After you have exported the Piktochart into an image, what’s next? You might notice that most people tend to embed infographics in their websites. Let us share some quick things you can get done within 5 minutes to try to get your infographic noticed even faster:

1. Post in on Facebook and 2-3 selected Facebook fan pages that would be interested in your Piktochart. Note that it’s not the quantity of fans that matter but how targeted these people are for you. It’s like pitching a dolphin story to Hello magazine.
2. Do the same for Twitter and Pinterest boards. You will be surprised at how well Pinterest works for curated boards.
3. Issue a press release using an infographic. If you have a product launch/new release or update, it can be great for you to try out services from Newswire etc. We have tried it, but please do this selectively! If you bombard the submission directories more than once a month, its effectiveness gets reduced.
4. Please ensure that your logo is posted at the bottom of the infographic together with reasons of why they should contact you.
5. On the web page where you have embedded the infographic, invite friends/business acquaintances or send an email out to your circle (white-listed subscribers only) to tell them about the new infographic that you have created and encourage them to comment on it. You will be surprised at how much engagement and conversation gets generated within one infographic.

That’s all from us today, we hope to hear more details of how you have marketed your infographic. Up next, 3 things you did not know Piktochart can do

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We know that the web is now filled with infographics. Is it still possible to come up with infographics that stand out and get attention from the mass?

The answer is yes and yes. Think about it. What makes you click on the “Share this” button on the page where you saw an infographic? Here are 3 tips to structure your story so that you can get started:

1. Make it relevant.

As every infographic is essentially a pitch, ensure that you know who you are talking to. If your target audience does not understand jargons, keep them out of your infographic. Get into their minds – what pains them most, what gets them the greatest satisfaction, what are they after?

2. A common subject made unique.

This has to do with a lot of clever writing but like all email headers, you know that how much people read depends on the subject line. If you had stats that showed a 10% reduction in crime rate and that really is something to be celebrated about, turn it into something more meaningful – what interests people about crime rate reduction?

Instead of “10% reduction in crime rates in NY”, you want to end up with a story that sounds like “3 possible reasons why crime rates went down in NY”

3. Create a body for the infographic.

Once you have figured out:
- Who your audience is and what topic they would be interested about
- How cleverly you can make the subject more interesting

Then all you need to do is to roll it out in a structured format:
- A grand big title
- An introduction of why the topic matters (Why a 10% drop in crime rate is a big figure)
- Point 1 – Reason 1 why crime rate went down
- Point 2 – Reason 2 why crime rate went down
- Point 3 – Reason 3 why crime rate went down

Once you have the above ready, you are on your way to create a flabbergasting infographic.

Up next, a designer’s tip on how to best leverage Piktochart to easily get the best designs!

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1. Text shadow

In order to get text shadow, you can follow the steps here:

• Duplicate the Heading Text or drag and drop the heading text from the editor of left
• Please ensure the font family and font size are same, change the colour (grey, black etc)

2. Using ‘Add Text’ as dashed line

Creating dashed line without using graphics.

• Drag and drop ‘text’ from the ‘Add Text’ of left editor.
• Type ‘Dashed’ on your keyboard, for example: [------------]

3. Using shapes to customize bar charts

using the shapes for creating own bar chart. It’s very simple and easy, drag and drop from the shape section. You can also change the colour as you like. Duplicate the shape and transform the width or height of the shape which you want it to be. Here are the examples below:

Example 01

Example 02

Remember to save your work frequently! It’s sooooo simple yet it may look different, attractive and sharper. What other tips/ways you can optimize your infographic on Piktochart? Share your tips with us!…

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Piktochart idea came up when our founders, Aiching and Andrea was pretty frustrated with existing presentation of data and information. A designer was asked to design an infographic from scratch. It was time taking and crack the nerves out of us. So the idea just pop out that we need to build a tool to create infographic faster and non-designer can do it too. That was how Piktochart was born.

We have been through several stages and keep on revolving to enhance our product. With more and more new features added to the product itself, the design and user-interface of the application have come into our consideration of revamping in order to give our users the best of the best to experience the product. So does our website, piktochart.com!

If you have been following us, our website had gone through several stage and few revamping. Let me guide you through the revolution of our Pikto Web!

01: The Robot & Machine

First we started off with the robot concept by having robot processing data with factory background.

The illustration and the graphics have portray the fun and interesting side of Piktochart.

Later on, with the revamping of our application new user interface and the brand new sleek and tech savvy logo, we too revamped our website and this time was pretty tough as we wanted to have a complete new look and concept of the website.

