that much expertise to provide you the best service fast.
Buy a template matching your business type. Make sure that you get the resource files with it. Otherwise things will get delayed at the time of making the little changes in the templates.
Decide if you need content management system, shopping carts for ecommerce sites or the like. If you require those, you can go for open source platforms as Magento, Joomla, Drupal and others.
Next come the approval process of the design and developing changes. Soon you reply to the changes, your work gets done.
At last the website testing and the final approval. The testing process takes few minutes as modules are pretested and ready to use. Finally your approval lets the site hosted to the web server.

You may think the above web development and web design tips are fine but sure to take more time than two days. But it is possible. Today open source has simply blown out the old traditional process of development and design. With Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal modules everything is ready. We need to make little changes in the codes only.

You have to believe in my web design tips and the process of web development because as a freelance graphic designer, I can prove this. Various international clients have worked according to my web design tips and they have got the website of their desire.

The things are possible for me as I have a template shop full with several Joomla, Wordpress, Magento, Oscommerce and other themes based excellent and affordable templates for all. And I have been working on all sorts of open source programming for the last few years.

So what are you waiting for, go and hire website designer or a web development company to build your website within just two days. Then I am sure you will understand that the above web design tips are real and useful for everybody!

Difference between css1 and css2

2010-07-12T23:45:00.000-07:00

CSS (Cascading style sheet) simply adds style in Html documents to present the layout of a web page. But here I am not supposed to define what is css1 and css2. My intension is to note a few differences that have given rise to a topic css2 and css1. There are reasons that have given little edge of preference to css version2 over css version1. And at the time of pointing out the differences, I will definitely try to note down the typical aspects of using css2 and css1.

Though we all know that css version2 is an upgraded version of css version1, people are interested in differentiating css2 and css1. Let’s see the things:

Css2 provides much more flexibility in font selections. In CSS1 there were no options of matching font closest in request; no process of creating font that matches one of the present font metrics and option to download font from the web.
In css version1 there was no option to define any tabular data as table element. But css version2 does permit the designers to do so. It has eased the designer’s efforts so they are using css2 and css1.
One of the most important reasons of using css2 and css1 is the positioning of any element. There were no options of specifying absolute or relative position in css version1.
The cursor position was not so much defined and controlled in css version1 as it is in css version2.For instance, the designers can predefine the different cursor look on links, images, and other positions on the webpage.
Css version2 has given control on the webpage printing layout. In very simple words it defines how will be size of the pages to be printed; if there will be registration or crop-marks and how should it look on both side when printed. This is one good cause of using css2 and css1.
There was no option like ‘media type’ in css version1. It is there as an option in the css version2 that can determine how the display of the pages will be in different media as: audio, Braille, screen reader,TV etc. it has given great push in using css2 and css1.
Css version2 has option to add audio with the display of a webpage. It is a great privilege to physically challenged people and was not in css version1. Now a blind man can listen to style of the web pages. It is certainly the greatest edge of css2 and css1.
Css version2 can support international language applications. It is nothing, but compatibility to multiple directorial text, language specific quotation marks and etc.

As I told in the beginning of the article, there are still some of the features that are marked as hindrance to the acceptance of the css version2. It is not yet supported to some of the browser combinations; say the browser supporting typical HTML and XHTML does not show the styles in same way as it is has commended.

The international language acceptance of the css version2 has not yet become compatible to all major languages. I mean to say if the option is there it should be fully compatible.

To sum up the things we can say css2 and css1 is nothing but an urge to compare two and find out the better one. And if there is any drawback left, it is going to be supplemented. We are seeing the upper version of css version2 and already css version 3 has come. It will definitely fulfill the gaps present in the css version2, as it is still in further development process. But the tussle to rank css version1 over 2 will remain. As the topic css2 and css1 is still like a hot cake to many of us.

If you want to get the superb effects of CSS in your website or want to hire website designer, freelance graphic designer, you may contact me.

Standard security web templates for security service providers

2010-07-02T07:02:00.000-07:00

In every step of our life we want to feel a sense of security. But generally security is concerned with our property and belongings. We do not leave a brick unturned, till we feel that our belongings are secured. We search for security measures and security providers. Today finding security gadgets and security services have become easy with many security related websites present to help us.

