Logo: Beauty, Definition of a business

Logo, The first thing a customer, client or any one looks at is the logo. What is it? A graphical image that represents a business, it can be text and pictures, or an image manipulated in any way to give an identity. Logo is the identity for the business.

How is a logo made? A logo is designer by a specialist in the field of graphics. The field of logo designing is highly underestimated. Why do I say that? People are not at all aware how long it takes to design a logo. Neither have they known how much work it takes to design unique logos. All companies want a unique identity (i.e. a unique logo). Let us assume one designer makes 100 Logos, just an average. Knowing there are plenty of companies out there… now if a single designer is making hundred logos, he/she will need to have 100 unique ideas. Even more than 100 as some might be rejected by him/her during the course of designing. How logos are made? It seems simple; well it definitely is not that simple. Normally a designer starts of with a piece of paper and pen. Initially sketching as many ideas as it comes to his/her mind, decides the color scheme. It might take him a week or so to come up with the perfect logo. Even more time or more designers might work on the same logo so they can ensure that the customer is satisfied with the design.

After this comes the software part, we all know software is not very cheap, we all have a normal desktop or a laptop at our disposal, but a designer has a high end performance computer which is not cheap as well.

A good pc costs around $ 2000

Software costs around: $ 1799

If a designer stars making a logo for 10 $ he/she might not even be able to buy any thing hard ware or even might not be able to eat. It might just take him 380 logos just to over come what he/she just bought. The beauty of logo design is highly under estimated, logos are normally very low paid. Good companies know the importance of a good logo, and try there level best to get the perfect identity, they even spend thousands of dollars for it, as they have the knowledge of importance of logo.

A logo normally takes around 2 weeks to a month, depending on the designer. The field of logos is being taken wrongly; it must be taken seriously, for companies, as well as websites. And people should start thinking about it.

We often have to design website. What we should think? there are many books on how to make websites. Many tutorials for how to make websites and there are good ones.

I just thought of sharing a few tips:

1. Never have too many links on the first page
2. Some times it is better to have some clean space rather than trying to fill it up force fully
3. Keep your color scheme aesthetic. But what is aesthetic? Keeping it simple, elegant and professional(often i call it sep)
4. Never use funky fonts in normal text. as not all fonts are with users. if you want ur site to be as a text one that is users shall be allowed to be selected. Than having all these funky or even fonts that are elegant but not default will be unknown to your audience’s pc. So use fonts that are already installed in every pc.
5. It I never a requirement to fill a page up, so be cautious. You might loose visitors because of this.
6. Knowing which technology to use when? Well this is not really a tip but it is an important aspect in website development. Why? If you know there are many technologies in the market. Which one to use? Well it depends all on your requirements… there are many technologies now. Go through tutorials for help regarding what technology.

7.      Pick a host that suits you, your requirements as it matters. Don’t forget google about the hosts reviews etc…

8.      Keep sites name easy to remember if I have a site called xyz.com it is easy to remember rather than a2D3sdfs1d4333.org.pk

9.      See professionals work. Highly recommended. They are the pros. Look at how they do it. You might get inspired by some gurus.

So good luck and start designing, developing and coding a website.:)

I am not married, I am still studying. But I am a literate person; I know who is a wife. Who is a wife? Dictionaries might define the word in many ways. But she the daughter of her father, who had a wife. Why am I writing on this topic? I don’t have wife, but what I hear and see on television is wrong. Literacy is not going to a good university, getting a PhD, but having no knowledge of how to treat people. Burn those degrees if you think that’s literacy, you should specially know how to treat your wife; But why? Not because you are married to her, but because you promised her, you will take good care of her. Be with her when she needs you. You promised you will support her. You promised to make her happy. Not only is her security your concern, but her happiness lies in you.

It is your duty to make her happy, to give her what she wants.

She does not only want you to wake up in the morning, when she gets up before you, makes breakfast for you, then before you come to the table, your newspaper lies there. You eat the breakfast and go to your office. She works all day maintaining the house cleaning. Doing every thing she can. So when you come home you realize she was caring for you. She waits for your call when you were at work thinking about you. How have you been? How was your work? You come home tired; she waits for you, makes tea for you. All she does is tries to make you happy, why can’t you make her happy.

