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How necessary is it to be artistic to qualify for web design? I am creative but lack artistic skills such as drawing, painting etc. I have designed web sites before and they were very presentable. As an official full-time web designer, how important would it be to be artistic, or would i be able to get by?

I think being ‘creative’ helps, as well as knowing code and having a grasp of design. Drawing and painting are not necessary as much as design is. I am a fine artist that learned design and I’m a multimedia designer (including web). Knowing design software; Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady/fireworks and being able to create images; buttons, backgrounds, banner ads, etc. doesn’t have much to do with painting per se.

Knowing artist tools and techniques -and- being able to code does put you in a unique position though and makes your skill set more attractive.

The less a ‘job’ (web design in this case) has to be piece milled out because you can only provide a portion of the required work, the better.

Having creative ‘hand skills’; drawing and painting, goes a long way.

I run a web design company and i regularly get clients asking about e-commerce sites, i’m not sure how to do them yet so i have come here to ask.

do web designers out there just get an open source ecommerce software and edit the themes to integrate into a clients website or do they build their own?

how should i go about offering ecommerce, and what should i use software wise

Thanks

As said above, but free e-commerce scripts are usually full of bugs.
Large systems, like Joomla, Drupal, Miva or Os-commerce are very complex to use and have HUUUGE amount of stuff you will never need (install 26mb!).
I personally find them a total waste of time.
Here are the basic specs of simple e-commerce:
E-Commerce basic specs

Home page:
6 areas:
- Banner
- Navbar (or menu)
- Main
- Footer
- Login
- basket/cashier buttons
Any area can be horizontal or vertical
login and basket can be included in any other area.
All area contents can be changed through AJAX.
Navbar leads to separate pages or catalogue items.

Catalogue:
- Items referenced by
- Categories
- Itemno
- Subinfo (ie size, colours)
- Each item has two images:
- small
- large
- Catalogue menu extracted from categories in DB (autolist)
- in NAVBAR area
- Select category shows thumbnails of all items of that category
- in "main" area
- Select thumbnail to bring Item full details with
- in "main" area
- add to basket

Login:
- Enter Username/password and login button
- Register button
- Password Recovery button
- My details button (edit or delete account)

Basket:
- Show/edit basket content in session
- Cashier button

Cashier:
- View basket, confirm.
- If not logged in, register form
- Go to PayPal.
- On return, email with order details to user

Paypal:
- Cashier payments through PayPal

Admin:
- Users:
Browse, search users
alter data, access levels
create new users
- Items:
Add, delete, edit items
Browse and search items, to view/edit
- Orders:
Browse orders
- Accounts:
list of bank transactions
list of accounts and status

You can the whole of it in less than 200kb of code! (Not if you use Dreamweaver, of course: you’ll never make it. Use Notepad++ to edit your code.)

I ask this because i thought there was but people seem to use the words interchangeably even on job adverts.
I thought a designer dealt with the coding of web pages and the layout and that a developer did stuff like dynamic and database.
Actually i just read in a book that these 2 roles are becoming increasingly combined maybe that’s why i was confused.

The Definition of Web Design (Designer)
Web design typically refers to the process of designing a web site or web page layout and often includes the graphical elements on a page. The design can be developed using a graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop, and provides the framework for the look and feel of a web page.

The finished product of the design does not typically contain code. Rather, the graphical representation of the web page is used by another or the same party as the basis for the code. The representation is divided into areas that can be represented by web code, and other areas that are purely graphics.

Often, web design and development firms use the term "web design" to refer to the entire development of a web site because it is the most commonly recognized term in the marketplace. However, it is important to clarify what a firm means before signing up for their "web design" services.

The Definition of Web Development (developer)
Web development is typically used to described the programming required to construct the "back end" of a website. The back end is the area of the site that isn’t seen by visitors, but which does the work required in order to present the right information in the correct format to the visitors.

Web development is used to describe any database-driven web designs using dynamic scripting languages like PHP, ASP, ASP.NET and Coldfusion. It also covers database design and development. The term can also be used for client-side scripting such as JavaScript and Java.

Hi, to all http://pravalikadesigns.com this is my site. when I search "Pravalikadesigns" in Google I am getting homepage link only how I can get sub links followed by home page…

Link this..
Pravalika Designs http://pravalikadesigns.com ….
"SEO" "Web Hosting"
"Web Design" "E-Commerce" ……

Can any body help me how I can get like above….

Well congrats. You have done it. A back link from a site like this will get you listed pretty darn quickly. Now that it’s up…just as long as you don’t get booted…you should be listed in under 4 days. My last site was listed in Google in under 3 just by having a back link on here. But maybe you already knew that…..hmmm.

Heh…I made a template design that can be used on a site by altering the images of a bunch of hot women till you can’t tell the images I used were originally pics of women. Do you think I would be sending out subliminal messages by using it? That was the motive, to have some geek on a computer thinking, "Oh, I don’t know what it is about this site, but it’s turning me on."

I think your question should be put in the Psychology column.

Short answer: there is no such thing as subliminal messaging. Advertising and such are meant to create conscious reactions to buy their product, so trying to induce conscious reactions with unconscious stimulus is contradictory in itself. Even so, if subliminal messaging is truly subliminal, we would have no idea of it even existing nor its effects, which is a waste of time.

