Web Design for Beginners

Create and style the perfect website

Essential guide to web design
 - Discover why now is the time to start building your own website

An introduction to HTML
 - HTML is the basic building block of the web, is easy to learn and offers limitless possibilities

New ways to work with Photoshop
 - Should you design in Photoshop or the browser? Both mediums have their merits

The science of SEO
 - Find out just what it takes to get a site ranked highly on search engines

Also inside...
 - Create a basic layout
 - Code a link
 - Create lists in your website
 - Learn to use div tags
 - Create a three-column layout
 - An introduction to CSS
 - Centre your page
 - Define text and heading styles
 - Style your lists to stand out
 - Format images using CSS
 - Style a two-column layout
 - Create a header
 - Create a sidebar
 - Add content to your website
 - Add content to your footer
 - 5 WordPress starter themes

 - View and organise WordPress dashboard modules
 - Create a WordPress blog
 - Edit your WordPress blog posts
 - Post images into your blog
 - Embed external media in your WordPress posts
 - Create, apply and manage tags
 - Get more people to visit your website
 - Use Google Analytics to understand your audience
 - Create a Google sitemap for easier searching
 - Create great backgrounds
 - Design header and footer graphics in Photoshop
 - The perception of colour
 - Make an expanding navigation menu
 - Create animated background text
 - Make image hover effects
 - Create shuffling text effects with jQuery
 - Build a responsive fixed page border
 - Add a shopping cart
 - Create email newsletters and let people subscribe
 - Add social media buttons
 - Add Twitter Cards to your site
 - Web design glossary