Friday, December 13, 2013

Top Compressors to Use When Designing Graphics for Games

Designing graphics for games can be an absolute joyride as you get to experiment with different colours, characters and even typography. Making the graphics interesting at all times is a must. However, once the painstaking task of creating superior quality graphics is done, you may believe that you are good to go and your work ends right there. This is far from the truth. You may not realize it but the images and sequences created for games boast of extremely high file sizes and therefore, when users load these games, it could take ages for it to load and this can create major drawbacks in terms of the user experience. This will eventually cause a limitation for your games in terms of the number of people it gets exposed to. For instance, when you visit Temple Run you are instantly taken away by the quick load times for the games. As a graphic designer for any game that you wish to create, you need to take special steps for the optimization of your graphic design as well. There are several compressors available that you can make use of. One of the many advantages of these compressors is the fact that they are available online and therefore; do not call for you to purchase any additional software of program.


Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Top tools that you cannot do without when designing a responsive website

Today, a large chunk of the global population relies on the internet for a majority of the tasks; whether it is a student who wants information about some historical monument or a professional who maintains financial records about his company. Besides, the rapid development puts added pressures on an average web designer to come up with new and innovative means to help them attract more number of clients like moth to a lone source of light. Responsive design is the new phenomenon that has been observed recently with a horde of designers coming up with resourceful ideas for the same. To put it simply, a responsive website is a website that looks exactly the same across myriad electronic devices like the computer, laptop, smartphone, tablet and the likes. One of the greatest advantages of doing so is that it saves an unimaginable amount of time for a web designer as they are required to create just one website as opposed to several versions of the website to suit every platform.


Cures for Slow Loading Websites

The bane of a slow loading web page is one which all users of the internet have had to encounter and these slow loading websites are often on the receiving end of the choicest of insults. A fast website is attractive and easy to use and does not fray any tempers but allays them with speed. Web sites which respond slowly lose visitations and also decrease in search engine rankings. Google itself has revealed that they include speed into their search ranking algorithms.


Thursday, November 21, 2013

The Process Of Handling The Magento WordPress Integration

You must be aware of the fact that WordPress is the best for CMS, as well as for blogging websites. Magento is also considered the best for e-commerce. You use both of them together, as well as share the components including static blocks, navigation menus and shopping cart data. In this situation, the Magento WordPress Integration (MWI) comes into play. You will be able to install, as well as configure MWI without any difficulty. At the same time, you can also get any type of block from the Magento store in the Wordpress theme. You will also get the option to add the Magento products to the WordPress pages and posts.


Monday, November 18, 2013

Servers: The Essentials of Web Design

A large web site has its own specific challenges. With many pages and users being used to keep the site running, there may be various workflows which are required to go from the paper design of a web site to its live performance. Workflow for detailed sites may involve different web servers and server locations. These servers all serve their own purposes.


Thursday, October 24, 2013

Beautiful Halloween Tutorials and Halloween Wallpapers

Whenever Halloween is around the corner, the atmosphere is filled with scary things, bonfires, horror movies, skeletons, pumpkins and with other horrible things spread across the markets, stores, houses and ofcource on websites. Now this is the right time to customize your desktop backgrounds for computer and also your designs with the proper Halloween strength of mind. And for this reason you may use Photoshop Vectors or Icon for Halloween. On the other hand, you can change your desktop wallpaper and prepare some conventional pumpkin carvings. This post has a list of some beautiful Halloween wallpapers, Halloween tutorials, artworks and recipes to make your dishes and Halloween parties scary. All these photos are linked to their original sources.


Friday, October 11, 2013

Some Do's & Don'ts While Designing A Sticker

Sticker designing is a creative task that totally depends on the creative approach of a designer. If you want to create an innovative design then creativity is the most important thing but along with creativity, you would need to follow the basic designing standards which will help you to accomplish your work with good and impressive results. Analyzing the design is one of the most important things and every designer should understand its value because only analyzing can give you best possible result of your creative ideas. It is not always possible to get best in first time but if you will analyze your design again and again then in the end, you will definitely get the best results.


Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Why a PHP Framework is a must when developing websites

Since the past few years, PHP Frameworks have found their way into a web developer’s must-have frameworks for efficient web development. With the recent developments in technology and its constantly evolving nature, it is important that web developers make immense use of this Framework for maximum benefits. Besides, most of the well known web development companies tend to hire web developers who boast of intensive knowledge when it comes to PHP Frameworks. It organises your work and at the same time ensures that your final website runs smoothly and without any hassles. Furthermore, the organisation of the codes leads to a tremendous drop in errors and therefore, it makes web development an enjoyable experience. There is a plethora of PHP Frameworks that you can work with. Some of them include CodeIgniter, CakePHP, ZEND and the likes. Given below are some excellent benefits of using a PHP Framework for your web development process.


Saturday, September 21, 2013

Full Screen Responsive Background CSS Tutorial

In the past background images used in center of page or repeat but full screen or responsive was not possible at that time. But now this is possible to use full screen background picture in the websites with responsive feature. Most of people would achieve this effect by implementation of jQuery and with some other third party plugins. But I will explain this effect in this responsive css tutorial. Let's learn how to create one without any scripts using pure CSS only. You can use any code editor for this such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Notepad++ etc.


Thursday, August 15, 2013

Choosing the Right CMS for Your Business

Getting the right Content Management System for your business means focusing on software that can provide you with a clear and accessible interface. Depending on your needs, you might be able to get away with a CMS that has only the most basic features. However, for more comprehensive management of your website, it’s worth looking into CMS software that can allow for extensive customisation. When deciding on which CMS is right for your business, it’s worth consulting with a digital agency in Bath that can offer expert advice on what your needs are as a site.


