Photo Editor

Photo Editor


Content may be king, but photos speak a thousand words, and when it comes to online publishing, it is important that you make use of enough visual aids to make your site look good. Whether your post is short or long, an image goes a long way in catching the attention of the reader. And for particularly long blocks of text, images breaking it up into smaller, more manageable chunks are desirable.

There are many online sources of free photos, but there is something to be said about using your own photos. What’s that fancy camera you bought for anyway? And when it comes to the point, editing your photos is something that will only bring you advantages. The possible issue is the high price that you have to pay for photo editing software like Photoshop.

For basic editing purposes, you don’t have to go the whole way and purchase Photoshop. There are some good photo editing tools out there that are available for free. Here are some of the best choices.

Web site design need not be a tedious, complicated activity. At the end of the day, your goal is to create something that catches the eye of your target audience AND keep them coming back for more. There are many principles to web design, and you can spend hours – even days and weeks – learning all about them. If you want to essentials, though, you can always stick to simplicity.

Simplicity is beauty.

That statement may prove to be a bone of contention, as with many things, web design can be relative. What others may see as beautiful, some may see as horrendous. You have to go back to the basic concept of design: it is not all about beauty, but also whether or not your creation serves a purpose effectively.

Bearing that in mind, here are three things you can do to simplify your website’s design.

The Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing For Designers

There’s no doubt that cloud computing is changing the way people work. Hypothetically, cloud computing enables you to access data from any computer or device, at any time. Of course, this is only possible if you have a computer, tablet, or smartphone handy, and if you have access to the internet. But for most people in most places, cloud computing really does achieve what it purports to: your data, files, and software are all within easy reach. For a thorough breakdown of what cloud computing really offers, refer to this cloud computing guide.

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Image credit: Cloud computing photo by Shutterstock

5 Killer Design Resources For Developing Your WordPress Site

There are many great reasons to set up a WordPress site. Simple to manage and maintain and highly user friendly, both for you and your online visitors, it’s easy to see why WordPress is one of the most popular web-building tools. But to make the very most of this resource requires time, care and a little expertise. Check out these killer design resources to help you bring your WordPress to life.

The larger the web design project the more complex project management becomes. In many cases, this involves managing massive amounts of data – everything from libraries of high resolution photos to data-consuming audio, video and multimedia files. Historically, these projects have been managed on either large, powerful hard disk drives or in hard disk arrays. As storage technology evolves, more web design firms are relying on flash storage arrays to manage large-scale web design projects. The downside to flash storage is that it’s often much more expensive than its traditional hard disk counterpart. The good news is that it is faster, more stable and easy to implement.

Why Data Visualization is Becoming Every Blogger’s Favorite Content to Produce

Data visualization is an interactive medium. The best example can be when you book your flight ticket you can find the availability of seats can be shown clearly which helps you to choose the best seat amongst all. Similarly while you search for any particular location be it within your own country or abroad you may find a number of sites which displays the map of that location and you have to point out the exact place by dragging the mouse of your PC.

How to Build a Successful Website Part 5: Usability

In very basic terms, usability means that users can navigate and understand your site, its layout and features easily. There are plenty of complex disciplines that go along with this, but at the end of the day all usability tests ensure that users “get” the website they’re viewing. Few designers ever get this right the first time, although that’s the goal. In many cases, a site’s design team must visit and re-visit site design phases to ensure the best experience for their potential users.

Back to the Drawing Board: Site Planning – Way back in the first part of this series, we talked about the importance of planning and how designers can never do enough of it. Odds are once the site is designed, there may be a few things she has overlooked in the planning process. Ensuring a quality user experience may mean going back to the original planning documents to rework site elements and design ideas.

How to Build a Successful Website Part 4: Optimize

Site optimization is a crucial discipline for any web designer who wants to stay competitive. In a nutshell, optimization is the practice of using all of a site’s resources to ensure the entire site operates at a high level of functionality for its users. This also includes search engine optimization (SEO), which basically means a site is easily searchable by both search engines and human Web users. The good news is that optimization basics can be learned in a matter of minutes, but putting those concepts into practice requires patience and diligence to achieve quality results.

timerDecreasing Page Load Times – One of the most common ways a site starts performing sluggishly has to do with load times. Inexperienced designers often use the largest, high-quality images and files thinking this will make their site look amazing. While this may be true, there’s much more to Web design than simply creating a great-looking site. Using large files will cause pages to load slowly. Today’s Web users won’t stick around to see high-quality images and videos that take a long time to load. In short, a slow site chases visitors away.

How to Build a Successful Website Part 3: Design and Development

Now that we’ve covered the basics of website planning and hosting selection, it’s time to take a look at the design and development portion of the site. This is where a designer uses all the information technology resources available to him to create a site that’s both eye grabbing and high functioning for every user who visits it. While there are dozens upon dozens of design disciplines that go into developing a website, here are 10 of the most common that can apply to any type of Web design project.

How to Build a Successful Website Part 2: Finding a Home

For many beginning Web designers, the importance of quality hosting is often overlooked, primarily because the world of hosting can seem intimidating at first. Hosting plans come in all shapes and sizes to fit the needs of sites with a wide range of hosting requirements. The problem is many novice designers may not be sure of their site’s hosting requirements.

In any case, now that you’ve gone through the rigorous planning stage for your website, it’s time to find a home for your site. For the uninitiated, web hosting refers to a service that allows users to rent space for their site’s data. Data can then be managed and distributed via the hosting service. Without a proper hosting service, nobody will see your site.

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