Help With Graphic Design/Web customer?

I have a customer that is also a friend that is switching web designers, as i don’t have much time for his constant changes. He has a new designer that wants me to convert my flash website i built for him into HTML because his new designer doesn’t have flash.

Oh dear, that’s a toughie. Sounds like situations I’ve been in – I am also a designer with “friends” that like to do this to me.

Tell him that because of what he intends to do, this is a NEW site. It isn’t a simple conversion.

I’d give him choices:
“I can give you the graphics (jpegs, vector stuff) and your new designer can create the html pages.”

“You can find a designer who has/knows flash and I will give you my flash files.”

“It will take me XX hours to create a whole new html-based website for you, and I will have to charge you XX. Then you can pay someone else to maintain it.”

As designers, we have to let go of our products. I know you created it but don’t let that be the reason you are hanging on. Keep the flash site for your portfolio and move on.

What kind of designer doesn’t have Flash? He’s going cheapy on you, isn’t he?

Flash Website Design: for Ultimate Professional Look

Nowadays, Internet has become the greatest hub for shopping. People are visiting various websites for online marketing because here the latest products are available on the reasonable prices. Out of millions of websites some are popular and some are not making it big. But those which are popular have one common thing in their websites, apart from offering good product and services, they all have beautiful web design, soothing to the eye and they are user-friendly.

If you also want to make your website a popular one and want to generate revenue out of it then you can opt for a flash website design company. In fact website design has evolved to a great extent since the beginning of Internet. The first page on a web server was just a simple document with black text. Since then, websites have evolved into a more complex combination of design and code. And in late 1990s, websites were designed using colors and various text effects. And now it seems that there is no limit as far as designing is concerned. Pages are becoming more and more attractive.

Now website designs are more mature and they are created by from a user’s point of view. They are based on the content of the website. The user must understand what are the products and services of a website by its outlook and that is why people are opting for flash website design. These designs are aesthetically developed to soothe the eyes of its user and keep them engaged. Designers create perfect layouts and keep the background simple. The images and icons are used to highlight important points and videos are also embedded to provide dynamic content. These features keep that audience engaged totally.

These days flash website design companies suggest to use subtle and light colors to complement the design and they have made 3D gradients and reflection effects as the current trends. So website designs are getting better day by day providing a website a mature professional look. This look is more important than stuffing of images, icons and other components. So choose a flash website design company and mark your presence in the field of online marketing with a professionally designed website.

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Naman Jain is an Online marketing professional, presently working with Rupiz Media, one of the leading online marketing company offering expert SEO services, pay per click, affiliate marketing services,UK web development services and website designing solutions over the globe.

graphic design?? logo??

I am starting a film/ent business and i need a logo. Somthing abstract and unique. I have seen alot of different logo websites but nothing im looking for. What are some of the best graphic design/logo websites out there?!?!?!

I really wouldn’t pay someone to draw me a logo. It is a waste of your money. Make your own, it isn’t that hard. Just have your company name and a simple icon (in your case a film reel or camera).

The best logos are the simple ones.

How long would it take me to learn web design?

I am lerning from w3schoos, and I am good at it, and where could i pick up jobs for simple web design is say html or css?

The problem with web design is that it is not really something you can ever learn as there is always something new. You can create a decent CSS & HTML based site after learning for a couple of days but to get to a decent standard i would say about 4 months there about

Flash Website Design Heightens the Website Visibility

The companies having online business needs a website compulsorily to promote their range of products and services. Customers are always attracted to innovative designs therefore flash has been in demand. The number of people becoming internet savvy is increasing making internet one of the hottest destination. This makes website designing an important feature that has to be worked on. For pulling the target customers towards your website you got to have website with appealing factor and attractive features.

Website designers are always trying to imbibe creative designing skills into the website in order to allure the customers. Flash website design makes a website better looking, interactive and appealing. Their usage is done in various ways in a website depending upon the design requirement. Idea is to make a website more customers friendly and enjoyable for them.

Generally website developers have knowledge about how to do flash designing. They are skilled people who are well-versed with the concept of flash. The use of flash in a website should be done in balance and too much of its use gives glossy look to a website resulting in negative effect on the user. In online games creation, use of flash has become a common factor. Here games are prepared using flash with computer animation. As far as quality aspect goes, they have far better quality than normal video games.

Graphic designers prefer flash website design as it strengthens their hold on the website and add zingy animation features to it. The concept of flash website design is also useful for application users were applications can be created without re-creating them. Content copyright can be guarded through flash website designs through flash design’s embedded fonts that protect content.

