January 23rd, 2010
Mars
Nowadays a website is a necessity for every business, as well as for many individuals. While it doesn’t take much to create a simple web site of mediocre quality, usually such a site is not useful at all. What is more, an unprofessional web site can do a lot of harm to your image. It is true that an unprofessional site will impress your customers but not exactly in the way you want it to impress them.
On the other hand, professional and expensive are not synonyms as far as building a website is concerned. A great site doesn’t have to be expensive in order to be top-notch. Paying tons of money is not a guarantee that your site will be professional. If you don’t know what it really takes to do in order to build an impressive website, you can spend a fortune and have a hot mess for a site. Here are some points to consider in order to avoid this most unfortunate situation:
- Choose reliable website hosting. Most likely your site will not be hosted with a free website hosting provider but with a paid one. There are many cheap and reliable website hosting providers and your task is to find the best among them. Best cheap webhosting is really important because the less downtime your site has, the better. If your website hosting is not reliable, this is enough to disappoint your customers.
- Hire a professional team. This point is also vital because if you don’t hire the right people, your efforts to create a great site are doomed. If the designers, developers, writers, and promoters you hire don’t know their business, be prepared that the final result might be heart-breaking.
- Allocate sufficient amount of time. Time is a critical factor in many endeavors and website design isn’t an exception. You need to have a realistic timeframe. It might look that a small site of 20 pages or so can be done in a day but this rarely happens. You need to provide time for discussions, for first prototype, review of the prototype, implementation of changes, etc. Nobody says that you must allocate years to your site but you need to have a realistic schedule because even top talents can make a mess when in a hurry.
January 18th, 2010
Mars
During my free time, you can see me sitting still in front of my machine. With photoshop is running, keyboard with a CTRL key, Shift key and ALT key which is already worn out. But how I wish to have enough free time to create a clean website design. Unfortunately, I just end up with a single layer-new photoshop file.
Today I am going to feature a tutorials in creating a clean and slick web design that are fresh and still smokin’.
January 16th, 2010
Mars
You have seen the 13 Fresh Websites with Lighting Effects that shows the power and beauty of using Lighting effects on website designs. Now, let us divert our creative minds to focus on the below examples of colorful websites. In my point of view, it is very critical to design a webpage that features a colorful design and has bright colors on it, we are holding the perception and visual idea of a client. But this can be override if we are going to design a colorful website that has rhythm with the other components of the design.
January 10th, 2010
Mars
Few days ago when I am watching news from the Philippines through TFC, one name and talent has struck me. When I had a chance to let my 10 fingers do the rest of asking Mr. Google about this court room sketch artist, I immediately send her an email to ask a permission to use her illustration and to be featured here.
Ala Paredes is a Sydney-based illustrator and designer who loved doodling even before she learned to walk properly. With a successful career as a TV host, model, and writer, she casually worked as free-lance illustrator on the side before deciding to return to college.
In 2009, she graduated with a ‘Diploma in Design and Illustration’ at Sydney Design Centre, Enmore
Her specialty lies in narrative and evocative illustration, or anything that has to do with “telling a story”.
January 5th, 2010
Mars
On Monday night, Dubai’s new baby was delivered in a stunning blaze of fireworks, fountains and fluorescent light. The world’s tallest building is 828 metres and has been named Burj Khalifa by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
Thousands of crowd from different places gather to witness the opening of Burj Khalifa. Regardless of profession and interest you have in life, you are as well encourage to be part of the crowd if only you have the time and accesibility of dubai. Spectacular fireworks and fountain display that made the ceremony worth watching for.
Below are spectacular photos taken during the opening…
Thank you so much to Jon Mancilla and Jeff Vergara for the photos. Click on each photo to visit their website and portfolio.
If you have some additional photos, post the link here and I can assure you that it will be added on the list
January 4th, 2010
Mars
Its 2010, and this is my first post to start the year right on track. Orphicpixel, was established to share extraordinary design related articles and other related graphics that enhance and give a inspirations to its reader. To maintain this image for the year 2010, I want to share with you a out of this world kind of photomanipulation done by Pierre Beteille.
Pierre Beteille is a web designer, graphic designer and art director for over 10 years. Photographer but specialized in editing and manipulationg photographs. Some of his works were published in the Times, Geo Saison, National Geographic Traveler, La Stampa, Get Lost and various Lonely Planet’s publications. You can also visit his flickr page for more great photos.
