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Use software to make
web designing easy - Nucent India (Website
Design Company) Article
When you are creating a business website,
you want to make sure that it is a
professional affordable website design made by
affordable website design India Company. But
that doesn’t mean that it has to have a plain and simple
functional look. Your website should look good smart and also be
interactive. More importantly it should respond to visitors and
convey your message to the end user. There are numerous
software’s available today that can be extremely helpful for
such situations.
To create an
affordable website design you would want to
you the best software possible. However, that is not enough, you
should also you when to use which software, to optimize its use.
Most commonly known software to make effective web sites are
Flash, Dreamweaver and FrontPage. With Macromedia Deamweaver you
can create flash animation buttons by simply entering the
parameters. You can make a quick and easy mouse-over button
right from within FrontPage. Suppose you need to optimize a 100
hundred pictures and quickly, there’s no cause for worry, as
Image ready will help you out with a little droplet. There are
many more software programs that make being a web designer a
little easier.
1. DHTML
This program has some clever features that make your
affordable website design India look better.
DHTML offers easy little tricks that can help you to add some
‘spice’ after you have built your Web page. All you need to do
is follow a simple course of action. From the format menu on the
menu bar, select the DHTML effect option. A tool bar will pop up
within the work area. Choose an option from the first drop down
list. There are four possible choices, on ‘click’ double-click’
Mouse over or page load. Depending on the option you select, a
second drop down list will appear, listing the possible effects
that can be done. If it is text then you can change the color,
size or font. A border can be added around content and if it is
an image then it can be exchanged with another one. The font can
be changed with toggle. That means, if there was a font change
on click, another click will change it back to the previous
font.
There are some one-time effects, which happen, like the
disappearance of an image or a button. This occurs if you select
the fly-out option from the effects list. On ‘page load’ you can
have the selected text appear in many different ways like
swirling in, hopping in, zooming in and out etc. these kinds of
effects are mostly used in advertisements. If you want to draw
the user’s attention towards something, then using DHTML tricks
will do the job.
2. Easy Mouse-Over Buttons.
This program has some fantastic features, which will make your
affordable website design work simple. An
example is the ‘Hover Buttons’. They don’t look as great as
graphic buttons, but like normal block buttons. However, they do
react to mouse-over, which is easy to do. You have to go to the
Insert menu and select ‘Web Component’. Another selection window
will open and in that choose the option Dynamic Effect. Now
select the Hover Button effect and type in the text that should
appear on the button. Then choose a font for the text and the
size and color for the button. Enter the URL to link to on
clicking. In the drop down list there should be a ‘Glow’ option.
You can even choose the color of the glow. Check the button in
preview mode, and you can see it light up when you move the
mouse over it.
These simple effects can make your
affordable website design look fantastic,
without having to design any of those arty graphics, which take
a lot of time to design and a lot of space.
3. Macromedia Dreamweaver and Animated Flash Buttons.
Dreamweaver allows you to create custom vector graphics from
within the software. You can make flash effects to add them to
your
affordable website design. Making smart and
interactive buttons is quite simple in Dreamweaver. There are
several already created styles you can choose from, or you can
make your own new button.
After choosing ‘Interactive Image’ from the Insert Menu, choose
the ‘Flash’ option. A window will open, in which, when you click
on the different choices of button styles, you can see the
preview and then make your decision on which one you want. You
can customize the button by adding the name of the button,
adjusting the Font color and font size and specifying the URL
that the button must link to. The button is saved with SWF
extension. You can always preview the button in your browser to
see if the end design is to your liking or no.
4. Optimizing Web Graphics.
High speed Modems and cable connections have made the Internet
very quick. However graphics can still take a long time to
download. To avoid this, you need to optimize you graphics. GIF
images are generally good for line drawings and illustrations
while JPG ones are best suited for photographs. Besides changing
the file format, there are several other options available,
which allow you to optimize your graphics. You should be careful
about the amount of data that goes into an image. You should be
willing to forfeit for a smaller size if it goes over 50k. The
number of colors in an image should be as less as possible.
Photoshop is a helpful tool for optimizing web graphics. If you
click on the ‘Save for Web’ option, a window will appear showing
you various options and menus, which you can try out, to see
which suits you best. You will be able to see two tabs. The 2-up
tab allows you to see the original and the optimized one
together, so that you can compare the two and choose. It also
shows you the amount of time it will take to load according the
different modem speeds. The 4-up however shows you up to 3
versions with the original. These previews are valuable and
handy, because they save time, as you don’t have to repeatedly
save the image with different designs and view them later. You
can just compare them immediately side by side and choose.
5. Banner Ads
Frequent Internet users will be familiar with banner ads, as
they are abundant on the web. They can be seen in the shape of a
strip, with an image or text that changes continuously with
various fonts and effects passing on some information. Such ads
usually have links, so if you click on it, it will take you to
the advertiser’s website. Banner ads are not the result of
complex programming. In fact you don’t even have to use GIF
builder or any other graphics software to animate such an ad.
You can crate it using the front page. The procedure is quite
simple. Let us see how it is done.
From Insert Manu, select Web component and then banner ad
manger. In the window that opens, give the size of the ad, the
transition effect, the number of seconds to display each image,
and the URL to link the ad. Finally, add the images you have
prepared for this ad and your banner ad is complete.
This software can also be used to share photographs with the
user and also when you want to share the photographs but don’t
want them to be save-able on the viewer’s side. To do that, all
you have to do is disable the right click on the affordable web
site design India and no one will be able to copy your images.
6. Droplet
if you want to optimize several images with the same settings in
quick time then create a droplet and save time.
Open your image and activate the image optimization pallet. Set
the optimization to your choice. You can choose the file type
(JPG, GIF or PNG), quality (low, high or medium), dither and
other options while seeing the preview in the ‘optimized’ tab of
the main in the optimize palette. This creates a droplet that
contains your optimization settings. Save it on your computer.
After that, just drag the folder containing the images to be
optimized onto the droplet. Every image will get optimized as
per your settings. However, this may take a while depending on
the number of images and their sizes. You can also send the
images into the droplet one at a time.
7. Hot Spots in an Image.
If you decide to link various parts of the images to different
URLS, slicing the image and assigning the links to the relevant
slices will do the job. However, it is not as simple as it
seems. Here you have to compromise on the precision of the links
as the slices have to be necessarily rectangular besides being
pieces of the image.
Suppose your
affordable website design
features a
particular product where you want the different parts to lead to
details about that part. You would like the parts like different
ports; peripherals and other components to have precise
rollovers and links so that the information can be conveyed
correctly. Rather than slicing such images and assigning links
you can use image maps.
For this you need to select the Polygon Image Map tool and
outline the part of the image you want to give a separate link,
precisely. Circular image maps can work better in some areas.
You can change points on the map edge after finishing the shape.
Specify the URL to link to along with ALT text in the image map
palette. If you would like to preview the optimized file, then
you can save it as HTML and check it in a browser.
8. Animation in Reverse
If you have an Animation prepared in Image ready and would like
to play it in reverse, there is a simple way to do it. This kind
of animation may have opacity or other effects. There is no need
to manually place the frames backward. All you have to do is
click on the little arrow in the animated palette and choose
reverse frames. You can also create a rubber band effect by
copying the forward sequence (copy Frames), pasting it at the
end of sequence (Paste Frames- ‘Paste after selection ‘) and
then, by selecting the newly pasted sequence and applying
Reverse Frames on this.
Try these options to spice up your
affordable website design. It is very
convenient, as they are simple to carry out and you do not have
to put n a lot of effort.
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