Hey, what's up? Ladilon here, and thanks for stopping by.
I firmly believe that your design is the ambassador of your brand, and it reflects and represents you. It helps you visualize your market.
My top skills include illustration, logo design, format/layout (brochures, business cards, tarpaulins, poster, signage, press releases, print mediums, etc.), infographics, packaging, newsletters, and web design, website asset, banners, landing page, and eBook. I am highly proficient in the Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Illustrator and Photoshop. I love Figma as well.
I am offering you these Graphic Design Services:
● Advertising Design
● Brand Identity Design
● Clothing & Merchandise Design
● Cover Art Design
● Editorial Design
● Large Format Design
● Marketing Collaterals
● Packaging Design
● Print Design
● Website Design
My interests take the form of all things drawing: such as anime characters, cartoons, abstract, hand lettering, and illustration. I have a wide breadth of skills that allow me to conquer a large spectrum of graphic design.
My more than ten years of experience in logo design and branding for new business startups and large established companies is my edge.
I entered the Web Development field as a Web Designer and transitioned into more of a Front End Web Developer
I was primarily responsible for customizing WordPress themes for client websites, taking PSD layouts and Sketch files to production. I designed a fair amount of websites and also worked with our graphic designers to translate their work to the Frontend of our landing page application. I made sure to cover responsive and cross-browser design and implementation in my QA process. I am a team player.
These are some of my best practices when developing a website functionality:
I – Website Speed / Load Times
• Website site speed is a measure of how quickly your pages for a visitor coming to the website.
• The more functions you ask the website to perform (play videos, pop-ups, multiple images, files, keep navigation open, etc.) can affect the website's speed.
• Google offers a free developer tool that scans the website and provides insights for improving speeds for the developers.
II – Website Responsiveness over Multiple Device screen sizes.
Developing a responsive website that works on mobile and smaller screens is pretty much SOP these days. Still, it is also a good idea for the developers to review the responsiveness on multiple devices and screens.
III – Checking the website functionality on multiple browsers.
Sometimes, the look and functionality of websites are not consistent over various browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Explorer). Sometimes when a browser updates, it goes out of sync with certain websites. This rarely happens, but when it does cause a website to break, it can be an annoyance.
IV– Be Careful Not to Hack Child Themes
• Child themes are specific areas of the website, and developers will often hack into a child theme to add functionality to the website. For example, you want music to play along with the image slider, but this functionality is not built into the theme itself, so the developer must do some custom coding. The problem is that it is not a best practice to hack a theme, and when the theme updates from time to time, it will break the functionality until that custom code is re-installed. And if the original developer is not around at the time of the update, then a new developer must scramble to figure out what the custom coding was.
• If any coding is done, the developers should make notes, and these notes be accessible for the owners for future reference.
V – ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) / 508 Compliance
• Certain websites are required to conform to ADA standards for individuals with vision issues who use tools like readers to browse the internet.
• It is not only descriptive alt tags and media descriptions but also the website structure itself. Specific color combinations, Flash features, etc., make it difficult for the readers.
• It is better to use best practices while building the website because there is a cottage industry of litigators that scour the web and threaten legal action for noncompliance.
IV – Human Check and Limit Personal Contact information
• Make sure the website forms have some time off “Human Check” to reduce the Spam on the website.
• It is also a good idea to limit personal contact information available on public sections of websites. You don’t want crawlers to get your personal contact information which could lead to large amounts of spam being sent to your accounts.
I am excited every day to wake up and do what I love! Creativity and design are my passion in life. I look forward to working with you! I am at your service.
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