Graphic Design

E. Curtis Designs provides graphic design services tailored to your personal vision and business web site needs. We know the importance of capturing your visitors attention while creating a harmonious continuity in design, and for this reason we create visual designs that are both unique and beautiful — both static and animated header/masthead designs, collages, banners, web marketing ads, and custom logos.

We can work with your existing graphical content, purchase images on your behalf, or design a custom illustration. And whatever we design will be optimized for the web both for visual impact and quick page loading.

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Graphic Design and Interactivity
Whether you want a site with all the bells and whistles or one that is clean and simple, we'll make your site visually beautiful, quick-loading, and easy to navigate, holding your viewer's attention longer and tempting them to stop by often. Our approach to design is based upon the realization that a site must visually engage your visitors; for this reason we utilize the psychology of visual and color theory with your target market in mind.

Banner, Logo, and Header Design
We know the importance of having an effective and easily remembered company logo and will put in the effort to ensure that the design created will aptly reflect your company. We design traditional and contemporary Masthead/Header graphics, create static and animated banners, and quality custom logos. Samples of some of our Header designs and logos are visible from our Portfolio link. View banner ad designs by clicking here.

Flash and JavaScript Design
Flash technology offers many exciting ways to enhance your web site A site can be enhanced with a flash intro, have flash effects applied to text, as a menu/buttons/navigation bar, or with graphics such as in a slideshow. JavaScript is another way to offer site interactivity. A few of the many JavaScript enhancements that are available are colored scrollbars and animated cursors, dynamic text options such as scrolling and animated text messages, image effects such as slideshows and rollovers, clocks and date scripts, music and sound, redirects, pop-ups, thumbnail galleries, page load transitions, calendars, guest counters, and more.

GRAPHIC DESIGN SERVICES

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Following are some of the most commonly employed graphical design services that we offer.

Custom Graphics - We design custom graphics most often for header and logo design, buttons, and navigation bars. To achieve best results we use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks.

Custom Logos - We use several quality programs to automate this process ensuring that the logo we design will aptly reflect your business or organization.

Flash - There are many great flash effects that can be applied to a site. Flash can be used to create text links and effects, interactive buttons and bars, image effects such as slideshow, animated intros and movies, embedded sound, or as an entire site design.

Gif Animations - There is rarely a problem with viewing animated gif graphics on the web though some security settings will prevent the animated "Gifs" from being displayed. Custom gif animations can be created though these take time to develop just as a flash animation does, and since there are so many free source ones available it is typically not worth the time or expense.

Image Map - Image mapping allows for any portion of a graphical image to be made "hypertext" clickable. This is most often used when a site design is primarily graphical or a portion of a graphical header design is intended as navigation.

Image Scans - We use the HP Office Jet 6200 Series (32 bit optical scan resolution).

Header Design - We primarily use Photoshop and Illustrator to design our headers/masthead graphics. We have hundreds of quality font options, a great collection of unique photography and clipart, and many photoshop styles and filters.

Navigation Buttons / Bars - We build both static and dynamic buttons and bars. We create traditional custom designed buttons and bars, flash buttons and bars, Dhtml and JavaScript rollover buttons and bars, and JavaScript vertical and horizontal display menus. Sound can be applied to buttons as well.

Photos & Graphics - We have a large collection of quality photography, stock images, and traditional and flash clipart.

Thumbnails - We use Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Photoshop to generate our thumbnail images and pages; in some cases we will hand code the pages when advanced scripting is required as with some JavaScript scrolling galleries.

Wallpaper - We have a large collection of quality wallpapers in stock and as needed will design custom wallpapers to best represent your site style.

360 Panorama - A panorama is a way to stitch images together to create a scrollable horizontal vista of a location. This is a great option for some sites.

3D Modeling - We are able to create simple yet quality animated 3D text effects as well as simple 3D images.