Sometimes flash based websites face problems in search engine rankings, web interfaces, etc. To eradicate website developers have now started keeping alternate content especially for web browsers that do not abide with flash.

For ecommerce websites use of flash makes better communication with the clients making shopping pleasurable and convenient experience. Do not overdo the flash and take a balanced approach in its usage. Flash websites have the power to allure the customers and bring them to your website thereby increasing the chances of good business. Greater revenue generation will be obviously generated.

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SPINX Website Design Firm Los Angeles offers Flash Web Design Los Angeles, Print Design Los Angeles, Film Web Design Los Angeles, flash Web site design & development & much more.

Inside Bmw: Recalls, Award-winning Aviation Design, and the X5 “sav”

BMW or Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, the producer of high quality BMW 528e parts will conduct a recall of 29,250 5 Series and 6 Series sedans and X5 sport-utility vehicles to fix a static electricity problem that can cause the V8 engines to stop. The said recall will affect 2006 and 2007 models that is, according to announcement made recently by the Washington-based National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published on its web site.

The reason for recall is due to the problem seen on the engine’s electronic control unit especially when temperatures are below freezing and humidity is low that is basing on the report given by NHTSA. Under those conditions, an electrostatic discharge can occur at pipes that deliver fuel to the engine’s injectors which cause the control unit to malfunction.

To solve this problem, dealers will attach grounding cables in the engine compartment free of charge according to the document released by NHSTA.

BMW Group Designworks USA a Leader in Aircraft Design

After creating two award-winning design solutions for business jets, the global design consultancy has created a further trendsetting design for Embraer.

The Brazilian manufacturer is currently one of the world’s largest aircraft companies. And at this year’s international aircraft show held last September 25 to 27 in Atlanta by the National Business Aviation Association, BMW Group Designworks USA caused quite a buzz with their revolutionary design of a medium range aircraft built by the Brazilian company Embraer.

This one-of-a-kind styling is a follow-up to the consultancy’s two outstanding and successful design solutions created for business applications namely jets Phenom 100 and 300 produced by Embraer. The other awards given for these designs include the infamous iF Product Design Award 2007.

X5 the “SAV”

BMW has created a unique combination of SUV functionality and BMW sportiness seven years ago with the X5. The German automaker calls the X5, “SAV” or short for Sports Activity Vehicle.

The X5 has become very popular that BMW thought of coming up with another version only this time, smaller in the form of the X3.

The X5 is equipped with an all-wheel-drive system called the xDrive. There are currently two X5 models that are offered to meet the ever-changing consumer market needs: the X5 3.0si, powered by 260 horsepower DOHC, in-line six-cylinder engine, and a 4.8i with motive power derived from a DOHC, 32-valve V8 motor that delivers 350 horsepower and 350 lb-ft of torque. Both engines are mated to specific six-speed automatic gearboxes with manual shift capability.

In terms of styling features the X5 has a noticeable hood contour, an integrated bumper/air-intake unit, traditional wider BMW kidneys that is set high, and headlamp clusters with inside luminous rings. Then on the later part of 2004, adaptive headlamps that steer around corners and curves were added. Similarly the xDrive all-wheel-drive system was also improved by adding a number of significant options.

The X5 at first glance is not that visibly different from its predecessors since it strives to maintain a traditional family resemblance but despite such fact it is all new made to seat up to seven passengers.

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Evander Klum is a Business Administration graduate who hails from Alabama. He enjoys extreme sports and he is also a car racing fanatic. At present, he works as a marketing manager at an advertising agency in Cleveland.

whats the best flash website design programme?

hi there!!

Ah, not quite. Have you tried Adobe DreamWeaver?
And since you say you can create good stuff on PhotoShop, make your ENTIRE site on PS, and simply export it as a webpage.
Secondly, Adobe Flash is the best, but it will take practice to master.
http://www.tutvid.com/flash will help you to learn flash and AS2 and 3.
Good Luck!

Web Design Philippines

One of the most popularly used web design techniques of today is called the Tableless Web Design or the Tableless Web Layout. This has been around since the start of Style Sheet Languages including CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) and XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language). Instead of HTML tables, style sheet languages such as CSS are used to arrange elements and text on a web page. CSS was introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to improve web accessibility and to make HTML code semantic rather than presentational.

