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Sites from 03/11

Don — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:26:08 +0000

By the end of this week, you should have your interface design concepts nailed down and in electronic form so you can begin working on the XHTML/CSS and content. To help those of you who need some inspiration, here are two sites to Review for design:

Web 2.o style from Web Design from Scratch

Grunge Style Article from Smashing Magazine

As far as navigation, please review these sites to view and read about navigation trends and design styles.

Navigation Trends from Smashing Magazine

Advanced CSS Tutorial from Web Designer Wall

Design Styles, Web Roles and How to Break the Box

dtstanley — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:31:13 +0000

Reading some articles this weekend, I came across some interesting articles.

LAYOUT CONVENTIONS
The first article Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions is an interesting article about poor layout design. Not sure I agree completely, but it’s good food for thought. As you are designing your interfaces, I suggest you reread my post about web 2.0 design styles.

WEB DESIGN TEAM ROLES
Cameron Moll, a very well known web design blogger is discussing web roles on his site. The question he’s asking Designer, Coder: Separate roles or one? Should designers just design or should they be doing the HTML and CSS too? This is a great discussion for beginning web design students to pay attention to and learn from others in the industry about what they think.

HOW TO BREAK THE BOX WITH CSS
Finally, one question I often get asked is “How do you create a design that isn’t boxy”? Jina Bolton has an excellent article on Sitepoint.com entitled “Breaking the Box“. It’s a great tutorial on how to create a clean, efficient CSS design that’s unique.

Learning Photoshop

Don — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:17:36 +0000

Are you new to Adobe Photoshop? This will be a key software for this class and will be using it right from the start to create interface designs. While I will offer some tech clinics in class, they will only be a starting point for you. You are responsible for building your skills outside of class and one great way to achieve this is use DoIT offers Software Training for Students.

As a part of your tuition, you have free access to some outstanding resources via STS. In addition to online tutorials, STS is offering a series of in-person Photoshop classes starting January 24th.