10 Things You Should Not Do on Your website

If you are looking for ways to make a good website or make it better, avoid these 10 things you should NOT DO on your website.

1.) Do not have HUGE pictures or HUGE websites. It will slow down your loading process and your visitors will leave if it takes longer than 5 seconds to load.

2.) It is not a good idea to have side navigation bars on your website. It will cause your visitors to have neck problems and how would they read that side ways anyway? You should NEVER do this.

3.) Use a correct color combination for your website. NEVER use more than 3 colors on your website. Not every color goes together. If you want to look for good color combination, go to www.colorcombos.com

4.) Having to many animations on your page is not a good idea. It can take your attention away from the information that your visitor has went on your website for. Your visitors will get frustrated and will leave the site.

5.) There other ways to get your website noticed besides LYING about what your website has on it. For example, a person finds an ad your website that says "Finding Ways to find jobs" but when they click on it, Your site talks about how to plan your trip to Orlando.

6.) Have the correct font on the website. Do not put a font on your website that your visitors will not be able to read. It has to be legible to the visitor unless you want them to leave or or talk bad about your site.

7.) If you put too much information on one page, you will not get very many visitors will be going to your website. You have to remember, your visitors is looking for information, not a diary on how you got into sing for a band.

8.) Do not have miss use graphics or images. If it does not pertain with your subject on your website, do not put it there,

9.) Have the correct spacing of everything. Do not have all your text jumbled up together leaving your visitor bewildered. They wouldn't know where to start from or where it ends.

10.) Stay on topic with your subject is. If that is a challenge for you as a person, you need to find ways to become more alert with what you type.

Royalty-Free Photography and Fonts

What's up? These are some sites that you can use for Royalty free photo websites.
http://www.bigfoto.com/
http://www.dreamstime.com/
http://www.istockphoto.com/
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
http://www.freepixels.com/
http://www.stockvault.net/
http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
http://www.shutterstock.com/
http://www.morguefile.com/
http://www.sxc.hu/

And these are some websites for Royalty fonts.
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
http://www.grsites.com/archive/fonts/
http://www.urbanfonts.com/
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.abstractfonts.com/
http://www.dingbatdepot.com/
http://tackorama.net/Fonts/fonts.htm
http://www.fontco.com/
http://www.highfonts.com/ 
http://www.fontgarden.com/dingbats/

Independence Day: Movie Poster

This a fake poster. The project was to create a movie poster from existing movies, but put your own style on it. That's what I did. This was all thanks to photoshop. Comments, Questions, and Concerns. Thank You .

Productive

These two pieces of work is what I have learned and worked on it til it was perfect.  I learned how to make fire and smoke in photoshop. You can have the smoke to become any color that you want. The reason why I decided to pick the color blue for the color of the fire and the smoke is because it is rare to see blue fire. but you can have a green, orange, yellow, purple, etc. The second piece is twirls. You can use this for a background or use it for a interesting commercial in a magazine. Again, you can change into any color combination. Comments, Questions, and Concerns. Thank You. 

Advertisement

These are my advertisements I made in photoshop. I got inspiration from a plethora of ads online, t.v ads, and from classmates. I have enjoyed working on these ads because It has taken my creativity to the limit. These are good, but I will never be satisfied. I will always work to become a better designer and become more creative. There is no limit on imagination. These past two months in photoshop have been fun. I hope in the future, I will have the opportunities to work and create pieces like these and even come up with better inspiration. I would appreciate comments, questions, and concerns. Thank you in advanced.

The Importance of protecting Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property is very important to protect. The term "Intellectual Property" is another term for copyright, trademark, or a patent. Your Intellectual Property is what lets the world know that you are the first to design the product. Nobody else can create it because you have put your stamp on it. This is crucial for any designer in any type of design. You do not want clients or firms to steal your creative idea. This would cause major problems and if you want to take it to the court system, it will be a major hassle. It would even take days, months, even years to finalize. When all the work is done though, all the hard work will be in vain because you still lose the argument. The point is to put your stamp on it before somebody steals it. When ever you have something being published, remember you have to protect your intellectual property for your product.  That should be your number one objective, placing your stamp on your work.

Australia Travel Poster

This is my Australia travel that I created in photoshop for a project. I have gotten better day by day in my class. I really enjoy doing projects like this. These type of projects really test my creative and so far I have been coming up with great designs. I try to think outside the box and never jump on the first  conclusion I come up with. I would appreciate any comments, questions, concerns.