The Start of Tableless Web Design
HTML was originally designed for sharing scientific documents and research papers online. But as the Internet grew into the mainstream in the, and became more media oriented, graphic designers sought ways to control the appearance of the Web pages presented to end users, which is by designing a layout of the page. To this end, tables and spacers have been used to create and maintain page layout.
Though very effective, this caused a number of problems. Many Web pages have been designed with tables nested within tables, resulting in large HTML documents which use more bandwidth. Furthermore, when a table based layout is linearized, for example when being parsed by a screen reader or a search engine, the resulting order of the content can be somewhat confusing. Visit an online Web design Philippines site to learn more about using CSS in web design.
Powerful WYSIWYG editors such as the Macromedia Dreamweaver (now known as Adobe Dreamweaver) arrived on the market which meant Web designers no longer needed a good (or any) understanding of HTML to build web pages. Such editors indirectly encourage extensive use of nested tables to position design elements. As designers edit their documents in these editors, code is added to the document which is sometimes unnecessary. Furthermore, unskilled designers may use tables more than required when using a WYSIWYG editor. This practice can lead to many tables nested within tables as well as tables with unnecessary rows and columns.
The use of graphic editors with slicing tools that output HTML and images directly also promote poor code with tables often having many rows of 1 pixel height or width. Sometimes many more lines of code are used to render content than the actual content itself.
As the World Wide Web boom receded in 2001 and the Web development industry shrank, coders with more experience and greater industry experience were in higher demand. In a large number of cases UI development was carried out by coders with greater knowledge of good coding practice. It was around this time that many became critical of messy coding practices and the idea of tableless design began to grow.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were developed to improve the separation between design and content, and move back towards a semantic organization of content on the Web. The term “tableless design” implies the use of CSS to position HTML elements on the page but it should be noted that tables and CSS are not mutually exclusive. Many experienced HTML coders use CSS to manipulate tables frequently.

Advantages of Tableless Web Design
There are several advantages as to why CSS is much more efficient than using tables. These are Accessibilty, Bandwidth Savings, and its Maintainability.

Accessibilty
Because of the Internet’s rapid growth, disability discrimination legislation, and the increasing use of mobile phones and PDAs, it is necessary for Web content to be made accessible to users operating a wide variety of devices. Tableless Web design considerably improves Web accessibility in this respect. Screen readers and braille devices have fewer problems with tableless designs because they follow a logical structure.
As a result of the separation of design (CSS) and structure (HTML), it is also possible to provide different layouts for different devices, e.g. handhelds, mobile phones, etc. It is also possible to specify a different style sheet for print, e.g. to hide or modify the appearance of advertisements or navigation elements that are irrelevant and a nuisance in the printable version of the page. Check out and visit an online Web design Philippines site to learn more of what CSS can do for a web site.

Bandwidth Savings
Clever implementation of tableless design can produce web pages with fewer HTML tags thus reducing page download times. Using external style sheets to position page elements means more mark up language may be cached and further reduce download times for subsequent pages using the same resources.
Poor implementation of tableless design can result in many more lines of code used per page element which can increase download time. Tables have a defined set of rules which are clear and concise while tableless design often involves working around browser inconsistencies.
Tableless design does not necessarily imply bandwidth savings. If implemented correctly, the bandwidth savings are generally minor at best. It is still possible to build a lightweight web page with tables. The use of WYSIWYG editors or the technique used by the web page’s author will have a much greater influence on page download times.

Maintainability
Maintaining a website may require frequent changes, both small and large, to the visual style of a website, depending on the purpose of the site. Under table-based layout, the layout is part of the HTML itself. As such, without the aid of template-based visual editors such as HTML editors, changing the positional layout of elements on a whole site may require a great deal of effort, depending on the amount of repetitive changes required. Even employing sed or similar global find-and-replace utilities cannot alleviate the problem entirely.
In tableless layout using CSS, virtually all of the layout information resides in one place: the CSS document. Because the layout information is centralized, these changes can be made quickly and globally by default. The HTML files themselves do not, usually, need to be adjusted when making layout changes. If they do, it is usually to add class-tags to specific markup elements or to change the grouping of various sections with respect to one another. Learn how professional web designers use CSS to maximize the usability and effectivity of web sites by visiting an online Web design Philippines site.

Use of Tables in Modern Day Web Design
Because of the term “tableless web design”, some have interpreted this design strategy as an unconditional repudiation of all tables in web design. This has caused some to avoid tables even when tables are appropriate. Using divisions to simulate a table for the display of tabular data is as much a design flaw as using tables to simulate a division. Some sources clarify this distinction by using the more specific term “tableless web layout”.
On the other hand, using tables in web design, although most common, does not necessarily equate to using the table element (and related elements) defined in HTML 4.0. CSS also specifies a “table model” which allows the semantics of “tabular representation” to be applied: the “display: table” element. In this way, the decision and definition for tables is transferred from HTML to CSS. One reason this distinction is sometimes overlooked is because of the lack of support for the CSS table model in Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 8 is the first version of the browser to support the CSS table model.

