Advantages Of Flash Website Design

November 3, 2009 at 6:07 am | In Flash Design, Flash Development, Web Design, Web Development, e-commerce | Leave a Comment
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Web is packed with billions of websites related to millions of categories and hundreds of websites are added into each category every day. Some categories have thousands of websites so the competition is naturally stiff. Your website should stand out from the rest in some capacity in order to be seen. If it does not stand out, it is bound to get lost in the dust of those websites that do. Period!

You must’ve seen some eye catching animations at various websites and wondered how such images and animations could be created. Well, Flash is the answer. Flash is a very popular website design technology in the world due to its ability to create high quality and light weight animations, images and website layouts. Every web surfer that has even a tiny bit of knowledge about web design technologies would know of Flash because of its widespread application. One of the primary reasons of using Flash to design websites is its ability to increase the visibility of the websites manifold, by making them stand out, as compared to other design technologies.

Flash is used to design animated images, marketing ads, banners, movies, online tutorials, presentation and to give other high quality visual effects to a website. A dull looking website with lots of text and static images can be turned into a fun and interactive website with the aid of Flash. Although a website can be entirely made in Flash and it will look good too, however, from search engine optimisation point of view, it’s not a good idea to design your website completely in Flash. Ideally, your website should have a blend of Flash animations for visual effects and HTML for SEO purposes.

Flash Web Design

October 29, 2009 at 8:33 am | In Flash Design, Flash Development, Web Design, Web Development, e-commerce | Leave a Comment
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Flash is a web based multimedia technology by Macromedia. It has been around since the mid-1990’s and has slowly been building in popularity to the point where many bundled programs come with flash players, Macromedia boasts, “Over 516 million Internet users now use Macromedia Flash”.

The strongest benefit of Flash from a viewer’s perspective is the smooth multi-media presentation which can provide a polished and relaxing user experience. Obviously, this impression can positively impact a company’s impression and brand. With Flash you can intertwine animation, video, sound, music, voice-overs, and even connect to a database for personalized interactivity or calculations. Another advantage is that the Flash piece can be designed once for both CD and Web applications allowing the piece to be used in direct mail as well as online. The overwhelming technical advantage is the files are smaller than other multimedia authoring platforms allowing faster download. We have found that a Flash application can double and sometimes triple the number of users viewing information on a web site. To save time sometimes getting flash help from a professional can get things turned around much quicker.

Importance of using Flash

  • Make sure your users are not all dial up customers.
  • Allow non-Flash users to view the same content on the web site.
  • The Flash piece should automatically detect if the viewer has Flash and its version.
  • Don’t use Flash in critical branding areas like a logo unless a Flash detector is in place.
  • Don’t force the user to view a splash screen each time they go to your site.
  • Use streaming when possible.
  • Have a link or automatic code to download the latest version of Flash on your site.

Graphic Design

October 13, 2009 at 5:46 am | In Flash Design, Flash Development, Web Design, Web Development, e-commerce | Leave a Comment
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Graphic design is the process of creating the appearance of a publication, presentation, or web site in an attractive, logical manner. When done successfully, it attracts attention, adds value to a message, enhances readership and readability, simplifies, organizes, provides selective emphasis, and creates unity. Steps in the Graphic Design Process:

  • Analyze the audience.
  • Determine the purpose of your message.
  • Decide where and how your message will appear (whether it will be a printed publication, presentation, or web site).
  • Establish goals.
  • Organize text and graphics.
  • Choose an appropriate format and layout.
  • Select appropriate typefaces, type sizes, type styles, and spacing.
  • Add and manipulate graphics.
  • Organize text and graphics.
  • Proofread
  • Refine and fine-tune.

10 Basic Tips For a Logo Design That Works

October 6, 2009 at 6:19 am | In Flash Design, Flash Development, Web Design, Web Development, e-commerce | Leave a Comment
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Designing logos is just like any other type of design work, to be professional you’ll need to pay attention to details. Even a great idea can be ruined by not thinking about simple things, the following tips will help you to keep your concepts safe.

