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Guided Web Design Lab
Your first web design project can be daunting. Let our Adobe Certified instructors lead you through your first project!
**PRE-REQUISITES: You must have taken Dreamweaver 1-6 and Illustrator 1-8 (or have equivalent knowledge)
In Learn iT’s two-day Guided Web Design Lab, you will get a chance to apply your new skills while an expert stands by and guides you through the trickier parts. You will leave with a fully functional web site, designed and constructed by you!
You will be provided with a sample project designed by our experts, allowing you to use a wide variety of integrated technologies and techniques. You’ll be guided through workflow, summary reviews, tips and tricks, and provided with someone to check your work and ask questions of!
It is incredibly useful to have direct guidance through a real project. Sites are much easier to build after you get the hang of it. You should totally sign up for this workshop.
DAY 1 – RESEARCH AND DESIGN
Guided by an instructor, you will perform the following on a sample project:
- Goal determination
- Establish Emotional Targets
- Design Research
- Workflow Overview
- Site Idea Planning
- Comp (Design) Creation in Illustrator
- Designing to Specifications
- Designing to Meet Pre-Determined Needs
DAY 2 – SLICING AND CONSTRUCTION
Guided by an instructor, you will perform the following on the design you created during Day 1:
- Construction Summary Review
- Illustrator Design Slicing
- Tips and Tricks for Smooth Construction
- Slicing for Background Images and Complex Designs
- Multiple Exports to Assemble Required Media & Code
- Export to Dreamweaver
- Remove Excess Images
- Use Spacers to Prevent Collapse
- Create a Linked Cascading Style Sheet
- Create a Template
- Construct Pages, Fill in Content, and Link Pages
- Upload your New Site to the Web
Guided Web Design Lab
Knowledge Quiz
Not sure if you know enough to participate in the Guided Web Design Lab? If you can answer the following questions in the affirmative, you’ll do fine.
- In Illustrator, do you feel comfortable drawing basic shapes, choosing colors, and adding text?
- In Illustrator, do you know what “slicing” is for and have basic knowledge of how the slice tools work?
- In Dreamweaver, can you build a basic table, format text, and place images?
- In Dreamweaver, do you understand what templates are for and how they’re used to update pages?
If you can answer yes to the above questions, you are ready to sign up for the Guided Web Design Lab!