Resources

Typography

 * Six Revisions - top 10
 * DesignModo - top 25
 * 8 factors of type
 * I love typography
 * Smashing says...

Metaphors in Design

 * Country Store - Jim Town
 * Trading Company - Trader Joe's
 * Growth - Flourish
 * Boyscouts - CSS Zen Garden
 * Explore the CSS Zen Garden site for many more Metaphor-based sites

Layouts & Designs

 * 10 solid layouts
 * Top 15 Designs
 * 2012 Trends in web design
 * More Web Design Trends in 2012
 * Simple and Clean Designs
 * Minimalism in Web Design
 * Textures and backgrounds
 * Make your own background

Banner Ads

 * Banner ads using animated Gifs
 * Great animated photos here, here,and here.
 * 10 Best practices in Banner Ads
 * Basics of Online Advertising
 * A couple of Flash ads: Pringles Can Hands, Bounty
 * Banner Blog

Style manuals, guides and brand identity:

 * Boy Scouts Style Manual (pdf)
 * Cornell University Styles for Web
 * [|GiraffeProjectStandardsManual.png]
 * Miami Web Guide
 * Skype

General Resources:

 * Photoshop Tutorials
 * Kuler - color palette website
 * Degraeve: color palette generator
 * Color Scheme Designer
 * //Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual// - required class text
 * //White Space is not your Enemy// - required class text

Selection Tutorial:

 * 1) The handout - [|ps_cs_cib_04.pdf]
 * 2) Starting photoshop file - [|04Start.psd]
 * 3) Finished file - [|04End.psd]

Relax for a minute:

 * How well do you know color?