Archive for Design
Navigation System Principles
A good site always put visitor needs as first priority. Whether it only contain several pages or lots of it, you should allow the visitors move freely on all of your pages, and most important all the navigation text are clearly visible and easy to be found.
One other thing, although a simple text navigation menu very functional and accessible, it appears kind of boring. Consider using more complex menu, usually comes from some combination of text, graphics, CSS, and possibly even JavaScript or some other programming language to handle its dynamic functionality, such as giving the menu cool-looking rollover buttons or drop-down menus.
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Optimizing graphic Design
Later that days, we only knew several software program to create web graphic design. The most popular is Adobe photoshop or might be you using illustrator. These days, we had special program for optimizing, such as Fireworks, ImageReady, (usually bundled with Photoshop and the Adobe CS Suite). These two have certain optimization tools that will help you out.
Before we go more further, lets take a look the definition of optimization is. Optimization is a process or compression method of an image to produce smallest size of graphic output but kept the high quality inside.
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Pixels and texture
If you’ve worked with CSS, then you’re probably familiar with using pixels as a unit of measurement. One pixel (short for “picture element”) is one of the hundreds of thousands of dots on your computer screen. If your resolution is set to 1280×1024 pixels, you have 1,310,720 pixels on your screen, arranged in 1,024 rows and 1,280 columns. All these pixels come together to create a digital image.
This is all very elementary technical knowledge, but as we’re about to see, it applies specifically to the concept of points in graphic design.
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Color Measurement
The measure of the lightness or darkness of a color is known as its chromatic value. Adding white to a color creates a tint of that color. Likewise, a shade is produced by adding black to a given color.
As with colors themselves, the chromatic value of colors you’re using can impact upon the psychological connection users will have to the content. One use of chromatic value might be to accent the time of day that customers associate with a company or organization. If you were designing a website that’s all about nightlife or concerts, for instance, you’d probably want to go with dark shades and limit your use of light tints. »» Color Measurement