These are questions commonly asked by our clients.
A logo is a graphic image, motif or typographic element which identifies your business, department. or product.
A Visual (or Corporate Identity) usually incorporates a logo or typographic motif but may also include images, a comprehensive colour scheme and supporting design elements or type. It becomes an encompassing use of the logo to be used as a brand or marketing tool. It is often accompanied by a Style Guide to show implementation in numerous situtations.
Services to compliment logo design:
HTML is a web language used to build static web pages. It is great for building small sites that don't require frequent changes in content. Editing HTML can be taken care of by a web studio or using web editing software.
CSS or Cascading Style sheets are a method for web developers to have more control over the content, layout and functions of a website. Using CSS means that graphic elements such as text, menus, and other design elemets can be easily modified globally across a site quickly.
A Content Management System (CMS) can be built into a website so you can make changes to your site yourself without the need for any software. You can change text, images and menu items via a custom built editor. that can be accessed by a web browser. A CMS can also manage information such as customer details, orders , mailing listes and other client information.
Print: you will receive your business cards, letterheads, brochures etc, printed with the design you have approved by courier. We can also supply your print ready files to your nominated printer.
Web: we will upload the website to your web server (ie: www.yoursite.com) where you can view it online.
Website Optimisation or Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is designing, writing, and coding your entire web site so that there is optimal chance for your web pages to appear at the top of search engines.
You can do a small amount of SEO yourself, however this alone may not make a big difference. An expert in SEO who understands how search engines work, and is up to date with the latest methods, will be able to get your site to rank much higher.
For clients who have purchased hosting through Designscope:
Visit your web site and put /cpanel after your domain name, e.g: yourweb.com.au/cpanel and login with the user name and password we provided to you when your account was first setup. Select the first button 'email accounts' and follow the prompts, if you are having difficulty click here to watch a video tutorial.
For clients who have purchased hosting through Designscope:
Visit your web site and put /webmail after your domain name, e.g: yourweb.com.au/webmail and login with the site full email address and password we provided to you when your account was setup and follow the prompts.
Forwarders allow you to send a copy of all mail from one email address to another. For example you may want all the mail from info@yourdomain.com to be directed to a hotmail or yahoo account.
To setup forwarding visit your web site and put /cpanel after your domain name, e.g: yourweb.com.au/cpanel and login with the user name and password we provided to when your account was first setup. Select the forth button 'forwarders' and follow the prompts, If you are having difficulty click here to watch a video tutorial.
For clients who have purchased hosting through Designscope:
Configuring Email in Outlook
Sending back a message to anyone who emails you is called an 'auto responder'.
Visit your web site and put /cpanel after your domain name, e.g: yourweb.com.au/cpanel and login with the user name and password we provided to you when your account was first setup. Under 'logs' click on 'awstats'.
For clients who have purchased hosting through Designscope:
Visit your web site and put /cpanel after your domain name, e.g: yourweb.com.au/cpanel and login with the user name and password we provided to you when your account was first setup. Select the fifth button from the top right 'auto responder'. If you are having difficulty click here to watch a video tutorial.
Text: You can provide your text in a Word document, unformatted, with carriage returns to indicate paragraphs. It is also fine to send your text in an email (unformatted). The reason we ask for unformatted text is because we use different programs for different purposes and if the text is formatted, we have to unformat it ourselves before using it.
Images: For web: you can supply the images as a hard copy or print to be scanned by us. If you have your images on your computer, you can send smaller sized images via email (up to 5meg) (info@designscope.biz) or burn them onto a CD and post (PO Box 113 Daylesford Vic 3460) or drop them into the studio. Images for web must be at least 72dpi.
For print: We can scan your images, or you can provide high resolution images to us on a disk or via email. Images for print need to be at least 300 dpi at full size in order for them to print properly (although we can accept very large images at 72dpi). If the resolution is less, the images will become pixilated when they are printed – even though they may look OK on the computer screen.
Please remember that you cannot make a small image into large resolution… the image will pixelate and look fuzzy!
You can download a free image editing program called FastStone Image Viewer to crop and resize images, as well as checking out the dpi, find out more at: Fast Stone
designscope - web + print | t: + 61 3 5348 1199 | e. info@designscope.com.au