1.Work with vectors
This probably sounds obvious to most designers out there, but it isn’t to everybody so I repeat it as often as I can to avoid receiving those damn jpeg logos. Vector formats are the ones that will allow the most variations for your logo.

2.Don’t use more than 2 fonts
There is many nice fonts out there and we would all love to use as many as we can. Unfortunately using too many fonts will most of the time result in a loss of coherence. Using two different fonts can be good to create a contrast, catching the eye.

3.Keep it readable
If people can’t read your logo, it’s useless to have one. This sounds like dumb advice again, but it’s easy to get caught in creating letters or distorting a font until it becomes unreadable. Always stay aware of that when working on your logo.

4.Test sizes
Your logo should resize well at any size, whether it’s huge on a truck or tiny on a badge.

5.Adapt it for dark backgrounds
So you’ve got a wonderful looking dark logo, but now your client want to get it on his black car. It’s usually not too hard to adapt it, but you’ll look more professional if you already got that case figured out.

6.Make sure it works well in black and white
I have a very simple technique for that: I work every logo in black and white before adding any colour. This way choices are made judging by the shapes and you are not distracted by anything else. It makes it much easier to know that your logo will work well in shades of grey afterwards.

7.Don’t include photos in your logo
Well… this one goes along with the first tip. First, photos are not vectors. Photos also don’t scale, have no branding value and are hard to adapt for any use.

8.Look at it upside-down
This is a tip I got from my teachers in graphic design school, looking at your logo (or any printed design really) will get the meaning out of the way and give you a new look at the design’s balance and white spaces. Try it!

9.Don’t follow trends
It’s often hard to escape trends, especially if you’re passionated and love to look at inspiring logos on design sites. Your logo has to work on the long run, so try to avoid the web 1.0 swoosh or the web 2.0 reflection.

10.Get specific feedback
Asking people’s opinion is worthless if you don’t know what informations you want to get, so when getting feedback, try asking specific questions (eg. does your logo expresses the industry of the company?).

Five Key Rules to a Great Logo Design

October 2, 2009 at 7:42 am | In Flash Design, Flash Development, Web Design, Web Development, e-commerce | Leave a Comment
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Logo design is as much a science as it is art. In fact, it has a host of scientific aspects to it that includes psychology and mathematics. This is because a good logo design is intended to act on the psyche of the onlooker and appeal to it and its retention would depend on the symmetry it catties. Since a logo appears on almost everything related to your business, that include your stationary, products and services, letters and even the press, the importance of a good logo design is critical. A clear, dynamic, symmetric and aesthetic logo design from a professional logo designer would leave a lasting effect on the mind of the consumer and it is imperative to the success of any business. While going through the process of getting a good logo from a logo designer, keep the following in mind.

a. Logo should be unique and portray honesty:

Many businesspersons looking for a logo want it to look like someone else’s, but, this is wrong. You can take ideas from other logos but come up with something highly unique and creative. The logo should portray the strengths of your business, in fact, the strengths themselves are unique otherwise how do you plan to decimate your competition? Be clear and concise.

b. Simple:

Keep your logo simple. A complex graphic used for a logo can have negative effects since its recognition value will take time to be impressed on the customer’s mind. Also, simple logos are better to customize for printing use than the complicated ones. Simple but compelling is the mantra here and follow it for successful branding. Good examples here would be Prudential or Nike.

c. Colors:

Always check the logo in black and white. If the logo does not appeal in monochrome, it will not appeal in any other color.

d. Scalable and flexible:

A simple logo is scalable to any size. Make sure that the logo design that you have is scalable and does not lose its appeal when made smaller or enlarged.

e. Symmetry:

A logo should be well balanced and appeal to the symmetric aesthetics. This will make sure that the logo appears balanced to the human eye. The factors that effect symmetry are many – color, shape, line density etc. Make sure that you instruct your logo designer accordingly.

Once your logo is done and finalized by the logo designer, there is still scope for changes, but, once you begin using the logo, never change or alter it.

