Introduction The idea behind the Elated PageKits is that you can either use the ideas here as is, and develop them from our startpoints, or you can take the bits that you need (like the basic layout) and customise them for your own use. We hope you'll also find the PageKits educational. Obviously, to make the best use of them you'll need to know some basic HTML. You can use HTML editors with the PageKits like Dreamweaver/Frontpage. A graphics editor like Adobe Photoshop or Jasc Paintshop Pro will also help you to get the most from them.
About This PageKit This is an atmospheric kind of number, designed as a slick and pensive site, but still with plenty of practical applications because of the amount of information it will take. If you just want the "twisters" on the front page, you could simply remove the text and it would be very moody! The "twisters" themselves were actually created on a friend's machine running Freehand 10 while we were playing around with that program's "Blend" function. It's just two circles with a hairline blend between them. Cute though isn't it? We've provided you with a generic eps file of this that you can open in Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop etc.
PSD Files
The Photoshop PSD source files are in the sources folder. You can open these files in Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, The GIMP or any image editor that supports PSD files, then edit the graphics and re-export as appropriate. See our PageKits Help area for more info on editing PSD files: http://www.elated.com/pagekits/pagekits_help/ This PageKit has the original photos for the dish and also a "circuitboard" within (inside the "pix" layer folder). We've used "Helvetica Neue Condensed bold" as the title font (for the "welcome" bit) as it's nicely elegant. You might well not have this, but for once we've gone for elegance over compatibility! If you want to change it then Swiss Bold Condensed is very similar. As mentioned above, we have given you a generic EPS (Encapsulated Postscript) for the "twisters". Open in any vector package and most bitmap packages. If you're opening in Photoshop, just raster it in at 72 dpi and all will be well. It's vector info though, so if you wanted, you could bring it in at 300 dpi and it'd be nice and big! They actually look nicest small though I think.  |