#25426
The purpose of the 'Save For Web' dialog is to allow you to tweak optimization settings for web file formats and show you how those settings will affect your artwork. This allows you to find a good balance between file size and image quality.
Welton, Aaron. Illustrator World (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Web Design>Adobe Illustrator
#25500
Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention
Tthe usual approaches for preventing hotlinking (hijacking) images have a couple of side effects. This system works much better.
Scott, Thomas. List Apart, A (2004). Design>Web Design>Security>Graphic Design
#24306
Judging from the work of fellow Help writers, the value of graphics in online Help is subject to debate. Of the more than sixty Help systems reviewed for this session (including the suites from Corel, Lotus, and Microsoft), fewer than half featured significant use of graphics. Even the Help systems of some graphics applications consisted mainly of text, broken only occasionally by utilitarian screenshots of tools and buttons. Yet, even though we have had only a few years of experience in designing graphics for online Help, many of the Help systems revealed a wealth of good ideas worth adapting for use in your own systems.
Elley, Frank. STC Proceedings (1998). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Online
#32066
Stop Stealing!?!? Affordable, High Quality Photos are Within Your Reach
Are you a designer and wonder where to find high quality images? Are you using unlicensed pictures and images because you don’t know what else to do? High quality images aren’t nearly as expensive as you think! Some very talented photographers are leaving mainstream outlets and submitting their photographs to sites that sell directly to the end user. Artwork, photographs, images, background… every type of graphic you need are available in multiple sizes and file types.
Robbins, Kyle. ReEncoded (2008). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design
#28289
Gradients: a nutritious part of your Web 2.0 breakfast. Wouldn't it be swell if you could get all that goodness without opening Photoshop every time you needed a little gradient bliss? Matthew O'Neill explains how you can.
O'Neill, Matthew. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design
#18232
A web page will be within certain height and width limits. For the lowest common denominator, cross-platform web page, you should design to a minimum width of the Macintosh default of around 470 pixels and a maximum of 625 wide to accommodate people who have standard 14' VGA monitors. The majority of surfer now have 800 x 600 or larger monitors. Unless you really need to accommodate the lowest common denominator, and that comes down to knowing your target audience, you can work to a more realsitic width of about 760 pixels. Even at the larger sizes, it is desirable from a 'readability' point of view, to limit the text line width to 8-10 words.
#28438
Logos in the form of words or letters have natural properties that make them visually effective: (see also logos article): good recognition; good descriptiveness; and good presence.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Web Design>Typography
#19325
There was a time when graphic design - or how things looked at least - was regarded as the most central part of the web experience. A 'good' website, in the eyes of management at least, involved little more than the company message accompanied by attractive pictures, ideally animated as often as possible. Nowadays, we are beginning to realise that whilst design remains a vital differentiator in terms of web experience, it is for very different reasons. Users are by now accustomed to the very highest levels of graphic design work online. This means that whilst a professional approach is essential for any organisation serious about their online presence, on it's own a 'good looking' site is not sufficient. It is in its impact on usability that graphic design is now particularly significant in the online environment. Graphic design, or visual communication, is about more than looks. The way site content is presented will have a significant effect on how easy-to-use it will be. This not only includes questions of appropriate images and styles, but also choice of colour schemes and the way different interface elements are represented.
Farrell, Tom. Frontend Infocentre (2000). Design>Graphic Design>Web Design>Usability
#25751
What exactly is 'chic simplicity,' you ask? It is somewhat of an oxymoron: simple yet sophisticated. The design exudes simplicity through its forms, fonts, and layout, and sophistication through its textures, details, and tastefulness. It's a fantastic 'look' that can be used for almost every genre of websites: a professional, yet hip, corporate site; a stylish, yet clean, commercial site; or just a fun and colorful personal site. Whichever style you're going for, this 'look' will fit.
Polselli, Adam. AdamPolselli.com (2003). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design
#32068
Twenty Best Simple and Inspirational CSS Web Designs
After looking through hundreds, maybe even thousands of websites, I’ve compiled the top 20 CSS websites for clean and simple design. What do these designs have in common? They all have clean simple interfaces and remain uncluttered and easy to read. Many of the designs display a good deal of illustrion or photorealism, two of my favorite current trends that can contribute a lot to a design.
Haig, Anders. ReEncoded (2008). Articles>Web Design>Graphic Design>CSS
#32062
Twenty of The Best Uses of Color in Current Web Design
Many sites “play it safe” when choosing colors. Brilliant colors have to be carefully controlled to avoid looking amateur. I’ve selected these 20 sites for excellent use of color along with their overall web design. Quality of CSS, features, ease of use all come into play as well.