We went through every bites with joy and laughter because of the ideas given by everyone in the team was rather funny. We came to an end by nailing the idea of boiling brain, colourful graphics and happy faces.

02: Boiling brain, colourful graphics & happy faces

Our website feature a happy faces with colourful graphics flowing in the brain representing all the boring data have been replace by beautiful infographic with Piktochart! Each and every page of the website have its own unique banners to shout out different messages. With the new launched website, we are bringing out the message of the fun and easy way to create infographic.

03: The Orange Teal

Soon, in conjunction with the release of version 2 of the application. We enhance our web design a little bit by discarding the colourful graphic and replacing it with white, orange & teal, a fresh combination of colour scheme in the “web 2.0” style sites and apps. The flamboyant orange colour

denotes a sense of playfulness and curiosity and teal on the other hand tend to be inviting, cool and confident.

We too did a little arrangement of the layout and making it more user friendly and easy to read

We thank you for being here with us, growing Piktochart with love

With the newer website launched, you ‘ve also come across the page “why infographic”.. That’s the introduction of how infographic grow from the stone age to this modern millenium era and also the future of how infographic will look like.. the interactive type.

We are currently working on version two of piktochart app, so be prepare for another new version of our website too. They’ll be much more fun, fast and friendly. And we thank you for being here with us, growing Piktochart with love

Cheers

Jen Yen

(Designer at Piktochart)

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Check out the theme. We might be releasing this on app.piktochart.com/themes soon! What do you think about the Hunger Games? Share some thoughts…

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DIY Infographic by Voltier Digital

We liked the way information was structured and how the visuals really told a story, but it was asking readers to take data in based on Page Rank authority which sure seemed like the only way to legitimize authority online. Wikipedia is the world’s 2nd website but not all information on the site is curated properly. There was also a lack of emphasis on SEO and choosing the keywords which would be great to target in any particular infographic.

We also feel that some emphasis on analogies more than metaphors would be of a greater help to viewers, e.g. 1 orange = 3 times vitamin C found in an apple. It is still a great infographic explaining the most basic parts of creating one, while scratching the surface.

Also, did you not think how to market an infographic could be at least mentioned somewhere within the infographic?

Created By Voltier Creative

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Some basic tools:

- Drag and Drop, cut, copy, delete, duplicate

- Move, layer, rotate icons

- Load pre-loaded themes

- Lock canvas, change background colour of canvas

- Font editing – bold, italic, underlined, size, colour

- Data visualizations – up to 4 different kinds

- Upload data in XML and CSV formats

- Save as PNG, JPEG, HTML

- Undo, redo, zoom in and out

- Group icons for editing

Future releases:

- HTML export to include data visualization

- Advanced data visualization

- Spreadsheet for data input

- Upload data with Google Docs

If there is any feature you think is important, voice it out and we might just make your priority, our priority!

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Also featuring the top antivirus softwares.

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Chronology/Time:  You should use a time series (a line chart/bar chart/ whichever you are comfortable with, with the x axis of time)

Geographic: Use a map. However, maps should be annotated or complemented with a graph/chart.

Comparing Values: When you are showing the highest or lowest value use a bar chart.

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In an interesting study by Bateman et al., what they called “Useful Junk? The Effects of Visual Embellishment on Comprehension and Memorability of Charts”, they explored whether participants were more likely to remember graphs and charts if they were presented with chart junk.

Chart junk is a term coined by famous data visualiser, Edward Tufte who claimed that anything which does not play a role in telling the data should be removed from the chart. However in this study, they found that participants were more likely to recall details from the chart if they had “chart junk” elements in it.

Take a look at their abstract:

Guidelines for designing information charts often state that the presentation should reduce ‘chart junk’ – visual embellishments that are not essential to understanding the data. In contrast, some popular chart designers wrap the presented data in detailed and elaborate imagery, raising the questions of whether this imagery is really as detrimental to understanding as has been proposed, and whether the visual embellishment may have other benefits. To investigate these issues, we conducted an experiment that compared embellished charts with plain ones, and measured both interpretation accuracy and long-term recall. We found that people’s accuracy in describing the embellished charts was no worse than for plain charts, and that their recall after a two-to-three-week gap was significantly better. Although we are cautious about recommending that all charts be produced in this style, our results question some of the premises of the minimalist approach to chart design.

Conclusion:

Use embellishments or decorations appropriately, while ensuring that the data is readable without distracting the main attention from the data/story that has been told. This will go a long way in your reader’s memory.

Some examples of chart junk:

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