Image Loop
Friday, July 03, 2009
For a fabulous way to make a quick and easy slide show of your images check out ImageLoop. It allows you to upload and style the slide show of your choice. Below we’re created one with the more serious LabLoop.
For a fabulous way to make a quick and easy slide show of your images check out ImageLoop. It allows you to upload and style the slide show of your choice. Below we’re created one with the more serious LabLoop.
JPEG - jpg - Joint Photographic Experts Group
This is a common image compression type. Best used for photographs as they favor smooth gradients and softer images. The name comes from the committee that created the standard in 1992.
GIF - gif - Graphics Interchange Format
Gif was introduced by CompuServe in 1987. GIFs are suitable for sharp-edged line art (such as logos) with a limited number of colors. This takes advantage of the format’s lossless compression, which favors flat areas of uniform color with well defined edges.
PNG - png - Portable Network Graphics
PNG was created to improve upon and replace GIF. It is able to handle grades of transparency.
A great little tool for developing colour schemes for web sites. It has many different features ranging from a colour mixer (you give it two colours and it will develop a range for moving between them) to colour analyser (advising you on suitable text colours on a particular background colour).
Making sure you best site looks great often involves getting the imagery right. Often this will be taken care of in the design, but if you have a content management system or are manually editing your pages you may need to change the images from time to time.
The first thing to remember is your average digital camera takes a pretty large picture these days, files will be about 3Mb. Your aim for the web is to make your file sizes as small as possible whilst retaining quality. This will ensure your site is nice and light and loads quickly for your users. Your images will need to be resized for your website. Your image resolution should be 72dpi which is generally called web resolution.
Here are some tools that can help you:
Online Free Web Based Tools
www.picnik.com
Desktop Programs
Photoshop Elements
Paint Shop Pro
Registering Domain names is simple and easy. Coming up with a domain name that is easy to remember, applicable to your business and available is another thing! Here are a few pointers:
1. Try and keep it as short of possible. Remember this domain can also be used for your email addresses. the last thing you want is someones.namehere @ reallylongdomainname.com a bit of a mouthful and takes up half the page!
2. Make it easy to say and spell. That way they will remember it and reach your site.
3. If you are a UK business register the .co.uk domain and use it as your primary domain. Register the .com and .net to protect your brand. If you are an international company then the .com or .net may be preferable.
4. Try and use keywords in your domain. This will help Search Engine Optimisation and give people an insight into what your business does immediately.
If you are struggling to find a registrant to trust, use http://www.123-reg.co.uk
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