The Salcombe Web Design Blog
Welcome to the Salcombe Web Design blog. This is kept up to date by our Creative Director Daniel Ashton. Daniel is a project manager, graphic designer and website consultant. He set up Treblevision in Manchester in 2001, is now the driving force behind Salcombe web design and still works as one of the UK's leading freelance developers in PHP, HTMl5 and CSS3. Here you can follow all the company developments within Salcombe Web Design, but also more importantly, industry and technological advances in web development, brand and graphic design along with tutorials for novice developers and those who manage the content of their own design and website projects.
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21 January 2012
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graphic design
In the last blog post I looked at the 4 different types of icon. Now we can start to look at some of the functions of icons.
Emoticons Love them or hate them they're not going away. In fact I don't think I've received a text message without one in recent months. When you're using only a written medium, where tone of voice is absent, they ensure your meaning is clear.
So one function of icons could be to convey feeling and a tone where facial expressions are missing.
One of the other main functions that an icon might have is to summarise features, next i'm going to focus on a mini case study of the UK online shop for Ikea.
