Graphic Design is above all but simply ARTS. It is all around us, explaining, and decorating, identifying and imposing meaning on the world. Graphic design can be found in everything we read, in the streets and the most interesting fact; it is on our body unconsciously. Designs are found on road, signs, advertisements, magazines, logos on t-shirts. Moreover, it is not just modern or capitalistic phenomenon as ancient Egyptians were very well conversed to Graphic Design.

Graphic Design carries on a numeral functions. It sorts, differentiates and distinguishes one company or organization or nation from another. It acts on our emotions and helps to shape how we feel about the world around us. Just Imagine! If Graphic Design was banned, what would have happened? There would be no written words, no newspapers, no magazines, no internet, and no science books to speak of and so on.

Fortunately, it does exist in our routine life as Morning Newspaper, on our commute to work and of course on the cover of books. It encompasses with logos, websites, business cards, advertisements, book design, brochures, product packaging, posters, magazine layout, newspaper layout and greetings cards.

Graphic Design is inconsequential, ultimately decorative; a question merely of picking one typeface or color rather than another would work just as well. Graphic Design performs a number of functions like arranging visual elements such as typography, images, symbols and colors to convey message globally in particular. Sometimes it is also called visual communications with a collaborative discipline comprises with writers produce words, photographers and illustrators which create images that the designer incorporates into a complete visual message.

Although graphic design has been practiced in various forms throughout history, it emerged as an explicit profession during the job-specialization development that occurred in the late 19th century. Its evolution has been closely bound to developments in image making, typography, and reproduction processes.

Web Design! The design of hypertext presentations of contents that are delivered to an end-user throughout the World Wide Web by means of a web browser or other web enabled software like Internet television clients, micro logging clients and RSS readers. It is an anthology of information about a particular issue or theme. Designing a website is defined as the arrangement and creation of web pages that in turn make up a website. A web page consists of information for which the web site is developed and it might be compared to a book, where each page of the book is a web page.

The process of designing Web pages, Websites, Web applications or multimedia for the Web may make use of multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic design, human-computer interaction, information architecture, communication design, photography, search engine optimization and typography. Languages that are used to design a websites are:

Markup languages - XHTML and XML

Style sheet languages - CSS and XSL

Client-side scripting - JavaScript and VBScript

Server-side scripting - PHP and ASP

Database technologies - MySQL

Multimedia technologies - Flash and Silver light

Arkis Data Ltd, based in Harbor Front Port Louis, has set its mission to revolutionize the web in Mauritius. The way is still very long ahead, but with the team that we have and the objectives set, we will not be letting down so easily and will you will soon be hearing from us. Wish you very best of luck and prosperity in your business.