Tips - Designing Logos

Inspiration Heroes and villains of the icon world

The good - Vimeodotcom icon is set a great example of consistency, and works well in both its media player UI and the surrounding website. The style is extremely minimal with no extraneous clutter - not eve a gradient. The meaning is reinforced by th icons' use throughout the site, so they quickly become familiar. They're developed using the same bright colour palette as the site, in a variety of sizes.

The bad - Avoiding unnecessary detail was't something Microsoft did on its online store. You can see why it added the curved line underneath the cart - because it makes it look like a smiley face. Thid may feel 'friendly', but it adds noise and takes that little bit longer to be recognised. In fact, at first glance it looks like a head with a saucepan on it. It's not a huge sin though - the cleanliness of the site design and placement of the icon redeem it.

The ugly - The interface for ButtonMax, a macro recorder for Windows Mobile, demonstrates everything that can go wring. The worst offenders are the five central buttons. The background is so overpowering that it hides the icons' unique outlines, making them all look identical. The symbols are badly rendered, ignoring the limitations of the low - bit device. Only what must be an email icon is remotely legible. The above information i read in the dotnet magazine and sharing the same with you.

Designing For Online Grocery Shopping Some Tips

Shopping for groceries online can be an uphill struggle. We asked three designers to tackle the challenge from a user experienced point of view. Read more about the same in the dotnet magazine and know more about the online grocery shopping store and know the views of the three designers Mr. Lourenco, Mr. Talbot and Mr. Bowles. The brief about the online grocery shopping as below from the professionals as the views about the same: Mock up an online grocery shop. Keep in mind that shoppers will probably need to buy 40-50 items at a time in a store that holds tens of thousands of products. Your shop has to make the shopping experience easier and faster, while making sure customers don’t miss out on special offers they’d get in the real store.

ColdFusion - Building Powerfull Air Application

ColdFusion Build A Powerful AIR App

Adobe's application development platform ColdFusion has a long history of making difficult takes easy for web developers, including PDF generation and conversion, image manipulationm exchange integration and more. In the last few years, with the advent of Rich Internet Application (RIA) using both Ajax and Flex, CouldFusion has sought to become the premier server-side solution to those RIAs. Especially with Flex.

With the release of ColdFusion 9, Adobe has taken the integration between ColdFusion and Flex a step further by allowing our Flex and AIR applications to utilise ColdFusion services via proxy ActionScript classes.

What this means is that Flex developers can now utilise services such as charting, PDF generation and manipulation, image manipulation and sending and receiving mail without writing a single line of ColdFusion code.

In this tutorial, we're going to write a simple AIR application that allows the user to dreag and drop an image onto our application, rotate or resize it and then email the midified image to a user-supplied email address. Witness the power of Coldfusion and Flex/Air. Read the dotnet magazine to read more and get more information from the experts.

How to save huge money when buying the Security Software

Save big money on top security software

The first and most obvious step to take is to browse around the big software retailers, Amazon is a good place to start, because it always has a few useful discounts funning. At time of writing, you can save anything from £2 on McAfee Internet Security to £22 on Spyware Doctor with Antivirus.

Its worth looking for OEM versions of security suites, too. These arer intended to be bundled with new PCs and may have reduced support options and other licence limitations, but the core software is the same and teh savings are significant (Norton Internet Security 2009 OEM is only £15.06). The problem with retailers is that their offers  are very specific. Read more information about the Security in the magazine dotnet addition of the year 2009 in the security section.

Few Tips - Vector Solutions - Information

This is where FIVe3D can be a practical alternative, because it focuses on vector drawings, which in most cases are much faster than bitmaps. Using only vector drawings may feel very restrictive and specific, but there are still a huge number of things you can make this way, including text in 3D. FIVe 3D also provides basic functionalities to handle bitmaps and videos and this is where it gets even more interesting. You’re able to mix vectors and bitmaps simultaneously and come up with a smart blend of the two, For example, you could minimise the amount of bitmaps by replacing with vector fills; use simple drawing shapes such as lines and rectangles to set up the 3D scene; or display a lower quality background image with a high – definition logo on top. For more information read the magazine dotnet and get more great information.

Experts Advice From Web Pros

Experts Advice From web pros answer your question - Linking or Reciprocal Linking

I've heared that reciprocal links can damage your ranking in google. Is this true? By - Cameron Davis. Dave Chaffey - I think reciprocal linking has got a bad name because of large-scale link farms, poor quality directories and paid linking schemes, which can definitely damage your ranking if detected by Google. But this shouldn't discourage you from limited-scale reciprocal linkin, with relevant partners, for example. Remember that links are mst effective if they have relevant context from the referring site that relates to your product or service, so ideally the page title, headings, content and linked anchor text should all be relevant. Some people argue that 'triangular' recprocal links via a different page or site are ssuperior, but direct links between pages shouldn't harm your Google rankings - indeed, they should help. Its really helpfull to read more in the magazine DotNet as its lot more tips and suggestions are available by the professionals to make your efforts more postive with more result oriented.

Graphics - Designing A Business Card

Graphics - Design - Adobe Illistrator CS4
To Gain even greater control over your colour when printing you can use a Pantone reference book as a guide. Although they're a little pricey, they're certainly well worth the investment. Referring to the swatches enables you to check what your colours will look like when they're printed on coated or uncoated card. With the right book, you'll also be able to see how your colours will appear when they've been printed in CMYK. To access the pantone swatches in Illustrator, simply go to Window > Swatch Library > Colour Books.

Email The Power Of Web

Mathew Patterson on - The Power of Email

New tools like twitter and instant messaging haven't supplanted email - in fact, they.re increasing its importance, argues community manager at Campaign Monitor. Blogging, Twitter, instant messaging, filesharing, MySpace, Facebook, RSS and SMS. What do these have in common? They're all things touted as 'the new email' by the ever-reliable 'people on the internet'.

With all these email replacements, you'd expect to see use of actual email starting to wind down, but in fact our inboxes are busier than ever. There are indeed some real changes happening. Tasks and activities for which email is often used are moving to more specialised tools. You probably share photos on Flicker or Facebook now, and Tweet or IM your friends more than you email them. But while web apps and sicial networks are taking on some of email's old roles, email isn't going to fade away any time soon. It's easy in our general nerd world to jump from technology to technology, adding more profiles to every new website and forgetting that most of the world isn't like us. I really like this article in the magazine DotNet and wanted to share the same with you friends to read more read in the Magazine as in full and great information is there waiting for you. Really its true you will like reading that all. I've been speaking recently to a lot of web companies about how they use email, and whether it still works for them. It's telling that even in this most forward-looking and technologically savvy of business, old-school email still retains an enormous influence.

Access to Online Video - Some Tips

Access to Online Video - Transcripts and subtitles are important accessibility features in online video. But other considerations are often overlooked, says Trenton Moss, director at user experience consultancy Webcredible.

With the massive growth in populirity of online video sites such as YOUTUBE, and with video ads even now being trialled in magazines, many website owners are looking to enhance their offering with video.

Videos can be a great addition to your site, providing rich interactive content, and they're a great way of demonstrating a product. But good accessible design is crucial to ensure a universally hight-level user experience.

When making online videos accessible, most consideration is given to catering for blind and deaf users, concentrating on subttles and transcripts, but accessibility isn't that simple. This functionality, while essential, is time-cinsuming, technically difficult and is only part of the accessibility job. Read more about the The bigger picture and also about the Volume control to get the more interesting information.

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