Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Call for Help - Basic Illustrator Techniques



Drawing a simple waving flag using Adobe Illustrator

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Adobe Bridge 101

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Saturday, March 1, 2008

How to Define a SIte In Dreamweaver CS3

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Put Your Best Foot Forward for Success

When clients hire Card One Concepts to design and develop a website we provide them with questions designed to help them determine what their web site needs and goals are. The feedback helps map out the foundation of the project and allows the client to really focus on the important details and helps them put into perspective the amount of work involved on their part.

If you are thinking of working with Card One Concepts on a website project you may find the following questions helpful to you before you request a free quote.

Background:
  1. What is the nature of your business?
  2. Who is your target audience?

Message:
  1. What goals does your company intend to reach with a new web site?
  2. What is the primary message you wish to convey to your audience with this site?

Perception:
  1. Use adjectives to describe how you want your site to be perceived by the user. (Examples: conservative, progressive, friendly, formal, casual, serious, experts, humorous, service-oriented, professional, etc)
  2. How is your company currently perceived? Do you wish to carry through the same kind of message through your web site?
  3. What web sites do you find compelling? What do you find the most interesting about these sites?What do you find the least interesting or annoying about these sites?Please provide at least 3 website addresses for reference.
  4. Are there other web sites you've seen that have functionality that you would like to have on your site? Due to differences in server operating systems, not all functionality you see on the web may be available on your site.

Style:
  1. Do you have company colors or a color scheme you want us to use?
  2. Describe any visual elements or styles that can be utilized from existing marketing materials or collateral.
  3. If we are providing graphics, what style would you like them to be in: photography, illustration, cartoon, etc?

Content:
  1. Will this site use existing content? If not, will you be creating content in-house or using an outside provider?
  2. What is the basic structure of the content, and how is it organized?
  3. Will you need to request any sensitive information on your site (social security numbers, credit card numbers)? If so, you will need to acquire a security certificate.

Commerce Sites:
  1. How many products do you plan to sell on your web site? Will the products change often?
  2. Do your products have any variations? If so, do they apply to all the products? Does each product have different variations? List variations.
  3. What is your shipping model (flat rate, by total dollar amount, by piece)?
  4. Will you be charging Sales Tax? If so, which state(s) will be charged? What percentage?
  5. Are there any special pricing rules we need to know about (Ex: purchase 12 of our product and receive a 10% discount.)?
  6. Which credit cards do you accept?
  7. Do you need online credit card authorization (Paypal or Google Checkout)?
  8. Do you want to accept checks or purchase orders?
  9. Review the commerce options we have and see if one fits your needs best. Our sales representatives will be able to help you with this.

Marketing / Updating:
  1. What are your short-term marketing goals (in the next two years)?
  2. How will this web site help to meet your goals?
  3. Do you have an existing or planned marketing strategy in mind to promote this site? If so, please describe.
  4. What do you feel is your number one business problem? (Examples: change image, increase customers, promote company, etc.)
  5. What methods of distributing the URL already exist within the company?
  6. Do you intend on keeping the site updated? If so, how often? Who is responsible for updating and providing content?
  7. What are your budget limitations? Can this project be broken in a phased manner to help you meet your goals?

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Quicktips 08 - Website Navigation in Tables


Navigation setup in tables using Adobe Dreamweaver and GoLive

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Graphic Tips with Eric Saar - Photoshop Actions


Tutorial on how to use Actions in Adobe Photoshop
By: Eric Saar

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Friday, June 1, 2007

Graphic Tips with Eric Saar - Live Trace


Tutorial video on Adobe Illustrator Live Trace feature. Learn how to change a Raster image into a Vector image.
By: Eric Saar

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Quicktips 05 - Adobe Photoshop Layer Comps.


Adobe Photoshop Layer Comps.

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Friday, May 18, 2007

Double the speed of your firefox browser!



In this video, I tell you how to configure Firefox for Broadband. This makes you internet 2x faster. It works with both Macs' and PCs'. In this video, I say to type "about:config" in the URL box.

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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Quicktips 04 - Script Events Manager



Adobe Photoshop Script Events Manager.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Graphic Tips with Eric Saar : Healing Brush Tool



This tutorial shows how you an make quick work of blemishes, imperfections and small unwanted details.
By: Eric Saar

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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Quicktips 03 - Photoshop Actions

How to create Adobe Photoshop Actions.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Graphic Tips with Eric Saar

Adobe Photoshop tutorial on how to take a photo and make it into sketch.
By: Eric Saar


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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Dreamweaver: Basics


Start with the basics in using DreamWeaver to create your web site.

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Monday, January 15, 2007

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial! Dynamic Art by tutvid


Check out this cool way of building your files in Adobe Illustrator dynamically!

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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Introduction to Web Design Part 2



Want to sound like you know what you are talking about, when you talk about creating your web pages, then you will want to also see this video - part2.

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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Introduction to Web Design Part 1


What is the "web" and what are the key terms that we use to describe it. Commonly used terms for web design are discussed

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Friday, December 22, 2006

Welcome to Card One Concepts!

Hello,

My name is Brandon Cardone. I am the owner and art director for Card One Concepts. I have been in the graphics community for several years and hope to see this blog grow into a very useful resource for anyone interested in the graphics and web design world.

Please subscribe to this blog and come back soon for new and informative information related to graphic design, web design, web hosting, online marketing, search engine optimization and more.

Sincerely,
Brandon Cardone

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