Here my point of presenting this write-up is – are you one of the security service providers? Do you have a website built with one of the best security templates? Are you satisfied with the performance of your website? If not, you have to change the template of your site and got to look out for some of the best security web templates to choose one from! Watch out for the below mentioned features in the security templates you decide to buy.

The total layout has to be designed in way that it proves a point of security. The security web templates have to display the security factors in a proper way straight from the header.
If the site is concerned with security products, the display and placement of the security products has to get attraction. Security templates have to have that provision.
For security related services, the presentation of the services got to get well exposer. In the security web templates the arrangements for showing text need to get proper designing effect.
Lure the visitors to your offers against products and services. In the security templates there needs to be a place for the presentation of hot offers. It has to show the reason to buy your products and get your service.
Support your customers round the clock. In the security web templates there has to be a clear and attractive display of support mechanism. Let people reach you fast to get served or assisted.

These are the features all standard security templates should have. When you try to buy one of the best templates or asking a freelance graphic designer to design a template for your site, find out the above features in those security web templates. You should not compromise on customization facility, adaptability to programming and SEO friendliness of the templates.

What I mean to say is to be little cautious when buying affordable security web templates. Do mind that you have to show the standard of your products and services through your website! You may visit my graphic design portfolio and you will get the idea how quality templates should be designed keeping the point of affordability in mind.

What should be the look and feel of a restaurant web template?

2010-06-18T23:48:00.000-07:00

"There's nothing sexier than a poached pear with a perfect sorbet." I cannot but appreciate the idea this quote conveys. I love to grab a mouth watering and exclusive dish! You can see my templates and feel my passion about different cuisine! I have seen several restaurant websites and simply get fascinated with the images they have kept there! Wow, the dishes! The time I sit to design the restaurant templates, I can hardly resist myself to color every restaurant web template with an insight of a foodie. Are you a restaurant owner? My restaurant templates are designed for you only.

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”

You know I have been in this industry as a freelance graphic designer for more than 7 years. I have seen and tried to understand what the taste of people is. What they do want to see in restaurant websites. Now I am going to tell you the way to pamper and spark the appetite! In other words, what should be there in a restaurant web template.

“… And everything went from wrong to right
       And the stars came out to fill up the sky
       The music you were playing really blew my mind
       It was love at first sight……….”

I don’t think you can’t remember the lines! Yes, Kylie Minogue singing the “love at first sight”. I think, the moment a visitor clicks to view your website he or she should get impressed with the headers. That’s why the headers of all restaurant templates are so much catchy. I have kept the images of mouth watering dishes on the header of every restaurant web template; you can also keep a flash slide show or a video that will start lubricating the visitor’s mouth.

Now I am sure they will start to search what you have stored for them! So there has to be a search box in every restaurant web template. This box is hold as a key reason and let visitors to explore your site to find the dish and the information they are looking for. And to get them informed about the dish of the day, restaurant templates have to have a block.

When they have come to your site they are hungry. So if you have chosen one of the best restaurant templates for your website, the restaurant web template should have a quick booking option. It lets the visitors get the dishes they are looking for in your restaurant. And they must know what offer you are giving them. In some of my restaurant web template I have kept a member registration portion which is very helpful to keep track and record of the visitors. You can ask to register to avail the offers.

The place for text information can be well utilized to inform people about men behind the smell and taste. People like to know who are behind your dishes. Restaurant templates can utilize the text part and let visitors know about cuisines round the world. You get a chance to prove who have made this saying eternal - “Kissing don't last: cookery do!”

In a restaurant web template there should be an advertisement block. With the help of the advertisement block you may serve the query of people who want to know about hotels, resorts and the like. The block can serve to promote your other businesses too.

In restaurant templates there may be a block that says about managing party and get some prefixed suggestion about the party menus with several categories to decide from. And a restaurant web template may have also a space for testimonials of your services to food lovers. In my restaurant templates I have also kept a space which asks to upload the different recipes. This shows how much you value your visitors.

Actually all the restaurant templates or every restaurant web template has to be structurally and programmatically sound. That is reason I have not uttered a single word about those matters in this write up. I design all restaurant templates in such a way that they comply with those needs. I know there is no need to spend a lot for a restaurant web template, so many restaurant templates are available at reasonable and affordable price.

