31st March
2010
It is seemingly common knowledge that every business, be it large or small, must have a website to actively compete in today's workplace. The internet has opened the consumer market to an international level, and even if a business is targeting only local customers, there is an expectation that a quality business must have a respectable homepage and site.Many small business owners are intimidated by the assumed technicality and work associated with building a website, or they are disgusted by ...
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Computers
30th March
2010
If you want to make a letterhead, think of a unique and pleasing
design that would fit the nature of your business. Search on
effective letterheads to serve as your guide.
Consider making a letterhead with raised letters that are
rounded on the front. For the materials, you will need foam,
sandpaper, scroll saw or cutter, spray paint, varnish,
cardboard, carbon paper, push pins and wooden plank for the
panel. In making the outline, you can use the Corel Draw or any
other computer graphics ...
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Computers
29th March
2010
In today's highly technical world, everything is online. There is nothing you cannot buy, sell, trade, research, find pictures of, or play if you have a computer and Internet connection. These days, there is a web site out there for anything you could name. Which means that someone probably has a web site a lot like yours? As competition for page views grows more intense, web design more technical, and the Internet more popular, good web design becomes more important than ever before. If you ...
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Art and Entertainment
28th March
2010
No matter where you look these days, different designs for websites are starting to become more popular. Even though there are website designs out there right now that have certainly done a lot to forward the case for interesting and innovative new designs, there are still some core principles that remain at the heart of every good website. One of these core principles is the principle of usability, something that is always going to be hip in web design. Some people have problems grasping this ...
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Computers
27th March
2010
Does your image appear good on the screen, but looks blurred,
jagged or fuzzy when you print it?
To clearly see the difference of the quality of image on screen
and on print, take an image from the internet. Zoom it out or
make it larger. Can you see how series of little squares appear
on the image? Try to print it and you'll see that the color will
fade. There will be a change in the resolution.
Resolution is, basically, the sharpness or crispness of an
image. When an image is shrunk, the ...
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Computers
26th March
2010
How to do graphic design like a pro
Tips and advice to being a good graphic designer. Coming
from several years of experience in graphic design, I will give you advice on
becoming a pro in no time.
So you want to be a graphic designer, it's not that hard if
you have the right tools. The first essential tool is the right software, in
my, and many other pro's opinion, photoshop is the best software out there.
Photoshop can be intimidating to most ...
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Art and Entertainment
26th March
2010
Web development has many aspects to it- web content development, web design development, web server scripting, e-commerce business development to name a few. The discussions in this article deal web content development. In considering a website design development, two basic distinctions become important considerations. Whether your website was a custom website design or if it was deigned out of an available website template needs to be considered. A custom made website may have cost you ...
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Computers
25th March
2010
You can use your Adobe Photoshop in creating 3D images. Since
2Ds are obsolete and 3Ds are in, you might want to start
enhancing your skill in computer graphics.
You can start making a cube. Your aim is to create an image of
cube that is viewed in such a way that the three sides, left,
right and top, are shown. Then, learn how to put different
effects on it, like shadow, to make it more realistic.
Adobe Photoshop is an ideal program for making two dimensional
(2D) images. But it does not limit ...
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Computers
24th March
2010
The Database Design Analysis phase - Where it all starts.
The business perspective
The analysis phase of our database design website deals with the
early stage of a business system lifecycle. This is the phase we
enter after strategic requirements are in place: The scope of
the system, key technical requirements, and the tools for each
stage of development, etc. is decided. Economics are most likely
also determined.
We may also (most likely) have a rudimentary information model,
and we know ...
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Computers
23rd March
2010
SEO experts understand the importance not only of relevant and important content on a website, but also the design of the website itself. Websites are ranked by their importance and relevance to the topic they claim to be providing information about, but search engines also rank pages based on usefulness. How useful is your website to your visitors? How easy is it to find information on your website? The plus side to creating a useful website is that it not only helps increase your search ...
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Computers
22nd March
2010
Buena Software introduces another plug-in for after effect, the
Au Naturel. Au Naturel is a set of seven built-in effects.
Effects include adjust exposure effect, levels effect, Gaussian
Blur effect, Directional Blur effect, transform effect,
composite effect and time lapse effect.
Au Naturel's Gaussian blur is better than that of the discreet
Combustion's built in Gaussian blur because it works in 32 bit
floating point linear RGB color space. Meaning the result is
more natural. The blur effect ...
