Let me guess, you’ve seen people going bananas for infographics all over the internet, and have even come across an infographic creator online, and want to know what it’s all about. Infographics are actually really simple, highly effective in portraying information to your viewers, and a lot of fun to look at!

• How Do You Create Infographics?

You make an infographic by taking information that you want to be delivered to your readers, picking out all of the most important pieces, and pairing each little tidbit of data with a corresponding picture that not only relates, but helps to solidify or prove your point. Sounds easy, right?

It is. Once you get the hang of it. A simple data visualization should be a no-brainer process for anyone throwing it together, yet some people still manage to miss the point. The purpose of the infographic is attract the eye of the reader, hold their attention long enough to get that crucial information across, and make sure that they retain the information longer than two seconds after they navigate away to find a cat picture.

This all means that there is a very specific way that you should be delivering the information. Remember to keep it in small, bite-sized, one sentence pieces. Make sure that they all relate to each other, and to the overarching theme of the infographic. The same can be said of the images: that they should be relevant, lend something to their facts, and that they should all relate.

Some final notes: spell check. Always spell check and edit several times. Make sure the piece flows both in theme and visuals, guiding the eye of the reader from top-to-bottom, from one fact to the next. Don’t let the images detract from the text. It is a fine balance between effective and busy.

• What Resources Are There?

You can find an infographic creator online incredibly easily, in fact you may already have. And a very important resource is other infographics. Look at any and all that you can find. Learn to recognize good and bad ones, and learn what makes them so. By learning from their mistakes and best practices, you can make sure to never, or always, replicate those examples.

Now you can go to that infographic creator online with confidence. You needn’t feel intimidated or scared at the prospect. With a little more research, you too can be creating some of the best, most fun infographics on the web.