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The style sheet also had a change to it. The lime green has been removed as one of the company colors, farmacia soma baratos. Now the two company colors are the dark steel blue and the dark gray, comprar en línea soma. Iowa IA, I also muted the red slightly because I felt it was too loud. The new red added and the lime green removed from the style sheet can be seen below, Indiana IN Ind.. Tennessee TN Tenn., This style sheet will be updated in the future when I add in the new messaging.

[caption id="attachment_279" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="2010 Style Guide v2"]2010 Style Guide v2[/caption]

 

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Jul 30, 2009

Parallelogram Osta alennus soma, The first thing I did was to scrap both backgrounds and look for a new one. Bestill soma online, I still knew exactly what I was looking for, but didn’t feel like making one so I continued the search, soma without prescription. Ohio OH, This time I stumbled upon a perfect background right away and tossed it in the composition. If this is the background that will be used on the site I will have to prepare it for use by making sure it tiles correctly in the x and y directions, New Hampshire NH N.H.. Oregon OR Ore., One thing I did keep from the last version of the site design was the HTML code that was being used in the dark background. When you want to give the paper texture a newspaper feel you typically write out a bunch of text and invert it so it is backwards and then turn the opacity way down because newsprint is so thin when exposed to any light the text on the other side is visible through the paper, osta alennus soma. The problem is I don't really want it to look like a newspaper, ordering soma without prescription, Order soma online legally, so the HTML code was dropped in later versions.

I changed all the text to Titillium and played with the weights, soma online kopen. Colorado CO Colo., For now I was only using one font through out the whole design. This is also where I got rid of the icons in the side bar, Maryland MD Md.. Osta alennus soma, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with those yet, but I knew I didn’t want them over there anymore. Farmacia soma baratos, Besides I liked the wide margins it now created on the sides of the body content. I changed the circle at the top that was around the contact button and turned it into a square, ordering soma online legally. Köpa rabatterade soma, That was a catalyst for the remaining graphic elements.

The first thing that dawned on me was that the parallelograms I was using on the side and top of the logo were the original graphical elements and I should consider using that as the sites graphic motif, soma online cheap. I was about to put squares back next to the main navigation but instead used parallelograms, osta alennus soma. Om soma online, [caption id="attachment_269" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 3.1"]2010 Comp 3.1[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_270" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 3.2"]2010 Comp 3.2[/caption]

 

I started to put the parallelograms around the page. I added them next to headers and started to place them up at the top for the utility navigation, buy soma bars. Cheapest soma in the world, I was re-shaping them and playing with opacity and color.

I figured out what to do with the Facebook and Twitter icons, order soma online, Order soma from canada, they were going into the top utility navigation. Osta alennus soma, I dropped the mail list icon and made the link to our blog just another word in the navigation.

I drew a few more border lines here and there and darkened them up a tad, Virginia VA Va.. Order soma, I darkened the main navigation text and changed a few of the headers. Those are still in the works, price of soma, Kansas KS Kans., but I like headers that aren’t so literal. Instead of saying “Testimonials” say “The buzz”, Jotta soma verkossa, Soma cheap, or something like that. It’s more fun and interesting to be creative with your headers than literal, which can be dry and clinical, osta alennus soma.

[caption id="attachment_271" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 3.3"]2010 Comp 3.3[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_272" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 3.4"]2010 Comp 3.4[/caption]

 

Version 3 was feeling good, but it wasn’t quite there. The lime green color I was using in the style guide as one of the company colors was too close to the new green being used in the color coding, so I decided to ditch the lime green. Now the home and utility pages will use the dark gray from the style guide at the top next to the logo. That change effected the top utility navigation as well. Osta alennus soma, We also decided to move the client area from the footer and make a tab for it. That freed up one of the spots in the footer to use for something else. One thing we have tossed around was a “start your project” call to action where a user could download our client questionnaire or give us a call. This will be on all pages and follow that pages content, so every page ends by asking you to start your project.

So the “2010” tab got moved down to the bottom where it does make more sense, and the client area tab replaced it up at the top. Both these tabs are going to be fixed to the right side of the site no matter what size your resolution is, osta alennus soma.

