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Learning Online Video Photoshop Tutorials Through Tutorpipe
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 28, 2009, under Photoshop Tutorials
When you want to know about video applications for web designing or for any web application need, you have several choices to get the needed knowledge. You can buy a book about video application on the Internet, enroll and study in an IT school, or learn from it through online video tutorials. Among the three options, the last choice would be the most convenient and most accessible. Here you can learn from home, saving transportation expenses to and fro from IT school or from buying books.
Whether you are a beginner for video web application or you want to learn more about video application for your web, you can look for online video tutorials in the Internet. One of the websites that offer online video tutorials is Tutor pipe.
Tutorpipe is focused on online video Design Tutorials. Their tutorials are designed in a way that both beginners and advance learners understand their descriptions, demonstrations, and narration. With a certain computer minimum requirement, you can easily view their interactive online video tutorials and follow their easy format and instructions. By this, you can get the knowledge that you need for creating your own web applications.
One of the interesting features that Tutorpipe provides to consumers is that they offer a lot of free video tutorials. For example, if you want to request for a free Photoshop tutorials, you can do so and they would readily offer it. Aside from the requested free Photoshop Tutorials, they have ready free video tutorials that include Flash video tutorials and Dreamweaver video tutorials. The Flash video tutorials offered for free range from basic to intermediate subject. The same level is true to free Dreamweaver video tutorials. Other tutorial subjects that are freely given are Windows XP basics, Skype Internet application, and Google Internet application.
While not all knowledge can be taken as free in Tutorpipe, they have a way of providing you with tutorial services that may require you to pay for the subscription fee but these will be worth learning. If you want to learn more about a certain subject that can be availed through their online video tutorials, then you can subscribe. By subscribing, you will be able to log in to their site and get the online video tutorials that you need. The subject tutorial has a particular price.
For instance, if you want to learn more about advanced Flash video tutorials, then you can subscribe, register, and pay the fee. Your subscription can then begin. The subscription is the key in providing you with the constant knowledge you need about advanced Flash video application. The subscription will last for 365 days and can be renewed anytime you wish. The same is true if you want to learn more about advanced Dreamweaver video tutorials.
Tutorpipe has interesting features such as high quality Free Sounds on their online video tutorials, several free video that fits initial knowledge on different web applications, and affordable price for their tutorial subscription. Indeed, online video tutorials would be more preferable than school study or book studies.
Digital Photography - What Is Stock Photography
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 28, 2009, under Stock Photography
Stock Photography is just existing photographs that are available for specific purpose. Sometimes it is also known as picture library or photo bank and digital stock photography can just simply mean that the pictures are taken digitally.
You can see a lot of these digital stock photographs in books, magazines and websites. You might ask why the publishers don’t hire professional photographers for the job. This is because the pictures in photo bank are cheaper than getting someone to do it. Plus the pictures sold in the photo bank are created with the best quality and that can save you from the frustration of fighting with the photographer over the quality of the pictures.
As good as digital stock photography may Free Sounds you might not have much control over the pictures you get from the library. This is especially true when the pictures you are looking for are not something popular and often you have to compromise with the second or third choices you can get.
Since stock photography is about buying and selling photographs, it provides a chance for you to make extra income for your pocket. When you are photographing for picture library, remember that you are to shoot for what your potential customers are interested instead of what you like.
And to help you make money with this process, look at what other photographers are selling and think about what else you can offer. Let’s say eagle is the popular subject. Can you photograph other species of the eagle with different angle or performing other activity? You will never know whether anyone is looking for a picture of Harpy eagle resting in its nest and he might be willing to pay good money for it.
Another easy way for you to cash in with photo library is to look into the ‘wanted list’ in the digital Stock Photography agencies. Once you know what your potential customers are looking for, plan your shots so that you can bring something different to the table. As long as you can make your clients feel that your picture is their perfect solution, they are going to get your picture regardless of your reputation.
Learn Photoshop - Formats of Files in Photoshop
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 27, 2009, under Photoshop Tutorials
So you’ve gotten your brand new digital camera, and you’re ready to get out and take some pictures. But what’s the next step? Well, getting some form of Adobe® Photoshop (preferably Elements 3, or CS 2) is a great step in the right direction. Once you have the program installed, it wouldn’t hurt to pick up a Photoshop Tutorials for it.
The Photoshop Tutorial will help you to understand what the program is capable of, and how you can utilize its tools to their full capacity. What may not be answered, though, is which format it uses and saves in, and what advantages and disadvantages there are to the different file formats.
