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Critique of 3 Photoshop Web Design Tutorials- Web Design Blog

One of the tutorials I did was Create a Sleek, high-End Web Design from Scratch. I thought that it was a good tutorial. It was pretty easy to follow. A couple of times it seemed like the author left out a step but it wasn't anything major that most people couldn't figure out. The tutorials that I did weren't that complicated but were really cool to look at visually. Another tutorial I did was the Portfolio Web Layout. It was really ways to follow. It was all step by step with really good directions as how to get the same look that they were showing. I really liked the fact that the author of the tutorial had screen shots of what each pop up window would look like on your screen. It really helped to make sure that there wasn't any confusion with the directions. The third tutorial I did because I really liked the look of the page. As with the last one I liked the fact that the author used the screen shots of pop up windows. On the other hand the author didn't clearly specify where to locate some things like where he found the shapes he used all he said was "all the icons I used are from the custom shapes library." Not everyone would know exactly where or what that means. That could be written out more clearly. Overall I thought the tutorials were pretty simple and easy to follow along with if you have a general knowledge of Photoshop.

What is design, usability, and accessibility in web design? Web Design Blog

Web design is the process of planning and creating a web page. Web designers use a combination of pictures, text, color, and digital media to create a webpage.  When creating a webpage you should always keep in mind how you display your content, how you display your page should be user friendly, and make sure you stay on target with whatever your sole purpose is for creating the page.Usability is making the website easy to use and making things happen. When a person goes to a webpage and sees a link the expect to go somewhere. Never link to the same page, it disappoints people to click a link and go nowhere. Accessibility is making your website friendly to all types of users. That can range from color blind people to people that are fully blind. If you have a picture on a site and you don't have a text description to go along with it a blind person would have no idea it was there. Another thing to think about is someone with a physical disability might not be able to use a mouse; if you can't navigate through a page without one that site would be completely worthless them.

Web Design Jobs- Web Design Blog

I found a bunch of jobs that were available to web designers.There are a few websites out there that are aimed towards just web designers. One of the sites I found was a site for freelance web designers. Careerbuilder.com had a few jobs and another website I found was webdesigners-directory.com. The latter of the two had a bunch of jobs and seemed like they always have a buunch. A lot of the jobs I found though didn't give very much information as to what qualifications you had to have for each job. Of the jobs that I saw some paid as little as $100 but others paid as much as $4999. Almost all of the jobs that I saw were for freelancers so they weren't location specific. Freelancing is a great way to get jobs but it also might not always pay as much as you want. I wasn't really interested in any of the jobs that I found but that probably has a lot to do with the fact that I don't plan on making a career of being a web designer. A few of the listings that I found caught my eye because they were for companies that I had heard of but I did not get any further information.

Web Design Blog: What is SEO?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO is a process that helps search engines find and rank your website. What rank you are determines where your website shows up when someone searches for a topic.  The more traffic that your site gets the higher your ranking will be.  Search engines  use things called spiders that crawl over the internet and record things like how many times a  link on a page is clicked, the quality of the links, the content of the site, and if the site is trustworthy. Google said that they have over 200 things that they use to calculate your rank. Once all these things are calculated it is put into an algorithm. This algorithm determines how high your rank is and where it will it be placed in the list with all of the other pages.