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How do I use GIMP to create a decorative gradient background of dots, diamonds, or squares?
Gnu Image Manipulation Program can be used to create decorative and repeating backgrounds. The following very simple tutorial can be used to create a gradient background of dots or circles, diamonds or squares.
Start GIMP and create new image - say 300x600 pixels in size
Set the background color to something dark, use midnightblue for this example.
Add new layer
Select gradient and make sure that the Gradient tool options have the gradient set as FG to BG.
Set a new, light color to the foreground (upper gradient) and set midnightblue to the background of the gradient.
This is a new site dedicated to protecting companion animals with a target audience of young adults. Although the concept is derived from the Joomla CMS and Yootheme, there are numerous scripting customizations that make this site unique.
DGO Access is a Systems Integration Company specializing in the electronic integration of Garage Doors, Parking Equipment, Access Control Equipment and Closed Circuit Television for Residential and Commercial property owners and Parking Garage operators.
4theHome is a consigned furnishings store. They needed the ability to update content and photo galleries through Contribute and also a custom wish list form.
Better Business Cleaning was a last minute job. The client came to me on a Monday with a need to have their website redone by the following Tuesday so that it could be referenced to their prospects at a business convention.
Taxworks uses a custom built content management system which gives the site owner the ability to add/update content such as FAQ, articles, etc. without having to come back to the designer.
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Web development - content management - search engine optimization - image galleries and slideshows
Our focus is developing solutions that:
load fast
search engines will love
are easy to update
will be easy to 're-skin' whenever needed
are 'accessible' to your clients
use current best-practice development techniques
Our offerings:
Website, web solution, design and development
Site repair - fix broken links, disorganized size, awkward navigation, etc.
Development of custom photo (image) galleries and slideshows
Set up data-driven sites with PHP/MySQL
Set up restricted site/pages/forms
Installation and configuration of open source solutions such as - Web Calendar, forums, shopping carts (such as Zen Cart ), PayPal
Search engine optimization (aka SEO) - get your site recognized by Google and other search engines
Improve site download time, optimize images
Load fast
Slow loading sites tend to be annoying to use, assuming you don't abandom them for another after the first eight or ten seconds. Although the advent of broadband/DSL has successfully improved load speed it is still up to the designer, developer or site administrator to keep page size within reason. Although the biggest causes of slow loading sites are poorly optimized and too many large images, there are other factor contributors.
WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) type web design programs may be nice for building simple web sites, but what they can't really convey is the importance of managing images/pictures. Everyone will have a different opinion what is reasonable for pages size. If your audience is comprised totally of fast broadband viewers then a 250KB page is reasonable. To put image size in perspective, a common 6 MegaPixel digital camera is capable of producing 2.5MB (2500KB) size images, meaning that a single unoptimized image can bring a site to its knees. It is part of our process to both educate our clients as well as work out these types of problems.
Search engine friendly
Search engine friendly means that a website is both inviting and easy for search engines such as google and yahoo to index their content. Indexing refers to a process in which the search engine visits a website and capture the site content, then dumps it into the search engine's content database. When you do a search in a search engine's search field, it is actually checking the local database then spitting out qualified results. It might sound like a given but not all websites are search engine friendly.
There are a number of factors that can impact how search engine friendly a site is. Just a few include 1) designed with frames, 2) Flash site, 3) JavaScript navigation without 'alt' images and 4) Black-hat search engine optimization techniques.
Current Practices Web Development
In developing and designing web sites we use current practices, current technology in creating pages and sites. If you have an older site that was designed in frames we can redesign it to be user friendly using CSS and JavaScript, which will effectively make it search engine friendly as well. We will also set up the site or pages to be XHTML compliant and CSS compliant as necessary.
Serving Erie, Colorado, Boulder County, Denver Metro and Beyond
In addition to Erie, Colorado we serve many neighboring Northern Colorado communities including Arvada, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver Metro, Englewood, Frederick, Lafayette, Longmont, Louisville, Mead, Niwot, Thornton and Westminster as well as clients in Cohasset, Massachusetts and Mountain View, California.
