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Web Site Workflow – Part 1

May 10th 2010

I have busy designing a new site lately.  While doing this I thought it would be interesting to document my  work flow. As always this is in note form giving you a general overview of what to do. If you require more detail on any stage then please comment and I will answer. Part 1 – [...]

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Exporting Web Site Mock ups

February 1st 2010

HTML Export This creates an html prototype for displaying as a web site. – Slice the images only – Make sure all pages are named and button links entered (home.html) – Select File/Export/Html and images (export slices, include areas without slices, put images in subfolder, all others unticked). Default HTML settings can be set in [...]

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Kuler Colour Scheme Picker

November 8th 2009

Fantastic colour scheme picker for programs like Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Allows users to upload and download schemes and select from a huge database.

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Web page meta tags

August 9th 2009

META Tags can be used for excluding content from search engine crawlers. It is also used when you cannot upload a robots.txt file. Its purpose is to keep content out of search engine indexes.  They should be added between the HEAD section of your page(s) in question: (no)index determines whether the crawler should index this page. [...]

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High google ranking

July 20th 2009

The German company Sistrix analyzed the web page elements of top ranked pages in Google to find out which elements lead to high Google rankings. They analyzed 10,000 random keywords, and for every keyword, they analyzed the top 100 Google search results. Sistrix analyzed the influence of the following web page elements: web page title, [...]

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MacMost Podcasts

July 12th 2009

Welcome to MacMost: The site that helps you get the most out of your Mac, iPod Apple TV and iPhone! http://http://macmost.com/tutorials/

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Adobe TV

July 12th 2009

Learn how to use Adobe® Creative Suite 4 with video tutorials selected by experts at Adobe. There’s everything from Getting Started videos for beginners to new features, product overviews, and workflows. All these videos can be viewed on the How To channel on Adobe TV. For a listing of each show and its contents, see [...]

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A list apart

July 12th 2009

A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices. From the crown of its cranium to the tips of its Ruby-slippered toes, A List Apart 4.0 is both old and new. Old in its mission to help people who make websites [...]

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Web designer wall

July 12th 2009

Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La, who also runs N.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery. I’ve been designing for several years and my work has been published on numbers of magazines. I love to share ideas and design techniques. Web Designer Wall serves as my public blog where I post my [...]

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