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Posted Friday 18th Feb 2011 by James Bavington In this week’s web design video blog, Pete and I introduce the increasingly popular technique of designing websites using ‘Grids’. After a brief overview of what Web Design Grids are, and how they’ve become popular, we take a closer look at our favourite resource, The 960 Grid System . The 960 Grid System works on the core principal of designing websites to a fixed maximum width of 960 pixels. As the average minimum monitor resolution is 1024×768, websites that are designed to a fixed width of 960px will easily fit within the 1024×768 screen resolution without a horizontal scroll-bar.
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Design A Portfolio Website With Photoshop and the 960 Grid System
In this tutorial I’ll walk you through the steps necessary to design a portfolio website to showcase your design services. We will be using Photoshop and the 960 Grid System. With some subtle textures and layer styles, you’ll see how the smallest details can work to give your portfolio website that polished look. Here’s a preview of what we will be creating: Tutorial Resources
In this tutorial, we’ll be designing a clean website layout using the 960 Grid System . You’ll see how working with this system can streamline web development workflow, and how to work with a grid system. Final Image Preview
Design a Clean Web Layout with the 960 Grid
Design a Web Template using the “960 Grid System” | Layouts
Design a Web Template using the “960 Grid System” Reviewed by Ross Aitken on Dec 28 Rating: Preview of Final Results <img title="31" height="560" alt="31" src="http://photoshoptutorials.ws/images/stories/960template/31.jpg" width="560"/> Design a Web Template using the “960 Grid System” Photoshop Tutorial Step 1
CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices
Jul 28 2008 The main idea behind CSS-based layouts is offering more flexibility and enhancing the visual experience of visitors. Some important tips and related key-factors can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. And this is what this article is all about.
This screencast will serve as the final entry in a multi-part series across the TUTS sites which demonstrates how to build a beautiful home page for a fictional business. We learned how to create the wireframe on Vectortuts+ ; we added color, textures, and effects on Psdtuts+ ; now, we’ll take our completed PSD and convert it into a nicely coded HTML and CSS website. Please note that, even if you haven’t read the first two tutorials, you’ll be able to follow along with this video quite easily.
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Create a Promotional iPhone App Site in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll be continuing this series on creating an iPhone app promotional site by taking our previous Fireworks constructed wireframe and adding color, texture, images, and effects to polish off this design in Photoshop. We’ll use some interesting elements, like iPhone imagery and a stylish aurora vector background illustration . We’ll finish up with a professional site design ready to get coded! Let’s get to it! Final Image Preview
From PSD to HTML: Building a Set of Website Designs Step by Step
Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. Today I’m going to take you through my entire process of getting from Photoshop to completed HTML. We’re going to build out a set of 4 PSD mockups of a website that eventually will become a WordPress theme. It’s a massive tutorial, so if you’re going to follow through to the end, make sure you have a few hours to spare! DemosCreating CSS Layouts: The Best Tutorials on Converting PSD to XHTML
First of all, I should thank delicious, StumbleUpon, Dzone, Design float and other major social bookmarking websites’ users for featuring my previous posts. I received a lot of traffic after a few days after starting this blog. In this post, I’m going to show you the most practical tutorials on coding a template using CSS and XHTML. Making a template has two steps. The first step is Designing the template components and the second step is Coding them into a valid XHTML page. For learning designing a template from scratch in Photoshop, I suggest checking this post by dzineblog .
A stylish portfolio is critical for any designer. Other professions have the luxury of describing their skills and accolades in words, but designers can’t just describe their work; they have to show it. Designers are most often compared, chosen, and hired based on the impression that their portfolio makes. Even if your work samples are stellar, the portfolio itself is arguably your most important design work, and it should be just as impressive as the work within it. Below, we’ll use some straightforward techniques to help you create a stylish, professional portfolio layout.
Create an Awesome Portfolio Layout in Photoshop
Creating Your Own User Interface in Photoshop
Photoshop is great for taking your work from an idea to a finished product, which is why it is preferred by most industry professionals. You can set up a steady workflow for almost any scenario, whether you are a photographer, graphic designer, web designer, or a designer of mobile applications. In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of creating your own user interface in Photoshop.In web design and development, you’ll find that there are many different techniques to meet a given goal. Some are good, and some are great, but as long as your chosen method works well and looks good, you should use it with confidence. To complete a professional, tailor-made web design, it’s important to understand how to build a navigation menu from start to finish.