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Computers
21st March
2010
Have you ever been faced with the challenge of designing a new
database structure? Do you have to redevelop an existing
database?
The truth is that creating or developing a database structure
requires at least basic knowledge of SQL scripts. If you have to
design a very complicated database structure with a lot of
tables (entities), plenty of information (attributes) and
complicated relationships among them, it' s very uneasy...
Overall, whatever you have to do with databases, it has ...
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Computers
20th March
2010
Have you seen one of those post-it pop-up? The one that looks so
realistic, with awesome shadow effect. If you don't know what I
am talking about, try opening the following website:
http://myhobbybooks.com/wowpo
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They look awesome don't they?
And something like this is always good for your web marketing
campaign. One reason, it never gets blocked by pop-up blockers.
And another, it really grabs the attention of your web visitors.
This is good when you want to increase subscription rate to ...
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Computers
19th March
2010
There has been a major update of Google's ranking algorithm,
changing the way the search engine orders search results. Atul
Gupta of discusses the consequences for webmasters.
By Pandia Guest Writer Atul Gupta
Google does minor algorithm updates almost on a monthly basis.
Once in a while, it implements a major algorithm update.
If there is one thing search engine marketers and website owners
fear, it is a major algorithm update, especially by Google.
Well, much as we may like it not to happen, ...
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Computers
18th March
2010
Throughout time, art has transformed into many ways it could
possibly be. Like man, it has gone through different eras,
facing the biggest challenges of life. Artistic Design, in the
olden age, defies the law of art having limited supply of
materials in hand. Capped with a fervent love for art and the
aptitude to go with it, an archetypal design can turn into a
masterpiece.
Like man, an artistic design has its way of leaping over realism
and the rules of drawing associated in it, making ...
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Computers
17th March
2010
What is CSS?The full form of CSS is Cascading Style Sheets. It is mechanism language that enables the users to design the Web pages the way they desire. User can change fonts, images, graphics, shades, spacing, layout and other such design elements. This language can be used to design Web pages or website. It equips the user with countless stylistic abilities to design the website. This language makes the marketer to design the company website attractively and emphatically. It is beneficial for ...
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Computers
16th March
2010
Corel Draw Version 4.0 is said to be the most ambitious computer
software. What makes it ambitious is that it promises to be the
ultimate tool for any computer graphics design and that it
claims to be a bug-free software. The promotion was impressive
but it appeared to have disappointed many CorelDraw users.
Many thought that Corel Draw version 7 will not be of any
difference. Surprisingly, it gave them another dose of hope, a
new and better software to give them professional-quality ...
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Computers
15th March
2010
The battle of marketing in a down economy: Flee for the hills, or charge the hill? In uncertain economic times, you can choose to retreat or you can choose to prepare for what's ahead. When the economy turns around, those who are prepared and ready their Web design company marketing arsenal will leap from competitors and gobble up market share abandoned by the feeble. The others? Well, better polish up your resume. The time is now to invest in your brand. In our experience, it takes time and a ...
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Computers
14th March
2010
You and I both know that Photoshop is the tool that most of the
photographers around the globe use. There is no doubt that it is
the hands-down best to photographers when it comes to photo
editing, enhancing and other adjustments. It has become and
remains the industry's standard in photography. In a matter of
fact, photographers have found a perfect complement in
Photoshop.
Anybody ' both amateur and professional can take advantage of
the powerful features of the Photoshop. In the post ...
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Computers
14th March
2010
Art and Entertainment
13th March
2010
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML documentCSS, is a powerful method of organizing the way information is displayed on a web page. It has become one of the most popular languages in web designing and layouting, because of its ...
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Computers
12th March
2010
Art and Entertainment
12th March
2010
The purpose of the in-house competition to create a logo design
is for the Design Café to have a unique mark of identity. It
should reflect a place for friendly, approachable and helpful
discussion amongst graphic designers, publishers, illustrators,
photographers and others who are inclined in the creation of
visual communications. The logo that will be chosen will be
printed on coffee mugs and embroidered on shirts.
When we make a business logo it should reflect the business
itself. It ...
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Computers
11th March
2010
Drawing or making any work art through a computer is a very
tough job, especially for beginners. Using the mouse in forming
shapes, changing thickness, changing colors, erasing and
switching from one command to the other is lot of work and needs
more time. To decrease the time consumed and to eliminate
unnecessary efforts, a tool was invented, the digitizing or
graphics tablet. A graphics tablet is defined as an input
device, which consists of an electronic tablet and a cursor or a
stylus pen ...
