Welcome to the website for courses by Peter Brown
Here is where you can find information about courses that Peter Brown runs in Exeter and find links to follow for more information. The courses include graphics courses on Photoshop, Web Design, Flash and Adobe Creative Suite. The holistic courses include Yoga, Yogic breathing, Ayurveda and weight loss through Ayurveda.
Useful graphics and web design links:
Here are some graphics and web design sites you might want to look at, either because they supplement what you learn on the course, or just because I like them. Periodically I’ll update the following list of links. If you want to include a site in this list, please email me with the URL of the site and reasons why you think it is useful. Each page on the site will include its own useful links.
Standards-based web design
http://css.maxdesign.com.au
Lots of good examples and tutorials on CSS lists, floats and selectors.
Mozilla Firefox
http://www.firefox2.com
Version 2 of what is arguably the best browser out there has arrived. Useful extensions for web designers, such as Firebug.
35 Designers x 5 Questions
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/20/35-designers-x-5-questions
Smashing magazine, a new online magazine on web design asked 35 designers to comment on some basic concepts of webs design. The result is 175 professional suggestions, tips and ideas from some of the best web-developers all around the world.
Quick CSS Mockups with Photoshop
http://alistapart.com/articles/quickcssmockupswithphotoshop
Helps you create a web design mockup for your client with Photoshop and Imageready. You can even export the mock-up in clean XHTML and CSS code, which can then be perfected in Dreamweaver.
Colour scheme chooser
http://createafreewebsite.net/html-color-tool.html
This page allows you to create colour schemes for your website. Use the help section (question mark ?) to find out how the system works.
Web design advice
http://boagworld.com
Great site for all potential or actual web designers. Lots of advice about managing and building websites.
Share your photos online
http://flickr.com
Helps you store, search, sort and share photos online.
Online magazines on web design
http://alistapart.com
The “must-read” online magazine for anyone serious about web design.
http://www.sitepoint.com
Another “must-read” online magazine for web designers. These people also publish some of the best books on web design that are out there.
Publish and watch videos online
Podcast downloader and viewer
http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/overview
itunes is probably the main program used to download and listen to Podcasts. You can download the program for free from this page.
Free PHP Ecommerce System
http://www.storesprite.com
Easy to install, customise and use. Supports major payment providers
Free Stock Photography search
http://www.lukesanderson.com/photo_search
A quick resource search for free stock photos and pictures for use in graphic artwork by designers. It's powered by google and provides direct links to multiple stock photography sites that offer primarily free images (that are mainly royalty free).
Bookmarking
http://del.icio.us
Social bookmarking - keep all your bookmarks in one place and share them with others. Check out what other people are bookmarking.
Discussion Forum
http://getvanilla.com
Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free.