Haig, Anders. ReEncoded (2008). Articles>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
#14865
Updating Graphics In Existing PDFs 
Adobe's built-in way to edit and replace images is fairly slick. Start out by checking your preferences--choose File > Preferences > TouchUp. The two applications listed here will be used for editing bitmap and vector images, respectively, so make sure these are the programs you want to use for those purposes. Remember, though, that only Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator will be able to send the images back to Acrobat without any additional work on your part.
PDFzone (2000). Design>Graphic Design>Web Design>Adobe Acrobat
#19403
Using Visualization in Websites
In some websites the amount of information is so large that the context may be lost whenever it is displayed on a single computer screen. If we try to have the entire structure visible all at once (so we did not lose the context), the details may be too small to read. For example, the HypViewer product on the right below is showing over one million IP addresses. If you think that adding visualization methods to a website automatically will improve user performance in this situation, you may want to consider the results of a couple of recent studies.
Bailey, Robert. Web Usability (2003). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design
#23845
Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization
Visual designers working on the web need an understanding of the medium in which they work, so many have taken to code. Many have entered the usability lab. But what about the other side? Are developers and human factors professionals immersed in literature on gestalt and color theory?
Wroblewski, Luke. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric
#18419
The conservative use of graphics is recommended to ensure reasonable download speeds.
#22911
Web Graphics - From the Tried and True to the New
You've gone to a lot of trouble to put together your Web page. The graphics make it look especially effective. But what if hardly anyone sees them? After all, Web surfers are au impatieut breed with short attention spaus. They might wait about 30 secouds, and theu they're off to another site. You ueed to keep your graphics files as small as possible so they'll load quickly. What cau you do? This demoustratiou shows how to use several popular graphics packages to compress the size of your graphics, alLd where possible, make them transparent.
Randolph, Elaine F., Jeffrey A. Randolph and Mark H. Bloom. STC Proceedings (1997). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design
#12980
If you work anywhere near a Web site, sooner or later you'll have to deal with graphics. Unfortunately, not everyone who winds up handling graphics is a professional designer, and even experienced Web designers don't always understand that graphics have to be produced in a particular way. On the Web, as with anything computer-related, there are more ways to do graphics wrong than there are to do them right.
Anderson, Paul. Builder.com (2001). Design>Graphic Design>Web Design
#18230
Indiscriminate use of graphics, no matter how cool, will only antagonise the reader to the point that they will switch off the automatic graphics download in their browser - and all the designer's efforts will be wasted.
#25897
Good web sites require a seamless integration of text and graphics. Here's the least you need to know about web graphics.
Bakalor, Mark. EFuse (2004). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design
#18228
The purpose of my Web Page Design for Designers site is not to teach people how to produce web pages. There is little mention of HTML or any other technical stuff except where necessary. It is assumed that the reader already has a grasp of HTML programming, or has made the decision to use a WYSIWYG Web page editor. It is aimed at people who are already involved with design and typography for conventional print and want to explore the possibilities of this new electronic medium. They are probably already using page layout tools like QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Freehand and Illustrator and have discovered that designing web pages is something quite different.
#32389
Founded in December 2007, Dzine blog Is all about designs, here you can find inspirational designs and some good tips in logo, graphics and web designing. My aim is to share quality graphic design resources, graphic design tips and much more good inspirational designs and useful information in designing, precisely and regularly.
DzineBlog (2008). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Blogs
#32412
Print-Friendly Images and Logos with CSS
In certain instances, not everyone views every portion of your website online: eventually, someone is going to print parts of it. In many cases, this is perfectly fine: if you have a print style sheet that takes care of your worst sins, your website should look okay. But one area where it may still look lackluster is the images.
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>Graphic Design>CSS
#32413
Five CSSriffic Treatments to Make Your Images Stand Out
Sometimes just having images isn’t enough. Sometimes we need a little help to make our outstanding images truly stand out. And that’s where CSS can help. Here are five things you can do, using CSS, to make the most of your images.
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>Graphic Design>CSS
#32433
In this article, I’ll cover colour basics and three simple colour schemes so that you can feel confident about choosing colours for your site. I’ll follow up this article with another piece on how to simplify these colour choices. After all, it’s more fun to enjoy the compliments on your Web site design than it is to sweat over the colour choices.
Goin, Linda. Opera (2008). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
#32435
Colour Schemes and Design Mockups
After a web designer presents a site’s architecture, or wireframe, to a client for approval, the next step is to determine the look and feel of the site through colour and graphics. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how I keep this process as simple as possible, both for myself and for the client.
Goin, Linda. Opera (2008). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
