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What is good design?
• Examples of good and bad design
• Questions to ask before you design anything
• Defining your audience
• Maintaining a consistent brand identity
• Rules for good navigation
Key design elements
• A guide to: relevance, contrast, proportion, consistency, restraint and detail
• The essential building blocks of web design
Shortcuts to good design
• Maintaining a swipe file
• Good information architecture
Laying out a web page
• HTML and web architecture
• Using web applications such as Adobe Dreamweaver
• Organisational tools
• Using white space
• Rules, borders, boxes and drop shadows
• Maintaining online and offline consistency |
The power of type
• Constraints of type on the web
• Text legibility
• Text hyperlinks
• Special type effects
• Less is more
Working with colour
• Choosing colours
• Developing a colour theme
• Using Hexidecimal colour
• Understanding RGB
• Websafe colours
Effective use of images
• Using images for maximum impact
• Optimising images
• Using images as navigation aides
Solving common design problems
• Minimising text
• How fonts work on the web
• Browser and plug-in compatibility
• Cross platform issues
Questions and answers |
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