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Why Hire a Graphic Designer

You might think that hiring a graphic designer is one more expense that you don’t need. Here’s five reasons why that type of thinking could lead you down the wrong path.

A Designer Saves Time

You know your job and do it well. A graphic designer is a professional who knows their field. They know about things like bleed and trap, type-safety and imposition so that you don’t have to. A graphic designer can turn your ideas into reality in a short time, leaving you free to do what you do best.

Improves your image

We’ve all seen business cards prepared on a home printer using perforated paper and the impression they leave. Professionally designed graphics and materials will convey an image to your customers of expertise that they can trust.

Stand out in a crowd

Every day we’re bombarded by thousands of advertisements all vying for our attention. Your best defense against becoming a part of the noise is through great design that captures your audience’s attention. And the best way to ensure you get that eye-catching design is to hire a graphic designer.

Save Money

It makes sense that doing things yourself will save you money. Unfortunately, in the world of printing that sometimes isn’t the case. Unless your file is prepared precisely the way it needs to be for printing, you may find that it costs more to prepare the file for printing than it would to simply hire a designer to do things from the start.

Knows the Software

Some people would have you believe that with Photoshop they can do anything. And the truth is that you can do anything with Photoshop – poorly. No single program can handle all the jobs needed to create quality materials and a designer knows how to put each program to it’s best use for quality results every time.

After more than thirteen years in business, The Artstract Co. has helped thousands of individuals and business’ both small and large. Our team of designers have the knowledge and experience to make your projects a success. We pride ourselves on creating strong design solutions for all your projects in a time frame that fits your schedule. By keeping up on all the latest techniques and equipment we make sure that you always look your best.

Wimpole House Company Services’ team of graphical designers can help your business achieve the look it deserves

With the increasing competition in the world of global market, the companies have started feeling the necessity of a websites for them. Today everyone is very well aware of the essential need of the websites. To company can show the courage of withstanding the tremendous pressure in the field of websites. The websites are the basic requirements for the survival of any business today and to register its appearance all over the world.

Primarily a businessman or a business organization requires the service of a professional website designer. It is the role of a website designer to develop a wonderfully designed and highly developed website. It is his efficiency and sincere efforts that make a website appear on the internet. The more efficient and devoted the designer is the more beautiful the work is. An experienced designer is an asset in the industry of website designing.

The designer plays a very vital role in the entire process of creating a website and making it appear on the internet. He leads the entire process and takes care of all the points related with the website however slight or unimportant it may be. A website that is designed and developed by . A web designer is an asset for the company or website as the quality of the website entirely rests on his shoulders.

Obviously, the role of a website designer is the most important part of the existence of the website on the internet and accessible from the whole world. The designer carries out the following responsibilities in the making of a website:

It is the responsibility of the website designers to understand the requirements of the clients in the clear-cut manner. He must try to understand the what his client wants in the website.

He must help his clients to have clear conception of the application of the website that he wants to get for his company.

It is the responsibility of the designer to provide all the applications in the website that his client wants to see in his website.

It is the part and parcel of the job of the website designer to be very efficient to create all the required applications in website which is mentioned in the work order.

It will be of great help for the designer to have a discussion with the client on any topic or issue that arises during the period in which the website is getting developed. It will help him to rectify his concepts in the website designing.

After the job of designing the website, the designer must stay in close contact with clients as this will help the client to find more contacts for his job.

The designer must brief the client about the ins and outs of the website after it gets fully developed.

It is the legal duty of the designer to provide free assistance to the clients for one year. He must provide technical assistance to the website as and when the assistance is felt by the client.

It is of prime importance for the website designer to have a very good and co-operative attitude with the clients as they will help them in the future to get more contacts from them.

The designer must keep all options open in front of him as far as making rectifications in the different places in the website.

The role of the website designer is very challenging and this challenge will increase with the passage of time. It is, therefore, the need of the hour to adopt the better designers to get your work completed quickly and easily.

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A client of mine once requested that I change the look and feel of their search results page. The client was a large company that had decided to change the design of their SharePoint portal. The portal had a search center which was where I needed to make the change.

 

This is how I did it:

 

First of all I needed a Core Results Web Part. You can add a web part to your results page from the Web Parts Gallery or use the SharePoint web part that is automatically added to each search results page.

 

Next I had to setup the fields (columns) I wanted to see in the search result. To do so – open the properties of the Core results web part and under the Results Query Options change the Selected Columns xml text. To add a new column you need add this text to the xml before tag:

 

 

Save the changes and now you can start to redesign the look and feel of the search results. The fastest way to do this is to use the XML of the search results. To access the XML you need to add this code instead of the XSLT code of the web part in the XSL Editor:



  











 

 Save your changes and do a test search. You will get an XML code of the search results. Copy this code and paste it to notepad. Save the file on your desktop and open SharePoint Designer. Connect to one of your SharePoint sites and create a new blank ASPX page. After this go in to the design mode of your page and add a new DataView Web Part. In the Data Source details choose the XML files and add a new XML file. In the new opened window browse to the file you saved before and import it to SharePoint Designer.

 

Once you perform this operation you’ll see your file in the XML files section.  Click on this file and press “Show Data”.

 

Now you will be able to design your Data View Web Part however you want, using columns from the Search Results XML file. You will also be able to perform sorting/filtering/grouping on your search results but keep in mind that each function will create results only on the page you are currently using. In other words, if you sort your search results by site title the grouping will group the content of your current search results page.

 

After you finish designing your page you the only thing left you need to do is copy the entire  code from your page, between the tags and , and paste it to the XSL Editor of the Core Results Web Part. Save your changes and verify that everything works by doing a test search. If you like the look of your search results page you can delete the temp ASPX page from your SharePoint site and delete the search results XML file.

 

If you would like more information on customizing a search results page I suggest this insightful article by Tobias Zimmergren:

http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2008/03/15/moss-2007-customize-the-search-result-using-xslt-part-3-customize-using-sharepoint-designer-2007.aspx

 

SharePoint gives you many options for customizing your search results.

 

You can define different search results pages for each search scope you run.

 

You can set a specific search results page on the server level and redirect all search results to that page.

 

You can even define a search results page for a Search Box Web Part – it will redirect all search results (not including the Contextual Search Scope Search results) to the page you defined.

 

If you create a new Search Center you may want to redirect all search queries to the Search Center search results page.

 

You can setup this function on the scopes level or in the Search Settings of the root site in your Site Collection.

 

I hope this article (and the first two parts of this series) on SharePoint search results has been helpful to you. Please continue to visit the KWizCom blog for more helpful information, SharePoint tips and “how to” guides. We are here to help!