New Header To Go Along With New Business Cards
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Update: 9.29.2008
Since the new graphic header is a significantly larger (file size) I decided to make the website mobile friendly via plugin. I looked through a few options found here:
I decided on using:
If any of you have any issues accessing the content on this site via your mobile phones or PDAs, let me know.
These past few months I’ve been traveling more than usual, and I don’t see that travel slowing down. One of the perks of going different places is meeting new and interesting people. When it comes to meeting people you want to be able to exchange contact information with ease and professionalism.
I personally didn’t have a business card and I would resort to having to write my information on a peice of paper. That doesn’t reflect professionalism at all, thus I got these cards made and I’m happy with it. I figured Why not have the website design match that of the business cards? — Thus I present to you the new and improved (in my humble opinnion) header.
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Saad Malik Says: 28.09.08 at 9:48 pm
Looks sweet!
Designed it yourself?
AlBaraa Says: 28.09.08 at 10:05 pm
Yes I did
HK Says: 28.09.08 at 10:12 pm
really like the new look (and card) – looks lively, mashaAllah
manoffewwords Says: 28.09.08 at 10:44 pm
Wow, I am speechless. Those you know me will be able to appreciate that.
shirien Says: 28.09.08 at 11:03 pm
It’s really beautiful mashaAllah. I think the business card is REALLY nice. It’s one of those cards that you would keep even if you had no intention in the beginning of doing so, because of how nice it looks. mashaAllah. It has “creative, media, film” written all over it.
Good work, mashaAllah.
Alima Says: 29.09.08 at 3:52 am
It’s bright, I like it. Masha’Allah. The business card is also pretty cool to, I have to admit.
MR Says: 29.09.08 at 10:32 am
Good job!
samir Says: 03.10.08 at 8:57 am
mashallah. how about making one for your “operations manager”.
AlBaraa Says: 04.10.08 at 4:58 pm
Actually, I’m thinking about changing some positions around. I’m thinking about moving you to finance. I’ll talk to you about it when I get back
— You ever work with QuickBooks?
Dan Says: 21.10.08 at 11:49 pm
Great job on the business cards, Belal.
I’ll eventually get some cards that match my site too (of course, I first need to build my film biz site.
AlBaraa Says: 24.10.08 at 12:56 am
Don’t delay. It don’t gotta be beautiful. It just gotta get going. Just improve it over time. Same w/ the biz cards!
This is what my website looked like way back in the day:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070323044215/http://www.leechonfilms.com/
AbooZaid Says: 24.10.08 at 1:25 pm
Belal, really really nice akhee. You have an eye mashallah. Was this done in illustrator? I’d like to explore my potential in design but have zero experience in Illustrator. I was going to enroll on Lynda.com and wondered if you think this is a good use of time? I have done some clean work, basic stuff on CorelDraw, but really want to get up to date with the fancy stuff so that I can incorporate this into an online business and dawah work.
AlBaraa Says: 24.10.08 at 11:03 pm
AbooZaid, Jazakallahu khairun for your kind words.
I did the design using a combo of illustrator and photoshop. The final was saved via photoshop. If you want instruction of design work, it doesn’t matter whether you do it via Lynda, Total Training (my favorite), free online tutorials, or taking a class at university. — – Your skills will show through practice and practice only.
I’ve been playing with photoshop since 1998 thus this comes easy to me. For someone beginning to explore their potential, set yourself up for assignments that force you to put what you know into practice. Offer to do the posters for your local masjid events or MSA events. This will force you to throw out designs every month at least.
Make it a habit to look at professional designs in magazines. Try to build off of work they already have put forth. This way you can slowly build your “toolbox” of skills.
AbooZaid Says: 26.10.08 at 10:15 am
That is an EXTREMELY helpful response. In terms of design, can’t Illustrator do everything that Photoshop can? Or would you recommend learning those programs in parallel?
AlBaraa Says: 26.10.08 at 11:15 am
The two are different programs. Illustrator is a vector based graphics program while Photoshop is a pixel based program. Both programs have the ability to the other, but not as well as the former.
Photoshop has vector based tools built into it, but it can never do the types of work that Illustrator. Similarly, Illustrator could never do the pixel based manipulation that Photoshop does. Photoshop is great for what it was made for. Photo editing. Photographers use photoshop as their program of choice. I started this way. For fun I would take family photos and take people’s heads and place them from one to the other.
Illustrator is used mainly by graphic artists on a wider scale. You can make vector designed with much less CPU usage and have scaled to immense sizes without distortion since its based on measurements. — The following images were made in Illustrator. I chose Illustrator b/c of its ability to scale without distortion:
http://photos-h.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v36/145/19/26101406/n26101406_30572391_6793.jpg
http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v36/145/19/26101406/n26101406_30572435_3142.jpg
http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v36/145/19/26101406/n26101406_30572436_3457.jpg
Some artists choose to make Illustrator the program of their choice. Others make Photoshop their choice. If you ask me, both have their strengths and weakness, thus I use both of them to get the visual results I’m looking for. There’s a reason why Adobe has both of these programs in their bundle
For example; I doubt that Id ever be able to achieve the results I did for my business card and header design with the use of just one of the programs.
There’s a discussion in Illustrator vs. Photoshop here:
http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/best.html
Oh and some tutorials to get you started:
http://www.creativecloseup.com/monster-size-selection-of-awesome-photoshop-tutorials
It may provide some insight.
AlBaraa Says: 26.10.08 at 11:18 am
Which one you should learn first?
You should start with one. Which one? — depends on what sort of visual style you want to go with first. I started w/ Photoshop first b/c I liked working with photos. If you like working with vector art and design, then start with Illustrator. Each one will help you achieve a unique looks. Its like painting with different brushes.
artitoptoge Says: 19.12.08 at 5:57 pm
god resource Continue also