How to Choose the Right Graphic Design Software

April 15th, 2009 | Posted under Graphic Design | 3 Comments »

How to Choose the Right Graphic Design Software

Graphic design is the art or process of text and picture combination to bring out a certain message. This is mainly done on book covers, newspapers, magazines, logos, for advertisement.
In order to design graphics, you need graphic design software; these are programs that enhance graphic design, therefore top graphic design software is a program that brings out quality and standard graphics these includes: adobe Photoshop, adobe illustrator, Corel draw, adobe PageMaker and many others.

Best graphic design software is chosen depending on:

Task- what are you designing? high quality graphics require software like adobe Photoshop and illustrator.
Operating system- can your current operating system support the particular graphic software? The software has to be compatible with the operating system being used.
Price- do you have enough money to obtain the desired software?
Memory- can you machine support the normal running of that given graphic software?
Features-are there the required features in that particular software to meet you end needs?

Adobe, Corel and quark express are the top graphic design software on the market today. They are mainly considered because of their professional page layout, their price and user interface.
Adobe graphic design:-we have different types of adobe graphic design including adobe PageMaker, adobe Photoshop, and adobe illustrator.
Adobe PageMaker:-this is top page layout software that can be used in businesses, offices, homes and schools for creating high and quality graphics.
Adobe Photoshop graphic software designed to meet the needs of different professional in different fields of operations such as photographers, graphic designers, web designers, and amateur photographers.
Adobe illustrator software that supports the use of lines, points, curves, shapes to create images on the computer.
Corel graphic design- we have only one graphic design in the Corel category, Coral draw.
Other top graphic design software include: acrobat, dimension, dream weaver, frame maker, front page, and shock wave.

Achieving quality graphics

In order to have quality graphics the user has to consider the following factors:
Creativity- designers need to be more creative that is how can they use the images and the text to bring out a message that matches the text and the image used. He/ she has to base on the right composition.
Quality- the designer has to base on producing quality graphics that can fetch good prices if they are to be sold and those that attractive to peoples eye.
Type of software- software that has many features is considered most as compared to the one with less features hence the designer has to choose the type of software that will give variety of features to the graphic being designed.
Time designers need enough time to figure on what they are to design and also spent enough time on the graphic in order to come up with appealing designs.
Skills do the designer have enough skill on graphic designing, skilled designers will automatically come up with high and quality graphics as compared to unskilled designers.
Type of software-the software has to be the one capable of producing high-quality graphics, for example Corel draw has the ability to produce quality graphics as compared to acrobat.

Technology is growing day and night and more quality graphic design software are being designed day and night. Designers are not limited to using only one version of the software.

What screen resolution should you build for?

March 11th, 2009 | Posted under The Internet, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »

People, men in particular, are obsessed with the size of visual equipment (they say it’s some sore of compensation). It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about a computer screen or a television, if it’s bigger, it’s better. The fact that there is such a difference in available screen sizes, makes it very difficult for a web designer to decide what screen resolution to pick when it comes to designing a web page.

Of course it’s tempting to build a webpage that’s as big as possible, this time not for the compensation thing, but simply because the bigger the size, the more space for content and ads. But don’t forget, not everyone has a computer screen as big as Donald Trumps ego. Believe it or not, there are still people working on a computer screen that’s about the size of a big pumpkin. And your huge website would not look good on a 15 inch monitor, you don’t have to be a genius to see that.

But those are extremes, there a whole world between 15 inch and 24 inch and that is what creates the problem. If you’re waiting for me to tell you what screen resolution you should design your webpage for, then wait a little longer, because I’m not going to. Not because I don’t want to (really, I’m a nice guy) but simply because I don’t know. To know what screen resolution you should build for, I would have to know who your visitors are, which means you would have to know who your visitors are.

Do you? Because that’s the most important part, knowing who it is that visits your site. And I don’t mean social security number, credit card details etc, but statistical details like the kind of browser they use, the screen resolution they use etc. If you know that, you can make an estimate about what the best screen resolution is. You’re not going to keep everybody happy, but at least make the largest part of your visitors happy. And you don’t have to send an e-mail to everyone, you can just install statistics software like Analytics.

Developing a Target Audience Profile

March 7th, 2009 | Posted under The Internet, Web Hosting | No Comments »

In another article I talked about knowing your visitors. But what if you’re building a new website, and you don’t have any visitors yet? Do you just start doing something until visitors come, and find out who they are later? No, of course not, that’s like inviting kids to a horror flick and rating it PG13 when one of them starts to cry! What you need to do, is develop a Target Audience Profile.

As I’ve said before, building a website just because you want to have a website is a bad idea. Especially if you want to make money with it or attract a large group of visitors with it. You need to know who you’re writing for, and if there is no audience yet, you need to decide who you WANT to write for. What kind of people do you want to have on your website. Do you want men? Women? Adults? Children? At this point it’s good to create a virtual character, someone that will help you focus. The person that you are going to create, will be the person that resembles your target audience.

Don’t think that just thinking about a person will be enough (get a pen and write, you lazy person!). You need to really create this character. Think of a name, draw a posture, a face, even decide on the color of his or her face. Think of the job this person has, if he or she likes life, if there are kids, how much money there is to spend, don’t be shy on the details, create this person.

Once you’ve created this person, you have the base of your target audience. You can leave it at this one person, but you don’t have to. You can create two, three, even five persons, als long as it makes sense and it enables you to write one article to please them all. Then, after a month or six, look what kind of visitors you’re attracting. If the visitors match your target audience, don’t change a thing. If it’s a total mismatch, then decide if you need to start writing differently or if you need to change your ‘person’ to fit your current audience more. It doesn’t matter which of the two you choose, as long as you find out who it is you write for.