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11th May 2004

Art Direction and the Web

“The purpose of this article is to introduce our readers to the principles and techniques of the art director ó which relate closely to web design ó and show how these can influence the overall effect of a website.”

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11th May 2004

Capturing and Optimizing Screenshots for Print

“If you’ve ever done design work for any type of software or web-centric company, you have undoubtedly come across the need to capture screenshots for print purposes. This is usually for demonstrative reasons, and it’s a graphic technique employed where just showing the reader a screenshot (usually with a few callouts) can do more than several pages of explanatory text. The trickier part for designers often comes with saving the images. Since the screen captures are by nature low resolution (72 dpi, screen resolution), converting them for print takes a bit of software trickery.”

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11th May 2004

The New Blogger

“For those of us involved in the project, weíve been waiting months for this day to come. At long last, Iím proud to announce the launch of a project representing the latest collaboration between Stopdesign and Adaptive Path: the redesign of Blogger.com. Congratulations to the entire Blogger team on completing hundreds of hours, and expending tremendous effort to fit so much into this launch. This is Bloggerís first major overhaul since getting acquired by Google in February 2003, and itís a biggie.” (More)

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