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How do I use typography on my website?
Jose and Aure answer the question: “How do I use typography on my website?” They share techniques and tips on how to use typography for your website.
They cover the following 4 rules:
1. Use the grid
2. Understand leading, kerning and tracking
3. Use white space, color and weight to create entry points
4. Set rules and keep them
Resources from this episode:
The Grid: A Modular System for the Design and Production of Newpapers, Magazines, and Books
by Allen Hurlburt
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Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung
By Josef Muller-Brockmann
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Basic Typography 02: Using Type
By Michael Harkins
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“Adaptive Web Design not only provides the clearest, most beautiful explanation of progressive enhancement I’ve ever read, it’s also packed full of practical know-how pumped directly into your neocortex through Aaron’s warm and friendly writing style. If you aren’t already using progressive enhancement to build websites, you soon will be.” –Jeremy Keith, Author, HTML5 for Web Designers
“Finally. Progressive enhancement explained with a perfect balance of theory and practice. Aaron’s take-aways will have you progressively-enhancing your markup, style and behavior with ease.” –Dan Cederholm, Author, CSS3 For Web Designers
“With this forward-thinking book Aaron shows us that anyone can produce accessible, engaging web experiences without sacrificing their ambitions. Through progressive enhancement, he’ll show you how to bring designs to life without compromising the integrity of content. I’ve been learning from Aaron for many years, and suggest you do the same.” –Simon Collison, Co-author, CSS Mastery
“You hear the term ‘Progressive Enhancement’ bandied about as a good thing, and it absolutely is. However, few resources cover the breadth of the topic as well as this book does. Adaptive web design includes some of the best and broadest coverage in an easy-to-read and well-structured book.” –Jonathan Snook, Co-author, The Art and Science of CSS
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How do I design great icons for my website?
Today we answer the question: “How do I design great icons for my website?”
How do I pick a style? Or what program should I use? Illustrator or photoshop? Can you show me how you build one?
Stick around and watch us work.
We will answer the following questions:
1. Do I use icons as wayfinding?
2. What style should I choose for my icons?
3. In what program should I create them?
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Evil’s Book Club:
The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
by Marty Neumeier
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The Strategic Designer: Tools & Techniques for Managing the Design Process
by David Holston
http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Designer-Techniques-Managing-Process/dp/1600617999/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328572336&sr=1-1
Flakey’s Book Club
Must Have:
Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills
by David Sherwin
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1600617972/ref=rdr_ext_sb_ti_sims_2
Basic Typography 02: Using Type
By Michael Harkins
http://www.amazon.com/Basics-Typography-Using-Type-Ava/dp/2940411557/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328570041&sr=1-1
Must Have:
Graphic Design for Non-designers: Essential Knowledge, Tips, and Tricks
by Tony Seddon, Jane Waterhouse
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All in One:
Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
by Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Armin Vit
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Flakey’s Book Club
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
By Erik Spiekermann, E.M Ginger
http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Stealing-Sheep-Find-Works/dp/0201703394/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328572899&sr=1-1
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How do I choose a look and feel for my website?
Jose and Aure answer the question: “How do I sell my web design services?” They share and discuss how they approach sales and Jose will share his secrets to closing a sale.
1. Define it in words first
2. Use visual metaphors
3. Know the history & the rules of design
Resources from this episode:
Evil’s Book Club:
The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
by Marty Neumeier
http://amzn.to/zuCsgv
The Strategic Designer: Tools & Techniques for Managing the Design Process
by David Holston
http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Designer-Techniques-Managing-Process/dp/1600617999/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328572336&sr=1-1
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http://teamtreehouse.com/
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Product DescriptionWeb design, with its wide range of disciplines and fields, is not an easy nut to crack. However, it is possible to put together a book with some of the crucial principles and fundamentals that you will need for every project you take on.
Learn about the harsh truths of corporate Web design and the troubles you are bound to run into. Create effective online portfolios with optimized user experiences, without the usual trial and error. Use storytelling to create engaging user experiences. Impress clients by staying on top of enhancements and Web standards. And in case you’re wondering how to handle clients, we have some professional advice on how to deal with exceptional situations and customer requests.
This guide to professional web design was carefully selected, prepared and edited to bring you the most useful Web design advice from Smashing Magazine’s articles. Know where you stand, put your situation in perspective, and get the advice you’ve been looking for.
