DACS Web Design Special Interest Group

Moderated by Annette van Ommeren for the Danbury Area Computer Society Members

Web Design & Print Production: How-to design for both, software tutorials, interactive discussions and help...

DACS
Resource
Center
Ives Manor
(lower level)
198 Main Street Danbury.

For information contact:
Annette van Ommeren
(aka "Anna Collens")

Come to the meeting and/or join the newsletter to be notified of upcoming meetings.

Meetings Tutorials
(Most recent on top)

Drupal Basics Nov-Dec 09

Designing for Web and/or print Oct. 09

CSS "reset" neutraliser for browser quirks

e-Commerce basics July 09

Frank SEO | Jim Sheef's iframe JS | .htaccess April 09

PHPlist - March 09

Expression Web vs DreamWeaver February 2009

Virtual Machine link at Microsoft

CSS Templates November 2008

Email Newsletters (pdf)

RSS Basics July 2008 (pdf)

PhotoShop techniques June 2008 (pdf)

Photo Slide Show presentation, April 2008 (pdf)

DreamWeaver and PHP - preparing database functionality. (pdf) 3/18/08

Site Stats Tracking

Slide Show Pro - Basic set up instructions. (pdf)

Sample page of the Graybox utility - Graybox contents leads to the download site with full instructions. (11/20/07)
PDF of presentation

Fireworks Image Editing software - highlights of its capabilities (pdf)

FireFox Developer's Toolbar - pdf of August 21, 07 presentation

Search Engine Optimizing - pdf of July17, 07 presentation

6/19/07 - links, design thoughts and Photoshop

CSS examples:

CSS flyouts - code samples: Feel free to experiment!
Sample DACS links
Inline CSS nav bar with dropdowns
HTML explanation
CSS code used in the above files, ready to cut/paste into a CSS file

Horizontal CSS tab menu bar

Horizontal CSS menu bar

CSS 3-column layout example

Simple CSS links example

Basics:

Resolution sizes - open this page and size your browser window to fit. Then open your site - does it fit the resolution you designed for?

Nifty Corners - CSS code to make areas have small rounded corners, without any use of images or javascript.

Site Design and how it relates to Search Engine Optimization

DHML - Layers and interactivity

Templates in Dreamweaver

Frames - pros & cons

Cascading Style Sheets

Starting a web site design, things to consider

Web site basics - From inspiration to Launch..