Archive for the ‘Tips’ tag
10 Vital Tips to Design Web Banners
These are a collection of ten tips we would like to share. We are confident they will help you make better banners, no matter how much experience you may already have!
10 Useful Logo Design Tips
A logotype, more often referred to as simply a ‘logo’, is a visual company trademark, which is used over and over on different media, to serve as an element of the company’s identity, on different visual media. The design needs to have a special and symbolic meaning to the company and its values.
To put forward a very simple example, if your company deals with computer peripherals, you could design a logo based around the shape of a computer mouse.
2011 Web Design Trends
Sticking to the most happening design principles is one of the crucial aspects of starting a design service establishment. Last year was more or less a breeding ground for the thought process that the simpler the design, the better and more effective it is!
How to Design an Amazing Book Cover
Yesterday I have posted 47 Book Cover Design Inspiration. Today, I would like to share some tips how to design an amazing book cover design. This post is intended to give you an idea of the sheer importance of the book cover design, more than give you technical tips on how you could get into the design aspects, which is a voluminous subject by itself!
It is a fact that the commercial success of a book largely depends on the design of its cover, and this holds true for a magazine as well maybe even more so. If you are an author looking to sell thousands of copies of a book, you really need to ensure that you hire the right designer to design your cover.
10 Most Important WordPress Plugins
In this post, I would like to share a list of some of the best plugins for ANY site that you run using WordPress. Plugins are usually made by other users using this platform. They can add some pretty useful functionality to your site, thereby making your end user experience better and more up to date with the latest trends on the net.
10 Tips to Fund Your Start Up Freelance or Internet Business
If you have a great business idea for a site, your first challenge is to find the money to get started. It is a myth that great ideas are easily funded! This article will give you ideas on how to get funds. Each of these ideas would have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Guide to Choose a Drawing Tablet
Have you heard of drawing tablets? They are digital drawing pads on which you can use a special pen to make your hand-drawn design elements. So, they are a form of input device for a computer. Using a graphic pad is as simple as using a pen on paper, literally! The tablet comes with a special stylus used to ‘draw’ on the flat surface. Whatever you ‘draw’ appears on the computer monitor rather than the tablet itself, so this can take a little getting used to if you are completely new to digital drawing pads. Some of the higher end models on the other hand have the true functionality of a monitor apart from serving as drawing pads. This brings the tablet closer to the experience of actually drawing using a paper and pencil, and such tablets are a pleasure to use and a lot of fun as well.
The purpose of any drawing tablet is to transfer the motion of your stylus on pad, into a digital reproduction of that action. Do be able to do this, the tablet needs good interaction between the ‘pen’ and surface and effective transfer of information to the computer unit. Different companies use different tactics to make this transfer of information as effective as possible.
The Secrets of Symmetry and Asymmetry Design
Beauty is subjective, and symmetry is beautiful. That explains a lot about symmetry doesn’t it? But most people agree that symmetry truly IS beautiful. It gives us a sense of harmony and provides an aesthetic appeal to a visual. But overdo it and it gets plain boring! Asymmetry on the other hand can seem much more interesting and out of the box when implemented with the right feel.
So – if we agree that symmetry IS beautiful, but can get boring at times, and asymmetry is curiously interesting in spite of the fact that it is not as perfect, which do you think is more appropriately used in visual designs?
SEO is Not The Key for Success
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is quite a concern for people starting their own sites. Sometimes people even tend to believe that the success of their site depends ONLY on page ranking by Google. Link building is something that should quite frankly be given priority over SEO. It is quite common to see site owners simply refusing to make links that do not help with their page rankings. If another site does not allow them to put up text, they simply walk away as well. And then, links that have that dreaded nofollow tag are more often than not blacklisted for good!
