The Ropes of Animated Content

Last week I wrote about how Animated Banners are basically made, by who, and what kind of jobs are open for it. However, this week, I’ll get into the nitty-gritty details, the bread and butter and tell you exactly HOW it’s done! Animated Web Content… a pretty big deal for advertising! It can make or break your design, and a nicely created and balanced interactive banner is just bound to get you some good viewers and customers! When done well, animated web banners are truly forces to be reckoned with, with their fun interaction, pretty graphics, and plethora of information, so let’s hop on in!

Creators of Animated Web Content

Animated web banners! We’ve seen them all the time, almost everywhere. On many sites, there’s always a little nook or cranny for an ad, which can be used well, or it may not be utilized in the best way possible. Making an animated ad it’s best is pretty easier said than done. It’s a balance of structure, color, text, and well-placed information. You can’t have an ad without knowing where it’s going! I mean, who would click an ad if they don’t know what it’s for or what it’s advertising? In this article, we’ll go over animated web content and it’s creators, and how to work some of the details. There will be more about these animated web content in a future article, which I will link to here.

Learn About WordPress- On WordPress!

WordPress! Hey, we’re on it right now! WordPress is an extremely handy website platform, or Content Management System (CMS) it allows us to create, post, showcase, do just about everything online! It handles blogging, separate pages, portfolios, helpful tools and plugins, and even HTML-type things. It’s very important to use, so let’s get down to business and explore bits and pieces of WordPress! Learn about WordPress, on WordPress!

Web Banner Ads and How To Make Them

You’re searching around on Google having a generally alright searching time, nothing’s going on, you’re just scrolling around, clicking links, etcetera. You click a link, bringing up a new website, and WHAM! There are ads. Banners for websites, linking online shops and services, these are called web banner ads, and they generate publicity and attention, as well as paying the owner of the site for allowing them to be there.

Designing UI and UX

Welcome to the world of UI and UX, both extremely important things that involve both the user and the designer. You’ve probably heard of these terms before. UI is user interface, where the user goes to actually interact with the program, app, website, whatever it is! This connects the user to the program, and luckily, the user doesn’t have to go into all the nitty gritty details of the innerworkings of the app. UX is similar, UX means user experience, which is, of course, extremely important as well. UX is designing things to increase user satisfaction and happiness with whatever it is. This entails that things are easily accessible, easy to find, and also easy to read. Web analytics- analyzing how users interact with things online and where they go or how long they stay, also comes into play here. Within this article, we’ll cover more things involving it.

lēt brief

Project Brief

Project Ten: lēt

Gamers rejoice! We are building an all-in-one solution for voice chat, streaming, profile building, clip showcasing and of course game sales in a single app! The desktop app will act as the primary product mixing Steam, Discord, Plays, Humble Bundle and Twitch all in one location, and pair with a mobile companion app which can be used for chatting, ordering new games, and voice connection when not at your gaming rig. The system would allow for profile design, streaming, channel overlay design, flash sales on games and of course, STATS! The profile for the user will work similarly to a social network, where gamers can connect, grow followers, share awesome gaming moments, and earn badges & achievements right through the system. The app will be free to users, and charge a small fee for expected things like purchases, game server hosting, apparel, streamer donation currency, etc. The profile should include the users PC Specs (or console types) as well as stats of legend (hours played, titles owned, etc) as well as a collection of badges for achievements from our app.  We think that if we blend eCommerce sales of swag with digital downloads, streaming, chatting, and even game server hosting directly through our desktop app we will take over this industry!

Additional Design Projects

We will need a LOT of cool apparel made (for purchase and as giveaways for achievements), as well as packaging to ship them in. Additionally, we will want all sorts of other swag (stickers, phone cases, bags, other cool stuff) to give away in Loot Boxes for users who earn certain achievements, or pay a monthly subscription (which comes with free games from indie developers). We would also need to see a design template for achievements that fits well with our branding, too

Guide to Wireframing

Wireframes! The very backbone of creating a website. Or any layout for that matter. Need an app? Wireframe it. Need a website? Wireframe it. Need a computer program? Wireframe it! But, first, what exactly is a wireframe? Find out in this here article.

Website Optimization 101

This article is a pretty big deal. Judging from the fact that you’re reading this, it must mean that this article has loaded quickly and easily. If it hadn’t I can guess that you absolutely haven’t been reading this article. The ideal loading times for websites are 2-3 seconds, and if it takes longer this’ll actually irritate your users and lose visitors, thus losing buyers, readers, etc. A website that isn’t optimized is an unhappy website, and within this article, I’ll cover a bit of how professional website designers build properly optimized websites.

ACAs Galore

ACAs are some pretty important certification tests. ACA, of course, stands for Adobe Certification Associate and will allow you to get certified in a few different Adobe softwares. The test is by Adobe themselves, so being certified by Adobe is very important and you can put these things on your portfolio if you wanted to. It’ll add more weight to your portfolio, as well.