Cert IV Web Design week 7
On week seven Marcus showed up a bunch of useful tools for web design. These included;
- CSS tutorials
- browser dev console for chrome, firefox has one too
- google fonts a great way to customize the look of the website
- awesome fonts, a way to put symbols on a page using text
- pixact.ly a way to practice sizes of things
- colorrun.pl for recognizing colours
- rgbchallenge.com for learning RGB
- www.hexinvaders.com for learning colour hexadecimal codes
- sitepoint.com just full of tutorials
I managed to figure out the font used for the menu provided by the client; it’s algerian condensed. however the problem is that it’s a commercially licensed font and it costs money to use. I’ll have to find another font to use instead.
We learned the principle of responsive design, changing the site based on how big the screen is. This makes the site work a whole lot better on phones with small screens as well as make it look nicer on large screens. It actually reacts to the size of the browser window so if you resize the browser you can see the site change straight away. Marcus linked a couple of resources to help with understanding Responsive design and the CSS code needed to produce this effect.