There are things that happen in life that make me stop and wonder what the heck these people are thinking.

The other day I was talking with another web design company, they wanted us to design a site for them. The salesman started pointing out some adult websites for me to take a look at. I asked if the site they were wanting designed was an adult website and he said no but needed me to look at these adult websites because from what he understood, adult websites had the ability to hold visitors longer then any other kind of website.

At first I thought he was kidding, I mean…people stay on adult websites because of the naked women. It’s not that adult web designers have found some type of magic key, men have been spending all their time thinking about sex and trying to see naked woman since Adam and Eve left the garden.

I guess there are times in life when you have to look beyond what you want to see and actually look at what is going on. People spend more time on adult websites than any other type of website not because of the website design but because of the naked women.

I find it sad that someone that is charging money to build websites is unable to understand how they work and why people spend time on them.

There are three types of websites;

1. Entertainment

2. Selling a Product or Service

3. Information

An information site as well as an entertainment site is designed to be sticky and keep the visitor on the site. However, a site that is selling a service or product needs to get the web visitor into the checkout process as quickly as possible.

A site that is designed to be sticky will not convert as well as a site that is designed to sell a product.

When spending lots of time on a site people become blind to banners and products and this is not good for a site.

Purchasing a Website Design

Most people miss the amount of art involved when they get ready to purchase a website design. Web designing is art that goes beyond the standard form of art.

A web designer has to be able to take several different forms of artwork and work them all together to create artwork that is able to move the person viewing it.

And not only move them but to move them in the direction the web designer wants to move them.

Because of the amount of artwork used in a web design I am always looking for different ideas. And when I see an artist that is unique and has artwork that could easily be implemented into a web design or marketing campaign I get excited.

And it is that excitement that I felt when viewing this site. Checkout some of his artwork below.

I really love photomanipulation, with all the editing tools and techniques out there you can make any idea a reality.

HumanDescent is a photomanipulater whose wanting to get more into web designing. Checkout some of his work below or his sites here.

Vitaly Samarin Alexius is a 25 year old freelance illustrator & photographer. And he has some awesome work.

Take a moment and checkout some of his other works here http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/

Photo Manipulation

Photo Manipulation has to be one of the coolest things going and that would make Lilla Márton a very cool person. Don’t believe me, checkout out her work either below or even better take at her deviantART portfolio

She is a 23 year old digital artist from Hungary.