2. TOPICS
• About me: Why graphic (and/or web) design?
• My education & career path (so far)
• Love/hate about web design
• Applying design principles to web design
• The tools I use
• My work today
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3. ABOUT ME
• How I stumbled upon design
• Howstuffworks.com, Word Art, MS Frontpage
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28. I HATE WEB DESIGN
• Instant gratification
• Fixing mistakes
• Anyone can see what you do!
• Tinkering - nothing is ever finished
• Cross Browser Testing
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29. • Instant gratification
• Fixing mistakes
• Anyone can see what you do!
• Tinkering - nothing is ever finished
• Apply design knowledge and take it further
I LOVE WEB DESIGN
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31. TYPOGRAPHY
• Readability, dark text light background
• Line length
• kerning, tracking, leading
• Letter-spacing, line-spacing, word-spacing
• Photoshop type vs real web type
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38. VISUAL HIERARCHY
• Directing the users eye around the page
• Call to action - what do you want the user to
do? To click on?
• F & Z shaped pattern
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45. GRID RESOURCES
• 960.gs
• cssgrid.net
• alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design
• Making and Breaking the Grid
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46. COLOR
• Contrast, text on color, legibility
• Color for visually impaired, colorblind etc
• Hex color codes #ffffff
• RGBa color codes color: rgba (255, 0, 0, .2)
• ‘A’ stands for alpha transparency
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