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Computers
10th March
2010
Graphic design is the circumference intended for creative,
imaginative and resourceful designers all over the globe. This
can be one of the most rewarding and fulfilling task that you
can do. Not only you can earn a great sum of money but you can
actually express your idiosyncrasies into the whole wide web. By
this you can influence and inspire millions of people.
Graphic design is a great form of self-expression. It only takes
some time and dedication to hone your creative potential. To ...
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Computers
9th March
2010
If you've ever been working at your computer when suddenly you get IE css errors, and if you're not a computer technician, then relax, you've come to the right place. Continue to read this brief report - we'll show you how simple a process it is for you to straighten out this and other pc troubles quickly, effectively, and for (almost) free! Let's start off by learning what the source to these problems is. With all the new software available these days, you probably update your windows with ...Read the rest of this entry »
Computers
8th March
2010
Contrasts give your design distinction, uniqueness, character
and identity. A print design project is a probable conversation.
If done properly, it can yield a positive feedback ' by that we
can say that the communication process has been successful. If
not, it will remain unnoticed and your marketing project will
not get the impact that you are longing. Contrast is a good
technique in creating a noticeable and understandable design and
layout. Contrast can be size, color, direction, format or ...
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Computers
7th March
2010
Shopping is something that can be a lot of fun, but it takes time. It also costs money. But ask any Canadian and it is very likely that he or she will tell you that they really like to shop. There is just something about spending money that can really make a person happy. But what if time and money are a factor? What if you are not able to do the shopping that you desire to do because a lack of deals or a lack of time to shop?
Before answering that question, it is important to look at ...
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Computers
6th March
2010
You may have seen flash animated banners on a website beckoning at you. The banners are usually created for advertisements, or, in some rare cases, for information purposes. The banner ads use flash animation technology to display moving images. You will notice that most banners show the same animation a number of times. This phenomenon is called looping. The animation displayed on the banner ad is repeated either for some time or a number of times. This looping behavior is done with the help ...
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Computers
5th March
2010
Creating a multitude of textures is easy if you have the
know-how and Adobe Photoshop. There are numerous plug-ins that
you can make use depending on your need and your level of
mastery.
One such plug-in is the Eye Candy: Textures. Eye Candy 5:
Textures, a Photoshop Plug-in, is a collection of ten seamless
texture generators. The first of three upgrades to Eye Candy
4000, Eye Candy 5: Textures produces a wide variety of texture
effects, including snake and lizard skin, fur, brick, stone, ...
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Computers
4th March
2010
So you're aspiring to create designs for companies advertising
their crafts online? Hold on! Before chasing after your dream of
being a 'great' and 'well-known' graphic designer'Let's go over
the many names and title that associates with graphic designer
and resolve finally who a designer is and what are the elements
of design you need to learn.
According to an article, Chuck's views on design, writing and
marketing at www.ideabook.com/viewa.htm the author narrates that
he's already into his ...
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Computers
3rd March
2010
Despite Corel's cheaper alternative, the Microsoft Work Suite
2004 is still one of the best value purchases for families and
small industry users. The program's strong selection of
applications makes spending a few extra dollars worthwhile.
The program's complete suite has applications for the whole
family. There's the basic Works that combines a spreadsheet,
database, appointment calendar and task-oriented launchpad
interface, as well as the Word applications for the grown-ups.
Additional ...
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Computers
2nd March
2010
Want your images to have effects that'll make it stand out more
and show up well on every background tones? With Photoshop, you
could achieve these effects for your images by its features that
work on light and dark edges. These allow you to work on
bringing out the best edges of your image ' lighten or darken
it, anyway you please to match on background tones and make it
stand out more.
Through highlighting edges of your photo, you also highlight its
details. The method of unsharp mask and ...
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Computers
1st March
2010
Most people don't use Photoshop to its fullest capabilities.
Here are just ten uses to which you could put this highly
versatile software. 1. Restoring Old Photographs. Have a look
through that old family photo album - the really old one from up
in Grandma's attic. Inside there are probably a few photos from
way back when that haven't stood the test of time so well.
They've got cracks and tears that really spoil their appearance.
Scan them into Photoshop, and then set to work with the ...
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