Photoshop has the ability to open and save several different types of files, but more importantly, you should be aware of why these types of files exist and how to use them to your best advantage. It is vital to know about the different types of files while you learn Photoshop. There are three basic things that concern file format, which will determine how you should save your file: quality of image, layering, and web use.
Quality of the Image:
When you’re taking your photos, you’ll want to use the highest pixel setting possible that your camera provides. For instance, if you have a 5.1 megapixel camera, then you should use that setting to capture your images—the higher the pixilation, the greater the quality. The thing to remember, though, is that the higher the quality, the larger the file. You do have the ability to change the size of the file straight from the camera, and should consult your manual if this is something you’d like to do. It’s best to take your photos in as a raw image, and then convert to something smaller later, because you’ll have the best ability to manipulate the image when it’s the largest it can be. Once you’ve taken the photo, and imported it onto your computer, it can import as a .jpeg or .jpg, or as a raw image. It’s best to save the raw image, because you’ll lose some of the quality with the .jpg.
Layering:
Once you have the photo in your computer, the photo will usually open using your default program, so you’ll need to open Photoshop and then open the image. You’ll then have the ability to do all of your resizing, layering, and manipulation in the program itself. If you save the image directly in Photoshop, it will save it as a .psd, .pdd, or .eps file. These formats will keep the file large and preserve all the layers, so keep that in mind when saving. If you’re going to rework the image at a later date, it’s best to save in this mode. If not, then you have some other choices. The .tif or .tiff was frequently used with early scanners, and will preserve the majority of the quality, but it saves large files and are best used if submitting them to a publisher or a printer. The .bmp, or a bitmap, is a Windows® file that creates good photos, but still creates a large file. The .pdf is an Adobe Acrobat® file, and locks images and texts so that they can’t be further manipulated. If you want to create files like these, you’ll probably need to buy the full version of Adobe Acrobat.
Web Use:
The best file formats for Web use would, of course, need to be small file sizes. Many times, though, the compression takes out some of the range of color and the vibrancy of the photo. Joint Photographic Experts Group - .jpg or .jpeg is probably the most popular Web form, because it compresses the file to a small size, but still allows for the display of millions of colors. Photoshop give you the ability to choose how compressed you want the image to be, and you’ll want to play around with Adobe Image Ready until you’ve found a small file size that doesn’t seem to lose any of the color and subtleties in the photo.
Portable Network Graphics or .png is a recently developed format that’s becoming popular for Web use. It compresses the files differently than .jpg does, but it leaves better quality Photoshop Brushes. It has the capability to maintain millions of colors and transparencies, but still keep the file size relatively small. If you’re on a PC, though, bear in mind that Internet Explorer doesn’t support it.
Graphics Interchange format or.gif is the other popular Web form, but it’s not great for photos. It’s better for graphics and illustrations because it loads quickly and has the capacity for animation and transparent color.
This should be a helpful guideline to get you started in the digital Stock Photography and manipulation world. Allow yourself the time to explore all the possibilities of current programs and settings on your camera. Learning computer basics in the various photo editing programs can be a lot of hard work. If you want to be able to master everything immediately, you’ll only end up being frustrated.
What Is A Logo Design
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 27, 2009, under Logo Design
Creating a brand is one of the most important things that you’ll do in the establishment of your small business. But defining what “brand” means can be a tricky task. There are so many different approaches to branding a business and so many elements of a brand. The most accurate definition I know is:
A brand is the collection of perceptions that your customer has about your business.
Here’s another definition from Wikipedia that goes a little more in-depth into all of the facets of a brand:
In marketing, a brand is the symbolic embodiment of all the information connected with a product or service. A brand typically includes a name, Logo Design, and other visual elements such as images or symbols. It also encompasses the set of expectations associated with a product or service which typically arise in the minds of people. Such people include employees of the brand owner, people involved with distribution, sale or supply of the product or service, and ultimate consumers.
This definition usually makes a small business owner feel rather powerless over their brands. Since, in its’ simplest definition, a brand is created in your customers’ mind — from their perspective and experiences, it may seem that there isn’t a lot that you can do to shape or control the outcome. For example, if a customer has a bad experience, or happens to be in a bad mood when they work with you, there’s a good chance that their impression of your company will be less than favorable. However, there are a lot of actions that you can take to influence and to help shape your customers’ thoughts about your business, and to work towards making those more positive.
