Web design illustration tipsWritten by Granny's Mettle
Pictures are worth a thousand words. So are illustrations and images on any web page. Your illustrations will either make your visitors stay and read on, or make them decide to skip and click on another web site.For best results, you could apply following tips for illustrations in your web pages: •Use colors from a typical web palette for your illustrations. If you use solid colors for your illustrations, try to stick to standard 216 colors of web palette. The colors will have same look on any type of computers and web browsers. If you want to use color gradients or blends, try it out first on your screen set to only 256 colors. This is to avoid having your colors look very muddied, unattractive, and hard to distinguish. If it doesn't look good at this resolution, try a different color blend that is not as harsh. Furthermore, colors in your illustrations should also match those used in other graphics of your web site layout. This includes masthead, sidebar, buttons, icons, image maps, among others. •Provide thick lines in your illustrations. Results in printed image differ from images on your computer screen. Small lines that are visible in your printed image will show up more thinly or not at all on screen. This is because monitor has a much lower resolution than ink to a printed page. Remember to make your lines thicker and your illustrations will be seen more clearly by browsers, even to most minute detail. •Browsers should be able to download quickly. Speed is important for people who browse internet. No matter that your illustrations are great and worthy of praise, visitors will definitely leave your site in a snap if they are too big in file size and difficult to download. A big file for an illustration takes a long time to download. Test first your illustrations at a smaller file size, either by reducing amount of colors or provide them with less space on your screen. If they look good then provide a smaller version. Your visitors will be grateful and stay longer at your site.
| | Elements of a Good DesignWritten by Carla Ballatan
So you’re aspiring to create designs for companies advertising their crafts online? Hold on! Before chasing after your dream of being a ‘great’ and ‘well-known’ graphic designer…Let’s go over many names and title that associates with graphic designer and resolve finally who a designer is and what are elements of design you need to learn. According to an article, Chuck’s views on design, writing and marketing at www.ideabook.com/viewa.htm author narrates that he’s already into his twenty something years in graphic design business. Considering his long experience, Chuck’s been called art director, commercial artist, graphic designer, desktop publisher and graphic artist. Impressed with wide selection of titles? Let’s get on with definitions, though. Graphic designer is defined by Graphic Artist’s Guild as “visual problem solver”, graphic artist is a “visual artist working in a commercial area”, and art director is someone responsible for supervising “quality and character if visual work.” Don’t be led to believe that definitions tell what work is all about. Among various definitions, that of creative director’s, “whose responsibilities may include overall supervision of all aspects of character and quality of (advertising) agency’s work for its client” came close to what Chuck thinks a designer should really be… Now, if you are undaunted by close-definition and is really keen on being a graphic designer, you should know that design is a communication art. There are basic elements for creating good designs in order to perfect this art.
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