This Web Design course is FETAC Level 5 Web Authoring C20148 and
is part of the National Framework of Qualification in Ireland.
The students are trained to work to 'Junior Web Designer' level.
Our training centre is FAS.
Resources for this Web Design Course:
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
A web design community curated by Chris Coyiers. Articles about all on things web, forums where one can give and get help, video tutorials on web design and code, freebies to download and codes snippets for CSS, HTAccess, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP and Wordpress (CMS).
RSS Feed for Inspirational Web Design
.NET Magazine (on sale in major bookshops)
The online version of this magazine is available has a very good page withlinks to excellent tips for CSS, Flash and designing graphics, here is the link. It is an excellent resource, it has online tutorials and it goes a long way to help you budding web designer to develop, discover and design website.
Mezzoblue is a weblog about design, the web, and some other things. Written by Dave Shea, a designer from Vancouver, Canada
A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.
For people who make websites.
A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
Web Development & Design Tutorials
Video Tutorials
Sitepoint Books
Sitepoint is an Australian publishing company which specialises in books for web designers and developers. I came across it in 2003 when I was looking for information on learning stylesheets.
I have bought many of their books over the internet and the latest ones are available in PDF format. If you wish to read the following books, ask your web design tutor to have access to them.
Each picture is linked to its corresponding page online.
HTML Utopia: Designing without tables using CSS
by Dan Shafer and Rachel Andrew - A beginners book to designing with CSS- positioning. This was my first introduction into designing with <div> and I was totally hooked from then on as more and more possibilities enfold for designing web pages.
The CSS-Anthology: 101 essential Tips, Tricks and hacks
by Rachel Andrews -
The Art & Science of CSS
by Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith, Jonathan Snook
This is an excellent book and a must have in your web design/developer library.
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
by Jason Baird
Sexy Web Design
by Elliot Jay Stocks
The Photoshop Anthology
by Corrie Haffly