There are a lot of studies showing that "subliminal messaging" does not work. If you’re trying to get somebody horny, just post pictures of naked women.

I just started a small computer services and web design company in Florida

I want to know the following

- Does the company charge taxes to customers for the computer services or web design? What kinds of taxes?

- Where is a good place to get templates of contracts for these specific kind of jobs?

- Is it a good idea to put myself as a employee of my own company? this company is a LLC. or just to take out money from the business bank account as "member retribution"

-Can you recommend good books about this matter?

thank you for your time

Go visit your local Small business Development Center (SBDC) – they offer free counseling for small businesses.
www.asbdc-us.org

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Operating Systems: Windows® Vista™ Home Premium

Platform: Notebook PC

Expansion Ports: 1 – Express Card Slot/54

PS/2 Keyboard Connectors: N/A

PS/2 Mouse Connectors: N/A

Serial Communication Ports: N/A

Parallel Ports: N/A

USB Ports: 3

FireWire Ports: N/A

Fast Infrared Ports (FIR): N/A

LAN Ports: 1

Modem Ports: 1

Audio Out Jacks: 1 – SPDIF

Line In Jacks: N/A

Microphone Jacks: 1

VGA Ports: 1

S-Video Connectors: N/A

DVI Video: N/A

HDMI Ports: 1

Port Replicator/Connector: N/A

Processor Brand: AMD

Processor Class: Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-60

Processor Speed: 2.0GHz

Processor FSB: up to 1600MHz

Processor Cache: 2 x 512KB L2

Additional Technologies: HyperTransport™ Technology

Memory Type: DDR2

Memory Size: 2GB (1GB X 2)

Memory Speed: PC2-5300

Memory Slots (Total): 2

Memory Slots (Available): 0

Capacity: 250GB (5400 RPM)

Optical Drive Type: Dual Layer DVD±RW/RAM with LabelFlash

Supplemental Drive Type: Media Reader

Capacity: 5

Media Types: SecureDigital
Memory Stick
xD-Picture Card
Memory Stick PRO
Multi Media Card

Audio Description: Integrated Audio

Audio Chipset: Hi-Definition (HD) Audio Support

Graphics Description: Integrated Graphics

GPU/VPU: ATI Radeon Xpress 1270

Video Memory: up tp 256MB of HyperMemory

Video Interface: HDMI, VGA

Communications Description: Integrated LAN
Integrated Modem
Integrated Wireless LAN

Interface Type: RJ-11 Phone Connector
RJ-45 Ethernet Connector
802.11g Wireless Networking

Data Transfer Rate: 10/100Mbps NIC
56Kbps Modem
54 Mbps

Protocols: V.92
802.11g

Width: 14"
355.6 mm

Height: 1.1" – 1.5", 25 – 38.1 mm

Depth: 10"
254 mm

Weight: 6.29 lbs
2.85 kg

Mouse Type: Touch Pad

Buttons: 2

Scrolling Capability: Vertical Scroll Up/Down

Keyboard Type: Fullsize

Display Type: Widescreen Ultrabright TFT WXGA

Viewable Screen Size: 15.4"

Maximum Resolution: 1280 x 800

Battery Type: 6-Cell Lithium-ion

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You can actually configure this shared memory through your computer’s BIOS settings. However, this is a setting best left alone, since it is typically optimized for display performance, and making changes may impact display resolutions, and other video capabilities.

The simplest solution is usually to either: increase your system memory; or to upgrade the video hardware. By upgrading to a new video card with built-in video memory, then turning off shared memory, you will free your system to use it’s maximum potential memory, and provide your system with much more robust video features.

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I use to own a web design company
I still have several managed servers.
Tough biz to be in but I found it much better to use my local market to build my client list.
while I did have a site for other www business
people just like to see who there doing business with…

maybe it’s more like thay like having a phone number and a face they can yell at when something doesnt go the way the want.

Since I am not a web designer what I need is just one friendly tool to design my own website, something which contains maybe a gallerie with predesigned templates, video tutorials etc. It should support Greek Language for the website. Payment is not a problem since you can’t have it all…

I haven’t tried it because I use a more advance program to create my websites (Adobe Dreamweaver) but Intuit websites looks like a fairly easy program (website) to use to create a webpage. http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/

I’m getting my associates in Web Production and Design, and I would like to know (hopefully from other web designers) if being a free lance web designer is working out well for you guys. I mean, I wouldn’t mind working for a company of some sort, but honestly I would like the freedom to call my own shots. Thanks!

Free lance means you are responsible for all of the business side things like ensuring your Federal, Social Security and State taxes are paid out of your gross income, paying health insurance, life insurance, dental insurance and any other financial considerations. Health insurance alone will end up costing a lot more than if you were on a company policy (at my last job I paid $65 a month for full medical & dental a comparable plan would cost me $2000/month). Not only that but most tech companies will provide 401K with matching funds (which is free money) as well as educational benefits/paid training and conferences as well as even match funds for any charitable organization donations you make.

Just something to consider.