Projects Using Highly Involved Graphics

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Some websites lend themselves to be graphically interesting, working in a ton of wow factor. For instance, musical artists usually have websites that are graphically intense, reflecting the vision of their muse and music.
Visual artists also will emblazon their sites, at least the pages that do not contain actual art work or photography. Sites which concentrate on products or services for youth usually use an artistic theme of some sort.
There are ways to utilize graphics so that you can control their impact. Your entire site can have a theme which can be toned down on certain pages and turned up on other pages. Here are some of our ideas:
  1. Make use of a watermark (a logo or image which is less than 100% opaque and appears light and transparent on the pages background) on your site's pages.
  2. Your header can be graphically intense while the rest of the page remains low key
  3. Your menu links can incorporate symbols which can then be embellished on the individual pages themselves.
  4. A re-occurring theme with colours and fonts being consistent so that your site will hold together cohesively.
  5. Make use of a low key background image.
In the world of the internet, the individual files in a website are called pages. We could take this analogy further and call a website, an electronic brochure or magazine, sometimes known as an e-zine.

As we all know, the most interesting magazines have really great designs and include advertisements and photographs. This analogy should be used, when thinking about your website.

Think of your web site as an electronic marketing magazine, known as an e-zine. The best, most interesting websites are designed with this concept in mind and use graphics in their designs. Some other good reason to use graphic and images in your website are:

  1. Graphics, images and colours will keep your audience interested to stay on your site and and inspired to return.
  2. A graphical design will showcase your products invitingly if done correctly.
  3. Utilize an image of your real storefront within your graphics to show people that you are a real and ongoing enterprise.
  4. Graphics can optimize your marketing opportunites by incorporating animated GIFs or Flash banners.
  5. It is recommended that your page background colour be a little bland and generic, rather than too garish or strong, as the colour may be off putting to some of your audience. A better opportunity to introduce colour is in your graphic design. Pops of colour are better than belches and spews of colour.
  6. To highlight areas of your site such as titles and subtitles, which will help the comprehensiveness of your site.
  7. To brand your site, to make it very distinctive and to co-ordinate with your logo and other branding graphics.