Website Designs
Web design is a kind of graphic design intended for development and styling of objects of the Internet's information environment to provide them with high-end consumer features and aesthetic qualities. The offered definition separates web design from web programming, emphasizing the functional features of a web site, as well as positioning web design as a kind of graphic design.
The process of designing web pages, web sites, web applications or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines which we follow, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic design, human-computer interaction, information architecture, interaction design, marketing, photography, search engine optimization and typography
Markup languages (such as HTML, XHTML and XML)
A well-known example of a markup language in widespread use today is HyperText Markup Language (HTML), one of the document formats of the World Wide Web. HTML is mostly an instance of SGML (though, strictly, it does not comply with all the rules of SGML) and follows many of the markup conventions used in the publishing industry in the communication of printed work between authors, editors, and printers. A style sheet language or style language is a computer language used to describe the presentation of structured documents. A structured document which doesn't break the schema it is designed to conform to is well-formed page. A program processing the document must model the schema, and can present it in different formats, fonts, and order, as well as with other effects, by using different sets of style rules contained in different style sheets.
Style sheet languages (such as CSS and XSL)
One modern style sheet language with widespread use is Cascading Style Sheets, which is used to style documents written in HTML, XHTML, SVG, XUL, and other markup languages. One of the most attractive features of structured documents is that the content can be reused in many contexts and presented in various ways. Different style sheets can be attached to the logical structure to produce different presentations.
Why we use Style Sheet Languages
In order for content in structured documents to be presented, a set of stylistic rules – describing for example, colours, fonts and layout – must be applied. A collection of stylistic rules is called a style sheet. Style sheets in the form of written documents have a long history of use by editors and typographers to ensure consistency of presentation, spelling and punctuation. In electronic publishing, style sheet languages are mostly used in the context of visual presentation rather than spelling and punctuation and it makes the page much faster to load in the browser with many designs and images
Client-side scripting (such as JavaScript)
Client-side scripting generally refers to the class of computer programs on the web that are executed client-side, by the user's web browser, instead of server-side (on the web server). This type of computer programming is an important part of the Dynamic HTML (DHTML) concept, enabling web pages to be scripted; that is, to have different and changing content depending on user input, environmental conditions (such as the time of day), or other variables. Our Web authors write client-side scripts in languages such as JavaScript (Client-side JavaScript) and VBScript
Use Of Client-side scripting
Client-side scripts are often embedded within an HTML document (hence known as an "embedded script"), but they may also be contained in a separate file, which is referenced by the document (or documents) that use it (hence known as an "external script"). Upon request, the necessary files are sent to the user's computer by the web server (or servers) on which they reside. The user's web browser executes the script, then displays the document, including any visible output from the script. Client-side scripts may also contain instructions for the browser to follow if the user interacts with the document in a certain way, e.g., clicks a certain button. These instructions can be followed without further communication with the server, though this will generate the speed by showing lot of contents without waiting for server request .
Server-side scripting (such as PHP and ASP)
Server-side scripting is a web server technology in which a user's request is fulfilled by running a script directly on the web server to generate dynamic web pages. It is usually used to provide interactive web sites that interface to databases or other data stores. This is different from client-side scripting where scripts are run by the viewing web browser, usually in JavaScript. The primary advantage to server-side scripting is the ability to highly customize the response based on the user's requirements, access rights, or queries into data stores.
When the server serves data in a commonly used manner, for example according to the HTTP or FTP protocols, users may have their choice of a number of client programs (most modern web browsers can request and receive data using both of those protocols). In the case of more specialized applications, programmers may write their own server, client, and communications protocol that can only be used with one another.
Database technologies (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL)
A database is an integrated collection of logically related records or files consolidated into a common pool that provides data for one or more multiple uses. One way of classifying databases involves the type of content, for example: bibliographic, full-text, numeric, and image. Other classification methods start from examining database models or database architectures.
The data in a database is organized according to a database model. As of 2009[update] the relational model occurs most commonly. Other models such as the hierarchical model and the network model use a more explicit representation of relationships.
Primary tasks of DBMS packages
- Database Development: used to define and organize the content, relationships, and structure of the data needed to build a database.
- Database Interrogation: can access the data in a database for information retrieval and report generation. End users can selectively retrieve and display information and produce printed reports and documents.
- Database Maintenance: used to add, delete, update, correct, and protect the data in a database.
- Application Development: used to develop prototypes of data entry screens, queries, forms, reports, tables, and labels for a prototyped application. Or use 4GL or 4th Generation Language or application generator to develop program codes.
Multimedia technologies (such as Flash and Silver light)
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content forms) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which only use traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms.
Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia (as an adjective) also describes electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine art; by including audio, for example, it has a broader scope. The term "rich media" is synonymous for interactive multimedia. Hypermedia can be considered one particular multimedia application.
Categorization of multimedia
Flash Design
Flash is vector animation
software, originally designed to create animations for display on web pages. Vector graphics are ideal for the web because they are so lightweight.
Flash is a plug-in and web development application from Macromedia. Files created in Flash can combine animation, sound and interaction and take advantage of a vector-based format to minimise file size. Flash Generator takes advantage of the application architecture to produce Flash elements dynamically.
Why we use Flash Design
Over the releases of new versions of Flash, Macromedia has made Flash more and more controllable via programming, where they have it positioned as a competitor to HTML to build interactive web sites and applications such as an e-commerce store. Macromedia argues that Flash is the way to go instead of HTML because of the following reasons:
Flash intelligently ‘caches’ it’s movies so they don’t have to be reloaded.
Flash gives the user (the person viewing/using the Flash movie) a more responsive ‘rich-client’ like experience.
Flash pages can be made to load faster, but most of the time, the way they are designed in the real world, they do not. That is not a Flash problem, it is more an issue of the Flash developers going nuts with fancy and heavy Flash movies.
HTML caches pages as well, once images are downloaded they are held in your browser's cache. The cached images are then used instead of downloading them from the server again.
With new technology like ASP.net and Java Server Faces, HTML now can react just like a ‘rich-client’ application. Even without these new tools, properly designed HTML for most dynamic sites can provide a good user experience.
What I like about Flash development?
1. You can do some really nice work in Flash that would be difficult and sometimes impossible in HTML alone. Things like complex animations and playing video spring to mind.
2. Practically no browser issues: For the most part, Flash movies will work the same if the user is on Netscape or IE, on Mac or PC. The browser issues (where people coming to your site have different browsers that can ‘break’ your pages) are quickly becoming a thing of the past since most people (thank the web gods) are using IE. But even today, I still have to deal with people who may be using some old browser that can break all but the simplest of HTML code.
Logo Design
A logo carries the image of a company. Its function is to create a long lasting, recognizable impression on the mind of a potential client or customer. Set in a special typeface, it is a graphic element, symbol, and icon of a trademark or brand, which are the shapes, colors, fonts and images usually different from others in a similar market.
How a logo can thrive the minds of Potential clients
A logo is an iconic symbol designed to represent a company, product or service. It also depicts an organization's personality.
Generally Logo is dimensionally petite in dimension, thus as to fit into a variety of brochures, flyers, banners, stationery items, and other means of conveying the message/communication. It has been generally seen that the name of business establishment or corporate or social organization appears with the logo along with the slogan that conveys the essence of their vision and thoughts.
Logos are the cryptogram of your business and are frequently display in additional places than everything else related with your labors does.
A moment in which an image and the existence of your company is embedded in the mind of the client for longer period.
A company, trade enterprise or a communal body to symbolize their trade interest, apparition and develop substance/monetary benefits through it, the personality of uses logos. It represents individual, or the group of people who are promoting that business interest.
Flash Presentation
With robust animation, multimedia interactivity, flash presentations are compelling business communication tools. We offer two types of Flash presentations: slide shows and movies. Slide shows share PowerPoint's discontinuous movement and slide concept while Flash movies have continuous animation throughout. All Flash presentations include multimedia options such as voice over’s, music, and incorporation of video clips, and interactivity options such as play controls, status bar, volume control, hyperlinks, menu-based non-linear navigation, and other custom functionality.
Description: Premium full motion rich multimedia presentation with a business cartoon feel
Animation: Advanced continuous custom Flash animation including some "lifelike" movement
Design: Extensive use of custom hand drawn graphics created with Flash and other advanced graphic design applications
Common uses: Automated (unattended) presentations, such as trade show kiosks, web presentations, CD business cards, etc.
Runtime: Generally 1-10 minutes
Game Design
Game design is the process of designing the content and rules of a game. The term is also used to describe both the game design embodied in an actual game as well as documentation that describes such a design. Game design involve integration of many varying disciplines. Video game design, for example, requires the co-ordination of:
- Game mechanics
- Visual arts
- Programming
- Production Process
- Audio
- Narrative
All of the above have designs elements to them, which makes the clear and concise definition of video game design difficult. The complex nature of video game development arises because of interdependencies between these design disciplines. Decisions made in one area tend to create constraints in others. For example, art specifications can conflict with technical constraints, or the design might appear coherent overall, but be impractical to build.
These interdependencies, although typically less complex, are also applicable to more traditional game design, such as board games, where the designer might seek to make the game fun.