Let’s start by looking at how large enterprises approach “branding.” Enterprises typically devote a rather substantial budget to “brand-building.” Generally, the process of brand-building begins with hiring big thinking branding consultants to define a business’s brand. Then, focus groups are conducted with current and potential customers to make sure that the branding is on the right track. After the branding has been refined, corporate messaging will be developed to reinforce the brand, and a brand identity will be designed to visually communicate about the brand. Many enterprises will also put together an advertising and/or public relations campaign to spread the word about their brand and to gain some brand recognition. There are many more activities that large businesses can do to build brand awareness and to create equity in their brands.
But this approach makes branding a particularly difficult task for a small business. Small businesses typically do not have the budget for research, high-priced consultants, and nationwide ad campaigns. And rarely do they have the time or internal resources to devote to the creation and management of a brand. On top of all of this, many of those tasks just aren’t appropriate to help small businesses create the results that they need with their brands.
I typically condense small business branding to a much more compact—and economical—package:
Brand Definition: This is the process of defining your business: Who you are, what you do, who you can best help, and what makes you different from your competition. You must have all of these factors well-defined to create an effective brand. If your thoughts in all of these areas aren’t clear, concise, and well-put, then you can’t hope to effectively direct your customers’ thoughts about your business. Worse yet, you might wind up looking like you have “multiple personality syndrome,” which can thoroughly confuse your customers.
Brand Identity: also known as the graphic “face” of your business. Small businesses certainly benefit from creating a Logo Design and a consistent set of marketing materials. Forty percent of people better remember what they see as opposed to what they hear or read. So having an iconic logo and a strong visual vocabulary used throughout your materials greatly increases your business’s memorability — and makes it more likely that your customers will think about you. The colors, fonts, and symbols that you use throughout your Brand Identity can also communicate your Brand Definition to your customers in a visual way that’s more powerful than using words alone.
Brand Messaging: This is the way that you talk about your business. What is the main message that you want to tell people about your business? What do you want them to remember about you, and how would you like them to pass the word along to others they meet? You can influence many of the thoughts that your customers have about you, and how they talk about you, by having consistent messaging in your marketing materials.
Brand Service: This is how you perform your tasks, relate to your customers, and deliver your products or services. Customer service is a part of a company’s brand that’s often overlooked, because it’s not seen as a part of an advertising or marketing campaign. But with the definition of a brand being so customer-focused, keep in mind that the way that you serve your customers is one of your biggest points of contact with them and the experience can really shape their opinions. Make sure that your service and business practices are in-line with your brand, whether you’re relating to existing clients or new prospects.
If you address all four of these Design Tutorials points in your small business, and keep your customers in mind throughout your brand-building efforts, your brand will be an effective way for you to form a connection with your clients and prospects, and will make your business stronger.
Starting A Career In Stock Photography
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 26, 2009, under Stock Photography
I firmly believe that now is the most exciting time ever to be a photographer, and to be shooting stock. There are more tools and more opportunities than ever before. The playing field has been leveled. The demand for images, and consequently stock photography, is exploding.
Of course, there is more competition than ever before, a glut of photography in the market place, and tremendous downward pressure on prices. Still, over all, I believe the opportunities outweigh the difficulties. Let’s take a look at some ways to get a stock career going in these exciting times.
To succeed in Stock Photography think long term
There isn’t a professional photographer I know who doesn’t look back at his early work and cringe at least a little bit. I know that while there are images from early in my career that I am still proud of, there are definitely images that are embarrassing. Even now there are at least four images in my Getty collection that I actually wish they would take down. Oh well. To actually be able to earn a living from stock is going to require a significant body of work. That will take time to build up. While you’re building up your body of work there are other, at least in my opinion, important steps to take.
Create a web presence
Get a web site up to showcase your work. Optimize for the search engines. There is no doubt in my mind that there people looking for stock photos will increasingly be looking for and finding stock pictures on the web sites of individuals as well as agencies. I personally am preparing for that by migrating my images on to my site and providing links to the agencies that carry them. If you want to, or need to, market and license your images yourself there is an increasing array of tools to help with that process. It is getting easier and easier.
Create images that are needed
Study the market to find out where the holes are. I am guessing that the market does not need a lot of businessmen on cell phones. But there are plenty of images that the market does need. Find those holes and fill them with images that you have passion about shooting. Study the images are used in magazines, on book covers, bus shelters and on the web.
