Where’s the beautiful photography?

Wheres the beautiful photography? http://www.seohiroshi.com/. It can make the difference from a good to a great design. Color, color, color awakening the senses. Do you want to be a wandering traveler through the mind of a visitor or do you want to be a burnt memory, image tracing back to the very concept of who you are.

All of your elements in your design, the concept, the negative and positive space speaks volumes to your client. Its like taking a few moments under a tree nestled in a park in the middle of a bustling town echoing its time to go. Or a subway train whistling the steam through grates in the street as you listen to your ipod sing sing a beat carrying the steps of each passerby. Keeping the beat of the doors opening and closing.

Create work that keeps your viewer interested in what they haven’t see yet.
Anticipating the next page or the next link intrigued…flowing from one design or element to another.

Thats all for now.

Carmela Rosario
Client Management/Advertising
Gigapxmedia.com

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CSS layouts using the 960 Grid

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The grid dominates print and gives it that harmony that the eye likes so much. This is a way to provide a consistent layout in your web pages. The CSS file that drives the layout consists of classes that define set parameters for the size of your columns and spacing. You invoke these columns with the respective class name placed in the div tags.

Take a look at their site and download the files, they also include templates for Photoshop and Illustrator for those who like to layout web sites graphically, slice them and apply CSS layouts.

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Colaboration Section Launched

We have just installed our Collaboration Section of Gigapxmedia. Clients can login to this part of our website in order to track changes, propose and approve revisions, add text and photos and download the final project files. The utility is based on the ever so useful Base Camp developed by 37 Signals.

This also makes our designers/developers lives easy when handling multiple projects at once. So many things can slip through the cracks with out this app.

Usage for the client is simple. Log in with the provided username and password and the dashboard view will appear on your screen with several tabs to choose from.

Overview, shows the track record of the project including milestones. Milestones are major events in the design/development phase of your project and are very useful because they also allow us to assign required steps to members of the project for completion. “if we need the client to provide us with textual content before we can move any further, Project will allow us to assign this task to the client. It shows up in an email to them, notifying the client to create the text content in a text document. Then the client can upload this into the project to be used by us.” states Kris Rosario, one of the lead designers at Gigapxmedia.

Other functions supported is a messaging system tied into images and other content that eliminates email tag between the designer and client. A task list to show the client what is needed in order to reach the next phase. And the files tab handles uploading and downloading of any files pertaining to the project.

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