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How to become a Professional Web and Graphic Designer – Episode 2: Getting Started

February 11th
How to become a Professional Web and Graphic Designer – Episode 2: Getting Started

In the previous episode, we took a look at the starter tips about being prepared for probable challenging issues.

This time, we have a notepad and we will write down the spotlights of an interactive project skeleton.

Though today we have lots of tools and elements to create a good looking and effective web design, it still doesn’t seem enough if we look at the natural beauty and elegance surrounding our worlds.

This is the main reason creativity never dies, always a new approach can be tried.

Our purposes will be:

  1. To better reflect our message and achieve the main goal of the project
  2. Express the message / topic with adding visual style to it.
  3. Maximize the viewer usability
  4. Optimize the reachability

Okay, lets get to the steps: Continue Reading

 

How Web 2.0 Style designs disturb me

February 5th
How Web 2.0 Style designs disturb me

It all begins with the word “blogging” by blogger.com. The web started to become even more transparent, visitors gain more controls on where they visit.

Websites went more individual than corporate sheets, communities had more features and usable functions to bring together more people.

We had AJAX technologies, script libraries and frameworks to present better and more functional websites.

It’s all good, all amazing and will be like that as long as Internet enables us and our visitors to have more abilities when surfing, getting everyone closer online.

Though, this article is not about the features of what we call “web 2.0″, but the visual effects of this trend. Continue Reading

 

How to become a Professional Web and Graphic Designer – Episode 1

January 31st
How to become a Professional Web and Graphic Designer – Episode 1

When we were children, we all used to dream about becoming someone, something; very good at whatever it is.

Doctor, scientist, f-16 pilot, football star, singer…The list goes on. The following episodes starting by this one; is for those who used to have a lot of abstract visions and dream of becoming a good and successful designer.

I prepared these article series mostly depending on my career experiences and amateur to professional background in the business. Some of you may agree on these matters, and some not. Or think some of the rules are not that critical. These below are my aspects. I hope they will be helpful for you. Continue Reading