Why Using Graphic Templates is the Best Solution

When you are considering graphics, it is quite common for most Internet marketers to shy away from using graphic templates, whether they are eBook covers, website layouts or promotional banners, as they strongly believe that through the use of graphic templates, they will be tarnishing their own business. They will want to own a unique identity and therefore will always find a professional graphic designer for them to do the job. Well, you’re actually in for a big surprise!

When you buy a graphic template, it will be possible for you to customize it to an extent or even build a totally new design based on it! You might wonder what is the point in using the template, then. Well, it serves as a kind of inspiration and ideas that will provide you with a totally new design. You can’t derive anything from a completely blank canvas, right?

Further to that, you will actually be saving a lot of precious time that you can otherwise spend on more important matters such as developing new products or marketing your products. When you buy a template which is pre-made, you will only need to edit a few things in order to give it an identity of your own. In time, this will give you more time and flexibility for you to work on other things.

For example, imagine that you argue on hiring a designer to do the job being equally fast. This might be true but you must remember that hiring a professional designer for you to do a custom design will cost you a lot of money. Therefore, unless you need a totally unique identity that you are aiming to establish firmly in your niche market, you won’t need to get a designer to design it for you.

Not all graphic templates are suitable, so you must be careful when you choose one. Try to consider the quality over the price, and you’ll be on your way towards creating a positive image for your business whilst saving more time for more productive tasks!


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Better Website Design

Introduction:

Design and more design! To put the wonders of a good design into perspective, you can try to imagine yourself buying a T-Shirt. First of all, what do we tend to look at? The first thing is the design of the T-Shirt, of course. Assuming that all the other factors are constant, the design or appearance, would then become the key aspect.

2 )  Design

Trying to imagine yourself in another individual’s shoes, as usual, here are two more situations.

Situation A : A website with good design and breathtaking graphics. (Good color schemes with a matching theme), and pictures. Optimum resolutions and relevant fonts and word sizes are used.

Situation B : A website inversely equipped with gruesome graphics and pictures in terms of resolution, quality and relevancy. For example, red pictures with a bright green background. Fonts used which don’t match albeit too fanciful. Or too small, and artsy font-types.

In the Situation A, visitors that will enter the website will immediately be awestruck and impressed by the design and artwork. The well placed pictures and designs will somewhat symbolize or represent the positive and professional nature of the company/website. As we know, most of your visitors will also tend to judge through impression.

As for Situation B, the shabby environment due to a severe lack of creativity and badly taken pictures wouldn’t exactly help in drawing visitors to your website. Fonts that are hard to be read, let alone understood, and appreciated, and mismatching themes in terms of color, won’t be exactly welcoming, will they?

Analysis: Now, the essential idea here is to always plan your websites, and try to get other individuals that will provide feedback and different perspectives. Each mindset might differ, but at least you will get some room for improvement. Don’t get me wrong, even a very ordinary website with proper design could generate plenty of positive implications, but the main idea here is to at least maintain the idea of an good, neat and impressionable website.


James Reid is contributing editor at WebDesignArticles.net. This article may be reproduced provided that its complete content, links and author byline are kept intact and unchanged. No additional links permitted. Hyperlinks and/or URLs must remain both human clickable and search engine spiderable.