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Dominos Newsletter

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:37:00 +0000

Newsletters are one of the main tools for online marketing these days. Our inbox is flooded with new ones every day or week... but though subscribed do we go through them all?

Yesterday while going through my mails I was surprised to see the Dominos news letter September issue. Earlier they used to focus only on their product. A yummy pizza picture would the main attraction apart from the offers and new offerrings.

For a change this time it was different! I must say I liked going through the whole newsletter this time. Aesthetically it's too good. Hope it works as a good online marketing catch!

Spreading Love!

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:34:00 +0000

Here's a warm message to all my friends!

There might be violence and threat all over the world. But God will always protect his children.

We just need to keep our love for each other alive for us forever...

Just a 'Hi' to all my dear ones! Click to see my message!

Pixel

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:33:00 +0000

What are Pixels?
They are the building blocks of an image. When we view an image the individual pixels are not distinguishable to us. They together place themselves beside each other to form the image. It is the smallest unit of a picture.
Here is an example. The small circle is actually made up of several small sruares of different shades of yellow.

Vector Graphics
Vector images are smaller in size(not dimension). The image information is represented by formula.

Raster Graphics
In raster graphics the image is represend by the pixels unlike mathematical formula as in vectors.Fille formats like .bmp, .jpg, .tiff are raster formats.

Christmas header images!

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:47:00 +0000

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Bengali New Year- 1417

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:53:00 +0000

May this new year bring new joys and happiness in everyones life...

Subho Nabobarsho!

Facebook replacing Fan with Like

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:49:00 +0000

Recently Facebook announced that thier analysis shows users are more comfortable to click on the tab 'like' as compared to the option 'become a fan'. the 'like button is clicked twice more than the become a fan. According to them a person feels more easier to express as 'i like xyz brand' than committing himself as a fan the same brand.

This simple usability change is yet to be seen on the facebook site.

Easter blog images

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:51:00 +0000

Here are some easter images... you can use tham as your blog headers!

Happy holi

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:51:00 +0000

Here comes the festival of colors! Wishing you all a very happy, safe and vibrant holi!

Happy New Year

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:44:00 +0000

Wishing all a very Happy New Year!

No need of Designer!

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:19:00 +0000

Your Designer is very slow? Demanding for money? Not working the way you want?

forget everything! Here's some thing great for you!
Try this...

Life without Designers!

She is sad

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:48:00 +0000

Yes, these days I have become very irregular with blogging. Neither did I wish my blog on her anniversary…

Result?

She got very upset… and jumped down Page rank ;)

But now I am back…

It was my usual irregular chat time. A pop up came out with a ‘Hi’. It was my ol’ friend and colleague. He was about to come up with his next sentence and I started my interrogation… ‘Why didn’t you come on my wedding?’ ‘What happened to you all?’…bla…bla….

But no defensive words from him… ‘This time I have an invitation for you!’…

Me- ‘Great! Who is she?’

Kolkata Blogger’s Meet!

CCD; RDB Adlabs Sector V,

Salt Lake City, Kolkata8th August, Saturday!

I was surprised! Is it the same thing we used to discuss almost a year ago...?!! I can’t believe! Finally it is happening in Kolkata!

‘Yes… This time we have done it! Are you coming?’

Definitely! I am really excited to be there this Saturday. I will be a new experience all through I am sure. And the add-on is meeting my friends after quite a long time.

You are also invited! See u @ Bloggers’ Meet!

Cool ecards for Valentine's Day!

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:06:00 +0000

HAPPY 2009!!

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:44:00 +0000

Hello all!
One more year has passed... There were so many Highs and Lows... Successes and failures... happiness and mourning...
Its time to welcome the New Year with all good memories!

Here's wishing you a very happy and prosperous year ahead... May all your dreams come true!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

Free Header Images- Christmas Special

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:52:00 +0000

The Festive season is knocking the door! Here are some free Christmas header images for your blog or website. Last time we discussed about how to give your logo a cool christmas look. Lets spread the christmas charm everywhere!

We Salute

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:50:00 +0000

We salute all who lost their lives in the fight against terrorism. We salute who gave thier lives in the fight against terrorism.

We salute India!

Shubho Bijoya

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:02:00 +0000

Here is an awesome animation on the elements of Durga puja from NID (National Institute of Design.

Cards for Durga puja scraps

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:16:00 +0000

Here are some durga puja cards. Send them to your far-near and dear ones!

Walt Disney- A pioneer and innovator

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:41:00 +0000

...1919, an 18 year old left home to find work. He joined an art studio and started creating ads. In 1920 he formed a similar ad company with his friend. It had a bad start. He started working for another Ad company (Kansas City Film). His interest in animation made him start his own animation business.

With his friend Iwerks he joined a popular showman Newman to air their cartoons 'Laugh O Grams'. It was a hit. Follwing this they stated their own studio, which had a short life span due to lack of fund. Along with his brother he started a studio in Hollywood this time. Their new series 'Alice Comedies' was a success. Again 'Oswald the Lucky Rabbit' with Universal Pictures was a big hit. But the Universal Pictures had the rights of Oswald.

