Web Design

You can easily manage and professionally prepare graphics for your web design with the world's most popular graphics software for web design applications.

• Graphic Workshop Professional lets you manage your graphics for your web design — edit, convert, crop, scale, thumbnail, apply special effects, and so much more to optimize your images for your web site design; and
  
  
• GIF Construction Set Professional is the essential web design tool that lets you create and supercompress your still and animated GIF files, prepare transparent GIF images or quickly generate banners, create clickable buttons, shadow text and lots more for web design; at
  
  
• Alchemy Mindworks the creator of software to manage graphics files and images for web design.

Web Design Elements

Effective, attractive web design can incorporate a number of elements. For the most part, the two web design elements that receive the most attention are text for information and graphics for visual effects. The placement and organization of these element in your web design are what your visitors see. These web design elements visually create that important first impression.

On the web, neither of these basic web design elements is treated kindly.

If you come from a strong, text centered background, you have your favorite word processor and your collection of fonts. You know that with very little effort you can inject the appearance of life into the dry, boring text of any corporate memo (if the boss would let you).

On turning your hand to web design, you soon realize that your treasured font collection is of little use in painting pictures through the use of typography for the text or information element of web design. How your page is displayed to your visitor is dependent on the font defaults set on their computer.

That leaves the graphic element to add interest to your web design's visual appearance. Again, the capabilities of your visitors computer determines how your page is displayed.

Graphic Element in Web Design

The graphic element is most commonly used in web design to support, highlight and supplement, but not replace, the information element. Most of your site's visitors may be able to read the text you place in a graphic image, but many of your site's visitors never see your web page as you designed it.

Some of those visitors are humans using text only browsers. Others are robots that come to read your site or index it for search engines or directories. Information contained in your graphics cannot be read by either of these. So in the initial stages of your web design, it is important to decide on the proper use of graphic elements.

It is just as important to prepare and optimize your selected graphic elements for use in your web design. Size matters... Quality matters... Ensure that your graphics complement your web design.

You have seen examples of good web design where the graphics add visual value and lots of interest to the web design. You most likely have left many web sites before the graphics have displayed, or like some of your site's visitors, selected to surf with images turned off.

To help ensure that your graphics are seen and your complete web design is appreciated, here are a few tips.

• Prepare your graphics properly to load fast so that your visitors will see your web design in all its glory.
• Use your web design to entice your visitors to stay and explore.
• Use graphics software that helps you optimize your graphics for your web pages.
• Make the graphics you use in your web design the best they can be.

Graphic Software for Web Design

Flexibility, ease of use and reliability in producing quality web graphics are the main reasons cited by designers who have purchased Alchemy Mindworks' software to create, manage and process graphics for their web designs. These are the reasons why Graphic Workshop and GIF Construction Set are the programs chosen by so many professionals and educational institutions.

• Process your digital camera photos
• Drive a scanner to acquire your artwork
• Quickly convert between graphic formats
• Crop your images
• Re-size graphics to fit your web design
• Create animated and transparent graphics
• Add special effects
• Apply transitions to still images...
• And so much more to help you add interest to your web design.

Make your graphics manageable and simply outstanding. Optimize your web graphics to make your web design effective. Use these quality graphics software applications.

GIF Construction Set Professional, Pentium optimized for Windows 95/98/2000/NT, is the graphics software application for creating animated and transparent GIF files for your web design. It features:

• Animation Wizard - Create animations in minutes
• Animated graphic transitions, Rotation, Sophisticated special effects...
• Text Banners, LED Signs, Customizable Button Creator...
• Supercompressor - squeeze them down to almost nothing
• AVI conversion, Port GIF files to PowerPoint presentations...
• Protection Matrix - Safeguard your intellectual property
• and lots, lots more...

Get right down to things that flash and move.

GIF Construction Set Professional — the graphics software built for your web design needs has an intuitive user interface and the best block management tools available. Its extensive documentation and tutorials assist even novice users in bypassing the usual learning curve for GIF animation.

Graphic Workshop Professional, Pentium optimized for Windows 95/98/2000/NT, is the graphics software for your web design needs. Manage your web site graphics with Graphic Workshop Professional which features:

• Image Management - multiple browser windows, batch processing, drag and drop...
• Graphics Editing - converts, dithers, transforms, flips, rotates, scales, crops, color-adjusts, quantizes...
• Image Organization - thumbnails, catalogs, captions, keyword database...
• Graphics Viewing -- browse or use the slide show options
• Image Acquire - run a scanner, grab your digital camera shots, decode pictures from the Net...
• Graphic Quality - fine tune photos, create Kodak Photo-CD files...
• Multimedia - play MP3, Wave, MIDI, AVI... files

All this and more in an intuitive, easy to learn, user environment.

Wreak special effects on over 50 graphic formats. Convert, size and optimize your graphics for your web site design. Get Graphic Workshop Professional, the graphics software designed to help you efficiently manage your web design graphics and all your other graphic image collections.
 

Visit the GIF Construction Set Professional and Graphic Workshop Professional program information pages for more on these graphics software applications for your web design needs.
 

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