As I’m transferring platforms, I’ve imported several old tutorials. You may notice that some of my tutorials are no longer listed and are only availible on the old site. The reasoning is that I intend to update those tutorials and do them more justice.

So far we’ve covered quite a lot of ground in both coding and design, but before we get on to real work there are some things that need to be made clear. In Web Design there are certain practices that are absolute taboo, we’re going to cover them and why they’re taboo in the first place.

Composition is the one element that you absolutely cannot avoid. It will take your layouts from a clump of text and images to a seamless design that flows clearly. Composition is everything, if you ignore it you will have nothing but text and blotches on a screen.

Before you even start to worry about how your site looks you need to know color. How it works, what each one means, what they create when placed in relation, the works.