Search the web and search on the agencies to see where there is a need for images. Put yourself in the shoes of someone looking for an image to advertise your business. Just yesterday I put myself in the shoes of a business owner and searched to see what I could find. I started out imagining myself as the owner of a dry cleaning business. I came to the realization that, at least in my mind, there is a definite need for images in that business sector.
It is amazing that with the unfathomable number of images out there, the number of “holes” is so encouraging! Also, there is always a need for concept images such as “teamwork”, “success”, “standing out from the crowd” and others that are new and different. You can’t go wrong with quality concept images.
Focus on Quality
Quantity is important, but quality is more important. Quality content is increasingly vital. In the early days of stock quality was not an issue. It is now. Recently, Yuri Arcurs, the world’s top micro stock shooter, who has also been shooting traditional stock for a year now, told me that he believes shooting successful micro stock is more difficult than shooting for traditional stock, that the standards are actually higher. Whether that is true or not, the quality bar has been setting awfully high. Consider it your job to raise that bar even higher.
Slow and steady wins the race
As you create your quality, relevant, images, submit them to agencies, post them on your own site, optimize that site, and stick to it. Like the tortoise and the hare, one day you will wake up and realize that all the time and effort have been worth it. You will be your own boss, can work from anywhere at what you love to do, and have an income stream that is only limited by your willingness to do what it takes.
The Modern Age Of Graphic Design
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 26, 2009, under Design Training
The modern era goes by the packaging of ideas that are communicated and Graphic designing is pertinent and prominent, in these times. Graphic designing is one of the areas that encompasses all the aspects of aesthetics, imagination and craft. Graphic designing has evolved from the paintings in the caves of Lascaux to online designing and printing. Graphic designing comprises facets like typography, page layout and visual arts. Graphic designing represents the process and product of creating something for the purpose of communicating.
First glimpses of graphic designing were sighted in the paintings that were found in the caves of Lascaux around 14000 BC. The Book of Kells and the ornate Gospels of the Christian Bible are all vivid examples of graphic designing in the olden times. In the modern era, Herbert Bayer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and El Lissitzky are considered the fathers of graphic Design Training. They promoted various stylistic devices and techniques widely adhered to in the twentieth century. The German Bahaus School of design that was established in the year 1937, in America, was pivotal in propagating modern architecture and designs.
Graphic designing is inclusive of aspects like illustrations, types, shapes, colours, textures and even photos. Websites, logos, business cards, advertisments, billboards, posters, magazine layouts, etc, are all the products of the process, graphic designing. Graphic designs communicate a text or and idea effectively, intricately and creatively through visuals. Multimedia designs or interactive designs or WYSIWYG interfaces used in the computer are the modern versions of technology used to produce graphic designs. Dissemination of knowledge is the key objective of graphic designs. Graphic designs are essential in administration, advertising, education, journalism and the internet.
The creative mind of a human is the greatest requirement in graphic designing. The human mind taps its faculty of imagination to render a graphic to convey a text or an idea. The advent of desktop publishing and the arrival of graphic art software applications created a revolution in the field of graphic designing. Computer is used as both business tool and design tool in today’s computer era.
With the aid of graphics software, a person can forge novel illustrations, device new layouts, work on photos,etc. Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Flash Animations and Dreamweaver are used for working on photos, creating illustrations, formulate new layouts, creating interactive websites and for website development respectively by graphic designers.
To be a graphic designer, one has to possess the capability of embodying one’s imagination to the optimum level. A sound knowledge of the cutting edge technologies utilized to enhance the graphic Designs Tutorials sets a new designer in a league of his own. Short terms courses and reading books on graphic designs reinforces one’s knowledge on the subject. For an upcoming graphic designer, Books like Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines, The Little Know-It-All: Comon Sense for Designers, etc give an insight into graphic designing. For a novice in the field of graphic design, a portfolio in the form of a website, PDF document or a portfolio with printed samples of your work may speak volumes about his or her creativity to a potential employer.
If packaged in a unique manner, an idea is received hands down by anybody in the modern consumer market and that stands a talented graphic designer in good stead. Since the work is creatively satisfying and allows the designers to tap the potential of the avant-garde technology in the field, the career is enormously exciting.