To conclude this topic I can only say that by this way or that you have to lure the visitors. They must know how much tasty dishes you prepare. So if you want to develop a restaurant website you should look for beautiful restaurant templates which are great in all aspects. Select the best restaurant web template and reach thousands of hungry food lovers. I assure you, a glance at my graphic design portfolio is going to open new horizon of ideas about layouts.

In all sports website templates I infuse my passion for sports!

2010-06-14T23:10:00.000-07:00

Now the whole world is in one viral fever- the soccer world cup 2010 but alas, if I could manage to watch a match with the thousands of “crazy people” right in one of the galleries in South Africa. I will definitely try to watch a few matches on television. But I never compromise to infuse sports passion in sports website templates.

Am I the single crazy man to grow up with blind passion for the sports? Nay, I am one of those who simply love any sports which boost a superb self confidence and team spirit! In my sports website templates you will find a liveliness in color and overall look that catches your eyes. Just as I never miss a single kick in a football match, I try to design my sports website templates or the football website templates with such care that you will never find even a subtle mismatch.

I simply love the smooth pass of the ball from Alonso to Kaka to Christiano when I watch a match of Real Madrid and get simply crazy when Christiano misses the goal! But I never design my sports website templates in a way that any navigation menu fails to lead to the desired destination!

And how sweet is the friendliness between the players! My sports website templates or soccer website templates are sure to let you experience what calls true user friendliness! Just the way I love to see Maradona screaming for every goal, I endeavor to let visitors enjoy using my football website templates!

Oh the sheer joy to lift the world cup or the golden boot and the golden ball! They simply lure me to touch and feel the ecstasy of the game. I can never kick the ball into the net consistently and become man of the tournament or a part of the winning team. But if you ask me how your football website templates or soccer website templates are? Those will surely be a consistent part of any sports team website.

As a soccer fan or sports lover, people sometimes suffer minutes to get the desired sports website templates. As a freelance graphic designer I have got a good collection of sports website templates, come and see them. And the templates are designed to perform better in search engine results.

Can anyone predict which team is going to win the 2010 world cup? But I can write on the stamp paper that a sports team website developed with one of my sports website templates is certain to get the maximum success!

A fest for your eyes and taste

2010-05-07T01:10:00.000-07:00

To grow your business at a great and consistent speed your website needs a better and attractive look with proper user friendly attitude. If your design fails create soothing feel to the user's eyes they cannot taste the information and details of your products and services.Though you serve them with better navigation and proper presentation they will not come back again. Ultimately you lose business! So soothing look and better feel in browsing is a must for all websites.

Have a look at some of the best web design layouts in Myfreelancedesign. Each of the templates will give your business an identity with quality designs. MyFreelancedesign presents you a small bunch of web templates from its quality productions.Whatever your business volume is templates are for you. The web templates have excellent compatibility to fit any business need. Whether it is to find out affordable templates for e-commerce website or a simple site to display the products and services in fantastic way, I have solution for everything.

My services doesn't restrict itself up to designing only. I provide full web development services with open source programming and custom code. Satisfy your web development need with latest technologies available in the field of web programming. Let it be Joomla, Magneto or Drupal all is available.

Factors to consider in hiring a freelance graphic designer

2010-04-13T06:22:00.000-07:00

In this era of internet web sites are more than just tools for business. It’s your "brand" image and a measure of your professionalism. Good web sites provide easy access to services or information. It effectively serves the purposes. Developing this kind of sites which meet these criteria is no easy task. There are thousands of freelance graphic designers to choose, but few of them have the experience and have necessary skills to design a site to fit an individual’s specific need.

Business owners generally use price as a comparison point, which reasonably favors freelance graphic designer. Those who are knowledgeable enough may ask for portfolios of multiple sites. So it is important to understand the development of one or two sites which indicate your skills and ability to know how to construct a site that is beneficial for business.

The benefit of going with a freelance individual is simple.

Reason #1: Monetary considerations: You can have world class designs at a low price as compared to any design firm.

Reason #2: No direct employees: If a contractor doesn’t perform as expected, there are no hire/fire policies to follow; you just don’t use them again.

Reason #3: Broad spectrum of specializations: There is, quite literally, a freelance graphic designer out there to meet any need.

I, Paul banks, freelance graphic designer and owner of Myfreelancedesign provides you world class graphic designs at an affordable price you can check my portfolio and all my designs.