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Here are two Web Design Tutorials: Design for Developers and Web Design for Programmers, hosted at New Auburn Personal Computer Services. These two Web design tutorials will help you to create successful web sites and web applications, along with getting you familiar with the process and tools involved with developing a functional and attractive site/application. The first tutorial is illustrated using presentation slides, and the second one is illustrated as an e-book. Both tutorials are in pdf format.


Design for Developers  (224 Kb, 34 pages)
This course is meant to be a hands-on experience. The goal is to get you familiar with the process and the tools involved in developing a functional, attractive site or application. Various hands-on examples are illustrated using the help of Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and CSS.

 - Introduction
 - Layout
 - Choosing Colors
 - Fonts
 - Logo Design with Illustrator
 - Mocking up with Photoshop
 - Building the HTML
 - Graphics on the Web
 - CSS
 - Accessibility
 - Resources
 - Notes


Web Design for Programmers  (2.48 Mb, 83 pages)
This tutorial explains you about basic color theory, learning how to choose colors, basic typography, learning how to choose fonts, basic layouts, how to mock up a site in Photoshop and basic XHTML and CSS. Also covered are building a logo that can scale using Illustrator and building a mockup of the site in Photoshop

 - Quick Disclaimers
 - We are going to learn stuff
 - We’re gonna build stuff
 - Good vs. Bad Design
  -  Bad Design
 - Good Design
 - Design is more than pretty colors!
 - Commandments
 - Basics of Layout
 - Navigation
 - Gather information
 - Sketch your stuff
 - Doesn’t have to be pretty
 - Get inspired!
 - Sketching Guidelines
  - Color
 - What is Color
 - Basic Color Theory
 - Color Schemes
 - Monochromatic
 - Analogous
 - Complimentary
 - Technical Color Selection
 - Photographs
 - Natural Color Selection
 - Choose a color scheme
 - Typography
 - Font types
 - Monospaced
 - Legibility
 - Fonts and Style
 - The Baseline Grid
 - Limited Options
 - No Grid Used
 - Grid Used
 - Basics of a Grid
 - Units of Measure
 - Logo Design
 - Designing a Logo
 - Learning to Draw with Illustrator
 - Make a Logo
 - Mockup with Photoshop
 - HTML Basics
 - Semantic Markup
 - Tables
 - HTML Tags
 - Block level tags
 - Inline Elements
 - Scope
 - Valid markup
 - Block vs Inline Elements
 - Doctype
 - Create Your HTML Page
 - Validation
 - CSS Basics
 - A CSS Rule
 - Types of Stylesheets
 - Inline Styles
 - Inline Stylesheet
 - External Stylesheets
 - Media Types
 - Selectors
 - Selectors by HTML Elements
 - Selectors by Class Name
 - Selectors by ID Name
 - Guidelines for use
 - Grouping
 - Scoping
 - Layout.css
 - Resetting
 - Web Graphics
 - Style.css
 - Optimizing Images
 - Accessibility
 - How?
 - Questions
 - Follow up

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