Web Design Resources

The Steps for Building A Web Site

1. The Foundations
   • Start At The Top
     • What are your site's goals?
     • Who will be visiting your site?
     • What features will your site have?
     • What are similiar sites doing?
   • Sketch out your site design on paper.
   • Make a list of the needed content and assests.
2. Building The Basics
   • Create A Page Skeleton
   • Start Building Elements
   • Optimizing Graphics
   • Organizing Graphics
3. Building Pages
   • Preparing Content
   • Making HTML
   • Optimizing and Organizing
4. Making it live
   • Uploading and Testing
   • Alert The Search Engines
     

Resources

Books

• Coloring Web Graphics 2
• Designing Web Graphics 3
• HTML Manual of Style
• HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, 4th ed.: Visual Quckstart Guide
• Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media Web Style Guide

Design & Development Sites

• Ask Tog
• Bare Bone Guide to HTML
• Builder.com
• HTML Writers Guild
• Useit.com
• Webmaster Station
• Webmonkey
• Webreference.com
• Webreview.com
• Web Design Group
• WWW Help Page

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This page was last updated on the first of May, anno Domini 2002.
Copyright 1996-2002 by Mark Corsi.