Choose the best web designer for your website

Posted by Admin on Jan 15th, 2011 | 10 comments

It is not an easy task to design a website in such a way that it attracts people. This is because of the fact that there are a lot of sites on the internet. Designing site requires skills and experience of the web designers. In case, you have a web-based business, getting an effective and beautiful website is the first thing which you will need.

First of all, you need to understand your requirements for having a site. If you want to have a personal site or business site or e-commerce site; you should be clear about what features you need to incorporate to it along with the kind of layouts and graphics used. You can do your homework by visiting some of the sites and take a note of their impressive features.

Once you are clear about your requirements, you can discuss it with a professional web designer who has complete information about the latest web based technologies. The web designer must be aware of which site will be most suited to your requirements. In order to choose the best provider, you must interview more than one web designing provider.

It is a well known fact that a web designer will be able to give the new face to your business online. It is highly recommended to have a look at his previous work so that it becomes easy for you to assess his capabilities. Searching on the internet is one of the best options for you if you are looking for the best options in your locality. You will be able to get the contact details of these providers.

Most of the providers also give the option to get free quotes on their site. You just have to fill in very simple information to get the details about their web designing services and price. You must know everything in detail before you choose any web designing provider.

iGoogle Gadget for Google Analytics

Posted by Admin on Jan 6th, 2011 | no comments

Google analytics team has introduced a very handy dashboard for Google analytics which you can add in your iGoogle page.

With this gadget, you will get a quick snapshot of your Google analytics account including your website visitors, traffic sources, content and goals for upto 90 days period.

You can add this Google analytics gadget to your iGoogle through this link –http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=www.gstatic.com/ig/modules/analytics/analytics.xml and it can be added multiple times in your iGoogle.

I am sure, this will be truely helpful to those SEOs and Webmasters who don’t wish to login again and again in G analytics to check their profile stats.

Source – SEO Vigyan

50+ Photoshop tips

Posted by Admin on Sep 30th, 2010 | no comments

This post is a collection of 50+ Photoshop tips for better Photoshop experience. The list may seem too long but when you start using these tips you will realize how much time you are saving by not going to the options using mouse.

1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift+Tab will hide only palette.
2. Hold Shift + click the top blue bar for toolbar and palette will move them to the nearest edge.
3. Double click the top blue bar, on any palette window, to minimize it.
4. Double click the gray background will bring up open file option, Hold Shift+double click will open up the browser.
5. Sick of the default gray background around your image? Select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the gray background, it will change to whatever color you have in your foreground color box.
6. In Photoshop, all “Cancel” buttons in a window can be changed to a “Reset” button by holding Alt.
7. Caps lock will switch your cursor for accuracy.
8. Press F button, it will switch between 3 different screen modes and give you more working area.
9. To draw a straight line, click then move to the end point and hold shift + click.
10. Hold Ctrl will temporary make any tool into move tool until you release Ctrl.
11. Ctrl + Alt and click drag the image, it will make a duplication of the current image over lay on top.
12. Hold Space bar, it will make any tool into “Hand Tool” until you release Space bar.
13. While in Zoom Tool, Ctrl+space = zoom in, alt+space = zoom out.
14. Hold Ctrl and press “+” or “-” it will change the % for image in navigator window.
15. When Using eyedropper tool to capture foreground color, hold Alt and click, it will instantly capture the color for background.
16. With Measure Tool, draw a line then hold Alt and draw another line from the end of the first line, it will measure the angle.
17. Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z will go back and forth in the history.
18. Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace will fill in the whole screen with foreground color or background color, Shift+backspace will bring up option window, Alt+Shift+Backspace and Ctrl+Shift+Backspace, will fill the image with foreground or background color but will leave the alpha transparent area alone.
19. When free transforming with Ctrl+T, hold Alt to keep the original image and then to transform a duplicated layer of it. Ctrl+Shift+T to repeat whatever you did in the last transform.
20. To make sure your Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while cropping.
21. Ctrl+J will duplicate the current layer.
22. Ctrl+Shift+E will merge all visible layers to one layer, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E will make a copy of the original and merge all visible layers.
23. While using Marquee Tools, hold Alt it will make the starting point as a center of the selection.
24. Ctrl + D to deselect, Ctrl+Shift+D to reselect what you deselected.
25. While selecting with Marquee tool, pressing the space bar can allow you to move the selection.
26. Hold Alt while clicking on the eye icon beside the layer, it will hide all other layers.
27. Hold Alt while clicking the pen icon beside the layer, it will unchain this layer from all layers.
28. Select a layer, hold Alt and click the top edge of another layer, it will group them.
29. File> Automate > Contact Sheet: this can create a small thumbnail for every file, this can save you some time from searching.
30. After, draw a path on the image with pen tool, Ctrl+shift+H can hide/show it.
31. Ctrl+Tab allows you to switch between different image files you are working on.
32. F12 = Revert to how the file was the last time you saved it.
33. Holding Shift + Alt while transforming an object will do it proportionally, from the center.
34. To center an image, Ctrl + A , Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V, I think it also puts that image on a new layer.
35. Ctrl+E will merge the highlighted layer down to the next
36. When you have a brush selected, using [ or ] will scroll up or down that brush list.
37. Double clicking the zoom tool will make the image 100%, double clicking the hand tool will fit the image to your screen resolution.
38. Ctrl + Alt + T to make a copy of the layer in which you want to transform.
39. Ctrl + Alt + Right arrow. duplicates the layer you are on.
40. Ctrl+[plus key] will let you zoom in on an image anytime while Ctrl+[minus key] zooms out.
41. Ctrl+Alt+[plus key] will zoom in AND RESIZE the window to fit the image sizehttp://blog.webmastersgossip.com. same for Ctrl+Alt+[minus key] as well.
42. Pressing X will switch the selected foreground and background colors.
43. Pressing D will reset the foreground and backgrounds colors to black and white.
44. Ctrl+Alt+Z will do multiple undo, versus just one.
45. Ctrl+click a layer thumbnail to select the layer transparency.
46. To see what your layer mask looks like (and edit it), Alt+click its thumbnail in the layers palette.
47. When using Polygon lasso tool hold Shift to make a perfect line, it goes every 30 degrees.
48. Stamp Tool (s) is used to copy an area of image (defined by alt+clicking and area) and paint it somewhere else (cloning). It also works when you have multiple images open at the same time. Alt click an area of any opened file image and paint it anywhere else.
49. And remember, pressing enter when you type will take you to a new line just like typing a letter but pressing Ctrl+Enter or Enter on numeric key will finish what you type.
50. Pressing Tab key will hide the Tools palette and any other palette that you have on the stage.
51. Pressing “F” will change between Full Screen modes. Using these two tips you can view your work Full Screen without any palettes.(You can press CTL+Alt+0 to fit your work to the screen, or you can press CTL+0 to zoom to 100%)
52. Pressing the “+” and “-” keys while holding down CTL+Alt will resize the whole document window, not just the work area.
53. Ctrl+click a layer (in layers palette) to select it’s transparency.
54. Ctrl+Alt+click between 2 layers in the palette to group them.
55. If you have a mini scroll on your mouse, you may use that to zoom in (scroll up) or zoom out (scroll down).
56. If you are working on a document in Photoshop and press Ctrl + Shift + S to save it you will see that photoshop will have it named as Untitled.psd But if you press Ctrl + Alt + S you will notice that Photoshop will have it named as Untitled copy.psd

