Design
Graphic Design Terms: Lorem Ipsum
You sit down with the team that is going to design your website. You discuss the look you want and things like colors, content and branding. You leave the meeting feeling like you’re in good hands, and you look forward to seeing the “rough layout” they promised. A week or two later, you see that…
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Graphic Design Terms: What’s the Difference Between Raster and Vector?
Have you seen Despicable Me? On the yellow-minion-filled movie, Gru’s rival is named Vector because he has “both direction and magnitude.” (Here’s the clip if you need a reminder.) But what does that mean, and what does it have to do with design? Raster vs. Vector There are two kinds of images on a computer: raster…
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A Dog of a Different Color
One of the major upgrades we are working on for Retriever Digital Signage right now is all about color. In the new version, you will be able to select any color you can imagine and apply it to your slides. This puts you in control so you don’t have to settle for some small selection…
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The Handcrafted Interface
When creating anything great, it is important to consider every detail. Every part in an engine, every stitch in a garment, every brushstroke in a painting, contributes to the quality of the whole. This is also true for application development. Developing an application like the Retriever requires the consideration of many disparate parts and functions —…