How To Enliven Web Pages With Graphical Images

The effective use of graphical images can enliven webpages by breaking up the monotony of long blocks of grey text. Such graphics can be clip art originally designed for print use and repurposed for the web, photographs, artwork designed specifically for blogs and webpages, or graphics that you create yourself. To incorporate graphics on your [...]

Are Online Turnkey Sites Right for You?

There are many strategies for Internet marketing and creating e-commerce sites, and one of these methods is called “turnkey.” There are a few variations on the concept. All of them, however, give you a base or a platform on which to build in your e-commerce efforts. The concept of a turnkey site is to create [...]

Logo Design on the Mac

Promotional experts tell us that the most important part of any advertising message is what it communicates to potential customers. A logo is an important part of a product or businesses’ overall image, and therefore must be designed carefully to convey the right message. At one time, logos may not have been so important. After [...]

Photoshop 101: The Toolbox

Photoshop (and Photoshop Elements) is a handy tool for everyone from digital artists to Internet marketers, who can use the software to create everything from ebook covers to web graphics. One of the first things you will want to learn, however, is the various options you’ll find on the Photoshop toolbox, (the little palette that [...]

Common Graphic Elements on Web Pages

One of the biggest mistakes of beginning web designers is the overuse of graphic images on their websites. Perhaps they’ve become so focused on the “gee-whiz factor” of the technology that they focus on “Look what I can do” rather than on a site’s functionality. It is important to keep the function of Web graphics [...]

Graphic Design from Ancient Times to the Present

Graphic design is the process of using color, light, contrast, balance, proportion, proximity, emphasis, texture, repetition and a host of other elements to create a composition that is pleasing to the eye. It is also the process of molding an image or images along with text together into a composition that conveys a theme or [...]