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Creating a Website (Part 4: The Coding)

August 16, 2009 at 11:22 pm | Design 101, PHP Tutorials, Tutorials, Web Development | No comments

Congratulations, you’ve made it to the final segment of this tutorial series. In the first part, we conceptualized our website. Then we designed it. After that, we wrote the XHTML and CSS for it. Now it’s time to turn it into a WordPress template using some PHP.

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Creating a Website (Part 3: The Markup)

August 7, 2009 at 1:48 am | CSS, Design 101, Tutorials, Web Development, XHTML | 1 comment

In the previous part of this series, we created a design for a travel blog in Photoshop. Now it’s time to turn that design into code. Open up your web development application (I’ll be using Dreamweaver) and open up the design in Photoshop and let’s begin (if you skipped the design segment and would like to download the PSD click here).

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Creating a Website (Part 2: The Design)

February 22, 2009 at 10:03 pm | Design, Design 101, Design Tutorials, Tutorials, Web Development | 8 comments

In the previous part of this tutorial, we conceptualized our website, which is a travel blog,  by deciding on a color scheme and structure and by brainstorming some ideas. Now it’s time for the fun part, designing! Open up Photoshop and let’s start. (more…)

Completed!

January 27, 2009 at 10:16 pm | Life, Meta | No comments

This website is now completed. I finally finished up on the “about” page and added the “work” pages. “Work” includes a portfolio of some of the websites I’ve done, some of the graphic design and print design I’ve done, and some of my articles. Go check it out! Although I have to admit I haven’t cleared up the IE6 issues yet (IE is such a headache). Also, the second part of that Java tutorial might not be going up as soon as I hoped, but my goal is to get it up by the weekend. I’m also planning a full-fledged website tutorial that will take you through the process of designing a website, coding it, etc. I’ve been thinking of doing a 3DS Max tutorial as well. Who knows when I’ll actually start working on either of those though. The past two weeks have been pretty busy for me.

Recommended Reading

January 16, 2009 at 7:49 pm | Books | No comments

That’s right, as in those things that are filled with pages that have words on them. Books. I’ve been starting to accumulate a good collection of coding, design and UI (user-interface) books, and I thought I might share with you a list of some of my favorites or perhaps the ones that I have learned the most from. There’s no doubt in my mind that the publishers of these books will include my acclaim for them in future editions (just for the record, I’m not getting any kickbacks for this, but wouldn’t it be awesome if I was?!). (more…)