Web Design

Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design, interface design, authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design; and search engine optimisation.

Updates about Online Social Networking Plugins Integration on Mandar Apte Website

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I have removed all Social Network integration from my website as I found out that website was taking too much time to load & react to user’s interactions.

 
I have removed Shared button & Widgets of respective websites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Plus from my website as this share plugins & widgets were utilising more bandwidth of my server taking more pressure on server’s processor threads & even found out my self that every webpage was taking 3 or more seconds to load which I don’t permit to happen with my website. (more…)

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Social Networking Integration in WordPress Websites A Review

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I integrated Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus & Flickr widgets inside my WordPress websites for good of online networking & integration,

 
But later found out that widget mainly like Facebook widgets are throwing 404 errors multiple times that my website & mainly users are suffering from it. (more…)

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Useful Free Services for Web Designers

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This is real useful service for Web Designers who is moving his or her server to new location or moving hosting service from one service provider to another.

 
Service’s Name is ‘Open DNS’

 
It’s related to DNS (Domain Name System)

 
As WikiPedia Explains what is DNS:

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities.

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Design Schools or Design Institutes in India

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India’s Education System (mainly Mumbai University from where I belong) is based on 10 + 2 + 4 years of graduation program.

 
For applying to graduation program in Art you need to have following qualification, You must have 10 + 2 passed certified program that means you must pass Secondary School Certification (SSC) & then 2 years of Higher Secondary Certification (HSC) then only you can apply to Art Institutes like Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art & Sir J. J. School of Art for graduation in Art.
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Why we don’t do Pilot Projects or so called Free Mockup Designs? & Why Pilot Projects & Free Mockup design doesn’t work?

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Few collection of thoughts from my experience of design freelancing & pursuing design processes & doing design oriented business for living for last more than 4 years.

 
When somebody asks for Mockup before starting any paid & finalised project,

 
Following situations can be seen & felt by designer

  • Client is unsure about prospect of project
  • Client has unpractical approach towards project
  • Client lack proper investment & money
  • Client is hesitant about future of project (more…)

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Using large font size for web content which is what works in real situations in daily website browsing life

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Designing Websites through CMS – Content Management Systems is big business nowadays.

 
Designing Website themes with Font that seems right to eye than seems more readable to eye & become eye candy of viewer is big challenge for designer.

 
Designing website with font variation from font size from 5px to 25 px is big trend that captured the whole designer community world wide. (more…)

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Design Inspirations: Getting Inspired…!!! to do design & finally learning from it…!!!

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Today with broadband connection on my iMac & connected to the World Wide Web fearlessly with my own website & design blog… Switching from one website to another, reading blogs, going through Twitts, reading Facebook updates… Sometimes I feel It’s really easy to get inspirations through web if you do it right…

 
Not like olden days when you only have to visit art gallery exhibition to see art & get inspired with…

 
Here are few links that I find as inspiration to learn & do design… (more…)

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Wondering How to give design Interview? Here are few Design Interview Notes that will help you to prepare for the same

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Here are few words about Design Job Interview preparation from my own experiences.

 
Here are my two earlier blog post that will allow you to prepare Resume & Portfolio

  1. How to write your Design Resume?
  2. Creating & Choosing Your First Design Portfolio Format & updating it over the years

 
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Web Design & Development on Macintosh through OpenSource or Free Apps

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Here are the list tool sets you will need if you want to design & develop website on mac with opensource or free apps. As you may know Mac is it self based on opensource Unix platform.

 
So here is the list of Web Design & Development OpenSource Apps available on Mac,

 
CMS (Content Management System) or Blogging Platform

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Design Tools Comparison

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Today I decided to compare different design tools or computer applications available in market to just to differentiate them with each other

 
Before even talking about Computer Design Applications you can guess what big companies are involved in to developing them, examples are Adobe, Autodesk, Apple, Microsoft

 
Sometimes as Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Animator is really hard to understand what tools to choose before even starting a design process but you have to keep in mind that tool are just tools not an design solution that will dictate your design process but it will just help you to do your job done. (more…)

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