Looking over the composition I noticed something wasn’t quite right. When I turned back on the grid I saw that I had broken it in a few places which made the page unbalanced. I moved the logo and navigation over to the left and nudged the top navigation back and forth until it sat right in the grid. It appeared the body had some adjustments it needed, but I figured I would leave that until I replace the Lorem Ipsum with the actual copy.

Adding the copy to the pages was next, so I could make adjustments to the body and get a sense of how the new copy will be laid out. I think it's important to place and work with the actual copy because inevitably it will effect the page differently than Lorem Ipsum. I wasn't sure exactly what I might do with the copy, how I might play with the layout of it, next week I should have all the copy placed in the six main pages as I get closer to a final composition.

[caption id="attachment_273" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 3.5"]2010 Comp 3.5[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_274" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 3.6"]2010 Comp 3.6[/caption]

 


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Jul 29, 2009

Wrong Turn Soma, After that first round of adding graphical elements to the page I showed where I was to the 2010 team. I mentioned to them an idea I had about ripping the paper apart and making the body dark with light text and they seemed to like it, kjøpe billig soma. Comprare soma sconto, I gave it a try and ended up going down a dead end. It was a nice look, buy soma overnight delivery, Osta soma, it just wasn’t what I intended for the eClick 2010 site. The positive was that I now had made those early mistakes fast, ordering soma online without prescription, Køb billige soma, which gave me something to change. I could look at this composition and know what I didn’t like and what I wanted to change, soma.

The color coding was stripped out in these compositions, buy soma, Cheapest soma online, the stripe down the left side is now gone, the new body background is the one from this blog, California CA Calif., Wisconsin WI Wis., and I added HTML on top of it with its opacity turned way down. I brought in a wood texture, αγοράσετε soma, Soma pills, just to see what it would look like as a divider between the header and the body. I did toss some rips and tears in the paper quickly to see what this idea was going to look like, where to buy soma. Buy generic soma, I didn’t like it that much and figured I would try to see if I could improve it. Soma, You may ask, aren't all the things you wanted to do being taken out or compromised, but like I said before it is good to make mistakes, try things you didn’t initial consider, or scrap things you are really passionate about. You never know what you may find, Kaufen soma. Billiga soma apotek, I did go a little crazy playing around with fonts and typography here, but I do have the habit of throwing tons of stuff on the page and then stripping things out, buy soma online legally. Billige soma apotek, [caption id="attachment_262" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 2.1"]2010 Comp 2.1[/caption]

 

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[caption id="attachment_266" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 2.5"]2010 Comp 2.5[/caption]

 

It became clear I wanted to stay away from sectioning the page up into three parts, the header, purchase soma, New Jersey NJ N.J., the body, the footer, αγοράσετε soma έκπτωση, Online soma, like a lot of sites do. I wanted to treat these pages as complete unified pieces, kjøpe soma online, Soma farmacia a buon mercato, like posters. That was part of my inspiration going into this project and I wanted to make sure I got as close to that as possible, order soma overnight delivery. By going down this dead end it became clearer what the right direction was.

 


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Jul 28, 2009

Graphic Motif Price of soma, The first thing I did was look for background textures and think of a main graphical theme or motif to use in the design. I call any graphic on the page an element, Illinois IL Ill.. Comprar soma baratos, Graphical elements are everything that isn’t text, art, cheap soma from canada, Florida FL Fla., or photography. The logo technically is, order soma bars, Pennsylvania PA Penn., but I don’t think of it as a graphical element. I may use the logo in conjunction with other graphical elements giving it a feel it is connected to the rest of the page and not the obligatory plopped in the upper left corner, North Carolina NC N.C., Soma online stores, or I may borrow an element from the logo and use that as the motif through out the site. It always depends on what I have to work with, price of soma.

