Some Things Not Learned In School
by: Florie Lyn Masarate
Since most people and companies now ate turning to computers and showing off their crafts online, the probability is that many others would want to have one for themselves. Having your own website adds to the guarantee that people will be likely to visit them and get information and idea from you. With the majority of sites having their own marketing and advertising strategy, the question remains on how to best make your site attract and maintain the attention of the readers. One way of doing this is by the way of graphic designs that you put into your site.
For the graphic designers who have gone to design schools to learn their expertise, there are still many things to learn on how to go about your designs. It is important to note that not all things that you need in your chosen filed is learned in school. Some things are best learned from outside of it or from the experience you will gain in the real world. If designers think about it, they are better off learning more than the basics from the ones who have been there and have done it.
In websites for example, if the school taught you to make the most remarkable and marvelous site you can to get peoples’ attention, the experienced tells you otherwise. The advice they would give you is for you to have a thorough understanding about what your site is about. You can go about this by reading through the printed materials that you have and taking in every aspect, detail and concept. Only then can you have a concrete and stable ground to make your graphic designs with. If you already have the main idea, then incorporate all the magnificent designs into this idea. Merge the two but not necessarily losing the idea altogether in the process of the designing. If you based the result from the readers, you will notice that even though they are prone to being initially interested by beautiful designs and gets into sites with loads of them, in the end, they would look for another site where their purpose would be served. The fact that when you see one design, you have seen them all is still very much the opinion of people even now.
There is also the possibility that Even if you are a graphic designer for websites, someone, someday will want you to do some print work maybe because of the way you handled the site or just to see if what you can do on websites you can also do in print.
For the graphic designers out there, learn not only from the school who have taught you what you want to know but from the real world which teaches you what you need to know.
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Florie Lyn Masarate got a flair for reading and writing when she got her first subscription of the school newsletter in kindergarten. She had her first article published on that same newsletter in the third grade.
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