Graphical & Gallery Design

E. Curtis Designs provides graphic design services tailored to your personal vision and business website 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, galleries, 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.

Flash, JavaScript, and DHTML Design
Flash technology offers many exciting ways to enhance your website A site can be enhanced with a flash header, have flash effects applied to text, as a menu/buttons/navigation bar, or with graphics such as in a slideshow. JavaScript and DHTML are other effective ways to offer site interactivity. A few of the many JavaScript/DHTML enhancements that are available are scrollable text messages, diverse image effects such as slideshows and rollovers, clocks and date scripts, music and sound, pop-ups, calendars, guest counters, and more. For a listing of many of the cross-browser compatible scripts we use view our "JavaScript and DHTML Archive".

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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. For our designs we use Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks.

Buisness Cards - We design custom business cards to match the look/feel of your webite.

Custom Graphics - We design custom graphics most often for header and logo design, buttons, navigation bars, and backgrounds - tiled, gradient, and pattern.

Custom Logos - We use several quality programs in addition to freehand 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 visually engaging headers, interactive text links, buttons and bars, image effects such as slideshow and galleries, 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 often best to customize an existing design.

Image Map - Image mapping allows for any portion of a graphical image to be made a link. 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 have hundreds of quality font options, a great collection of unique photography and clipart, and many professional grade photoshop styles and filters.

Navigation Buttons / Bars - We build both static and dynamic buttons and bars. We create custom 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. When we need to purchase photos/graphics we use istockphotos.com.

Thumbnails - We use Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Photoshop to generate and develop our thumbnail images and pages.

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.

Banner Ad Design:
E. Curtis Designs creates promotional and banner ad designs tailored to your website marketing needs. View our "Banner Ad Design" page to read more and view samples.

 

Lytebox Grouped Images (click to view)
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Lytebox Slideshow (click to view)
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Flash Slideshow

Additional flash gallery designs are viewable on our flash animation page; and on our home page we have utilized javascript rollovers which is another effective way display graphical content.

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Scrollers can be designed with or without navigation arrows, pagination, borders, linking, and titles.