PayPal Shopping Cart

September 12, 2009 at 6:21 am | In Flash Design, Flash Development, Web Design, Web Development, e-commerce | Leave a Comment
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When you use PayPal’s free Shopping Cart on your website, your customers can purchase multiple items with a single payment, browse your entire selection, and view a consolidated list of all their items before purchasing. The PayPal Shopping Cart is a low-cost way for you to accept credit card and bank account payments, and can be fully integrated with your website in a few easy steps.

Benefits of PayPal Shopping Cart

  1. Save time and money with PayPal’s hassle-free Shopping Cart:
  2. Easy to implement – no CGI scripting necessary
  3. No up-front costs – you’ll have the same low fee schedule used when you receive other PayPal payments
  4. Sell with ease – PayPal maintains detailed transaction records on our website
  5. Improve buyer experience – with customizable buttons and secure payments, happy customers become repeat customers
  6. We,Flexdevelopers provides web e-commerce shopping cart. We can also help you designing, uploading content and developing wordpress site. If you fell we can help you please contact us
    Office Phone No: +91 1164688450

    E-mail: sanjeev@ferventsoft.com

    sanjeev@gmail.com
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Logo Design

September 10, 2009 at 6:54 am | In Flash Design, Flash Development, Web Design, Web Development, e-commerce | Leave a Comment
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Before you design one, you must understand what a logo is, what it represents and what it is supposed to do. A logo is not just a mark – it reflects a business’s commercial brand through the use of shape, fonts, colour, and / or images. A logo is for inspiring trust, recognition and admiration for a company or product and it is our job as designers to create an identity that will do its job.

One must first know what a logo is before continuing.
the basic rules and principles.

  • A logo must be describable.
  • A logo must be memorable.
  • A logo must be effective without colour.
  • A logo must be scalable i.e. effective when just an inch in size.

We,Flexdevelopers can help you designing, uploading content and developing wordpress site. If you fell we can help you please contact us
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E-mail: sanjeev@ferventsoft.com
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Web Design Basic Features

September 7, 2009 at 6:59 am | In Flash Design, Flash Development, Web Design, Web Development, e-commerce | Leave a Comment
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While designing a web site you should keep in mind the below basic features in mind or else your site may look dorky

Backgrounds

  • Default gray color
  • Color combinations of text and background that make the text hard to read
  • Busy, distracting backgrounds that make the text hard to read

Text

  • Text that is too small to read
  • Text crowding against the left edge
  • Text that stretches all the way across the page
  • Centered type over flush left body copy
  • Paragraphs of type in all caps
  • Paragraphs of type in bold
  • Paragraphs of type in italic
  • Paragraphs of type in all caps, bold, and italic all at once
  • Underlined text that is not a link

Links

  • Default blue links
  • Blue link borders around graphics
  • Links that are not clear about where they will take you
  • Links in body copy that distract readers and lead them off to remote, useless pages
  • Text links that are not underlined so you don’t know they are links
    ..(If you’re not going to underline your links, please make darned sure
    ..that each link is perfectly clearly a link! Don’t make me wander around
    ..with my mouse checking to see if randomly colored text is a link!)
  • Dead links (links that don’t work anymore)

Graphics

  • Large graphic files that take forever to load
  • Meaningless or useless graphics
  • Thumbnail images that are nearly as large as the full-sized images they link to
  • Graphics with no alt labels
  • Missing graphics, especially missing graphics with no alt labels
  • Graphics that don’t fit on the screen (assuming a screen of 800 x 600 pixels)

Tables

  • Borders turned on in tables
  • Tables used as design elements, especially with extra large (dorky) borders

Blinking and animations

  • Anything that blinks, especially text
  • Multiple things that blink
  • Rainbow rules (lines)
  • Rainbow rules that blink or animate “Under construction” signs, especially of little men working
  • Animated “under construction” signs
  • Animated pictures for email
  • Animations that never stop
  • Multiple animations that never stop

Junk

  • Too many little pictures of meaningless awards on the first page
  • Frame scroll bars in the middle of a page
  • Multiple frame scroll bars in the middle of a page
  • Counters on pages — who cares
  • Junky advertising
  • Having to scroll sideways (800 x 600 pixels)

Navigation

  • Unclear navigation; over complex navigation
  • Complicated frames, too many frames, unnecessary scroll bars in frames Orphan pages (no links back to where they came from, no identification).
  • Useless page titles that don’t explain what the page is about.

