Blog entries for jacquie

It’s all about color.

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strong>is the acronym for the basic colors (also called process colors or 4 color process) that are involved in printing images in color. C=cyan, M=magenta, Y=yellow and K=black. When a picture is printed on paper the colors are formed by a selection of each of these color dots.

If you want to change a color you can go into the color adjusting system and adjust each of these three basic colors separately. If you are designing something to be printed, this is the color system [...]

Don't Go Mad Over Fonts

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to ever have reached the civilized world, were published. The main reason that they were so bad was that people who always wanted to design publications, but never had, now had a chance to go at it. They tried all sorts of unusual looking fonts - tried them bold, in italics, in all the colors of the rainbow, slanted, wrapped around circles.

I know this for a fact, because I was one of them.

Now when people ask me what is a good font for developing websites [...]

But this IS a good web design

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text. The idea, as I understand it, is to give a website a more flowing design and fewer boxes on the screen that can't be moved without extensive programming. None of those old fashion "pill" buttons. No crass visual overload with flashing icons competing for attention. Screens are less crowded; easier to read. They have a more sophisticated look.

So we put together several sophisticated, edgy, graphic oriented websites. Most of our clients are in the computer [...]

How to use traditional marketing methods on your site

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Most of us have read the articles on Search Engine Optimization and are perhaps doing a Pay-for-Click program to get your website noticed, but don't ignore traditional marketing. It may be the way to get your website known.

Everything you give to people should have your website on it - and what you are selling. Or information about your organization.

Business cardsPostcards or flyers telling about your businessAdvertisements in magazines (even in the telephone book)

Then peopl [...]