Free Sounds For all
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 25, 2009, under Free Sounds
Stock Photography or royalty free music libraries are a rage in the e-business department today. A number of sites have come up which offer stock music that can be used anywhere and everywhere to the discretion of the consumer and does not have royalty obligations. This is a huge advantage for users who cannot afford quality musicians or audio engineers to model or construct music to fit their bill. Ranging from PowerPoint presentations to music for documentary films, all kinds of music requirements are satisfactorily filled by these stock music sites.
But not all such sites and stock music libraries that offer instant royalty free music tracks and solutions are trustworthy. Nor do most of these sites meet the quality standards expected by the user. The sites take advantage of the fact that users do not have an alternative option to meet their need for royalty free music.
But now you have an option out! Audio Micro comes to your rescue!
We, at Audio Micro, offer a huge reserve of free music and free sound effects to be downloaded for a minimal amount of fees. This gives you a host of music tracks and audio tracks that project excellence in your presentation or film or whatever project you might want to instill the sound into. But do not think that because our music is royalty free, the quality will be sub-standard. Our professional stock musicians and sound engineers have the right mix of quality and experience to give their best into the sounds and free music tracks our huge music library has in possession of.
We not only save you your money, but also a precious entity called time! This allows you to focus more on the core matter of your project or presentation instead of wracking your brains about the Free Sounds you would have to develop to make it more attractive. In our library of royalty free music tracks, all kinds of sounds and music cues are available to allow you to choose the one that suits or complements your project or visuals.
Stock Music requirements vary from client to client and our library has the solution to one and all. We have a complete catalog of free music tracks and free audio clips to allow the potential consumer to scan through and select their choice. The more skeptical ones can also download samples of the royalty free music and listen to them first. We can ensure you that quality is an element we never compromise with, irrespective of an increase or decrease in the monetary balance. This is something that has helped Audio Micro to become one of the leading sites in the Stock Photography business.
Even though there are numerous sites available online that cater to your music requirements, we shall recommend ourselves on the very ground that we excel both ways in quality as well as in quantity. And yet the charges for such a treasure chest of royalty free music tracks is absolutely justified and appropriate.
In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Training Theory
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 25, 2009, under Design Training
Have you ever heard a conversation between two type designers? Even the most patient, well-intentioned outsider might find himself smiling embarrassedly, excusing himself and looking for an exit, dumbfounded. Type designers, like computer programmers, clinical biochemists, entomologists and agricultural scientists are marked by an unintelligible jargon and slavish devotion to their pursuits; what sets them apart, however, is the seeming unimportance of their discussions. We type designers might be convinced that our profession is vital to society, but we wouldn’t risk going on strike to test how indispensable we really are. Like printer cartridges or pen refills, Free Fonts are undoubtedly very practical and serve their function, but the public seems to take them for granted and largely ignores them.
Writing about fonts is equally as difficult as talking about them. Articles on type design rarely appear outside the realm of the trade magazines, probably because of their highly technical nature. (The development of type has always been inextricably connected to the development of printing technology.) Writing about type and typography in the mainstream media is somewhat of a rarity even in the Netherlands, a country which is renowned for its highly-developed typographic culture, not to mention other countries where type Logo Design is still waiting for any sort of recognition. Yet searching through the past year’s issues of the New York Times reveals a surprising half dozen articles on typography, and even weekly satirical paper The Onion, carried an article on type, “Helvetica Bold Oblique Sweeps Fontys,” thus confirming the public’s interest in type design. (Of course, this article, which reports on the winner of a fictional annual font award, appeared next to other ‘news’ like “Sheepish Secret Service Agent Can’t Explain How Vacuum Cleaner Salesman Got Into Oval Office,” which perhaps gives us a better perspective of the general public’s true level of concern in matters related to type.)
10 Stupid Flash Animations Tricks
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 22, 2009, under Flash Animations
We’ve all seen them: web pages that, no matter if they use HTML, DHTML, Javascript, Flash, or some other medium, have some of the most visually obnoxious or functionally irritating effects that we’ve ever seen. We may even be guilty of creating those sort of websites, in our first experiments with understanding what we can and cannot do with our development medium of choice.
Just because we can do it, however, doesn’t mean that we should–and here you’ll find a list of ten Stupid Flash Tricks that you can create in Flash, but that you may want to avoid unless you enjoy driving your viewers away.
1. Blinking Text
The first time you learn how to make text blink, you may point and giggle and think “That’s cool, look what I did!” By the tenth time that your viewers have seen blinking text overused in one website or another, however, their first instinct will be to close the site without even reading the obnoxiously flashing, eye-searing text. You may think that making your text blink draws focus to your content–but all that it draws focus to is how annoying blinking text is. Avoid this unless you want your website or Flash Animations to look like it was culled from Crazy Al’s Overstock Mattress Warehouse.
