The Ideal Web Design FirmWritten by Granny's Mettle
Choosing a web design firm isn't as easy as you think it is. Sure, you could get a firm to do your requirements and specifications as long as you have money to pay for it. However, getting an inexperienced web design firm may hurt you more and oftentimes, correcting errors may cost you further expenses than rate of actual project. One commented that it is similar to having an amateur build your home then forget to install plumbing and electrical before putting up all sheetrock and painting. Below are a few issues you should know when choosing ideal web design firm to create and develop your website for you: The ideal web design firm knows when download time is enough. Download time is most important element in any web design and development. It cannot be emphasized enough that it doesn't matter if you have most awesome and jaw-dropping images and graphics in your website. If customers yawn and get to sleep by time it was able to download, your precious images are better off in confines of bin rather than on your website. A site that takes too long to load will never have opportunity to entice visitors to stay and know more about your products and services. Browsers wouldn't give you time of day. Just like that. You'll easily lose customers in a snap. A good web design firm knows this and will help you design a website that does not impede traffic more than they amaze visitors. They know that enough immovable graphics create more harm. And should this happen, site's whole structure will have to be redesigned from bottom up.
| | Virtual Death MemorialsWritten by Lala C. Ballatan
On March 27, 2005 at Big Easy’s charmingly bizarre Barrister’s Gallery, artists will experience what afterlife will be in a virtual death memorial group show – Hydriotaphia: New Orleans Artists Design Their Own Funeral Urns. Barrister’s Gallery owner, Andy Antippas will act as curator with artist, Dan Teague. To spice up show and heighten enthusiasm for it, Antippas declared, “What are memorials to dead but touchstones for great post-mortem popularity contest? He whose gravestone draws biggest crowds wins”Digital artist, David Sullivan plays off self-esteem type of virtual death memorial by coming up with his Ego Machine. In order to put fun back into funeral, this project of Sullivan uses Google, as protector of his soul into future. His concept for Ego Machine was that vanity of death memorials levels off with use of internet like a vanity mirror. He had also emphasized today’s geeky technological interests – robots, artificial intelligence, DNA replication and cloning – that somehow are manic on immortality. The Ego Machine has an urn for Sullivan that was visually interesting, gives chance for user involvement and allows citation of his physical body. His remains will be integrated in a computer processor. As a memorial, a virtual agent shall run on computer containing his ashes and scour web for mentions of his name. Once mention of his name increases across web, an image of Sullivan’s younger self will morph on-screen. However, once mention decreases, his on-screen image will age, diminish and ultimately fade away.
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