5 Ways to get your website noticedWritten by Maui Reyes
Your website is just one of billion sites parked on World Wide Web. Chances are, you don’t think yours will ever get noticed. We hear your cries for cyber attention. Here are five ways to get people clicking on to your site.1.)Make sure it’s professional looking. No one likes looking at website that reminds them of a book report they wrote back in school. Invest in learning a good web design program (Dreamweaver MX and Microsoft Frontpage are good picks), and let your creative juices flow. Make sure it’s compelling, well-designed, and organized. People don’t exactly find it fun to weed through haystacks of cyberfiles to get information that they want. On that note, don’t make it a heavy site. Putting up some flash intros may be great eye candy, but average internet surfer only waits 10 seconds for a page to load, and then they’re off to next. 2.)Put your URL on every search engine possible. Putting your URL on business cards and bugging your family and friends to check out your site won’t exactly increase traffic. Submitting it to search engines will make it easier for people to find you, provided that your webpage carries topics they’re looking for. To understand how a search engine works, think of it as a “spider”: it crawls through your website, picking up words and information which would later be indexed in search engine’s database. So make sure you pepper your site with keywords you think are relevant to what people are looking for. Web directories, like Yahoo!, are operated by humans who actually categorize websites themselves. If you don’t feel like submitting your website to numerous directories, consider subscribing to sites like www.submit-it.com, who, for a fee, will automatically submit your site to search engines and directories for you.
| | VECTOR DRAWING PROGRAMSWritten by BLUR LOTERIÑA
One of best tools in creating and modifying a vector-based image is Adobe Illustrator. Artworks done through Illustrator can be used for print, multimedia and online graphics.Illustrator is used to open and manipulate vector-based drawing. Vector-based images are series of points connected by lines. It is also called object-oriented or draw images. It uses geometrical formulas to represent images. Vector files have graphical elements called objects. These objects have properties including color, shape, outline, size, and position on screen as well as definition of object. It is also a self-contained entity, which means that properties of object can be moved and changed without affecting other objects while clarity and crispness are preserved. This characteristic makes a vector-based image suitable for illustration and 3D modeling. An image is created by connecting vector point with straight or curved lines. Vector point or anchor point is basis and most fundamental component in every vector image Unlike bitmap images, vector-based images are resolution dependent. The quality of image increases as resolution increases. So it looks better on devices with higher resolution. It can also be resized and stretched and does not become grainy. Since bitmap images are composed of dots, it losses its quality and proportion when stretched.
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