Chapter 17—Style Sheets

Cascading style sheets allow you to control the layout of your Web design. It gives more control over how it is structured and where things are positioned. Style sheets also make the design process easier for the designer because once the layout is there and changes need to be made, the designer can link to [...]

“Hello World!”

Looking at Chapter 15 and 16, I could immediately see that this was for the beginner who had never used Dreamweaver. It brought back memories of when I first learned Dreamweaver and was doing the very basics. I would have thought that there would be a more advanced lesson for us to learn so that [...]

Chap 16 ~ Web Standards

With the ever increasing technology of today it is essential to have standards for Web development. This creates greater challenges for Web designers, but ensures that the user will be able to use the site. If no one had standards to design by what the designer created might be useless to the person accessing it. [...]

Chap 15 ~ Card Sorting

I never realized how important it was to make a Website user-friendly, but now I see that if a site is not easily accessible, people will not use them. As I read the articles on designing a user friendly Website, I realized that the way I use the Web is exactly as they were describing—I [...]

Chap 14 ~ Readings & Reflections

Designing a Website is much like starting a business or even starting a family. You must plan before you begin. If you don’t plan out before you begin it is bound to be unsuccessful or might even fail. First of all you need to think about the purpose of the Website and what you want [...]

Chap 13 ~ Readings & Reflections

When designing for the Web, one must take into consideration not only the things that affect any graphic design medium, but a host of other things as well. Some of the issues that you come across when designing for the Web is resolution. You must determine what resolution you will use and what resolution your [...]

Mod 3 Exercises

From the different exercises in this mod, I learned to make a cool sticker and some flare effects in Illustrator. I can use these when I design graphics for Websites and other design documents. I learned how to use different settings and how to make flares with different sizes and opacity to create a cool [...]