Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Forget pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of design’s print ancestry; the separation of content from presentation has already changed everything.

www.mlwebco.com – ML Web Consulting shows you how to quickly mock-up design a website within 10 minutes. Using Adobe Fireworks, Michael Locke demonstrates how to design a website home page. In this video, you’ll see how a web design comes along from beginning to end. You’ll see a few design tips and tricks that you can apply to your own project or website. Download the Work Files Here (Both PNG and PSD files): www.mlwebco.com If you have any questions, send an email to mlocke@mlwebco.com or visit www.mlwebco.com Thanks, ~ Mike

Web Design Tutorial – Nick and James from Creare demonstrate a quick and professional method for web designers of producing prototype web pages for clients. Part one starts in Photoshop with Part 2 & 3 covering Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Find the supporting blog post at: www.crearedesign.co.uk

www.templatemonster.com A video that captures a miracle – the whole process of how the best design products are done, everything AZ!

Is it difficult to break into the web design industry,even with proof of college or college level education and a portfolio?

The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site. lyrics:Your site design is the first thing people see it should be reflective of you and the industry easy to look at with a nice navigation when you can’t find what you want it causes frustration a clear Call to action to increase the temptation use appealing graphics they create motivation if you have animation use with moderation cause search engines can’t index the information display the logos of all your associations highlight your contact info that’s an obligation create a clean design you can use some decoration but to try to prevent any client hesitation every page that they click should provide and explanation should be easy to understand like having a conversation when you design the style go ahead and use your imagination but make sure you use correct color combinations do some investigation, look at other organizations but don’t duplicate or you might face a litigation design done, congratulations but it’s time to start construction follow these instructions when you move into production your photoshop functions then slice that design do your layout with divs make sure that it’s aligned please don’t use tables even though they work fine when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide remove font type …