 

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A background graphic can completely change the look and feel of a page, φτηνές φαρμακείο soma. Cheap soma online, I knew I wanted a background that would function like a canvas for my artwork, so the obvious choice would be a canvas texture such as a cotton duck or linen, acheter soma discount. Washington WA Wash., That felt a little too fine art for us, we don’t paint pictures we make web sites, buy soma without prescription, Rhode Island RI R.I., so canvas was out. Next thought was paper, ordering soma online cheap. Price of soma, There are so many types of paper. For soma online, I see a lot of grungy old paper textures these days, or notebook paper, Utah UT, Rabatt kaufen soma, legal paper, etc… I wanted a paper texture that looked like a poster, ordering soma bars. Koop korting soma, I was finding a lot like this, but they were more cardboard looking, αγοράζουν online soma, Buy soma from canada, or paper grocery bag type textures. I also saw a lot of recycled paper textures, Arizona AZ Ariz.. Buy soma online without prescription, These just weren’t what I had in mind. Then there were the handmade paper textures, but again too fancy and fine art looking, price of soma. I finally found something that would suffice for now, order soma online, it was a water color type paper texture, or maybe you could say it looked like a canvas slightly, but it was white and the texture was subtle enough. I wasn’t that happy with it, but I wanted to move on so I dropped it in and continued knowing I would come back later and change it.

 

Design Squared

The first area I started with was the navigation. I had the color coding thing in my pocket and wanted to see how I could use it in the main navigation area. Price of soma, Since our logo was now a box I choose to start with “the square” being my first graphical element. You will notice I used squares next to the navigation which would act like tabs, I used a square over on the right side with the year 2010 in it (this is going to function as a way to see how the site was created by sending them to this blog), and I also used the square next to all the home page section headers. The only place I didn’t use a square, but instead a circle, is at the top utility navigation.

[caption id="attachment_256" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 1.1"]2010 Comp 1.1[/caption]

 

Gray be Gone

After that I added more color to the gray areas of the page and played with opacity since I know we are going to be taking advantage of CSS3. There is now RGBA which will let you control the opacity of any HEX color used such as background colors, borders, and text. You will also notice I did draw a dark gray line down the left side of the page, price of soma. This is just me trying to make those mistakes as fast as I can. Another thing that was still being used in these first roughs is the old logo, or at least it is being treated like the old logo. You will see it change to the refreshed version in the compositions to come.

[caption id="attachment_258" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 1.2"]2010 Comp 1.2[/caption]

 

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The logo has now been changed and I started to play with fonts again. Price of soma, I won’t go into what font this is because it was only used for a short time. Again this is me playing around tweaking this and tweaking that. Through these first rough compositions where I am figuring out the graphical elements I am also changing the fonts and the way the type looks. I talked before in a previous post about how I started with three fonts and reduced it down to just one. In the composition posts ahead you will see the process of playing with the fonts and changing them around and eventually getting down to the one font.

[caption id="attachment_259" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="2010 Comp 1.3"]2010 Comp 1.3[/caption]

 


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Jul 28, 2009

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Cary has been working in the internet space in some capacity for over 15 years.  About 5 years ago he started helping friends with marketing and design for their websites, New York NY N.Y., Buy soma online, and the inspiration for a company was born.  eClick Performance was founded on the principles of integrated web design and online marketing, and over the years the number of employees has grown 5 fold.  Cary thrives on working in a creative environment with a team mentality, Idaho ID, Cheap soma no rx, designing innovative solutions to client’s problems.  Cary’s vision for the company has been strong and consistent, what will happen when he gives up those reins?  What’s the result of actively practicing trust with your employees?  These are some of the questions that spurred our interview; just as we want to open up the new design and new direction of our company to the web community, Georgia GA Ga., Halvalla soma apteekki, we want to share the reactions of our helmsman to this risky journey.

My first question revolved around his initial reception to the idea, where to buy cheap soma, Cheap soma tablets, what did he think and how quickly did he make a decision?  The eClick 2010 team was taken aback at how immediately he jumped on board; Cary said his decision was immediate because he saw the “passion and desire that they are bringing to the table.”  His decision was based less on the details of a business plan, and more on his trust in the people involved.  He said his choice came from his personal business philosophy: “Let the staff do what they are good at and think is right.”

When I asked Cary what excited him most about the project, Kjøp Discount soma, Kopen goedkope soma, his answers clustered around the “open” nature of this project, or our efforts to include the web design and internet marketing community in our adventure.  He sees it as “a mold-breaking project, acheter soma bon marché, Lowest price soma, risky, but the potential gains are worth it.”

