Components of a Great Web Site

So you've finally decided it's time to create your own web site. After all, your friends and business associates have one and you don't want to be left behind on Information Super Highway. Great web sites all have a few common elements about them, and that's what I'll be discussing here. It's usually a good idea to plan site out on paper before even touching your PC. It can be difficult to come up with content staring at a blank computer screen, so get out an old fashioned pen and paper and let those creative juices flow. You want to be sure to include all there is to know about your products and/or services. Once you decide on main topics it's time to plan out navigation. You need to make it simple and easy for visitors to find their way around your site, otherwise they'll get frustrated and leave. Keep navigation consistent on all pages so your guests don't have to re-learn menus from page to page. Graphic links are usually more effective than plain text, but make sure you use something readable and easy on eyes. Make sure color of hyperlinks coordinates with rest of your site. You should include your contact information at bottom of every page, at very least an e-mail address. Businesses should include phone, fax, and company name too. Not everyone enters a site through front door and if you fail to include this information, they won't know where they are or how to get in touch with you with comments and/or suggestions. If you surf 'Net for any length of time, you'll be amazed at just how many sites fail to include this vital information. Including a feedback form with your web site is a good way to add some interactivity and makes it easy for people to ask questions without having to pick up phone. Graphics make a site visually appealing but, if you use wrong ones it can leave a bad impression. Make sure to use an unbusy background so text can be read easily. Surfers are an impatient bunch so make sure graphics are compressed as much as possible so they download quickly. There are many online utilities that will perform this service for free. You should save simple graphics in a 16 color format rather than 256.

Make Artistic Graphic Designs

Are you a student of graphic design? If you have taken time in extra reviews and put “graphic design” and “drawing” into any search engines, you’ll get almost same result = descriptions of graphic design programs at many design schools. Baffled? Well, it’s like this: As a student interested in graphic design, you have to take drawing and not actually a degree in fine art.

The truth is, you don’t need to be able to draw sensationally, but your skills as a graphic designer would edge out if you have drawing abilities. Still it is possible for you to be a designer without having any drawing ability.

Putting art into your graphic designs can be done with your actual ability to draw. Here are several reasons why getting into a good drawing class can become a significant part of your graphic designing career: •Opens up your eyes to all details - Drawing does not only entail creation of beautiful art, it also triggers in us ability to really look at a subject in a realistic view. Through drawing, we could look at negative space and positive space of our creations. It enables us to look perceptively at white space in a design, its texts and graphics. •Makes you become sensitive and attentive to details – by getting us to really look at our drawing or design, drawing also awakes in us a certain sensitivity and attentiveness to particular objects that will truly turn out to be interesting subjects.