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- 3ds Max
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When I’ve Posted
- December 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
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What I’ve Posted
What I’m Doing
Design 101: Creating a Website
So you want to make a website? Anyone can throw together a simple site using a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web, but that usually results in non-valid code and a very “cheap-looking” website. Taking a design and turning it into raw, standards-compliant code may seem like a daunting task, but after you get through this tutorial, you’ll be using “DIV”s and styling with CSS like you’ve known it your whole life! That’s right, I said DIVs, no tables here (don’t worry if you don’t know what a div is)! This is a massive 4-part tutorial that will teach you the very fundamentals of design and give you the tools you need to make professional, high-caliber websites. It will walk you through conceptualizing the website, designing it, turning it into valid XHTML/CSS and lastly coding it to the blogging software WordPress. We’ll make a web designer out of you yet!
10 Things Every Web Developer Needs
There are a lot of tools that are vital to the development of a website. This list is intended to condense all of the many different things a web developer needs into just 10 resources. Think of this list as a web developer’s survival kit. These are the essential items in no particular order.
Creating a Website (Part 3: The Markup)
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).