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Verdict: CEO gets a cookie, he’s holding to his part of the bargain.  Check back for future interviews to see how he’s doing.

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Ordering soma online, Today the team (Courtney, Adam, John, and myself) met with Cary and Heather to discuss PR options, with a new intern, Cara, sitting in as well. As we quickly discovered in a room of 7 adults, cheap soma, Alaska AK, committees tend not be go anywhere fast.  Another reminder of why there is hope the site will be a success without the baggage of a committee. So far John has maintained his creative freedom, Oklahoma OK Okla.. För soma online, The meeting's agenda as noted last week was to discuss PR options. eClick currently uses PRWeb as a vendor and we discussed the varying press release options available, soma prices. My recommendation was to do the Media Visibility package, the most expensive but also offers the widest distribution and most detailed analytic reporting, ordering soma online. Order soma online cheap, Cary has repeatedly said he wants to strongly promote this project so to me it makes sense to do the deluxe option initially. The room debated this for some time and I reminded everyone that we could downgrade for future press releases if we found we didn't value all the bells and whistles, ordering soma online cheap. Acquistare a buon mercato soma, In addition, the deluxe option is only $160 more and didn't merit such a lengthy discussion, New Jersey NJ N.J., Soma, but that is the way it goes with a committee. I advised that it is important to gain attention now while the project is new to gather followers at the beginning of the story while John is the main blogger, Michigan MI Mich.. Ordering soma online, As the test progresses, the programmer and the project manager will be the primary bloggers as the project will basically be in their hands at that point. Ordering soma no prescription, I think that John is the center of the story and readers would be most interested in his creative process as that is the point of the test. Adam agreed to the deluxe PR option and advised: "Go big OR go home." Cary liked Adam's input and agreed to provide his approved option by the next business day, Om soma online. Soma en ligne afin, The second PR option I recommended was a podcast interview for Cary to do. Cary is very outgoing and would easily engage listeners, order soma online without prescription. PRWeb recommends this be done a day or two before the press release is sent out, ordering soma online. Rhode Island RI R.I., Heather is to provide the first draft of the press release today and depending on the options Cary selects will determine the press release date. The room agreed the press release should be sent by this Friday at the latest, North Carolina NC N.C.. För soma online, The press release schedule will follow the same schedule as the CEO interviews:

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Adam summarized his interview with Cary and upon Cary's approval will post to the blog ASAP, Arkansas AR Ark.. Ordering soma without prescription, I found reading John's last post titled: "Creative Process" was fun and also a relief.  Since the beginning of this project I have envisioned the website layout in my head.  While I don't know exactly what the website will look like in detail - I had envisioned the headers would contain his artwork and be the heart of the site - providing the "amusement and entertainment" per our original big idea presentation and in turn brand eClick.  John's focus on color schemes and font sizes seemed like putting the cart before the horse and would all change once he creates the headers. I agree that designing is messy and that John has to start somewhere to get traction.  The quote of: "Well do something so we can change it." is truly the life of a website designer, where to buy soma. Billige soma Apotheke, I told him last week that I know I sounded like a broken record - but until I saw his artwork I cannot comment on the color scheme and fonts. My only recommendation was to add the color gray to the home page as the greens were too similar and confused the color coding idea, cheap soma no rx. I also told him I would like to see an innovative call to action to contact eClick and not just a navigation titled Contact.  He agreed with the color coding idea and time will tell regarding the call to action.

Next week John and Adam will present their colloborative round of copy.

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Jul 24, 2009

Color Correction Cheap soma without prescription, After the last post the team looked over the color coding and noticed that the greens were too close to each other and that the home page and other utility pages should have gray in the logo area and not the lime green. Montana MT Mont., I agreed. I had a feeling they were too close, ordering soma no rx. Kaufen soma, Now the three main pages really stand out with their splash of color up top. Also I figured that when you mouse over the logo the gray sides will turn lime green and be the rollover state because the logo will be the button to head to the home page, New Mexico NM N.Mex..

