I found a nice local guy who can revamp it onto a wordpress softwear package and he had some nice ideas to add to the design. Price of the revamp is resonalbe I think, in the 3K range but I do have to move to his host site. and I will be moving the content over onto wordpress once the skeleton is in place. It includes the training. I have about 150 pages.
I have a logo. It isnt very clear. The tech says he needs the original which was a 8x10 ssilhouette of me that was shrunk down to logo size (I was so cute!) He says I need to come up with the silhouette in order to upgrade it, it is a little murky. I have not been able to find the silhouette original. Is there a way that the current silhouette can be enhanced?
He also says google analyticals are the best. Opinion?
Have you asked Laz?
I would have to see it but it sounds like an old photo, correct? If it’s just a shadowed silhouette, you could use the low quality version as a template and redraw in a vector format or bring into Photoshop and basicaly redraw a better quality, larger version with some effects.
But really, it depends on what you mean by silhouette. When I think silhouette, I think black against white type image.
Look into Clover. Good and cutting edge do-it-yourself stuff.
$3K is a bit much if he’s just creating a Wordpress template and you do the loading. Wordpress is available for free, and comes pre-installed on many hosting sites, including GoDaddy. Many templates available for free.
What has to be done is to trace what picture you have in either illustrator or flash in vector format. Once that is done, you can make it any size you want.
3K for a Wordpress site? Crazy, he is going to modify a template (limited and restrictive to changes). I program every line from scratch (borrow some code for dynamic content). Second, you would be foolish to allow someone to hold your domain and content hostage. I make clients pay for their own hosting accounts which costs them around $8.00 a month. Every single item is their property and control (domain and content).
This way the client always has the option to hire someone else if they are not satisfied. I want them to have the security of firing me. Web designers that force you to use them for hosting want to give you the feeling of being trapped. The hardest thing about taking on a new job is getting the domain and content from the old designer in a lot of cases.
As far as the image is concern anyone that can not sharpen a silhouette is not a graphic designer. There are several ways to sharpen the image in Photoshop and since it is a silhouette it is easy to make it a vector image in Illustrator.
I use Just Host for hosting.I use Rapidweaver for developing websites.
Example: Taos Fine Art Photography
Lossy compression and the shrinking of an image (which results in great data loss) makes these sort of things dicey at best. I would instead recommend a new approach: If you are revamping your website, this might be an ideal time to revamp your logo. Think outside the box!