In web design photos and graphics are essential to creating a beautiful web design form scratch. Whether you need a whole photo or just want a part of it, photos and vectors are instrumental to creating quality web pages. You have several options when looking for graphics or images to use including: stock photo sites and vector sites.
Something big is affecting the way we perform web design. During the popular JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco a new programming language was announced that will threaten Ajax. JavaFX by Sun Microsystems is poised to challenge the hottest programming language Ajax but more importantly other new programming languages by Microsoft and Adobe. This is truly a grudge match between all the major tech companies as each has its own strong language.
Today thousands of blogs were created. Millions of web pages are created everyday. With this wealth of information simply getting it all in your head is a feat unto itself. How then do we streamline data, how do we reduce down time and increase productivity? Easy, we compress it, via websites and programs. Using aggregates allows us to “subscribe” to our favorite websites and compress a days worth of internet surfing into a few hours of condensed reading material. Read the rest of this entry »
Whether you are a freelance web designer or looking for a salaried position business sense is important. What to wear, what to say, how to price, how to hire; these are all things you will need to know. Below are a few helpful business tips related to the web design industry.
$1,000 for a page of content? If you don’t have a lot of money to hire a copywriter there are some quick and easy ways you can write quality content for you new web design. Don’t be fooled as web designers you’re going to have to write some content every once in awhile.
All over the internet I keep hearing about AJAX. So what is it, what can it do and why do we need it. AJAX is a programming language for the web; it uses Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. The purpose is to make websites more responsive. It does this by a small set of JavaScript and off page information to reduce the amount of information loaded on each page which can help your web design a lot. So basically you change one thing on the page as opposed to the whole page itself. By doing this speed, interactivity and usability are all greatly improved.
You’ve already learned how to make a favicon and an animated favicon for your web design, well here is one more way you can make your favicon that comes in very handy. Transparent favicon are becoming increasingly important, especially when you have a design that isn’t limited to a 16×16 box. Look at the picture below. Notice the favicon highlighted in blue has no white border while the favicon in red does. This is why you want a transparent favicon.
Let’s face it; many web designers out there that still don’t understand internet marketing or SEO in the least. Sometimes changes occur that everyone embraces but others fail to make the grade. For some reason SEO isn’t being embraced by designers, perhaps because it takes away from some of the artistic and creative values designers hold so dear. There is a fundamental dilemma between search engine optimization and human optimization, which is what designers do. However, there are things designers can do to optimize their designs for search engines. Read the rest of this entry »
Animated Favicons
The animated favicon is not terribly different from the plain favicon. In essence, animated favicon are just animated gifs that are re-named .ico. In fact, some newer browsers support plain image files like jpg and gif in spite of the .ico extension.
A “favicon” is that neat little icon just to left of your address bar or bookmarks and is referred to as a page icon. These favicons are associated with a particular website and can be customized to any desire so long as fits the 16×16-pixel ratio. Most modern browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and Opera support favicons and are often used as a logo display on the micro scale.
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07 20th, 2007| 
