When you slice an image, the slice divides an image into smaller images that are shown on a web page using CSS layers, or html table. When you divide the image, you can assign different URL links to create page navigation, or your optimization settings are used to optimize each section of image. You export and optimize a sliced image using the save for web & devices option. Photoshop generates the html code or CSS code that you need to show you sliced image by saving each slice as a separate file.When you work with slices, keep these basics in mind, you can either create a slice by using the slice tool or you can create them using layer based slices. After you create a slice, you can select it using the slice select tool and then resize, align, or move it to other slices. You can set your options ... Read More

The market is full of web designing company's so it becomes really difficult to select the best from this pool. Below are some tips that are going to help you in selecting the website design company that match your needsQuote Analysis: Different company offer different price for the same work. Generally three level of price are charged high, low and medium. So use your intelligence while selecting best deal.SEO Friendly Designer: Before assigning project to any web design company. Please make sure that their designer has working knowledge of SEO. This will help you in structuring your website according to the latest SEO ethics.Site-map Importance: Please make sure that you are getting well defined site-map. This will improve the website navigation and enhances the traffic. Search engine also give high priority to the site-map because from here they can easily navigate into the entire inner pages.Track Your Work Properly: Do ... Read More

There are ways to lower any web design costs, below are ways in which you can save money:Take your own picturesIf you rely on the designer to provide photographs they will have to buy them in which will of course cost money. If you are going to have a high quality image as the header for the site then I would suggest buying it from one of the quality image sellers online but for images of your services or products, supplying them yourself can save money. Don't forget the designer will also have to spend time finding the correct images, again this costs money.Provide ContentThink very carefully about the content you want to feature within the site itself. There is nothing worse for a designer then building a website and having to wait for the content which really slows the process down and in some cases increases the costs.If you ... Read More

This article explores the standard acronyms used in web design today and explains what each one means as well as the technology behind it. It will be a massive help to new starters in the field and could potentially help more experienced user gain a better grasp of the things they are working with.The web is full of scary technologies but getting a grip on the basic ones will make life a lot easier. As with everything that is connected with computers there are a lot of scary acronyms but we will be taking a look at a few of them and hopefully giving you a boost to your general knowledge.W3C: The W3C are the World Wide Web Consortium and their goal is to "lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth and stability". This basically means they try their ... Read More

What is the best website design software? You may think I am going to start comparing Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Coffecup or NVU but it's rather like using a drill. There is no point comparing drills if you don't end up with the correct hole.So lets talk about the type of hole; Did you know that 99% of websites fail and many of these are designed using professional services with website design costs that go well over $5000. Don't get me wrong they create beautiful websites with their flash animations and javascript navigation and CCS template.What is the definition of a website that works?It is simply this:One that gets traffic If you don't have traffic then you don't have an online business.It is that simple.When you talk to a designer did you ever hear them talk about their successful websites that drive hundreds of visitors to their customers sites. I expect you ... Read More