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June 2013 Design and Styling

Window Dressing – You can design a website, and then worry about content, or you can get the content up-and-running in a rudimentary fashion, and worry about the ‘design’ later. But it’s more than just window dressing. Usability is key. Join us as we tackle a quick make-over to an existing and functioning site, adding navigation elements and CSS styling.

http://makerfaire.dacs.org/index.html
http://makerfaire.dacs.org/FreeToolkits.html
and more pages…

Tasks to do:

  • Create Menus
  • CSS for styling
  • Title of pages, and meta tags/description for SEO
  • Responsive CSS (?)
  • Correct file paths in CSS
  • Control font and sizing
  • Responsive logo banner – consider size (?)
  • Next/previous links (?)
  • Add “..check email, in spam folder..” to sign up page

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