He wanted to created a new character to replace Oswald... and Mickey Mouse was born. Flip the Frog , Willie Whopper,Comicolor,Silly Symphonies, Betty Boop, The Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia , Peter Pan, Cinderella and many more started coming in.

He was our very known Walt Disney. Walter Elias Disney was a film producer, animator, director, screen writer, voice actor, entrepreneur... He won 26 Oscars (record- four in one year) & 7 Emmy Awards!! He died of Lung cancer in 1966. His 'The Walt Disney Company' in one of the largest entertainment house in the world today.

Here is something interesting for us all:
How Walt Disney Cartoons were made!

8 ways to get marked

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:24:00 +0000

Marking your name on the web is useful. All you need to do is do what you are doing but in a focused way. Building ones identity makes you more reliable to your customers, fetches you more work and brings you recognition. Of course, first you need to be good at your work. These points can only bring you recognition, its your work which will retain it.

Here are 8 easy ways for designers to mark their name on the web:

Blogging- Blogs are available free from Google, Wordpress etc and many paid ones like Typepad etc. Create a blog and do regular posts. Not necessarily textual post, it can be one of your pass time sketch, vector etc. Get comments and discuss on your piece of work.

Forum participation- Google to get some interesting and well-known sites which allow free forum participation. Here are a few- designerstalk, Graphicdesignforum, Webdesignerforum etc. Register with your original name if possible. People come here for design related problems, new technologies, design techniques etc. Participating these forums can be of great fun. You can even showcase your work and get good feedback.

Commenting- Without any doubt I can say that you visit quite many blogs or sites every day. Can you recall when you last commented on any post? This is something we often forget to do. Adding a simple comment with your real name and your site link preferably can make you popular. More people read it, more is your name is marked.

Tutorials- If you come out with some good experiment, pen down that in your blog. Good articles can be bookmarked, digged etc by others.

Free Graphics- You can make free gif animation, wallpaper, avatars, blog headers etc and post them in your blog/site for public use. If your works are really cool then your visitors will remember your site for sure till they need it again.

Portfolio- You can create your portfolio and put it up on your personal blog/site. Else you can get many websites which provide spaces for any user’s portfolio. Maintaining an updated portfolio is very important for all these days. Sites like Designdirectory etc are helpful.

Social networking- This is quite popular already among all in facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Myspace etc. Several groups created by users in the social networking sites every day. People get invitation, join and view the art pieces, thus the group owner becomes popular.

Others- You can even upload your works in flickr, youtube, Picassaweb etc. Popularize your name by registering under design directories like Dexigner, Designdirectory etc.

5 points- Web design (1)

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:51:00 +0000

1) Home page

Survey says out of all the web pages existing in the world only 0.4% of pages are visited by the users. To make your home page count within this 0.4% is tough. More tough is to retain this position for long.
The home page is usually the most visited page of your site. Its always smart to keep the visitors engaged here.

Most important content or the first thing you want to place infront of your visitors should always get a prominent place in your site.

Keep the language as simple as possible. The content matter should be fresh and nicely formatted.

Try to keep site's intro text within 20 words . Most visitors read this much only on any home page, the Web design guru Jakob Nielsen says here.

Get a clear idea of your target audience and how to sustain their interest on your page.

Studies say that in an average a minimum of 5 lines are read by the viewers. Important things which we want the viewers to explore should be linked or mentioned within the vertical space of 800px from top. This may vary to some extent as computer screens are available in wide range of dimensions these days.

Do not make the page overloaded with your content. Its here where your designing skill is required.

Try and follow some studies on the 'viewing patterns' of the net users. Here is a good article form Useit.

5 points- site design

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:40:00 +0000

Any site design is incomplete without a proper usability thought. Site usablity is some thing which every designer or site owner is concerned with in recent times. There was a time when site designers and developers were not much aware of the advantages of the term 'usability'.

'5 points- site design' may sound like an incomplete article. Well, I feel usablity is something which will differ for different user groups. These 5 points are some basic ones which are needful for any designer designing any site, for any product, for any user.

1. Important contents within the first screen
2. Fast loadable page, else the user will move to the next similar site
3. Distinct hyperlinks with prominent visible colors.
4. Homepage should be the starting point of your site.
5. no frames, no pop ups as these things detest the users.

We'll discuss these one by one in my coming posts...

Go Green and Stay Green

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:36:00 +0000

Here is the Earth Week, Monday to Friday, April 21-25' 2008. All of a sudden we have become so much concerned about our beautiful earth. It's good. But how many of us have promised to keep this concern intact life long?

We celebrate Christmas on every 25th of Dec, but do we forget to join our hands or offering our prayers before Jesus everyday? No, thats because we have given our Lord a special corner in our hearts. Why can't we do the same for our Mother Earth?