Saturday, July 27, 2013

Choosing the Best Template For Your Game Site

Many people are venturing into the world of gaming websites, especially with their increased popularity today. The first key to this is having a website that is fun, interactive, and especially easy to navigate. Having the proper template for your site’s layout will not only increase traffic to your gaming website, but it will keep visitors there, make their experience better, and make sure that they keep coming back and overall, increase your revenue through their continued experiences. That is why you should take care in choosing the best template for your site and compare and contrast many options before making your decision.


Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Examples And Tips For Using Illustrator's Warp Tools

Adobe Illustrator is a very effective program for creating vector artwork. The features and tools present in Illustrator allow it easy to generate digital illustrations, whether from grazing or by tracing a photograph. Nevertheless, this is not the only thing that Illustrator can do; businesses can produce exciting graphs using Illustrator's warp tools. Marketers can use the remarkable type features and type tool to design a single - page advertisement. Designers make logos and other graphics that need to be scalable using Illustrator. In short, Illustrator is a complete vector program that is hard to master. Warp tools are also called as Liquify tools. These are same as Photoshop's Liquify tool; apart from that, the Liquify effects in Photoshop are divided Illustrator into seven different tools: Warp, Crystallize, Pucker, Scallop, Bloat, Twirl, and Wrinkle. These seven tools are all a division of Illustrator's Liquify package.


Monday, May 13, 2013

Using Custom PHP Codes on Magento

In the process of web development, PHP web application has a vital role. PHP is widely popular as a script in the web programming language. Due to its exclusive characteristics integrated with C, Pearl and Java languages, this has become very popular in ecommerce website development.


Wednesday, March 20, 2013

jQuery Plugins for Better Looking HTML Forms

It is true that HTML forms are important elements for web designing. However, putting them together is a difficult job, and moreover, the form can look dull even after the implementation. Fortunately, there is jQuery plugins for better looking HTML forms. It is a JacaScript library that removes the complexity from Ajax interactions, HTML forms, animating, and document traversing.


Monday, March 11, 2013

Professional Writing Tutorial for Students to Get Quality in Their Assignments

Gone are the days when students didn’t find any help for their assignments such as essay writing, speech, research papers, thesis, term papers etc. They had to complete these assignments on their own that took a lot of time and students found hard to manage both their courses and assignments resulting in poor performance in the class. Today, things have changed drastically. You can say that today’s students are smart enough to manage their course of study as well as assignments. In other words, they have started taking help of professional writing service to complete their assignments in the given period.


Monday, February 25, 2013

Web Design Tips for an E-Commerce Website

In the business industry, many companies go beyond the traditional way of making profit by taking advantage of the internet. Since it is a form of marketing that has grown in popularity, several small and large businesses attempt to penetrate the market in an advanced way of marketing via the World Wide Web.


Sunday, February 24, 2013

The Most Common Nuances of Website Making

There are many rules and regulations that the website owners have to take a heed of in order to not be penalised by the world’s leading search engine - Google. There have been some really bad mal practices or cramping algorithms that have been brought into notice and in the recent past some have even caused a lot of mental disorders like Psychosis and others amongst site owners around the world. Amongst various effects that the penalty can cause, going down in the SEO ranking is the most prominent. Although the negative impact can easily be recovered but then why not be proactive and know what can and what cannot be a rightful deed. To better know about such penalties consulting an seo expert can be a great option.


Saturday, February 23, 2013

Make Your Website More Effective With These Designing Tips

There exists no foolproof formula to develop a perfect design that best suits each and every website. It is the amalgamation of design, layout, colours, SEO, right content and easy navigation that together make a website stand out from among its competitors. A good website should impress the visitors visually, and cater to their requirements, providing them the appropriate solutions to their questions. Most of the time, one can only derive the best design with a trial and error process. However, there exist certain elements which can competently boost your presence in the online world. Below are the few things you should consider while designing your website, to help make it more effective and efficient.


Sunday, February 10, 2013

JQuery Plugins- for Better Looking HTML Forms

Every web designer knows that HTML forms are important, but putting them together can be difficult. Even if the form has been implemented, the form can be quite dull looking. For those who are familiar with jQuery plug ins for HTML, jQuery is a JavaScript library that takes out the complexity from HTML documents, Ajax interactions, animating, event handling, and document traversing.


CSS Based Form Tutorials - Spice up Your Site

Online forms are used in a variety of websites, be it for getting feedback, creating accounts and providing a host of other functions. But most them as you've probably seen, are dull looking or worse, poorly designed, making it difficult to understand what this or that field is for. But if you have a website you can use CSS based form tutorials to make them more attractive and functional.


Saturday, February 2, 2013

How to Design a Self-hosted WordPress Blog in 30 Minutes

Going by definition, a blog is a space on the Internet where an individual or a group of individuals record their opinions or information. A blog is also referred to as a web log that is published on the World Wide Web. Various platforms like WordPress help users design and publish blogs within minutes. Read on to know how to design a self-hosted WordPress blog in just half an hour.


Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Creative CSS Tutorials Collection

CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheet. CSS is a document containing codes that makes it easier to control the overall look of a complete website. By using CSS website designers save multiple hours of work. When the CSS sheet is altered the overall look and feel of the website will be altered as well. In short CSS is used to style all web pages in a website. Keeping the codes in mind the overall look of the website and the codes used can change user interaction with the website.


Monday, January 7, 2013

The Perks of Implementing Responsive Web Design

People have migrated towards dynamic usage of devices like tablets, smartphones, and PCs. When people happen to surf the Internet on different devices, the same website may be viewed differently across different devices. We have seen that several websites have rendering issues, when the mode of viewing is changed. This is because they are not mobile ready or tablet ready.