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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Web Design Like a Glossy Magazine

Web design needs user focused design, where the user feels the ease and ability to navigate through your site like they're effortlessly flipping the pages of a glossy magazine. Where Reality T.V. became structured and more beautiful like going from "The Real World" to "The Hills" and "8th and Ocean" web design will transform into a more entertaining and pleasing form of communication.

Web 2.0 is already telling us that our users want to feel comfortable and inspired, using shiny and applicable icons, simple elegant designs over jumbled SEO covered websites. If you want a career in web design, and have aspirations of moving up and above the local car dealership's website, you should really analyze the way web design is evolving like an art form and even psychologically try and understand what your user wants.

Let your user feel as though they're looking through the other side of their brand new makeup mirrors, opening and peering into something lovely and exciting. Take your design skills to the next level and study other sites that are pleasing and easy for you to navigate.

If you're serious about web design, you should take ever aspect of it seriously and really concentrate on the new standards making way, like web 2.0.

Animate Liquid More Realistically

The advancement in technology is also advancing web graphics, graphic design, web animation and graphical animation. From the mathematical equations developed to properly animate objects and make animations look more realistic, comes the automation of such equations, perfecting the art of realistic animation.

If you are familiar with graphic design and animation, you have probably worked with trying to make realistic liquids in Photoshop, Image Ready, Flash, etc. But, the top dogs in the animation industry are attempting to analyze the exact motion and movement of liquids in animation to make their animations look as realistic as possible.

Here's an article on the study of creating realistic liquid animations, worth checking out very interesting!

Making animated fluids look more realistic

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Google Gives Back: Essential Web Master Tools



I came down prety hard on Google in a recent post on my Technology News Blog If you want to view the article, Sentenced to Life Behind Google I decided I would talk about some of the great things that Google does offer Web Masters, that are essential and incredibly useful. First of all, their Adwords program is not only great for advertisers, it is also an incredible way for web site owners to market their own websites. The Adsense program allows you to set prices on specific keywords, choose the websites you advertise on, and allows complete control over the display of the ad. Also, you can count on Google to ensure the quality and reliablity of their advertisers. If you have money to invest in website marketing or promotion, I would highly recommend using Google Adwords to market your website. If you want to purchase Adwords ad space and watch your user base triple in size, thus increasing profit.

Now that we're talking about website marketing, let me move on to Google Adsense. There has been a lot of talk about Google Adsense, and their competitors. One thing I've heard is that users are so familiar with Google Ads and their format, that they are programmed to just kind of skim over them. But, Google Adsense allows the webmaster to completely customize the format, color and layout. So, this shouldn't really be the issue. The other argument is that Google Adsense doesn't payout as high as the competitors. But, if you're serious about making money with ads, the 2 cents you receive more from a competitor is not worth the sloppy ad displays they have. Google Adsense, without a doubt, displays the most relevant, essential and quality links compare to their competitors. This is because they can, they have the money, the experience and the means with which to provide their customers with the highest quality Advertising methods. If you want to is the answer.

Alright, on to the fun stuff! Google's Toolbar is AMAZING! The newest version out allows webmasters to view CSS, HTML Code, Form information, Site Ranking and a whole lot more. If you consider yourself a web privy individual, web master, or simply curious internet geek like me (well...I'm all three) You should be packing the toolbar in your belt. The is the only way to go for web browsing, mastering or discovering.

The Google Pack is another nifty offering handed to us by our master, Google.com. It's an entire package of lite, fluffy magic that will ensure safer browsing, and efficient web mastering.

Hope that was useful! Any website designer should understand these four essential Google tools like the back of their hand: Google Adsense, Google Adwords, Google Toolbar, and Google Pack