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Planning Your Website
It is always a good idea to plan your site before you start creating it. Surf the Internet and visit a lot of websites before starting work on your website. If you're an artist, visit other artist websites and art gallery websites for ideas. This is a good way to identify what works for you and what you might want on your website. Collect and add the websites to your "Favorites" or "Bookmarks" so you can easily get back to them once you start design.
- What's your objective in having a website?
- Who's your intended audience?
- What kind of site navigation are you planning?
- How will your artwork be displayed?
- Are you planning to create a gallery?
- How many images will you be showing?
- What do you like most about other websites?
Other Resources for Planning and Web Design
Article on creating artist websites by Ben Breard of the Afterimage Gallery.
"Some Website Suggestions".
Webmonkey: Section on Design, featuring articles on how to design your website; main topics include; Site Building, Site Organization, Usability, Design Theory, Graphics and Fonts. This is a complete Web Developers Resource, including Multimedia and E-Business.
NetMechanic: This company has a number of useful tools for web developers, unfortunately you have to purchase most of them. However, they have a wonderful section on Webmaster Tips and provide new tips on a regular basis. You can learn a lot by reading their articles.
Bravenet.com: Web tools for webmasters. They have a very nice section on Webmaster Resources. I particularly like their font section because you can easily see the fonts. The site is filled with all kinds of web information, tools and tutorials to assist you in web development.
W3 Schools: This site is full of web building tutorials and they are all free. You'll find tutorials on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XHTML, WAP, ASP, SQL with lots of working examples and source code. This is a great place to learn the correct way to code your website.
About.com's - Web Design Section: Articles for beginning and advanced web developers. It includes extensive links to all types of web development info. You'll find more than basic HTML, it includes topics like "Using Color in Web Design", "Web Accessibility - ADA Guidelines", and "Freebies for Web Developers".
DevX.com: This is a website that specializes in application development and some of the more advanced web programming being done today. They are a good source for information on ASP, XML, DHTML, Visual Basic, Flash and other applications used on the Internet.
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