Wide World Of Web Design

It’s official.The Learning Series has begun!
WideWorldOfWebDesign’s “The Learning Series” has just launched with the release of Part One and Two of the Dreamweaver CS3 installments. The entire series of video tutorials takes a practical approach to building web pages using the tools available in Dreamweaver (which includes things like CSS, server-side behaviours in PHP, Javascript and Ajax) as well as Fireworks, Flash, and an assortment of other 3rd party Components and Programs thrown in for good measure. These tutorials can currently be seen on YouTube, and can also be found on this website by following the links at the end of this Post, or any post regarding The Learning Series within the “Tutorials” category.

Part One is an overview of what the series will cover, and includes a look at some Free Extensions available for Dreamweaver, as well as the initial task of defining a site. Part Two then sets the stage for CSS by dispensing in brief some principles behind the science and how it’s applied in Dreamweaver, all in preparation for Part Three where I start creating web pages using one of the pre-constructed layouts bundled with Dreamweaver.

So, one might ask, why bother producing another series of tutorials when there seem to be plenty of similar offerings already available, covering much of the very same territory … ? Well, for one thing … Mine are Free … and although it’s true many free video tutorials devoted to CS3 software can be found floating around YouTube, the majority of these submittals are often poor in quality or only serve to provide snippets of information in random attack. It also appears that even when finding quality vids that do hit the mark, rarely do they guide you in an orderly fashion across the spectrum from A-Z, preferring instead to hone in on advanced methods or one-off features where no one has gone before.

Now, I’m not saying that my offerings resemble anything as closely professional as those circulated by Total Training or Lynda.com, but I think you’ll find that they’re clear, concise, and attempt to uncover many of the things that used to trip me up when I was flying solo, trying to learn the ropes the hard way.

If you have little or no background in web design and development, than consider this series the “Web Design 101 Video Handbook” which should jumpstart the learning process faster than the long, drawn out task of interpreting pages of text and print screens. Not only that, but there should be something here for everyone, after all a lot of it is based on my own practical, real-world experience in dealing with what’s required, what’s available, and what works best in a variety of situations.

I don’t claim to be an expert, and these tutorials don’t pretend to cover anything too advanced or groundbreaking, rather they simply strive to be a comprehensive approach to building web pages in an easy-to-follow format … something I could have used when starting out on my own.

Dreamweaver CS3
The Learning Series