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Add Graphics To Your Website - without losing your mind! - They can generally make your site more appealing, illustrate points or products, and provide creative icons for people to click through for more information.
A Graphics Primer - This is not a comprehensive graphics course. We're talking basic, simple - words you want to hear.
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Five Free Graphics Tools - Graphics often need a bit of a tweak before you add them to your pages. Cropping, making the background transparent, resizing, or just finding that picture that you **know** you've got somewhere on your hard drive!
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My Website: Practical Graphics - The
point is this: if you're aiming to get your site in front
of as many eyes as possible, you need to build your site
as if everyone on the planet was still pulling up pages
with a
pokey 24k modem-or a Palm Pilot, for that matter.
Give
Your Graphics A Professional Look without the Price - You
can create your own graphics that can look just
as nice as some of the professionally created graphics
for a fraction of the cost.
Graphic
Icons Are Everywhere! - An
icon is an image that tells a story in an instant. It is
a picture that is worth a thousand words.
Graphics
for the web: GIF Format - It
is a very powerful
format, suitable for many different types of images.
Graphics for the web: JPG and PNG Files - Article covering te JPG and PNG file formats
Graphics for the Web: Plug-Ins - You've probably noticed that just about any application of any real significance these days has the capability to be expanded in some way. Usually these are called "plug-ins", although they are also called snap-ins (Windows 2000), add-ons, add-ins (Outlook 2000), ActiveX Controls (Internet Explorer) and filters (Adobe Photoshop, as well as any number of other descriptive names.
Graphics for the web: The Most Common Formats - Now there are hundreds of image formats, although only a handful are actually appropriate for the internet.
Graphics Optimization - It is important that you understand all three formats to make the correct decision as to which to use under what circumstances.
How to Jazz up Your Site with Quality ClipArt - Clipart has something of a bad name. And it's true, there's some terrible clip art out there.
How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site - Part 1 - Properly preparing your images is necessary to enhance the appearance of your web site.
How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site - Part 2 - When surfing the Web, you will have noticed web sites where the images load very slowly whereas other images don’t match with the theme of the site or appear blurry. Presenting a professional image for your business means your web site design must be professional also.
How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site - Part 3 - Image optimization significantly improves your site's effectiveness.
Internet Marketing Tools - Graphics Basics - Graphic design is an intimidating subject for many Internet entrepreneurs. However, most of us must learn some basic design techniques in order to avoid the high costs of hiring a professional designer.
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