Choosing Well-Designed and Functional Free Blog Templates for Your Website

May 3rd, 2012 by Admin | No Comments | Filed in Tutorial
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Free blog templates are like dresses, except your blog is the one to don one on. The more beautiful the template is, the better the blog will look. The same goes if it’s more expensive. Yet like in fashion, expensive doesn’t necessarily mean pretty. You wouldn’t wear haute couture everyday now, would you? Sometimes even cheaper dresses or, in this case, templates will create a well-designed blog. You only have to choose which design will work best for your blog.

Search process 

Before you can start designing your blog, you have to first find these free blog templates. If you have money to spare, and lots of money, for that matter, you can opt for a professional designer. If you don’t, however, there is nothing absolutely wrong with a free design. In fact, many people find it even more advantageous to incorporate free templates initially to help them manage their marketing funds well. 

If you want free blog templates that are designed by professionals, you can do so with a simple search. You could find almost anything in the internet. Many professional graphic designers, in order to attract more clients, offer free designs. You can certainly take advantage of these if you want well-designed templates. They don’t, however, guarantee uniqueness. 

Other blogs, even your own blog host, also carry a wide collection of free template designs. There is no hassle in using these templates since they have already been optimized for use of your certain blog. There are also other users who create templates and post them on their own website. There are also other websites that allow submission from other users. You could virtually spot these templates all across the web. 

Picking a design 

Once you spot a good source of templates, take some time sifting through their collection. Choosing a good design can be frustrating since the numbers of submitted templates could go from a mere hundreds to thousands. You can, however, choose a source that categorizes its templates. This is certainly an excellent way to make the search process easier. 

Learning template design 

There are plenty of well-designed free blog templates. But if you find nothing that suits your taste, you could learn to make one on your own. Learning template design or CSS is easy. You only need a basic know-how in HTML to get started. And tutorials in creating blog templates and designing them are certainly easily accessible online. You only have to invest a good amount of time in research and in applying what you’ve learned. 

Mark Michael Ferrer 
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Blog and Website Design ? Creating a Successful Web Tutorial Portal

December 19th, 2011 by Admin | 168 Comments | Filed in Tutorial
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As web technologies continue evolving each day, new information keeps coming out in the limelight but not all web designers get to know about it. This is due to lack of comprehensive coverage of the subject on the internet where one can get concise and up to date information without having to jump between the many different web Tutorial portals offering bits to their readers.

This article seeks to highlight issues to address in development of a wed design tutorial portal or for any other topic on the internet.
1. Design – The design and layout of the information should be void of complicated link overlaps; this reduces the user getting lost when following a particular link. The layout should also be simple and attractive to the eye, avoid dull colors on your pages and unnecessary graphics that may clog your page and increase delays during loading.
2. Informational Flow -A flow chart can help to depict the organization of the web pages in your web tutorial portal, a well thought table of content with links to the relevant related articles and pages will help the user to easily spot and follow their link of interest without getting lost in between. This applies to each article too, structuring it to have a heading where you introduce the topic, body where you discuss in length and conclusion helps the user understand the topic in a systematic manner.
3. Consice content  –The content in the tutorials should be to the point, no one likes reading loads of pages to get to the point, A simple and detailed article can drive the point home other than long and often repeating essays most people write for tutorial.
3. Up to date Information –The information published on the web tutorial portal should be updated and new ones added periodically, This shows the users that they are on an informative site offering current and new information. Its advisable to display newer articles for repeated users and allow new users browse for topics they want in the portal.
4. Relevance –The content in the web tutorial should be relevant to the needs of users. It should meet the needs of your visitors. This is the hardest part but allowing user feedback and feedback is a way to gauge satisfaction to your web portal users. Try also targeting specialized groups it gets easy to serve them other than being diverse in your content.
5. Allow for comments from users and readers –Know what the users think about your articles learn their expectations and bond with them. Comments can help you determine effectiveness of your tutorials.
6.Accept users contribution –This will allow users raise their concerns and views that can help you improve the quality of your tutorials, Sharing of ideas with your users helps in addressing their diverse and sometimes personal experiences that forms the basic reason why your web tutorial portal gets more visitors and retains them.

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May 5th, 2011 by Admin | No Comments | Filed in Tutorial
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Using photoshop to design layouts

Monday September 8, 2008

Sometimes, I get so caught up in teaching people how to build websites, that I forget to talk about how you might figure out a design to build. One of the popular tools for prototyping is Photoshop. I use a combination of Photoshop and Fireworks to build my designs. I use Photoshop for the initial designs and all graphics, then I use Fireworks to slice up the page into graphical and HTML elements. Finally, I move into Dreamweaver to get the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript just right. Then today, I found this article on BulletProofBox that I thought was really helpful: 9 Essential Photoshop Web Design Tutorials. It starts out with some templates in Photoshop (including an interesting portfolio one) and moves on to tutorials explaining how to use Photoshop for Web design. Nice!

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September 8, 2008 at 4:27 pm

(1) Wardell says:

Is there and advantage to slicing up the design in Firworks instead of Photoshop, or is it just a personal preference?

September 8, 2008 at 5:24 pm

(2) Jennifer Kyrnin says:

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Honestly, I don’t think there’s that much difference now. It’s just that when I started that workflow, Photoshop didn’t have any way to slice images and connect with Dreamweaver or another HTML editor. Now that you mention it, that’s a good point. I think I’ll see if I need Fireworks when CS4 comes out (late September, yay!).

September 8, 2008 at 9:07 pm

(3) wsamoht says:

What about Illustrator? Isn’t it easier to create a layout since it is a vector program? I’ve been using the GIMP for quite awhile and its a pain sometimes when changes are needed. What are your opinions?

September 9, 2008 at 5:05 am

(4) Riann says:

I use Photoshop as well as Illustrator. I think it depends on what you would like to do with your design. I am never satisfied with the lines and forms photoshop does. Since everything is required to look kind of “web 2.0? I started using Illustrator even more because I seem to get quicker results there.

September 9, 2008 at 6:59 am

(5) Shreyasee says:

I use Photoshop extensively till any website design template is finalised and then use slicing as Jennifer suggests to htmlize the page.

October 1, 2008 at 11:18 pm

(6) Web Design Contests says:

You can also use services like psd2html.com to take your Photoshop files for you and do all the html and slicing for you.

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