Here are some quick tips on how to make life easier for people visiting your web site. This will help keep them on the page and within your web site longer and more likely to take the action you want them to take such sign up for your newsletter or purchase from your online store. Before we get to the top 11 tips, the key is that they all boil down to… “Use your common sense and keep it simple” continue reading »
A lot of people can recognize good design when they see it on the web. But most people don’t really know what makes that design good. How do you define “good design?” Is it subjective, like your favorite flavor of ice cream? Although there is some subjectivity within good design, there are artistic principles that good design is built from. Here are a few that form the foundation of good design. continue reading »
Currently doing project for my local client its an existing Content Management System (CMS) created using Joomla, they design this site base on their product marketing style and they just want to add a shopping cart functionality. This is a starting company with limited budget so I need to find a cost effective Open source or free extension for joomla since they don’t want to migrate to new system. There are tons of shopping cart extension for Joomla but I find more positive reviews about Virtuemart an Ecommerce Component for Joomla. continue reading »
Do you have a tight budget and is simply impossible for you to hire a web design agency to create your website? If yes, you are at the right place. In this article, let me share with you some simple steps to create your own website.
First of all, you will need a domain name. There are many websites that offer domain registrations and you can find them by simply doing a search on Google. Before you register a domain name, you need to decide what to get. You can include your company name in the domain name for branding. If not, you can place keywords that are related to what you offer in your domain name, so that people can easily understand what your website is about. continue reading »
This is a Stop Action, Photomatic presentation by Photographer, James Worrell. JamesWorrell.net. In 2008, World Consumption of Bottled Water Surpassed 52 Billion Gallons…
Yesterday I download a trial version of ZBRUSH, a digital sculpting and painting program because I’m looking for additional tools that I can use to extent my creativity. Zbrush is a great tool for those creative pros with drawing skills and want to learn 3d sculpture but don’t have time to study expensive and sophisticated 3d package like Maya, 3d Studio max, Soft Image etc. The application is easy to use and very enjoyable gives me all of the tools needed to quickly sketch out a 2D or 3D concept. Its like playing with clay actually its a digital clay, I remember back in my college days as fine arts student we have subject in sculpture and we spend time playing modeling clay.
I found this video on youtube.com and I find it very helpful, Pros from kztek.com outline 5 easy ways to improve your business web site. It’s a quick, ‘must view’, video for anyone who wants to achieve maximum ROI from their internet investment.
5 Steps to Super Charge your web site
1. Focus
2. Content is King
3. Clear call the action
4. Know your Customers, your Prospects and your Visitors
5. Its all about them and not you
CMS or Content Management System are rapidly becoming one of the main requirements for online marketing. That’s why Creative Professional specially Graphic Web Designers are looking for productive, cost effective and easy to learn CMS solution but creative pros are over shadowing of negative beliefs, thinking that only programmer can setup and maintain this kind of application, maybe co-workers or the agencies don’t want to share this knowledge. Some creative people specially those in printing and web graphic department are only allowed to work in minimal aspect. All of my CG friends and students are always telling this scenario asking me if they can setup and manage database driven web site like Joomla. Some of the online tutorials in the web are not that easy to understand. That’s why I created this tutorial with screencast, study shows that creative guys like me don’t like to read a lot specially when reading long tutorial continue reading »
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Recently introduced in WordPress 3 is the ability to create custom menus. For anyone who has ever developed a theme, this was long a overdue feature. In this tutorial we are going to look at the new menu system and how to implement it. […]
Use a range of vector shapes in Adobe Illustrator to create a detailed black and white emblem badge. We’ll use a mix of basic tools to align the various shapes together, then add some cool detail using the more advanced Pathfinder and Blend tools. […]