A complete walkthrough of the skills you need
when building websites. A precious video tutorial
that will teach almost all you need to know to
start immediately with your webdesigning.
Disc 1 - Part 1
Lesson 1: Intoduction & Project Background (10:08 min)
1. Project File Overview
2. Identifying Ways to Improve a Website
3. Previewing the Finished Website
Lesson 2: Creating a Company Logo with Illustrator® (24:52 min)
1. Live Trace & the Tracing Options Dialog Box
2. Adjusting Tracing Presets, Mode & Threshold
3. Adjusting the Trace Settings
4. Converting a Tracing Object into Paths
5. Tracing Strokes & Changing the View
6. Using Live Paint to Fill an Area with Color
Lesson 3: Website Layout using Photoshop® (48:56 min)
1. Preparing a Web Page Mock-up in Photoshop
2. Creating Mock-up Navigation Buttons
3. Managing Assets & Working with Layer Groups
4. Working with Rasterized Illustrator Files
5. Importing & Working with Smart Objects
6. Working with Text
7. Adding Buttons to the Layout
8. Using Blend Modes to Add Graphic Highlights
9. Tidying Up Photoshop & Saving Your Project
Lesson 4: Making Slices with Fireworks® (46:50 min)
1. Altering Some Design Issues in Photoshop
2. Opening a Photoshop File in Fireworks
3. Using the Slice Tool
4. Making Slices with the Selection Tool
5. Exporting from Fireworks into Dreamweaver
6. Adding More Slices to the Web Page
7. Renaming the Slices
8. Setting Up the HTML File for Export
9. Looking at the Images & Deleting Unused Files
10. Optimizing Images with the Optimize Palette
11. Doing a Final Clean-up Pass
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