She cries in her heart waiting for you to say you love her. She waits when you will come home and hug her and give her a kiss. She waits for you to take her to a candle light dinner. She waits for you to take her shopping. She waits for you to spend time with her. She waits, you will come home discuss you problems with her. Expressions matter, she loves you that is all I can say. She left her house for you. Now what else can any one say

The most important thing she is always there for you, but do you always stand with her. Neither am I supporting your wife. Nor am I supporting you. But what is a marriage? Have you ever asked your self? Think now before its late, before you shatter her delicate feelings into a million pebbles, tears might flow from here sweet eyes. Her heart might be stabbed with hatred. She might loose all her hopes. Her dreams may scatter.

She is a normal human being as well, she has feelings. Why do you want to break those feelings and torture that human being? Did she do some thing wrong, she cared for you? That was her mistake. She loves you was that her mistake? She wants to be with you. Why? Just ask your self why?

Defining marriage: not a signing on paper, not saying yes I agree to the questions asked on time of marriage. That’s all formality paper work to show the world you two have been married. But what a marriage really is the combination of the heart of the two people who are getting married. I agree to the fact, there can be NO two people who think totally alike. This is where LOVE comes in to action. How? This is the point when each of them makes a sacrifice when needed. It might be leave a habit. Or some thing, going to eat Chinese but wife wants to eat Mexican, why not make her happy and take her to Mexican restaurant.

I have placed a picture on the right, it is a beautiful rose, but how is the rose related to the topic. A rose is a beautiful flower, but it has spikes with it which protects its beauty, keeping it distinct, and unique. You wife is the flower, and you are the spikes. Might seem stupid, or idiotic, but the spikes do protect the flower. Not every one can break the rose and take it away. The flower gives the beauty to the whole plant. Now the plant is the family. So you wife is essentially a very important person who needs expressions, love, care, protection…

Is romance all she wants? Umm, this is hard for me as I am not experienced, any ways personally I think the answer is NO. But why do I think that way? I think she needs care, dedication, devotion, love, appreciation for what she does. But does this mean no romance? No well romance is an essential part of marriage.

Spend time with her, take her at the beach to see the sun set, take some days off go and enjoy at some places. Hang out, relax, and show her you love her. Be with her when she wants you. Indulge into her, love her for what she is; try to get her love by what she is. Take her to shopping, take her to candle light dinners. Love her, be with her. Neither will this ruin your life. But it will increase the love between you two.

Always take your wife shopping, I am not talking because I am still single, but I am thankful to my parents who taught me people should be respected. And the society taught me that wife is also a special person. She will the person because of whom you will get children. Your own children of course, definitely you might be thinking why am I writing or how am I writing this? Well it is obvious. I know how life works, I might be just 20, but I have brain that works. I understand other people, so at the end I solute all the happy marriages and all my wishes are with all the beautiful couples who are still trying to make a happy life….

Which one is the best? No one can argue, every one has his/her own taste. And all the software’s that allows web development have their advantages and disadvantages. So which one to choose? That’s a question that you have to answer. Often professionals recommended trying as many compilers as possible, why? There is a reason for it. They are the experienced gurus, they know what they suggest. But why in web? It’s simple, not all tools work the same way. Yeah we say WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) but we never want that to be the case. We also want to code.

So there are many in the market. I personally like notepad, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and when the amount of work is less, Front page does the trick. These are the one’s I used; but there are like

So this is just a small list, there are plenty more out there. But which one is the best depends on you, use the on in which you feel comfortable coding or designing. If you would like me to add it to the list, leave it as a comment here, and I will surely add that editor to the list.

Unilever, a famous company for making many things. Their products are used almost in every sector of our life. Let it be cooking, washing, etc. But do they have a good website? Being honest the first thing I noticed, it is good at some places, and at others really looks horrible. It has been neatly arranged, not a fuss any where, apart from the fact unnecessary stuff has been placed on the main page. They can organize their content even more. It’s not sort of professional, it is not aesthetic. No multimedia exists, that’s not an issue that will irritate or ruin the whole website.

I did not like the way the announcement panel was placed, and it was showing only one announcement. The background is not good; it gives the website a weird look. Background is very weird.  A simple gradient would have looked better. The background was not matching at the bottom and the top. It’s a mixture of a pattern, and a gradient. Buttons, act as the link, images or headings can also be used as the links. It’s not bad but it can be better. The hovering is very irrelevant and unaesthetic especially at some places. The hovering tends to cover the image which makes it annoying.

But the good thing was the website was very fast. It tended to load very quickly, and it didn’t consume a lot of my bandwidth.

So in general there are a lot of things they can improve on. So the final scores are:

Organization:              6/10

Navigation:                             7/10

Interface Design:                   3.5/10

Speed:                                     9.5/10

Content Presentation 6/10

Total Score                             6.4/10

URL:http://mutedart.zendfree.com

I won’t be going through the whole process that is I won’t explain how I did every thing since this is not a tutorial to make a website. But just a quick over view of how I made the website.

