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Tips On Becoming A Successful Webmaster
Designing for the web is quite
similar to designing for a magazine page, except
that you can also include animation and multimedia.
You should have interest in art and design,
graphics, drawing and photography, though you don’t
have to be brilliant at all these. The process of
web design covers a whole range of areas which you
have to be acquainted with. They include:
· Artistic style, color theory, typography
and other visual design.
· Information design
· Technical writing
· Multimedia presentations
· Marketing / Advertising
· System analysis and design
· Programming
· Network and Server Design
· Business issues and project management
Thus, the following are the relevant
software you would need to master to get equipped as
a web designer. The Softwares have been grouped them
based on their use:
· HTML: text editor, WYSIWYG (What you see
is what you get) editors such as Frontpage,
Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Golive, etc.
· Web Graphics: Adobe Photoshop, Corel
Draw, Adobe ImageReady, Corel Photopaint, Macromedia
Fireworks, Xara Webstyle.
· Web Animation: Macromedia Flash, GIF
Construction Set
· Dynamic HTML: Javascript, VBScript.
· Web Multimedia: Windows Media, Real
Media, Quick time.
· Database / Server Programming: Ms-Access,
MySQL, Oracle, SQL server, ASP, PHP, JSP, Perl,
Servlet, ColdFusion, etc
Very Important
links on Graphics:
(`1)
Photoshop tutorial and Illustrator:
http://www.designsbymark.com/freestuff/fanbutts.shtml
(2) Tips
on good site design:
http://www.websitesthatsuck.com
(3)
Macromedia Flash Resources:
http://www.were-here.com
(4)
Useful discussion articles: http://www.were-here.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=19
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