Designing for Web

stuff you need to know before you start

Colour

What does your colour scheme say about you?

Adobe Kuler

Taken from Paul Emery’s Level 3 module - Digital Illustration

paul’s colour thing

Taken from Paul Emery’s Level 3 module - Digital Illustration

Image Formats

Vector vs Bitmap

JPEG - photos

GIF - graphics/blocks of colour - very small files

PNG - good quality transparent graphics

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Resolution

RGB

8bit

Screen resolution - 72dpi

Most screens are set to 1024 x 768 - but you ideally want your page to be smaller - 800 x 600

Software

Photoshop - good for layout and general design

Dreamweaver – website creation & coding

Illustrator - good for making high res vector graphics

Flash – animation, more complex interactive features

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