Some words are worth a thousand pictures

Written by Maricon Williams


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“I firmly believe that pictures and images enhance a website, but they should be used to provide a tasteful, professional frame for your copy, not replace it”, Kiley added. “It is true that web users are notorious for having short attention spans and not wanting to read large amounts of copy. However,repparttar problem is that most ofrepparttar 107454 copy on websites today is vague and not enticing. It's focused onrepparttar 107455 company rather thanrepparttar 107456 customer. So it should be no surprise that visitors avoid reading it.”

Don't focus strictly on graphics, focus on whatrepparttar 107457 customers need. And what they need is information. If you supply them what they want, they sure gonna purchase from you.

Now, do you subscribe torepparttar 107458 idea that a picture is worth a thousand words--and therefore images, not a lot of text, should berepparttar 107459 major drive of your home page? Or do words have more influence to capture a visitor's attention and motivate them to purchase?

Jamie Kiley,repparttar 107460 author ofrepparttar 107461 aforementioned article creates inviting websites. If you want tips on website building or you want your website done, you can contact her at jamiekiley@kianta.com.

This article was created for the sole purpose of propagating information that may be related to catalog printing and other industries to which it may be of interest.

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Introduction to Calligraphy

Written by Paul Hood


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characters were pictographs, butrepparttar vast majority of characters are abstract graphs that consist of lines, hooks, and dots in set, reproducible patterns. Byrepparttar 107453 fourth century A.D., eight different script types existed (see Pl. I). Each type of script has its own compositional principles and distinctive strokes: rounded strokes for script used on bronze and seals; flared diagonals for clerical script; and thickening and thinning strokes for standard, running, and cursive scripts. Running and cursive scripts arerepparttar 107454 most fluent, abbreviated forms of Chinese script. Cursive script isrepparttar 107455 extreme example, withrepparttar 107456 characters often being written with a single continuous movement ofrepparttar 107457 calligrapher's brush.

The finest Chinese calligraphy requires thatrepparttar 107458 assemblage of columns of characters (traditionally read vertically from right to left) possesses an inner dynamism that invitesrepparttar 107459 reader to re-createrepparttar 107460 process of writing. Calligraphy is judged as much in terms of rhythmic cadence and artistic expression as it is for legibility. Good calligraphy is said to resemble ascending dragons and soaring phoenixes.”

With a history of four to five thousand years,repparttar 107461 art of calligraphy is rich and profound in content and has attractedrepparttar 107462 attention of artistsrepparttar 107463 world over.

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