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Fireworks Tool Bar
Our class has been working with Adobe Fireworks and although this program is completely new to me, there are some similarities between it and Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator. If you have used either...
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Animated GIFs
In the past few weeks our class has been creating web banners and adding animation to them. This is a quick demonstration on how to use animation in Adobe Fireworks. Begin by creating a new document in...
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Fonts for your Website
Choosing a font for your website is an important decision. You want your font to be readable and complement your design. Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New...
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Wireframes and Storyboards
As my class begins to work on our published website, we have begun to plan and organize our ideas. This will help the design to come together cohesively. When we first began to think about making a...
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Design Comp
In my last post, I discussed how are class was beginning to build ideas for a website. We began by making storyboards and wireframes and after reviewing the feedback from my classmates and my...
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Images for your Website
I am creating a photography profile website and as I mentioned in my last post, I needed some images to fill spaces in the website comp that were blank. (The photographs that I will be using for the...
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Hosting Your Website
While I begin to piece my website together, I am also thinking about domain names and website hosting. From the sites that I have looked through, domain names begin as low as $5 and increase from...
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Building a Template
Templates can be a huge timesaver when building a website, especially if you want most of your pages to look similar. My professor gave us the following instructions to create a template:...
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Adding a Widget
A really cool resource that I learned while building my website was Adobe widgets. Widgets will add some extra flair to your website without you having to learn complicated coding. In Dreamweaver, if...
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Completed Site
My site is now complete and submitted. It was a lengthy and sometimes frustrating process, but I am very happy with the end product. Thank you classmates and professor Jen for all of your help and...
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