The Way Create and Share a Quality Infographic

Infographics refer to any graphic representation of information. The point is to make the information you want to convey as easy to understand as possibly just by glancing at it. No matter why you need the infographic, there are many easy methods for making and sharing them online.

Step One-Identify Why You Want an Infographic

There are a lot of different reasons to use infographics ranging from business to simple entertainment. Before you can really begin to make your infographic, you need to identify why you're making one, so you can determine what type is best for you to make.

• Pure Information- There are times that you just want to get information across to the public, maybe due to a cause you have or some piece of information that you strongly believe everyone should know. In this case, simple pictures to illustrate your points are often the best way to go, such as this one. Obviously, this approach also works for business applications.

• Humor- On the other hand, maybe you just have a really funny idea that can be best expressed in an infographic form. This approach often works best in the form of graphs and charts, such as the ones from memebase.

Step Two-Select a Service

Once you have a good sense of what you want to say and how, you simply have to find the right tool for making the infograph. There are many different tools online to choose from, but it makes sense to match the style you want with tools that happen to be effective in that particular style. Here are a few different options.

• Ease.ly- The “Easelly” approach happens to be good both for creating awesome infographics and for sharing them. This site is better for more conceptual depictions, and more abstract approaches. This means that it may be better for more light-hearted graphs that don't depict actual data and more humorous concepts like a joke about “amount of people who like Mondays,” instead of using actual number sets. The site allows you to download your graphs as JPG, or even share them with other through the upload feature.

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• Infogr.am- The infogram site is better suited for actual data sets, so you can use it to make interactive graphs that have more of a “pure information” approach. You can use 31 chart options for displaying your data including with a radial bar graph, a bubble graph, or even map charts.

Step Three- Share

Infographics don't do much good unless you share them with others. Different tools will let you share infographics in different ways. If the site or tool you're using lets you download a file in an image format like JPG, you can share it using whatever social media site you want, such as Facebook or Twitter. On the other hand, if the site doesn't let you download an image of your graphic, then you may need to get the embed code instead. You can then use the code to put the graphic in your site, and then you can share it normally with others on social media by just linking to the particular page on your site.

Easier Than You Think
Overall, making awesome infographics is a lot easier than you might first think from seeing your friends post them online. Here are some infographics examples worth looking at. By visiting one of these sites you can start churning out memes like a pro in no time.

Lindsey Mcmahon

About the Guest Author:

This is a guest post by Lindsey Mcmahon. Her interests are entertainment, television, parenting and health but she is constantly extending her field of view to incorporate interesting news suggested to her by her readers.