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[14/03/2010] Graphic Designers and SEO
Today graphic designers are faced with the issue of optimizing the websites design and images to generate a visually interactive website free from slow loading times. One can easily recognize a website that has been created by graphical designers; as this websites design is more visually attractive. But the graphics may hinder the navigation of the web design. This type of website design is also not very compatible with search engine rankings. On the other hand, a website created by a web development team will have more coding with an ease of navigation and CSS. This type of website design is also search engine friendly with quick loading time.
Another important aspect of website design is web navigation, and is often compared to physical movement in the real world. While navigating through a book, the user has a sense of direction attained through visual graphics on the book and editorial list of contents supplied by the graphic designer of the book. This is not the case with electronic documents as the web hypertext link will take him, where there are very few or no cues as to how much information is located on the other end of the link and which also requires user to decipher how the link information is related to the current page. Sometimes navigating through a single page website design is also difficult for the user. Therefore, some of the best website designs are created by a team of web designers, graphic designers and web developers.
According to the latest trend, professional web designers are offering a website design that is visually appealing, interactive as well as easy to navigate. This websites design is more oriented towards problem solving and the best website design is a combination of a good visual appeal and a heavily coded design for maximum SEO. Today, many users are signing up with broadband connection of internet and dialup services are coming down. So one can go ahead and add some funky web flash design to their websites. For amateur graphic designers, they can start designing on Photoshop tool with standard settings; once the layout has been created it can be exported to a HTML document with an image folder. Photoshop software has a special tool known as the slice tool that allows one to manually create slices that can be organized in the form of rows and columns. One can easily slice the guide part of the page, or make use of the shift key for combining a number of slices.
Dreamweaver allows you to easily fine the text of the webpage with background colors. Once you have created the layout, you can save it and select the option for exporting html and images. The images can be refined, by using fireworks software for 80% quality in jpg format. Now that the images are refined, they have a smaller file size and can easily be reloaded on the webpage. When you finally upload the files and images the server will arrange them together a single page. Thus, one can also create a number of pages by keeping the header and footer intact for all pages. Web design London has some of the best graphic designers on the team of website development providing some of the best web designing services at affordable rates.