Pages: 242
Language: English
Released: March 2010
Publisher: Smashing Media GmbH
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Product DescriptionUsing Hands-On Practice exercises and Web Site Case Studies to motivate readers, Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5 includes all the necessary lessons to guide students in developing highly effective Web sites. A well-rounded balance of hard skills (HTML5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript) and soft skills (web design, e-commerce, Web site promotion strategies) presents everything beginning Web developers need to know to build and promote successful Web sites.
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Get everything you need to plan and launch a web site, including detailed instructions and clear-headed advice on ready-to-use building blocks, powerful tools like CSS and JavaScript, and Google’s Blogger. The thoroughly revised, completely updated new edition of Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual explains how to get your site up and running quickly and correctly.
5 Tips for Budding Web Site Creators
By Matthew MacDonald
These days, aspiring Web site creators like you pick up a lot of Web-design theory before you start working on your pages. But as deadlines loom and the value of “do it right” falls victim to the imperative to “do it right now,” even the best of us sometimes toss good practice out the window. That’s perfectly understandable and no cause for panic—after all, if Web weavers waited until their pages were perfect before uploading them, the Internet would be a very lonely place indeed. However, sometimes innocent-seeming shortcuts can cause headaches later on. Here are a few pieces of Web advice that site creators ignore at their own risk:
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1. Always include a doctype.
Web browsers can translate two languages into Web pages: old-school HTML and today’s XHTML. You have to tell the browser which language (called markup) you use, and you do that with a document type definition, better known as a doctype. Doctype is arcane code that looks like this:
If you forget to include a doctype, your pages will appear annoyingly inconsistent. That’s because some browsers, including Internet Explorer, switch into a backward-compatibility state known as quirks mode when they encounter unidentified markup; in essence, they attempt to act like an outdated browser from the 1990s. Common problems that result include text that appears at different sizes in different browsers and layouts that wind up in different configurations depending on your browser.
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2. Keep formatting instructions out of your markup.
In a rush, it’s easy to get lazy and apply inline styles (or even worse, formatting tags like ) to a page’s XHTML or HTML. But it’s rare for a web site creator to use a particular format just once. Most often, you’ll use a design–say for a column, heading, or note box–elsewhere on the same page or on another of your site pages. To ensure consistency across your site and to make it easier to fine-tune the look and feel of your pages, move all your formatting instructions to a central location: an external style sheet. That way, when a browser processes a page, it grabs this central set of instructions and applies them to the page (see the illustration for the sequence of events). |
3. Be under renovation, not under construction.
Think of your favorite store. Now imagine shopping there if you had to wander around half-lit floors while dodging ladders, pylons, and heavy-duty construction equipment to find the aisles that still have products on the shelf.
It’s a similar story on the Web, where a site with empty pages, “under construction” messages, and vague promises of upcoming content will send visitors away in droves. Yes, it’s true that your Web site won’t be complete when you first upload it. But make sure that what’s there is genuinely useful on its own, and don’t draw attention to gaps and shortcomings. Instead, keep improving what you’ve got. |
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4. Think twice before you adopt copy-and-paste design.
Typically, Web sites use the same page design across all their pages. For example, noodle around Amazon and you’ll always see a menu header at the top of the page and a sidebar on the left.
There’s a very special circle in Dante’s Inferno reserved for Web developers who try to achieve consistent design by copying and pasting their XHTML from one page to another. It’s almost impossible to manage or modify this mess across all your pages without making a mistake, even if you have a small Web site.
If you need a repeating page design, pick a suitable solution from the available options, each of which comes with its own caveat. Your can use server-side includes (which require Web host support), page templates (provided you have a web design tool like Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web), frames (which can exhibit quirks), or a Web development platform (if you’re willing to take a crash course in programming). |
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5. Keep an eye on your visitors.
Is anyone here? There’s no point in having a Web site if you’re not willing to pay attention to what content draws and keeps visitors and what falls flat on its face. Remarkably, the best way to do that is with a free yet industrial-strength service called Google Analytics. You simply copy a small bit of tracking code to each of your pages and within hours you’ll be able to answer questions like “Where do my visitors live?”, “How long is a typical visit?”, and “What pages are their favorites?” |
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