Websites with Dreamweaver
Files and links for the Websites with Dreamweaver course at Exeter College.
Websites to visit
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.
.net magazine
http://www.netmag.co.uk
Best printed magazine available for web designers.
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.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com
A new online magazine on web design. Slightly more "low brow" than the previous two magazines, but accessible and with some good articles.
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).
Dreamweaver tutorials from Adobe
searchwww.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/tutorial_index.html
The official adobe site for Dreamweaver tutorials – excellent resource
Other useful sites:
http://designmeltdown.com
There are sites that teach web design and site galleries that showcase good sites. This site combines both feature and teaches you design principles and techniques though featuring examples of good quality websites.
www.sitepronews.com
Lots of good up-to-date information. Especially good on how to get a good ranking in search engines.
http://maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.htm
Learn about the essentials of Web Standards and how to conform to them from this comprehensive checklist.
http://boagworld.com
Can subscribe to their excellent podcast from this site.
http://siteadminstuff.com
Lots of useful stuff for web designers.
http://csszengarden.com
A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.
http://www.useit.com
The website of Jakob Nielsen the ultimate usability guru.
http://createafreewebsite.net/html-color-tool.html
Use this free tool to study the relationships between colours. You can actually use it to choose the colour scheme of your own website. Be sure to read the help section for a better understanding.
Podcasts
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. Once downloaded and installed you can subscribe (for free) to podcast channels such as the ones below.
Web Design podcast from Boagworld.com
Probably the best audio information on Web design you can find.
.Net Magazine Podcast
The Podcast for this excellent magazine.
Books
Design with Web Standards by Jeffery Zeldman
Very readable book on designing with Web Standards – a subject that every Web designer has to master.