Mother Earth doesn't demand much. If each individual do our part even in the tiniest possible way that will result to a big step from us. I don't have any garden. I could only plant a few plants in my balcony. But there are a few things which I do follow and I am happy that I am trying atleast to do my part. Something like:

Avoiding extra usage of water
Throwing garbages on specific bins (recycle purpose)
Writing on both sides of any sheet
Spreading environment awareness among my students
buying recycled products (like note copies, cards etc)
Avoiding plastic carry bags
Avoiding wastage of food
Saving electricity when possible etc..

Everything is not in my hand but the little things I can do I try to do those. We should remember--- We all can save our Earth... we all can save our Future.

Bytes versus Papers

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:09:00 +0000

We all love Greeting cards! They bring us messages wrapped up with shades of sentiments, spirits & feelings. Whether a paper greeting or an e-greeting, they always own a space in our hearts.

I had a habit of stocking up all the greeting cards I received since childhood. Each year more 20-25 cards got added up to my collection (500approx in total). My school friends used to envy my stock (it was a fun time!). But for the last 4-5 years I received a half as many cards that year as last year. Whereas my inbox was getting flooded with e-cards each time.

I noticed my card-collection was not multiplying at the same rate. I used to get angry on my friends/well-wishers…. Why are all sending me e-greetings???? Time changed my habit too; I too started wishing my friends with e-cards.

Earlier we were used to paper greetings. Now it’s the supremacy of E-greetings. Does this mean that paper greetings have lost their battle against the e-greetings? Well, there are some good reasons why they have become more acceptable to this fast changing techy-world.

We prefer online cards because:
These are free, fast, no time loss for buying and mailing, no mailing or courier charges, wide variety of collection. Our life style is fast changing and with the rise of the internet, e-greeting cards are everywhere accessible now.

Many of us still like paper greetings:
They can be preserved. My grandma will always love to get one paper-card rather than an e-card. Penning down those warm words on that paper gives us immense joy. Paper cards can be preserved.

My habit has changed now. The ease and promptness of online cards have made me use them on regular basis. But the collection I stocked since childhood is now an asset to me. When I see those cards and read those words inside it gives me such a warm nostalgic pleasure. The feeling of joy is simply much more than those cards in my inbox.

Bytes may be the apparent winner but Papers will always rule our hearts.
What's your say?

I wanted to tell you something....

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:56:00 +0000

Smart Logos- from Birthday till Today

noreply@blogger.com (anindita) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:44:00 +0000

Sometime back we had a discussion about 'Some elements of logo designing'. Let me share with you some interesting facts and pictures about some famous brand logos.

1. Google

When Stanford University computer science graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine in 1996, they named it 'BackRub' (as it could analyze backlinks). BackRub's logo was a scan-image of Larry Page's hand.
Later they named it as Google. The current official Google logo is designed by Ruth Kedar.

2. Apple

1976, the Two Steves built Aple-I homemade computer. Wozniak sold his HP calculator and Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen to finance the making of the Apple-I motherboards. The first Apple logo was a picture of Isaac Newton. It depicted Newton sitting under an apple tree - "Newton … A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought … Alone." Ronald Wayne, who actually founded Apple Computer along with Wozniak and Jobs, designed it. In 1998 Apple had a rainbow logo and currently is possesses this monochrome look.

3. Microsoft

1975, Paul Allen and his friend Bill Gates adapted the first computer language written for a personal computer. BASIC got the license from MITS. Allen and Gates' partnership was named "Micro-Soft". Later the hyphen got dropped and Microsoft became an official company.
In the beginning the logo had this groovy look. 1982, Microsoft got a new logo with a distinctive "O". In 1987, Scott Baker designed the "Pac-Man Logo" for Microsoft. It is in Helvetica italic typeface, there's a slash between the o and s, emphasizing the "soft" part of the name and conveying motion and speed.

4. IBM

1811, the International Time Recording Company and Computing Scale Company merged to form CTR (Computing Tabulating Recording Company) . CTR adopted a new name and a mordern logo in 1924. the name was IBM - International Business Machines Corporation. In 1947 the logo got simplified. the last modification was in 1972 with horizontal stipes symbolising 'speed and dynamism'.

5. KFC

Kentucky Fried Chicken better known as KFC was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952. They shortened the KFC in 1991. Colonel Harland is always a part of the logo but his face has become more friendly with time. The current logo with a red apron is since 2007. yhg

6. Nokia

1865 - Fredrik Idestam started a paper mill on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids, in southern Finland. The second mill was beside the Nokianvirta river. Thus Nokia got its name. The present Nokia logo with the slogan 'Connecting People' was invented by Ove Strandberg. It is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones now.

7. LG
LG stated as two companies: Lucky Chemical Industrial and GoldStar, a radio manufacturing plant. GoldStar manufactured only radios and all sorts of electronics and household appliances. 1995, Lucky Goldstar changed its name to "LG" Electronics