 

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I would like to share a story I recently heard from Brad Bird, buy soma bars, New York NY N.Y., one of the Directors at Pixar, when he was being asked about the creative process, soma online kaufen. Cheap soma without prescription, The story goes… There was a Broadway director who walked into his theatre and saw the choreographer sitting in the third row with his head in his hands; the whole cast of performers were all on the stage glaring down at him. The director asked what was going on, cheap soma without prescription. The choreographer picked up his head and responded, District of Columbia DC D.C., Buy soma no rx, “I just, I just don’t know what to do.” The director replied, order soma no rx, Generic soma, “Well, do something so we can change it.” Brad went on to say that the key is to keep momentum; a creative project is like a shark, Alaska AK, Hawaii HI, if it doesn’t keep moving it will die. Just go forward and use that time to make as many mistakes as you can. If you wait to you have the answer, you probably won’t have the answer and will have wasted all that time.

In the same interview Andrew Stanton from Pixar also discussed the creative process. He mentioned for the creative process to work there has to be an environment that allows for sixteen tries before getting it right. Andrew went on to say he has told his boss this before, “I won’t get it right the first time, but I will get it wrong really soon, really quickly, so as early as we can we will get to that sixteenth try and find the answer.”

I bring this up because of the graphics post I was going to make this week, it was a mess. I thought it might be confusing to what the process was since it was all over the place and decided to post pone it until next week. Hopefully I can make it easier to follow, but the above antidotes help clarify that creativity is messy and you will see some of that mess next week.

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Now we had two official eClick colors. Below you can see the style guide I made for eClick back in 2007, acheter soma. We have been using this style guide for the past two years. Iowa IA, Besides the dark steel blue and lime green I found two other colors that were shades of the company colors. Ordering soma without prescription, Putting the two blues together or the two greens I had monochromatic contrast I could use in the site design and collateral. You will see these other two colors in the current web site.

[caption id="attachment_162" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="2007 Style Guide"]2007 Style Guide[/caption]

 

The 2010 style guide shows the revised logo I discussed in a previous post along with the new font used for the company name, Minnesota MN Minn.. I scrapped the darker green and blue for a new set of colors. Soma online kopen, One of the new colors is a dark gray; it is used in the logo and can be sort of considered the third company color. It will be the body copy on the web site and would be the informational text on a business card for instance, ordering soma without prescription. The other three colors are the Red, Green, Missouri MO Mo., and Blue eClick is now going to use to break up its three main areas of service. παραγγείλετε online soma, The design and development will be Red. The on-site and off-site optimization will be Green. The analytics and managed services will be Blue, Køb billige soma. Ordering soma without prescription, It of course plays off the RGB world of pixels and displays, even though it’s overdone, I believe here on the new site it will be done right.

[caption id="attachment_163" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="2010 Style Guide"]2010 Style Guide[/caption]

 

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I intended to use color coding in the new site design, so I initially started with red, kjøpe soma, green, Cheap soma from canada, and blue, the obligatory three colors for screen media. They were the three little dots that converged and disappeared when you turned off the old tube televisions and they are the three colors that make up all modern day displays, purchase soma online, therefore web sites. Buy cheap soma online, What red, green, and blue to use, order soma online legally. Ordering soma without prescription, The company colors already have a green and blue. I tried out a red with the current lime green and dark steel blue. Soma farmacia a buon mercato, I knew even before I tried this it wasn’t going to work because the red, green, and blue sections were supposed to be unique from the rest of the site and since the lime green and dark steel blue are used all throughout the site they couldn’t also represent those specific sections independently, Acheter en ligne soma. The red seemed special somehow or out of place. Soma without a prescription, I needed to find a different green and blue to partner with the red.

[caption id="attachment_164" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Company Green & Blue for Color Coding"]Using Company Green & Blue for Color Coding[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_166" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Company Green & Blue for Color Coding"]Using Company Green & Blue for Color Coding[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_167" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Company Green & Blue for Color Coding"]Using Company Green & Blue for Color Coding[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_168" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Company Green & Blue for Color Coding"]Using Company Green & Blue for Color Coding[/caption]

 

A great place to look for colors is color lovers, ordering soma without prescription. I use color lovers now and again to see trends and get inspiration. I used color lovers this time to find a red, Køb discount soma, green, Comprar en línea soma, and blue that matched the lime green and dark steel blue we are already using in the design, but also be different enough to stand out. I found a palette that has a distinct red, green, and blue that don’t clash or compete with the company green and blue and are loud enough to demand attention visually.

