This course teaches web design beginners how to turn their design in Photoshop into a fully functioning web site in Dreamweaver. Sue Jenkins shows how to create mockups, slice, and optimize web graphics, and build a site using the Dreamweaver HTML and CSS templates. The course also covers how to customize HTML and CSS to style and position content, test and validate code, and use FTP to transfer finished site files to a host server. Postlaunch site maintenance is also discussed so that designers can keep their web sites up to date. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
Setting up the Photoshop and Dreamweaver workspaces
Planning a site and defining site goals
Mocking up the layout and navigation
Deciding on fonts and colors
Styling the header, main content, sidebar, and footer
Sue Jenkins is an award-winning software instructor, Adobe Certified Expert/Adobe Certified Instructor, fine art photographer, and owner/creative director of Luckychair.com, a full-service web and graphic design studio serving businesses across the U.S. since 1998. She is the author of several For Dummies instructional books on web design, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Photoshop, including Web Design All-in-One For Dummies (Wiley) and Smashing Photoshop CS5: 100 Professional Techniques (Wiley/SmashingMagazine). In addition, Sue is a part-time instructor at Noble Desktop in New York City, teaching courses in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver, as well as an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Marywood University in northeastern PA. For questions, tips, and fun ideas, follow her on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter.
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Tumblr For Dummies, Portable Edition
My new book, Tumblr For Dummies, Portable Edition, is now available for PREORDER for just $9.99 on both Amazon or Barnes & Noble!
Tumblr For Dummies, Portable Edition will help readers get started creating their Tumblelogs and developing their first posts. The book will cover:
What Tumblr is and why you should use it
Getting your account set up
Choosing a theme and customizing your Tumblelog
Following other Tumblr users and reblogging their content
Using the dashboard and posting from your browser, your phone or e-mail
Luckychair also recommends these titles by Sue Jenkins:
Web Design All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Sue Jenkins and Dreamweaver CS5 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Sue Jenkins.
Web Design All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Sue Jenkins
Published by Wiley
ISBN-10: 0471781428
840 pages
Written by a professional designer, this full-color book walks readers through designing a site for a specific audience, building the look of a site, adding navigation elements, testing for usability, and keeping a site updated. This book covers creating a checklist of what a design needs to include on a site, identifying an audience, gathering content, and building a site. Learn about crafting the look and feel of a site and getting content ready for the Web. The final chapter reviews search engine optimization tips and techniques.
Dreamweaver CS5 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Sue Jenkins
with Richard Wagner
Published by Wiley
ISBN-10: 0470610778
864 pages
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a Web design newbie, here’s just what you need to get up to speed on Dreamweaver CS5. Each minibook covers a particular aspect of Dreamweaver, so whether you want to learn more about mastering the basics and designing effective Web pages or configuring database connections and working with Spry Effects, it’s all here! The nine minibooks that make up this guide cover getting started with Dreamweaver CS5, creating and publishing great sites, making pages dynamic, building Web applications, and much more, including all the upgrades in the newest version.
“‘Smashing’ in this case is along the lines of “Georgy girl, you look smashing tonight,” rather than a sledgehammer making contact with your PC because Photoshop locked up again. The book includes 100 techniques appropriate for designers looking for a spark, or self-promoters who need a hand developing their advertising materials. As befits a book associated with Smashing Magazine, the opening techniques are Web development related. The author also often defines color using hexadecimal values (that text field to the right of the number symbol [#] in the Photoshop Color Picker). In addition to the various Web and design related techniques, the author covers such topics as image distressing, retouching, and restoration. The author also provides links to free textures, fonts, patterns, and other useful bits and pieces. There is an assumption of at least basic knowledge o Photoshop in many of the techniques, so this book isn’t for newbies.”
– 4 stars – Photoshop User Magazine, April/May 2011
To read the rest of the reviews, head on over to the NAPP website and sign up now.
Though I’ve never really been a collector of things per se, I have always greatly admired the forms of certain objects (think Plato’s theory of forms). Chairs, of course, I love (thus the name, Luckychair), but I really dig the shape and feel of spoons too. These plain jane cuties are from the 1970s and shot on my sweet 1960’s Formica counter top. Makes ya hanker for a spoonful of Bosco or Ovaltine, right? Or maybe you’d rather have a hot cup of instant Sanka? For more nostalgic food references, check out the 20th Century by Decades Foods List at the FoodTimeline.
If anyone ever asks you whether working full time, going to grad school full time, and taking care of a family household is too much work for one person, tell them I said “yes”!
All that work keeps me away from blogging to you, but the semester ends soon! In an effort to get back here more regularly, I’ll be uploading photos a few times a week, interspersed with news and other musings.
Here’s your first welcome back photo of a farm near Hershey, PA. And yes, the air does smell like chocolate there.
March 2011 is Dummies Month as well as the 20th Anniversary of For Dummies books!
To celebrate, all month long Amazon customers can get a $5 mail-in rebate when purchasing any For Dummies book between March 1 – 31, 2011. Even better, you can save 50% on select For Dummies Guides too! Luckychair recommends Web Design All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Sue Jenkins and Dreamweaver CS5 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Sue Jenkins.
Web Design All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Sue Jenkins
Published by Wiley
ISBN-10: 0471781428
840 pages
Written by a professional designer, this full-color book walks readers through designing a site for a specific audience, building the look of a site, adding navigation elements, testing for usability, and keeping a site updated. This book covers creating a checklist of what a design needs to include on a site, identifying an audience, gathering content, and building a site. Learn about crafting the look and feel of a site and getting content ready for the Web. The final chapter reviews search engine optimization tips and techniques.
Dreamweaver CS5 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Sue Jenkins
with Richard Wagner
Published by Wiley
ISBN-10: 0470610778
864 pages
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a Web design newbie, here’s just what you need to get up to speed on Dreamweaver CS5. Each minibook covers a particular aspect of Dreamweaver, so whether you want to learn more about mastering the basics and designing effective Web pages or configuring database connections and working with Spry Effects, it’s all here! The nine minibooks that make up this guide cover getting started with Dreamweaver CS5, creating and publishing great sites, making pages dynamic, building Web applications, and much more, including all the upgrades in the newest version.