Source – sitereviver.com

Web Design Development Tips

Posted by Admin on Sep 4th, 2010 | no comments

A website is an organizations passport into the virtual world. Internet being a huge platform available to all people of the world round the year offers vast arenas of information which can be used for enhancing ones organizations productivity levels. Anyone who wishes to take their company to the masses needs to have a well designed website. We at Web Expertise comprise of a team of extremely talented web experts who offer website design services to suit individual, professional to small and corporate business needs.

We offer some of the simple yet effective solutions crafted perfectly with creativity and innovation to take the website into top ranking search engines. For this it is very important that the website is neat and easy to navigate through, that is, determining the navigation links of the website play a crucial role in shaping the click-fall to a website.

The same way we also ensure that we provide a clean layout with prime focus on the colour combinations to be used, content, usage of font which prevents the site for giving a messy look. We use the latest technology which offers best qualitative and quantitative results to our clients. This by using the latest CSS programming and styling effects will offer user-friendliness, reusability and greater control on the website. Usage of graphics and flash cards reduces has a bearing effect on the therefore we ensure that the load time of the website is low by removing the unwanted tags and scripts.

Coding of a website is a also a very crucial tool therefore scalability of website goes a long way in alliance with offering perfect screen resolutions for visitors to stay and read the content on the website.

At Web Expertise we ensure smallest of detailing for all our clients with a personalized approach so don’t wait just send us a request for any web need

Welcome to The Web Expertise

Posted by Admin on Aug 23rd, 2010 | one comment

Web Expertise offers a world of creative and innovative ideas. It is at Web Expertise that brains itinerant views are turned into veracity.

Our company portfolio is aimed at designing innovative solutions for website Design, Web Development, Graphic Design and E-Commerce Solutions. Our true strength comes from offering cost effective solutions coupled with best IT professionals to address customer’s specifications. Our prime focus is to blend customer’s needs and desires into real web graphics through latest technologies which would further assist them in streamlining their functionality. This streamlining ability of our forward thinking professionals goes a long way taking customers in the right direction. We propel all efforts into opportunities to create attractive and compelling web identity which identifies with the vision and mission of the clients organization.

The simple yet efficient and effective solutions offered at Web Expertise benefit companies to utilize their true potential and enhance the performance capability. We help organizations improve on web visibility through web experience and expertise in various fields such as development, web hosting, e-commerce and much more. Our team of web consultants, content designer/writer, programmers and marketing professionals offer you a well designed platform which is ready to offer immediate results. We offer individual attention to all our customers and their needs which means we don’t have a predetermined price list for our clients.

Internet offers new opportunities for business promotion. So as to make the best it is imperative for organizations to have online presence thats where Web Expertise plays its part.

Web Expertise endeavours to remain focused and dedicated to enhance and build skills for all our clients.