[caption id="attachment_169" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Different Green & Blue for Color Coding"]Using Different Green & Blue for Color Coding[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_170" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Different Green & Blue for Color Coding"]Using Different Green & Blue for Color Coding[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_171" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Different Green & Blue for Color Coding"]Using Different Green & Blue for Color Coding[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_172" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Different Green & Blue for Color Coding"]Using Different Green & Blue for Color Coding[/caption]

 

Just for the sake of trying it out I tried eliminating the color coding from the design. Ordering soma without prescription, This was an option we talked about. Having the three sections color coded separates them into their own unique areas, therefore making them mutual exclusive from each other. Having no color code and just using the company colors gave the areas a bundled feel and tied them together as a complete package. I know marketing wise we wanted to portray all these services go together and get clients to use us for all three main services, but I believe my approach of cutting everything down into smaller chunks and then even smaller chunks is easier to digest for the audience. Below you will see how the pages all blend without the color coding.

[caption id="attachment_173" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Only Company Green & Blue for Color"]Using Only Company Green & Blue for Color[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_175" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Only Company Green & Blue for Color"]Using Only Company Green & Blue for Color[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_176" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Only Company Green & Blue for Color"]Using Only Company Green & Blue for Color[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_177" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Using Only Company Green & Blue for Color"]Using Only Company Green & Blue for Color[/caption]

 

Color in the Lines

As you see in the above layouts I wanted to use the colors sparingly; I didn’t want to saturate the page with color, ordering soma without prescription. The color is supposed to mean something. I had an idea early on that I was going to use the color in the stripes of the logo area to call out what section you are on and that was going to be the big splash of color at the top of the pages. Other than the titles and headers being colored everything else would be dark gray, so the color really pops. I may add color to pieces of text I want to call attention to, but for the most part I am trying to be judicial with the use of color on these pages.

Since no other design has been added, such as a background image, art, or photography, you can get a sense of how the color will play on each of the pages. Just like I did with the gray-scale layouts keeping everything gray to balance contrast, here I am doing the same thing, but for the color. I don’t want to be bothered with background textures or art until I am happy with how color is being used throughout the site.

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Three Font Rule Acquistare online soma, There is a rule that you should not use more than three fonts in web design. I like to break the three fonts into types of web content. Number one is the company font used in the logo; this is also sometimes used as the navigation or H1 headers, soma pills.  Number two is the H1 headers, Louisiana LA, titles, and sub titles, this sometimes is font number one as stated above, ordering soma online. Number three is the font used for the body copy.

While the font for the body copy has to be something that is easily read on screen, so not a script font or something else wacky, the header font can be wacky, acquistare online soma. Price of soma, The larger the font is going to be the crazier you can make it because script fonts and grungy fonts are much easier read when they are large, and typically headers are only one word or a couple words long. The company name font could be wacky, buy soma online, in that case probably best to use something a little less wacky for the headers. Halvalla soma apteekki, This isn’t a hard and fast rule, if you only want to use one font for your whole site that is fine, just make sure it has a lot of weights, αγοράζουν φτηνά soma, or you will be using a lot of bold and italic tags. Oregon OR Ore., You don’t have to use a wacky font at all, but you do have to use a legible screen font for the copy if you expect anyone to read what you write. Acquistare online soma, The most important point I guess is to have enough flavor in your fonts to designate clearly and visually what is a header, what is a sub header, and what it the body copy. Using one font in the same weight for everything isn’t only visually unsatisfying, order soma without prescription, but it also is terrible for usability. Discount soma, Scan ability on the web is imperative, the more you can improve scan ability the better.

 

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There are lots of places to find free fonts online, billiga soma apotek, but most of them are not that good, Rabatt kaufen soma, and not that well constructed by their designer. These are just students and hobbyists who make fonts for fun, but there are those who are very good at font design that put their work out for free, North Dakota ND. There of course are places to find professionally designed fonts for a price, while these are superior to free fonts you can find, they are mostly for print work, although you can always find display fonts, or use a font that might have been intended for print as a display font for your web site, acquistare online soma.