2. Rainbow Gradients
To this day I wonder why Macromedia even bothered including a preset rainbow gradient, especially such a bright one. If you’re really determined to use every shade in the ROYGBIV spectrum, find a way to incorporate them tastefully; don’t just slap a rainbow gradient on something and think it looks cool. There are places for rainbows, sure–like in an actual rainbow. But if you’re just using one because you can it and it has no real use in your scene or in your Design Tutorials elements, try something a bit more subtle, and a bit less blinding.
3. Cycling Background Colors
In my opinion, there is no better way to ensure that 90% of viewers will close your site/Flash movie within the first five seconds. Pick a Free Backgrounds color. Stick with it. Cycling through background colors, whether they shift sharply or fade from one to the other, is a good way to either a.) give your readers a seizure, or b.) make it impossible for them to focus on the text or objects laid over that background.
4. Constantly Looping Sound That Can’t be Turned Off
Embedded sound in Flash is basically the mutated, inflated younger sibling of the age-old and hated embedded MIDI background music. Flash has sound for a reason–for sound effects, for playable music files, for any number of myriad uses…but I’d bet money that Macromedia never intended for it to be used to drive people crazy with repetitive, looping, loud, irritating audio that can’t be shut off without either turning off the volume on your computer or else just closing the page entirely. If you want to add background music to your movie, especially if it’s fitting, go ahead. But make sure it’s either quiet and unobtrusive, or else that you include a control to turn it off. There are few things more painful than loading a page only to suddenly be drive-by Free Sounds blasted by screaming audio at maximum volume.
5. Obnoxiously Persistent Animations
This is another “next-generation” version of an old annoying-but-persistent website no-no: the dancing, non-stop, ever-present GIF animations, now all grown-up and ten times as tenacious when implemented through Flash. Your web page or Flash Animations does not need constantly dancing doo-dads, especially if you’ve got actual relevant content that you want people to read. It’s cute? That’s nice. It’d be a lot cuter if you set it to stop after one or two cycles instead of leaving it to loop constantly as a distracting and irritating little aside that isn’t at all necessary.
Rethinking HTML for CSS
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 22, 2009, under Photoshop Tutorials
To get the most out of CSS, your HTML code needs to provide a solid, well-bulit foundation. This shows you how to write better, more CSS throughout your site, html actually become easier to write .you no longer need to worry about trying to turn html into the processing of Denver web design maven it was never intended to be; instead, css offers all the graphic Design Training touches you’ll likely ever want. and your job becomes simpler since html pages written to work with css require less code ,less typing ,and are easier to create .they ‘ll also download faster-a welcome bonus your site’s visitors will appreciate
HTML: Past and Present
As discussed in the introduction, HTML and its successor, XHTML, provide the foundation for every page you encounter on the World Wide Web .when you add css into the mix, the way you use html changes. Say goodbye to repurposing awkward html tags merely to achieve certain visual effects. Some html tags and attributes-like the tag-you can forget completely.
HTML Past: Whatever Looked Good
When a bunch of scientists created the web to help share and keep track of technical documentation, nobody called in the graphic designers. All the scientists needed HTML to do was to clearly structure information for easy comprehension.
But as soon as people besides scientist started using HTML, they wanted their web pages to look good. So Colorado web designers started to use tags to control appearance rather than structure information. You a use use headline tags to make any text bigger and bolder-regardless of whether it functions as heading.
In an even more elaborate workaround, designers learned how to use the tag to create columns of text, and to accurately place pictures and text on a page .unfortunately, since that tag was intended to display spreadsheet-like data research resulted, train schedules,
and so on designers had to get creative by using the tag in unusual ways, sometimes nesting a table within a table within a table in order to make their pages look good.
Meanwhile, browser makers introduced new tags and attributes for the specific purpose of making a page look better. The tag lets you specify a font color, typeface, and one of seven different sizes.
Finally, when designers couldn’t get exactly what they wanted, they often resorted to using graphics. they’d use a very large graphic as Free Backgrounds for a web page or slice it up into smaller graphic files and piece them back together inside tabled to recreates the original image.
While all of the above techniques using tags in creative ways, taking advantage of design –specific tag attributes, and making extensive use of graphics –provide design control over your pages, they also add a lot of additional html code.
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