I started of with an A4 sheet right in front, on which I drew the whole interface that was the proposed interface on paper. Designed my logo on rough A4 so I knew what I was going to design and develop. This is one of the most important stages. Why? It’s because this stage actually tells the developers, designers, (i.e. the web team) what to do. And w hat is required at the final stage. Then I continued with what will I be using in the development of my website? By saying this I am referring to the technologies that I will be using. Choose wisely as the choice made now matters a lot. So I decided to use Html for almost every thing and CSS for buttons. I used notepad as my editor for CSS, there are others like Macromedia Dream weaver, etc.  Then for the designing of my logo, I used Adobe Photoshop. After this I designed the rough layout using tables, Front page, and fire fox for checking the interface.  Than I designed the buttons; the theory behind the buttons:

I knew I was going to use CSS for my buttons; I divided my buttons in two parts. One being the menu from where navigation is allowed and the other being all other links in the web page.

Now before starting to code for the web site, I decided for the color theme, that I will be using in my web page. So I decided the following were the RULES I will be using inn the buttons

a:link {}, a:visited {}, a:hover{}, a: active{}

then for the main buttons that  act as the buttons to transfer I made a list, changed it to inline, the list-style-type property to none. So the bullets don’t come up than placed a border on both left and right to give it a button look. I used the same rules as before. But there is variation in the properties that I used.  One important thing I used external style sheet as that saves a lot of code and does not create a lot of fuss. And I used one style sheet for the whole website.

This is it, I am done with the template then I moved to save page as. Since my template will be the same by referring to template I am saying the basic layout will be the same. Only the area of content will vary. Even that wont vary that much. So I started saving my template as other pages changing the title. I made changes as well as I continued to complete my website. When all my pages were done, I came back for hyper linking. I connected the pages. For images I had decided I won’t open them in he same tab/ window. So in the <a href=”xyz/jpeg”>image thumbnail here</a>I included the target=”_blank”, this opens that particular link in a new tab/window.  The code became <a href=”xyz/jpeg” target=”_blank”>image thumbnail here></a>.

I was done with the site; I was consistently checking my site in fire fox. Now was a time to run a quick run. So I TESTED the whole website clicking on links randomly going from one menu to another. After testing the site, I uploaded my site to my server.

So all the best, happy coding.

It is raining outside; the weather is very cold perfect for a cup of coffee. As I hear each rain drop touch the ground I feel the zephyr touch my face. But this zephyr is not as soft as her hand. I was looking at the rain, which was kind of strange, rain happens now and then but I was looking at rain for the first time like this. but who knew that I was not lost looking at rain but I was lost in my imagination holding two cups of coffee and waiting in the balcony for her to come up to me and take her cup and enjoy the lovely taste of coffee.

But the coffee tended to cool down I kept waiting but she never showed up.

And tears shed from my eyes. Tears mixed with the rain drops trying to smoothen my feelings but I forgot this was making it harsh on my self. I left a place in my heart that was to her that will remain hers now I have become used to my imaginations betray me. The world sees what I feel y can’t she know what I feel I have missed her I will miss her. But I wondered to my self “she waits for a prince, she deserves a prince and I don’t stand near a prince.

I tend to for get the words in the world are les to describe her beauty she mite b a normal girl to the whole world but definitely she is not a normal girl for me. With grief in my heart sorrows I can’t forget her. I just wait for the day when will we have coffee together “but the question is still unanswered will we ever b together? Can I b her prince? I know the answer is no but y can’t we…..

Here I am in front of my computer monitor, my hands lie on the keyboard. I might sound boring but in the beauty of time, I indulge my self within the thinking of the beautiful princess. The feelings I have as she walks by me cannot be described in words. The beauty of a zephyr has thrown me into a million pieces. I do not stand straight as my heart gets filled with tears of loneliness and the symptoms of being alone stand up. And I tend to be left alone in the darkness. So here I continue my story of a day which totally changed after the first sight of her true beauty that left a mark on my heart.

