Overview
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This series of tips helps web designers streamline their workflows, enhance their designs, improve their software skills, and strengthen their general freelance business skills.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Making blog headlines pop, with typography
- Exploring the secrets of effective block quotes
- Going big with type
- Pairing fonts for the web
- Styling your web links
- Improving font readability
- Improving your layout efficiency with rulers, grids, and guides
- Adding killer shadow effects
- Creating customized type for logos and graphics
- Configuring the workspace for web design
- Saving time using Illustrator symbols
- Formatting text for the web
- Graphic styles for the web
- Two fantastic texture techniques
- Zen and the art of rounded corners
- Saving time using text wrap as padding
- Grabbing measurements to speed up your workflow
- Editing nondestructively with Smart Filters
- Using content-aware scaling for photos on the web
- Advanced tips for sampling colors
- Best practices for image resizing
- Tinting images using one or two tones
- Tricks for quick teeth whitening
- Balancing color and tone using levels
- Choosing the right file format when optimizing web images
- Creating animated GIFs for memes and banner ads
- Pulling the text from images with OCR
- Making oddly sized images work in your layout
- Using Google font effects
- Commenting code for better clarity
- Utilizing master CSS files to speed up design
- Adding pizzazz with CSS shadow effects
- Incorporating multiple background images
- A two-minute trick for rotating objects
- Creating stitched borders with CSS
- Dropping in CSS drop caps
- Coding special characters dependably with entities
- Rounding square images using CSS
- Customizing your text-selection color with CSS
- Tinting images with CSS for cool hover effects
- Managing sites to harness the power of Dreamweaver
- Externalizing CSS and JavaScript for better efficiency
- Publishing using Dreamweaver's integrated FTP
- Cleaning up redundant and unnecessary code
- Using Find and Replace for rapid search and editing
- Validating your code to W3 standards
- Using the Link Checker to find broken links and orphans
- Building code snippets to save time
- Creating pop-up windows without writing JavaScript
- Hiding and showing elements to create a simple image gallery
- Understanding links and paths to write better code
- Organic and ethical SEO coding tips
