Thursday, 22 November 2012

Tutorials - Notes

Choose a contextual selector type for your css style
-  Tag ( redefines an HTML element
- Name selector should be body

Choose where your rule will be defined
- New style sheet file

Save as
- styles

Type
- font-family: any kind
- font - size: 100%

Background
- Background - colour: # 666

Block
- text - align: center

Box
- Padding: top = 0
- Margin: top = 0
(same for all)

Click - apply and okay

Insert - layout objects - Dive tag


Notes

slice measurements

Header:
W - 960
H - 161

Galleries:
W - 240
H - 39

Purchase:
W - 240
H - 39

About Me:
W - 240
H - 39

Contact:
W - 240
H - 39

Content:
W - 960
H - 650

Footer:
W -  960
H - 110



Sunday, 19 August 2012

Notes


- Command k - to get GO to appear
- 1000 pixel - largest size on web

- File - save to web:
  • Jpeg
  • Dng
  • Gif, png8 (same like gif)
  • Png-24 (most work) helps to put logo's on websites, though not many people use this file because its to big of a file.
- clone tool - filter- other - offset
  • Creates the squares
  • Use clone tool to get rid of the squares
- Font size: em



Typagraphy



- Contrast
- Legibility
- Body text size
  • Younger the age font size 8 & 9
  • Older the age font size 10
- Space between words
  • To much space the text becomes lighter to read
  • No space it becomes harder to read

- Font Families

Font:
  • Teenagers read differently
  • Business people read more advanced
- Contrast & Tracking
- Can change the baseline ( hard to do well)
- Hieracry - useful information
- Serff - old fashion eg. A, T
- San Serff- modern eg. A, T

- Adobe Kuler: Is pretty cool

Adobe Kuler is a colour resource to help you choose multiple colours in different shades to help you with designing your website.
http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30

DW: Dream Weaver





Notes

<html> opening tag
<head>
<title> cool web page </title>
</head> /= end tag
<body>
</body>
</html> end tag

  • index html: Important ( first page always index)
  • link: href
  • <p>: Paragraph
  • Slice tool: Used in web design
Heading - h1(more important, bigger text)
Heading - h6(less important, smaller text)

Web design: is measured in pixels and RGB.

  • 9M font size
  • Body Rule
  • Float

Rapper - box that wraps around the whole contents
Photoshop - slice tool - treat all the different areas as indivuals