General Design

  • Entry page or home page that does not fit within standard browser window (800 x 600 pixels)
  • Frames that make you scroll sideways
  • No focal point on the page
  • Too many focal points on the page
  • Navigation buttons as the only visual interest, especially when they’re large (and dorky)
  • Cluttered, not enough alignment of element
  • Lack of contrast (in color, text, to create hierarchy of information, etc.)
  • Pages that look okay in one browser but not in another

We, Flexdevelopers can help you designing, uploading content and developing wordpress site. If you fell we can help you please contact us
Office Phone No: +91 1164688450
E-mail: sanjeev@ferventsoft.com
sanjeev@gmail.com
http://flexdevelopers.co.in/

Flash Design Tips

September 5, 2009 at 10:59 am | In Flash Design, Flash Development, Web Design, Web Development, e-commerce | Leave a Comment
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Does your flash animation stutter? Does it seem to play slowly on some frames but fast on others? Try these flash tips and tricks to make your animated flash movie play back more smoothly.

1. Avoid excessive transparency and layers. Be careful when layering transparent objects on top of each other. The computer must calculate the color of each pixel as it plays. Large transparent movie clips can slow down your movie.

2. Avoid full screen flash animation. The larger the screen area containing animation, the slower the animation will play back. Two separate animations, playing in opposite corners of the stage can have the same effect, even if they are small in size.

3. Reduce the frame rate. Never set your flash movie higher than 18 frames per second. You should not need to go any faster than this. Then reduce the number of frames in tweens and the reduce the number of frames overall. An added benefit of slowing the frame rate down is that the entire animation use fewer total frames, thus reducing the overall file size.

4. You may want to look at the _quality actionscript command in flash as well. You can toggle between high and low quality as the movie is playing. If you set it to “LOW” during the trouble spots the animation will play faster (but, images and text may appear a little rough). I never use it personally but it might be helpful in certain situations.

Remember, some internet users may have slow computers. Following the tips above will help ensure that your movie performs the same everywhere.

We,  Flexdevelopers can help you designing, uploading and developing flash design. If you fell we can help you please contact us

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Becoming Successful in Internet Network Marketing

September 3, 2009 at 10:50 am | In Flash Design, Flash Development, Web Design, Web Development, e-commerce | Leave a Comment
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The Word Wide Web is full of Internet network marketing opportunities. A lot of people have ventured into this kind of business and have become successful. The question here now is, how do you become successful in the Internet network marketing business?
Gaining success in Internet network marketing can’t be done over night. And there are no magic formulas can do this either. You need to be creative as well as innovative to let the money come flowing in. There are two ways to make money from this kind of business – sales and referrals.

Sales is the bread and butter of the Internet network marketing business. For every product you successfully sell, you get a commission. But there is also another way, aside from sales, that you can make money and that is through referrals. Most Internet network marketing opportunities give incentives to members who can recruit new people which then become their down line. There are even some companies that give incentives to a member whose down line has made a successful sale.

Both sales and referrals depend on one thing and that is people. If you can convince people to buy your products then you become successful. If you know how to convince people to become part of your network then you also become successful. So how do you get the people that you need?

Blogs
In the dawn of Web 2.0, blogs have become one of the most popular medium for advertising and promoting. The “personal” nature of blogs has made it possible for businesses to reach out to people that were very difficult to get in touch with. You can either hire a popular blog to promote your business or, if you have the knack for writing, create your own blog.The advantage of hiring a popular blog is the fact that it already has a lot of followers which means a lot of potential buyers as well as recruits. Creating your blog on the other hand will need some time to build and make a name for itself to get followers.

Articles
Using articles is another very good method to give your business the exposure it needs. You need to submit informative and well written articles to article directories and other article repositories on the Internet. Of course, you need to include information about your business so that the readers may know where to contact you once they become interested with what you are offering.

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