OG Solution

Learning the Web Lingo

Archive for the ‘Planning’ Category

Feb
22

Overview:
Unless you are an artist or a designer, you will probably need help with images from time to time. This screencast is going to show you some sites that offers images to help you build your website.

Free Image Sites:

Cheap Image Sites:

 

Feb
20

Overview:
Creating breath taking site design can be a really hard thing to do for some people. This is especially true for beginners who just started learning the web lingo. This is a good time to use templates and this screencast is going to talk about pre-made web templates.

Paid Templates:

Free Templates:

 

Feb
18

Overview:
In this screencast, we are going to talk about site usability and I am going to guide you through a US government website (http://www.usability.gov/) to learn web usability.

Links used in the screencast:

 

Feb
16

Overview:
Creating comps is also known as creating mockups of the website. This is usually done using an image editing software like Photoshop, Fireworks, and GIMP. The resulting comp is a good preview of how the site will look like after the comp is sliced up and prepped for web page creation.

 

Feb
14

Overview:
In this screencast, we are going to talk about image editing software. A website is actually composed of mostly text and images so it is important that you know about image editing softwares. Image editing software can also be helpful in creating comps, which is also called mockups.

Links used in the screencast: