New Video Tutorials To Customize Your SocialGo Site
Posted on | August 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
As I have been working through setting up my own SocialGo community site, I decided to do up some tutorials along the way. These are mainly geared at customizing your SocialGo website using the graphics that I have designed for my clients. However, the step by step applies regardless of who created your graphics. Read more
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SocialGo and Custom Domains
Posted on | August 8, 2009 | 8 Comments
Do you plan on using SocialGo for your entire community? Do you want to brand it with your domain name?
Then you may have a few questions about how that is done. Or you may need clarification on what that all means. Well know you are not alone. This is a journey I also found myself on with a site I was creating.
It was my first exposure to SocialGo and I knew I wanted to use my domain name as I already had a reputation as well as I wanted the .socialgo.com suffix removed from the url. However, as I started that journey I seemed to have more questions then answers. I found the documentation a bit confusing and I was unclear as to the implications of my options. Read more
The Basics of Design
Posted on | July 9, 2009 | Comments Off
I wanted to share with you some of the basic elements and principles to be considered in designing. I do this to help you understand what makes a graphic really stand out.
First there are 5 elements in design. Color, Shapes, Texture, Lines and Mass
Although they seem self explanatory, consider the multitudes of variations available. With lines you have the thickness as well as style; whether dotted, solid, curved, straight, etc. When it comes to color there is meaning, symbolism and association to consider. If you are ordering web graphics you may think that texture doesn’t play a role in this non-tangible media, but that is not so. Consider the depth provided by a shadow, making your image seem to ‘pop’ off the page. Read more
