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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.
Site Design Basics - The least you should know.
Top 10 web design do’s - Post Toni Will’s list on your wall
and live by it.
Navigation Basics - Keep your web visitors from being lost in cyberspace (Danger, Will Robinson!). Sean Timberlake tells you how.
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.
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.
Lynda Weinman on Color: Lynda Weinman, reining queen of web graphics, makes the mystery of color on the web as simple as Red, Green and Blue. Read all about it...
Roger Parker´s One Minute Designer: You don´t have to be a designer to look like one on the web. Roger starts with 25 steps you can take to create a reader-friendly web site.
Gary Priester’s Before, During & After Makeover: Gary Priester is a design genius. Now that we’ve fulfilled his contract by saying this, we have to admit it’s true. The before site isn’t bad, it just doesn’t live up to its potential. Take a look at what Gary’s done with it.
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?
Effective Copy
Tips for web writing
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.
Graphics Tool Basics: There are more graphics programs than you can shake a stick at (and besides, when you think about it, what good does shaking a stick really do?) Digital artist Gary David Bouton sifts through the morass (no, that’s not a dirty word, thank you!) for you, and helps you separate the wheat from the chaff (yes, yes, we mixed a metaphor, so sue us).
Clip Art Crazy! Want interesting art with the click of a mouse? It’s possible, and our man Chuck Green tells all from his arie at Chickmahoney Branch Drive.
Gallery Hopping: Come take a look-see at a bunch of great sites created with NetObjects Fusion. And when you’re finished there, here’s another site totally devoted to more great sites created with Fusion!.
Recommended Reading: Excerpts from the latest titles about creating web sites.
The Elements of Web Design: An introduction to the tools, technologies and possibilities of designing for the web. By Darci DiNucci, Maria Giudice & Lynne Stiles, published by Peachpit Press.
O’Reilly’s Web Design Guide: It’s little. It’s colorful. It´s useful. Take a look.
Dot Com: 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.
Support forums: Got questions? We´ve got answers. You can post your question on one of our popular forums (it’s nice to be popular) or send e-mail. Either way, you’ll have your questions answered in no time. Want to learn more about newgroups, click here.
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