Digital Arts Service Corps - design

Resources for Good Site Aesthetics and Techniques

Morgan Sully — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:51:29 +0000

here are two link to fun web development stuff to look at, learn from and implement - updated daily (at least).

The most popular web development bookmarks on del.icio.us:
http://del.icio.us/popular/webdev

My favorite bookmarks on my del.icio.us account:
http://del.icio.us/memeshift/webdev

A website i go to DAILY to see what the latest trends in web design are:
http://www.designmeltdown.com

Website Development (not CMS)

Aliya Abbasi — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:35:17 +0000

Website development using conventional programming and tools (pre-CMS ): html, dreamweaver, CSS, NVU, etc...

CSS is amazing

cheryl jerozal — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:18:51 +0000

One of the things I am working on is creating websites for nonprofits. In the past, I used CSS a little for changing background colors, fonts, etc because I saw it somewhere but I had no idea what it was capable of. (For anyone who hasn't heard of it, CSS can be used to create designs for HTML pages. It allows one design file to be used for multiple pages in a website so that changing the font all across a site, for example, does not require changing each page in the site.)

The CSS Zen Garden project provides a webpage for designers to create CSS designs for, which are then posted online. Each of the designs use the same HTML code (so they have the same content) - the only difference is the CSS (including images) design. Of the hundreds of designs posted online, here are a few examples that I liked and think show a good variety of designs: Museum, Pretty in Pink, Obsequience, contemporary nouveau, and Garden Party. Isn't this cool?

PS The reason I am using HTML+CSS for a site vs. one of the CMSs is that some sites don't need to have user logins and have rather static content. But I imagine the CMSs can be customized with CSS...how is that done? I will probably be using the Plone CMS in the future.