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Graphic designing and HTML on Wattpad

So you wanna be a graphic designer on wattpad?

That's great! So what can you do in wattpad with graphic design?A lot actually.

First things first, create fake graphics. Challenge yourself and create fake cover, banner; character banner. Whatever you want.

Why should you do that? Well, to get practice and to have enough resources for a shop.

Without a shop, you can't use your graphic design talent to create graphics for others. Some designer have a book but a shop in MDC will make you more visible as that is going to the first ba a choice for a customer, to go to MDC.

When I started out (2 months ago)I began by checking out other shops. Drawing inspiration to make my shop. Draw out or plan out what you shop should look an.

You must have your rules, payment, examples, a form, and premades if you choose to. What are these and why are they important?

Rules- the name says it, you are putting forward a set of rules which all customer must follow. for example- graphic must be used for up to a week.

Don't have too many rules, a customer might see you as a tricky designer and avoid you. A max of 6 rules is good.

Payment- oh! Can you earn cash from designing on wattpad? Sadly, no but you can ask for follows, crediting you as the artist, comments. You can't ask for votes.

Well, how are follows valuable? In the digital world, being validated through things like follows for putting in an hour on a graphic apparently makes designer feel better compared to money.

Examples- this is where your fake graphics are useful, you can showcase these as sort of a portfolio so if people like what you made, they will request a graphic from you.

A form- well this basically what the information you need to make the graphic like title, ideas, synopsis. Many artists feature an HTML code for their forms and some just have a copy paste one. Html is obviously the harder one but it gives you a chance to make your shop look good and professional, gimme that professionalism baby!

So I will give you guys some HTML you could use when we reach the HTML part of this chapter!

Premades- this is another exciting thing to make everything faster. You could show some premade graphics on your shop and people can request it with very small changed and a title and authors name added to it.

Be sure to save these premades with layers so you can make a change. I am not sure how you would do that with any other site, but on pixlr, you can use .pxd to save it with the layers so you can make changes. I know Photoshop offers such a feature too but if you use any other site then please google it before you sit down to create a bunch of masterpieces.

Additionally for your shop

A queue- this tracks and keeps all your order in one place, for your convenience and for your customers to know how much longer they might have to wait. It mostly makes it easier for the designer. In my shop I have columns like username, post (this is to go back to the post in which the form is for reference or else I will have to scroll and scroll to find the request) , I also mention the page on which the post is, if the payment is completed you can add if the current status or how much longer it will take to finish the graphic.

in all mine looks something like this.

queue

username | post | page | payment |

All this makes a customer experience more fun and easier to navigate.

HTML

I absolute hate HTML but I love it too because it gives such a nice platform to design out of the traditional design.

Plus point, you can call yourself a coder even though you probably will have to steal your codes from someone else.

Or you won't! I will list some of the best codes for a beginner.

Putting up images.

Ya, you need HTML to put up a pictures too. But that's alright! It's easy. First, you have to upload the picture to an image hosting website.

What is that? It is a site that has your images online so that you can link it in HTML. My all time and only favorite hosting website- https://imgbb.com/

you can upload almost anything, jpg, png, gif. You have 16mb of storage and you can always delete older work to create space. Now when you upload the picture you can directly select the HTML link format in the embedded code option and paste it into your shop comment. Or follow this format-

<img src="image_url_goes_here">

to add a link you use this code-

<a>This is a link</a>

to add an image which is linked to something, put both links together-

<a><img src="url_of_image"></a>

that's all i can cover (no pun intended) for the most basic stuff. if you wanna try more advance stuff go to books dedicated to html.

Also if you don't want your shop to sink to the bottom comment 'bump' in it. And it will be on the first page until more threads pile up on it.

Did I miss anything in this topic? If I did comment it below and I will update it. Pm me for any questions on this. I know this can be very hard at first.