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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…)

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…)

The Future of Web Markup

January 11, 2009 at 9:05 pm | CSS, Web Development, XHTML | No comments

I saw an interesting article on CSS 3 over at NETTUTS. It showed some of the different features that CSS 3 has. I hadn’t actually ever really looked into CSS 3, but from what I saw it looks really impressive. It looks like it has a lot of really nice features that would make a developer’s job 100x easier, five of which were discussed in the article. (more…)