What's new in the world of website design

[trafficstudent]

I hope this is the right forum, but i would like to know whats new in website design. I was designing webpages professionally a couple of years back and i want to get bacck into it. Is there a site or a user forum or even a magazine that anyone knows of that i can get some updated resources on whats new in the world and what has changed?

 

[robherc]

I, being very much in the same position as yourself up until a few weeks ago, find

http://www.webmonkey.com

to be a completely invaluable resource! Of special interest to me were the JavaScript, CSS, and SMLE tutorials/updates, but there's plenty more there to learn, if you have the time.


I hope this helps;
Rob Hercules

 

[johnwm]

webmonkey has some good stuff, but make sure you check the datelines on the articles - there is a lot of really old content on it.

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[TamedTech]

Yep, again i've only just started getting back into web design, and to be honest the two major introductions that I have interesting are.

1. CSS
2. W3C Standards

The completely chages the way that i thought about code, before i started learning this stuff i has always used tables to define my layout, and as far as i know there was no way to validate your code.

One of my Favourite rescources has to be this TT forum to be fair.

Rob

 

[okpeery]

A List Apart is invaluable. It is a little technical if you are just getting back into it. I started from scratch 1 year ago and now I use it whenever I design sites. It took awhile to know what all the jargon meant but I stuck with it, and the W3 tutorials and now it is my primary source, next to this forum.

 

[jshurst]

Check out

http://www.csszengarden.com

for some cool website designs and the CSS they use to make the designs.

 

[mkrausnick]

To follow up on Rob's suggestion, I refer to

http://www.w3schools.com

whenever I have questions about syntax. It tells you what's deprecated and which standards support each tag and attribute. It also has a very helpful "try it" applet that you can use to see instantly the output from almost any code snippet.

As with all the other posters, I suggest using CSS from the start. It makes maintenance SO much easier, and it's a LOT more work to retrofit CSS onto ane existing page than to design it with CSS from the start.

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Testing sites at every step of the way in both IE and Firefox is an invaluable thing to do if you're looking at getting back into the building process.

Most of the time, things will look good in both browsers if carefully planned - although there will still be CSS bugs you will need to work around.

To only build in one browser would be a big mistake, however.

Hope this helps,
Dan

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