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Margarette Mcbride is a copywriter of Optimind Web Design and SEO, a web design and seo company in the Philippines. Optimind specializes in building and promoting websites that are designed for conversion..

How to get out of Web Design/Development?

Hello, I am in need of some advice on how to change jobs/careers out of web site design and development. I have had various temp contract jobs over the past 2 yrs and I am tired of the job security. It seems to me that in 2007, with all this cheesy myspace, youtube, and user generated content, web design is a very broad term, and amateur designers with no background are using the web for crap, and on the other side their is too much software, languages to learn, and each back-end web project is various, to focus on 1 thing, just redudant content management and uploading through an interface. And alot of jobs now are 20hrs.prt time, web designer/SEO, or 20 freelance asp.net programming on some stupid intranet, not even worth being a full-time employee.
In everyones opinion, is this type of work worth a day job, or just part, contract, remotely from home?
Also, how can you transfer into another type of work , when all your skills are web-related?
Need serious professional advice.

I feel your pain. Even when you do get a good, interesting project, your client changes everything enough that your design goes down the drain and looks like cr@p. There are still a steady stream of businesses just now getting on the web, but if you don’t build an interface for them to update the site, then you’re stuck doing all their updates forever. With the thousands of templates available for $50-60 it can be hard to charge what your time is worth to design smaller sites. You get the people who say, “my nephew can do my site for $100!”

I think the best thing to do with your web skills is work on projects of your OWN. Build an affiliate site and sell someone else’s products or come up with something that will enable you to sell advertising on your site. Working for yourself on your own projects is a lot more fun. I know you still need something that pays the bills, but you can easily do your own stuff and maybe a few outside projects from home if you are disciplined to work at home.

Maybe you can go more toward graphic design, which goes hand in hand with web skills. Or find a fun company to work for and work on their site. After about 6-7 years I’m turning down web projects right and left just to work on my own stuff for a change. Good luck!

How to Planing for Website Designing, Website Designing Tips

Planning for Website Designing

If you are ready for making a web site then you have to clear every thing. It is your business individuality of your company. So try to make it nice and attractive. A model website suppose to expansive while to use with friendly. You have to take care of basic point before increasing or ready to start the process on the internet. Now let us see some tips which are given below.

Purpose:

When you start for making the website, you have to find out idea of it. Imagine regarding the major point of your website will be. Describe the correct ambition of the place previous arrangement on the root of feat.

The centre of intention which you have to fix in right way. To support them procure that. Their purpose is supposed to be a cover and you have to make it nice and good looking. There is said that a duty of idea will floor to complete the aim. While you describe the point, you will classify the goal consultation and set potential opportunity.

Goal consultation:

Website is attracting the professional work and audience facing everything beside. The aim of the website is to catch the community, first it invites as a guest and after words it rotates in to the client. It will happen when your website is completely nice. You have to work hard to develop your website and also to make our own aim.

You have to see who many client are visiting your site daily and also to see their requirement and supplies. You have to clear the preference of your client. Try to improve the site as much as you can.

Contented:

It is very chief quality of a website. It’s also known as a emperor! The satisfied organization always wants a nice and winning website since other. A client or visitor will come on your site for a information which he want so you have to be ready with information in you website. When you recognized the goal consultation, then take a position on your website by which the purpose they come to site. A nice satisfied is making you to stand in online advertise and will give faith.

Compatibility:

If you are thinking that your website is running well so it nice. No your website have the power to catch the traffic on your site. It is make nice popular web surfers. If you do not take care of your definite site then you have to ready for mislay.

Storyboarding:

It has the last stair of website development. In this you have to be bother about your design of your website which you made. In that you can also make a location of chart in your website. It is very normal of your website. Then it will see as a nice website from other it will also creep sample of the creative one. So it is the main point which you read about the website so you have to develop a nice and clear website which can attract the client and make your site on top.

This article submitted by Kn Singh. He is a top level Web Designer and SEO Consultant. You can contact with him at Surat Web Designing or SEO Surat

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This article submitted by Kn Singh. He is a top level Web Designer and SEO Consultant. You can contact with him at Surat Web Designing or SEO Surat