I opened my eyes to wake up when I stare at the sun rising, the first ray falls into my eyes; I miss what is the true sun ray of my eye. The beautiful smile I just want to see and the beautiful face that I want to see, the hearing of the lovely voice to enlighten my ears my day and my life is what I miss. What matters is not that I wait for her but what matters is I want her to be the happiest person. Though I will regret the fact of being lonely she will remain in my heart 4 ages and ages. I don’t want a thorn near her that might give her a small cut but that cut will be of a lot of importance. It might be worse than many millions of cuts on me. I just want a chance to cover the path she walks by the most beautiful and soft roses. I want choirs of birds singing for her welcome. I just wait 4 the right day the time when I will get lucky enough to tell her how much I love her and how much I miss her she left an image in my heart of the perfection of beauty……

As the day continues, I tend to get busy but never the less I always remember her. The beautiful smile gave me morale and support. I wanted to freeze time, leave all the things take her away from all the people to a place where I could express what I felt about her, a place where there was no tension, and a place I could just look at her all day. I had never felt more encouraged to do a task I was assigned though I regret the fact that she was not watching nor did she know a beautiful smile she gave had so much attached to it.

When ever I recall the perfection of her beauty. Tears fall from my eyes, my heart feels lonely and my imagination leads me to her beautiful and innocent face. My heart has the image of her that can never be removed. I have my cell phone always with me in this wait she will call me now even though I forget she doesn’t have my number. I wondered to my self “how lucky can a person become when her beautiful soft hands type a persons number”.

Words stay locked in my heart, they rust in the wait she might come to me and talk with me. I forget the task I was doing in the thinking of the perfect princess and imagination leads me to no where apart for my expressions and my feelings for her become stronger. She comes in my imaginations gives me a smile and hides away. I keep looking for her so that I can see her but she turned her back towards me ignoring me even my imaginations betrayed me. But all is fine since I know I will be more happy if she is happy.

I didn’t know what had gotten into me but what ever I did I wanted it to do it for her.

I couldn’t think of a better thing to do than thinking about her the harder I tried to get away from her the complicated it became than more I remembered her hence I missed her even more. So I decided to think about her and let my thinking express what I felt I thought now “the world is a small place to live, I tremble from her beauty jealousy spreads the heart of people when she is seen, scared of the truth I cannot look in to her eyes because of how much I love her the way she talks walks and does every thing she does is perfect. My heart waits and tears fall from my heart to hear her voice I can not describe the perfection that made my tears fall from my eyes and that instant I realized the world is a small place to live without the beauty of her perfection I am incomplete and I will remain incomplete” so what ever I did I could see her in front of me giving me her support giving me the passion. I shed tears in the fault that she doesn’t know hw much I love her and that she is not mine other wise I mite not be able to express what I felt about her. And the day continued. I struggled and managed to complete the tasks assigned… though most of the day I spent thinking about her.

The Six Phases of a Project:

* Enthusiasm
* Disillusionment
* Panic
* Search for the Guilty
* Punishment of the Innocent
* Praise for non-participants

Neither am I a poet or a writer but a normal person who has a heart and expression. Feelings are held within me. Happiness and sorrow’s both come to me as well.

As I continued with the task I was asked to do. The weather was normal. A little colder, dressed in a jeans shirt and a hood. No one knew what day the day will be. No one knows that there is a lot more to it than just working or studying. So I continued with my work.   As soon as I raised my head up to see the people passing in front of me. I noticed some distinct and unique people. Though they had a normal face like us but the face was different. The one face was very different and unique. Had a very beautiful shine, Indefinable beauty just passed right in front of my own bare eyes and I could not understand the time nor the day I had forgotten with what I was doing.

The smile was so beautiful; people might be jealous of it and want to take it away. The eyes were so beautiful that any one who gets noticed by those eyes will become a lucky person. The lips were so beautiful; the smile given shall be hard to define. The perfect beauty of what was held within her.  Guys will get crazy over that beautiful smile she had.

The hair was so soft and silky yet without touching them I knew they were perfect. Yet she was far from me, thanks to the zephyr I could smell the beauty. Thinking about her makes me smile on any day and at any time. No matter what the conditions or what the circumstances are.

The more I remember the more I forget, and the less I forget, the better I remember. So in the end I would conclude that I might have seen the most beautiful girl. But in simple yet more obvious words “The beauty of that specific girl is incomplete without the fact, the dictionary is a collection of words. No matter how many dictionaries, encyclopedias I use I can not describe how beautiful she is”…

As she uttered a word to her friend, I realized I was hearing to the perfect and most admirable voice. Nor will I say it was thin. Just it was beautiful. She was beautiful princess who was perfect. Perfection is what a lie was but became a truth when I saw her. The most beautiful rose will fall dull in front of her beauty.  The world was becoming a lucky place as her beautiful eyes noticed the things and objects that surrounded the place.

As I continued my work, she tended to leave her mind thrilling thoughts of just a five minute walk in front of me in my mind that shall remain in thy mind for weeks, years and forever.