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Productivity Tips for Web Designers

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Overview

This series of tips helps web designers streamline their workflows, enhance their designs, improve their software skills, and strengthen their general freelance business skills.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Typography Tips
  • Making blog headlines pop, with typography
  • Exploring the secrets of effective block quotes
  • Going big with type
  • Pairing fonts for the web
  • Styling your web links
  • Improving font readability
2. Illustrator Tips
  • Improving your layout efficiency with rulers, grids, and guides
  • Adding killer shadow effects
  • Creating customized type for logos and graphics
  • Configuring the workspace for web design
  • Saving time using Illustrator symbols
  • Formatting text for the web
  • Graphic styles for the web
  • Two fantastic texture techniques
  • Zen and the art of rounded corners
  • Saving time using text wrap as padding
3. Photoshop Tips
  • Grabbing measurements to speed up your workflow
  • Editing nondestructively with Smart Filters
  • Using content-aware scaling for photos on the web
  • Advanced tips for sampling colors
  • Best practices for image resizing
  • Tinting images using one or two tones
  • Tricks for quick teeth whitening
  • Balancing color and tone using levels
  • Choosing the right file format when optimizing web images
  • Creating animated GIFs for memes and banner ads
  • Pulling the text from images with OCR
  • Making oddly sized images work in your layout
4. HTML and CSS Tips
  • Using Google font effects
  • Commenting code for better clarity
  • Utilizing master CSS files to speed up design
  • Adding pizzazz with CSS shadow effects
  • Incorporating multiple background images
  • A two-minute trick for rotating objects
  • Creating stitched borders with CSS
  • Dropping in CSS drop caps
  • Coding special characters dependably with entities
  • Rounding square images using CSS
  • Customizing your text-selection color with CSS
  • Tinting images with CSS for cool hover effects
5. Dreamweaver Tips
  • Managing sites to harness the power of Dreamweaver
  • Externalizing CSS and JavaScript for better efficiency
  • Publishing using Dreamweaver's integrated FTP
  • Cleaning up redundant and unnecessary code
  • Using Find and Replace for rapid search and editing
  • Validating your code to W3 standards
  • Using the Link Checker to find broken links and orphans
  • Building code snippets to save time
  • Creating pop-up windows without writing JavaScript
  • Hiding and showing elements to create a simple image gallery
  • Understanding links and paths to write better code
  • Organic and ethical SEO coding tips

Taught by

Sue Jenkins

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