Design Basics: Designing a site involves not just the way the site looks but the way it works. These design basics will get you started, then our more in-depth design coverage will help you make the most of what you've got. Below are some featured articles. Click here to see all design basic articles. 
Creative Content: Are you content with your content? Your site can look great, but if the content it contains isn't up to snuff, then what's the point?Web graphics 101
- All text and no graphics make for a very dull page. Web-designer Mark Bakalor covers the essential software you need.Web Type Basics - Most of the web is made up of words, and whether you know it or not, all your words are set in type. Daniel Will-Harris helps you choose the fonts that are best for your words. Take a look at our font embedding example pages!Web Writing Basics - The web has some special requirements to keep in mind, and some pernicious myths to forget. Learn about both from Daniel Will-Harris.Effective Text: Happiness. Love. Comfort. And sex. Daniel Will-Harris explains how, when you boil life down to its essence, these are the four things that every person (and animal) on this planet wants. When bad copy happens to good Web sites: Let Marc Alan Holmes (who's written for Jay Leno and Joan Rivers so you know you're talking high-class entertainment here) tells you (in no uncertain words) how to make the words on your site soar.
Creative Graphics: Most people don't consider themselves artists. But you don't have to be a great artist to
create great web graphics. Our experts show you how.Web Background Basics - A web site background can be one of the simplest and most "economical" ways to make
your site stand out. Yet the way backgrounds work mystify a lot of people. Toni Will-Harris explains background graphics with such rare clarity that you will understand it, or your money cheerfully refunded.Clip Art Crazy!
Want interesting art with the click of a mouse? It's possible, and our man Chuck Green tells you how.Shooting the screen: How do you take a picture of your screen? Rick Tew walks you through the process, from start to finish.
Get Animated! Gary Priester's great introductory tutorial, complete with the download of a great graphics program you can try for free.
C O L U M N I S T S: you can trust.
The Mix by Chuck Green: There's nothing new under the sun. And yet we constantly see things that "look new." How? Chuck Green, helps you understand how you can create something great by bringing something new to the mix. That is what this column is about—to create a conversation about the ingredients of design: type, illustrations, photography, and color. His approach
will open give you a new way to look at design--so you can create a new mix yourself. Write Away with Christopher Meeks: Shouldn't we ought to write better? Ahem, yes, we should, and Christopher Meeks, noted author, Hollywood screenwriter and teacher shows you how. Click here to read more. Gary Priester's Web Design Clinic Gary Priester is a design genius. That said, he prefers to be called the Makeover Maven. Now that we've fulfilled his contract by saying this, we have to admit it's true. Click here to read more. Roger Parker's One Minute Designer:
Roger's one of the best-known authors about desktop publishing, and now he brings his experience to the web. His column will help you create a more reader-friendly site, learn how to keep it simpler (and effective), and create a scenario to help your site visitor get what they need.
With Roger's help, you won´t have to be a designer to look like one on the web. Art of the Web by Gary David Bouton: Gary's a
graphic guru, known for superb computer graphics. In his column, he helps you: find the best graphic program; get your photos web-ready
; and shows you how to retouch your images so they look better than real life.
Gallery Hopping:
Come take a look-see at a bunch of great sites created with NetObjects Fusion.
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Don't miss Dot's House of Style where she takes you on a glamourific romp through Fusion's fantastic Style View!
Working with Site Styles: You've got styles, and you know how to use them! Well, at least you will if you read this.
 The Stylizer!
Want to add style to your site? Fusion comes with over 50 professionally-designed styles, from traditional to business-like, to out-and-out-artsy. Fuse's patented Stylizer helps you choose the one that's right for you! Click here to enter.
Where's PageView? Click here.
Tips & Tricks: Inside Info on NetObjects Fusion Styles and clever tips and tricks
that help you work more efficiently.
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