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There are a variety of great web material out there for aspiring designers. I want to focus on a few resources for the people in the class who continue to find themselves ahead of where we are. These are what I would consider to be advanced-beginner to intermediate level articles, tutorials and resources. One thing you will notice is that, beyond the beginning level (or situations where one is maintaining and slightly changing an existing site rather than creating new things from scratch), graphic editors like Dreamweaver are hardly used.
- Entheos has quite a few tutorial tidbits in addition to their paid products.
- Digital Web Magazine has a series called Web Design 101 that starts with the most pressing need for the intermediate designer: CSS positioning. This is the fundamental area that must be immediately tackled to move beyond the beginner level.
- It’s easy to get lost in the details and forget about overall aspects of design: formatting, color, white space, typography. Smashing Magazine has many advanced topics, but some will be understandable already, such as this piece on white space and simplicity.
- About.com Web Design links to all kinds of information at all levels… worth keeping up with (or subscribing to, hint hint)
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