I recently created a client website that needed an easy to use e-commerce solution for selling books, CDs and digital downloads of documents and audio files. On the client’s old website, she was just selling her book and CDs using a very simple PayPal link for processing and payment. It worked, but wasn’t very attractive and offered [...]
Filed under: Computers, Graphic Design, Online Marketing on March 23rd, 2011 | 11 Comments »
By Chris Blair
Have you ever noticed that graphics in low-budget television commercials and videos seem to almost scream at you? Much of that is from poor design, but another less conspicuous reason is how they’re created and superimposed on-screen. Poor graphic preparation can cause pixelated edges, dingy looking borders, over-saturated colors and color banding that can produce annoying noise on-screen.
In contrast, the graphics [...]
Filed under: Graphic Design, Video Production on September 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
By Chris Blair
I’ve long been aware of WordPress, but had typically viewed it as a tool for creating and managing blogs. In the past year, I’ve found that it’s a powerful tool for building rich, dynamic websites.
If you’ve ever looked into WordPress, the whole enterprise is a little confusing. There is wordpress.com, which is basically [...]
Filed under: Graphic Design, Online Marketing, Web Video on August 30th, 2010 | No Comments »
By Chris Blair
Ok…so I stole the headline from the classic comedy film, Airplane, but I couldn’t resist. It’s the only quote I know that uses the word vector….as in vector graphics. I know, I know…they meant the aeronautic usage, but cut me some slack here.
There are basically two broad categories of graphic files used in [...]
Filed under: Graphic Design on April 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »