Whether you’re a regular reader of our web design blog, or this the first time you’ve visited, throughout the past year we have put together a variety and number of comprehensive, useful blog posts and handy videos for Web Designers.
Over the next two weeks, we’ll be highlighting many of the tutorials, showcases, recommendations and guidance that we’ve offered throughout our blog during these past twelve months that overall we consider Creare’s Essential Web Designers Resources of 2009.
Firstly, taking a look at Design, if you’re looking to refine your skills in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash or Fireworks, across the year we have we have wrote and filmed several blog posts and videos specifically looking at the popular Adobe suite of design software.
Photoshop
Being one of the primary tools of a Website Designer, we’ve researched and highlighted some of the best Photoshop resources alongside showing you how to create an Apple-style navigation in our web design video blog.
Blog Post: Photoshop Websites for Web Designers
Video Tutorial: How to Create an Apple Style Navigation
Flash
Expanding skillsets in Flash animation, we’ve shown you across multiple videos how to achieve effects such as animated handwriting and shimmering alongside our most popular video on how to create a Flash Preloader with ease.
Video Tutorial: How to Add a Preloader in Flash
Video Tutorial: Animated Handwriting Effect in Flash
Video Tutorial: Shine/Shimmer Effect in Flash
Dreamweaver
Offering advice on how to use Dreamweaver effectively, we spoke about our Top 10 Dreamweaver Tips on our video blog alongside writing a blog post on how to tweak the Source Formatting feature of Dreamweaver CS4.
Blog Post: Dreamweaver CS4 – Source Formatting
Video Tutorial: 10 Quick Tips for Dreamweaver
Fireworks
We highlighted Fireworks across a three-part video series on how to showcase a prototype Web Design for clients professionally using the integrated tools within the software, with a little help from Photoshop & Dreamweaver.
Video Tutorial: How to make a Website Prototype – Part 1
Video Tutorial: How to make a Website Prototype – Part 2
Video Tutorial: How to make a Website Prototype – Part 3
Further Reading
Next week, we’ll be offering even more essential web designers resources taking a look at development tools, including HTML, CSS, PHP & jQuery. Of course, in the meantime, you can read Micheal Angrave’s recent tutorial on Creating a Horizontal Navigation using CSS or alternatively, watch the Creare Christmas Song.