I enjoy going to a site called smashing magazine. Um soma online, They do have free fonts posted monthly and posts that show you where to find some of the best free fonts out there. I found the fonts I used in my layouts at smashing magazine and ultimately found the one I am using for the new site design and the logo refresh. The fonts I found, Kjøp Discount soma, even though they are free, Generic soma, seem to be very well constructed. Acquistare online soma, One in particular stood out from the crowd and ultimately won me over because of its five weights.

[caption id="attachment_148" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Titillium - typeface"]Titillium - typeface[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_149" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Comfortaa - typeface"]Comfortaa - typeface[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_150" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Karabine - typeface"]Karabine - typeface[/caption]

 

Graceful Degradation

Since about 1995 when web design was just getting started there were only about 5 fonts to choose from for displaying text on a web page. You could use any font if you made it into a graphic, acheter soma discount, and most people did this for titles and logos, Colorado CO Colo., navigation and headers. After awhile Google came about and had everyone now concerned with SEO. Getting type out of graphics and back into the code was important, soma prescription, not everyone followed suit, αγοράσετε soma έκπτωση, but HTML was getting older and wiser and with CSS designers and developers found tricks to using images and displaying text at the same time.

Now we don’t have to worry about fonts anymore, acquistare online soma. There will always be the main system fonts installed on everyone’s computer and are used when the prime font being called upon is not available. This is called graceful degradation; replacing one font with another and then yet another if the fonts are not installed on the user’s computer, soma pharmacy.

In our case for this project we are only concerned if someone isn’t using a modern up-to-date browser with the capabilities of CSS3. Virginia VA Va., One of the things we are going to be taking advantage of is @font-face, which allows us to use any font we want and have it degrade to one of the system fonts if an out-of-date browser is being used. Acquistare online soma, It may not look how we want it or as good as it could when someone is using an old browser, but then again they are experiencing all web pages with a handicap, so if that’s how they choose to view the web that’s up to them. I don’t know why though so many people refuse or procrastinate upgrading, Texas TX Tex., it’s like still watching an old 1960’s original color TV in the age of HD, Billig soma apotek, but I digress.

 

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As you see above I started with trying to find three fonts. The first one I found was Titillium and I liked it for its ability to be very heavy and also very light. Helvetica is another classic font used just about everywhere in the world that can be very heavy or very light. I placed Titillium as the body copy for now and went hunting for more, acquistare online soma.

The next font I found, Comfortaa, looked like a great font for the company name, and therefore the navigation and titles. I tried this font out and liked it enough to keep it around for awhile. The current company font is DIN.

Then I was looking for a wacky font, did I want a script or handwriting font, or did I want a grungy urban type font, I wasn’t sure, so I played with a bunch of options until I narrowed it down to the grungy Karabine. Acquistare online soma, I did like the idea of a handwriting font, but I set that idea aside for now.

[caption id="attachment_151" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Layout with 3 fonts"]Layout with 3 fonts[/caption]

 

From those 3 fonts I cut out the grungy one and replaced it with Titillium. I was still tossing the idea around of a handwriting font, but the thin sleek nature of Titillium’s lightest weight felt like a fine tip pen made the marks. This satisfied me for now.

[caption id="attachment_152" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Layout with 2 fonts"]Layout with 2 fonts[/caption]

 

It then dawned on me that with this one font I sort of had all the styles I needed to designate the type being a header, a title, or copy. I replaced the font I had for the company name and navigation with Titillium and played with the weights until I got what I was looking for.

[caption id="attachment_153" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="Layout with 1 font"]Layout with 1 font[/caption]

 

So I went from using three fonts to two, and then now to just one font. This may change; I am still keeping the idea of a handwriting font on the table. As we get into the graphics for the page and eventually the artwork other fonts may be brought in, but for now I wanted to move into color and graphics.

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eClick has grown to over 300 clients in 5 years primarily due to word of mouth within the Chicago area.  I attribute this to our CEO's strong personality and eClick's client service. As a marketing professional I like to define and articulate who we are targeting and what we want to say to them. My recommendation during the meeting was to geo-target Chicago for the time being, but John felt that wasn't necessary. John is confident that his design will generate new business contact form submissions from around the country and eClick will evolve into handling more national accounts.  Time will tell...

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